Cripple Creek landslide GOP edge marks Colorado polls
A pickup of results from Cripple Creek shows a 500 vote Republican majority while Colorado county races favor Democrats in Arapahoe. Nationally, Republicans held their own with a modest gain after the presidential election. The piece notes the “Finnigan's Ball” show at the opera house and mocks sugar tariff politics amid the Sugar Trust controversy. Local notes from Holly Chieftain and Ada Times cover land sales, colonists, and community growth as settlers flood into the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cripple Creek
Colorado
Arapahoe County
Empire Valley News Highlights And New Lumber Yard Plans
The report notes threshing of 993 bushels of alfalfa seed and new neighbors arriving as North Side homes rise. It mentions Gregory and FE Sellhorn expanding the local lumber yard, 30+ May school enrollments, canal water distribution, Rev. French moving to Iuka Kansas, and sugar beets yielding 16–21 percent sugar with 80–90 percent purity. The piece ends with a humorous tale about a mothers convention and a misunderstood article on childrearing.
It Is Easy to Raise Other People's Children Tale
A woman reads a newspaper then entrusts her sister with her nieces and nephews asserting the task is easy. The sister fails as the children ignore stories play games misbehave and refuse moral lessons. The tale concludes that raising others children is simple only until attempted in practice. Also notes a Baltimore Americah quote and a Eagles lodge reception in El Paso with standing room only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josh Wink
Baltimore
el Paso
Finnigan’s Ball” Company
Order of Eagles
Welch
Journal
Democrat
Eagles
Lamar Opera House
Second Hand Store ad and local listings
Nails at the Second Hand Store. For cheap town lots see CC. B. Thoman. Wagon covers and tents at Second Hand Store. For bargains in farm lands go to CO. B. Thoman. For a bargain in iron beds go to the Second Hand Store. C. B. Thoman has the best line of fire insurance. He writes farm risks. Dr. A. W. Seabury, physician and surgeon. Offices on second floor of Irwin building, East Main street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CO. B. Thoman
C. B. Thoman
A. W. Seabury
Irwin Building
East Main Street
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Lamar Register
Lamar
Frank Tate
Opera House
Fred Lee's
Havemeyer
Coen
Davy Crockett
Congress
Sugar Trust
Holly Chieftain
S. Harden
Mr. Randall
W. S. Pardonner
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company
A. L. Johnson
Joseph Horton
J. C. Newman
Tribune
Holly
Amity Canal
Holland
New York
Ada Times
R. J. Koonce
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Rebekas
Colorado, Springs
H. C. Jeffers
John Christopher
George
W. H. Morris
Mahr Bros
Hans Maler
Empire Valley
May
Brandenburg
Baling Hay
Frank Friend
L. B. Barnard
Pp. L. French
French
Iuka
Kansas
Pillaud
McVey Brothers
CC. B. Thoman
Pepsoquinine
Boyd
Ham
RAY
Igons
Ess
Kay Grain
Co. C. Huddleston
Lamar, Colorado
A.everett & Co
Arkansas Valley
Lamar Hardware CO
J. H. Myers
D. BH. Cooper
Ory
Denver Times
Denver
Advai
Mail
Sunday Times
Denver Weekly Times-Sun
the Times
Curtis Street
Century
Daily Times
Miss Odessa
Ghos
A. Stevens & Bros
Chicago
J. H. Hardy
Osteopath
N. E. Corner Union Hotel
A. T. Still School
Kirkville, Mo
D. W. Robinson Auctioneer
J Co.stream
Jamar, Colo
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