El Paso County Pioneers’ Association116 Years 1896 - 2012

The Pioneer Courier February 2012 Vol. I8, No.1

Board Member Elections

Board of Directors* to be elected Feb. 24, 2012

*Chrys Fotenos - President 632-9179

cfotenos@msn.com

Marjorie Swearingen Erickson - Vice President

314-5991 teacupmejs@aol.com

*Jeannie Spring - Secretary 684-2377

jjsprig@hotmail.com

Betsy Shoup - Corr. Secretary 591-6517

bets1@comcast.net

Dwight Haverkorn - Historian 660-4665

dwightkorn@gmail.com

Peter Blaney - Programs 488-3419

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Diana Francese - Member at Large

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*Don Cesare - 591-0720

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Pioneer ProfilesPeople Places and Things in the Pikes Peak Region

Bob Russel by Dwight Haverkorn:

Robert Lee Russel,The Only Five Term District Attorney inColorado’s History.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri on 27 December1929, he was adopted shortly after birth by JohnHarold and Sara “Sadie” Lucille (Mayer) Russelof McPherson, Kansas. Upon reaching schoolage, he attended Lincoln Elementary inMcPherson through the seventh grade. He was acub and boy scout.

In 1942, with the family business struggling, hisfamily moved to Wichita, Kansas, where heattended 8 and 9 grades at the Rooseveltth th

Intermediate School. While in the intermediateschool Bob became interested in sports. Hewrestled and played football. Bob also became a

musician and whileplaying trumpet at theschool -- age 14 -- hejoined the musiciansunion.

1944, found the familyin Salina, Kansas,where Bob completedhis high school. During high schoolBob held the positionof 1 trumpet throughst

his graduation. During the summer of 1945, he

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Marjorie Erickson, Don Cesare, D iana Francese

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joined the John Paul Jones band and toured armybases in Oklahoma and Texas.

Summer of1947 the highschool bandplayed a musicconcert at theCityAuditoriumand a song hewrote,“MoonlightMelody” wasfeatured. During thesummers, hedid highwayconstruction,worked on therailroad as a“Gandy

Dancer,’ two summersworked in a lab that tested wheat and other grainsand also drove a beer truck.

From 1947 to 1951 he attended NebraskaUniversity, graduating with a BA degree with amajor in music.Joining the ROTC during his freshman year, hecommitted to two years service during his junioryear. After graduating, his military commitmentcame about. After basic training, he was assignedto a military police unit at Fort Gordon, Georgia. With the beginning of the Korean police action,Bob said the Korean conflict had an “. . . effect onme was profound and sobering. I no longer felt likea college boy playing military games. The war wasreal and I suddenly began to grow into a man.” Bobwas sworn in as a Second Lieutenant on 27 August1951.

While being a member of the military police he wasexposed to law courses. “. . . [T]he Army was awonderful teacher. I learned how to organize, giveand take orders, develop morale, accomplish a goal. I learned that regulations are important for an

organization, and what was good and bad andunnecessary.”

After leaving themilitary, Bobenrolled inGeorgeWashingtonUniversity lawschool. Duringhis time inWashington,D.C., Bob metGloria JeanetteGile, who hedated and married on the03 February1955 at St. PetersCatholic Church. March 1956, Robert Lee Russel, Jr. was born andBob graduated from law school that May. A jobwith the U.S. Justice Department, administrativedivision was obtained. It meant that the Russelfamily had to move to Lexington, Kentucky. Thework consisted of auditing the U.S. Marshal’sbooks as the paymaster for the Federal Courts. Over the next few years some more children wereadded to the family and the family moved aboutthe southeastern part of the country.

The Russel family was found in Colorado Springsby June 1958 and Bob passed the Colorado Bar in1959. Bob worked in private practice until 1962when he joined the 4 Judicial District Attorney’sth

Office as a part-time deputy prosecutor. By thetime of the Republican primary in 1964, Bob ranfor and was elected to his first term as the DistrictAttorney; a position that he held for another fourterms (twenty years).

