100 Years Ago: Local American Legion members to re-enact WWI battles at Weld fair
By Mike Peters
September 11, 2022 at 6:30 a.m.
100 Years Ago: Local American Legion members to re-enact WWI battles at Weld fair – Greeley Tribune

100 Years Ago, for the second week of September 1922, from the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper:


Greeley's American Legion Victor Candlin Post met this week with about 100 members attending. They are getting ready for the upcoming Weld County Fair, when they will perform a series of World War I battles to help the public understand the war.

Return of the unparalleled September heat wave has hurt citizens across the country. In Chicago, three more people died from heat prostrations.

With school across the county starting, there are plenty of teachers in the classrooms. Greeley has about 100 teachers, Eaton, 24; Ault, 22; Platteville, 14; Pierce, 11; La Salle, 10, and Hudson has 7 teachers.

The "Mystery Man of Grand Junction" has been helped. He was found wandering around the town without knowing where he was going and didn't know his name. It was found he was hit in the head by a man two years ago, and has been wandering ever since. Doctors gave him treatment, and when he woke up, he remembered his name: Dore Barthoff. He also remembered that he lived in Seattle and is 27 years old.

A Frederick barber has been going around town picking fights with strangers on the street. In the most recent case, he gave a man two blackeyes. Greeley judges fined him $60 for fighting, and he said he would stop. He complained that $60 takes a lot of 50-cent haircuts to make up again.

When the Reveillo Drinking Establishment was torn down in Frederick, a box was found buried under the building. When they opened the metal box, it contained $1,849.49 in cash. Joe Reveillo, former owner of the building, was identified as the owner of the cash and it was turned over to him.

In Weld County Court, a jury found a Stoneham resident not guilty of selling whiskey. The jury was convinced that the lead witness in the case was lying. That was because the defense attorney showed that the witness had numerous arrests, including wife desertion and robbing a bank.

A city truck driver was walking home from work at about 11 o'clock Tuesday night when a man stepped out of an alley on 8th Avenue and held a gun on the driver. The man demanded all of his money, but refused and started walking toward the robber. The robber pulled the trigger on the gun several times, but the gun didn't fire and the robber ran away. Police found him later and he got to spend the night in jail. He either forgot to load the gun, or the safety was on.



— 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...