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Transcribed by: Rita Timm
The social gayeties of the fall term in East Denver High School apparently had no fascination for pretty Ethelyn May, 16 years old. Starting for school as usual yesterday morning she disappeared, her relatives say, to become a bride. An aunt, living, at 2921 Welton Street, last night said that the girl had eloped with William Fanning of Kansas City. She said that the young people had been sweethearts years ago when both were small children in Missouri. The only clue to the girl's whereabouts is a postcard received during the afternoon by the girl's relatives. It was mailed in Denver yesterday morning. On it the missing girl wrote that she was well and happy. Transcribed by: Rita Timm
Mrs. Sawyer is the wife of a prominent Rio Grande Railroad official who is district deputy of the Western Slope Elks. The letter was from Martin De Backer, 8 Little Goode Street, London, and enclosed a photograph showing Sawyer and his wife and two daughters, taken in 1892.
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Greeley, Colo., Oct. 19--After a search which has been carried on for more than five years, Albert Garvey, formerly a resident of Weld County, has been found through the efforts of Sheriff S. J. McAfee. Two months ago the sheriff got a letter from G. T. Bates, of 1532 Montgall Avenue, Kansas City, asking him to renew a search which started in 1906. Garvey is Bate's uncle, and the Kansas City man stated that his mother, Garvey's only sister, was dying and wanted to see him. The missing man was located at Uranium, in Montrose County, and put into communication with his relatives.
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(Special to The News)
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Tottering under the weight of her 71 years, Mrs. Mary Haines arrived in Denver yesterday in search of her son, Clarence Raymond Haines, 30 years old. The mother traced her son to Denver through letters written by him in which he begged his relatives to rescue him from the hypnotic influence which he says makes him a slave of a woman's charms. To the police yesterday the aged woman related a story filled with pathos concerning her son's disappearance. The family home is in Eddyville, Neb., where Mrs. Haines and her son own and operate large tracts of farm lands. There a wife of Haines is awaiting the outcome of the mother's journey. According to the woman's story, her son met Mrs. Ellen Martin in Council Bluffs, Iowa, two years ago. Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Martin is said to have persuaded Haines to desert his wife and mother to travel with her. For several months nothing was heard from Haines except vague information they had from various Western cities. Ten days ago Mrs. Haines received a letter from him written in Boulder. The letter aroused the aged mother to immediate action. Haines said that he felt as though he was becoming insane under the mental excitement, brought about by his companion's influence. The writer of the letter was traced to Denver. The police are now attempting to aid the aged woman in her search for her son.
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Burton Henry Talbot Hardcastle, familiarly known as "Teddy" Hardcastle, for three years clerk at the county jail under former Sheriff Alexander Nisbet, yesterday learned that he has an aged aunt in St. Albans, England, who holds a vast estate in trust for him, and that his heritage to the title of Earl of Shrewsbury may be re-established. Information to this effect was conveyed in a letter written to P. R. Riodan, Warden of the County Jail, by Mrs. Frances E. Scott, of Glan Mor, Blanford Road, St. Albans, England, seeking information regarding B. T. Hardcastle. The letter from Mrs. Scott says that for years she has been seeking some trace of her only heir, the son of a brother, who left England thirty years ago with his parents. For a time the Hardcastles resided in Canada, eventually moving to Denver. Henry T. Hardcastle, the father, died in 1894, and two years ago Mrs. Hardcastle died suddenly. In December, 1909, "Teddy" Hardcastle wrote for the Christian Science Monitor an article on religious work in the county jail. A copy of that paper reached Mrs. Scott in St. Albans. She immediately wrote to the Warden of the jail to ascertain if Hardcastle was her nephew and heir. What she told of her family history in the letter coincides exactly with the facts Hardcastle knows concerning his history.
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It took James B. Earl, a veteran of the Civil War, just 46 years to collect $2.31 due him for services rendered his country, but he finally go the money. Yesterday Earl received a check for the amount named, dated August 23, 1911, so that other old soldiers who are anxious about claims upon the government may take heart and wait a few years more. WAS IOWA BUGLER Earl, who lives at 4472 Zenobia Street, was a Private and bugler in Company C Fifth Iowa Infantry and in Company G Fifth Iowa Cavalry during the war. When he was discharged from service on August 16, 1865, his pay was short $1.60 and he was short on the amount due him for clothing 71 cents. The government does not pay interest, so when he received the check yesterday he found it was for exactly the amount to a cent that was due him forty-six years ago. WILL FRAME CHECK Earl prizes the check very highly and will not spend it lavishly. He will have it framed and hang it upon a wall of his home as the most valuable souvenir of his war days.
