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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1899
Page
1
The People's Friend promotes a daily warehouse style shop offering a single line of goods at actual wholesale prices all year. Store emphasizes value and steady discounts to attract bargain seekers.
A Greenville audience hears a Civil War era tale of Gen. Barnum and his former slave Peter who refused liquor, earned trust, and moved two white men to testify to his good reputation. The piece contrasts antique hospitality with a New England inventor’s electric bicycle and other early 20th century gadget notices.
A Long description details the W C T U pledge to abstain from intoxicants and to keep premises from beverage sales, plus a state song praising Colorado and the temperance movement. It notes school lessons on temperance, a call to teach two temperance songs, and remarks on recent district enrollments and education topics at the Colorado School Journal.
A temperance group wishes coworkers a fresh start with prayer perseverance and punctuality. They urge stronger local effort, regular meetings, and pledges to push for alcohol law reforms, citing prison data from Ontario and Quebec.
The sixteenth session of the Prowers County Teachers Association is set for January 14 1899 at 1 30 PM in the Lamar public school building Colorado. The program features music prayer and lectures by Rev J S Kyucxey and Dr Alston Ellis with discussions led by Miss Allie Moury Miss Geneva Morehouse Miss Aura M Fouwin and others. A free 730 PM lecture Educational Progress by Dr Ellis will follow with a question box for attendees.
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