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The column described a Castle Rock Town action that was taken twenty
years earlier in 1881, and was signed by Mayor Irving S. Morse and George A. Triplett, Recorder. Let’s revisit what was happened on July 2, 1881. President James Gar eld had been shot and would live for 79 days before succumbing to his injuries. Throughout the nation the shooting had
a depressing e ect and the celebration of the Fourth was less boisterous than usual.
However, on July 4, 1881, some people in Castle Rock celebrated in a very enthusiastic manner so on the following evening at a regular monthly meeting of the town board, an ordinance was introduced and passed relating to disturbance. It prohibited among other
things, violent, tumultuous, or oppressive conduct; ghting; disturbing any lawful assembly of people; discharging any rearm without reasonable cause and provided that whoever should be found
in a state of intoxication in any street
or public place would be guilty of a misdemeanor. Research determined that this ordinance approved on July 5, 1881 remained e ective as of the date of the column!
Triplett was also an entrepreneur.
The Castle Rock Journal, dated September 27, 1892, ran a story about the enterprising rm of Geo. A. Triplett & Co. commissioning a ne stone building at the corner of 3rd and Wilcox to be built by W.H. Whitney, Jr. The building would
These initials were found where Triplett worked as a telegraph operator.
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CASTLE ROCK HISTORY