Committee to report favorably on new road to Colorado Springs
A Canon City merchants committee has finished its two day survey of a proposed carriage and automobile road from Canon City to Colorado Springs. They estimate a 15 000 dollar cost with prison labor, cross a dam and extend through Schaeffer reservoir to boost tourism and regional prosperity.
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Colorado Springs
Canon City
Canon
Chas. L. Mitton
O. K. Parker
Internal Improvement Fund
Alan Bell
Fremont County
General Assembly
McLain
Penrose
Beaver Park
Red Creek
Glendale Hill
Great Schaeffer Dam
Beaver Land and Irrigation Company
Patton Creek Gulch
Beaver
Red Creeks
Colorado
Arkansas Valley
Schaeffer Dam
Schaeffer
Beaver Land & Irrigation Company
Beaver Creek
Keely Ditch
Redhill
Fremont Building and Loan stockholders Meet
The annual meeting will be at 623 Main Street Canon City Colorado on February 5 1909 at 7 30 PM. Directors will be elected bylaws amended and other business addressed. Stockholders urged to attend in person or by proxy. Guy A Hardy president Charles E Waldo secretary.
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Fremont Building and Loan Association
Main Street
Canon City
Colorado
A. D
Guy A. Hardy
Charles E. Waldo
Frank Dickson of Dickson’s Furniture Returns From Denver Trip
Francis J. Dickson of Dickson’s Furniture Co returned home Friday after a short visit to Denver where he attended the stock show, which he called the best he ever saw.
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Francis J. Dickson
Dickson’ Furniture Company
Denver
City
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Cure All
A 19th century advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, promises to cure with a $100 reward for failures, and urges readers to obtain testimonials. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Pleasant Surprise for Mrs Dan Hall by Woman's Relief Corps
About thirty ladies visited Mrs. Dan Hall on Wednesday afternoon giving her a surprise in her home. The group presented a Recognition pin from the Woman's Relief Corps, with letters F C and L for Fraternity Charity and Loyalty. Guests included Mesdames Phelps Curtis Sell Boland Superstein Misa Selleck and Miss Fula gar with refreshments provided to end the visit.
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Dan Hall
Mrs. Hall
Woman's Relief Corps
F. C
Real Estate Dealers Association to Meet Here Next Spring
J. M. Bartlett returned from Denver where he attended the Colorado State Realty Dealers Association meeting at the Brown Palace hotel. He was commissioned by the Canon City Merchants Association to invite them to hold their spring convention in Canon City and secured a promise to visit. date to be set by the executive committee. Boulder sought the event but lost on a ballot.
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J. M. Bartlett
Denver
Colorado State Realty Dealers Association
Brown Palace Hotel
Bartlett
Canon City
Women Who Wear Well and the Perils of Domestic Change
An article discusses how marriage and motherhood alter a woman's appearance and vitality. It cites ignorance and neglect as causes and warns about pelvic drains and weakness affecting health. It promotes a non alcoholic remedy made from native herbs with no habit forming drugs.
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Collesov Ee
Real Estate Association spring meeting eyed by western slope
Wilson of Hotchkiss Colorado serves as president and T G Skaggs of Colorado Springs is secretary. Mr Bartlett expects a large turnout for the spring meeting especially among western slope real estate men. The Denver convention ended with a banquet at the Brown Palace hotel.
Beaver Park to See Major Developments This Summer
W A Matlock of Beaver Land and Irrigation reports rapid progress in Beaver Park Colorado with the Schaeffer reservoir costing 250000 and 30 miles of cement lateral irrigation at 100000. A Beaver Penrose and Northern railway from Beaver to Penrose will start grading soon with service by May 16 offering three daily trains and link to Oro Junta within a year. The project plans include 1500 acres of new orchard and employment for 600 men boosting the park and surrounding towns.
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W. A. Matlock
Beaver Land and Satin Company
Beaver Land & Irrigation Company
Schaeffer
Colorado
Beaver, Penrose & Northern Railway
Beaver Station
Denver and
Rio Grande
Penrose
Beaver
Beaver Park
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Denver
Cripple Creek
Salida
Oro Junta
Mrs. J. E. Keefe Hosts Luncheon for Street Brigade
An open air luncheon was served at the Keefe residence to prisoners forming a street gang overseen by Overseer Pool. Mrs. J. E. Keefe and assistants provided mince pies fruit cake biscuits butter jelly and coffee on the lawn before the prisoners returned to labor at the penitentiary.
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J. E. Keefe
Seventh
Pine Streets
Penitentiary
Steward Keefe
Banquet at Canon City Prison Pleases Inmates
Overseer Pool yields to inmate calls and attends the al fresco lunch. Mrs. Keefe and helpers serve the best meal yet for the prisoners, with beans off the menu for a week. Steward Keefe notes long service but Mrs. Keefe wins the argument by delivering abundant food.
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Pool
Convict Labor on State Roads Endorsed
One hundred good roads delegates attended a Colorado Springs conference urging state highway funding and convict labor for road projects. The group unanimously endorsed the Rocky Mountain Highway association bill and a $15,900 appropriation for a Colorado Springs to Canon City road.
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Colorado Springs
Good Roads
Rocky Mountain Highway Association
Trinidad
W. BH. Doyle
Lem Gammon
el Paso
A. T. Stewart
John T. West
Pueblo
Fort Collins
Canon City
Localities Mentioned in Fragment List Cresting Confusion
Fragment from a Colorado page cites places including Trinidad Florence Wal senburg Colorado City Manitou Woodland Park Fairplay Littletom and Aguilar. The brief notes unreadable context but preserves place names as read.
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Trinidad
Florence
Walsenburg
Colorado City
Manitou
Woodland Park
Fairplay
Littletom
Aguilar
State Civil Service Examinations Set for Denver Dates
Colorado state civil service commission announces exams for warden at the state penitentiary and warden at the reformatory in Denver February 12 13. Deaf and blind school headship in Denver March 19 20. Applications due by February for penitentiary and reformatory posts and March 13 for the deaf and blind headship. Exams mix written and oral to gauge qualifications. Additional exams may be held nationwide in listed Colorado locations.
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The
State Civil Service Commission
Denver
Colorado State Penitentiary
Colorado State Reformantory
Colorado Schools For the
Buena Vista
Boulder
Canon City
Colorado Springs
Fort Collins
Golden
Grand Junction
Greeley
Leadville
Monte Vista
Pueblo
Trinidad
Deepest coal shaft connected at Littell Brothers mine
The upper and lower portions of the Deep shaft at the Littell Brothers coal mine in Wolf Park have been connected becoming the state's deepest coal shaft. F G Willis of Hille Willis Cripple Creek did the surveying and reports the alignment as perfect. Subscribe for the Record at $1.35 a year in advance.
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Littell Brothers
Wolf Park
F. G. Willis
Hille & Willis
Cripple Creek
Littell
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Our Beau
Erie
Boulder. CO. Nurseries
Colo
Daily Record
Mitchell & Egbers
Canon City, Colo
Street Brigade
Civil Servicec
McGillicaddy
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