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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
6
A community urges unselfish gifts this Christmas with letters from Canon City residents. Readers propose distributing $25 to help families, provide magazines, plants, shoes, or warm clothing, and support inmates, schools, and elderly neighbors, highlighting charity over cash gifts.
Letters urge charitable gifts to libraries and presses for library cards for fifty children and subscriptions for families. Contributors propose distributing money to buy books, periodicals, and essentials for the County Farm and Hospital, with Santa Claus as inspiration and community leaders backing the plan.
A letter urges funding for Grandma Rudd aged about 88 to 90, praising the Rudds for church land gifts and community aid. It notes Mrs. Rudd remains cheerful and suggests donating $25 to help her in need, framing giving as spiritual wealth and neighborly duty.
Letters to The Daily Record describe how twenty five dollars could ease misery with gifts of coal, clothes, rent, or food. Mrs J Newell Wright urges aid that helps both home and foreign missions while Florence Ruth Olson plans gifts for Canon City children, a Christmas tree, toys, candy, and warm clothing.
An ad extols Kilmer's Swamp Root as a universal kidney and bladder cure. It claims wide sales in 50 cent and one dollar sizes with mail order and free postage, urging readers to mention the newspaper and to send for details at Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, New York.
Cripple Creek High School girls defeated South Canon 19 to 6 at Ruble's hall. Officials were George Warner and Miss Humphrey Canon City with Mr. Smith and George M. Bentley Cripple Creek. Star Addie Culver scored several field goals as Golden School of Mines students watched from the stands.
Walter Greenslade, formerly of Bellevue Ohio and now a Point Richmond resident, visits Canon City to see old friends. He notes unusual damp fog along the California coast and left the state to escape it. Also listed is a for sale ad offering 20 acres with trees and a house at 876 dollars per acre near Betty.
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