The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-05-20
NOTES FROM COLUMBIA, MO.

Editors Note-The following inter
esting items are from Mr.. Hardy who
has been attending Journalism week"
at the Missouri School for Journalism,
an important part of Missouri Uni
versity, located at Columbia, Missouri.
No man ever "happens in Colum-
bia.'' To go there you must go by
design, and you will have to study
some to lind the way in. No railroad
goes through Columbia. Two railroads
have branches running to the town.
These branches use up the rolling
stock discarded by the main roads
sort of collection of railroad anti
ques. Some of the trains, at least,
are mixed trains-a passenger car at
tached to freight train. But you
can get into Columbia, on the cushions
if you really want to. Railroad fares
are cheap-only &c the mile.
Columbia is a beautiful city-popu-
lation variously estimated by her resi-
dents at from 10000 to $4,000, and
has about 5000 college students.
1t is situated in the hill country,
with fine farms all about. Streets
and yards and parks and college cam
puses are heavily shaded by fine old
hardwood trees. i have been driven
about in many towns and cities in the
land. and / think have never seen
a small city any where that possesses
so much of the beautiful and desirable
and so little of the humble and un
attractive scenes found in all towns.
Columbia is certainly the gem of Mis-
souri,. The country in and about Col
umbia resembles very much the best
parts of Kentucky.
Rev. Hatcher who formerly was
pastor of the Baptist church
in Canon City. lives in Columbia.
Hearing that l was in the city he
looked me up to talk about Canon
City friends and to show me every
courtesy possible. He took me thru
the Stephens Printing company plant.
which is one of the largest law book
publishing houses in the country and
Stephens College, which is
a very attractive Baptist boarding
school for girls. He even showed me
their fine new swimming pool which
was filed with jolly bunch OF Bap-
tist girls. who take as naturally to
water as a bunch OF ducks.
Whenever I am introduced to
Missouri editor he nearly always says.
Canon City-why. we sent Mr. So and
So to Canon City" He doesn't mean
1t, of course. in the same way the
Denver papers do when they say.
Sent to Canon City" He means that
one OF his fellow townsmen has NOV
ed to Canon City-because, while
Missouri is good for corn and stock, |
and Canon City are far su-
perior for people. So / get in the
habit when being introduced to a
Missouri editor. II he doesn't mention
it first, of asking him how many sub
scribers he has in Canon City. For
nearly every Missouri town has con-
tributed to our population-and good
people. too.
One day ! remember hearing these
mentioned. f. X Whiting OF owat-
onna. Mimi, said he knew Clyde Far
mer who formerly lived in his town 1
l.. w. Moore OF Hume. said that his
town had sent to US the two Merris /,
familes-and that is quite bunch,
too. W. f. Mayhall, of Bowling
Green said that his town had given
us the J. NJ. Beatty and Cissna fami-
lies-both good families, as The Rec
ord knows very well. having had boys
from both families in our circulation
department c. VI. Harrison. now OF
Sedalia, knew Ben Rea, over at Gal
latin. and be gave Ben a good charac-
ter and said that he went away volun-
tarily. because Colorado was better
state than Missouri
j. T. Hull. of Marysvillc, was an
old friend of Col G. T. Crozier of Gal
latin and was glad to hear OF him.
John w. Jacks OF Montgomery knew
Arch White, one OF our former num-