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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1901
Page
5
Lamar residents report trips to Denver Las Animas and Kansas, returns from Ohio and New York, and new hires at C C Huddleston. The community notes hunting farming and market visits, band concerts, weddings, school openings, and a stray preacher detour as residents anticipate autumn events in 1903.
Frontier Day on September 19 promises a hammer of an event with roping and broncho busting contests. Prizes include an 850 saddle and 820 cash, plus special prizes from stock and business groups. Four weeks of racing attract top horses. riders may submit names to A. E. Downer Lecy for untamed branches to be ridden. Track committee urges visitors to use the new race track.
Church notices list regular services at Cuuren and Christ churches with Sunday school and evangelistic events. Community ads promote lamps, shoes, ice cream, school suits, lumber, and a hay mower attachment, plus a weekly charity donation by S. Irwin and other local merchants.
Advertised bargains include chairs from 50 cents to 814 dollars and carpets by the yard at 25 to 75 cents at Butler’s. A cost sale of school suits is at J. M. Johnston’s, with a found bundle of ladies’ clothing offered via A. Van Deusen. Market Lumber Yard handles all building materials and Lamar Mercantile offers misses and children’s shoes.
Three room dwelling with stable and trees on a block of lots in good location. Reasonable terms offered. See RB THOMAN at the address on file for details.
A house to let a good six room dwelling offered by D. E. Coorer. Also a trade notice seeks two fine fresh milch cows and two young mules in exchange for stone and concrete work. See or write A. E. Crawford.
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