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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1894
Page
5
Local notices report H W Koen seeking 200 men for ranch and lode work with wages at 1.25 dollars a day and board 3 dollars per week. Various town news items include births, store moves, and a grand cash sale offering deep discounts on textiles, dresses, and Christmas goods.
D C Marker buys C D Baldwins harness stock and Charley shifts to farming. A popcorn social at the Christian church benefits the Sunday school next Tuesday evening. Mrs D E Cooper and Mrs Heaton open a display of fancy articles near the barber shop. Hunters seek teams Thursday morning. Canon City visitors hunted rabbits on the Black ranch, killing about a thousand. Hyde Ditch and Improvement Co forms to enlarge the Hyde ditch with a new headgate and dam wall. 2000 acres of the SS ranch were bought for large scale farming. Directors are A E Bent, J W Bent, and J A McDowell.
Four new pupils admitted this week at Lamar School. Grades 7 and 8 boys form two baseball clubs while girls reportedly seek one. Bessie Doughty Laura Glenn and Arthur Morehouse shown happy. promotion moves Grade 4 to 5. School run in businesslike fashion under Principal Prof. Hamilton.
Remember your postmaster can provide reduced prices on newspapers and periodicals and save you the risk and cost of sending for them yourself. In December he will offer club rates on Youth's Companion Ladies' Home Journal and all first class publications.
The annual meeting of stockholders of the First National Bank of Lamar Colorado will be held in the Banking Room on January 5 at o o’clock p m for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors for the ensuing year and for regular business as may come before the meeting. WV C Gould cashier.
By order of sale and special execution from the District Court of the Third Judicial District I levied on Lots Three and Four and the West Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section Twenty nine Township Twenty four South Range Forty one West in Prowers County Colorado to satisfy damages interest and costs totaling five hundred seventy two dollars plus seventeen dollars fifty cents. The sale is set for January fifth seventeen ninety five at two o clock in the afternoon at the front door of the Lamar Court House and will bonsell to the highest bidder for cash. JOHN HAGERMAN Sheriff of Prowers County Colorado.
Notice of trustee sale for a 160 acre tract in section 6 township 23 south range 44 west Colorado. The Lamar Canal Company water rights accompany the property. Default on a note of 375 dollars with interest triggers sale by John Q Hagerman acting sheriff as successor trustee at the Lamar courthouse front steps after four weeks public notice. Sale to pay principal interest and costs. Lamar Colorado December 13 1894.
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