When Russel was initially elected as DistrictAttorney, the 4 Judicial District consisted of Elth

Paso, Kit Carson, Lincoln and Teller counties. Since that time the 4 Judicial District nowth

consists of El Paso and Teller counties bythemselves. Russel’s first appointments to theDistrict Attorney’s office were chief trial deputy,

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Thomas D. Gresham and as assistant districtattorney, Robert M. Isaac. For several years theoffice did not have its own investigator, so it wasannounced that that position would be filled byRichard H. Schackenberg, a former Colorado StatePatrol officer.

Russel during histerms broadenedthe duties andresponsibilities ofthe DistrictAttorney’s Officeby starting aneconomic crimedivision, juvenileprosecution section,juvenile diversionprogram, welfarefraud unit, victimwitness unit,neighborhoodjustice center and a

regional check fraud unit. In the twenty years ofRussel’s service the local community grew from apopulation of about 100,000 to 400,00, and withthis growth came more work for the courts andDA’s office.

Over the twenty years of running the DistrictAttorney’s Office, Bob personally handled 29homicide cases and successfully obtainedconvictions in 22 of those cases. These includedcases such as the Allen Berg case in August of1965. Berg operated a Texaco filling station at thecorner of Bijou and Spruce streets, was shot in thehead killing him. He was successful in obtaining aconviction of the three men accused of killing Berg– John Major Young, Joseph Weldon Mitchell andNathan Whitmore.

October 22, 1970, Shirley Bessie Webb, a managerof an apartment complex took Edward AnthonyLowe to show an apartment. A few hours later thepolice were called to the complex where they foundShirley Webb dead and stuffed in a closet, strangledand possibly raped Again Bob Russel successfulyprosecuted Lowe and he was sent away for life.

December 12, 1971, found Anne Marie Heider, aColorado College student, who had beenkidnapped and taken into the nearby hills. Shewas shot in the leg and back, stripped of herclothes and left to die in the snowy, cold weather. John William Auld, was found, after he tried tocommit suicide. Russel wanted the death penalty,but the law had been found unconstitutional, andtherefore Auld was sentenced to life. Only inthose days life was not life. May 1, 1986, Auldwas released on parole.

Probably one of the most rememberedprosecutions involved six separate murders thatwere committed by the same two people. FortCarson soldiers Michael Corbett and FreddieGlenn, were convicted of killing Daniel HowardVanLone (June 19, 1975), Winford Proffitt (June27, 1975), Karen Elisa Grammar (July 1, 1975),Milton Abramson (July 2, 1975), WinslowDouglas Watson III (July 25, 1975) and RickyAlan Lewis (August 30, 1975).

Mr. VanLone was found on Janitell Road shot inthe head after being robbed – of 50 cents. WfordProffitt, was killed with a bayonet after he tried tobuy some marijuana from Corbett. Karen ElisaGrammar (younger sister of Kelsey Grammar –TV star) was found near a trailer park, after beingraped, stabbed, and crawling and dragging herselfalmost 800 feet looking for help before dying. The next day, a civilian cab driver on Fort Carson,Milton Abramson was found shot to death. Winslow Watson, was shot and his body dumpedin the 1300 block of Baylor Drive, a friend ofCorbett, because he had stolen a loaf of bread. Ricky Lewis was killed with a shotgun outsideBell’s Nightingale Night Club on East Las VegasStreet.

Corbett and Glenn were sentenced to die inColorado’s gas chamber, but the ColoradoSupreme Court overturned the death penalty inColorado and that would allow these two to applyfor parole on their then life sentences. But, everytime that Corbett or Glenn came up for parole,Bob Russel and Lou Smit, late CSPD detective

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would appear and testify why these two should notbe released.

Since Bob’s retirement, he has stayed active in theRepublican Party and also joined the board ofPILLAR, a local group that sponsors seminars, tripsand talks on behalf of senior citizens. Even thoughBob was over 80 years of age, it did not stop hislove for the trumpet, which he played in threedifferent local groups. He also, still put togethertalks for PILLAR about serial killers – such as TedBundy and some of the cases mentioned above.

