Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-05

| With AL Bernard and w. i. Godfre
representing the First ward the con
ing two years there will be close o.
tention to busines. Mr.. Godfre
knows the requirements, having ser,
ed one year, and a better or NOR
careful citizen does not live in Du
range than Mr.. Bernard
| The three children of Mrs. E. S
| Reynolds, Charles, Helen and Gladys
went to Mancos this morning to sta.
with their grandmother, Mrs. A. b
Shaw. until Mrs. Reynolds makes othe
arrangements. Mrs. Reynolds hous,
at Animas with everything 1t con
tanned was destroyed by FIRE the othel
night.
At the meeting which Mrs. PuIfort
conducted Mt Elco Wednesday. to vote
| on the question whether school district
No. 23 should be divided or no. It wns
decided to divide the district by q
vote OF II TO 6. The portion OF thu
district near Elco is now district No
20. The members OF the board of the
new district are Walter Anderson
president; Robert Frazier. secretary
and Frank Reynolds. treasurer.
DR.. and Mrs. A. l.. Tilton and Mrs
ta lah al
rock last evening with Navajo
squaw they were conducting to the In
sane asylum at Canton, S. d. They
left on todays eastern. Mrs. Ishmael
was on her way to spend her vacation
with friends In Arkansas. leaving the
party at Pueblo. DIR. and Mrs. Tilton
will return to Shiprock after leaving
their charge at the asylum.
The Democratic convention that
nominated the present Democrat,
ticket, referred with pride to the pol
Icy of the present Democratic admin
istration. and 10 the law and order
policy, red light district and all. And
the Oxford is not as bad today as II
was last fall and during the winter
We have liking for several of the
Democratic nominees, but they should
refuse to run or have their names con
nected with such n platform.
Suppose Frank Levan should tender
the city the regular license fee and
be turned down, he would have Just
as much right to continue to run 9
saloon as a well known place did TO-
"a year or two In La Plata county
rendering license money and having II
rejected does not make II legal to
conduct saloon. II this were 10 then
Fabian and half dozen others who
have rendered money for saloon II
cense and been turned down, could
open Just the same.
W. A. Greene of st. Joe. the popu
lar travelling salesman for the Humid
ley Dry Goods company. came In las
night and will be in the city today
Mr.. Greene was the author OF thu
poem entitled Here Because I'm
| Here" written on the occasion OF hi
| being snowbound In Crested Butte
| which has been reprinted in nearly al
of the newspapers of the western
slope. The poem was published II
The Herald some weeks ago.
All things considered the month o
March was not so bad after all IL
Just that our memory Is poor and W
forget what the past years produce
In way OF weather. The total pre-
cipltation for the month was 127, nes
to the lowest in point OF moisture sine
| 1908 with one exception, last yea
when 1t was LIE. In 1903 the precip
tation was 800 with an average ten
perature OF 81 on an average tn
temperature on the average the pa
, month was 35. We had 10 clear day
i6 partly cloudy. and cloudy.
Mrs. p. NJ. Parsons came up. fro
Laplata, N. NJ, last night on her WI
to her old home in Oklahoma to viii
|, up her affairs. Mr.. and Mrs. Parsoi
recently bought land at Laplata nel
her daughters family. and moved
their new location, some time In Fe
ruary. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Pa
sons returned to Oklahoma to dispo
OF certain matters, and had bare
reached her destination when she W
recalled to Laplata on account OF
ness In her daughters family. Tod
she was making another attempt
return and gather up the stray ent
r About / o'clock yesterday afterno
p. the tender OF the west bound pass
al ger jusmped the track on this side
L. Lumberton. The engine stayed on
'r rails aud none Of the cars jumped
'usck. but tho uaiA was compel