100 Years Ago: Greeley High football coach takes same job at Montana State
School board refuses to accept resignation
By Mike Peters
July 17, 2022 at 6:30 a.m.
100 Years Ago: Greeley High football coach takes same job at Montana State – Greeley Tribune
100 Years Ago, for the third week of July 1922, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:
Greeley High School football coach A.D. Jones is in college this summer and sent a message to the school principal that he is resigning and taking a job as head football coach at Montana State. He has had a classic winning record with Greeley, and now the school board has refused to accept his resignation. Things are still being worked out.
The Weld County Grand Old Party has been told they should get rid of their
"deadwoods, has-beens and parlor Socialists" if they want to do well in the next election.
Thinking she had a marriage license, a Greeley woman gave the license to a judge, who said it was a fishing license. The judge overlooked her error and married the couple anyway.
The bride is also the woman who gave away all of her children last year.
Two local teenage boys were sentenced to the reformatory in Buena Vista this week due to a theft. The boys stole a raincoat from the office of a college professor, then hid it in a chicken coop on the State Teacher's College campus. The boys were caught and arrested.
The South Platte River near Fort Lupton has been designated the driest it's been in 40 years. Officials said the river, measured yesterday, was less than 8 inches deep.
The Meeker School in Greeley has been ordered to be torn down and a new school erected. The first order was to get rid of the tower on the school.
The workers used dynamite to blow the tower off the school.
Gordon Wilson, 18, was out working on his father's farm when he was
struck by lightning. The bolt hit him on top of his head, burned a hole through his hat, went through half of his body and exited at the waist. Although he was unconscious for a long time, he is now recovering and should be all right.
A group called "Father Flannigan's Boys of Father Flannigan's Home For Boys" will be entertaining at the Knights of Columbus Hall. The boys, who are singers, travel the country, entertaining and earning donations for the school.
A 5-passenger Ford Touring Car was consumed by fire last night. The owner, H.L. Walker of Greeley, was filling the auto with gasoline when a passenger in a passing car threw a lighted cigarette at the auto. It ignited the gasoline. No one was hurt but the auto was destroyed.
— 100 Years Ago is taken from the original pages of the Greeley Tribune, the Weld County Republican, and when they merged, the Greeley Tribune-Republican....