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Peak Region YesterdaysBy DORA. FOSTERJdoThu wwk Id's retail the life of on*- of Colorado Springs bril-!.•»(' imntls, thlt;* mind of a woman 1 Ai- Hudson AlienI*Our family firs! made her ac-;quamtanu* she »a.s a uirlof about 12. Her maternal grand-■» other. Mrs K. K Campbell, -ta- a running summer eating hou.-e' in the South Cheyenne Canon, near where now is the .t arch that spam tin road 1 wj\ Lois .ilnng with the others in her family, came out each! imrotr lrom their home in Fre-!1 Imna. Kan to tw* with the grand mother In the family were Mrs• IHudson Lois' mother and several brothers and sisters The father jwav a state senator from Kansas,and seldom caitu? west with the)Iuth« rs40ah?f rr*cihaliarrnnoldn fp.rmmen iillhaiH ALLEN;!lt; * *Lois was hlt; r grandmother's er-rand girl arid a pietty tmt with I largo blue eyes and a wealth of j dark brown hair that hung m a heav\ braid down her back (Jut ranch supplies were needed al I the eating house almost everymorning and Mother utten told fobtado Springs gives some idea: *!»*! Loin wo* • as .sharp as a ^ Idc m ^ »*r northat k d**etlt;lmg instantly uh* u While ’be days at* getting. a choice was to be made if hinder we have only five hoursi-1 cl# sired products were not to daylight just no* and one hislt;■ had and a choue was neces riih around to go? even mu*%lKl i# 'M* vvnrk done I am washingam thisletter tn between trips to theto {Hit coal on and stirclothes You know how much 1know about washing and I hav#4:iHut we IFur several vears in her high sc ru#o! and coliege days the wash*r lather s secretary and lived ici ^0'» *h him tn Washington, D C B« mg her grandmottter s pet. she often iam*‘ to visit during medvi ,»r v.uaUons with Mr' Camp’ « . and i an a too to spend a few 's with our family After her marriage to Mr \llen Kansas we saw little of Lois after his d**ath in 1#19 sIm to. cn*d to Colorado Spring* toauklt; her home bringing with her r tour mail sons Hudson .lines Frank and Andrew Si# purchased a home in the ’**'• block on Cheyenne Boulevard and thru the help of her cousin.Millard S Nichols* hu -?Nu-n in the city. for ' n»* n the \u: boh Block cm y;, t • h,t s tw-en naitied, vb* se-• M'#*d a po'ifinf! a Mieietv editor• ds» Colorado Springs Kveiling digraph, a position r a number of vearsnigh! and edited Hie*nngs Journal Shera woman member of the Colo* irki M it or la! Assoc iation Later *« tsMud t and edited the* Fre Leader of Canon City.UxHit inG having lost Iter twome# I *ons *he went to Skag*ka leaving hrm two eld*tit newspaper work inIn Skagwav editedneographc^d and later her ot theof Moose huy da s, many articlesto cairy tin water two blocks and I don't even own a wjdi board mi mv cJothes #io not show anv tattle fak gray buf they showup tank tale black'You »: r * fool around wastmanv coal up hrr* 1^ costs $17 a0a tan My fir^t winter hi*re wa^mild I wa“ t! . . d Two aiiove iero was flu cold«-st itI cl Ytdthis winter and IMl 11* 27 litiow . ** in a cabinthat is up on pilings and IhcHdc rolls und*-r roc !wko in rvrrv24 hours .*?*lt;! then* i- nisi a -in■ i ..........between if and me o I spent the 17 below days wearing two of * v# r\thmg and sitting onmy fee*?But everything com# s out al!fight dcMssn't if Th* nor hern light* are much more beautiful■■I w inter w henshe helduntil *dwMumtouwas thebitter coldthan they werr last winter when d wun m» mild. If you wouldthem ju t on r vou would knowwhy I am not ever (lt;minc backlt;»o hapin\lto th«* states i aihere I could bust and if I don t slop eating so much I will hu*t They raise th#; best vegetable-* *n»itf (iI I ii asckako.a ini1 | J Q= 1 *0lt;iA. 4 % * » *s ^yearpubfMin* rth* mite dllup here been a fish fmsalmon andthey britikl•rwater I wts k mv•*4 tI have never do enjoy tbesi halibut and herring from the freshin one* t fr4 Ii 2t 1nejt ~ ^ - 4F ♦4*rv j all1st Sti1 \ t \er,1di*-grac«H •kn ini*si 4tit Inon Aiaskafiir ma«ia2tne ?Hion A 1Milterto a fneininHacksft Iand canbiHi a ratis deliciousMrs Allen s death occurredAlaska July 3i) ima Her survivors are her two sunsDenverShe left many sorrowing friendsYak Region and ail of us remember her as abrilliant and talented womanwhom the rt gton might wellmember with pridein thi Pike* Ft*a
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Colorado Springs Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Sun, Jan 10, 1960
Page 53
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Pikes P.
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