The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-04-18

er Beaver creek and an effort will be
made to secure gang of prisoners
from the penitentiary to do the work
this spring When this link is COM
pleted the Fremont county road sys-
tenn will be in first-class condition to
both the Pueblo and Ell Paso county
lines.
Friday.
T. S. Underwood and George p. Nix
are. engaged in making the annual
audit of the books and accounts of the
city clerk and city treasurer. They
have been employed in the task since
the first of the week and expect to
complete it today or tomorrow.
w. P. Paxton returned last night
from Boulder, where he has been in
the Colorado Sanitarium for several
weeks. While in the northern part
of the state, he visited his daughter,
Wilma, who is a student in Colorado
State college at Fort Collins.
DR.. Stafford will preach the second
of series of sermons on social sub
jects at the Baptist church Sunday
morning and evening. The subject to
be discussed will be "The Problem of
Property" He will stick to the subject
and go into the heart of it. The pub
lie is cordially invited to be present.
Mrs. E. C. Shumway and daughters.
Helen and Elsie, left Thursday even
ing for Los Angeles. Calf, where
they will visit for several months.
They were accompanied by Mrs. Bette
B. Smith, mother of Mrs. Ernest
Smith who goes to Santa Barbara, 20
make an indefinite visit with her son
and family.
JEFF Fitzpatrick of Pueblo. owner Of
the horse and buggy stolen from the
Valley Livery Barn" by Chas. Ell
bridge day or two ago. and sold here
Thursday afternoon for fifty dollars,
arrived here on Denver & Rio Grande
train No. /. this afternoon and VIII
drive the rig home. Fitzpatrick re-
cognizes Eldrldge as the guilty party
Chas. r. MeLain and H. 8. Maddox
are planning to attend the big higl,-
way convention of the good roads en-
thnsiasts of Kansas and Missouri a.,
Kansas City on the seventeenth and
eighteenth of this month. In the
event the trip is made they will do a
lot of boosting for Canon City ami
Fremont county in the interest of the
tourist business.
Miss Greenspan returned to Canon
I City Thursday afternoon from the City
( at Mexico where she has been for
some time. She says that many
Americans and other foreigners are
leaving there to avoid the possibility
of being shut up there in case of r
siege by the insurrectos. Miss Green
span will again make her home here
and will be in position to accept any
engagements from her friends desir-
ing the services OF a professional
nurse.
Many Canon City people took ad-
vantage of the opportunity AFFORDED
by the Denver & Rio Grande special
train Thursday night TO go to Flor
ence and attend the Pratt meeting.
They were met at the railroad station
on their arrival in Florence by the
choir and large delegation of church
people and escorted to the tabernacle
where they were given seats in the
central section OF the auditorium. The
visitors were pleased with the hearth
ness and cordiality of the reception
accorded them and with the splendid
discourse OF the evangelist The spe-
cial reached here on the return trip
about 1o:so o'clock
Miss Laura Everly, of Canon city,
accompanied by her friend, Miss vina
Rathyon, of Lincoln Park, spent East