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Newspaper
Canon City Record
Location
Canon City, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
4
Seven room two story brick home for sale at 8100 dollars half cash. South front location with barn and 66 foot lot. Upholstery and furniture services advertised with delivery. Wanted items column invites readers to list horses cows or other old goods in The Record wants column.
Mrs H W Uneworth visits Hillside for weeks. Dr and Mrs Fish entertain the Warners of Denver. Mrs James H Wright ill with pneumonia. Clyde Bowen sells ranch interests and returns to New London Indiana. Mrs R Rosenberg and family travel to Lincoln Nebraska for six weeks. Orrin Jackson leaves for Pitkin to work for Raymond Consolidated Mining. Squire McDonald officiates at Douglas Lamb Ella Gregory wedding in Pueblo. Stanley Lewis visits from Howard Kansas to see sister Clara at Baker Biggs. Dr Standering of Chicago tours Canon City en route home. F M Ohmart and wife visit from Grinnell Iowa via San Luis valley. James Armstrong travels San Francisco for his firm. John Dalziel builds brick five room cottage on Lincoln Park corner. More homes rise on Park Avenue. H G Reed and family of Silver Cliff plan to move to Canon City at 24 Harrison Ave. E W Emmerson of Albion Illinois and family to relocate here, buying 425 Pike Ave. Brotherhood trip to Florence for lodge event praised. Colorado Springs ticket agency reports over 90 000 tourists in four months, with 3 000–4 000 tickets remaining. Ed L Chalcraft arrives to lead local Indian schools, taking Arthur property at 225 Greenwood Ave. Chalcraft warned to report to Washington for Indian affairs. Dr F A Twitchell builds five room cottage opposite Old Kentucky in Fruitmere. Frank L Anders leaves Canon City for Ripon Wisconsin. James Russell hosts Sunday services in Eastonville this week. Z S Arey family relocates to Healdsburg California. Ethel Gibson, Dana Hall student, contracted typhoid in Boston. mother accompanies her home when able.
E H Edgerton of Hiawatha Kansas, visiting Canon last week to study commercial prospects for a shirt and overcoat factory, has chosen Canon over Trinidad Pueblo and Denver. He is a director of the Hiawatha Mercantile Company and has ample means to fund the venture.
A.E. Wilson and friends hunted last Thursday in the Wet Mountain valley and bagged a black bear. Wilson shipped the hide to Colorado Springs to be dressed and mounted as a rug, preserving a memorable souvenir of the trip.
Des Moines bankers embrace display advertising to educate the public on saving and attract new customers. The approach follows Pittsburg banks’ heavy ad spend and aims to expand local deposits as banks in the city observe rapid growth through newspaper campaigns.
At the regular meeting, all members were present except two out of town. The council adopted a $40,000 refinancing of city indebtedness at a lower rate, approved bond registration, and sent fuel for warworks to the water committee with full power to act. A culvert project for drainage under railroad tracks was ordered, an ordinance for concrete sidewalks in residences was approved, and the session adjourned to October 5.
A bicycle tour of the Brookside coal mines reveals the hoisting, weighing, pumping and sorting process. About 110 workers produce 500 tons daily with 20 car loads, using a power house engine that hauls twenty full cars to a Santa Fe freight car. The coal yields strong steam-producing qualities and the plant runs on five furnaces consuming fifty tons of fuel per day.
A. C. Duell, owner of a three acre fruit ranch at 101 Lincoln Street Lincoln Park, estimates fruit and vegetable sales this season at 80 dollars, about 30 percent of a Missouri property’s past price. He highlights peaches grapes and cherries, noting high per tree yields and market speed.
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