J.L. Morrison received word this week that his cousin, Robert Morrison, one of Pine River Valley's early settlers and outstanding citizens, died Monday afternoon with a heart attack. "Bob" Morrison was among the last of the hard-riding early-day cattlemen and was known over the entire Southwest.
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Warren Frazier broke all recent records Monday when he landed a 19-inch trout, which he estimated would have weighed four pounds. They had the trout for dinner, which is why it was not weighed.
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The annual picnic and business meeting of the Montezuma County Dairy Association will be held June 20 in Dolores. The local chamber of commerce will act as host and supply coffee and barbecue meat to the guests. Wives of farmers will bring baskets, and all will feast at Hillside Park.
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C.A. Brown was down from the Lofquist ranch early in the week, and told the writer that he had been hauling seed potatoes over Lizard Head Pass and having little difficulty. He hauls more than forty hundred at a load and says that with the exception of about two miles this side of Trout Lake, the road is in fair condition.
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Editorial Comment: A neighboring editor gives as another reason for the depression the fact that people purchased so many things that were guaranteed to pay for themselves.
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We were born too early. We cannot help but think of the convenience of the little device known as the zipper. Just a pull and it is closed, a pull and it is open. Think what a convenience this would have been in the swimming hole days. Instead of being hampered by having to undo a couple of buttons, all the prospective swimmer would have to do would be to pull the zipper and he would be ready to go.