Evangelistic Campaign Opens in Canon City First Christian Church
The city marked a red letter day as the First Christian church opened in a new building with an evangelistic campaign led by Dr. H O Breeden of Des Moines Iowa The Sunday school enrollment rose and the evening service capacity was exceeded with many turned away The campaign aims for a major evangelistic effort in Canon City with praise for Pastor Hunley and church leaders. Dr Breeden spoke on He that winneth souls is wise and two penitents joined the faith at the close of the morning service The evangelist praised by Billy Sunday and expected to draw strong religious energy through the week Musical features include Sunbeam Chorus Mrs Hunley Soloist and choirs with a responsive scripture reading each night starting at 7 30 PM Services continue nightly with baptism expected for those who have confessed faith
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregation of the Christian Church
H. O. Breeden
Des Moines
Iowa
Canon City
W. A. Bunday
Chicago
Breeden
Christian Church
Hunley
Middle West
Redeemer
Dr. Breeden
J. Wilber Chapman
Rei
First Christian Church
Christ
Earth
Billy
Mr. Sunday
Galesburg
Illinois
Sunbeam
James
Evangelist
Canon City Merchants Plan Monday Luncheon At St Cloud Hotel
The Canon City Merchants Association hosts its monthly luncheon Monday evening at 6 45 pm in the St Cloud hotel room once Tyrrel s delicates serving. Members are urged to attend to discuss forming a chamber of commerce or similar body to ease burdens and decide the best course of action. Committee A P Nelson C C Campbell and W B Anderson lead the luncheon arrangements.
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Canon City Merchants Association
St. Cloud
Hutton
Daily Record
Chamber of Commerce
Tyrrel
A. P. Nelson
C. C. Campbell
W. B. Anderson
Lincoln Park News Briefs Ill and Traveling Visitors
Local notes report Jack Thomas seriously ill with pneumonia and several residents under the weather including Hattie Litts and Lissie Bloxtrem with typhoid. Visits include Miss Lillian Veit with Miss Irent, Mary Warner with Musgrave, and Cripple Creek figures Demméry and Fo. Families travel to Cripple Creek, Hugo, and California while Wilbert Davis sustains an axe injury.
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Jack Thomas
Hattie Litts
Homeland Avenue
Mr Galbraith
Lillian Velit
Irent
Mary Warner
Musgrave
Carl Smith
Ohio
Lissie Bloxtrem
Sunbeam Chorus to Sing for Evangelist Meetings
Hunley organized a sanchorus of twenty five to thirty voices from the church youth to aid the regular choir in evangelistic meetings led by Dr. H. Co. Breeden. Ages ten to fourteen, the chorus members were carefully chosen for fitness. Their training shows in their voices and enthusiasm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Hunley
Christian Church
H. Co. Breeden
Sunbeam Chorus To Sing At Tonight's Services
The Sunbeam Chorus will perform at tonight's services and urges all to attend. The group aims to serve as a valuable auxiliary to the regular church choir.
Y M C A Hosts Informal Reception Monday Night
The Young Mens Christian Association will hold an informal reception at the gymnasium next Monday night. The public is invited to attend. Secretary Gray is working hard for its success and promises a pleasant evening with informal entertainment and light refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Mens Christian Association
Gray
Lecture by Dr. Wilbur F Crafts Draws Big City Audience
A large audience at First Methodist Church heard Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts of Washington D C speak on reform. Mayor Seely presided. Prof Eichhorn led spirited singing. Crafts praised for clear vision and hopeful views on universal brotherhood as he tours Europe Asia and the seas. He planned to lecture tonight in Pueblo before local leaders head hunting trip plans toward Newcastle Garfield county with venison in mind.
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First Methodist Church
Wilbur F. Crafts
Washington, D. C
International Bureau of Reform
Mayor Seely
Dr. Crafts
Eichhorn
Europe
Asia
Islands of the Sea
Crafts
Pueblo
A. H. Seely
J. P. Thomas
S. B. Lane
J. R. Kennedy
A. L. Taylor
Newcastle
Garfield County
Canon City Times Changes Hands Under Local Leaders
The Canon City Times passed into the control of Mayor A. H. Seely City Attorney A. L. Taylor Dr. T. B. Moore and other gentlemen forming a Prohibition-Democratic paper. They expect to announce policy and editor details after their Garfield county hunting trip.