March 2006, Bob was paid a tribute by thecommunity with the Professional Building, at thesoutheast corner of South Tejon Street and EastVermijo Avenue, just across the street from thecourt house, being named in his honor – The RobertL. Russel Professional Building.

Bob just celebrated his 82 birthday, thisnd

December.

We Salute You, Mr. District Attorney!

Bob died Wednesday, January 25, 2012_____

55 attended the November 18 2011 Meeting.Dwight Haverkorn “drove us around” automobile

development as seen here in Colorado Springs

THE EARLY AUTOMOBILEAND

THE PIKES PEAK REGION

By Dwight Haverkorn

Just before the turn of the century there hadnot been any motorized vehicles in the Pikes Peakregion. All transportation was by walking, animal(riding or pulling a conveyance), or the train.However, news was received in Colorado Springs

that Mr. E.J. Cabler of Denver, was planning ondriving a “horseless carriage” – under its ownpower all the way from Denver to Victor,Colorado. The vehicle was a wooden longwagon, with a gasoline engine installed under thewagon body. The wagon was designed by Mr.Cabler, but was constructed by Robert Temple ofthe Temple machine company of Denver.

M r .C a b l e rw a sundertaking thist r i p ,with hiswife, to“ s h o wt h eautomobi l e

experts in Gotham and around the Atlantic coast,where roads are smooth and level, that a Coloradomanufactured automobile can go up a mile or twoof the Rocky Mountains without any troublewhatever.” Three a.m. Friday, July 21, 1899, Mr.Cabler, his wife and Robert Temple left Denverwith about 1,000 pounds of baggage, consisting oflunches, wearing apparel, tents, etc. The vehiclewas a four-wheel, wagon with solid rubber tiresand a double cylinder engine. It weighed about2,000 pounds empty and was capable of carrying14 people. The gas tank carried six gallons offuel. He learned on the hills that the vehicles fuelconsumption increased dramatically, and they ranlow on fuel much quicker that he had anticipated.

Twelve hours after leaving Denver, theyhad traveled as far south as Perry Park (a fewmiles north of Palmer Lake) where they had towire to Colorado Springs for gasoline be put onthe train and transported to Perry Park. Thesupply of gasoline did not reach Cabler untilSaturday night. Leaving Sunday morning theyarrived in Colorado Springs at about 4 p.m. Thevehicle drew a crowd of people who were curious

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about the mechanism. However, it should be notedthat even though this was quite an event, there wasvery little media coverage of the event, in the localpress or Denver’s. The following morning thegroup loaded the “horseless carriage” and madetheir way to Victor, Colorado, via Ute Pass.

January 5, 1900 a local newspaper wrotethat two people in Colorado Springs were owners of“machines” and a third was on order. The firstmachine was homemade by W.O. Anthony, of 1810Lincoln Avenue. The second vehicle was ownedby Mr. George D.B. Bonbright. It had just arrivedtwo days earlier and was manufactured by theStanley Automobile Company. Weighing only 700pounds and was “capable of running at a high rateof speed.” The third vehicle ordered by Mr. JohnMorgan Booth, was a Locomobile. The firstvehicle was gasoline powered and the other twosteam powered.

An interesting side note is theowner/operators of the Stanley AutomobileCompany. The owners, identical twins F.E. andF.O. Stanley of Kingfield, Maine, had attended a“horseless carriage” show at Brockton,Massachusetts in 1896 that featured just one newauto. That one car during a demonstration at thefairgrounds could not complete a lap around thetrack without stopping. The forty-somethingbrothers were so impressed they sold their currentbusiness so they could build autos. They sold theirphotographic plate business to a man by the nameof George Eastman who coined the name “Kodak”and founded that historic firm.

By 1898 the brothers had a vehicle ready forsale to the public. Their business was verysuccessful. They were so successful, that John B.Walker, tried to buy the brothers out. They werenot interested in selling to anyone, but wereconstantly being hounded by Walker. So one daythe brothers decided the only way to stop thisconstant harassment was to tell Walker that theywould require a ridiculous amount for the business.The Stanley’s told Walker they wanted a quarter ofa million dollars. The Stanley’s knew that Walker

did not have that kind of money and felt they weresafe. However, Walker was very determined, andfound additional investors and purchased thecompany from the Stanley’s and included a clauseforbidding the Stanley’s from competing for aperiod of two years.

