Semi-weekly herald., 1910-10-17

the 2Otn OF this month.
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Miss Mollie Real will spend the win
ter In the quaint old town OF Santa
Fe. She left for that point this morn.
ing.
Mrs. Harry Pearson and Mrs. An
tone Wilmer were in from Bayfield, on
shopping expedition yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Spath and
son of Aztec passed through this morn
ing on their way to Boulder where
Mrs. Spath is to enter the sanitarium.
Judging from the number of hogs
that came in by express from Farm
ington this morning Durango is not
destined to suffer from pork famine
Johnnie Root returned TO the Tom
Boy mine at Smuggler this morning
His mother, Mrs. Cadance Root, will
spend the winter on the Vallecito
ranch
Mrs. j. NJ. Parson, who has been
a resident OF the Lower La Plata the
past three years, left for Ralstons,
Okla her former home, this morning
for visit with old time friends.
Robert Covert. the Junction creek
ranchman, is transacting business
with local merchants today.
Thirty car loads of sheep belonging
to J. s. Hatcher and c. J. Heathers
will be shipped to Kansas City from
Hesperus next Sunday. This is the
largest shipment ever made from that
point.
The storm seems to have been gen
eral. Aztec, Pennington and the Bay
field section report all night rains
Silverton enjoyed snow storm. While
it rained in lockwood the surround
ing mountains are snow-capped.
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Texas creek ranchers have just fin
ished threshing. This section is one
of dry farms but failures are unknown
With precipitation Of 1872 inches this
season one farmer reports yield OF
thirty-eight bushels of wheat to the
acre.
S. G. Wall seems to be one of the
few local Nimrods who succeeded II
getting a venison this fall Early il
the summer the deer were plentiful
but they went high up in the noun
tains before the hunting season open
ed
Mrs. Maude Ferguson and children
OF Del Norte, who came here last
month to attend the Wall-Pollock wed
ding and have since visited relatives
left for home this morning. Mrs. Fer.
guson is daughter of Judge and Mrs
O. S. Galbreath.
o. S. Galbreath Jr. was brought II
from Kearns last night. very Ill will
typhoid fever. This morning he was
taken to Mercy hospital Certainly
the Galbreath family are sorely af
flicted, this being the fifth OF theii
number suffering with this disease.
w. A. Hunter of the Hunter Mer
camille company of Pennington will
wed Miss Minnie French at Woodward
Okla, Oct 18. Mr.. Hunter and his
bride are scheduled to pass through
Durango. Oct. 81.
Mrs. c. E. Dudley leaves for Arizona
points early next week. Later she
goes to Mexico. She is trying to con
vince the captain that for winter
sojourn the latter place is superior
to Durango. but he knows that our city
is always on the job with the right
kind of weather.
County Superintendent Mrs. Pulfort
visited the new school on Florida mesa
yesterday. Russle Marble, the teach
er in charge. is making splendid prog
ress considering the many difficulties
he has TO contend with. the new schoo
house not being completed, being the
principal one.
Many friends and neighbors attend
ed the funeral OF 14-year-old Teddit
Pedwell on the Florida mesa yester
day. The account of the tragic &C
cident which resulted in his deatf
occurred in the Herald Wednesday
The school of which the little fellow
was member was closed all da,
Thursday.
Messrs. Pennington and Updyke
photographers, well known In Durango
and southwestern Colorado, and who
left here six months ago, have jus
returned from among the Indian tribe,
located in Arizona. They return with
the object of becoming citizens ant