Town Topics Tersely Told
Mrs Sarah Davis has gone to Colorado Springs for a few days on business and pleasure. Several locals host guests from Dallas and Leadville while others return from trips to Del Norte and San Francisco. Annie Townsend, 3, dies of typhoid in Leadville. burial there. Glass window replaced at Bethel Clothing, cost 175 dollars. Wetmore rains boost pasture growth. hail damages less than feared. Maud Brown visits from Dexter with Gail Conaway. baby born to Mr and Mrs S Laws. Gail Conaway hosts 30 friends for a party in honor of Maude Brown with games and prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Davis
Colorado Springs
Huber Page
Dallas, Texas
Ned
Craven
Macon Avenue
J. E. Bell
Mis. Lingstone
Pacific Coast
Eunice Davis
Denver
Donald Likens
Manitou
Royal Gorge
Annie L. Townsend
T. W. Townsend
Leadville
River Street
P. A. Lovewell
Topeka
Kansas
Kansas, Are Guests of Mrs. Lovewell’s Parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Sawer
North Ninth Street
Lovewell
Topeka Journal
Colorado
Bethel Clothing Company
W. A. Watson Sr
Wetmore Ranch
Wetmore
Watson
Watson Ranch
Maud Brown
Dexter
Iowa
Gail Conaway
P. Fleischer
Sam Laws
Laws
H. A. Abright
Maude Brown
Hazel Tucker
Alfred Weiland
Pioneers of Canon City Celebrate 39th Colorado Anniversary
W H McClure and brother J E McClure marked their thirty ninth anniversary of coming to Colorado with two family reunions on Wednesday and Friday nights. Hosts were Mr and Mrs W H McClure and Gen and Mrs J H Maupin. Guests included J E McClure, Mary B McClure and Laura May of Hannibal Missouri, E E Smith and daughter from Brooklyn New York, Joseph H Maupin, Lizzie Davis of Holden Missouri, and W H Hodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.H. McClure
J. E. McClure
Colorado
W.h.mcclure
J. H. Maujin
McClures
Mary B. McClure
Laura May
Hannibal, Mo
E. E. Smith
Brooklin N Y
Joseph H. Maupin
Lizzie Davis
Holden, Mo
W.H Hodges
All Train Records Broken as D and RG Excursion Runs Peak
The D and RG last excursion trains to the Pacific coast passed through here last Saturday triggering record passenger traffic in the first half of the month with about a thousand travelers daily. Freight delays from Salida to Pueblo due to heavy travel disrupted shipments of fruit, while one reader reports diphtheria outbreaks in Buena Vista and accuses local authorities of negligence after his family fell ill during a summer outing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Hegira
Salida
Pueblo
Rxcorp
J. W. Work
Buena Vista
Work
Disastrous railroad mishap maims Fuller near Canon City
J G Fuller once with the Times barely escapes death after a freight train strikes him along the Royal Gorge route. He breaks his left arm and suffers a head gash while deaf to signals, and leaves for Indiana Monday despite injuries. Other notes mention Marr's dress goods, Denver visits by J H Harrison and family, and Harry L Craig's return from the Santa Fe surveying corps to Champaign for civil engineering studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. G. Fuller
Times Office
Royal Gorge
Fuller
Hanging Bridge
Canon City
Indiana
Harry L. Craig
Santa Fe Railroad Company
San Marcel
N. M
Champaign
Illinois
Benefit Concert for Edythe James Under Consideration
Miss Edythe James a Can on girl with a sweet voice will headline a benefit concert at Elk's hall next Monday night to fund continued musical studies. She will be aided by Estelle Beach Davin violinist of Litchfield Illinois James Lee contralto Fort Worth Texas Adelaide James soprano Fort Worth Grace Dale pianist Helen Sartor pianist Elisabeth Lee soprano and her teacher Admission is fifty cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edythe James
Elk’s Hall
Edythe
Estelle Beach Davin
Litchfield
Illinois
James Lee
Fort Worth
Texas
Adelaide James
Grace Dale
Helen Sartor
Elisabeth Lee
Tourists See Canon by Automobile
Tourists travel by automobile to a Canon near 817 Main Street as a short note mentions Thomas and Diegel. The fragment notes a street address and two names in a concise local item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas & Diegel
Main Street
Aunt Judith's Horse Thief Heroine of the Farm
Widow Aunt Judith Hobson pursues a horse thief who steals one of her prized horses. After a dramatic chase ending in a crash, she captures the thief, insists he recover from a broken leg at her house, and resists the sheriff's plan to imprison him until she decides otherwise. She treats him with stern mercy and keeps him under her roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judith Hobson
Aunt Judith Suddenlay
Aunt Judith
Jericho
Judith
Steven Taylor
Letter List of Mail Matter in Cane City Post Office
List of mail matter remaining in the Cane City Colorado post office for the week ending August 16, 1908. Names include Mrs Clara Avery, James Bonewitz, Dr E B Gallaway, Miss Olive Herr, Mre Alfred Johnson, Miss Lizzie Miller, Mrs Pima G Mills, Miss Sadie White, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cane City
Colo
Arms
Clara Avery
James Bonewitz
D H Care
Elizabeth Deirram
James Ebersole
E B Gallaway
Emma. Gelhorn
John Hamptothi
Olive Herr
H E Hickams
Hwati
Alfred Johnson
G H Kenney
E R Lee
H Leeper
O00
Martinz
Lizzie Miller
Pima G Mills
M A Matlock
Janey Morse
Sarah E Moore
Also Mentioned on This Page
Solomon
The
Palace Drug Store
Fred Pennington
Post Office
Glenwood Springs
Postoffice Department
H.C. Beckham
Parlins
Pearl Jones
Independence
Missouri
Victor
East
Charley Jones
Pike Avenue
Kansas City
Miisouri
Bridges
Helen
J.j.jones
Simon
Seneca
Mr Simon
St. Joe
Pioneers of
Marr’s
J. H. Harrison
Frank
Tom Linkins
Edna
Ethel Hitchcock
Mount Vernon
Armstrongs Ranch
Taylor Lake
Sangre de Christo Range
Beuna Vista
T. C. MoClure
American Chemical M’fg Co
Pueblo, Colorado
DeWeese & Eis Main
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