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Newspaper

Canon City Record

Location

Canon City, Colorado, United States of America

Date

Jul 06, 1905

Page

3

Cornerstone Laying Sermon and Social Church Affairs

Rev B E Hart to deliver cornerstone address at Pueblo church ceremony this evening. Mrs Alfred F Smith of Central College Lexington Mo delighted M E church Sunday crowd with measured singing. Benedictine Sisters of Colorado at Mount St Scholastica retreat with eleven sisters. no visitors or business. Rev W H Granger left Colorado for Toledo Ohio due to health. wife and family accompany him. Progressive Dinner by First Division Ladies Aid of Methodist church praised for organization with Mrs J P Morrison as chairman and detailed host arrangements at Mrs Ragsdale’s Greenwood Ave home. Decorations in red white and blue with piano music by Miss Tallege.

B. E. Hart First Baptist Church Pueblo Alfred F. Smith Central College, For Women Lexington M. E Benedictine Sisters of Colorado Mount St. Scholastica’s Academy W. H. Granger Adventist Church East Main Street Toledo Ohio Granger Ladies Aid Society Methodist Episcopal Church Miss Tallege Mre. Hartmann

Social reception tours final steps to Mrs Combs home

Assisted by Mesdames Hodgin Palmer Ree and Miss Sample guests moved from Mr Hartman’s Macon avenue residence to Mrs Lafe Combs’ Greenwood home where ices cake and coffee were served. The hostess with Mrs Singer and Misses Stevenson Tankhauser and Linkins provided music while the lawn glowed with a monster headlight and Chinese lanterns as guests lingered for a final social time.

Mesdames Hodgin Palmer Ree Miss Sample Miss Whitmore Miss Leave Dobson Mr. Hartman Macon Avenue Lafe Combs Greenwood Singer Stevenson Tankhauser Linkins Miss Combs Miss Morrison

City Book Store Sells 5 and 10 Cent Tasiers

The notice promotes tasier items at City Book Store located two doors before O. It states the products are sure winners and encourages customers to buy, claiming value in every purchase.

City Book

National editors’ junket returns via Denver and Rio Grande

Two hundred fifty delegates from the National Editorial Association traveled home on a nine car special train after a San Francisco convention. They visited the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland and admired Colorado scenery and resources on the Denver and Rio Grande route.

National Editorial Association San Francisco Salt Lake City Denver & Rio Grande Road Colorado

Summers and Stewart wedding and Dozier avenue nuptials

Frank L Summers and Mattie L Stewart wed by Rev J B Cook of the First M E Church last Tuesday. Dan J Collins and Jennie Mensies married at the brive home on Dozier avenue with Rev Morgan of Colorado Springs officiating. The couple left for Trinidad on the D R G train No 4 after the ceremony. A traveler recalls Moorish bread customs in Azemmoor Morocco and a bylaw banning baking bread weekly to curb waste.

Azemmoor Morocco Ecald Azxeinmoor

Bethel Co. Sells Bargains Amid Tax Case and Local News

The Bethel Co. promotes undergarment sales with 50c prices as a tax suit proceeds. Canon City’s Epworth League delegates head to Denver for the International Convention. Local authorities meet on prison commission business with no major action reported. Cherries from Green Hill orchard go to Chicago in the community’s first carload shipment to a trans Mississippian market. Walter Rea returns from YMCA encampment at Clyde with tales of a lost pocketbook and fishing pole. New livery stable opened at 224 Main Street with modern, spacious stabling and fresh equipment. The Ball sisters plan a summer cottage trip to Almont with several companions and invitations sent. The issue also includes light features and anecdotes, plus a note on the longest Japanese novel and various quotations.

Wordplay Between Ethel And Mamma In Diary Enjoyment

A Kansas City Journal excerpt records a playful exchange where Ethel and Mamma discuss nouns and size related word contrasts. Ethel notes that a big boy is not a ladder and a big doll is not a dollar while recalling her own doll priced at two dollars.

