Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-09-22

| ]. Ellen Foster is recognized as the
greatest lady orator on the stun p.
She will address the voters of Dl-
range and La Plata county at the
Court house Saturday evening.
| Some very fine tomatoes were
brought down on the train this morn
ing from Hermosa and vicinity. Judg
| ing from these the tomato crop in the
Animas valley is going to be pretty
| good this year.
Mr.. Louis Girardin and Miss Ruby
| Backman of lockwood were united in
marriage last evening by Rev. Sander
| son at the Methodist parsonage. The
couple went to lockwood, where
| they will reside
The Ladies Reading Club will have
a special meeting at the residence of
| Mrs. Balster, tomorrow afternoon at
three o'clock. All members are urged
to attend as there will be business OF
Importance.
The bricklayers on the Red Men
hall have been laying off two or three
days waiting for the carpenters to
catch up with them That is only the
first story that is finished now, and
there are two more to go on top OF
that
The foot ball season has opened
auspiciously and promises to be a
great success One man was killed
in a preliminary game at Pittsburg
last week. And still some people say
we are not elevating when we give
preference to the ring over foot ball.
The Royal Arcanum gave a smoker
last night at the X. p. hall. A large
| number of friends of the order were
present and were royalty entertained.
There was an excellent musical and
literary program and the guests were
| treated to a fine line of refreshments.
Giles T. Vandergrift is down from
lockwood where he has been staying
he last few weeks looking after the
construction of the dam for the Rock
wood Power company. He reports
work going along nicely and expects
to be through with the job within two
months.
Friends of H. D. Mcbride are in
formed by letter that when the oper-
tion was performed an abcess was re
moved. and it was expected that IA
ter another operation might be per-
formed for the removal of the appen-
dix. He is reported to be doing very
we'll
From correspondence received by
the secretary of the fair association,
it is evident that quite number of
norsemen are figuring on the Durango
fair, and quite a string of horses may
be looked for. Horse races. base ball,
the fruit and agricultural display and
the Indians will be the great feature
of the fair.
Sheriff Casad can down from Sill
verton this morning to make Ben
man cash a s45 check for him in Sill
verton and be was given sl45 by mis-
take. He took the wad and came to
Durango and upon complaint from Sill
verton he was taken in tow by Under
Sheriff Thompson and held until Mr..
| Casad's arrival. Ogle gave up the 500
and paid the officers expenses and
was given his liberty
o.
While there are going to be several
very interesting race events next
week, base ball is going to be the
leading feature and Durango must
| make an effort to get within hailing
| distance in order to keep visiting
teams warm. OF course Slatterys in
vincibles, composed OF Silverton and
Silver Lake players, will be on hand
to walk off with the Doodle as usual,
to say nothing of the very energetic
Gold King layout. 1t will be com
mon politeness for Durango to play
tail-enders, but in doing this we
should be strong enough to keep the
ilys off our mountain sluggers as they
are not used to being pestered.
o.
Dnrango's three Democratic papers,
Will have monkey and parrot time
| supporting Hughes for governor. And
buclling the three sheets will be the
solid business interests of the county
The aforesaid sheets will endeavor to
have man elected, supported by the
Western Federation. Just how this
will down with many. is difficult to
understand. But we have been thirty
odd years endeavoring to fathom the
tear-down policy of Democratic politi-
clans and suppose we will have to put
up with papers in our midst handi-
Gaping the interests of Durango by
urging the election of men aided and
supported by the Meyer combination.
Messrs. Wood & Morgan are again
in double harness. By this we mean
they have purchased the transfer bus
iness of Elliott & Co.. taking posses
sion this morning. 1t is needless to
devote much space introd dhcing them
to the public. During the many years
they conducted the transfer business