Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-09

no damage to fruit is reported. This
is largely owing TO dryness of the at
mosphere.
Ed Ptolemy left for his home In
Mancos today after visit of few
days with relatives and friends In this
city.
Mrs. N. A. Stevens came in from
Colorado Springs last evening and con
,inued this morning to Riverside to
visit her son. Sam Stevens, the well
known ranchman.
Miss Irene Folck went out on the
Red Apple train TO Eico this morning
to spend Sunday at home. The young
lady is freshman al the Durango
high school.
G.. Fl. Campbell was an arrival last
evening from Des Moines. Ia, and
went out on the Red Apple this morn
ing TO Aztec, on visit to his ranch
property there.
w o. Appegate and brother. II. f.
Appleeate of Monte Vista. are lane
seekers looking over the country in
this vicinity. They returned last
night from trip through the Monte
yuma valley. and this morning depart
I,,,. ,iy,tr
C. II. Coates, special agent for the
western department OF the Germania
Fire Insurance company. New York,
was in the city last night passing
through from Aztec and Pennington
to his headquarters at Colorado
Springs. Mr.. Coates was also here on
business with s. W. Pingrey
Mrs. Theodore Neusel of st. Louis is
demonstrating Partisan filagree work
In Graden's today. Lovely butterflies
and beetles, daisies and stars are made
out of gold and silver wire, and make
exquisite hair ornaments, hat and stick
pins. The filagree work is done by
hand and comes In Two styles, German
and French. 1t is very pretty and
also very reasonable.
Mrs. George w Thompson was In
the city today from the ranch. her
first trip to town since the family
return from California. Mrs. Thomp-
son, who was In very poor health,
when leaving Durango, is now very
well indeed Her friends Were con
sratulating her on her improvement.
this afternoon.
w II. Duggan of the Durcngo Trust
company went out o nthe Southern
this morning to Grand Junction to "a
tend the annual convention of the
Knights of Columbus, which oonveres
tomorrow and lasts two days. NJ
Duggen will stay over for day or two
and return about the last of ihe week.
Ed McAllister, the other delegt e, left
yesterday morning. He will go en-
from the convention to visit friends in
Salt Lake.
]. H. Spells of Denver. organizer of
the brotherhood of Railway Carmen,
was in the city last night to attend
"A meeting OF the local lodge, and dis
c,iss matters of Importance. The Du-
range lodge includes the members at
Sllverton and Chama as well as in
this city. and has n very large mem
bership. All of the towns along the
ID. & II. G. are now organized except
Salt Lake and Burnham. where the
men do piece work. MIR Spelts left
over the Southern this morning for
Grand Junction, staying over tonight
In Telluride.
]. Lahroy Slusher and party of
twelve capitalists from the east. ari!v-
ed last night and went out in autos
today to Florida mesa to look over
The big irrigation project they are In
terested in. Rudolph Kleybolte of the
Kleybolte company, big bond buy
Ing firm of New York, Chicago, Bos-
ton and Cincinnati. who was here
few weeks ago. is in the party. A
Dietrich. formerly connected win the
Cincinnati TiinesStar, is also one OF
the number.
Mrs. w. C. Johnson and son, J. e.
Johnson, and mother, Mrs. Mary j.
Bahon, came In last night from St.
Paul. MINI. and continued this morn.
ing 10 Pennington. to join Mr. John.
son. who passed through a few days
ago with the household goods and
stock. The family formerly lived at
Bruce. Wis, but have been visiting
relatives at ST. Paul for few weeks
Mrs. Bahon is Ss years of age, and
stood the trip fine In spite of her ad
yanced years.
o.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E, Arlington were
arrivals from New York city last even.
ing and are the guests of Mr. and Mrs
Geo ~ Raymond Next week they