WESTERN NEW YORK NEWS
ONTARIO
Mrs. Henry L. LANSING, of Canandaigua, will give a reception to-morrow evening in honor of the coming of her granddaughter, Miss Catherine O. G. BURNETT.

Catharine, raised by Mrs. Lansing, had been attending the Ladies Seminary in Utica NY. Catharine's mother, Sarah Lansing Burnett, had died when Catharine was 4 years old. Catharine's father, Brig.General Henry Lawrence Burnett, had remarried when Catharine was 9 and started his 3rd family. Mrs. Lansing seems to have also cared for General Burnett's first family.

Mrs. Catharine B. Bell, editor of the Canon City Canon, has favored us with a copy of "Hot Shots," a handsome booklet just issued from the Cannon press rooms. Mechanically, the work is in excellent taste and creditable to the establishment producing it. The reading matter consists of a number of the strongest paragraphs that have appeared in the Cannon during the past several months. They are all full of pointer and giner and are well worth reading and preserving.

The Canon City Times
by The Times publishing Company
Wm. E. Spencer, Editor and Manager
An Advocate of Temperance and Social Progress

MRS. VAN DEUSEN NAMED SECRETARY CHARITIES BOARD

Denver, Feb. 13 --
Mrs. Katherine Van Deusen has been elected secretary of the municipal board of Charities and Corrections. Mrs. Van Deusen has a remarkable career in settlement work in New York. In Buffalo she perfected the diet kitchens and won national fame for herself through her work.

Mrs. Van Deusen was the first probation officer of Fremont county and special representative of the board of county commissioners in destitution cases. She was also humane officer in the same county, and president for the long and short term of the board of county vistors. Mrs. Van Deusen, as Miss Katherine Bell, was editor of the Canon City Cannon, the only newspaper in the state at that time edited by a woman. She was also clerk of the state land office under Registrar B.L. Jefferson.

Mrs. Van Deusen will assume the duties of her office this morning. Her office will be in the Euclid building. The other offices elected are james H. Pershing, C.F. Reed and Mrs. Alma Lafferty.

The following tribute was sent to The Times by a close friend of Mrs. Catherine Van Dusen of Grand Lake, who died in a Denver hospital about two weeks ago:

Mrs. Catherine Van Dusen, writer and former state employee, died from an illness which began several years ago when her hip was broken in a fall on icy pavement.

Through her illness was shown the unconquerable spirit inherited from forebearers who were friends and comrades of George Washington, Lafayette, and other early American patriots and builders.

Daughter of Henry L. and Sarah Lansing Burnett, she was born in Canandaigua, N.Y., May 2, 1873, and came to Colorado in 1902. She settled in Canon City, where she was married to Jack Bell, mining man, and became editor of the local newspaper and author of a volume of epigrams and short stories which attracted the attention of literary critics.

Coming to Denver in 1910, she became chief clerk of the state land board. Following her divorce from Bell, she was married to Robert Van Dusen.

In 1921 she purchased the ranch property in Grand county belonging to James Cairns, and this was her home up to the time of her death, although she was employed at the state capitol since last fall.

Funeral services were conducted at St. John's cathedral, with Bishop Johnson and Canon Watts in charge. Pallbearers were Governor Johnson, Gen. John T. Barnet(?), Gen. Neil Kimball, General Danks, Judge Frank McLaughlin and Robert De Vano.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Gibson Seymour of Grand Lake, a son, Bradley Evans Bell** of the U.S. Army, and a granddaughter, Catherine Burnett Seymour.