The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-10-08
CITY AND VICINITY.
The court house will be all ready
for the next term of court.

DfOuSnt uOWu lEOlu DcHNcI BIN prs
oners to the penitentiary.
The next sociable of the First Pres
byterian Church will be held MT the
residence of Mrs. McGee next Thurs
day evening. All are invited.
The reason why some men punch
people in the ribs with their sharp
elbows when they get off a joke is SO
that the listener can sec the point.
"F'leet," the pet mare formerly
owned by ourselves and Mrs. .BigelOw, ,
and lately by DIR. Prentiss ran a snag
through her which resulted in her
death.
The total enrolment in the public
school for the month of September,
was 279; boys 1876, girls 1853. Average
daily attendance for the same month,
227 boys 1902, girls 115.
Last Tuesday night chicken thieves
were abroad. MIR. A. l.. Guilmette
had thirteen stolen that night and
others must have lost from the
amount of squaking i'll that neighbor-
hood.
The stingy man who last spring
found that lie had put ;S5 gold piece
into the con .ribution box instead of
a two cent piece has not been to
church since.
The Hon. Charles d. Bradley has
directed the clerk of the district court
not to issue any veaires for either
grand or petit jurors for the Novem-
ber term of court. There will proba-
bly, be Il special term of court held in
December.
The Nellie Boyd dramatic company
will give another Of their excellent
entertainments tonight in Blake's
New hall. This troupe is first-class
in every respect and wherever they
go receive crowded houses.
The Odd Fellows ball, to be given
in Blake's New hall on the 18th. prom
ises to be an elegant affair. Dan cling
will commence at 9 p. m. and contin-
ue until midnight or later if desired.
There will be no change in the pro-
gramme of dances.
The man who requests us to send a
specimen copy of the RECORD with
out enclosing stamps for pay and
postage makes great mistake, but
when he spells copy with two p's we
treat the request with the silent COIL
tempt which it SO justly deserves. :.
However, spell copy as you please.
but be sure to send the stamps.
Attention is called to the new ad-
vertisements in the RECORD this
week of Roth Bros. carriage makers
and trimmers; Warman & Co., liquors
and cigars; A. c. Dickinson, assayer.
whose office is in a stone building
back of the NJ. E. Church, and w. j.
Miller, attorney Mt law, whose office
is over the postoffice.
John Hoffman,, proprietor of the
Oak, Creek house, on the stage road
between this city and Silver Cliff,
got on drunken spree last Friday
and after breaking up nearly all Of
the furniture in the house, went out
and in scuffle with his hostler had
both bones below the knee of his
right leg broken.
Sprcague's Georgia Minstrels gave
first-class entertainment, at the OPP
era House, last evening, and judging
from the repeated rounds of applause
they received, their performance was
highly appreciated by the large audi
ence.-Gazettc, Treton, n. j., De-
cember-5, 1879. In Blake's new hall,
Canon City, Oct. 10, 1881.
The clerk of the state agricultural
society got things considerably mixed
was not recorded as having won the
first prize for grapes, etc., but was
down as best penlnan not over thir-
nf n q
both charges. lie says he is over
thirteen and does not claim to write
a very good hand.
The penitentiary officials ere doing
| n good work i'm having the photos of
| the convicts taken to be used in case
of escape. The pictures represent
them in their prison dress, but to be
| complete they ought to be taken also
| when the convict arrives before he
has shaved or changed his clothes, as
this would be his appearance in case
he escaped and was long enough
away to raise beard.
The old Rockafellow building, be-
tween the Fremont County bank and
II. Sartor's harness store, built twen-
| ty years ago, has been very much
| improved within the past three
| weeks. A new brick front has been
added to il with full French plate
glass windows, the first windows OF
fbe kind ever put up in Canon. A
handsome cornicc has been erected
over the front and it will be one of
the pest store rooms in the city.
Our kindergarten has proven itself
to be perfect success. 1t is the
handsomest picture one can look upon
to see SO many sweet, little, happy
faces of those who are enjoying their
games and lessons. II will well re-
pay our parents who have little ones
between the ages of three and six
years to look into the former reading
room pavilion between and II :45 a.
m. where the kindergarten is in ses-
sion.
There is nothing like persistent ad-
vcrtising. We have had an advertis-
ment in the RECORD for more than a
year which read, ga giant saw for
sale" Mr.. Thompson, our former
county commissioner, who reads
every word in the RECORD. got sc
tired of seeing the same "ad" In the
paper that he began saving up hit
| snare dnIlars and when bn had nc