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The Canon City Record notes a subscription rate of $2.00 per year and its status as second class matter at the post office.
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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
3
The Canon City Record notes a subscription rate of $2.00 per year and its status as second class matter at the post office.
Official order for the Memorial Day parade lists marshal W H Peabody and aides A H Davis and Tanner. Assemblage by 8 45 on Macon Ave, 9 15 march east with a long column including Canon City Band and veterans groups, moving to Main and First streets to Canon City Cemetery for memorial services and grave decorations, then return. Publikum urged to avoid driving past the column for safety.
Canon City graded schools close a successful term. The high school plans a Tuesday commencement at the opera house with Governor Peabody giving the address and diplomas to 21 graduates. Admission is free with limited tickets available at Hunter Palmer's office.
Reverend Vanderwater of Long Beach California filled Reverend Cook's pulpit Sunday night. He delivered a forceful and interesting sermon, and those who heard him will be glad to hear him again.
W F Curry popular barber resigns to manage F A Raynolds large real estate business. He will collect rents and supervise property condition. Also, Clyde Laws, from Canon City, excelled at Naval Training School Newport Rhode Island in April, winning silver medal in tactics and signals and becoming a pen commission officer on the Monitor Amphitrite.
A blaze at the Terrible Mine eighteen miles away destroyed the mill and shaft house last Thursday night. Loss estimated at 50000 dollars, leaving over thirty men unemployed for months. Fault traced to a defective journal in machinery. Mine expected to be a major lead producer. rebuilding planned and work to resume.
At a Federation of Labor meeting a three member committee was formed to consult L. M. Hovey contractor for Canon City Gas pipes. Hovey refused to raise wages from 22 cents per hour, noting many new workers are satisfied and he turns away about a dozen applicants daily. About 35 men are employed with 15 more to be added next week. The tenor of the piece includes a cantata of the Ten Virgins by the Methodist church choir planned for Friday night May 29.
A Denver narrator recounts a gun and horse haunting in Dead Man's Canon near Steele's ranch. He follows phantom horse and dog to a cabin and sees a murdered miner Olivar Kimball, later identified by a brace and a dirk bearing initials D. G. The tale connects a death at California Gulch with a sister spook episode and ends with a note on the dagger and Griffon.
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