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SIX A LITTLE TRIP DOWN EAST I like to go down east once in a while; it makes me much better sat isfied with Canon City, If indeed, any thing were needed to do that. For some years I have taken every oppor tunity to see the most favored sec tions of this country and I have never yet seen any town or any climate that I thought half as desirable for a place of residence as Canon City. I say this after having considerable knowledge of Florida, Southern Cali fornia and Old Mexico in winter months and many of the northern states in the summer time. As for cli mate, I firmly believe that we have absolutely the best on earth. * * * A recent trip down Into Kansas, Mis souri, Southern Illinois and Kentucky was not taken, however, in search of climate —that is a good climate. I had a good and sufficient reason for seek ing a damp climate for a few weeks and I certainly was not disappointed. I found little but dampness. It be gan raining about the time we crossed the line into Kansas and it kept it up till we crossed the line back into Colo rado Thursday morning. For two weeks the sun was hidden behind clouds and mists and most of the time the rain was falling in torrents. The season is very backward all through the middle states and the damage to crops will be about as great in those sections as the freeze has been to the fruit growers of Colorado. • * * Some people think that whenever a newspaper man takes a trip he rides on a pass, but I want to say in passing that if such was ever the case it is sadly not true this year. The news paper man and the politicians are on the same footing -with other people these days and all have to plank down the cash when a trip is taken outside of his own state. And I like it. I used to take trips in those directions of least resistance but now I go where I please and pay the regular rates. I never did believe in the pass system and will be glad to see the day when not a single pass is issued by any railroad to any person in any state. ♦ * * And so do I like the 2-cent fare now in vogue in the middle states. In Kansas, Missouri and Illinois the 2- cent fare rules. It’s mighty nice. I started out to go to Lexington but in tended to stop at some points between. I did not buy a through ticket but bought a ticket from point to point, paying fare no less than twenty-two times on the short trip. And yet it cost little more than the round trip rate would have been. The 2-cent rate may have worked a hardship on the roads the first year but I believe it will be a benefit in the long run as people are beginning to feel that travel is and will run about more. * * * 1 visited half a dozen towns in Southern Illinois, some of which I had been in before and where T had friends of long ago. Things are prosperous down there, for that country, but they do not have the snap and go of this western country. Everywhere it was rainy and muddy. It always seems to be rainy and muddy down there and A tag from a 10-cent piece will count FULL value A tag from a 5-cent piece will count HALF value Tobacco with valuable tags Save your tags from HORSE SHOE TINSLEY’S 16-OZ. STANDARD NAVY GRANGER TWIST Spear Head OM Henaaty Jelly Tar W. N. Tlmiey’a BrMa Mt Old Statesman Sailor’s Pride Black Bear Bg Feur Eglantine Pick Matter Workman 0M PMMI Ivy Tenpenny A T. Tags from the above brands are good for the following and many Other useful presents as shown by catalog: Gold Cuff Buttons —50 Tags Steel Carving Set —200 Tags Fountain Pen —100 Tags Best Steel Shears —75 Tags English Steel Razor—so Tags Lady’s Pocket book—so Tags Gentleman’s Watch—2oo Tagjp Pocket Knife—4o Tags French Briar Pipe—so Tags Playing Cards—3o Tags Leather Pocketbook —80 Tags CO-yd. Fishing Reel —60 Tags Many merchants have supplied themselves with presents with which to redtem tags. If you cannot haws your tags redeemed at hom* write IPR*M««J|» Q§f»AftTME«T I THE JMMU'WKV TOB*QC© CO., **. Uuto, Mo. ————aaganag —i.r’a-i aaaaaa———I the people haven't gotten the good roads movement started to any notice able extent. A great many years ago I taught school out In a little country village a dozen miles from my county seat home. For about eighteen years I have been going back occasionally, always with the intention of driving out to that country school district to see the old school house and some of the husky farmers and their wives who learned the multiplication tables under my direction but I have never yet found, the roads in driving condi tion. I remember well having walked the distance and in a rainstorm and the mud so deep that it was fathomless —but that was years ago before Colo rado sunshine and Colorado roads had spoiled me for enjoying even such a drive. ♦ * * Speaking of drives in the rain, the cheapest I ever took was over at Ol ney one night this week. I had been out to dinner und a heavy rain kept me late. About midnight I called a cab to take me to the hotel. The charge was just 15 cents —and the ser vice was first class. * * * This is a good season of the year to visit Lexington, Ky. Never do the blue grass farms look so beautiful as now. There are thousands and thou sands of acres of farms as perfectly set to blue grass and as beautiful as any Canon City lawn. The farm houses are all large and comfortable and the farmers