Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-03-09

s3.oS9 in hnes through its police mag
istratc the past eleven months.
The volunteer firemen of Telluride.
or sufficient to man the hose carts.
are paid so each every quarter. or $40
u year
The price of lots in the suburbs of
Pennington have advanced in price
the past week, Indicates our sister
city is growing.
y new town to be known as Ham
mond is being surveyed and plated on
the San Juan river about twenty miles
above Pennington.
Doc" o'Connell journeyed to Ar
boles this morning to look after his
sheep and ascertain how they wealth
cred the last storm.
NCharles A. Johnson is putting on
considerable dog these days having
fitted up his law Office with late i'm.
proved bookcases and handsome desk
Wiilet Brown has sold his Archuleta
county ranch and expects to locate at
| Pennington. Our southern neighbors
are adding daily to their population.
The Entire Nous people danced at
Nendome hail last evening. about
twenty couples participating. Those
present report a very enjoyable time.
Coe Franklin returned from Denver
last eyening-or rather this morning.
Says he is not in love with being tied
up in a snowbank on Cumbres range.
The San Juan is showing signs of
the annual spring freshet and is no
longer fordable at Pennington The
entire country can look for high water
this spring
Admiring friends of Miss Genevieve
Mcleod won between 5000 and $500
betting she would win the Denver
Times contest as the most popular
young lady subscriber.
O.
There are always good many peo,
pie who are ready to pat one on the
back and say sick EN-" but who are
not in evidence when it comes to pay
ing the doctors bill
d
The Herald got its recommendation
for Miss Mcleod trine late, but as
she won the Denver Times contest
Just the same. it is immaterlal. Hur-
rah for the San Juan girls
The Pennington Hustler is consid-
erably elated over the announcement
that the company owning the Cascade
water power is figuring on building an
electric railroad from Durango to
Pennington.
Howard Hook, who has been visit
ing his relatives, the Lemmons, on the
North Side. the past six months, de-
parted for Denver this morning and
after a time will continue on to his
home at Toledo, o.
Thomas Humphrles is in from the
Graden sawmill on Pine river. He re.
ports the roads almost impossible
around the mill and work was neces-
sarily suspended at the mill Tuesday
and all the men laid off for time
possibly two or thre weeks. The
Mesa mill has been closed a week or
Two on account of the bad roads
The volunteer fire department of
PasOsa Springs viii soon be in run
Ming order. The fire bell has been put
in place and the hose and cart are ex-
pected from Denver the first of The
week. 1t seems queer the town has
depended on the bucket brigade as
long as it has.
The editor Of the Salisbury, Ia.
Democrat gives vent TO the following
and still! has not run newspaper in
Durango; The longer we run a
newspaper and talk about people and
events, the more we realize how ut
terly impossible it is to scratch every
man on the spot where it ltches"
Mr. J. f. Pennington who returned
| the first OF the week from a visit to
the old home in Kansas. also points in
Nebraska and Missouri, stopped one
day at Pagosa Springs. where he left
his wife with their daughter, Mrs. l.. f.
Jones. Mr. Pennington had not been
east for twenty years and was sur
prised at the wonderful growth and
| improvements in the grasshopper
state.
w. S. Darrow is in receipt of let
ter from John Kellenberger in which
he states that Mrs. X. is getting along
nicely from the effects of the surgical
operation and that life looks much
brighter TO both Of them. The child
rem are al school and Mr. X puts in
the time telween the hospital and the
school, tha wife being at St Anthony's
instead OF st Joseph hospital. as noted
in The Herald.
DIR. J. C. Thurman has completed
the furnishing of handsome suite of
rooms over the Colorado State bank
an indication that the doctor has con.
cluded Durango is good enough for
him to make his permanent home. DIR.