This issue of the Dolores Star is being printed and mailed about 24 hours earlier than usual in order that the Star editor may join his buddies in making big whoopee at Durango this Thursday and Friday. We have a pretty good stand-in with the La Plata County sheriff, but not so intimate with the Durango chief of police. It may be necessary for Dolores folks to come over and bail us out.
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Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Burbank and Charles F. Park, of Golden, were here over Monday night, guests at the Del Rio hotel. The men are representatives of the U.S. Geological Survey and acting as advance agents for a party of international geologists who are to visit this section next week.
There will be a dozen or 15 in a party of geologists who are touring the U.S. They will visit Mesa Verde en route.
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A crumbling highway shoulder is blamed for an automobile accident which sent Mrs. Belle Humiston, 64, of Mancos, to a hospital with serious injuries and left four other persons badly shaken and somewhat bruised. The accident occurred late Wednesday on the highway between here and Colorado Springs. The car overturned.
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The judgment in the suit brought by the Montezuma County commissioners against Byron D. Brown, former county treasurer, and the sureties on his official bond, which was entered on a question of the sufficiency of the complaint, and taken to the Supreme Court in June, 1930, was reversed by the Supreme Court on Aug. 7, the court holding that the complaint stated a good cause of action, and ruling defendants to answer the complaint. According to the complaint, Mr. Brown had been dealing in tax sale certificates to his own personal gain and to the loss of the county; and the court said, in their opinion, that "a county treasurer is not permitted to be interested in sales tax."
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A safety bulletin warns motorists that automobile accidents frequently occur in summer because a bee gets into the car. Yes, and some occur because a little honey gets too close to the driver.
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Back of the age of dinosaurs, the earth new a long, long reign of even weirder monsters - creatures like octopuses riding the seas in self-made "submarines," each with two enormous eyes, powerful tentacles, and a horny beak like that of a parrot, observes a writer in Pathfinder.
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W.J. Exon Merc. Co.: Hungry for trout and can't catch 'em? Well, leave an order here, and we'll catch your fish, and you stop and get 'em and enjoy some real brook trout. They're fine!
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Immediately after a number of residents reported seeing a reptile 24 feet long, the governor of Kansas called a special session of the legislature to legalize beer. Home brew is too potent.