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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
2
The Leader Store offers builders hardware at low prices and timely building work. It furnishes bath appliances, plumbing, and heating systems with expert supervision. Grocery customers are pleased by honest representations, varied stock, and slightly higher change returns, promoting true economy.
Canon City readers confront a contested bonus for the Canon City Florence and Royal Gorge Interurban Railway after F. S. Granger releases all claims to the $25,000 fund. The committee and Mrs. Raynolds question legality of pulling funds, urging the bonus stay intact until January 1907.
The fund for the road is held until January 1 1907 or until builders claim it under the agreement. A protest from F B Street as former president questions the retention, while trustees note subscribers’ interest in keeping the bonus together for the project. A special meeting July 17 approved the action with trustees Coulter Hutton Lewis Harrison Hardy Turnbull signing.
Canon City figure F B Street formerly president of the Canon City Florence and Interurban Railway Company opposed moves to withdraw a railway bonus. In a telegram dated July 19, 1996 from New York City Street said he was “interested in funds” and advised Coulter not to take the suggested action.
Canon City July 20 1906 Magdalene G Raynolds writes to subscribers to the 25000 bonus funding the electric railway. She says she will pay funds held in Fremont County Bank through the subscribers’ committee, if legally safe, and denies a known agreement with F S Granger about a 3000 note while remaining ready to pay under the original terms by January 1 1907.
The M. E. choir of this city organized in September has maintained an average Sunday attendance of about forty from a 50-member roster. Last Sunday attendance reached 43 after a full workday and cantata rehearsal. Most members belong to the Methodist church, with strong loyalty and fellowship noted. An August vacation for Mr Hichhorn was approved, with the chorus also offered a one month break.
The Palace drug store touts Orino Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup as permanent relief for habitual constipation. It claims to stimulate the liver and restore natural bowel action without irritation, nausea, or griping, and advises refusing substitutes.
Rev. W J Fisher former Cumberland Presbyterian pastor here arrived from the East after an absence of nearly three months. He had gone to Decatur Illinois for the Gen- mission work and then proceeded to San Francisco where he has been engaged in church mission efforts.
Rev. Fisher reports quake ruins in San Francisco among the most remarkable in civilization as the city plans a rapid rebuild with rail lines and 3 000 acres of debris cleared for new steel and stone towers. He will discuss the disaster at First Presbyterian Church tomorrow night before leaving for his mission post Monday. Marble and granite monuments. H. W. Hadley, 225 Main.
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