Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-05-06
LOCAL NEWS.
From Thursdays Daily.

Soon will be fly time Get your
screens up.
This morning was certainly about
as changeable as one could desire
j. L. Rachofsky returned last even
ing from Denver where he put in
month with his family.
Let Durango spend money in doing
things. This will be the best kind
of an advertisement
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Whitaker. who
spent the winter with their son in Old
Mexico, are home again.
Reports from the range report a
big snow storm during the forenoon.
Telluride sends in the same kind of
news.
Mrs. d. l.. Sheets and Mrs. j. e.
Ptolemy left this morning for Pueblo
where their father, Mr.. Greybeal, is at
the point OF death.
George West left this morning for
Santa Fe. N. NJ. He will take
bunch OF cattle overland from there
Ssto his range in Archuleta county
Next week the State Association of
BIZ Posters will meet in Durango in
annual convention There will be
good sized crowd of them present
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Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Hammond, who
have been visiting a few days with
Mr. and Mrs. n. w. Hammond return
ed to their home on Pine river this
morning.
August Fast was returning pas
senger to Silverton last evening, hav-
ing covered several of the northwest
ern states. And he says Colorado is
the best of ALL
Mrs. Fred Balcom gave a farewell
reception at the Strater hotel this
afternoon in honor of Mrs. Adair vii
son who will leave for California to
morrow morning.
Mr.. E. L. Buck who brought his wife |
in from Allison Sunday suffering with |
peumonia, says she is getting along
nicely and hopes to be able to return |
home in a few days. |
Tulley is certainly becoming quite |
bright. He says If The Herald will |
take up the Democrats policy it viii
y have something original. Just how
the two dove-tail is not easy to un |
derstand |
The Herald is going to undertak, |
to raise 100000 for tn sugar fac |
tory, and then see the matter prop
erly presented to the sugar factory in |
terests. We must not put this off un |
til time to start building
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Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Koehler and |
son came in last night from Ojo Cali |
enta, N. NJ, where they went on |
recuperating trip. They stopped over
4 night and will go to their home ii |
Silverton today.
Mrs. Art Bagby departed this morn |
ing for Creede, where her mother |
Mrs. Shields, who went out about a |
month ago, is very i'll. Mrs. Bagby will |
bring her mother here just as soon a.
she Is able to travel.
Fl. T. Henderson, who engineered
and financed the Animas Valley Light |
and Water company's plant above
lockwood, left this morning for n
three weeks trip to Alabama, where |
he is interested in similar project |
c. M. Kilgore of Grand Junction
came in on the Southern Tuesday
night and in company with c. S
Smith, who has been here a couple oi
weeks, and G. E Tiffany, Sr., wen
out to the Allison country this morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Nathan and fam
lily arrived from Pueblo last evening
and will put in the summer months
in this city and vicinity. Mr.. and
Mrs. Nathan have a kindly feeling for
Durango and having faith in the fu
ture Of the city Lou is here to help
boost.
The Democrat bloviates about ad-
visng Durango and The Herald what
to do. The Herald was boosting for
Durango and aiding in building up
this southwest section when Tom
Tulley was wearing wooden shoes
and tin breeches back in ToDawanda.
New York.
recent issue of the Dry Goods
Reporter a Chicago publication, con
tained a splendid write up of Durango
and the southwest; their resources
and possibilities, in consequence OF
which Secretary Armstrong of the
board of trade has received fifteen
letters of enquiry from eastern people