Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-07-11

"S' 'ohh DuptdW ana MIS-. Nat
Steger were Joined in the holy bond
OF matrimony. The usual congratu
iations are rendered.
c. c. Cornell who came down from
La Platas last week is still iookin,
for miners. He hasn't been able t.
find them so far. He wants them fo
double handed work. The wages ar,
$2.25 and board. He reports mininl
activities up there retarded by tn,
scarcity of miners.
The infant child OF Mr.. and Mrs
Webber of the Florida mesa died Sat
urday night at the Myers roomIne
house and was buried from the Hood
Undertaking parlors yesterday after.
noon. The little one had been suffer.
ing 10 the past four weeks from
brain trouble.
Rev. Markland spoke from the sub
ject, Gods Last Call" to large
and appreciative audience at the Bap-
tist church last night The choir rem
dered beautiful selection after which
| the Chautauqua salute was given in
appreciation of the choir and their es-
teemed leader, Miss Mary Sites.
The census reports of the several
| schools of Montezuma county as shown
by the county superintendent's rec
ords, shows a gain of sixty-four pupils
over the last census returns of last
year This year there are 556 boys
and $50 girls between the ages of G
and q years.-Mancos Tribune.
Mrs. o. F. Boyle, her sister. Mrs.
Sackett and Miss Hilligus left this
afternoon for Bayfield, to spend the
night with Mrs. DIR. Robbins. Tomor-
row they go to the Boyle holdings on
the Valliceto where they will put in
some time enjoying camp life and ma
ture. Quite number of friends will
the summer months.
Down at Montrose there is said to
be divorce suit brought by hus.
band alleging that his wife. knowing
that the odor thereof makes him
deathly sick. persists in frying hog
every time he comes into the house.
The wife admits the allegation, but
asserts that pork is the only thing
provided for her to fry and says it
is fry pork or nothing, so she fried
pork.
II any one should ask you, that boy
Springer can throw swift ball. and
has several kinds of twists to it, too.
While he was touched up for three
hits in the fourth inning, only one run
should have resulted. And Stanley
is no SLOUGH. While he was hit harder
and oftener fewer runs were made
except in the ninth when three un-
earned runs were securd by the visi-
tors.
DR.. Robert Prett arrived last even.
ing from Paris where he spends most
OF his time. DIR. Prett will be remem-
bered, along with his brother, operat-
ing mines in the La Platas, doing
great deal of development work, but
with the low price of silver returns
were not satisfactory. He still has
great faith in the La Platas and Is
here TO look over the situation and
The Herald trusts that he will become
interested to the extent of resumption
of work
Saturday Young Bros. sold the C. o.
d. laundry to T. l.. Eckles of Grand
Forks, N. ID. Mr.. Eckles, who is prac-
tical laundry man took charge this
morning and when seen by The Herald
reporter was busily engaged in going
into details and getting the run of the
plant. 1t is his intention to give his
patrons the best of service and con-
duct the business with the same re-
gard to efficiency as that displayed by
the Youngs in their dealings with the
public,
Art Caldwell. the crack third base
man of the Telluride ball team, pitch
ed Thursdays game down at Norwood
and shut out the Norwood team for
nine innings. says the Telluride Jour
nal Only two hits were made of
him. Staley pitched the first day and
| held them down to seven runs. Guess
that's going some. But what do you
think of Arts work? First thing you
know he will have Adams job with the
Teddy Bears in Denver.
That game is plentiful in the vicin-
ity of Pagosa Springs is evidenced by
the following from the Times-Observ-
er While a couple of young men from
South Pagosa were hunting on the hill
back of the Springs hotel last Sunday