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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
3
Several Canons City parents decline to sign permit cards for their sons to play football due to injuries. The Victor game, where the lighter team faced a heavier opponent, prompted concerns over safety and rough play. The piece calls for fair play or abandonment of the sport for the welfare of athletics.
Six Canon City churches hosted Anti-Saloon League speakers Rev. E. E. McLaughlin and Rev. Edward E. Bean with Denver ties. The day raised nearly a thousand dollars for state temperance work, including two $100 checks, seen as the largest Sunday offerings in Canon City.
Dr. H O Breeden wrapped up a four week evangelistic series at the First Christian church bringing over sixty converts. He strengthened church unity and taught giving as righteous investment, leaving a lasting influence on the congregation and its future zeal. He plans to begin four weeks of preaching at Magnolia Avenue Christian Church in Los Angeles with Prof Eichhorn leading singing.
Ira Mowry of Morristown New Jersey arrives with Eastern investors to advance the Canon City and Royal Gorge electric railway project. Officials say funding is secured and construction will start soon with necessary preparations and material in place.
A Santa Fe special train of 36 cattle cars left Saturday night for Kansas City with 782 fat cattle from Walker Gribble Somerville and Van Buskirk ranches on Tallahassee Currant and Cottonwood creeks. The shipment, valued around 25000, marks one of the area’s largest beef transfers in years, with T. R. Watson accompanying the stock train.
Thousands of delegates and visitors gather in Norfolk for the international convention of the Disciples of Christ. Prominent church members from across the country and abroad attend, surpassing prior meetings in number and enthusiasm.
The 1907 Disciple convention faces questions on inviting delegates to the Federal Council of Christian Churches in America and possible closer cooperation with Baptists. Cities named for next year’s hosting include Birmingham New Orleans Des Moines and Topeka. The 1.3 million member denomination reports over $8 million to local church work $1 million to missions and $500000 to education and benevolence with both men and women preachers.
Referee C. P. Gehman filed a long report in the Heath versus Great Western Coal case. The document revises claims to Heath at 35 418 86 and the company to 55 450 03, leaving a 20 031 19 balance due to Great Western. Further court hearings before Judge Bailey will decide within about a month.
Twenty five students from South Canon schools earned the College Pennant on Daily Record tickets for top grades in rooms with 4th to 6th graders. Names from Miss Logan Miss Hall and Miss Woodford rooms are listed. Miss Berkey’s list awaited. Also noted is a Cananea Herald item about Jose Gutierrez quitting whisky at 700 yet dying at 117 from smoking. Plus a rag request at The Record Office at 40 cents a day.
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