Semi-weekly herald., 1911-05-22

George French is down from the
valley today.
Reports come from La Plata Of
big strike on the Southern Boy.
The Comstock in the La Platas
shipped some $50 ore recently.
C. C. Perkins is back from Denver
where he transacted business for the
past week.
William Regner of Lower La Plata
is purchasing supplies from local mer-
chants today.
The graduating class at Bayfield,
numbers four members. The exer-
cises will be neld May 81.
Reports come from all over the
county that wheat prospects could
hardly be better.
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Ray Goodman's little son required
him to identify himself when he re-
turned from his lengthy trip east.
MIR. and Mrs. Reece McCloskey are
scheduled to return from Denver to-
morrow night.
Mrs. George Raymond and son HUI
bert and Mrs. A. E. Arlington are
shoppers from the Animas valley to-
day.
Mrs. Johnnie Bell of Bells Spur
brought Miss Frances down to attend
the circus this afternoon.
Mrs. L. w. Deuel. and children after
several months in Southern California
are in Denver visiting Mrs. Deuel.
ST. They continue their journey this
way as far as Alamosa in few days.
w. NJ. Gibson, the lumber dealer,
was south bound traveller this morn
ing to look after his Aztec and Farm
ington yards.
j. Il. Krout, who registers from
Death valley, California, went to
Pennington, real live town, this
morning.
The street department has COM
pleted the work of opening the drains
and cleaning the streets to the June
tion creek bridge.
Miss Grace Cochran is In charge of
the Pargin school. The school house
has been fitted up with new desks.
Twenty children are in attendance.
William Duggan of the Durango
Trust company goes out to Red mesa
to look over real estate interests to-
morrow.
| Miss Sarah Heath, who has just
closed successful term of school at
Allison, is spending her vacation in
town.
| Dayton Warner desired to appear
in the want ad column as one wish
ing pretty little girl who could love
him in and out of sight to take. to
the show tonight.
The Fountain show is in town to-
day and quite crowd are in attend
ance. The parade was given a little
late but the usual number of small
boys followed the clown on the mule
and great many of the older people
stood on the walks to see it go by.
| The paternal solicitude for chill
dren's pleasure is much in evidence
today. Fond papas who haven't been
down with their offsprings for months
are fondly holding their little hands
and leading them circusward. Such
consideration.
Fatty Crawford "blew in" from Hay
gulch. The weather man made such
mistake in geography when he sent
us this windstorm that it was quite
possible for one built on the bungalow
style of architecture, like Mr.. Craw-
ford, to arrive in the city by that
method.
Yesterday being the tenth anniver-
sary of The Hague congress, the Off
cials of the N. e. A. requested that
as many schools as possible through
out the country observe the day. Sew
eral La Plata county schools respond
ed to the request. County Superin-
tendent Mrs. T'rlford gave addresses
at Bayfield, and Pargins on the sub
ject of international peace.
Parties desiring postal cards to
send east notifying friends tha. he
"Trout Season" opens in Colorado on
the 25th of May can obtain them at
the Board of Trade rooms free of
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