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James B. Earl of 4474 Zenobia Street has had word from a brother he has not heard from since 1859, and from a Confederate soldier who met him at three great battles during the Civil War, through The News. NEWS PRINTED STORY September 1 The News printed on its first page the story of how James B. Earl received $2.31 from the United States government, being the amount that was due him and not paid when he was discharged from the Army on August 16, 1865. He was a bugler in Company C Fifth Iowa Infantry, and also in Company G Fifth Iowa Cavalry. Earl last met his brother, now of Los Angeles, in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1859. The Denver man enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil War. When the war ended he came West. The story of Earl's receiving payment for wages overdue him for forty-six years from the government was read by the Los Angeles man, and he at once wrote to his brother in Denver. LETTER FROM CONFEDERATE The West Point, Ga., man is J.
J. Smith, and yesterday Earl got this letter: "My congratulations
upon receiving your claim of forty-six years ago. I had the pleasure of
meeting you on three occasions--Luke, Corinth and Vicksburg. How many
more I don't know. I belonged to the Thirty-seventh Regular Alabama
Volunteers, Confederate States Army, General Price's Army. I hope life
has been easy for you since those days and that you will only have to
keep the little check as a memento." Earl has framed the check and he said yesterday that he now appreciated it more than ever. It having been the means of reuniting him with his brother and an old soldier friend.
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Perhaps the most important event in the life of 4 year old Percy Joseph Kurth, who was taken from the custody of his mother, Marcella Morley, when 2 years of age and kidnaped by her from the Florence Crittenton home last October, will be enacted shortly in the courts of Calfiornia, where Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goodman, will apply for adoption papers for the boy. Goodman is a friend of Miss Morley's family and has taken deep interest in her child. It was he who brought the child back from Chicago, on December 5, 1910, where Miss Morley is said to have taken him. Saturday, Goodman obtained permission from the juvenile court to take the child to California, departing Sunday morning with Mrs. Goodman and Percy. Marcella Morley met Joseph Kurth, when she was 16 yrs old. Though Kurth was 48 years old, he proposed marriage. No ceremony was performed, but the couple lived together as man and wife. A few months later, Kurth, was arrested and fined on a charge of inducing Miss Morley to lead an immoral life. Subsequently, another charge was brought against him in juvenile court, but he had left the state. Percy Joseph, then 2 years old, was placed in the Crittenton Home. Miss Morley paid all expenses and frequently was allowed to spend a night with him. On the night of October 20, she bundled the boy in a blanket and left the place on the fire escape. A few weeks later Goodman appeared in court and asked if Miss Morley would be prosecuted if the child were brought back. He was told she would not and on December 5, 1910, he placed the boy at the Crittenton home, saying he had brought him from Chicago.
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Left alone in the world by the death of her parents and all near relatives except a brother, Miss Eja Lange, after a fruitless search of five years, has made an appeal to The News to assist her in locating her brother, Henry Lange, who left Copenhagen, Denmark, twenty years ago. Miss Lange says she has not seen nor heard from her brother since he left his native country except through a friend of the family who resides in Chicago. A number of years ago Lange visited this friend -- a Dr. Rjarulff and told him that he was a cowboy. He left again for Wyoming. After the death of her parents five years ago, Miss Lange came to this country in search of her brother. "I have been looking for him a long time, but I feel sure that through your help I will succeed." writes Miss Lange. She says her brother is 39 years old, has light hair and blue eyes. Miss Lange may be communicated with through the Danish consulate at Chicago.