Ethel Mamma Kansas City Journal

Unemployed Man Answers Knocks For Work

A man explains his bruised knuckles from knocking on doors seeking work. He laments the harshness of unemployment and the demand for compassion from society versus its offerings. The dialogue touches on humane ideals and the toll of poverty.

Early hunting cry echoes in 1730 ballad on Reynard the Fox

The London Globe notes a 1730 song The Death of Reynord the Fox by Sir William Youn. It mentions a huntsman’s shout Tolle aux and a fox escaping cover as Ned Callet cries and tosses a brush. It links talllis bors to the French phrase for out of the coppice.

Reynord Fox Wiliam Youn Ned Callet Callet Bome Talllis Bors London Globe

Ghastly Pavement of Skulls Surrounds Gwandu Gate

Descriptions of Gwandu Africa show a palisade of poles topped with human skulls and paved approaches to six gates with over two thousand skulls per path. The snowy pavements are worn smooth by countless barefoot visitors. A fragment notes a wordplay joke from the Philadelphia Bulletin about violence words beginning with sp. Willie’s Anguish recalls a child’s question about marriage proposals after his father’s slipper.

Gwandu Africa Philadelphia Bulletin Willie Wile

As He Saw It Miss Riche I Lost My Heart

Dialogue from a Detroit Free Press column features a playful exchange about love and marriage. A witty quip suggests a brilliant woman's choice of spouse contrasts with a less clever second husband.

Miss Riche Mr. Poore Mr. Riche Genius LaDetroit Free Press

Unclear Exchange Cited by Cornell Witner at Event

Fragmentary quotation shows Cornell Witner discussing attire and timing at a game. The readable portion suggests a banter about wearing evening clothes and not dressing both ways for a game event. No further context or details present.

Cornell Witew

Chivalry at Discount and Bank Run Recounted

The Philadelphia Press cites bold remarks about engagement and merit in a light exchange. The piece mentions a bank run with luck to retrieve funds and a sharp rebuke for discourtesy, reflected in a New York Times account.

New York Times

Willing to Exchange Aunt Hetti Joke

A humorous exchange features Aunt Hetti asking for a temperature check and Uncle Josh hoping for a healthier reading from the doctor. The light quip plays on medical tests and playful family banter.

Hetti Josh

Beecher's City Book Store Ad Promotes Canon Souvenirs

Local shop urges patrons to send their friends to Beecher's City Book Store for Canon souvenirs as part of a promotional push. The brief notice positions the store as the community hub for purchasing commemorative items.

Beecher’s City Book Store

STATE, COUNTY AND DISTRICT FAIRS

Public conventions and Colorado conventions list events from July to September. Cattleman day at Gunnison July 21 draws interest along with the San Juan Pioneers association in Del Norte July 3 4 and the National Epworth League in Denver July 5 9. The Pueblo summer race meet runs July 7 11 followed by the National G A R encampment in Denver September 4 7. Fremont County Fair at Canon City September 21 22 23 and Mesa County Fair at Grand Junction September 18 22 highlight the fall calendar with fairs in Rocky Ford Glenwood Springs and Pueblo.

Gunnison del Norte Denver Pueblo Rocky Ford Glenwood Springs Canon City Grand Junction

Closing Times For Outside Mails At Canon City Postoffice

Changes in the D. and R. G. timetable alter mail closing times at Canon City postoffice. Late schedules list specific trains for Denver Pueblo points East and West, with Cripple Creek and local routes, plus Sunday delivery hours and a Goop store room for rent near Bon Ton restaurant.

Postoffice Canon City Postoffice Denver Pueblo Salida Cripple Creek Cripple Creek and Canon City Arthur J. Hein Bon Ton

For Rent Six Room House Near Center

Classified ad offers a six room house close in not modern for twelve dollars a month. Recorp Office.

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