How Much Do You Know?
Q. What is television as applied to the radio?
A. When television is perfected the device will enable radio owners to see the speakers or singers being broadcast.
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The annual meeting of the Southwest Baptist association, held here last Saturday, was well attended with representatives from all the organizations of this church in the San Juan basin.
Both a funeral and a wedding ceremony were performed at the church during the session, which is very unusual.
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The various ladies organizations of Dolores gave a dinner at the M.E. church annex Wednesday in honor of those of the community who have reached the age of 70 or more. There were 39 honored guests present.
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It is currently reported that a plan is on foot to establish a modern flour mill in Dolores at once and that the machinery will be brought from Grand Junction. It is said that the Juanita mill at the Junction is to be dismantled and the equipment brought here. Bob Porter, who was here two or three years ago as apple inspector, T.W. Thomason and E.M. Granich were over from the Western Slope the latter part of last week and negotiated with several people on the deal.
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An order has been received in Dolores definitely setting the date of the closing of the Arriola post office as Aug. 15. The people of the Arriola community will be served by the rural route, of which Willis Thomas is carrier, out of Dolores..
This is the third time such an order has been issued, but the report is that this time the office will actually be closed.
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The Dunton store and post office, owned by J.E. Jacobson, was completely destroyed by fire last Thursday. The fire is believed to have started in a defective flue and was not discovered until it had gained such headway that it could not be controlled.
The Jacobson family lived on the second floor of the building and they lost all their possessions.
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The high bridge across Rock Canon on the old New Mexico Lumber Co. log railroad is being torn down and the timbers hauled to Cortez by county trucks. There are many thousand feet of good bridge timber in the structure, which the county has bought at a bargain.
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Someone has figured out that it would take 47,611 freight cars, making a train 342 miles long, to move enough silver to pay Europe's war debt.
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That $160,000 Salida fish farm deal has bobbed up in the legislature again, and it looks as if the people of Colorado are to be played for a bunch of suckers. We have heard that the state already has 16 hatcheries, enough, if properly managed, to stock half the trout streams In the western part of the United States.
