Semi-weekly herald., 1910-09-05

| HhuS anything TO suit MIN. IL Is easier
to reach New York from Denver. A
number of friends were at the train
this morning to bid the travellers good.
bye and wish them good luck.
| Mrs. Norman Thompson departed
this morning for a few weeks visit
with relatives In Colorado Springs.
Miss Maud Force. who was recent
| ly elected teacher of English and his
tory in the Durango high school. has
resigned. and Miss Lola Turner has
been elected to fill her place.
Miss Jennie Hood left this morning
for Denver to resume her studies at
Denver university, where she enters
on the sophomore year The young
lady has been spending her vacation
at home.
Durango boys, returned last evening
fiom a two years absence in Boulder
and other Colorado points. He is here
for visit to his parents and friends
In this city.
August had large percentage OF
cloudy days, there being but six entire
ly clear last month. twenty-five partly
cloudy and three on which the sun did
not shine at all The rainfall this
month was l.2S inches.
George II. Hand. the engineer at the
Oro Fino, and John II. Ball of the Bal,
Foundry & Machine Works, who is
also Interested in the Orc Fino. went
out on the eastern this morning to
visit Mr.. Hands placer properties forty
miles beyond Alamosa.
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Miss Hilda Enge, a well known and
efficient teacher of Montezuma and
La Plata counties, went to Phoenix,
Ariz., this morning, after a pleasant
visit with the Misses Kroeger and
Mrs. ] II. Sleeth. Miss Enge came
in from Dolores several days ago.
Friday night at Grand Junction "a
young Indian student at the Teller
school defeated world champion in
twenty mile foot race. The white man
collapsed in the eleventh mile and
fell in a heap. White men have no
business tackling Indians In long dis
tance running The noble red man
can run fifty miles without turning a
hair. Thirty years ago. Frank Howard
who was for years interpreter at the
Ute agency, eight miles above the
present site of Montrose, at that time
learning the printers trade in the Jour
nal office. subsequently founding the
first newspaper in Alaska, at Juneau
where he still lives, used to race from
Telluride to Ophir, fourteen miles, and
back. against a saddle horse, always
winning. But that was before Bob
Gillespie's time.-Telluride Journal.
Cedar Hill Is coming to the front
or rather is already come. Under
proper conditions and care the land
is wonderfully productive, and where
intensive farming is used and careful
selection and rotation OF crops prac-
ticed. the yield Is very large. On the
ranch owned by G. r.. Daniels of this
city. $1,000 of beans were raised this
year on ten acres OF land, the beans
being planted in the orchard, between
the rows of apple trees. This is said
to be the largest crop ever raised on
ten acres of ground in the territory
l.. II. Underwood, who Is running the
ranch. raised the crop. We are all
glad to know that the good things we
have always believed concerning the
Cedar Hill section are no longer
pretty theories or beliefs, but are ac-
tual facts proved by demonstration.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Nathan were
returning passengers on the eastern
iopt tut
on business, TO purchase his stock of
fall and winter goods. visiting for that
purpose, New York, Boston, Chicago
and Kansas City. He found business
conditions much better than I'm the
spring, and says everyone looks for a
heavy fall trade. Mr.. Nathan bought
the heaviest and at the same time the
best line of goods he has ever pur.
chased, and In every department. His
customers may look forward to a splen.
did display OF the newest and most
uD-todate goods and the finest kind of
merchandise. While at the coast Mr.
Nathan combined pleasure with bust
ness, and made brief visits to num-
Der OF the resorts. including Atlantic
City. Larchmont, and Far Rockaway.
Mrs. Nathan accompanied her husband
as far as Kansas City. staying over
to visit her parents as well as other
friends there. while Mr.. Nathan went
farther east.
From Fridays Daily.)
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