Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-01-21

Adair Wilson returned from Den
yer yesterday evening.
Fred Balcom II at home at the
Strater again.
Durango's coal mines are working
every available coal digger.
Archuleta county is said to be get
ting its smallpox Bcourge under con-
troll.
The new Quinn residence, Of brick,
story and a half. in North Durango,
is nearing completion.
The Woodmen Of the World fifth
annual ball will occur on the evening
Of George washington's birthday.
Don't kick about the result OF
any contest. When the money is
awarded the game is over. II you
lost take a shot at something else.
1t makes people wise.
Marshall Choate Crouch will ap-
pear at Red Men hall the even
ing of Jan. "a In his lecture, "The
Simple Life" Get in early and Sc
cure seats.
The Woodmen of the World will
give their annual ball on Washing
toms birthday, this being their fifth
annual. The committees are already
active in preparation.
Miss Hattie Mashburn of the
Strater, who has been at Mercy hos
pital several days, suffering first
from perltonitis and later from
pneumonia, is now believed to be
out of danger and is improving daily.
1t has taken w. Goff Black two
years to promote the New Bden ditch
to an assurance of construction. the
contract having been let. If every
man could do that much every two
years the growth of the West would
marvel the world.
North Durango challenges any
other bailiwick on earth to show up
as many dogs. They play in droves
night and day, but there is one good
feature about 1t all-some of them do
not take kindly to strangers at night,
and this may help some.
While the mining people who have
ore to ship are having a little diff
ficulty in keeping trails open at
present, they contemplate that sum-
mer will come again and that ore on
the dump only needs to be packed
or hauled to market.
There is talk of another subdivi-
sion to Durango, and there should be
no fear of making Durango too big.
While there is still good deal of
what is called inside property, there
are a great many people who cannot
pay the price and more room will not
hurt
The report that Gunnison girls go
to the river each morning. break the
Ice and take dip in the chilly
Its inaccurecy. The ice In the river
at that point is frozen to the bottom
and cannot be broken, says the Tel
lurlde Journal.
Lose your last dollar and go in the
hole but come out booster. There
are worse things than going broke.
and a quitter will never get as much
as fifth money. They pick a pup up
by the neck to see IL he will holler
when they select something that
might eventually prove dog.
The boy at school who finds more
Of Joy and interest in vulgarity and
obscenity, particularly the one who
thinks 1t smart to impose his offensive
expressions and acts upon little
girls. is found later In life among
the driftwood Of damnaton, without
even the respect of their chosen
class.
Jack Bradford, whom everybody in
mining circles knows. came down
from the La Plata district yesterday
evening, saying that the magnolias
were blooming there and the girls
were out with their garden sprink-
lers, putting in spinach and celery
for the Durango markets. Later ad-
vices are that snow is about two feet
deep in the town and from four to
six feet in the hills. Jack has mixed
his dates again.
The physicians having ordered