Cañon City record., 1898-03-17
FRUITMERE JOTTINGS.

Mrs. Julia p Smith entertained sew
eral friends at dinner Thursday.
Mr.. Topping is working very dill
gently on his little fruit ranch on
Orchard avenue now days.
Mr.. b. Vandery has rented Mr. Frank
l.. Smiths place and intends to farm it
this year.
Mr.. Elmer Glanville has finished sort
ing DR.. Craven's apples and he is now
pruning his orchard.
Mr.. Claud Stotts got his finger badly
mashed at the brick yards one day last
week.
Mr.. Theodore Shoemaker took load
of vegetables to Cripple Creek last week
for Messrs. Tinker and Cooper.
Carl Drake has quit school and gone
to work.
Billy Williams has been hauling rock
for the foundation of Superintendent
Woods new house. E.~
Mr. Dunn is hauling coal to Pueblo
and bringing back grain and groceries.
Mr. John Weed has just finished
plowing j. NJ. Weeds fruit lot on
| Cottonwood avenue.
Mr.. Fred Feller is putting Mr.. Lyman
Robison's place on Diamond avenue in
wheat.
MIR. John Thomas has returned to
Cripple Creek to resume work.
Mr.. J. II. Reason is busy clearing up
Mr.. Woods place on Diamond avenue.
The water was turned into the ditch
| one day last week and caught some of
the enterprising ranchmen without
| their bitches cleaned.
Mr. Ratchelor is helping Mr. Vandery
put in a crop on Mr. f. l.. Smiths
place.
Mr.. McClosky has rented Mr.. Jim
Ewer's place on Main street and moved
| to it.
Mr.. Barron, from on Four Mile, has
rented Mr.. Duruing's land and is now
looking for house.
Mr., Denmark is moving from eas;
Fruitmere into town.
Mr.. Taylor will move into the old
school house on Four Mile as soon AZ
! Mr. Barron yacates.
Mr. Robert Rushford has leased Mr.
Radolph's alfalfa lot on Main street
and is fixing up the ditch in good shape
Mr. Henry Belknap was down from
Hillside few days this week visiting
friends and on business. He has re
Gently purchased two more fine rancho.
in Wet Mountain Valley.
Contractors are figuring Oh new
house for Jas. I. Weed TO be butt ur
his place on Diamond avenue 1t is I,
be erected at once.
Miss Mamie Dunn was surprised
Saturday by nine of her schoolmates
The occasion of the party was Mis-.
Mamies fourteenth birthday.
Mrs. Fisher, on Orchard avenue. was
agreeably surprised by nine of the
ladies of that vicinity Saturday. II
was birthday party.
Mr.. LaGrange has been having his
fine orchard on Orchard avenue thor.
ouglily narrowed with disc harrow
Jones Moore doing the work.
DIR. Craven's stone fence in front OF
his fine residence on Main street is
finished and adds greatly to the appear
ance of his place.
The bridge, of which the RECORD
spoke recently, at the corner of tine
Lincoln school lot, has been repaired.
The clay haulers are busy hauling
clay to the brick factory again.
Mrs. Ringle's mother has been hav-
ing a chicken house built on Mr..
Ringle's place and is going into the
chicken business.
! Mr.. Heller, east of town, is entertain
ing his father and sister, who are here
from Nebraska on visit
Mrs. A. Shank, on Graydene avenue,
has just recovered from spell of sick
ness.
Two cases of measles are reported in
Park Center.
Water has been turned into the Park
Center ditch and the farmers are all
busy preparing their farms for the
coming season.
Mr.. Painter is building house on
Walnut avenue, Fruitmere.
Mr.. Simon has improved his Fruit
mere property on Graydene avenue by
the erection Of new barn.
Thirteen volumes have been added
to the library of the Lincoln Park
school this week. Twelve volumes
were presented by Miss Nina DeSteiger
and one "The Skein of Life,- written
by w. R. Mackay, was presented by
Mrs. Dubois.
EFF. Jewett is preparing his packing
ground for receiving the trees from the
nursery.
B. q. woodford was in Chandler
Tuesday.