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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1908
Page
5
Canon City residents and visitors are listed in a dense roundup of society notes. Parole Officer Smith visits. Miss Daisy Jeffries travels to Denver. several dignitaries and businessmen travel to Denver, Chicago, and Grand Junction. fishing trips, auctions, and property talk fill the week.
Saturday reports show Mrs Betts of North Seventh street ill and Mrs Dr Ashley's mother leaving Trinidad briefly. Mr Thompson and Mr McKee visited Missouri and Wailsenburg respectively, while Mrs Ross with measles improves enough to sit up. Miss Katherine Coolbaugh returns from Kansas relatives. A E Ott of Fordland Mo arrives to join W F Ott in the candy kitchen. The McMayans plan Boulder medical treatment, and Mrs George McKenzie heads to Rhode Island. Miss Gibbs visits family in Joe La Junta, and Mrs Bailey travels to Glenwood then to her brother Lowry. F Tanks marries in Omaha and aims Canon City. Fred P Hubbert and brother reach Pueblo for business, Luella Holmes hosts a card party with Dr R E Holmes’s family, and Charles Taylor drives with Fred Bighmy to Ames Iowa via Skyline Drive.
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Bank officials from Citizens State Bank visit Ames and share notes from an Ohio and Iowa picnic. The piece details visits by Mrs. Merriam and Dr. Twitchell hosting dinners, a Marble Cave picnic by Baldwin Kansas students, card night at the McFarlanes, and fall plans for a Yeoman picnic on July 4 with Canon City Homestead No 183 members.
Monday items show Miss Mabel Rippey leaving for Salida and Mrs Lee Barber with two children returning from Cripple Creek. Col S K Hooper visits from Denver while C A Biggs and sons travel from Silver Cliff. Prof Hall becomes science teacher at Canon City High School succeeding Prof Guy Foster. Des Moines guest George Ruhmland visits Hubbert family. Mrs P V Taylor returns after a ten day visit.
News brief roundup from Topeka detailing local notes. Mr Taylor assists church organ work. Local residents travel to Salt Lake City and Denver. Individuals move, marry, or welcome births. Burglary at 516 North Fourth. Medical congress in Vienna and European travel. Continuous everyday events and social notes across town.
G. W. Tobin departed for Chicago for several days of business. He said he would avoid public appearances during his stay to prevent Republicans from pressing him to accept the vice presidential nomination with William Howard Taft.
Mr. Jacobs assists at Hawley & Son undertaking parlors during C. L. Hawley's illness and returns to Pueblo. Dr. and Mrs. Maxwell plan a Pacific Northwest tour including B C and Puget Sound towns. Vincent Greydene-Smith arrives from Denver for a family visit while City Marshal Houston seeks missing Miss Ethel Bennett. Hawley & Son resume service after Dr. Hawley recovers. New arrivals include Arthur Chellis of Warsaw, Wis. and Arthur H. Smith with typhoid fever near recovery. H. M. Fox wins water service line work for Canon City. Royal Gorge pipe hung on cliff. Maxwells travel to Vancouver to Victoria, B C and other Puget Sound towns. Kelsey family to Colorado Springs for work in Denver & Rio Grande freight department. W. G. Eldred prepares Cripple Creek summer residence. F C assayer business. Miss Laura Calloway, Montrose city clerk, visits Lincoln Park with relatives from Montrose. Will Cramer of Kokomo heads to Pittsburg, Boston and east for summer. Colorado observes three flag days with state proclamation. Colorado Lumber & Supply yard sold to Independent Lumber of Carason City. Beverstock to east and Florence trip. Ernest Webb departs Canon City for Toronto via Colorado Springs, Denver and Chicago.
James Turnbull reports extensive floods across the region from Texas to Oklahoma. Cotton and corn lands in river bottoms are submerged and crops destroyed. Bridges washed out and farm structures swept away leaving desolation. A town in Oklahoma has been cut off for ten days with no outside communication.
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