The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-05-10
Chicago. May 4, 1s17.

Louis on the evening OF the IND ana
it has been raining ever since. This
morning a little snow was falling
with the rain but it melted as it fell.
The people are kicking about the rain
/, and say it will keep the farmers from
| planting corn on time. The farmers
are also badly hurt as to the wheat
/ crop. Over half the wheat fields of
Kansas and Illinois will be plowed up
and replanted to something else. This
means great waste of seed and labor
besides the loss OF crop. So the ap-
| pie crop at Canon City is not the
only crop sometimes damaged by the
! weather.
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Beginning at Florence all the way
to Chicago you see much activity in
the garden tracts. The campaign
of gardeners being carried on all over
| the country has had its effect.
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! In ST. Louis you see many soldiers
guarding public buildings, manufac-
turing plants, bridges and institutions.
st. Louis has large German popula-
ton. Several large districts have been
designated including most of the bus
mess section in which citizens of
enemy countries are forbidden to go
without special permit. A system
of paroles has been fixed up. A citizen
OF an enemy country of good record
I NAV oat on Amarinan citi1an IN stand
for his parole. The American citi-
zen gives good bond and guarantees
that the alien will keep peace and
will observe the regulations laid
down. Then the alien may 20 on
about his business in the usual way.
II would do the hearts of some of
my Canon City friends good to get
| into old st. Louis for a few hours
There are SO many places in which
one can get drink. ! was told there
are between $500 and 5000 places in
ST. Louis where liquor is sold.
y IS Is
] spent a day in Springfield, the
I capital of Illinois. renewing old mem
ories. Thirty years ago l had job
for about six months in the state
house here. l got S14 a week which
was big pay for a country boy of IA.
and it helped out greatly in the sup
port of family which needed the
money. But besides that I got lot
of valuable experience and some
ideas and l have many pleasant mem
ories of that six months in the Illinois
State Capitol.
The old capitol looks the same
only it isn't half so big. 1t used to
be the biggest building in the world
think. but it isn't now. 1t has
shrunk in size and height. But ii is
tne same old capitol, with hardly
another change.
have a friend here who Is the
present Secretary of State--L. il.
Emmerson of Mt Vernon. ILL., He is
cousin of Will, John and Frank EN-
merson of Canon City. He wanted
to show me around the Capitol but
| told him / didn't need guide.
could probably show him around bet
ter than he could me, as / am sure
] have been many places in that old
building that he will never CO. A
boy of IA or Is finds out many things
about building like that that the
men who run ii never see.
About the only change saw about
the Capitol was the cuspidors. They
now use the high vase-iike. modern
brass ones. We used 10 use the big
old-fashioned fiat squatty ones, like
Judge Waldo has in his office
Thirty years ago it was with no
small delight that showed my coun-
try friends around who came up to
see Tire capitol feel sure / was
faithful guide, always taking them
from the basement to the top of the
dome, and sometimes thru the hot tun
mel TO The beating plant across the
street. But marvellous as it all was,
believe that nothing interested my
friends from the little town down
state so much as tire modern plumb
ing. And as for the toilet paper
they tore it off by the yard for souve-
Mrs and wrote letters home on II.
There was time you know, when
everything was new.
In the Capitol is a museum in
which is kept many battle flags and
war trophies. There used to be lot
of confederate flags here but they
have been sent back South in ex-
change for flags the South had of