Walker formed the Locomobile company,which also produced steam powered cars.Walker’s car looked very similar to the StanleySteamer, but was not as well engineered orconstructed as the Steamer. After two years, theStanley brothers again started building the StanleySteamer in 1901 and continued for another 25years.

On September 10, 1900, an article ran inthe Colorado Springs Gazette, entitled“Automobile Livery Ready for Business.” (Thefirst auto rental in Colorado was in ColoradoSprings). The article started out:

“Do you ever feel automobilious?

If so and you want to rent an automobilefor an hour or half-day or a day, all you have todo is to go to D. Bernard’s livery stable on EastCucharras Street. Mr. Bernard now runs an“automobiliary” or whatever the right name maybe for a livery stable at which automobiles are putout to rent.”

The reporter learned to drive one of theautomobiles in about 30 minutes. The three carsavailable for renting were electric powered andwere advertised to last about 45 miles. Thereporter said: “I tested this road wagon the otherday and the battery held up strong for 72 miles!”The three electrics were manufactured by theAmerican Bicycle Company.

At this time the population of Colorado Springswas about 25,000.

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During 1901, Dr. William W. Anthonypurchased a 1901 curved dash Oldsmobile.Ransom Eli Olds was the first mass producer ofgasoline automobiles in the U.S. He also produceda small number of electric vehicles, but little isknown about the electrics and none are known tohave survived. By 1903 there were auto adventurerseverywhere and the automobile magazine industrywas started. During June a race across the countryfrom California to New York was set. One of thevehicle companies that decided to compete was thePackard Car Company. They took one of theirModel F vehicles from stock, modified it byremoving the fenders, installing a larger gas tankthen shipped the car to the west coast for the 5,000mile trip across the country. Tom Fetch, thePackard plant foreman and test driver would pilot

the vehicle. Alsotraveling with themwas N.O. Allyard,company mechanicand Marius Krarupof New York, theed it o r o f “TheA u t o m o b i l e , ”leading automotivepublication.

With the rearwheels in the PacificOcean, they left fromSan Francisco onJune 20, 1903. Theytook a route across

the Continental Divide which would take themthrough Colorado Springs. The car arrived inColorado Springs on July 20 , 30-days after theirth

start. They only drove on 22 of the 30 days sincethe race began. Between San Francisco andColorado Springs, it is estimated that Mr. Kraruptook almost 400 photographic plates.

The other vehicle, a Winton, was being driven byAlexander Winton. He took the northern routewhich would take him along a route that ThePackard continued north to Denver, where the drive

gears were changed with a set that would allowfor more speed since they would not be crossingany more mountains on the remainder of the trip.The Packard finished the trip in New York,without suffering a major mechanical failure.Today the Packard, known as “Old Pacific,” isstill on display at the Packard Museum, atWarren, Ohio.

July 30, 1903 a parade was formed on thatThursday, beginning in front of the Antler’s Hotelshortly before 10 o’clock. The purpose of theparade was to allow photographs to be taken withwhich to advertise Colorado Springs. O.L. Foster,photographer for the Rock Island Railroad andHarry Hale Buckwalter, a well-known motion-picture man, stationed themselves near ColoradoCollege. The parade contained 20 different makesand styles of cars. It is believed there were about75 vehicles in the parade and a crowd of 10,000people watched the parade.

Not everyone was excited about thesenewfangled mechanical behemoths, which createdterrible odors, were noisy and unreasonably fast.By August 1903 the City believed thatautomobiles were a threat to the public andrequired regulation, so ordinance No. 652 waspassed by Council.

