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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
6
Under a permit from Uncle Sam we sell denatured alcohol for domestic arts. Congress allows it. It is useful for cleaning and heating chafing dishes and curling irons. Prices are 1 dollar per gallon 35 cents per quart 20 cents per pint. Palace Drug Store 601 Main Phone 75.
Social and personal items from Canon City include real estate changes with C C May's residence at 714 Whipple bought by Nellie Rendel via Boice & Weather Investment Co., and a tea party hosted by Mrs A H Mclain at 715 Harrison Ave. Other items mention travel offers, club meetings, and residents visiting Denver, Ottawa, Kansas, and Los Angeles, California.
Passenger route information notes a travel option from Denver via Colorado and Southern Railway to California. For particulars contact T. E. Fisher, G. P. A., Denver.
R G Nesbit sells his stake in the coal and drayage business to Geo T Wood, who with J R Kennedy will run the operation at 111 South Fifth Street. Wood leaves real estate and insurance work to focus on drayage and fuel ventures.
Friday update from Canon City covers William Murphy purchasing A G Parsons ranch at 680 North Fifteenth Street East Canon City. It notes Sam and Mrs MacDonald returning from Colorado Springs, Seelye visiting from Pueblo, Glenna Combs heading to Seattle, and various residents and visitors including Ruth Lewis and Will R Lewis. It mentions Wall Street fears and local optimism, trips across the West by A A Stone and wife, and Miss Galloway leaving Canon City after a month visit. Also promotes Dr Shoop Health Coffee at Monarch Grocery.
Saturday notices show Mrs. George Rockafellow returning from Denver visit. Prof. Alfred Durfee and Dr. W A Hutton were in from Florence. Mrs. T A Stockton came back from Denver. Miss Sadie Cleveland and Miss Annie Orr left for Seattle. Mr and Mrs Sam Heckart welcomed a six pound daughter. Mrs Eva Carleton of Pueblo visiting Ledford Truman at 526 College avenue. Mrs A R Mitchell hosted a tea for ladies Friday afternoonvalued as very pleasant.
G A Fisher of Denver lists shipping terms from Denver to Bisbee with routing and pricing references. The fragment references a railway folder and agent contact for freight information.
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Canon City and surrounding communities report travel from Denver Excelsior Springs and Colorado Springs. visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Frisbie and Mrs. Beane Swastika club party. many residents travel on business and to visit family. A football game between Florence and Centennial ends scoreless. rail and telegraph staff changes noted. Preventics cold remedy advertised by Rambo & Simon.
Local notes mention George Chetelat,Sr of Canon City visiting friends then heading to his ranch. Miss Gene Whipple's funeral is set for 3 p m at 805 Rudd avenue with Rev. Sherrod officiating. Arkansas Valley Traction bonds sold to Kentucky investors. Denver Rio Grande reports heavy Pacific coast travel and crowded trains. An advertisement for Dr Shoop's Restorative invites free samples through Rambo Simona.
Wednesday. Cut prices of all summer shoes to close out at Davis' 436 Main. The Christian Endeavor society of the First Presbyterian church will host a Hallowe'en social at church parlors October 31. Mrs. Thomas Balman and son Thomas Balman Jr. of Hillside have been guests of Mrs. Richard Houle and leave for home this afternoon. Albert Cropper and sister Elizabeth Phippe of Jamesport Missouri arrive Monday and will winter here due to Jetter's health. they are friends of Ben W. Rea and have traveled east together.
Colorado Springs bound visitors and locals depart or report travel plans as Mrs. Francis Pine of Plattsville leaves with D. A. Agnew for Chicago. Crete Chapson returns from Ogden with high praise. H. J. Craig and David Ringle head to Upper Beaver for trout fishing season closes Thursday. Various residents and relatives reunite in Canon City, while Dr Shoop’s Restorative is touted for stomach and nerves relief. A local rancher couple marks golden wedding as E. C. Wills pursues alfalfa trials and Miss Edna Edwards weds Chas. A. Somerville at First Presbyterian Church.
Thede stock of cloaks and millinery goods bankrupt and sold at public auction by assignee S H Galbraith at 11 this morning. Williams Smith Rice Co bought it for 22 percent of appraised value. no local bidders, out of town firms represented from Pueblo La Junta and Boulder.
J W Cannon sells property on Cottonwood avenue and moves family back to Kansas. Archie Wheeler resigns from Campbell Lumber Yard to relocate to New Mexico. Wolford and Orr return from Cripple Creek business trip. Ed Marmon sells Del Rey avenue property to Mr McGrath of Cripple Creek, who takes possession. Jesse Knowles goes to the Divide on business. East Canon youths enjoy a hay rack ride Wednesday night despite help from H B boys.
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