Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-29
home to Ignacio this morning to spend
Thanksgiving.

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Exercises were held in all the
schools this afternoon. At the close
Of the exercises the schools were dis
missed and there will be no more
school til Monday.
Billy Likes went down to Aztec this
morning on very important mission.
That was to be married this afternoon
to- Miss Frankie WhitsoH. The Her
aid extends congratulations.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Goeglin are the
parents OF a fine boy, who made his
advent yesterday at the home of Mrs.
Goegline's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Florence O'Driscoll in North Durango
There will be Thanksgiving SER
vices at the Latter Day Saints
church on Second avenue Thursday
at IL a. m. All are cordially invited.
w. b. FARLEY, Pastor.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. d. Mitchell departed
this morning for >Ridgway, where they
intend spending a few days, after
which they will return to Durango,
where Mr.. Mitchell will finish his
work of getting sugar beet contracts
signed up.
Judge Granville Pendleton came up
from Pennington last night, trans
acted legal business and returned
home this morning. The judge re
ports considerable activity in real es-
tate transfers and believes the oil well
is going to help things along.
OF all the various readings given
in our town none has ever surpassed
and we think none ever equalled that
given by Mr.. Eldredge. We wish he
might return.-Neogo. ILL., Red Mems
hall Wednesday, December s. Tickets
on sale at Balster's jewelry store.
Mr.. Gilbert A. Eldredge, the emf
nent impersonator. achieved one O.
the most meritorious entertainments
that has been given here for some
time. His efforts wer intensely ap
preciated.-Terre Haute, Ind, REQ
Mems hall, Wednesday, December 8
High school course.
Mrs. e. S. Glover of Delta came all
the way over here to spend Thanks
piu nj har
At Ignacio. She and her granddaugh
ter, Miss Nellie Glover, who is attend
ing school in Durango, went to Igna
10 this morning. Miss Nellie will re
turn to resume her studies Sunday.
Mrs. A. Robertson of Del Norte
who is one of the losers in the Schit
Ter bank failure at Alamosa, stopped
in town over night on her return from
Silverton, where she had been to see
about the sale of some of the prop
erty which formed part of the as
sets of the bank. She was guest at
the Palace. She returned home this
morning,
The Royal Maze Quartette arrived
last night and stopped at the Palace
They went to Aztec this morning
where they sing tonight They enter
tain in Pennington tomorrow night
and return to Durango to fill their en-
gagement Friday night. The mem
bers of the party are B. j. Nicholas,
B. G. Critchett, e. II. Boyd and C. L.
Bilding. They register from Des
Moines. la,
Mr.. Gilbert A. Eldredge. who ap-
pears at Red Mems hall Wednesda!
evening. December 5. comes highly
recommended. The people of Du
range will have an opportunity to see
and enjoy something unusual in the
way of costumed impersonations, Mr.
Eldredge comes under the direction
of the High school and this is an
added reason why he should be
tickets for the remaining three mum
bers of the High school course car
be bought at Balster's jewelry store
or of any member of the class of 1907
A party of United States geological
surveyors who have been working the
past few months on the Navajo reser
vation and along the San Juan river
came up last evening, having con
cluded their labors there fer this sea
son. and left this morning on the east
err. Arthur R. Carson, the head O.
the party. said at the Palace hotel this
morning that they would work in New
Mexico this winter. having a numbei
of lines to run. They go first to Dem
ing, from where they will run Linz
10 connect with a trans-continental
line. They manage to work in coun
try in the winter where snow does not
Interfere. They have planned to re
turn to Dr rango next summer and rur
lines to Silverton, Telluride. Ouray
and other towns. taking elevations
and other data. While elevations of
these places have all been taken, ac-
cording to Mr.. Carson the lines were
started from some point where the
elevation was assumed, hence the fig
ures are not absolutely correct. The