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by: Rita Timm
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by: Rita Timm
Eight tracts in the Gregory, S. D. land drawing go to Coloradoans. Five of the lucky men live in Denver. The list includes:
Gavin is a clerk at the Grand Market Company, Fifteenth and Arapahoe. Stewart is a traveling salesman for the Eastman Kodak Company. He happened to be in Rapid City at the time of registration and put in his name with several other men. “I seem to be lucky, for I do not know of any easier way to make money,” he said when told of his good fortune. McClendon is a messenger for the Adams Express Company. The name of Henry M. Gallagher is not shown in the city directory. The other three Colorado men to secure tracts are: John A. Charles, Cañon City, number 2785, W. J. Binard, Burlington, number 421, Henry Bahanson, Rocky Ford, number 421. Transcriber's note: Both Binard and Bahanson are listed as having the same number. Old newspaper articles and advertisements from Denver newspapers needed. If you have any articles or ads that you'd like to share with other researchers, please the County Coordinator to learn more about contributing them for use on the Denver County COGenWeb.  |
August 11, 1911 Page 3 Who Is She, Mr. Highway Commissioner? No Money Till Auditors Know. "Meals To Date." Transcribed & contributed
by: Rita Timm
All members of the Denver Musicians' Protective Association will hereafter wear union-made uniforms. The association so decided at a recent meeting, and the suits will be ordered at once. D. F. Spiegel reported that he had secured the national convention of the organization for Denver next year, and a committee to arrange for the entertainment of the guests was named as follows:
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The annual picnic of the Queen of Heaven Orphans' Home, Forty-fifth Avenue and Boulevard F., will be held Saturday, August 19, at Elitch's Gardens and it probably will be one of the largest at the gardens. The society is under the control of the Missionary Sisters of Sacred Heart. The Queen of Heaven Home differs from other institutions in Denver in that, while Italians predominate, yet all nationalities are admitted, and it is the only one which admits negro children. The children range from 1 year to 20 and all are girls. The older girls are those whom the sisters do not deem competent to go out into the world and care for themselves and private homes are secured for them. There are 180 orphans in the home and 112 will be at the picnic next Saturday dressed in pink, the color of the home. Mrs. T. J. Quinlivian is Chairman of the dinner committee, and a hot meal will be served at noon. Mrs. Michael F. Rice, President of the Queen of Heaven organization, said yesterday the need of money is great. It is dependent upon the solicitations of the sisters and of the proceeds of the annual picnic. The regular meeting of the organization will be held Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Annie Horan, 2540 Downing Street, when the plans for the picnic will be completed.
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Sixty-one students passed the bar examinations held July 7 and 8 at the Capitol. Of the sixty-seven who took the examinations, six failed. The class was nearly double that of December last year. The three honor men were Donald C. McCreery of Greeley, a Harvard student, Clifford A. Wilson of Boulder and Malcom Erickson of Trinidad, both University of Colorado men. These three finished highest of the class in the order named. Following is a list of the successful candidates:
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$10,000 Goes to Boys Who in Hard-Time Days Had Shared a Crust. Two years ago Charles and Joseph Paul were earning a miserable livelihood by selling newspapers in Trinidad. Today the little boys, aged 9 and 12 years, respectively, are each heirs to a one-third share in a $10,000 legacy, left by a dead father in Deadwood, S. D. The boys are in St. Vincent's Orphanage, where they were brought when their father and mother deserted them two years ago. A brother, Pete, who is 15, still sells papers in Trinidad and manages to eke out an existence. Twice since they have been in the orphanage their father called without giving his name and by various tokens showed that the parental affection still lingered in his heart. The mother went to Durango from Trinidad and has never been heard from since. When the condition of the three boys was discovered in Trinidad, it enlisted the sympathies of a Catholic priest there. They were living in an old shack on the outskirts of the city, a place that had been abandoned by some poverty-stricken owner. It was filthy and cold, and for days the boys went without food, because their paper sales would not buy them dry bread on some days. The priest instituted a search for the parents but learned that Pete had gone with his mother to Durango and had later returned, leaving her there alone. He brought them to St. Vincent's in Denver. Soon after the younger boys were placed in St. Vincent's, their father came to see them. "A man came to see them a long time ago," said the Sister Superior yesterday, "but he did not tell who he was. He took the boys downtown and bought them some clothes. At Christmas time some unknown giver sent a turkey to the home for them, but that is all they ever received to our knowledge." Charles, the younger of the two, told the Sister yesterday that his father come to the home once afterward. He saw Charles playing in the yard, and when the boy ran to him in answer to a call, the father gave him 50 cents and promised to return the next day. But, apparently, he was in straightened circumstances, for he never came again nor wrote to them. Charles and Joseph are strong healthy boys. Joseph told the little he knew yesterday. "We lived in Kalamath, Michigan, before we came to Trinidad," said Joseph. "Papa had a fruit store there. When we got to Trinidad he didn't do any work. We kids had to sell papers, but he let us keep the money to buy food with. A little while after we moved to Trinidad, papa and mamma separated, and mamma took Pete and went to Durango. He came back soon and papa left us alone. We lived in a shack and sold papers until the priest sent us here. We never had time to go to school until we got here." Joseph said that he did not know that he and his brothers had been left money. The Sisters at St. Vincent's were also unaware of the report until told by a News representative. They will investigate the report and see that Charles and Joseph get their share of the estate.
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"Notice of Adjustment Day. The undersigned Clerk of the County Court of
the City and County of Denver in the State of Colorado, hereby gives
notice that in the hereinafter named estates he has fixed:
Witness, Thomas
L. Bonfils, Clerk of said Court, with the seal thereof hereunto
affixed, at his office in said City and County of Denver, this 10th day
of February, A.D. 1917. |
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