Postmaster B.F. Greene has called the writer's attention to the fact that bids are being asked for carrying the mail between the R.G.S depot and the local post office.
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If the late Theodore Roosevelt could come back to Colorado to ascertain the results of his ardent advocacy of large families, he might be disappointed Out of the 267,324 families in the state, 61.2 percent of the total have no children under the age of 10. Only 187 families out of the 141,338 living in the cities and towns have six or more children. There are 359 rural/farm families with six or more.
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Trouble seems to camp on the trail of Irvin (Honey) Dunham. This week he was placed under arrest on the charge of passing worthless checks at various business places in Cortez. At last report, he was being held in jail pending action by the district attorney.
The sheriff is holding another suspected check artist who is believed to be the same man who passed a number of bad checks in Cortez during the fair. He was picked up at the Penney store yesterday morning. He says his home is in Farmington.
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R.G. Parvin, state fish and game commissioner, warned duck hunters recently that the open season ducks, which starts Oct. 1, does not open until noon and not on dawn on the opening day.
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A farewell dinner was served at the Beaver C.C.C. camp mess hall Wednesday in honor of the 25 or so men who are leaving the camp this week. According to Cook M.R. Malone, who prepared the dinner, the boys ate baked turkey with sage dressing, bread and butter, baked sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, creamed peas, cleery, strawberry ice cream and cake, pumpkin pie, mixed nuts, mints, lemonade, coffee, milk.
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The meetings of wheat growers of this and Dolores county held during the past week at varous points in the two counties have been quite successful, according to Floyd Brown, who has been here, represent the government and the allotment plan, and conducting the meetings.
Mr. Brown says that a total of nearly 7,000 acres have been signed up - 2,800 in Dolores county and 4,076 acres in Montezuma County. The acreage signed up in Dolores represents practically 100 percent of the acreage devoted to wheat in that county, according to government figures, while in Montezuma County the percentage is considerably more than half.
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Arriola Items: There was an apple buyer in our community this week.
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McPhee Items: Elmer Imel, Torrence McMahon and George Smith made a trip to McGaffey, N.M., for repairs for the planer mill the first of the week. ***
German Settlement: Henry Osterfeld and Joe Osterfeld went up the river Wednesday as far as the Lofquist Place. They were after material for a derrick.
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From the Longmont Times-Call: Former prohibition bureau employees are being held in Denver on a charge of attempted kidnapping of Adolph Coors, the Golden brewer. The home brew industry provided them a living for a long time and they can't get accustomed to the idea of anybody making beer and not splitting up the profits.
*** Old age pension payments went out from the county to 28 people in amounts varying from $6 to $20.
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Editorial Comment: It's embarrassing to find yourself short of small change. But it's the shortage of bigger money that really hurts.
