The Fremont County record., 1881-07-02
CITY AND VICINITY.

RECORD for a beautiful bouquet presented
on Wednesday.
Our young friend George w. Clelland is
making Il second Detroit Free Press ont of
the Reporter.
Five families of English gypsies visited
Canon this week. They told fortunes,
traded ponies, etc.
One of Mr. A. Sartor's teams ran away on
Tuesday and made quite lively racket for
short time. No very great damage.
Attention is called to the local advertise
mcnts of shaeffer & Cassedy, referring to
the sale of unclaimed watches this evening.
Mrs. Scott brought us, from her garden,
a handsome bunch of flowers and some of
the finest wax beans that we have ever
eaten.
The d. K r. &. company have viewed the
ground leading to the Brantford stone
quarry with the intention of laying a track
to 1t if practicable.
Mr.. Fred. A. Reynolds has commenced
the erection of his new house on the corner
of B and Fifth streets. Bricklaying was
begun ON it this week.
A very large space of timber on the noun
Ldiu sOutu VI tO"u was over OIl
Monday and during that night. The fire
was quite pretty sight after dark.
Stone from the Brantford quarry is to be
used IN the construction of the water table
for the new Masonic temple. Work was
commenced on that building on Mond day.
Private carriages can be had at Sartor's
livery or the bus of the Transfer company
txilI hp 70 Ia 4, ~
July if parties so desire. Send in your
orders to-day.
Frank Hart aud d. W. Fearest were
brought down to the penitentiary from
Leadyille on Sunday, convicted OF burglary
and grand larceny, Hart for two years and
Feaster for one year.
Since Mrs. Megrue has decided to 20 to
Denver, the school board has employed two
| teachers from Ottumwa, Iowa, and one
from oberlin college, Ohio. The two from
| Iowa are old teachers and the one from
Ohio has just graduated.
An old gentleman, who lives thirty miles
from Canon, came in on Monday on pur-
! pose to take his wife to the circus, she
! never having attended an entertainment of
the kind in her life. That they were dis
appointed is expressing il mildly.
Mr.. McKissck offers TO charge all those
who ride with him to the Fourth of July
celebration at -Four Mile, fifty cents for the
round trip. For this price he win not
agree to call for or deliver any parties to
distant parts of the city but win make up
his load on Main street.
In addition to the programme of the pic
mic at Four Mile on the Fourth the Canon
City band will attend and furnish the
music. The regular express train on the
D. s K. G. viii carry passengers to the
ground Liverymen and expressmen will
run teams between town and the picnic
grounds, carrying people at reasonable
rates.
gentleman from Chicago, proprietor of
large stone yard there, made an effort
this week to enter into a contract with Mr.
l.. E. Franck TO have the latter furnish
him 800 feet of Brantford stone daily for
five years. He pronounces this stone equal
to that from the celebrated Amherst quarry
of Ohio.
MIR. S. r. McKissick's gray team ran
away last Saturday from behind the Boyd
house and up Main street uatil they struck
DR.. Prentiss' buggy in front of Beecher &
Co.'s store. This checked their career and
threw one horse down in front OF Myers
store. DR.. Prentiss' buggy was consider
ably damaged.
One of the greatest necessities for the town
is the building of u sidewalk from the cor.
ner Of Mr.. Silsby's property to the depot.
This walk should not only be laid there but
the streets from the depot to the corner of
is extremely disagreeable for people coming |
UP town from there to ride or walk through |
the deep adobe dust.
At the regular meeting OF the fire com
pany on Monday night committee was ap-
pointed to arrange for parade on the 4th.
The following new members were admitted
to the hose company: f. l.. Pippin, J. 7.
Russell, l.. A. Roe, D. Warker, f. Whipplc
and Sake Cramer. The latter was elected
plug man in place of MIR. Harry Castillo.
Milt Yarberry, formerly in the saloon and
variety show business in this city, lately
city marshal of Albuquerque, New Mexico,
is in jail there for killing a man who would
not threw up his hands when called upon
to do so by Yarberry. There are various
stories about the affair and opinion is divid-
ed. This is the second man Yarberry has
Killed within a short time.
Mr.. j. Frank Wilder, the shirt man from
Lawrence, Kansas, on his trip here last
week, left his sample case at the depot for
u few hours In the morning, and when he |
saw it again II had been broken open and
one of his best samples stolen. THE D. g. |
X. g. company should provide some means |
OF protecting baggage here when it is left |
at the depot on the arrival of night trains. \
The employees are in the habit of throwing
1t into the freight room and telling passcnl
gers 1t is at their own rick
Renting houses is as much business as
running bank, and an agent who is sue
cessful will save more bad debts than
double his commission. BY renting to q
great many tenants he soon learns from
whom 1t is difficult TO collect, ard refusing
to rent house TO such q party saves both
the agent and the landlord trouble and loss.
Some of the slow-to-puy tenants are more
prompt with al agent than with the land
lord, as they know that often an owner
Of house Will allow a tenant to get few