Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-16

DR.. s. w Morrison came in again
last night from Grommet to meet a
party from the east.
JAS. r. Wood of Flemingsburg, KY, |
was an arrival last evening and went
out this morning to look over the
Montezuma valley.
Rev John c. Hay OF the Christian
church went to Aztec this morning to
hold services. He will preach there
this evening and hold two services to-
morrow.
Mrs. c. A. Spurgeon- Of Silverton re
turned last evening from visit to
Indiana. She was called home soon
er than she intended coming by the
sickness OF her husband at silverton.
Lillian Mason, the actress who used
to visit Durango once or twice year,
is now running theater in Reno.
Nevada. 1t is called Fountains Fam
lily theater. Miss Mason takes the
leading lady's part in all the plays,
II. d. Abrams. one of Aztec's enter
prlsing hardware merchants. came up
last evening and departed this morn
ing for the east.
w. w. Nossaman, who was over
from Pagosa Springs looking after
some horses that We're sick returned
home this morning.
Mr. and Mrs U. B. Stone who have
been stopping at the Strater the
past few weeks. departed this morn
ing for the east Mr. Stone is inter
ested in some OF H. d. Hendersons s
ventures.
The Herald's Silyerton correspond
ent phones today that the water is
running in little rivers down the
streets OF that town and that patches
OF dry are beginning to show here and
there in the streets.
According to the Pennington En-
terprise Tom Lotus has been down
there interesting some local capital
lists in scheme to furnish Farming
ton with water from the San Juan
river, providing franchise can be
secured
]. II. Hays, who is travelling oycr
the state in the interest of the normal
school at Greeley, was an arrival
from the east last evening and wont
to Aztec this morning. When he re-
turns he will visit the Durango
schools
OF course you will want to be in the
swim next Tuesday and you will have
to hurry and visit Nathan's and secure
one Of those green ties with sham
rock thrown in. They are beauts and
Just the thing to win an Irish lassie
at st. Patricks ball,
John f Melton and wife will spend
two or three weeks in Durango ar
riving last evening from Denver,
where they put in the winter. They
are stopping at the Strater. AfrerI
they complete their stay IN this town
they viii continue on to heir home
in Silverton.
Mr and Mrs. F. w. Koeher stopped |
over night on their way to SiIyerton
from Denver, where they have been
for the past two months, Mr.. Koehler
having had an operation performed
for stones in the kidneys. He is feel
ing pretty good now.
Let a person go from towa like |
Durango, where there is a fine. well
equipped public library, to little
town whore there is no such thing. |
and IT is then they appreciate that
great Institution.
o
The librarian complains that many
Of the books taken from the public |
library are marked. and n system has |
been devised so it can be told who
does the marking and it is the in.
tention to impose fines on all guilty
ones.
There are some patrons of the pub.
lie library who do not thoroughly an.
preciate the fact that the free institu.
tion was provided by Andrew Carne.
gle General Palamer the Woman's
club and the city council. They mark
and deface the books and it has be-
come necessary TO keep a strict watch
and impose fines in order to keen the
books from being destroyed.
The happiest girl in town is Miss {
Bertha Peterson, and just because she