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Newspaper
Lamar Register
Location
Lamar, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1898
Page
8
Notice of a Lamar Republican League meeting at C. C. Goodale's office in Lamar on Saturday July 2 1898 at 2 p m all league members urged to attend.
The Lamar Telegram reports a busy local scene with Mrs D C Marker traveling to Pueblo for treatment and many residents, from Geo Kramer of Las Animas to J Johnston and N N McLean advertising new goods. Local trades, arrivals, courts, and community notices fill the week’s pages.
All committees on the Fourth of July celebration are requested to meet at Hose House on Saturday evening July 2 at 8 o clock. Business of importance is to be trans acted.
The canal suffered a serious breach on Sunday the 10th at Horse creek with more than one thousand feet destroyed, requiring a new ditch section and half a mile of washed banks. Mr. Wiley mobilized reservoirs crews, eighty five teams worked within two days, water began returning by Tuesday. Damages estimated at 2000 dollars, a small sum compared to lost storage water.
The note lists Crescenta area merchants promoting jewelry Cross's and Pike's Grocery with shoe invoices, glassware, clothing at J M Johnston's, cooking uten silk and ware at D C Marker & Co, and urges customers to inspect offerings and consider court action for value claims.
For Saly an auction listing offers eight head Shorthorn bulls with prices ranging from 340 to 100 dollars each. Seller M. J. McMillin of Carlt Colorado promotes the sale and notes varying stock quality and value.
You can insure your wheat and other crops against loss by bail, by calling on J. B. Traxler.
A dubious medical ad claims liver complaints and nervousness can be cured by Dr Feneer’s Blood and Nerve Tank. The offer promises a refund of money if not satisfied, with a warranty by BH. Myers. The fragmentary text is unclear but presents a health product claim and money-back guarantee.
An old ad copy markets Harness Co offerings at Huddleston and promotes Pike with groceries and Crescent bicycles. It notes Pike’s Peak Paint and I. H. Myers' drug store receiving a full line of paint brushes.
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