Mrs. E.L. Manaugh received an announcement recently of the marriage on June 18 of Miss Emma Hyde to Mr. Chas. Dolivar Mounts, which occurred at Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Hyde is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.F. Hyde, who formerly operated a jewelry shop in Dolores.
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J.N. Newell, a deputy sheriff from the west end of Montrose County, left the latter part of last week, taking Mrs. Irvin Dunham in connection with the charges against Dunham for alleged burglary of the store at Red Vale.
Dunham is being held here pending his recovery from severe burns received recently in a gasoline explosion.
The Red Vale store was burglarized Wednesday, July 12, when about a hundred dollars worth of merchandise was carried off. The store is owned by E.L. McKee.
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C.H. Metzger, assistant state horticulturist, and Don Anderson, of the same department, were here this week and expected the C.A. Brown field of Irish Cobbler potatoes on the Lofquist place up the river.
Mr. Metzger complimented Mr. Brown very highly on the potatoes and ranked them as one of the finest fields of potatoes he has inspected this year. The altitude and climate conditions are just right, Mr. Metzger said. There are 25 acres in the field.
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The condition of Thelma Boyd, local telephone operator who was injured last week when she was thrown from a horse, is very much improved as of this writing. Her condition was very critical over the last of the week and it was recorded as doubtful that she would recover. Miss Boyd was kicked or struck in the abdomen and it was feared that peritonitis had set in. ***
Some very nice catches of fish have been brought into Dolores from up the river within the past few days. Dr. W.J. Rogers has demonstrated that he can lift fish out of the river about as well as he can pull teeth.
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A trip through Montezuma County will soon convince one that there was never a better prospect of a bumper crop than there is this year. Summit Ridge has some very fine fields of grain and the farms down the Dolores River, both below and above McPhee, have fields of wheat and oats which show up mighty well. Both dry land and irrigated crops are in excellent condition.
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The recent epidemic of kidnapping seems to us to be a direct outgrowth of the lawlessness which was bred under the prohibition laws. Thousands of men found it easy to make big money quickly by violating the liquor laws. Now that there is no longer a profit in illicit beer running, and the indications are that the prohibition amendment will be repealed in its entirety, these "easy money" gentry are turning to another and even more vicious sort of racket.
We have not the complete record before us, but since the tragic Lindbergh baby case there have been at least 20 and probably more cases of kidnapping for reward.
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One consolation of the poor - its children aren't kidnapped.
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If you were writing a novel about the far west, how would you dress your hero? Here's how Owen Wister, the celebrated author of "The Virginian" and other famous novels, dressed "Lin McLean' in his novel of the same name, published 35 years ago:
"Passing each busy prospector, Lin would read on every broad, upturned pair of overalls the same label, 'Levi Strauss, No. 2," with a picture of two lusty horses hitched to one of those garments and vainly struggling to split them asunder. Lin remembered he was wearing a label just like that, too."
