Organizations
Collection for organization entities.
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- Palisade Tribune newspaper (Palisade, Colorado)
- The Palisade Tribune’s first issue was published on June 6, 1903. According to later Tribune editor William Lorenzen, the first issues of the paper were probably printed with a #1 linotype. The newspaper was on average about four pages long, and often contained advertising on the front page. The newspaper’s first publisher was Clinton A. Martin (who owned and operated the paper on three separate occasions). In its early days, the newspaper also provided printing services (as did other early newspapers such as the Grand Junction News). The Tribune printed the Fruita Times (although all other work on the Times took place in Fruita). During Martin’s last tenure with the newspaper, he apparently operated it with funding from local merchants, and a contractual understanding that he could leave with the newspaper’s assets. He did take the newspaper’s assets with him when he left, which left the newspaper struggling for a period of time. Guy Bailey owned and edited the Tribune during the 1940’s. Bailey wrote scathing editorials about Eleanor Roosevelt, and his attacks were reputedly so brutal that Secret Service approached him and ordered him to cease and desist. Grand Junction lawyer Lincoln Coit bought the Tribune from Bailey. Dorothy Coit sold most of the advertising and gathered most of the news content. Coit sold the Tribune to Lorenzen in 1953. Lorenzen operated the paper for over twenty-six years. The Tribune never missed an issue in all of its years of publication, though Lorenzen reports that they were a “fly by night” operation at times. When he started with the Tribune, he had great difficulty selling advertising to local businesses, and so approached businesses in Clifton and Grand Junction instead. He and his wife were broke for many years, but finally managed to payoff their mortgage on the newspaper after thirteen years. The newspaper had two old linotype machines when Lorenzen took over the paper. Both machines were in bad shape. He purchased refurbished linotype machines in the 1960’s that served the paper well until offset printing became the newspaper standard. At that point, Lorenzen received a good deal of training and help from the Daily Sentinel in learning offset.
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- Palisade United Methodist Church (Palisade, Colorado)
- A Methodist church in Palisade, Colorado.
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- Palisade Woman's Club (Palisade, Colorado)
- An organization begun in the mid-Twentieth century. According to oral history interviewee and club member Rena Nisbet, the organization had ninety-one members at one time. They organized and created a nativity scene in Palisade. They had other projects, including the sponsorship of local murals.
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- Palisades National Bank (Palisade, Colorado)
- A bank founded in 1905. At the time of its inception, J.J. Durkee was the bank president and Herman W. Kluge was a bank director. T.W. Bowman became president of the bank in 1910, shortly after the institution had constructed a new building on Main Street and was in danger of insolvency. He helped keep the bank solvent and remained the president until 1942. According to oral history interviewee Luella Morgan, who worked for the Producers Exchange Bank beginning in 1918, the owners of the Producers Exchange State Bank bought out the stock holders of the Palisades National Bank in 1922, at which point the two institutions merged. After the merger, the Palisades National Bank maintained its name. The Palisades National Bank later purchased banks in De Beque and Collbran. It purchased the Bank of Palisade in 1915. According to oral history interviewee Ruth Tilton, Archie "Arch" Tilton and Bowman purchased the bank in 1924. At that time, they hired Forrest "Frosty" Tilton (Ruth Tilton's husband) as a cashier. Formerly, he had worked as a jack-of-all-trades in a bank in Holyoke. In 1933, the Federal Government ordered the bank to close and liquidate its assets due to the depreciation of its bond account. "Frosty" Tilton was appointed conservator of assets by the bank's board of directors. He succeeded in liquidating the bank's assets and paying off depositors in about a year's time. Afterwards, the bank reopened. *Photo courtesy of the Palisade Historical Society.
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- Paonia Fruit Growers Association (Paonia, Colorado)
- A local organization that was operating by 1930 and possibly earlier. By 1930, it had 100 members and grew several fruit crops valued at one million dollars per year. Fred Powell was a one-time manager of the association.
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- Paraho Development Corporation (United States)
- Founded in 1973, it leased the Oil Shale Development Station at Anvil Points, Colorado and produced 100,000 barrels of oil for the Navy.
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- Past Presidents Club (Grand Junction, Colorado)
- An organization, limited to a membership of twenty people, whose main interest was study. They also provided community needs, including gifts at Christmas time for nursing home residents. Ethel M. (Bear) Hotchkiss, Mrs. Alberta, Mrs. Claude Stephens, Mrs. Chester Lamberson, and Mrs. Jarvis were all members. It was organized in 1947.