Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-09-18
FAIR DATES.

| FHr"ihBtoh IalT, september IL, IA
Is and l6.
Aztec fair. September i9. 20 and 81
Colorado-New Mexico fair at Duran
20, September "a, 2S and 2g.
Montezuma county fair. October 4
s end 6.
From Saturdays Daily.
Mrs. j. w. Morgan returned yester
day evening from Colorado Springs
where she visited relatives and
friends.
Mr.. Dunbar OF the p. F U. Rubber
company is expecting the arrival OF
machinery for tne manufacture OF rub.
her on every freight coming to Du.
range, and the Durango country has
the crude weed. and we don't want to
be rubbered at or joshed, either.
Every morning for three weeks
there has been a scramble for one to
a dozer more seats than there are In
one Rio Grande chair car for the east
and every morning some good fellow
has given his chair to one of the fair.
er sex. II travel keeps up wen have
to put on another car or put In some
more chairs.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eldredge are
sending out Invitations to their friends
10 be present NJ the marriage of their
sister. Miss Veronica GLADYS DYER. to
Mr., Joseph Clark Wednesday evening
September 27, at S: 30 p. m, at ST.
Marks church. Both are popular and
this announcement will be pleasing to
their friends
FIRE Chief Dietrich Is testing 500
feet of new hose recently purchased
by the city this afternoon. Each
length gets the full force OF the pres.
sure the Florida river is making near
ly 300 feet above town. and the chief
says the hose stands the work. It
would be safe under the pressure of
any other American city.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert II. Sloan an.
nonnce the marriage of their daughter.
Mary Chittenden, to Mr.. Arthur w
Ayers on Monday, September II. The
Herald found this out after II hap.
pened and Mae and Art will have to
bring around piece of cake or some.
thing, or we will head all those kids
to make a noise. They will he at
home November /. Art told us
story.
ire 1-I
yesterday evening from Denver, where
she attended the national encamp-
ment of the G. A. X. and took up the
Inquiry regarding her son. Elmer Ran
del. from wnom she had had no It'd.
ings for long time, came back yes
terday evening bringing the glad
news that Elmer Is still alive, in Cal. |
ifornia And he thinks most of Crete |
and the baby.
In the Herald today Is an Interesting
article written by Mrs. Rnsapha Put
ford, superintendent of public schoois1
inrA1s Plata. .couSty. Parents and Euef
pills will find much OF interest; tf1y3
will fnd modest appeal to all to en-
list more earnest interest In school |
work. The Herald requested Mrs. Pull
ford TO write Of the schools and will |
appeal to her again to use these col
umns In the upbuilding OF the schools.
Matte Belle Burgess, wife of Tom
Frank Burgess, who used to live in
Durango. died on the 23d day OF Au-
gust and the news is received through |
a private letter to Frank Gallotti |
from Georgetown. Colo. saying she
died in Denver Mrs. Burgess was a
daughter Of Mr.. Elliott. the jeweler.
and sister of Helen Elliott. She has |
many friends In Durango. as any nice
little woman would have, and the |
printed account OF the funeral obse- |
quies would indicate that she had won |
many friends in Denver. Women and |
children made the funeral pyre a
mountain OF flowers to forget that |
they mad lost friend. Mrs Burgess
leaves her husband, two daughters and |
three sons-Edna. Jeanne. Ben, Wal |
ter and Arthur. Her sisters. Mrs F. j
Wood and Mrs Helen Cole reside at
Georgetown.
The week closes six days hard
work in great criminal trial in Du.
range. in the La Plata September term
OF Judge Russell's Sixth judicial dis
trict court the trial OF case In
which Jacob ZiDDerian is charged with
the felonious killing Of Matt Luxsing
or. The Herald has allowed the court
and jury and witnesses. with the aid
Of ambitious attorneys. to try this
case. There might have been much
OF interest 10 the morbid or curious
mind in this trial, and had 1t been
in Denver. at least the Post would
have had from fve 10 eight columns
day, but SO much enterprise might
not have done the reading public any
real good. When the trial concludes