The ordinance inpart said:

It shall beunlawful forany Chauffeur,driver or otherperson drivingor in charge ofany automobile

or motor vehicle propelled by electricity,steam, gasoline or other sources of energy, onany street, avenue, parkway or driveway withinthe fire limits, to drive the same at a greaterrate of speed than six (6) miles per hour, orwithin the city limits at a greater speed than ten(10) miles per hour, or to pass any street

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intersection, or to turn any corner when anypedestrian or any vehicle is near or on suchintersection, or corner, or at any place where anyperson may be entering or leaving any street carat any street intersection, at a rate of speedgreater than five (5) miles per hour.

* * *Every vehicle shall display in plain sight, on

the back a number, not less than three inches.The owner of each automobile must pay anannual license fee of five ($5.00) dollars, uponpayment the City Clerk will assign a number tothe vehicle. (It is up to the owner to make anappropriate sign).

* * *Violations of this ordinance shall, for the first

offense, be punished by a fine of not less thanOne Hundred ($100.00) dollars, not more thanTwo Hundred ($200.00) dollars, and for eachand every subsequent offense, be punished by afine of not less than Three Hundred ($300.00)dollars and shall stand committed to City Hall orother place provided by said City, for a periodnot exceeding ninety (90) days, until such fineand costs of said proceedings shall be paid infull.

The Gazette wrote on August 16, 1903: “Colorado City is to have a hospital with an

automobile ambulance.”‘An ambulance has been purchased and will belettered “The Colorado City EmergencyAmbulance.” It will be the first automobileambulance in this section of the country and willbe one of the finest in the state. It is for use inColorado Springs and Manitou, as well asColorado City, and will be all white, with mirrorplate panels.”

The Evening Telegraph wrote on August 17,1903:

THE “RIDER AND DRIVER” HAS ACOLORADO SPRINGS STORY

Automobiling in Colorado Springs and theproposed automobile boulevard are attractingattention throughout the East. The last issue ofThe Rider and Driver and Outdoor Sport, ofNew York and Chicago, which reached hereyesterday, gives a full-page illustration of therecent automobile parade, and an articleentitled “The Growth of Automobiling inColorado.” The photograph, which isreproduced in excellent style, shows the longline of horseless pleasure vehicles on NorthCascade. In the article accompanying theillustration, Henry Russell Wray, the authorsays:

“Colorado Springs has been noted in thepast as a city capable of producing uniqueflower carnivals, horse shows, golf and polomatches and coursings. The latest sportingevent at the ‘Newport of the Rockies,’ was anautomobile parade on July 30. That such anevent was attractive may be easily proven bythe accompanying illustrations, coupled withthe fact that a population of 30,000 peoplemaintain about 70 automobiles.

C.A. Yont and W.B. Felker sit in the

Locomobile at the cog Summit House on

top of Pikes Peak. Cog tracks are visible at

right. Photo identified on back. Courtesy

PPLD

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“The highways through and suburban toColorado Springs are the best natural roads inAmerica. This fact, at first a surprise to theenthusiastic rider, driver and automobilist, laterhas been the means of bringing to thecosmopolitan city some of the best horse fleshand foreign and American made machines.

June 1905 the City Council had amended thecity speeding ordinance by enacting OrdinanceNo. 689. The City raised the fire limits speed to12 miles per hour and the city limits speed to 18miles per hour. Also, reduced the speeding finesfrom $100.00 dollars to $5.00 and the maximumto $50.00 from $200.00. For continuedviolations the minimum was dropped to $25.00

f r o m$ 2 0 0 . 0 0and t hemaximumto $100.00f r o m$300 . 00 .A n e wprovisionw a sin c lu d e dt h a tr e q u i r e d

every driver to be examined by a board of three– consisting of Chief of Police, Member ofCouncil and a Member of the Colorado SpringsAutomobile Club. Successful examinationwould see the issuance of a driver’s license forthe payment of $0.50.

The Pikes Peak Library District in the localhistory section has a 1906 license issued to A.W.Marksheffel which was issued on November 30,1906, license No. 245. September 7, 1907,found Mr. Marksheffel in the headlines of thelocal news. The Evening Telegraph:

THREE DEAD; FIVE INJURED INAUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

Dead: William H. Ralston, John S. Gray, H.WInnall

Injured: Britton Graves, Frank H. Ward,Philip Aherane, George Buckley and Mr.Wheelock.

