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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1891
Page
1
In Lamar Colorado on December 30 1891 at ten in the forenoon the sheriff will sell at public auction the trust properties in two deeds to satisfy secured notes. One sale funds the Barton note of thirteen hundred dollars with interest at seven percent and four weeks prior notice. the other sale covers Browns note of four hundred dollars with similar terms.
James B Traxler as trustee and William C McCurry as successor in trust will sell the Foster G Huddleston property at public auction at the Lamar Colorado Post Office front door on December 8, 1501 at 10 a.m. The sale is to satisfy a promissory note of 1090 dollars with 8 percent interest, secured by a prior deed of trust for 550 dollars, with costs of sale payable from proceeds. The property includes the southeast quarter of section 24, township 2W south range 47 west and a perpetual water right from Amity Canal, located in Prowers County Colorado.
Notice is given that the regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Lamar Colorado will be held at the bank in Lamar on January 12, 1891 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to elect directors for the ensuing year and conduct other lawful business. Cashier vy. C. Lp Lamar Colo December 5 1891.
Railroad notes outline Lamar Colorado schedules for A T and S F lines with through trains Nos 5 and 6 and 7 through to No 8 and 43 Freight, plus agent W E Capg. The Coming Line touts Chicago Union Pacific North Western connections from Denver to Chicago with fast time and elegant cars. An ad claims 330 to California via Santa Fe Route is a cheap, healthful trip with sleeping cars dining and colonist sleepers.
Question Answered explains a Pullman tourist sleeper as a comfortable sleeping car with no expensive upholstery, containing bedding lunch tables and toilet articles, kept clean by a porter. Santa Fe uses tourist cars on its Denver to Chicago route with convenient amenities for travelers. A folder detailing advantages can be requested from G T Nicholson, G P T A in Topeka Kansas.
The new through line offers direct service from Mexico City to St Louis via El Paso and Burrton with Pullman palace sleepers. A Los Angeles to St Louis route also features through Pullman tourist sleepers via Albuquerque and Burrton. The Frisco Line with Santa Fe Route remains a favored connection to St Louis and beyond. G T Nicholson G P and T A A T S F R R Co Topeka Kansas.
Acents wanted for The Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Gen. Ben F Butler. It promises a new fifty year view on U S history and urges canvassers to apply for territory with S F Junkin & Co 901 Olive St St Louis MO for a promising bonanza campaign.
Granada and Lamar notices cover local illnesses and weather, with Granadians planning Christmas events and farm plans. Pension approvals for veterans, ranching expansions, irrigation, and school improvement clubs are noted alongside scientific notes on ammonia as a bread leavening agent.
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