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An invention gave the Pring’s a Colorado StakeShe knit this beautiful dress in just 1 month.She knit the same dress in just 1 day.Have you heard of the incredible knitting machine.Ranger’s trophy was made into “something useful”.fromHIGH COUNTRY MACHINE KNITTING230 N. Chelton Rd.Colo. Spgs., CO 80909471-2090Check Out the Knitting MachinesIEdward Adelbert Pring and Ted Flinn with Ranger and the trophies for the 1925 endurance race which was won for the first and only time by a civilian horse instead of a U.S. Cavalry Horse.by John DavisLast month we introduced you to the Hartsock sisters, longest Springs residents, with Shirley actually being born (April,1917) in the house where the Dunkin Donuts now sits in front of Harmony Bowl on Academy Blvd. You might remember that Sylvia and Shirley mentioned their mother’s warning to stay away from those rough Pring boys (Jack was about Sylvia’s age and Shirley was between Willet and Roy’s age). This month we received an enjoyable letter from Roy Pring and we have interviewed him for another look at the history of our area.Roy’s great-grandfather, John William Pring was born in Devonshire, England in 1845.He was eleven years old when his father died and at the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the carpenter’s and builder’s trade. In 1871 he brought his family to America and settled in Illinois where he owned a furniture and carpentry business. While there he invented the corn planter and sold the patent to John Deere. In 1876, he moved the family across to Colorado in wagons to live on 240 acres south of Monument that he bought with the corn planter money without ever seeing the property. “The jackrabbits had to carry lunch boxes.”He continued to improve the property and leased and bought other farms and ranches. When the Cripple Creek discovery was made, John Pring had some of thefirst claims, including the Bonnie Nell and Raven Hill.Moving a couple of generations closer, Roy’s father, Edward Pring was born on the family’s home ranch where the Air Force Academy now stands (Roy says See page A8
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Colorado Springs Beacon
Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
Sat, Apr 01, 1995
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