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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
4
A call from Canon City Record reader urges a movement to provide carriages for elderly veterans on Decoration Day. The writer notes many soldiers in the blue are over 65 and the long marches leave some ill, suggesting this tribute as fitting as flowers.
The city council dismissed contests and endorsed closing saloons. The Reform party holds five of eight aldermen and favors curbing liquor sales, with the public set to press for prohibitory ordinances by October. The mayor Coulter and Taxpayer aldermen are urged to support the will of the people.
City editor W. W. Emmerson married Miss Julia Ellen Merritt at Mt Vernon Illinois. They plan a brief eastern trip and home at 425 Pike Avenue Canon City after July 25. Merritt is a niece of General Merritt and well regarded in Mt Vernon. A separate note mentions a large venue with opera chairs, stage, Esler's Band, a free noon band concert and unicycle act.
Bruer’s Big Company of thirty performers will present Joseph Jefferson’s Rip Van Winkle in Canon City on Tuesday June 6. They travel in their own special cars and perform beneath an immense waterproof pavilion theatre capable of seating a large audience.
Strawberry growers report a shortage of berry pickers as other work absorbs labor. Pay runs two cents a box, roughly double Kansas or Missouri rates, with East markets at one to one and a quarter. Most pickers are women and children, starting at dawn until patches are cleared.
The notice outlines daily wage ranges for fruit and vegetable pickers with a strong crop expected. It notes picking is underway and will peak next week, while also sharing a playful verse about social manners and a Boulder rumor of Lawson speaking at a Chautauqua. It ends with a rail line washout delaying trains.
Churches report full houses on Sundays with Rev Jamieson addressing a Y M C A audience. The M E church meets next Monday while Baptist and Christian churches continue regular prayer meetings. Women host sewing bees to fund building, and architect T P Barber of Colorado Springs is drafting enlargement plans for the Methodist church.
Joe Johnson was brought to the pen by Sheriff Davis and Deputy Mulberry from Trinidad. He faces execution the week of September 10 after being found guilty of killing John H. Fox. The judge rejected the insanity defense and ordered Johnson to Canon City for hanging, amid tense local reaction.
More than three hundred Cripple Creek residents spent a day in Canon on a pleasant Sunday. Visitors praised the town’s shade, orchard drives, and winter-to-spring transition while hotels and restaurants enjoyed crowds. Tourists note a shortage of seating in Canon for day trips.
The town shows ongoing construction with Fred Bengley adding an iron cornice to his Main Street block and the Fremont County Bank expanding at the back in cwt stone. Jas H Peabody updates his River 8rd corner home, Mrs Dug gin’s Greenwood 6th corner residence gains two bay windows, Mrs F A Raynolds owns the site, Frank L Smith near Greenwood and 6th nears completion with roof and carpentry. The Harding block at Main and Fourth is being rebuilt with an entirely remodeled upper story and new stair facing Main Street.
Local representative promotes Chas A Stevens & Bros of Chicago with catalogue and samples. Ladies encouraged to call and view the selections at the agency for convenient shopping.
Notices discuss removing an exterior stairway and praise for On Toc and On Time flour. A divorce case Leila Brown Whalen vs R W Whalen ends in favor of the wife with custody to be of the mother. A chance encounter with a schoolteacher and a photographer ad close this item.
A local writer notes pigs are rarely kept in town and rarely fattened for sale. Little pigs cost around $2.50 at eight weeks, and a man could sell many by advertising in Tur Record. A yearling pig can command higher prices than a steer.
The Canon City post office announces new closing times for mail trains and routes. Late cutoffs include 10:55 a m for train 2 to Denver Pueblo and East, 4:30 p m for train 4 to East, 9:00 p m for trains 6 and 16 to Denver East, 1:15 p m for train 5 to West, 9:00 p m for train 3 toward Salida Cripple Creek District, 6:35 a m for Cripple Creek Canon City railway postoffice star routes, 3:00 p m for Brookside and Chandler, 7:20 a m for Eldred, and 8:00 a m for Taclamar and Micanite with reduced Sunday hours 2:45 to 3:45 p m. The notice also notes Sunday and holiday mail delivery one hour from 2:45 to 3:45 p m. Bethel Co.
The Harmony Rebekah Lodge I C C F marks its second anniversary at the regular meeting in two weeks with an excellent literary and musical program. Refreshments and social time follow, honoring the lodge's well known hospitality. Mrs. Hirsch offers a silver cup prize to the member bringing in the most new members.
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