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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
2
The Leader argues its stores offer superior quality merchandise. It emphasizes groceries described as firsts not seconds, promising mouth watering produce and inviting customers to trust the grocer man for eating quality.
The high school notes report George Haddon winning first place and Ona Pittenger second in the oratorical contest. Cadet drill, track, and rifle plans are announced, with results from Boulder and Canon City tied to several staff changes and a predicted new rifle next year.
South Canon School notes describe a Freshman tunnel picnic chaperoned by Miss McCoy and Miss Voight, and a Sophomore English trip up Grape Creek for narrative material. Russell Hussey plans to leave for Ohio after exams, praised for courtesy and study. Students praise Boulder hospitality. Heaton and Warner boys helped host. Commencement set for next Tuesday with Bertha Moyle and Ruth Lutz chosen for salutatorian and valedictorian. Dr. Bell to give address. One hundred seats reserved. total seats 700, program at 8. Theft of laxatives ad copied from a separate line.
The annual Colorado high school day in Boulder featured eight girls reading essays and eight boys delivering orations from forty accredited schools. Miss Hobson won first place by merit, earning the gold medal. Lawrence Serry placed third for Denver, earning praise from friends as he has one year left in high school.
Mrs Raynolds and Mrs Harding depart for New York City traveling to New Milford Connecticut for Gretchen Harding graduation at Ingleside school on June 13 and to Columbia University for Pansy Raynolds graduation on June 15. They plan a two month Atlantic coast visit returning to Colorado and will be joined by Mr Harding around June 1.
A special board of education meeting last Monday read the acceptances of teachers elected the prior week. Miss M Belle Minor gets a year’s leave as assistant principal, Miss Lassie Allen to succeed. Superintendent Thompson and Messrs. McDonald, Brous, Truman, and Miss Walker join the high school faculty for 1906. New stockmen’s low shoes, new leather Bethel Co.
A party of mining students from the School of Mines at Golden led by Press Traphagen and Haldene arrived by special D and R G train last Thursday. They studied ore reduction processes at United States Smelting Co. and Empire Zinc Co. facilities. the group of fifty then traveled on to Leadville. Furs line garden and field seeds are offered by Smith Mer. Co.
The message recalls The Bivouac of the Dead and urges patriotic observances for Memorial Day in 1905 and 1906. It cites Theodore O’Hara’s poem, pledges devotion to country, and invites Greenwood Post No 10 G A R members and the Woman's Relief Corps to participate in ceremonies.
Memorial day orders urge all veterans and civic groups to assemble at Greenwood Post No 10 on May 28 1905 at 1030 a m for services at the Tabernacle including a sermon by Rev J P Lucas and a collection for church and post charities with details of marches and decorations shared by officers B F Rockafellow and Everse Weston.
W F Givens district game warden says Arkansas River will be stocked this year with trout and black bass. Muddy conditions will clear after snow melts. he hopes a flush of water will wash out dirt before stocking. He warns against Italian involvement in local quail poaching and plans a dam inspection at Woods Investment Company to ensure fish movement remains unblocked.
Governor McDonald with Board of Pardons members toured the penitentiary to inspect conditions and discuss execution plans for the Youngblood murderers. Ex-governor Peabody and others joined a dinner and chapel visit, with officials keeping details of the commission’s mental health report private.
The saloon of John D. Lloyd at 342 Main Street was entered last Thursday night. a revolver, shotgun, and fifty to sixty dollars were stolen. A paroled prisoner named L. Thompson was detained the next day and confessed to the robbery along with an unidentified accomplice. He also admitted burgling A. P. Nelson & Co. a few weeks earlier and taking about twenty five dollars.
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