look prosperous. Another charm about this section is its excellent country roads. All the principal roads have been macadamiz ed and are as good for travel as city pavements. It had been raining here the same as in Southern Illinois but country travel was as easy and pleas ant as on the streets of Denver. Ken tucky never made any better invest ment than the money she has spent for her macadamized roads. * * * I was off at Emporia, Kansas for a day and found it to be a mighty fine Kansas town. It is about twice as big as Canon City and perhaps three times as good in a business way, ow ing to the rich farming country all about it. It has paved streets and a good city park. Emporia has only one daily newspaper. The business men of Emporia like those of Atchison and other Kansas cities have found that one daily paper will serve them bet ter than two or three at a half or a third the cost and they will not as sist in building up another. The papers of Emporia and Atchi son have circulations equal to the pa pers of Pueblo and Colorado Springs. They serve their towns well and they deserve the exclusive fields they en joy. * * • Emporia is the home of William Al len White, the versatile book and mag azine writer. Mr. White is the editor and publisher of the Emporia Gazette. He is an ideal country editor, and a mighty good fellow. Fat and fair, jol ly, sunny-natured, kind-hearted, easy of approach, always ready with a glad hand and a kind smile for all who call. The chances are when you meet him if you are from out of town the first thing he will suggest is to THE CANON. CITY RECORD. THURSDAY. lIAY 14. 1908 take you down to hla home and "fill you full of groceries.” Mr. White has written much for Mc- Clure's Magazine and for the Satur day Evening Post, and three books have been popular sellers —The Court of Boyville, Strategem and Spoils, and In Our Town. He writes much about the class of people we know In every day life and does It well. G. U. H. MEETING OF THE BOARD OF Y. M. C. A. DIRECTORS A meeting of the members of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. was held Thursday and several mat ters relating to the work of the local organization discussed. State Secre tary G. S. Bilheimer was present and took part in the deliberations of the occasion. The matter of the Star course entertainments next winter was considered, but no definite action taken in relation to it. Although the association succeeded in making the Star course a financial success last year fears have been expressed that it would not be able to do so this sea son and rather than risk it several of the members of the directorate were in favor of its abandonment. The board at its meeting Thursday voted to grant Secretary Gray’s request for a three months’ vacation this sum mer. COUNCIL AUTHORIZES NEW SIDEWALK DISTRICT At a regular adjourned meeting of the city council Thursday a resolu tion was adopted accepting Earle’s & Raynolds addition to Canon City and authorizing the creation of sidewalk and grading district in that portion of the community as prayed for in its petition filed with the city clerk last week by A. H. McLain. Charles L. Mitton was employed as engineer to make a map of the pro posed district and a schedule showing the approximate amount assessed up on the several lots, or parcels of prop erty, within the boundaries of the con templated district. All of the mem bers of the council were present, ex cept Alderman Reeves and Lamb. DESERTERS ON THEIR WAY TO LEAVENWORTH PRISON Nine prisoners, most of thenr desert ers from the 21st infantry, United States army, passed through here yes terday under guard of Sergeant Ben ton and six soldiers en route from Fort Douglas, Utah, to the military prison at Leavenworth, Kansas. The 21st infantry, which is at presbnt sta tion at Fort Douglas, holds the world’s record for file shooting and almost every man in the regiment wears a medal for prowess at sharp shooting. The regiment was recently brought back from the Philippines where t has been for a number of years and many of the men, having been in ser vice since the war with Spain, at tempted to take advantage of their return to the United States to escape from the routine of army life. CANAL FROM ROYAL GORGE TO FOUNTAIN Amended maps and claims for flood water of the North Mesa canal were filed in the office of the county clerk recently by A. B. Wilson of Denver. The survey and maps are made by Hydraulic Engineer Edward S. Shell. The headgate is located on the south bank of the Arkansas river in the Royal Gorge. The depth of the canal is seven and a half feet on the bottdm and fifty feet at the top. A grade*" of thirty feet pdr 1,000 will be maintain ed the entire length of the cahal.which is 85.96 miles ahd traverses the coun ties of Fremont, Pueblo and El Paso, terminating at Fountain creek. The lands to be irrigated consist of 150,000 acres in townships 17, 18 and 19 and 20 south, ranges 63 to 70 in clusive. The carrying capacity of the canal is 1,000 cubic feet per geoond, for which claim is made for irrigation power and domestic purposes. The canal will cross a number of creeks in its course, and a headgate will be placed in each of these creeks for securing flood waters. The esti mated cost of the enterprise is $1,000,- 000. , Work on the plans and surveys be gan December 