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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
3
The Pueblo Chief notes that Colorado leaders favor federal protection of lands like Royal Gorge near Canon City to preserve natural beauty. It urges Congress to grant the land to Canon City for park purposes for permanent public ownership and local improvements.
Social notes report visits and travels including Mrs. Jesse Waters and Mrs. F N Carrier to Almont for rest. Miss Pearl Gibson returning from Pueblo after six weeks with Mrs. Ed Minor. Chas W Cowan and Mrs Mary Ellen Gay wed by Rev J T Thomas in Canon. Also plans for an Anti Cigarette Union rally led by J B Lister. Katherine Wood returns to Canon as a teacher. Mrs George Houle recovers from a severe electrical shock. Dr R E Holmes hospitalized with appendicitis. Gray Dickinson advertises Northwestern Life Insurance. Chas A Browne returns to Hiawatha after four weeks in Canon. various families visit Beulah and New York. testimonial for Foley’s Kidney Cure.
Infant Elmer Harris of 601 Catlin Avenue dies at six months. Emma Button, 30, of Iowa origin, dies of meningitis after weeks ill. remains sent to Toledo Illinois. Ed Gorman, 24, dies of appendicitis at Red Cross hospital Salina. William Knight, 36, Penitentiary guard, dies of typhoid. formerly mining in Boulder County. noted in sports including baseball and bowling.
A local obituary notes a resident leaving a son in Boston and a brother in New York City. The funeral was conducted at Wilsons Undertaking Parlors on Monday with Thomas officiating. Interment followed at Luake Side Cemetery.
The will of the late J. J. Cone filed for probate bequeaths his estate to wife Annie E. Cone as executrix and James L. Cooper as executor with no bond required. Dated February 25 1964 the instrument was made amid plans for a trip to the St Louis exposition. The estate is described as very large with new Ophir mine ore discovery possibly valued near a million dollars in a year, plus Idaho and other mining properties, coffee lands, and substantial stocks and securities.
The Rocky Mountain Livery offers safe teams carriages and drivers for hire in the western country. Mesers Iden & Hyesong are courteous and aim to please patrons with knowledgeable guides and reasonable prices for tours to local sights.
In Canon City there are no advertised rentals though homes may exist. Over the last two days seven people visited The Recoup office seeking rental listings, but none were advertised. The community is urged to place want ads in the Tax Recoup Want column to attract tenants.
The Greenhorn Artesian Water company, formed by prominent local businessmen, plans to supply South Canon, Lincoln Park and nearby suburbs with abundant pure soft artesian water. It has secured leases on about 1400 acres in the artesian basin southwest of Chandler, seven miles from Canon City, to exploit the resource previously identified by oil drilling.
Artesian water found at about 1000 feet with three wells yielding over 600000 gallons in 24 hours. Plans aim to pipe to South Canon territory at not more than two and a half cents per hundred gallons and install a metering system. Prof Johnson analyzes water as nearly pure with no sulfur or mineral content. Source wells draw from meltwater runoff over thousands of square miles. Company leaders include James H. Peabody president and John Q. MacDonald vice president with A C Dickinson as secretary treasurer and directors Col D C Jackling Jesse H Waters Charles Bocking and Hon G R Gwillim.
Canon City veterans who wore the Federal blue plan to travel to Denver for the National Encampment. Greenwood Post members and many from the Woman's Relief Corps and Ladies of the G A R will ride a special train to join the reunion. The event commemorates Civil War service and renewing old associations.
Portland Cement Co of Portland Colorado invites bids for inside plastering of 3175 yards two coat lard wall on wood lath with float finish and 2000 yards outside plaster two coat on metal lath. Company supplies materials. contractors furnish tools and labor. Bids due Sept 7. work to start immediately upon contract. Send to Aman Moore manager Portland Colorado.
The fair promises a top amusements feature with Johnson's troupe of bucking bulls, donkeys and branches. The fair association funds daily exhibitions and prizes for riders who conquer the stubborn steeds. Johnson has previously performed in Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
Canon City forms a gun club after local agitation led by Ira Carrier. The group meets at A E Wilson’s undertaker shop with 32 members and elects officers Dr F N Carrier president and A A Parker secretary treasurer. Members include Dr R E Holmes and Dr C H Graves among many others with plans for practice and contests with nearby towns.
We thank neighbors and friends for support during illness and the death of our son Elmer on the 24th. Special thanks to nurse Cora Terry physician Dr J B Moore Reverend J T Thomas Jr and Mr and Mrs A H White and C G Anderson for kindness coral offerings and prayers. John Amundson and family and Mr and Mrs W H Harris express gratitude for community care.
Ed Fowler, recently back from one and a half years in Panama, where he worked as a civil engineer on the canal project and for the Panamanian government, visits friends in the city before heading to Cripple Creek. He reports ample work and fair pay in Panama but chose not to remain there.
Eastman Kodak grants W Babberger full agency rights for Kodak products including Rochester Optical Blair Camera and Eastman Non curling Films. This expansion covers all manufactures and offerings under the Kodak umbrella.
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