The San Juan County index. (Aztec, N.M.) 1890-19??, 1900-07-06
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Social at Fo-a Vista next Thursday.
Mrs. A. N. Hubbard is suffering from
an attack Of malaria.
The little child OF Mr.. and Mrs. J.R.
Hildebrand has been quite sick.
Mrs. Ella Dooley is in Aztec. visiting
her son Chester aud Mr.. and Mrs. W.. H.
Williams.
Miss Ethel Palmer OF Bayfield, visited
iu aztec on the Fourth and will remain
several days.
The highest the thermometer has
reached at the experimental station this
summer is %.
A. A. Potter came down from the
mountains this week to spend a few days
with his friends.
johnny Koontz entertained q number
Of young friends Saturday evening. Ice
cream was served.
Dr.. Morse of Durango spent the
Fourth with us and left favorably i'm
pressed with Aztec hospitality.
b. CHASER OF Durango has moved his
tailoring and furnishing establishment
to $40 Williams block, Parsons old stand
Bob Monteith Of Durango mingled
with the crowd on the Fourth, and did
fairly we'll until he got lost at the dance
Mrs. Maud Shucks Of Durango, who
has been visiting Mrs. Elbert Starr Of
Pennington, passed up on her way home
Tuesday.
Little Misses Maggie Pieper Of Cedar
Hill and Lille Hickman of Flora Vista
spent several days in Aztec, visiting
Mrs. 7. J.. West.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bunker enter.
tanned a number Of friends, including
DR.. Breen and party Of Fort Lewis, at
dinner on the Fourth.
DR.. o. @. McEwen, John Rodgers, D.J.
Craig, Oliver jackson and W. H. Sy
monds we're among the Pennington folks
who celebrated 10 Aztec.
Ed. Henry will preach at Pennington
July 8 ut IL a IN. and at Aztec at 8 p. m.
July Is at Thomas Chapel at II a. m.
ae'4 Gestsg PeiR tat5 ?. IA.
The vocal music by the bers Of
the choir on the Fourth was a rare treat
aud showed carefulness in training The
singing received favorable comment.
Sherman Howe is home from the
mountain towns, where be spent his
summer vacation. He made the trip
awheel and visited Telluride, Rideway,
Ouray and Silverton.
@JsJ. Vernon, professor Of agriculture
aud horticulture at the territorial agri-
cultural college, is here from MesilIa
PARK on a visit Of inspection to the San
Juan s%ab.station. He will remaia sew
eral days.
Agent Kinsley Of Porter Bros. fruit
buying firm arrived in Aztec Wednesday
from Cripple Creek and Chicago. He
will visit some of our fr~uit-growers to
see what the prospects are for product
and the probable prices asked.
Ned Carpenter Of Durango, Krusch-
ke'a hustler, helped whoop her up for
Old Glory. Ned says our ditch water
is a vast improvement on the Durango
article, Dave Day to the contrary not
withdrawing. But then Dave is a poor
judge of water-nsver sees it except
when it rsins.
The dance given in Mr.. Browns new
building on the Fourth wss one of the
biggest affairs Of the kind ever seen ia
the county. The large oom made the
participation Of a large number OF
dancers possible ana the arrangements
we're admirable. There we're seventy
four dance tickets sold.
John Farmer returned from Bayfield,
the first Of the week, where he had been
TO see his brother I'D, who was scalded
10 the boiler explosion in Bartholomew
mill At that place. He says Ed is all
right and up again, but that Neil Camp
bell and the other man we're seriously
injured. The cause OF the explosion ie
yet unknown.
Stubs 4 Jackway Of Durango are in
need OF an kinds Of men at their mill
at Gradens, seven miles west Of Mancoe.
They need twenty five men for various
kinds Of work-yardmen, t~eamsters, etc.
Steady work the year round, at good
wages. Cant hook men and choppers
s225, teamsters $3.50, yardmen q per
day. Board 50 per week.
Charles 81 Boyd Is horse from Chicago,
During his two months absence he adj
vertiasd this county literally in the re-
gion he visited. scattering hundred Of
pamphlets IN the vicinity Of his old Illi-
nois town 10 spite OF hiaarduous laborsi
however be returned Weighing many
pounds more than when be went
away-a sign that bis friends took good
care Of him.
John Morrison and Martin Frank left
the formers cattle eamp up above Pa
gosa Springs and came down 20 spend
tho Fourth in Aztec. Would have
started this way sooner, but waited losg
enough to allow Mick % extesminate
a few bears that were left after bis big
raid when 30 killed Eve Of them By run
ming 90 much Faster than ikly didthat