Semi-weekly herald., 1914-03-05

Kew. X. >. CHAMBERS, tne eVangc-
list who has just completed such
successful series of meetings at the
NJ E. church, South, departed this
morning for Pennington where he
will conduct services for couple of
weeks. As the result of his efforts
here there were eleven additions to
the church, twenty conversions and
number of reclamations. The church
members derived much benefit and
the church in general took on new
life.
Travel worn and sunburned red,
Loudon Mullin and George Skoog re-
turned from the Cave basin district
last night, where they journeyed last
week to look after claims in which
they are interested. They went out
to Dixon's, the Root ranch on the Val
lecito the first day and snow-shoed
from that point to the mining camp
the next, distance of nearly sixteen
miles. They found the basin covered
with coat of the wet beautiful, full
ly eight feet in depth. About the
only successful prospecting that can
be done up there now is to find moth
er earth, and even that requires no
end of effort and elbow grease.
The fire department was called out
at 2:35 this morning to extinguish
blaze in the stone barn on Thir-
teenth street, formerly used by the
San Juan Transfer company as a
stable and storage room. The first
floor was not occupied but the second
story was still used for storage. Mrs.
Gerguin's stock of household goods
was stored there. The fire had made
such headway that the goods were
badly damaged before the department
| succeeded in getting it under control.
However they stopped the progress
| of the flames before the building was
injured to any great extent, the loss
| on it being estimated at about 500.
The owner, David Atterbury, carries
81 800 insurance so he is fully pro-
tected. Mrs. Berguin's furniture was
insured for $1,000 and the water and
fire loss will probably total nearly
this amount The origin of the fire
is unknown.
| The ranks of the non-church goers
was considerably depleted in Durango
yesterday as the result of the go-to-
church campaign waged in our city
last week. Fully 1,500 persons at
tended the Protestant churches and
several hundred were present at the
Catholic churches. Many of the mum
Der received new impression of
what the church is doing. They ap-
preciate as never before that it is
teaching people to be better citizens
by recognizing the divinity of hu-
manity. The days of "hell fire" ser
mons are OF long ago and in their
stead those in which the Fatherland
| of God and the brotherhood of man
are made manifest. Today many
realizes as they never realized before
that Durango is better place to live
on account of the untiring efforts
put forth by the Christian people.
The duty a citizen owes to the sup
port of the church was brought for
chilly home to many and it appears
certain that goodly portion of the
heretofore non-church goers, will
hereafter be numbered among the
regular attendants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Moore, sub.
stantial residents Of the Pennington
section, returned last night from a
three months visit in their old home
near Belfast, Ireland. Many years
had elapsed since Mr.. Moore visited
the scenes Of his boyhood days, but
Mrs. Moore has only been away foul
years. The trip over was delightful
in many ways. Ireland was beautiful
in all respects, truly the Emerald
Isles. 1t seemed to be carpeted with
one unbroken mass of green, dotted
everywhere with beautiful flowers
But after living in this dry atmos
phere the excess of humidity ther,
} proved exceedingly unpleasant an'
they did not greatly regret that thei
} stay could not be Of longer duration
Their homeward journey was no
pleasant. The sea was very rougl
and the vessel was delayed two day
J by the heavy storms, ten days instea'
J of eight being required for the voy
age. Among their fellow traveller
were 4 newly married couple on thei