The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1922-02-02

One OF the biggest events OF the
season will be the banquet and enter
tainment to be held at the Sedgwick
County High School next Wednesday
evening, February 9Th. At this time
the Julesburg Community Club will
entertain the farmers and their fam
lilies, and elaborate preparations are
now being made by the committee in
charge of the arrangements, this COM
mittee being: w. w. Vaught, chair
man; c. F. Schroeder, C. H. Peterson,
E. c. Hamilton and C. A. Lyon.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all of the farmers and their families
to come to Julesburg next Wednesday
evening. February 9th and be the
guests of the Julesburg Community
Club at banquet and entertainment.
The festivities will commence prompt
ly at seven o'clock P. M, and all are
urged to be present promptly at that
hour.
In addition to the banquet the COM
mittee is arranging for an interesting
program, the details Of which we are
unable to secure at the time we 90
to press, but will include musical Sc
lections, speaking, etc. One big fea-
ture of the evening will be an address
by Rev. VIM. L. Cline. pastor of the
Church of Christ at Greeley. Rev.
Cline has an enviable reputation for
being a very interesting and impress
sive speaker. He is known as the
Farmer Preacher" having establish
ed national reputation from the re-
suits of his extensive farming activi-
ties in Weld county. His subject
next Wednesday evening will be: "Do-
ing the Job Right at the Right Time" /"
The farmers and their families are
urged to come to Julesburg next
Wednesday evening, February 9th and
be the guests of the Julesburg Com
munity Club. Don't forget the date
and the place-Sedgwick County High
School-and the time-7.00 o'clock P.
M.
peared in the August, 1921 number of
the American Magazine relative to
Rev. VIM. L. Cline Of Greeley, who
will be the principal speaker at the
Farmers and Business Mems enter
tainmcnt here next Wednesday even
ing:
PREACHER WHO RAISES WHEAT
To be a wheat king and at the
same time the active pastor of a
thriving city church requires a consid-
cradle degree of versatility. Rev
William L. Cline, of Greeley, Colo
RADIO, is the largest grain grower in
Weld County. which annually produc-
ces four million bushels Of wheat. He
is also pastor of the First Christian
Church of Greeley, live city of thir-
teen thousand people.
Frequently on the same day Mr..
Cline breaches funeral sermon, per-
forms the marriage ceremony for a
couple of young parishioners, and
puts in half day supervising his
seven-t -thousand-acre wheat ranch,
which lies twenty miles north of
Greeley.
When college student, young Cline
felt that he was called to preach the
gospel. Apparent bad luck compelled
him to try to raise wheat on non-ir-
rigated land.
The student Cline invested $4,000,
his entire means, in $40 acres Of land
under a proposed irrigation canal in !
northern Weld County. As frequent
ly happens, the system had better
advertising than water supply, and
became defunct. Young Cline was
left with his $40 acres Of cactus and
prairie-dog holes, no prospect of wat
er. and debt on the land of $4,000.
He had agreed to pay $4,000 for the
land at time when unirrigated sec
tions of its kind would not sell for
$4,000, because he expected that it
would be promptly irrigated
Then Cline took his plunge into non-
irrigated wheat raising. At the time
IF his venture, ten years ago, there
were half million acres of irrigated |
and in Weld County. To the north
and east were two and one-half mil
ion acres for which there was no wat