A fire of unknown origin destroyed a shed and an outbuilding at the Dolores Lumber and Supply company elevator early Friday morning. The shed was formerly used as stalls when the fed yard was doing business there and the building at the end next to the street contained a model T Ford truck, belonging to the firm, which was destroyed.
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F. P. Salaz, employed on the construction of a cellar by G. D. Taylor, received fatal injuries Tuesday on Dunlap Hill when a truck loaded with stone upon which he was riding got out of control and ran wild. Salaz was on the back end of the truck and had helped load the machine with stone to be used in the cellar which G. D. Taylor is building on the Dunlap place above Dolores.
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C. W. Haviland, representative of the state game and fish department, was in Rico Friday and met with a number of nimrods of that place to discuss the proposition of bettering fishing conditions on the upper Dolores. He proposed to build two retaining ponds in the vicinity of Rico and to see that they are stocked and to close the stream to fishing for five miles adjacent to the ponds.
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Attorney S. W. Carpenter was a visitor from Mancos Wednesday, attending to legal matters for various of his clients here. Mr. Carpenter recently returned from a trip to Denver.
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Kenneth Tucker made a business trip to Denver this week, returning home Tuesday. Mrs. Tucker accompanied him as far as Alamosa to remain for a visit until the last of the week.
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Mr. M. A. Meenan and daughter, Mrs. Irene Miller, came in Wednesday evenign from Durango and will spend some time in Dolores. They have been living in Telluride for several weeks this summer.
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Mrs. Maria Giorgetta has been confined to her bed for the past week with an attack of lumbago. She is somewhat improved at this time. Mrs. Minerva Belmear has been caring for Mrs. Giorgetta.
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Noel Sitton has been busy this week hauling in beans from the dry land section. Included in the lot were 750 sacks of 1930 crop which were unloaded here. The old crop beans in this territory will soon be sold out, it is said.
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Someone drove a caterpillar over the Dolores signs at the forks of the road beyond Narraquinnep reservoir recently. Of course it was an accident and there is nothing significant in the fact that the large Cortez sign was let standing.
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Caldwell of Pueblo, Mrs. Ruth Peske and Mrs. Guy Day of Durango, who have been visiting for several days with their brothers, Irvis and Billie Brumley, left Sunday evening, going to Durango.
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Last week, on Monday evening, the Pythian Sisters gave a luncheon for the Knights following their regular meeting. Albert Miller, who went to Denver as a delegate to Grand Lodge gave his report to the local lodge that evening.
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Anton Koenig was down from his West Fork ranch Monday placing an order for cars in which to ship his cattle. He will ship three cars Oct. 7, loading at Muldoon, while Troy King will sent out 14 cars, loading at Dolores, Mr. Koenig said. He says his stock is in fine condition.
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There was a full house at Pythain Theater Saturday and Sunday nights when the added attraction of the Sharkey-Schmeling fight pictures drew a number of fight fans.
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