Arthur Marksheffel, driving his 40 hp Ford,2-seater, had been at the Elks Club earlier inthe evening with friends and had driven somefriends home. As he came back by the ElksClub, downtown Colorado Springs, he sawmore friends just leaving. He convinced themto “pile on” and take a ride to Manitou.

This was about 1 a.m. After some partyingin Manitou, which took about 45 minutes to anhour, his friends – totaling 8 – all climbed intoand on the vehicle for the trip back to ColoradoSprings.

Remember this was a 2-seat vehicle. Oneman was sitting on the hood, one on the leftrunning board, one on the right running board,two people in the right seat, one was on thefloor board, and it is unsure as the location ofthe remaining passengers. As the vehicletraveled through Colorado City, a policeofficer yelled for the vehicle to stop, becausethe officer estimated the vehicle was travelingover 60 miles per hour in the city where thespeed limit was 12 mph. The car did not stop,but continued careening east on ColoradoAvenue. As the car passed – what we know as8 Street – Colorado Springs mounted policeth

officer, Henry Cornell, yelled a warning to thevehicle which he estimated “was traveling amile a minute” as it passed his location. Theofficer spurred his horse to give pursuit, butseconds later the car was unable to negotiatethe dogleg left turn of the road, crossed theright side of the roadway, crossing the waterditch, and striking a telephone pole directlywith the front of the vehicle. The car was spuncompletely around facing back west.Marksheffel was charged with manslaughter –but the charges were dismissed – by the judge,because the prosecution did not prove thatMarksheffel was the driver.

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By 1913, the state of Colorado hadstarted regulating the licensing of vehiclesand issuing driver’s licenses.

February 1924, found the City ordering its firsttraffic signal at the cost of $525. It was to beinstalled at the intersection of Nevada and PikesPeak avenues. It was thought would help with theterribly heavy tourist traffic downtown. Thedevice had a revolving head. It was designed tohave a red signal facing opposite directions on thehead and on the other two sides, it would contain agreen light. The red light was labeled “STOP”and the green “GO.” The seven foot tall signalwas installed on a Saturday morning for testing.However the first thing that happened, was it wasfound the cast iron base was so wide that thetrolleys could not pass by the light. It was takendown and the base trimmed and reinstalled.

From those times of new automotiveadventures our Little London has grown to a cityof almost 15 times the 1903 population of 30,000to over 415,000; and from 75 automobiles to a citywith over 260,000.

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K Breakfast 7

Co. Sp. High School AlumniEagle Room

9:39 am Saturday, February 11th

Bob Smith will tell us about “Early Radio in Co. Sp.”

Please do remember to pay your Dues to the

El Paso County Pioneers’Association.

It is more important than ever for thisorganization to remain vital! It is foryou and the preservation of theHistory of this hundred and sixteenyear old organization/Association.

New and Renewing Members 2012 Many Thanks! You keep us as a strong voice

for the Pioneers Museum

Regular Members

Mr & Mrs J. H. HaverkornMr Terry ShattuckMs Larilyn WentzMrs Pauline Locke

Contributing Members

Rosemary AultMr & Mrs Bill Baker

Peter N. BlaneyLorena & Dona Bymaster

Mrs Marion R CodyMs Roberta Edwards

Diana FranceseSusan Gilliland

Judy & Bill GriffinDr & Mrs Fred Gydesen

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Contributing Members

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Dick & Mary Starsmore HahnMr & Mrs Jack P Shoup

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Colorado College, to publish thisnewsletter/notice of meeting and to help buy

books for the library in the StarsmoreResearch Center at the Pioneers Museum.

MONUMENT DONORS

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Seen at our November luncheon:

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Dick Hahn

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Notice of Meeting and Luncheon Reservation Sheet

The February 24 meeting of the El Paso County Pioneers’ Association will be held at the Eagles Hall,1040 South 21 Street., South of Colorado Ave. and the Hwy. 24 Bypass st

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