Pure Food Ordinance Takes Effect in Canon City
Canon City adopts the Pure Food Ordinance with one dissent, setting strict licensing and inspection rules for grocers and meat dealers. Richard Houle named food inspector, promising 50 dollars a month and to study tuberculosis tests, while amendments debate poultry drawing and licensing cuts.
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Richard Houle
Wilson Pearson
House
Denver
Pueblo
Sam Wright
John E. Maher
Wright
Maher
Seely
Advantages of Trading with Home Merchants
A guide praising local spending in Canon City. It argues buying from home merchants keeps money circulating locally, strengthens taxes and community prosperity, and supports local jobs. It urges shoppers to favor Canon City businesses and mentions the role of home advertisements in sustaining local papers and payrolls.
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Pauline
Cason City
Local Contest Close Monday Night with Bank Judges
Ballot box closes at seven on Monday December thirty with counting to follow after eight. Judges are three bank cashiers led by Geo F Rockafellow and Sheriff Wilse Brewster. Results to be announced after a full canvass. prior counts show Duncan 29450 Maddock 24500 Quinn 23900 Seamen 18850 Whalen 13200 Stockder 8900 Lyons 5500 Bocock 1400 Scott 1000. Brennan sought by penitentiary authorities for serious charges.
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Daily Record Office
Geo. F. Rockafellow
Cash
Fremont County National Bank
C. S. Hudson
First National Bank
M. J. Evans
Citizens State Bank
Fred Duncan
W. J. Maddock
Joe Quinn
Jonathan Seamen
Pete Whalen
Hagen Stockder
Beech Lyons
Ed. Bocock
Wm. Scott
Christmas shopping surges as cold weather boosts trade
The crisp days spur broad holiday buying with crowded stores. Post office reports a busy flow of outgoing packages as locals hurry to dispatch gifts to distant friends and home. Postal clerks expect this Christmas season to mirror last year despite economic changes.
Extra window open at post office Sunday
Postmaster will have Rural Free Delivery carrier J C Lawrence hand out all mail to R F D route 1 patrons at the post office next Sunday. Lawrence will deliver on Christmas day as on other days, ensuring rural patrons receive letters parcels and papers promptly.
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Lincoln Park
Four Mile
Park Center
Orchard Park
Lewis
J. C. Lawrence
Daily Record
Mr. Lawrence
Chicken Pie Supper and Bazaar a Splendid Success
The ladies of the First Methodist Church congregation held a bazaar and supper in the church basement on Tuesday night to raise funds. Beautiful articles were displayed and sold at good prices, with unsold items to be auctioned later. the supper earned eighty five dollars, and total receipts likely exceeded one hundred fifty dollars.
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First Methodist Church
Pile of Christmas Coin At Fremont National Bank
A Fremont County National Bank desk held forty five thousand dollars in new five ten and twenty dollar bills from Washington. Notes feature Harrison McKinley and Hugh McCullough. bills unsigned but can bear a cashier stamp for quick signing. Total cash on hand is about 238 thousand with over 200 thousand on reserve deposits, signaling strong liquidity.
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F. Rockafellow
Fremont County National Bank
Express
Treasury Department
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Harrison
McKinley
Hugh McCullough
the Treasury
Public Library Receives Canterbury Pilgrimage Picture
The Public Library welcomes a new artwork from the former Ladies' Library Association, funded by a 100-dollar bequest. The piece by Robert Van Vorst Sewall, titled The Canterbury Pilgrimage, depicts a spring inn gathering of Chaucer’s pilgrims en route to Canterbury.
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Ladies’ Library Association
Robert van Vorst Sewall
George Gould
Chaucer
Tabbard Inn
Southwark
Thomas a’Becket
Canterbury
City Attorney to Attend Consultation on Club Cases
City Attorney A L Taylor traveled to Denver to join Bonynge and Ritter and Anti-Saloon League representatives in a conference on the club cases. The aim is unified action as these cases reach the supreme court on appeal. Mrs Ledford Truman and her children leave for Pueblo then Owensboro Kentucky for Christmas with no plans to return to Colorado.
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A. L. Taylor
Denver
Messrs. Bonynge
Taylor
Messrs. Bonynge & Ritter
Anti-Saloon League
Double Tracking Resumed On Rio Grande Railroad
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad resumes main line double tracking from here to Canon City. Outfit cars arrived and a gang will be shipped this week, with six weeks needed to finish. Ties and rails laid along the right of way, one bridge to be built near Canon City. The resumed work follows prior money stringency and layoff.
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Denver and
Rio Grande
Here
Canon City
Royal Arch Masons Elect Officers at Canon City Chapter
At the last regular meeting of Canon City Chapter No. 14 R A M officers were elected for the ensuing year. Wm J Davis H P J D Russell K G H Sakie B J E Peabody C of H W H Treat P 3 A H Seely R O C Theo Shoeman M 3rd A W McClure M U H C Webster M 1st. The Record offers engraved calling cards for Christmas packing.
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Canon City
R. A
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