CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1907-08-08

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week or ten days visiting friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. 8. Dodge of Har-
ward. Illinois, are spending a few days
here as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
M. Cramer and family.
Ed Rupp of Monument, Colorado,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. H. 8.
Maddox on Sunday. Mr.. Rupp was
| formerly from Aledo, illinois,.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. w. Nilsson were
in town today on their way back to
Denver from a weeks visit in Silver
Cliff and other points in the Wet
Mountain valley.
Miss Nettie Maddox has returned
| home from ten days or two weeks
| visit to Pueblo, where she was
guest in the family of Trainmaster
McGraw of the Denver & Rio Grande
Mrs. Joe Esser returned home this
afternoon from Chicago where she
has been visiting relatives and friends
for several weeks. Mr.. Esser met her
in Denver and accompanied her home
from that city.
Mrs. John Driscoll and son, Lynn,
of Boise City, Idaho, are spending a
| few days here as the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Nesbt. They express them
selves as being delighted with Canon
City and its surroundings.
Through the agency of c. w. Tai
bot of the Canon Realty company, the
residence property of Farnum ST.
John at 1878 Park avenue, Lincoln
Park, has been sold to S. S. Courtney
of Lawrence, Kansas, who, with his
wife and family, will make his home
here.
Miss Rhoda Smiley left this after
| noon for Buena Vista, where she will
join Mrs. Smiley and Miss Bessie
| Smiley, who have been sojourning
| there the greater part of the summer.
Miss Smiley. who was formerly from
Lafayette, Indiana, has made her home
here for the last year or more.
Max Vezzetti and Miss Mary Bard
esono, both of Brookside, were mar
ried at st. Michael's Catholic church
at IL o'clock this morning, Rev. Father
Chrysostom Lochschmidt, o. B. s.,
pastor of the congregation, officiating
The wedding was attended by many
of the more prominent of the Italians
OF the coal camps of the county.
L. X. Kohlman, formerly a resident
of this city, but now living in Chi
cago, arrived here Sunday night to
renew his Canon City acquaintance.
Mr.. Kohlman is travelling salesman
for thee Burnett extract people of
Boston, Mass. who have western
headquarters in Chicago. Mrs. Kohl
man has been visiting here and in
Colorado Springs for several weeks.
John J. Pitts. who stopped on here
last week for a visit with his sister,
Mrs. J. p. Farmer. on Lincoln Park,
while en- route home from the Pacific
coast, left for ST. Louis this morning.
During his western trip he visited all
of the principal points of interest from
San Diego northward to Seattle and
Vancouver. aEMr. Pitts is one Of the
substantial business men of Blooming
ton.
Mr. and Mrs Ernest Carter, who
have been residents of Canon City for
several months. left at noon today for
Colorado Springs. where they will
visit for a short time, going later to
Salt Lake City. where they expect to
make their home. Until lately Mr..
Carter was cashier at the local ONCE
OF the Denver 4 Rio Grande Railroad
company, a position he resigned
couple of weeks ago
NJ. A. La Quatte, who stopped here
a week ago to visit his daughter. Mrs.
Harry Combs, while en- route from
Fort Collins to Eureka, Utah, to take
charge of a big mercantile establish
ment, didn't like the appearance OF
things in the Mormon country and
came back here on Sunday. Mr.. La
Quatte will go to Cripple Creek to-
morrow, where he has been rendered
the management of a large dry goods
store.
Ford Woods of Indianapolis, Ind.
general freight agent OF the c. c. c.
st. l.. and New York Central rail-
road companies, accompanied by his
son, Ford Vinnege Woods of Emng-
ham. Illinois, arrived here from Chi
cago this afternoon for a few days
visit with Frank, John and W. W.
Emmerson. Under the guidance of
Messrs. H. J. and A. H. Craig they
will leave on Wednesday for a fishing
trip on the Cochetope and Gunnison
rivers.
R. c. Pierce has returned home
from a two or three days business
trip to Avondale and other points of
the valley east of Pueblo. He says
the prospect for big sugar beet crop
in that section is most encouraging
and That agricultural conditions were
never so good in that part of the state
as theey are this year. According to
Mr.. Pierce there is no place in the
country where irrigation has wrought
a greater transformation from prime
val conditions than 1t has in the Ar
kansas valley.