Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-04-25

year.
D It's beautiful day after the storm
We hope there will be no more freez.
ing weather this spring
Jimmie Morehead, of baseball fame
has been elected captain of the Sa-
Ida team.
Looks good to see Ed Brown again.
He is looking so much better than
when he went to California.
Fred Eyeman, formerly of Durango.
is having hard tussle with rheuma-
tism at Telluride. Is again laid up.
j. c. Bowman is still with us. Wants
to get accustomed to the mountains
after spending the winter in Califor-
mia.
An effort Is being made by the board
of trade committee to have George
Gould here for the banquet Thursday
night
One drunk was up before Police
Magistrate Houx this morning and was
given 500 and trimmings, which he
paid.
Edgar Buchanan returned this morn
ing from Hermosa where he spent the
Sabbath day with his bereaved brother
and family.
Our people anxiously await result
OF last nights freeze in the vicinity
of Aztec and Pennington. We hope
for the best.
Mrs. VIM. Koehler was a passenger
from Silverton this morning en- route
to join Billy and Silver at Ojo Caliente
hot springs.
D. G. Miller, after spending cou-
pie of days between Durango and the
May Day mine, departed for Denver
this morning.
Those who went to the fair grounds
yesterday enjoyed the program free.
Next Sunday there will be something
doing in case of fine day
-
The citizens of La lara are wear
ing a boosters button. The Alamosa
ndependent-Journal is of the opinion
that buttons do not make boosters.
John T. Burns, secretary of the
Colorado Realty association, has noti-
fed Secretary Armstrong that he will
be present at the board of trade ban
quet Thursday night.
R. S. Baker; formerly connected
with the rubber plant at this place,
will open post traders store near
Pennington just as soon as the goods
can be gotten in place.
There isn't enough going on in the
courts these days to make an item Of,
and the reporters querry is met with
nothing doing" nearly every day in
he week.
Vincent Campbell won the board of
trade prize for the best essay on trees.
He is to be congratulated. The Her
aid will take pleasure in giving the
essay space in day or two.
The city council Of Florence has re-
fused to reduce liquor licenses from
$1,000 to $500 per year and some of
the saloon men have threatened to go
out of business because Of 1t.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Williams OF 343
Fourth avenue, are rejoicing over the
arrival early this morning of 10k
pound boy, DR.. Hurd officiating. He
reports mother and child doing nicely.
F. d. Pastorius, who has been look
ing after his own and the interests
Of Mrs. G. M. Williams in Durango,
departed yesterday morning for his
home in Colorado Springs.
Plates for the board of trade ban
quet are nearly all spoken for and
the affair will be the biggest thing in
an advertising way that has happened
for Durango for a good many years.
Lafe Milar, whose leg was ampu'
tated as the result of injuries received
at the lockwood power plant last De
cember, left Mercy hospital for his
home at lockwood yesterday.
Andy Lewis is out today, having
been somewhat under the weather
since his return, along with that Of
Mrs. Lewis, Friday night from AL
buquerque where they spent the win
ter.
II. L. Morgan, who has been al
Mercy hospital since last February
suffering from a broken leg received
In the Hesperus coal mine, was dis
charged yesterday and returned to hi,
home.
The Montezuma valley is comint
in for a large amount OF free adver
Using this spring. With the new II
rigation project under headway Monte
yuma county is surely coming to tn