Wanted: Potatoes, beans, eggs. Stroud's Cash Store will be glad to handle your potatoes and beans in exchange for merchandise at current market prices. We always pay cash for eggs.
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Mary Menrietta Johnson was born March 3, 1856, in St. Charles Iowa, and departed this life Sept. 16, 1933, near Dove Creek.
In 1881 she and her first husband moved to the Dolores and have resided in this area ever since. Later she united in marriage to Norris Tucker, moving to Bug Springs, 10 miles south of Dove Creek, where they lived for 29 years.
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George P. Robinson, one of the pioneer cattlemen in this section of the state, was killed last Friday.
Robinson owned considerable land holdings on Plateau and Disappointment in the early dates. He was personally acquainted with all the old time cattlemen in Southwest Colorado.
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Employment will be given directly and indirectly to 25,000 men through the expenditure of $17 million on roads within Colorado during the next year and a half, the state highway department estimated Friday.
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A friend back in Kansas says this has been a hard year on the red ink bottle and that he almost caught himself writing his checks in red ink.
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Peaches ready about Sept. 25 at the Wm. Barrett ranch 2.5 miles south of Dolores. Place your order now.
For sale - concord grapes, 3 cents per pound. Bring container. H.H. Roelfs, east of Lebanon schoolhouse.
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Stoner Items: The LaSalle livestock company's large truck took 90 black face bucks from Ben Millard's Tuesday.
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The children are enjoying a hot dish each noon at school.
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"Everyone of the four anthropoid apes is linked in the mind of the scientist to some branch of the human race," explains an expert. The orangutan is the Oriental; the gorilla the negroid type; the gibbon reminds us of the found-headed Alpine races of Europe, while the chimpanzee - most intelligent and companionable of the four - is definitely an animal symbol of the whole Aryan family."
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McPhee Items: Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Kuykendall and family moved down from camp last week and are living in part of the house that the Al Pierce family lives in.
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German Settlement:
Mrs. William Ritter and John Ritter are expected back Wednesday or Thursday from the World's Fair in Chicago
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Editorial Comment: There will soon be two distinct classes of people - those who went to the world fair and those who didn't.
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George Denby has been busy this week trucking potatoes for C.A. Brown from the Lofquist place up the Dolores river to the cellar on the G.D. Taylor place above town.
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The heaviest fall of moisture in several months came within the past week. Stockmen say it will be of some benefit in restoring better water supply on the ranges and giving grass in the lower country a start to make better winter range. Farmers, however, would have been pleased had the rains held off for a while.
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Dave Ball says five inches or more of rain has fallen in the country around Northdale. He says the bean crop is not hurt, so far, although it has been necessary to turn the shocks.
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Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Gelwick, accompanied by Mrs. Fred Bradshaw, came in Tuesday afternoon from a few days' trip to Albuquerque. They made the round trip by way of Santa Fe, Chama and Pagosa Springs, and encountered some bad mud between Chama and Pagosa Springs.