Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1908 — Keeping House in Colorado. [ARTICLE]

Keeping House in Colorado.

Mrs. M. H. Hemphill and daughter, Mrs. Frank Alter, of this city, and cousin, Mrs. Emma Rouse, of Columbus, Ohio, who left here last Thursday morning, arrived at Manitou, Colo., Friday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock. Mrs. Rouse bad been there before and they found but little dlficulty in securing apartments in which to do light house-keeping. All are there for their health and they expect to remain until March or possibly April Before their arrival there had been a foot of snow but it had all disappeared. Manitou is only a few miles from Colorado Springs. They found things to be quite expensive in the provision line there, fresh eggs being 50 cents a dozen or cold start age eggs at 35 cents.