The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1912-05-09
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ton of their organization, which IS in
session this week at the Springs.
SIC 1averty has amovea his family
to Canon City from the Cripple Creek
district, hoping that the change in al
titude and environment will have a
beneficial effect on his wife's health.
Mr.. Laverty is district foreman in the
.mechanica department for the Canon
City and Cripple Creek Railroad COM
pany. ,4s
The members of the. Methodist
Brotherhood will hold an open meet
ing at the church rarlors this evening
to which all men of the church and
congregation are cordially invitefl.
There will be an interesting enter
tainment program and pleasant time
is anticipated by those in charge o.
the arrangements.
d. S. Jones. district water commits
sioner, spent the day Investigating the
bitches on Lower Hardscrabble. He
says the water in Hardscrabble creek
is rapidly increasing in volume and
at the present time there is sufficient
to supply all the bitches. The river 10
raising at the rate of 2-10> of foot
per day and as the weather grows
warmer this will be increased Accord
ingly.-Florence Citizen
Saturday.
Today is the regular quarterly
pension day for the old soldiers and
many of the veterans of the Civil war
are having their vouchers made out
at the office of the county clerk pre-
liminary to sending them to the va
rious pension agencies where they are
registered for the purpose of having
them cashed
A meeting of the members of the
committees recently appointed by the
Canon City Businss Mems association
and the Florence Chamber of Corr
mercce was held at the office of II. s
Maddox here at o'clock this after
noon for the purpose OF working out a
good roads map and folder shortly 70
be issued by the twoeorganizations for
distribution in the eastern states with
view of bringing automobile tourists
to Fremont county.
A. E. Wilson and son, Arthur. ac-
companied by Prof. and Mrs. c. G.
Sherwood, went to Colorado Springs
this morning for the purpose OF wit
Messing the inter-high school athletic
contests on Washburn field. The trip
was made in the Wilson automobile.
Rev. Allan Bell. teacher of the Ray
nolds Memorial class at the First
Presbyterian Sunday school. which
has membership OF more than one
hundred men. will spend Sunday in
Florence and will preach from the
pulpit of the Presbyterian church
there at the morning service. Rev. S.
II. Sperry, who has taught the Ray
nolds Memorial class on several oc-
casions, has been invited to take
charge OF the class tomorrow.
The open meeting OF the Methodist
Brotherhood at the church parlors
Friday night was largely attended and
was very pleasant affair in all re-
spects. A feature OF the entertainment
program was a series of stereopticon
views OF Colorado scenery by l.. W.
Felter, 1t was good-fellowship gath
ering and was one of the most de-
lightful events of the character in the
history of the brotherhood.
Nine cans, containing O.OOO Raia-
bow and Eastern Brook trout fry
we're shipped to Florence from the
state hatcheries at Glenwood Springs
and were taken to Beaver Creek, half
Of the shipment being liberated at the
Hiatt ranch on Upper Beaver. and the
other half were taken to the reservoir
recently constructed by the Fremont
County sportsmens Association. [.