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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1896
Page
5
Lamar residents report a busy week with business moves, social gatherings, and town improvements. The fire aftermath brings new shops and repairs, while celebrations plan a Fourth of July picnic with races, fireworks, and music. Notables include W R Davis of the Denver Republican, local businessmen reopening after the blaze, and a visiting Woodmen delegation from Pueblo.
The community notes rain is needed and haying of the first crops is nearly finished while grasshoppers are damaging some fields of alfalfa left for seed. Children day exercises will be held at the schoolhouse Sunday morning. Fred Lee advertises a Hubbard oven, bakery, ice cream parlor, and short order restaurant offering fresh bread pies cakes daily.
A lost notice from John Shaw of Lamar Colorado states eight animals missing eight miles north of Lamar: two mares, two horses, two 2-year-old colts, and two driving horses. Three bays and one brown. Reward of five dollars offered for return of stock. Also an ad for McLean's Headache and Neuralgia Remedy and Palace Drug Store sales.
The Granada Sabbath school plans a basket picnic in the Martin Graham grove near Carlton on July 4. A literary program with music begins at 2 p m. Ice cream lemonade and other refreshments will be served at prices. Proceeds go to Granada church repair. All welcome by order of committee.
The Mitchell jack will stand for the season at the Hardscrabble ranch with terms of five dollars for service or ten dollars for the season. A thoroughbred Hambletonian stallion will stand at the same rates. Cash in hand is required.
An essage-style advertisement touts Onur Sarsaparila Compound with iodide of potassium and mountain sage as a cure for all diseases of blood impurities. It claims a large bottle costs 0c and is sold by N. N. McLean Palace Drug Store with satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
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