Semi-weekly herald., 1913-06-05

Montezuma Lumber company, accom-
! panied them to Durango.
Judge Hogg and W. f. Bozman o.
spent Saturday night in town on theil
, way to Denver where they will joir
! the ranks of the auto owners. The,
will make the return trip over land
providing the cars and their language
are equal to the emergency.
Ernest Reese, eldest son of Com.
missioner and Mrs. A. e. Reese, de.
parted for Denver this morning where
he expects to find employment. His
skill as machinist is sufficiently vel
known SO that it is never necessary
for him to be on the job hunting list
long.
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Eddy departed
for Salt Lake this morning where
they expect to locate. If they are moi
exactly satisfied with conditions there
the colony of Colorado people who
find Wenatchee, Wash, the place tina,
holds their fortunes, will probably
persuade the young people to join
them there.
l.. B. Furman, construction engineer
for the d. & R. G., spent Saturday
night at the Savoy on his way from
Pennington to his headquarters in
Tucker, Utah AS the result of his
visit to San Juan county an irriga-
ton propect of great Importance to
the section gives promise of material
izing.
Jack Jordan, L. T. Holiday, w. Fl.
Norton and o. S. Galbreath were the
members of a motor party fro /, Pa
gosa Springs who after watching the
slab artists from ther town go down
to defeat, iourneyed over to our Town
and forgot their grief, when they
sat;sh, d the inner man by partakinP
of the delicious eats served at the
Hotel Strater.
Miss Mary O'Rourke left for May
Day spur this morning where she is
engaged in directing the youths of the
section in their pursuit of knowledge.
Miss O'Rourke is one Of the newly
elected teachers who is to enter upon
her duties in our town in the fall She
IS graduate of the state university
and has made marked success in
her chosen profession.
The county commissioners are meet
ing in regular monthly session today.
Two grocery" licenses were granted,
Andy Chitwood, La Plata, and William
Rodgers, La Plata. Mine Host Joe
Freed of the Trimble Springs hotel
rendered his resignation as road over
seer of the Animas valley district and
his son, Joe Freed, was appointed in
his stead. This afternoon the board
is busy allowing claims.
Clifford Laube, the young man we
will all refer to few years hence as
the talented young journalist, left for
his home in Rico this morning. Cliff
ford thinks, as mining camp Rico
is going to be among the first in i'm
portance in Colorado, hence he could
not do better than enter upon his jour
nalistic career in that town.
Prof. C. P. Utterback and Richard
Nelson returned from Aztec last night
and the professor was passenger to
Denver this morning to visit few
days with his wife before she con-
tinues her travels to Cloverdale, Ind.
to spend the summer with her parents
Prof. Utterback has abandoned his
pldiiS loi passing the Nacatioi III the
east, but will not leave Colorado's
borders during his rest from active
duties.
Tom Collins, blacksmith at the
smelter, was placed on board the east
ern this morning for his old home in
Westphalia, Kas. For weeks he has
been confined at Mercy hospital Sc
riously i'll with complication of trou-
bles, the most persistent being heart
failure. For weeks his life has hung
in the balance, and now the only
hope held out for his recovery is the
benefit to be derived from the change
to a lower altitude.
Mrs. Robert Sloan boarded the east
ern this morning with the prospects OF
delightful trip of two months dura-
ton before her. In Denver she will
join T. C. Graden and his niece on a
tour of the northwest. They will visit
Yellowstone park and ether points OF
interest en- route to Seattle-the OBJ
jective point of their travels. On their