Social and school news from Lamar area events
M F Dickinson from Granada attended Thursday events. Commencement at M E Church with graduates Corinne Morehouse Nora Butler and William Butler. Decoration Day to be observed by G A R and W R C with monument unveiling at the cemetery. Community notices include church services meetings and local travels of Granada residents.
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M. E
Heaton
Clinton Riddle
Judge Nowels
Corinne Morehouse
Nora Butler
William Butler
Herschel Horn
C. C. Huddleston
Horn
Hamilton
First Cattle in Colorado and County Names
Early settlers and place names in Colorado are linked to prominent western families. Bent County honors Colonel William Bent who built Fort Bent on the Arkansas River before California gold rush. Prowers County commemorates John Wesley Prowers born 1837 who crossed the plains in 1856 and helped establish the first permanent cattle herd of 100 head driven from Missouri.
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Colorado
Otero County
West
Bent County
Willian Bent
Old Fort Bent
Arkansas
California
Pike’s Peak
Prowers
John Wesley Prowers
Westport
Jackson County
Missouri
Plains
Fort Bent
Robert Miller
Upper
Mr. Prowers
Colonel Bent
Mr. Powers
John Ferrill
Purgatoire
Caddoa
Lamar Dog License Due by June First
Marshal Kornman warns Lamar residents that dog licenses are due now and must be paid by June 1. Dogs without a paid license by that date will be shot.
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Marshal Kornman
Lamar
Season Stallion Service at Hardscrabble Ranch
Notice offers Mitchell jack for season use at Hardscrabble ranch with $5 service and $10 season terms. A thoroughbred Hambletonian stallion stands for the same cash in hand terms.
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Mitchell Jack
Denver Lawyer Procures Prowers County Land Interests
A. T. Forse, a Denver attorney, spent Wednesday in town to attend to the land interests of several clients in Prowers county.
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A. T. Forse
Denver
Prowers County
Irwin's Introduces New Dishes and Goods at Palace
Friend & Son advertises Fat Cattle Wanted and Finest buggy whips with sharp sales lines. They offer Hawk's Famous Crystal Lens Spectacles and Glasses. Palace Drug Store sells Magic Pain Balm and McLean's Headache and Neuralgia Remedy with quick relief claims.
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Hawk
Christal
Friend & Son
Palace Drug Store
MclLean
Medicine claim for blood purification advertised at Palace Drug Store
An advertisement touts Onur Sarsaparila Compound with iodide and potassium from N. N. McLean Palace Drug Store. It promises to cure diseases from blood impurities, offers a large bottle for 90 cents, and guarantees satisfaction or money refund.
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N. N. McLean Palace Drug Store
Bent County stock roundup set for May 25
The spring round-up in District No 1 begins May 25 under the Bent County Stock Association plan. All persons are warned not to interfere with cattle on the range before the date by order of round-up commissioners A C Jomyxson J N Brarry and J Scott Robertson.
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Bent County Stock Association
A. C. Jomyxson
J. N. Brarry
J. Scott Robertson
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Prowers CO. Abstract Co
Lamar, Colo
M. F. Dickinson
Granada
Christian Church
Grant Henkins
Kansas
The
Joe Hutchins
Cripple Creek
M. J. McMillin
Lila McMillin
Carlton
S. W. Billingsley
Prof. Barnes
J.S. Mendenhall
J. L. Mayfield
J. F. Kesirns
J. H. Odle
Charley Button
Dr. J. ©. Kalb
Canton
W. C. Gould
Miss Lish
N.N. McLean
W. W. Cooper
N. W. Nabb
N. N. McLean
Pueblo
W. C. McCurry
W. D. Ford
Monument
Miss Addie
Bessie Mayfield
M. Dickinson
Theo
Dickinson
Blanch Cline
Samar
Colebourn Band
Ironclad
Hose House
J. C. Horn
Leland
Methodist
N. O. Bowman
Pueblo Chieftain
Chieftain
Teachers’ Association
May Valley
R. S. Radcliffe
Canon Radcliffe
Modern Woodmen
Radcliffe
E C. Hawkins
Irwin’s
Huddleston & Pike
SE Eling Garden Seeds
D. BH. Cooper
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