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Proposed Changes to Ulysses Park and Two Versions of an Accident

Golden Eye Candy – Camille E. – North Table Mountain and Mums on Ford St. – enlarge

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9-10AM Zumba (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
3PM Wild West Pub Crawl – SOLD OUT
4PM Wild West Short Tour
5PM CSM Men’s Soccer – MSOC vs CSU Pueblo @ Stermole Soccer Stadium
5PM CSM Women’s Soccer – WSOC vs CSU Pueblo @ Stermole Soccer Stadium
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6:30-7:30PM Bell Choir Concert @ Bell Middle School

6:30PM Economic Development Commission Meeting @ City Hall
EDComm will discuss the City’s plan to hire an additional Economic Development person. “Staff will discuss the expanded departmental work capacity with the additional staff member. Expanded efforts include business assistance programming, communications, and an economic profile of the City.” The Economic Development manager contributed an article to this month’s Golden Informer about a local business. They plan to do this every month hereafter–writing an article about a Golden business.

6:30PM Public Meeting: Reconfiguration of Ulysses Park @ Golden Community Center
The City has been leasing property from the County to use as soccer fields. The fields now require some expensive maintenance and the County wants to reclaim some or all of the property. The City is considering whether they want to upgrade the remaining soccer fields at Rooney Road or to build new fields in Ulysses Park. The latter would require some expensive reconfiguration of the existing baseball fields at Ulysses. The City is looking for public input on this decision. Learn more about it in tonight’s public meeting at the Community Center.


Live Music

5-8PM Josh Blackburn @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Night Routine @ Goosetown Station
5PM 6202 Band @ Wrigley’s
5:30PM Twenty Hands High @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse

6-9PM Chris Child @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM Pick & Howl @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge


Golden History Moment

Depot and railyard in Golden – excerpted from a photo, Dan Abbot collection – enlarge

142 Years Ago
The October 13, 1880 Colorado Transcript included the following accident report:

A sad accident occurred on Thursday night last to one of the visitors from Denver to the republican meeting here. A young man named John P. Good, a member of the young men’s Garfield and Arthur club. After the train started he thrust his head out of the window of the car and was struck by a freight car which was standing upon a side track. His neck was broken causing his death in a few moments. Deceased was a nephew of John Good, Esq., city treasurer of Denver.

The October 8, 1880 Rocky Mountain News had a longer account, and said the young man’s name was Jacob–not John.

A FATAL ACCIDENT
Just as the train had pulled out from the depot, filled with the half drunken crowd, and the reports of the fire arms were making a great din, a young man named Jacob Good, a nephew of John Good, of this city, was sitting in one of the car seats, when a sudden volley of shots resounded upon the evening air from the train. Good, who is said to have been considerably under the influence of liquor, put his head and shoulders out of one of the windows and began yelling at a terrific rate. The train was then only about ten minutes out of Golden. Of a sudden Good’s voice was hushed, and when those around turned to note the cause they observed his head, still out of the window, bumping lifelessly against the side of a freight car which stood on a side track close alongside which the train at that time was passing. A colored man saw the position of affairs and dragged the young man into the car. He was still breathing, but insensible. Blood started from his right ear, but otherwise he appeared uninjured. In a few minutes he was dead.


Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!

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