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Canon City Times
A. H. Seely
A. L. Taylor
T. B. Moore
Title Times
C. J. Fredrickson
Messrs. Seely and
Taylor
Garfield County
Readjusting Local Mail Delivery in Canon City
Beginning October first Canon City posts will extend carrier service to Hot Springs addition Heights South Street from Ninth to city limits and Kounts & nolds subdivision. Residents will receive one delivery daily, requiring route reorganizations for Rural Delivery and city carriers to cover the expanded territory.
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Canon City
Dell
Hot Springs
Ninth Street
Kounts & Nolds
Lawrence
South Canon
Lincoln Park
Canon City Merchants Debate Chamber of Commerce Role
The Canon City Merchant Association considers public duties and a potential Chamber of Commerce. With membership rising, leaders weigh three options: no public body, an auxiliary chamber, or a separate organization. A September 30 luncheon will decide the path, with Henry Hutton and D W Ross signing. The piece also notes the nightshade family relation of potatoes and the tomato’s evolutionary rise as a table vegetable.
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Canon City Merchant Association
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Association
Henry Hutton
D. W. Ross
The
Canon City Merchants Association
Valuable Agriculture Reports Free For Fremont County
The Department of Agriculture in Washington sends free reports to Captain B F Rockafellow for public distribution in Fremont County. Citizens can obtain them at his office. The publications offer helpful practical guidance for farmers gardeners and fruit growers based on scientific experiments.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
B. F. Rockafellow
Fremont County
Colorado
More Big Game This Year Than Usual
Richard Houle from Wet Moon valley reports abundant deer in Fremont and Custer counties and more signs of bear. He predicts deer will move to foothills after the first snow, signaling a highly successful hunting season ahead.
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Richard Houle
Wet Moon Valley
Canon City
Fremont
Custer
Sangre de Christo
Houle
Tomato Harvest Boom Reaches Market and Canning Plant
The tomato crop is at its peak with large daily supplies reaching town. About twenty tons daily go to the Colorado Canning plant for catsup production. No frost is expected to reduce this pace soon. The tomato plant is an herb with nearly a dozen varieties found on the western side of South.
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Colorado Canning Company
South
Knights of Pythias District Celebration Delights Canon City
Canon City sent sixty five knights to Cripple Creek for a Knights of Pythias district celebration. The Cripple Creek lodge hosted with lavish hospitality at Odd Fellows hall. Sixty five attendees from Canon City and fifty one from Florence and Coal Creek enjoyed a splendid banquet and memorable evening.
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Canon City
Knights of Pythias
Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek Brotherhood
Oddfellows Hall
Florence
Coal Creek
Demanded action after fire at Mrs Vittulo home
Mrs Pasquale Vittulo of Coal Creek was brought by Marshal Davis for a county court petition seeking commitment to the state insane asylum at Pueblo. Earlier that Tuesday she saturated a bed with coal oil and set it ablaze, destroying her home. an inquiry into her mental condition is set for Judge Cooper's session. Mr and Mrs D E Gibeon left for a month long trip visiting Waverley Illinois Chicago New York and New England.
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Pasquale Vittulo
Coal Creek
David G. Davis
Pueblo
Vittulo
D. E. Gibeon
W. M. Gibson
Waverley
Ill
Canon City High School May 1908 Graduation Announced
The Canon City High School lists May 1908 graduates including Vina Armitage Edna Biggs Frank Boyle Bessie Burgess Joseph Cooper Clifford George Annabelle Gray Ray Haggart Francis Hemmerle Clarence Hite Hazel Holman Winnifred Hoover Geneva Huntoon Francis Hurlbut Queenie Jameson William Johnston Ernest Tremayne Margaret Twitchell Harriet Luton Beach Lyon Ruth McCoy William McKenzie Chas McWilliams Ledila Morrison Pearl Pittenger Bernice Richardson Bessie Ringle Eva Ripley Blanche Sherwood Lawrence Smith Floy Steven. New students Vera and Clair Catterlin and Ethel Craig join C C H S. S. and S C H B football withdrawal cancels games. basketball and tennis focus. Magna Charta copy gifted by Mr. Ervin for history room. Thursday exercises led by Miss Worley. Dr Breeden to speak Friday at 9 AM.
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Miss Worley
Ervin
Vera
Clair Catterlin
Ethel Craig
S C. H
Breeden
The
Christian Church
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