Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-20


climate will agree with him better
than it did in Texas.
James F. Young and r A. Balsey
of Fort Collins and M. G.. Ball o
Brush, Colo. who hae been investigat
ing the Grommet country. each bought
a ranch in that section and will take
personal charge. The deals were made
today.
The Chicago Record-Herald OF Fri
day, June IA, is sumner, 160 pages
1t may be interesting to some but 14s
pages. or 931 columns, was more in
teresting to the publishers than the
average public. being the list OF de
linquent taxes advertised for sale.
It's a girl and arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Rowe N. Pingrey yes.
| terday evening. We are pleased to
| state that the mother is doing nicely
| as well as the father. while Grandpa
Graham-well he is afforded an op-
portunity of dangling pair from his
knees.
A. Fodeschi, who was brought down
from Silverton Saturday morning. suf-
fering from pneumonia, died at Ochs-
ner hospital the same evening. The
remains were taken to the Hood Un-
dertaking parlors and prepared for
shipment to Silverton, going up last
evening.
Mrs. c. e. Newton, Miss Emily Wood
and Miss Florence Beatty left this
morning for Canon City to attend the
annual Sunday school convention. Be
fore returning Mrs. Newton will visit
friends in Denver and Miss Wood will
also go to Denver and Nebraska points
on visit to relatives
Blair Burwell came up Saturday
from his survey in the lower valley.
Mr.. Burwell says the survey of the
Eden ditch is nearly completed. BY
some changes made In the original
line proposed the ditch under the
new survey will furnish water to {, 1000
or 1000 more acres.
The case of the People VS.. d. F.
Day, on the county court docket, will
not be tried until after the return of
District Attorney Pulliam, who is in
Missouri. This is the last of several
indictments returned against Day last
winter and the one in which he is
charged with selling liquors to minors.
The Woodmen of the World and
the Women of Woodcraft held their
memorial ceremonies at the ceme-
terry yesterday afternoon. A large
number of members of both orders
met at the hall and marched to the
cemetery, headed by the drum corps,
where the ceremony of unveiling was
performed, and graves of departed
neighbors decorated with flowers.
The Animas river was beginning to
spread over considerable territory in
the valley above Animas City yester-
day, but with the sun buried by clouds
today and considerably cooler the
stream will have an opportunity OF
going down and it is to be hoped dam
aging high water will be escaped this
season as 1t is getting so late an over
flow will be costly TO the farmers.
The membership of the Knights OF
Pythias turned out well yesterday
morning to listen to the memorial
sermon preached by Rev. Mr.. Mark
land at the Baptist church. The dis
course was interesting and instructive.
The singing was especially good, in
addition to the regular hymns being
an anthem by the choir and a solo
by Miss Paul who is Durango musi-
cal favorite.
The library board has secured Miss
Frances Jones of the Illinois state
library school, to reorganize the IL
barry. While no change in the open
shelf system is contemplated, many
new lists are to be made and a full
subject index is to be feature which
will be of great help to patrons. A
subject index has been much needed.
In addition to this work Miss Jones
will conduct training school for IL
brarians. The board Is to be heartily
commended for this step as 1t will
give some Of our young folks an op-
portunity unusual except in some Of
our large cities. AS the number Of
pupils is limited 1t will be well for
any one desiring this training to make
application at once TO the present IL
Drarian.
Glenwood Springs is sending out
invitations to all neighbors to visit on
Strawberry day, une %. The pro-
Crane promised includes free straw
berries. cake and cream, without any
limit on them; free pool bathing, in.
Guiding suits; free dances both open
air and indoors; and numerous band
concerts. In addition 1t is expected
there will be two baseball games
| morning and afternoon. Glenwood
| Springs last year used $50 crates oi
| strawberries and seventy-five gallons
of cream for the free berry feast oi
Strawberry day. AS far as the com
mite could learn, no one who wanted