Bent County News Roundup From Lamar and Beyond
News notes from Lamar Colorado and surroundings cover station name change Oxford to Sibley, a tram punc turing a brake man, heavy rains in Arizona, Otero County bill signing, Denver officials appointments, El Moro marshal Harry Montagne shot and died, Oklahoma land rush opening April 22, and Santa Fe rail time cut to 16 hours Kansas City to Chicago. Governor Cooper praised for courteous dealings.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R.A
Kansas City
Chicago
Hess Urged As Mayor As Ditch Celebration Planned
In Lamar, supporters praise O G Hess as a fit mayoral choice for business reasons. Youths and citizens prepare for a ditch celebration next month with visitors incl Denver Real Estate Exchange. President nominates ministers to Britain Germany Russia Chile Mexico Peru Portugal and Peru to fill diplomatic posts.
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Denver Real Estate Exchange
Lamar
O. G. Hess
Hess
Wasurscrox
Senate
Robert T. Lincoln
Illinois
Great Britain
Marat Halstead
Ohio
Germany
Allen Thorndyke Rice
New York
Russia
Patrick Egan
Nebraska
Chile
Thomas Ryan
Kansas
Mexico
John Uieke
Wisconsin
Peru
George B. Loring
Massachusetts
Portugal
Lamar Barbecue to Mark New Ditch Completion
Lamar in Prowers county plans aApril 18 barbecue to celebrate the completion of a major irrigating ditch and to host a Denver excursion, aiming to boost local Denver trade. O G Hess is endorsed as Denver mayor candidate for his wartime service and municipal experience, with local discussions on council tickets and a bid for county commissioner Sweetman from Baca county also noted. Mrs Williams, a renowned temperance lecturer, travels to Las Animas to deliver an address.
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Lamar
Prowers
Denver
O. G. Hess
Eighth Illinois Cavalry
Culpepper Court House
Beverly Ford
Virginia
Hess
Publiife
O. G
Lawrence Sweetman
Baca County
Sweetman
A. Williams
Las Animas
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Bent County Register
W. R. Davis, Baltor
Colq
Colorado
Rocky Ford
Oxford
Sibley
Nepesta
Arizona
Otero County
la Junta
W. B. Masterson
West
Bat
Palace Theatre
Harry Montagne
el Moro
Cooper
W.C. Lathrop
D. C. Dodge
F. B. Crocker
Board of Public Works
T. B. Stuart
O. B. Little
District Court
Oklahoma
Governor Cooper
U. H. VanOrsdale
Council
GC. Goonare
Attorney-At-Law
U.S. Land Office
S. Land OF Fiche Bloce
Pp. E. Coorsi
H. G. Burros
Gedding Block
Janssen Bros & Go
Stock Exchange
Anda
Robert Sweetman
Mrs
Jd. WE Kriger
Favorte Bauer
Colo
B. B. Brown
Willis G. Emerson
H . Gochenour
W. G. Gould
Merchants’ State Bank OF Lama
Lamar, Colorado
B. B. Brown, W. G. Amos, A. J. Hoslington, C. V. Decker
A. H. Heber, R. O. White, O. G. Hess
American Mortgage Trust Company
Rockford
Lyon
ST. Louis
U. S. Land Office
North Main Street
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