The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-08-17

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r. c. MELTON TO FLORENCE.
r. c. Melton made business visit
to Florence this omrning.
GUESTS OF MR.. AND MRS. WEBB.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roe Webb of India
napolis. Ind. are guests Of Dr. and
Mrs. E. c. Webb OF s31 Harrison ave-
nue..
n. J. CRAIG TO DENVER.
County Assessor H. ]. Craig went to
Denver this morning to look after
some personal business matters which
require his attention.
KANSAS FOLKS HERE
FOR SEVERAL DAYS
DR.. and Mrs. c. H. Miller and C. E.
Gotham and wife all Of Oakley. Kas.,
have been visiting in the city several
days. They were going thru in their
cars but they liked it SO wen here
that they decided to stay longer than
was nrst intended.
ARRIVED FROM OKLAHOMA.
Mrs. 8. L. Shooley of Tulsa, Okla.
arrived Wednesday afternoon and is
visiting her grandmother. Mrs. Cisson,
Of Rudd avenue. Mrs. Shooley will
perhaps be better remembered by her
friends as Miss Zella LleweIlyn. for
merly OF Canon City. She will be
here for several weeks.
CLINT SHERMAN HERE FROM
THE DISTRICT
Clint W. Sherman came down from
Cripple Creek Wednesday with his
brother. Howard Sherman, who is
now proprietor of Brick Wilson's auto
stage line to the district Sherman has
been in possession of this line for a
week or two and has made several
trips. The boys are living at the Nc
Clure House.
LOT PATE FINED
FOR DRUNKENNESS
Lot Pate. a colored youth of the
city was arrested by Chief Skinner
Sunday for drunkenness He was
hailed before Police Magistrate Dave
Houston on Monday and was fined 81
and costs which he paid. This is the
hrst case of this kind Canon police
circles have experienced in many
months.
JOE NEWMAN ON oRPHEuM
CIRCUIT.
The many friends here of Joe New
man, the great entertainer and i'm
presario. will be glad to hear that he
is TO join the Orpheum circuit in
September. He has had a number Of
fattering offers OF late but the prop
osition OF the orpheum managers
looked the best to him. Newman is
widely known In the RockyMountain
region He has been in Canon City
many times. mostly under the aus
pices Of the Elks
Low WATER MARK AT PENITEN-
TiARV.
The COUNT today at the penitentiary
is 7i0 which is the lowest il has been
in years. 1t is just lo9 lower than IL
was year ago at this time and the
authorities credit the decrease to the
prohibition law. There are not so
many coming in and the average num-
Der going out more than Offsets what
do enter SO the decrease is an easy
matter
LEWIS HOME FROM KANSAS.
]. J. Lewis OF Lincoln Park re-
turned home the other day from
three weeks visit with his father and
mother at bis old home in Great Bend,
Kan While Mr.. Lewis says that part
of the country appears TO be in a
rrosi erous condition. everything was
ya-y dry. having had no rain since
June 1s.h. He says the wheat crop
is good. bu; the corn is nearly all
burned W. Mr.. Lewis visits Great
Bend neari, every year.
LESSON IN CIVIC IMPROVE.
MENT.
Truman Stockton. or Bill Kutzleb or
Rex Dickson are responsible for an
excellent lesson in Civic Improvement
This report doesn't know which one
IL is but one of them is gently nurs-
ing baby tree out in the back alley
of the GalleSStockton shoe store
II is understood that they or one of
them. is planning on laying out a
miniature park to rival the state park
Another story is that one of them has
ambitions TO be a landscape gardener.
MORRISON BOYS CATCH BIG
SNAKE.
Francis and Joseph Morrison this
morning killed a Red Racer on Gene
terry hill that measured five feet in
length. II was down in n little pnllv