Semi-weekly herald., 1908-07-09

After leaving the fashionable Wash
fngton seminary at the close of school
Miss Millicent visited friends in sew
eral OF the large cities and reports a
splendid time. Arriving Sunday night
White as they were not looking for
her until the last of the week.
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A. l.. Snyder was in from ignacio
yesterday. He says that at the recent
school meeting the people OF district
No 81 voted to build their new
school house just south OF the house
occupied by Hans Aspaas. Roy Hull
owns the land and has donated
TWO acres for school purposes. 1t
is the intention OF the directors to
have the building ready for the fall
term of school. There will be an at
tendance of about twenty-five chill
dren.
Ex-Governor Thomas is evidently
| not much stuck on Bryan. He says IL
Roosevelt would run on an independ-
ent ticket he would beat both Bryan
and Taft. and he says 1t would be
| a great card for the Democrats TO
and Ii nominated he could not well de
| cline. In this event Thomas is mis-
taken. Roosevelt is no double crosser
In this sense of the word. He ia out
| for Taft and will do nothing to ell
compass his defeat.
/, Prof Yorke returned last evening
from Dolores where he spent the
Fourth with Jack O'Rourke. The lat
ter, with his sister, Miss Mary
O'Rourke, attended the Durango high
school the past two years, graduating
this June. Prof Yorke says the
O'Rourkes have a splendid ranch q
lew miles from Dolores and Jack made
the finest kind of host. Mrs
o'Rourke and Miss Mary are on a
European trip. and have probably Just
about reached the coast of Ireland
Mrs. o'Rourke expects to spend the
summerlwith her mother there.
Mrs. 8. w. Raymond and niece.
Catherine, returned last evening from
a two weeks visit to her brothers in
Mancos.
George Shaffar. in the employ of the
Animas Power company for some time,
was operated on at Mercy hospital
yesterday by Drs. Turrill and Lackey.
Getting along all right.
Sister Mary Xavier. mother supe.
rior of the Sisters of Mercy in Colo
RADIO, and also official head of the
Mercy sanatarium in Denver, came in
on last nights eastern, to visit the
convent and hospital here.
Rev. Mr.. Small was in from Bayfield,
, today. Reports the camp meetings
progressing nicely. Returning this aft.
ernoon Mr.. Stewart was accompanied
by Mrs. Kight of Pennington who
came up last evening to attend the
meetings.
, The Colorado Land and Water Sup
| ply company and James K Livengood
the surveyor and craftsman, who has
the Durango engineering office, have
moved their different offices to 737
Main avenue, the first door north OF
Mrs. VIII Wing and ssons, Herbert
/ and Charles, started overland with MIR
and Mrs. Tom Goulding, who spent the
Fourth in Durango and returned IN
their ranch near Flora Vista today
r Mrs. Wing expects to remain about
, ten days.
IL The electors of school district No.
) II have voted to move the Waterfall
school, While the location has not
, yet been decided upon 1t is the inten-
tion TO select a site convenient for the
pupils and also in a place where the
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school grounds can be irrigated and
: lawn and trees possible
. Grant Morris, who, with his wife
and child, took in the Mancos cele.
bration. driving over and back, re.
ports fine time. Grant says there
were more people in Mancos than ever
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gathered in that place and the pro-
gram was an entertaining one from
start TO finish. It takes the smaller
towns to do things up brown.
A number OF the Ki-Ki giTis. VIII
De the guests of Miss Ella Jackson on
the Vallecito for week. The party
consisting of Misses Charlotte Hanno,
Lizzie Fleck Hettie Shepard, Pansy