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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
4
Local column highlights Canon City life with musings on good roads, town touting, and booster talk. Mentions Pacific moonlit tours of Royal Gorge, the poor farm in Fremont County, funeral trade concerns, and school start preparations. Newspaper banter blends humor and civic pride with regional anecdotes.
A Topeka firm spends heavily on newspaper ads, arguing large advertising pays as it does three times Baker & Biggs. County commissioners should collect licenses from visiting circuses that paid none to Florence or the county last week. Also notes a health ad for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
William Laquitte formerly of Iowa and recently at Fort Collins as a dry goods executive becomes assistant manager at Baker and Biggs. He will supervise the store in Baker’s absence and handle advertising and business details. He is a strong believer in printers ink and credits it with most commercial successes.
Assistant Postmaster John W Emmerson has been asked by Postmaster Wills of Nashville to prepare a paper on Education of the Public in Postal Matters for the National Postmasters Association meeting in Dayton Ohio September 26 27 and 28 He previously spoke on the same topic before the Colorado Postmasters Association at Colorado Springs and drew little favorable notice He will be the sole representative from this state on the Dayton program.
Charlie Reeves opens a new livery stable at 224 Main Street praised as a refined Southern Colorado establishment. The building boasts new interiors with golden oak office fittings and a carpeted floor, plus 36 vehicles including a four-digit landau and hotel coach made by E. M. Miller & Co. of Quincy Illinois.
At a regular board meeting Miss Dora Gilfillan was elected assistant principal of Canon City High School to replace Lassie Allen. Mary Webster was chosen to teach at Orchard Park School to replace Short. Gilfillan has studied abroad and taught in Wisconsin and Iowa joining Cripple Creek last year. Webster is a Canon City girl who taught in Cripple Creek district and did summer work at Colorado State Normal University.
Hillside and Cotopesxi circuit on Rev. Collister closes a successful year. Visitors include Mrs George and Miss Beaver from South Canon. Families travel to Pondha Springs and Westcliff. Activities feature picnics at the reservoir and De Weese dam. Sunday schools at Kaesa ranch host union picnic with talks by Prof. Dawson and Mr. Cowan.
An apparently perfectly satisfactory ice cream event led by Mrs. Vernon and Rev. Mr. Collister was voted a complete success.
Loggins returns from three weeks or a month visiting friends in Missouri. He reports he did missionary work for Fremont County and says many locals expressed willingness to be shown, predicting a colony may move out this fall.
R Rosenberg paused in Seattle last Thursday on route from Portland to Denver. He praised Seattle as a promising business center and predicted it will be one of the nation’s great cities within twenty five years. Gift. by John Wanamaker, Sam Wanamaker has given the International Young Men's Christian Association $100 for buildings in Kyoto, Beijing, and Seoul.
An 19th century classified fragment touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for uncured cases, claims of F. J. Cheney’s honorable dealings, and endorsements from Wailingding & Marvin and wholesale druggists. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills and Starkroils Cure with internal action on blood and mucus surfaces.
Ordinance establishing the town seal for East Janon Colorado with central inscription Seal Incorporated May 1 106 and outer edge The Town of East Janon Colorado Adopted July 1 Shaw Mayor Attest K P Arthur Clerk
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