Six aspirants for the position of postmaster at Dolores journeyed to Mancos Saturday and there took the civil service examination.
S.V. Alford, manager of the Swift creamery at Durango, was a pleasant caller at the Star office Wednesday. He left an advertisement to run in this issue of the Star, and said there would be more later on.
John Lill, stepping around like any successful mining man, was in town Wednesday and said that he was making preparation to return to old Mexico where he and his brother, Ernest Lill, have recently acquired some promising looking mining property. The Lill boys are rustlers and it is not hard to predict their success.
Ronald Crawford, for several years past employed as coach in the Dolores high school, has turned in his resignation to accept the position of athletic instructor in the Durango schools.
A story of real snow trouble was retold in the Star by George Fitzsimmons: "In January, of 1884, I was working on La Veta pass, but Cumbres pass was buried under a snow storm that will go down in history. A passenger train was stalled on the pass from January 6 to April 12. There were eight men and eight women passengers. They had nothing to eat for three days, until a section foreman and his crew, hearing the distress whistle of the locomotive, crawled over the snow on snowshoes, bringing a quarter of beef and other food stuffs which they had stored in their cabin for their own winter supply."
Stephen Smith, well known early citizen of Montezuma County, died at Cortez Saturday evening. Funeral service were held Tuesday afternoon at Cortez and the remains were shipped to Denver for interment.
There should be no shortage of irrigation water next season, if there is anything like a normal fall of rain in the summer. The snow in the hills is said to be fully normal for this time of year. Reports are that there are five feet of good, wet snow on Lizard Head pass and considerably more on Wolf Creek pass and Cumbres.
M. F. Shideler and Charles Roessler were over from Mancos yesterday and reported the road between here and the Red Arrow town in fine shape.
Ada Hutchins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hutchins, was born in Vernon, Arizona, June 2, 1923, and passed away at the Johnson hospital, Cortez, Colorado, January 15, 1935, at the age of eleven years, seven months and thirteen days.
Mory Plumlee and Ed Robb, of Durango, left Sunday morning for Denver. They got as far as Albuquerque that night. They will be away about then days attending to business connected with the Conoco service station.
Cecil Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Robinson, left Dolores Saturday for Long Beach, California, to spend the rest of the school year with his grandparents