Two big rabbit drives will be staged "out west" Sunday, according to information given this office. One crowd will gather at Cahone where arrangements are being made to take care of as many hunters as care to go there. Men on horses will round up the rabbits and drive them toward the hunters, it is said, who will have less walking and more shooting. Another big drive is planned for the Rhyman neighborhood. This territory has not been hunted over and there are plenty of rabbits. This community is eight miles north of Lewis.
Congratulatory orchids were sent to the Star office and its editor, Fred Bradshaw, from the Durango News, here is what the card said, "We agree with Fred who states, concerning the Star's 38th birthday, that he somehow believed that the paper will be on the job for many years to come."
The two big rabbit drives, staged at Sylvan and west of Yellow Jacket Sunday, resulted in the demise of several hundred bunnies and the further depletion of the lepus cuniculus population.
The board of trustees held a short but interesting session Tuesday night. Principal business was: Marshall and water superintendent Henry McConnell was asked to resign, on account of alleged incompetence. The board will meet again next Tuesday night when the matter will be considered further.
Liquor dealers in Dolores were ordered to suspend operations until they had obtained licenses under the new law.
Forty-four alleged participants in the riot staged at Gallup last Thursday, in which the sheriff and one of the rioters were killed, are being held at the New Mexico state prison at Santa Fe and will be tried for murder. The New Mexico laws provide that all persons participating in a riot in which a person or persons are killed are equally guilty, hence the wholesale arrests.
Forest Ranger J. G. Cayton of Rico reports that the snowfall on the headwaters of the Dolores River is above average at his snow scales for the last of March and that the water content of the snow is slightly below the average. This average is for a period of nearly twenty years. The snow this year is considerably deeper than it has been for several years.
A judgement of $2,808.54 was awarded by a jury on March 23, to A. W. Quin, Alamosa newspaper publisher, against C. W. Towndrew, Raton, N. M., trucker, one of whose vehicles collided with Quin's car, killing two members of the Quin family. Mr. Quin was awarded $1,500 for the death of his wife and $100 for the death of his son, in addition to funeral, hospital and garage expenses.
The rural rehabilitation office, which has been located at Corez, was moved to Dolores this week and housed with the local ERA office in the Pythian theater building.
The spring storms which have been prevailing in this favored section of the continent, have continued, or resumed, this week and a considerable quantity of moisture has been added to the supply. Roads which were becoming fairly passable, have become a mess again. Ground had dried in most parts of the farming sections of the county until actual farming operations were begun in places.
Mrs. H. V. Pyle, who has been quite ill with flu the past week, is very much better.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Porter arrived in Dolores Tuesday night, returning from Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Porter underwent a serious operation at Mayo hospital. They visited with relatives in Denver the past few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Holcolm, of Pyote, Texas, came to Dolores this week looking for a new location. They plan to remain either in Dolores or McPhee.
Pat White purchased a forty acre tract of land on Garret Ridge last week from T. H. Akin and plans to move there soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd C. Bradfield, of Cortez, visited Mrs. Merta Bradfield Sunday.
Lyman Milroy, who has spent the past several months with his sister, Mrs. T. C. Perriman, at McPhee recently returned to Alamosa for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baxstrom, Marguerite Baxstrom and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith made a business trip to Gallup last Saturday.
H. V. Pyle is remodeling his home on Seventh Street. The roof is being raised, making room for an upstairs bedroom and an extra room on the ground floor.