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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
3
A Canon City district page lists widespread student absences due to measles and scarlet fever among multiple schools. It notes sports plans, spelling contests, a tennis court project, and various student activities while marking several students ill or in quarantine.
The record describes Dr. R. V. Pierce suing the Ladies' Home Journal for damages over a May 1904 article alleging that his Favorite Prescription contained alcohol and harmful ingredients. Pierce contends the piece was malicious libel meant to injure his reputation and brand.
The Daily Record announces prizes for young reporters Una Adams Lucy Carter Floyd Adams Mae Bower Forrest Hodgin and La Verne Augustine. Winners include Una and Lucy as new entrants with strong submissions, Floyd delivering 35 items and Mae 32 with typed copy.
J A Moran of Nekoma Kansas spent several days in Canon City visiting with C W Talbot and touring local sights including the Royal Gorge Skyline Drive and the Natatorium. Moran, who knows Canon City from earlier trips to the Pacific coast, would relocate here if he can wind up business in Kansas.
Mrs Edwin Lobach Sr died after a long illness of dropsy at the family residence in West Florence. Funeral services are at 2 PM from the residence with Rev Pingree of the M E church delivering the sermon. Interment will be in Highland cemetery beside other Lobach family members. She was born February 15 1852 in Franklin County Illinois and came to this area as a girl with her father Joseph E Crouch. Survived by husband five daughters and one son Edward Jr Grace Irene Fern Mrs M B Robinson and Mrs James A Baker.
First Presbyterian choir members and helpers gathered at Co W Van Patten and wife home on Hazel Avenue for a musically themed evening. Guests received ballots. Robert Quinlan won for a pen and ink drawing, Grace Dale for a musical thank you, and other prizes included a harmonica and a horn. Refreshments followed as the group sang? together in quartets and sherbets came in bloom-pot tulip flower pots.
A. Van Buskirk, returning from Tipton Ind where tiling modernized boggy land, notes high values now eight to ten times past prices. He avoids living there due to the climate, while visiting Birmingham Alabama and Columbus Mississippi, where two daughters reside. He plans to audit Nevada mining interests next week.
H. D. Hubbard of Wichita Kansas visits the city and considers moving here for a climate better than eastern Kansas. He has large farming and dairy interests nearby and may become a permanent resident if the climate proves suitable.
Four men J D Horn J E Barron Will Daney and Andrew Shore left La Junta for a Kansas Colorado Power and Railroad company convention at noon Wednesday returning Thursday after a 175 mile leg to Canon City fuel ran out near Raynolds avenue causing a pause. The group traveled 100 miles to Fowler in five hours with a meal stop in Pueblo aboard a unique Moline car.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Payne intend to leave for British Columbia to pursue cattle farming, hoping to depart within ten days to two weeks. Mrs. Payne remains hospitalized at Salida's Red Cross clinic after an appendectomy and related complications requiring further care.
The El Paso County Horticultural Society appoints F. W. Holman E. P. Pierce and Mrs. Harris to confer with the city council on dandelion extermination. A dandelion day will likely be fixed by the council with all property owners and tenants urged to participate in a coordinated war on the weed.
A ten member committee of fruit growers is appointed to study frost injury prevention and to promote near universal smudging in the county. Chair James Turnbull authorized the selection with five growers from each river side. Members listed include J. P. Farmer M N W W Pace G H Salie M E Snow A E Hubbell E P Arthur Glen I Kirkton P H Troutman F Bachelor and B F Rockafellow.
Mrs Claude Rogers entertained Pueblo visitors for Joy Janet Johnson's birthday with a lawn gathering and supper. Children included Alice Eldred Ruth Smith Louise Smith Marion Rogers and Joy Janet Johnson. Guests wore pink and white decor centered on a damask cake with shaded candles although a fairy room theme dominated the dining.
A group of Portland women and Florence residents foiled a bridge fire on the D. and R. G. line near Portland. Mesdames Donalne Fountain Krenning Bayliss and Miss Ollie Krenning helped with buckets and water, stopping the blaze as a passenger train carried Florence bound travelers. The effort was strenuous but appreciated, preventing damage and enabling the trip to proceed.
Will Galvin, an assistant in the Beaver Land and Irrigation company engineering department, slipped while cutting a tree on the hillside at Beaver Park last Tuesday. He cut his right foot with an axe but the injury is not serious, and he is expected to return to duty in a couple of weeks after treatment at camp No 1. Galvin came from Aurora Illinois a few months ago.
A health advertisement claims high altitude fever and malaria vary by elevation and promotes Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for climate affections lassitude malaria jaundice biliousness fever ague and debility. It notes a 50 cent price and drugstore guarantee.
Fremont county Driving and Riding club shifts its matinee to Saturday June 6 and drops Decoration Day plans. Rumor of a speed contest at the fair grounds was not authoritative and misled readers. The group voted down any Decoration Day sports to honor the G A R and avoid desecration. The club invites Canon City residents to enjoy wholesome summer entertainment at low cost.
Canon City residents praise Doan’s Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney troubles and backache. Mrs. C N Jones of Victor Colorado testifies her husband was cured after trying doctors without relief. The ad markets the pill at 68 cents through Hunter Palmer’s drug store with Foster Milburn Co as U S agent.
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