Semi-weekly herald., 1908-01-09

visit Father and Mother sibley.
Ex-Congressman Hogg appeared in
behalf OF the city OF Telluride at Grand
Junction yesterday In water suit.
The clerks at the postoffice will be
mighty glad when the calendar season
is over. They are perfect nuisance.
jacob Dukensher of Ridgway is stop
ping at the Southern. He is looking
up land values with view OF invest
ing.
Mrs. Harry Turner is home from
Telluride where she spent two weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
S. Watson.
John Glanville. who is in the city
from Silyerton, is figuring on spending
the rest of the winter in Durango with
his family.
G. NJ. George, government forest
reserve official from Washington, was
among last evenings arrivals. He is
at the Strater.
The Alamosa Independent Journal
says we placed the improvements Of
the town for 1907 $4,000 TO low. We
stand corrected
The spectacle of drunken man
ought TO be an effective instrument
in Transforming the moderate drinker
into total abstainer.
Frank Thaler was In the city yes
terday. He is no longer with Fritz
rhies company for whom he has been
on the road many years.
Ellis NJ. Hampton, of the closed Pa
gosa Springs bank, contributed an in
teresting article on the bank situation
in the last issue OF the New Era.
The thermometer got down to with
in four degrees of zero at Grand juno
tion one night last week-the coolest
of this or several preceding winters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Preston are
spending the day In the city They re-
side near Kline on the Lower La Plata
md are getting along nicely ranching.
Girls well guarantee either one of
our three bachelor ministers will tie
the knot free for the first couple where
the girl acknowledges she proposed
Get busy.
The Telluride Journal has looked it
up and says there are sixty-one days
printed on the calendar In red ink.
And this has no reference to the red
ink papers.
The Ouray Herald says Mrs. DR.. G..
N. Green of Durango dislocated her
elbow jumping out of n sleigh at the
ranch of her mother one day last week
near Ridgway.
Bert Nash came up from Ridgway
last night and this morning went ont
on the Durango train to resume his
work on the Rio Grande Southern as
engineer between Rico and Durango.
lie left Mrs. Nash with her mother
at Ridgway for few days longer
Telluride Journal.
around to the bills filed before the
middle or last of the month having
taken up other business in advance of
the bills.
If Durango is any criterion postof-
fees throughout the land are doing a
rushing business. It's the sure avenue
of transmitting money And the or
ders are always paid.
Theo. Benjosky was Silverton
bound passenger last evening from the
of Del Norte, where he suf-
fered the loss of a valuable ranch
residence a few days ago.
F. d. Baker and e. A. Lee, engineers
with the American Smelling & Rein
ing company, arrive from Denver last
evening and are looking over the new
stack at the local plant today.
o
A. Sharpino. brother-in-law of G. N.
Green, dentist with DR.. Folsom, ar
rived from Ridgway last evening. He
will remain some time, possibly per
manently II he finds suitable open
ing.
James Rickner Of Mancos received
telegram last Saturday informing him
of his appointment as alternative to
the West Point Military academy. He
goes to Fort Logan, Colo, this week to
take the examination.