20, 1906, and has pro gressed as rapidly as possible, consid ering the magnitude of the undertak ing. This is the canal which was lo cated in the survey of the State canal No. 1, on which the state spent ap proximately $200,000 before aban doing the project. COMMISSIONERS MAKE AUTO TRIP TO SILVER CLIFF Messrs. Albert Phjlipp, W. H. La Grange and S.,G. Kelso of the board of county commissioners were guests of Charles R. McLain in an automobile trip to Silver Cliff and return Thurs day. The trip was for the purpose of inspecting the road from here into the Wet Mountain valley byway of Eight Mile Park, Parkdale and Copper Gulch, which has for a long time es caped official recognition. The start was made from Canon City at 9 o’clock yesterday morning and the run to Sil ver Cliff was made in good time. A short conference was held #ith the members of the board of commission ers of Custer county in relation to road matters and the party arrived here on the return trip at 7 o’clock p. m. As a result of the day’s outing the commissioners were convinced of the necessity of doing something to improve the road between here and Silver Cliff via Parkdale and the mat ter will be taken up at once. Mr. Philip stated this morning that the heaviest expense connected *with the proposition would be between Canon City and Parkdale, but that the work was needed and was fully justified by the amount of travel which passed over it. Some work would be required in the vicinity of Devil’s Gap and some between Eight Mile park and the river. He said that fifty dollars would put the road in good condition between Parkdale and the Custer county line. It is reported that the Custer county authorities are willing to look after their end of the road. FISHING SEASON OPENS FIRST OF NEXT MONTH The trout Ashing season In Colorado will open the Arst of June, but only the streams in the lower altitude will be available at that time, the others being chocked with snow and Ice. There will not be a great deal Ashing in the Gunnison and Its tributaries until the middle of next month, or the Arst of July. The game laws of this state provide that the open season for trout not less than seven Incheß in length shall begin June 1 and end November 30 next ensuing, and In no instance shall Ashing bfe done between the hours of 10 p. m. and 4 a. m. There shall be no closed season on any kind of Ash except trout. The right given by this section to take Ash is limited to food pur poses only. The amount Is limited to 20 pounds of trout for each person In any one calendar day, and no person shall be allowed to have in his pos session at any one time more than 25 pounds of trout. The World's Best Climate la not entirely free from dlaeaae, on the high elevations fevers prevail, while on the lower levels malaria Is encountered to a greater or less ex tent, according to the altitude. To prevent climate affections, lassitude, malaria. 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Towler & Stockton Bros Complete Ootfittcra to Men and Boys an; ■ ■■■• ~ ~ 1 LARGER SUGAR PRODUCTION PREDICTED FOR COLORADO There is nothing apparently In eight to prevent Colorado from rapidly In creasing her eugar output from $16,- 000,000 to $30,000,000 or even $60,- 000,000. If we had produced the lat ter quantity this year It would hard ly have reduced the price at all. We have the noil, the water and the cli mate, and only need new factories to enable us to quadruple our present product in one season. In spite of world-wide depression, sugar is booming. Cotton has declined S2O a bale since fall, solely on account of diminished consumption. Neither a I Perfect Coffee Can easily be made by anyone al any time without fire, flame | £ or fuM by u.ing« GENERAL ELECTRIC COFFER PER- * £ COLATOR. I 1 Safe, Practical, Clean ' > PERCOLATION produce* a delicious and healthful bev- j J y erage, extracting only the delicate aroma and desirable palatable j J jS ingredients of the coffee bean, leaving the tannin and other harm- j * jm ful properties behind. * a The electric method requires NEITHER KNACK NOR i £ jB LUCK, as a definite amount of coffee percolated a definite time j » 5 gives a definite result every time. | • $ General Electric Percolators are THE ACME OF CON* J • jS VENIENCE, as they will operate on the ordinary lighting J i circuit and may therefore be used on the dining room table or j » wherever convenient to an electric outlet. ] » By simply turning a switch percolation will proceed with- j m » out further attention. , | a ; COST OF OPERATION—6 CUPS FOR i CENT If you uao Electric Light# you caa um Kloctrte Huut# j » The Colorado Electric Light j & Power Company | PIMM Canon 4S OflW* l|3 North PMU» • haj) there been any shortage In the an nual output of sugar of all the pro ducing countries In the world. The recent abandonment by tha American Sugar company of Its pol icy of secrecy has been followed by an extraordinary advance of 28 per cent In the price of Its stock during the past four months. The American beet sugar stock has advanced about 13 per cent and fed eral sugar KS per cent In the same period. The past year the American Sugar company distributed per cent of Ita common stock, but earned over 12 per cent. A large part of these proflte came from the sugar factories In Ool orado, which It owns Indirectly.