European counties were aligning themselves, and war talk was being heard but it all seemed far away from Durango.
Locally, however, spring was getting nearer and farmers were preparing their fields. The town’s people were thinking about spring cleanup in gardens and lawns.
Durango Democrat, March 2, 1911
The Mancos Times Tribune is speaking of the basketball game played at Durango last Thursday between the Durango High School team and the Mt. Linclon team makes this comment: “The game was characterized by roughness on the part of the Durango team but they lost in spite of it all.”
The above was direct slander of the local team, for there was not more rough playing done by the Durango boys than by the opposing team.
The only ill comment on the game to be heard concerned the display on the part of the referee (who came from Mancos) of a partially for the Mt. Lincoln team, that was very manifest to the observers of the game.
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Durango is proud of her public schools and her churches and her pretty women and her sweet girls. Now if any other town has many of these virtues to commend her as Durango has we’d like to hear from that town. When these advantages are matched, we’ll enumerate many more.
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Those who ought to know say that the fruit crop is not set back any yet. We hope so, but it looks to a man in the moon like old winter was saving a big stick to use in the springtime.
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The board of trade is a body of energetic business men who are all the time alive to the best interests of the community. They should be awarded the medal of praise for a thankless job well done.
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One morning last week the thermometer at Silverton, just forty-five miles away, registered 8 below zero, and at Pagosa Springs, just sixty-five miles away, twenty-five below, while here in Durango it was above zero. If the weather man can fore-know such local differences in temperature he’s a dandy.
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Nevermind the weather, so we all pull together, and make things lulu and get off the bum. One thing we know that the farmer can’t get along without the snow. So even if it rains, don’t let it give you a pain, for it will make lots of things grow now ain’t that so?
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A more pleasing array of youth and beauty never assembled in Durango than were present at the Martha Washington party at which Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Henderson and family extended their hospitality last evening. The home was in patriotic attire for the occasion. Flags were everywhere in evidence.
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Headlines from around the country:
Rejected lover takes shot at girl who jilts him
Thieves steal valuable silks from car in route to California
Scarlet fever in Pueblo
Nothing doing in state’s Legislature
Season of lent begins
Stringent measures taken to prevent epidemic cholera
Duane Smith is a Fort Lewis College history professor. Reach him at 247-2589.
