The Fremont County record., 1881-03-26
CITY AND VICINITY.

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| plain DRINKS this week.
Mess. Roes and Lodwig haye opened =
new store at Coal Creek.
Mass will be celebrated tomorrow at
| 10 80 IA. m. at Blake's hall.
The reduction works will be closed in
about two weeks, until after ali of the liti-
CATION is over.
| The county commissioners hold their
next regular quarterly meeting week
from next Monday.
The office of the penitentiary will be sup
piled with steam pipes, and water from the
water works mains.
Mr.. Z. n. Rouse is putting up new
building between his saloon and the black
smith shop west oft.
lurge number of railroad men were in
town this week. The grade between here
and Silver Cliff IS about completed.
| Mr.. John Tammany, the conductor on the
| d. & r. G. so well known in this city, has
resigned and will open a lodging house and
saloon in Pueblo.
| Mr.. Helm sold the dwelling on Fifth
street next to his carpenter shop to Lee
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washce house.
Mr.. Fred P. Lord, engineer of the track
laying on the Silver Cliff branch, has re-
signed and Mr.. F. W. Esch has been ap-
pointed to the position.
Sheriff johnson, of Jefferson county was
in the city on Monday with n prisoner who
had escaped from the Golden Jail. He was
captured in Silver Cliff.
Rev. W. II Barber, the new minister of
| the Cumberland Presbyterian church, will
be here next week and deliver his first SER
mon one week from tomorrow.
Miss Lizzie Haines and Mrs. T. b. Daily
were confirmed ms members of the Epsco-
pal church in this city on Sunday last by
| Rt. Rev. Mr.. Spalding, bishop of this do
cese.
Over 5000 was raised by one man in day
this week to help build Catholic church
in Canon. One gentleman subscribed $50
and another, not a member of the church,
S25 cash.
The ladies of the First Presbyterian
will hold their sociable at the residence of
| Mr.. and Mrs, A. Il. Mack on Thursday
evening next All are cordially invited to
| attend.
The town board should at once make ar
! engagements to supply the city prison with
water. As it is now arranged the city Of
ticers are obliged to carry water a long dis
tance to that place.
| The railroad boys at Pueblo raised n
purse and buried the body of Mr.. Paul
| Foster beside the remains of his brother.
He was highly respected by those who
knew him theie.
There will be preaching at the Cumber-
| land Presbyterian church on Thursday
evening, March 3lst, at which time the
| Rocky Mountain presbytery of the above
church will convene.
At the meeting of the town board on
| Monday night a proposition was made to
appoint building inspector. This .propo-
| s!tion will be taken into consideration next
| Monday :ening and definitely settled.
no charge for admission to the skating
rink at Blake's hail. Ladies and children
pay % cents for use of skates and gentle
men 80 cents for same. Hours from to 6
in the afternoon and 80 to 8 80 at night.
Judge FELTON, bought, through our agency,
| four acres of land in South Canon, belong
| ing to Mr.. Leonard Z. Eldred. The land is
| situated next to the Pedley ranch and was
| sold for 81 600. Mr.. Frank Bengley also
| sold to the same gentleman six acres ad-
joining.
When the town board meets next Mon
day night they should take into considera-
don the condition of the soda springs. The
ground all around them now is in very
| filthy shape. 1t cannot be great expense
to put them in condition of attractiveness
once II ore.
Four men were arrested on Sunday by
SheEin Shaffer and his deputies, on the
charge Of stealing a sack of corn, revolver
| and pair of pantaloons. They were
brought before Justice Minor on Monday
and We're discharged for the reason that
the prosecuting witness did not appear
| against them y
The scholars of the public school are in
vited by the proprietor of the roller skating
rink to visit Blake's hall this afternoon any
time after l o'clock, either as skaters or
spectators. Upon this occasion there will
be no charge made. Those children who
are quite young had better be accompanied
by their parents or guardian.
Tomorrow it Is expected that the D. &
| Il. g. will start its fast train. The time is
| to be shortened two hours between Denver
and LeadvilIc. Between Canon and Pueblo
the track has been Strengthened in several
places. The curve they were waiting to
take out before changing time was on the
McCumbcr ranch, near Florence.
The Water Works company have put IN
| a flood gate between their ditch and the
mill ditch, where those artificial water
courses run SO close together, for the pur-
pose Of prey cnting any interruption of
water in case of damage to either ditch
The mill can be supplied from it or the
Water Works pumps can get water from
the mill ditch.
Mr.. S. II. Davis, of Four Mile while chop
ping wood near the Lake ranch on the
morning Of Friday the 18th, received a duck
shot in the middle finger OF his right hand.
Ii struck the bone and beniimbed bis finger
considerably. The duck hunter could not
be found, but if he vii. apply to Mr.
Davis lie can receive the lost shot by pay
ing the cost of probing and other damages,