Mrs. Mabel C. Waldron, county clerk and recorder of Montezuma County, is most critically ill at the Johnson Hospital in Cortez following a recent operation for appendicitis. There is little hope for her recovery. Mrs. Waldron was taken to the hospital last week and operated upon when it was found that the appendix was affected with gangrene. She has been growing steadily worse all week and this Friday morning is reported no better. People in Dolores and over the entire county are much concerned about Mrs. Waldron's condition and sincerely hope she will show a turn for the better soon.

A meeting of great importance to the farm people of Montezuma County will be held Saturday at the Woodman Hall in Cortez. This meeting will be to set up a farm and home council for Montezuma County. The purpose of the farm and home council is to organize the farmers and their wives into a group to develop and increase their agricultural and social welfare.

Mrs. Maude L. Amick, wife of T. E. Amick, manager of the McPhee store, died Sunday morning about 2:00 of a heart ailment. The remains were held ins state at Cortez for a few hours and then taken to Durango for shipment to Denver, where interment was made Wednesday afternoon.

The most favorable indication as to the future of this section of the country is the trend of the beef market. Cattle prices at Chicago stock yards reached the highest level since 1930, when prime beef sold at the peak price of $13.85 with a few as high as $14, according to press and radio reports.

Mrs. Greene Newton, San Juan County, N.M. female resident, must serve the sentence imposed by Judge J. B. O'Rourke, according to a ruling of the Colorado supreme court handed down Monday. Mrs. Newton was convicted some time ago of stealing a steer and was sentenced to one to three years.

Word from Dove Creek and other points out on that famous highway, NO. 160, is that motorists who contemplate making a drive out that way had better stay at home as the roads are completely impassable. About the only man who has tried to make the trip recently is the mail man, Ewing Rust, and he has given it up as a bad job until the mud settles.

Our new teacher, Mr. Moore, began his duties last Friday. He teaches arithmetic, spelling and history to the eighth grade; typing, manual training and bookkeeping in the high school. We all think we will like him.

Willard Stolworthy, chairman of the San Juan County board of county commissioners, who is interested in the stock business, while in Farmington this week expressed himself as favoring the general provisions of the Taylor grazing law.

C.H. Webb returned Saturday afternoon from a business trip to Grand Junction. He says they are enjoying near summer weather there.

Ronald Crawford came over from Durango to spend the weekend with his wife and young daughter, Carla Lynn.

Mr. and Mrs. Dick Tucker and Gloria and Miss Thelma Boyd left the first of the week for Phoenix, where the women will visit a few weeks. Dick took a load of potatoes down and will return this week.

Several carloads of basketball boys and girls made the trip to Farmington and Aztec last Friday and Saturday.