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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
3
West bound and east bound times listed for Canon City Cripple Creek and connections with Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe. No. 625 through 632 operate on daily or near daily schedules with No. 631 and 632 running daily except Sunday.
D. H. Louderback, president of the Northwestern Elevated, returned to Chicago after studying Europe. He toured Germany, Belgium, Holland, Finland, England, Scotland, Austria, Russia, Norway, Sweden, and France and says no European country matches the United States in industry and production. He cites Spanish War effects, US labor mobility, and widespread American goods as boosting American influence and benefiting workers through orders to European manufacturers. Austin Hightower has moved to Rocky Ford to work at a large steam laundry. Saratoga chips in bulk freak and crisp. Tauner & Co. tf
After wrangling the Democrats, silver Republicans, and Populists produced a joint ticket with James B. Orman for governor and John F. Shafroth and John C. Bell among others. The process exposed old scores and sharp exchanges, while a spectator quipped that the gathering was not fit for a lady to attend. The article notes the parade of offices and the lineup of electors and state officials, then shifts to local news about John F. Roup moving from Canyon City to Spokane due to his wife’s ill health, selling his home at 703 Hazel Avenue for 1300 dollars. It ends with a Kansas City visitor, Harry Roberts, meeting doctors in town.
Steamboat Springs Pilot notes B X Dawson leading a new oil company in Routt County. Dawson arrived to manage operations as a complete plant of machinery is loaded for Florence and ready by late September. First work will run on F E Milner ranch with coal land eyed and Judge A T Gunnel as director. Dawson will direct field operations after a Colorado Springs trip.
B X Daiweon returned from Routt county with 800 acres leased for oil and coal lands. J C Smith of Warsaw Illinois is visiting, considering locating here, and staying with Mr. and Mrs. Geo E Colgate. Mrs Veach and daughter left Canon City for Wier City Kansas after six weeks here due to Mr Harry Veach’s illness. E M Tousley editor Modern Woodmen of America and Colorado district head consul transacted fraternal business in Canon City and then left for Cripple Creek.
Noticeable wagon trains daily bring baskets of grapes into town signaling a bumper harvest. The piece also mentions a pharmacy appointment, a pharmacist, and a generous donation to an ear drum institute, reflecting varied local news.
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