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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
5
Notary public and shop notices mix with arrivals and farewells across Canon City. Mentions Hammocks at Whipple’s, Wade Combs new Nelson’s Bakery post, Denver visits, arrivals from Colorado Springs, weddings, a birth, and a death. Social events include church music, commencements, and university visitors.
Mrs. Carter of Columbus Kansas visits her daughter in Canon City due to the illness of the Sanders child. Wm. L. Mack travels from Grand Junction to Ann Arbor and points East with his mother. Cliff Hardy and family stop in Canon City before returning to Colorado Springs from a Rim Falls vacation. Mrs. Alice Smith of Tamaroa Illinois arrives from Denver to visit relatives at 425 Pike avenue. Mrs. Eliza Garvin and daughter Miss Lelia of Cincinnati visit Dr. J. W. Cannon and family on Greenwood avenue after coming from Colorado Springs.
Cripple Creek residents Mrs. Merritt and Mrs. Wells visit Canon City relatives while Mrs. Bostwick and sister plan arrival for a Woodlawn Avenue stay. Miss Trout and Miss Williams head to Pueblo for the district teachers’ institute. Dr. Wade returns from the East after a Chicago course. Frank Acker visits from Missouri before summer in Denver. County official Moore and City Marshal Houston attend Ancient Order of United Workmen sessions in Denver. Infant Clyde Davis Davis dies. funeral at 2:30 p m at home with burial in Greenwood cemetery.
Tuesday reports Geo F. Rockafellow of Fremont County National Bank in Denver for the State Banker's Association meeting. Mrs John Hamilton and Edith Hamilton travel to Pueblo for hospital treatment and the Tri County Teachers Institute. Miss Sadie McMillan plans trips to Pueblo Colorado Springs Denver and Greeley then southern Illinois before Canon City. Local produce notes show Klondike strawberries from W H Jones at Elm Avenue Lincoln Park, claim ten measured a foot. Hora Realty Co invites beaters to bring their entries to 19 Mata Street.
Misses Esther and Roberta Craig depart for Denver en route to southern Illinois for a six week stay with relatives. J. B. Bobbitt takes a three month leave from Parkdale office. R. M. Hayes will oversee the Denver and Rio Grande post in his absence. E. T. Wilbur buys a thirty horsepower Buick touring car. Mr. McLain and Wilbur head to Chaffee county in the new auto. Mrs. S. E. Lane and Viola return from a ten week Pacific coast trip. Florence Hoes accompanies them and will stay in Canon City. Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Nesbit and Marguerite Nesbit leave for Denver after two weeks as guests of R. G. Nesbit.
Miss Frances Scott of Las Animas visits for the summer with aunt Mrs. T J Tynan. Miss Edith Rhodes of Las Animas stays a week with Warden and Mrs T J Tynan at the penitentiary. County Commissioner W R Allred departs on a three week business trip to Eureka Springs Arkansas. Mrs E H Watson and daughter Miss Mabel of Hooper Colorado return home after three weeks with Mrs F H Beagley. Special rates to the swimming pool via Moore’s auto hack, Canon 50.
A roundup of residents traveling and visiting Canon City including Edith and Ethel Joel returning from school, Lucile Duval visiting Salida and Grand Junction, and W. J. Ives and wife back from the East. Train No. 6 canceled west of Pueblo due to a washout with nearby lines and temporary track opened. Col. P. W. Blanchard heads to Seattle and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo, then Salt Lake City for G A R encampment. Also reports on local strawberries, a pool party hosted by Mrs. Mattie Smith, and Emma Ripley’s Pacific coast trip and E Endeavor convention. finishes with a joke about a mean barber.
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