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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
5
Cripple Creek excursion plans and a flurry of visits fill Canon City notes. Miss Olive McKenzie travels to Victor, while E. C. Hiatt attends mining interests. Judge Bailey and family plan Cripple Creek for business and leisure. Community appetites for bargains and gatherings color the week.
Miss Justin Houseman of Carthage Ohio stays with Mr and Mrs L L Harding at 903 Allison avenue. Miss Mabel Ellison of Mitchell Indiana visits Mr and Mrs T L Lyon at 616 North Fifteenth Street. Miss Maude Brewster and Miss Jane Bletsoe visit Miss Rachel Hutchinson. Mr and Mrs W L Morris plan a Colorado Springs trip and Morris attends Colorado county assessors meeting in Denver. O C Haines returns to Hastings Nebraska. Mrs Haines and daughter stay with Mr and Mrs H S Converse. Mr and Mrs Arthur H Smith and children Leslie and Dora return from Salt Lake City. Misses Gail and Jean Conaway and Miss Eula Whitmore head to Ken Harbor ranch in Wet Mountain Valley. Emma Wyatt and Veda Wyatt of Garnett Kansas visit Mrs Thompson Cooke on East Canon en route to Weeseiedt City and Pacific coast. Additional notes mention extended ties to Ear Pan business and related parties.
Local news notes a firm taking charge of Smith machine shops and automobile works at Goldfield. Various residents are listed: Miss Anna Rau, a Santa Fe Railroad stenographer from Clairbourne, Texas, visiting relatives. Cr. G. Anderson and family planning a Buena Vista camping trip. and many daily movements, visits, and illnesses around Canon City, Cripple Creek, and nearby towns.
A letter from Mrs. J W Work of Okmulgee Okla reports the death of Dr Cyrus Fish in Denver on July 19 after heart trouble. Mrs J T Naff of Long Beach Calif says her mother Mrs J C Burkhardt is gravely ill there from heart trouble and may die before her Denver police husband can reach her.
Tuesday greetings include Grace McGee visiting the McGees in Iowa City while typhoid fever sickens A A LaDuke and Aldis. D A Agnew and Sam plan Stevens Point then northern for rest. W A Shuck of Las Animas visits Rev. Hollenback. W S Manning and wife travel from Shelbina via Canon City on a camping trip, praising the city as a fine community. Mrs Manning is Virgie Cutler’s twin sister.
Local society items list visitors and guests from Canon City, Sedalia, Cleveland, St Louis and Missouri towns. Names include Willa Fulton, Edith James, Katherine Fullegar, Ruth Tabor, Lucile Duval, Edna Stockoff, J T Brownston, Mayor Gleason, Capt Hannum, Elizabeth Baker, Madge Beall, W A Harrison, T E Fulghum, Harry McClernahan, and Hector Small. Movements include visits to Los Angeles, Colorado Springs, Goldfield, and trips by train. homes and host residences noted.
Mrs. B D Pennock and Mrs J C Purcell plus Marsh and Genevieve Pennock of Galveston Texas guest with F D Tripp family in South Canon Miss Mary Fitzpatrick of Littleton Colorado guests with Mr and Mrs H S Garlinghouse in East Canon this week She is cousin of Mr Garlinghouse Warden Cleghorn travels to Denver for talks with Gov Buchtel and prison commissioners on funding state road work from Trinidad north to the Wyoming line Last legislature provided 10000 which is exhausted and convicts at Starkville prison camp may be moved back Two miles of road have been built along the mountain side in recent months.
Rev Waite has been adding to his property by purchasing an adjoining acre from Mr Law on Greydene avenue, increasing values for both parcels as they will be combined. Mrs McCreary and her young son travel to Iowa to visit her parents. The Surberg child’s hay pulley injury heals well. Rev Waite receives a visit from brother William Waite of Iowa. Mrs Gravestock and daughter Pearl return to Greydene after two months in Oregon for health reasons. the trip was delayed by washouts making their journey twelve days there and five days back, with some thrilling moments reported.
Amended articles of incorporation filed by the Eastern Colorado Electrical Power Company of Denver. The generating plant will be located at Glenwood Springs and the firm plans to use the undeveloped water power of Grape Creek to supply electricity to South Side smelting establishments and other county customers.
The Colorado Telephone Company reports rapid progress on a new eight mile line from Gorge station toward the Royal Gorge intake for the water works pipe line. Linemen work along a near vertical canyon wall using iron brackets to mount the line. Communication from Gorge station to the city is already available.
Word arrives of Mrs. J. C. Burkhardt's death from heart disease in Long Beach California. She was mother of Mrs. J. T. Naff and had traveled west for health reasons with her daughter. The body will return to Denver for burial. She once lived in Canon City during her husband J. Burkhardt's tenure as deputy warden at the penitentiary.
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