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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1893
Page
4
A garbled note reports farm and property notices in Prowers County. It mentions abstracts, rates, and a cautious tone about rents and boundaries. Several local names appear in passing, with weather snippets and community chatter about fishing, schooling, and town events interwoven.
WJ Hallack of New York, manager of Amity Ditch, will visit Lamar between the 10th and 15th to begin gathering material for a dam across the river and rebuilding the headgates to stop underflow. The structure is described as substantial and expensive. Sunday school at 10am, preaching at 11am and 1pm with topics The Word Eternal and The Word Our Guide. J D Drake, pastor. Presnmrentan Cuveca services: Love to God at 11am, no evening service. W F Cochran, pastor. Chnistiax Curvace: Sunday school 10am Bible reading 11am.
Open air concert next Saturday at 7 30 p m with the Lamar cornet band. Admission is free and all expenses are paid by the band members. Citizens urged to attend and show public spirit. Part I includes Quickstep New Era Overture Thoughts of Youth Schottische Neva and Part II Clyde appears in program.
Granada items report local notables and teaching changes with oats promising crops after rains. A trustee sale notice for Wes E C Woods and William A Maddox on lands in Lamar lists John W Kriger as trustee with sale set August 24 at Lamar courthouse to satisfy fifteen notes and costs.
Granads area politics show no Republican support as activists report a failed independent ticket move. Rural notes mention jack rabbit overpopulation around Granada and alfalfa damage. Local items include births, social visits, canal breaks, carpentry work, Sunday school picnic planning, and Pleasant Valley creamery charging five cents per pound for cream processing.
Special excursion fares to Chicago offer round trips from Lamar at 27 dollars. Travel dates include July 17 with return by July 21 or 28, July 24 with return by July 28 or August 4, July 31 with return by August 4 or 11, and August 7 with return by August 11 or 18. Tickets limited to day coaches or chair cars, no Pullman parlor or sleeping car passage.
The Santa Fe Route lowers the World’s Fair rate with a 836.85 round trip from Lamar to Chicago. The line claims the quickest direct connection and proximity to transit to the fair grounds. W. E. Cade, Lamar agent, offers a free illustrated folder on World’s Fair buildings and benefits.
Public notice from Lamar Colorado dated August 1 1893 lists multiple settlers filing final proof for land claims in Granada Colorado area. It names claimants Alzada Lotz August Johnson Julius Hy Dumas John A Magnusson Gustava Peterson and others with witness lists including S H Tope J H Dumas F O Magnusson and more. Final proof to be made before the Register and Receiver September 20 at Lamar.
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