Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-21

H. A. Furman is visitor In our cit,
from Bayfield,. He is seeking a chang,
from the altitude of Pine river as wei
as to get away from the snow.
The Pennington line schedule is re
ligiously maintained. Hasten the day
when our people will have connec
ton with the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific.
Now get busy and complete your
Christmas shopping. Durango mer'
chants we're never as well supplied
with seasonable goods and at reason
able price.
Mrs. John Brumley. who was oper.
atde on at Mercy hospital some time
ago. lefs for her home at Dolores this
morning. While still weak. her health
Is much improved.
st. Columbus choir is very fortunate
III securing such talented young or.
ganist as Miss Mary Cooke, who will
fll the place SO long and ably held
by Mr.. Fred Strater.
Now II the Chama people only got
Tom O'Donnell in a badger flght last
night the distin guished Denver attor-
ney viii have cause to remember the
place for many years.
w II. Wigglesworth Is home from
Dulce. where he has been surveying
Indian allotments for couple OF
months A heavy snow Isn't any great
assistance TO field work.
O.
Mrs. G. w. Frazier went to Aztec
today. where she will spend n few
weeks with her son. Arthur Frazier
She was the guest of the Palace over
night on her way from Mancos.
Mrs. Dora c. White and Miss Edna
Smith were passengers to Thompsons
Park this morning. They will be the
guests OF the formers daughter. Mrs
Theodore Parker. until after the holi
days.
Tom LOTUS Ia home from the sunny
San Juan, where he has q contract
for enlarging the Citizens ditch. Mr..
LOTUS said he came home to get
warm. The climate ia too severe down
there.
Mrs. ]. W. Baxter and children OF
Dolores were at the Palace over night
on the way to Aztec, for which place
they left this morning to Join Mr.
Baxter, who is employed on the Citi.
zens' ditch.
Mrs. Z. c. Bennett was an arrival
from Mancos last night. having re-
ceived a telegram that her daughter.
Mrs. Siegel Kelly Of the Florida mesa,
was sick. Mrs. Kelly went out to the
mesa this morning.
Government thermometer registered
2 below zero this morning at six. Sew
eral thermometers around town indi
Gated several degrees colder, but It Is
generally 1--WE degrees colder in North
Durango and around the depot than
1t is on the mesa.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Hunt came up
from La Plata, N. M, last night on
their way to Pagosa Springs. where
they will spend the winter. Mrs. Hunt
said 1t rained for two days steadily
on the Plata, and WAS showing when
they left yesterday. They went out
on today's eastern.
William B. Douglass of Washington,
d. c., and T. C. Getzendanner OF Cory
don, Ind, Who were here this past
summer surveying the site OF the res
ervoir ceded to the city by congress
and stayed over yesterday at the
Southern, on their way from Mancos
went east this morning. They'll reach
Chama. anyway.
The American Order OF Protection
held their annual election OF ofhcer'
last night, the list being as follows
Past commander. A. w. Parker; lad,
commander, Alice NJ. Anheier; lad,
vice commander. Eliza King; chaplain
George Robertson; treasurer. Alber
Anheier: captain. Ellen NJ. Parker
pilot, Mrs. Nancy Stansberry; inne
guard, Al Farley; outer guard. II.
Hoch.man; musician. Nellie Biggs.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. l. Clifford and 30
Richard went out on today's easter
to Denver. The chances are good tina
they will get through today. as tn
weather is reported clear on Cumbrei
Mrs. Clifford said she didn't mind sta.
Ing over a day In ChAma II she had
do SO; neither did Mr.. Clifford. 80 the
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