The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-02-15
News Notes
THURSDAY
MecARRoN FAMILY LEAVE.

Utah, where they will make their
home Mr.. McCarron will take charge
of one of the Golden Rule chain of
stores at that place.
PURCHASED CARLOAD OF SHEEP
Mr.. Fred Bean purchased of ]. r.
Dean a carload of sheep which were
unloaded at Florence Tuesday of this
farm at Wetmore. Colorado. Owing
to the high prices of wool and sheep
a lot of people are going into the
sheep business. Mr.. Dean has 1000
or more sheep for sale.
WARDEN lyman HAS AN
EXCELLENT WAR SCHEME
Denver, Feb. S.-Thomas lyman,
warden of the state penitentiary is
advocating the formation of a COM
pany of soldiers to be used in the Ger
man war. If composed of actors and
his convicts from the road camp, he
believes that two sets of men can
work together and besides they will
then have the stars and stripes unit
ed"
F.,H. HUBBARD BACK
FROM A LONG TRIP.
F. B. Hubbard of the Golden Rule.
who has been as far west as Salt
Lake and as far east as st. Louis in
the past few weeks, has returned to
Canon City. Mr.. Hubbard attended
the annual convention of the ]. c..
Penney store managers in Salt Lake
ing trip.
Enroute the special train on which
he was a passenger was caught in the
heavy Wyoming snow storm that
blocked the Union Pacific tracks for
SO many days.
w. c. T. u. WORKER
HERE ON FRIDAY.
Miss Winona r. Jewell of Salida,
president of the w. c. T. u. for the
twelfth district Of Colorado, will be
visitor in Canon City next Friday
and will address a called meeting
of the members of the local w. C. T.
u, and their friends at the Y. NJ. C.
A. building Friday afternoon. During
her stay here Miss Jewell will be the
guest of Mrs. NJ. L. Logan at 529 Pike
avenue.
BOY SCOUTS ANNIVERSARY.
meeting for all of the boys of the
city will be held at the Y. NJ. C. A. at
1880 o'clock this evening in celebra-
tion of the anniversary of the organi-
zation of the Boy Scouts. w. s. Hop
kins of Denver, state secretary of the
Y. M. C. A.. will be the principal
speaker of the evening. The gather
ing promises to be a very pleasant
one for all. Every boy in the commu-
nifty is invited TO be present.
FARMERS CLUB MEETING
WEDNESDAY EVENING
The regular meeting of the Four
Mile Farmers Club was held at the
Fruitmere school house at .7:30
o'clock Wednesday evening. There
was an interesting program of dis
cussion and entertainment to which
the public was invited. Among the
matters discussed were. THE Pure
Seed BILL Rural Credits" and 'The
Extension Work of the State Univer-
sity." r. r. Jeffries. county agricul-
turist. was one of the speakers. The
regular meeting of the Lincoln Park
Farmers club will take place at the
Mckinley school building this even
ing.
TO COLORADO SPRINGS.
Mr.. T. NJ. Simpson of the Simpson
Furniture Company and Mr.. Kenneth
Herman of the York Auto company,
spent Tuesday in Colorado Springs.
They returned TO this city this morn
ing. Mr.. Simpson accompanied the
remains of Mr.. John Leslie Doughty.
father of Mrs. Grove at Echo. Colo
RADIO. to Colorado Springs for burial.
Mr.. Doughty's home was near Colo
rado Springs. and 1t was during his
visit with his daughter at Echo that
he was taken Ill and died.
Mr.. Hermann spent most of his
time at the Marksheffel Auto Com
pany. The trip was made on Mr..
simpsons auto hearse.
REV. koNkEL HOME FROM
sALiDA
Rev Guy L. Konkel. pastor OF the
First Methodist church. returned to
Canon City on an early train We'd
nesday morning from Salida. where
he attended q conference OF Sunday
school workers Tuesday night. r.. T.
Albertson and d. d. Watson OF Dem
YER. who accompanied Rev Konkel