Kenneth Archer, 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Archer, of Cortez, was fatally burned last Friday afternoon by the explosion of a small quantity of blasting powder he had in his pocket. The Archer boy, with his brother and another boy, were playing with some black blasting powder taken from a powder house near Cortez. They had built a fire and were throwing small hands full of powder into the blaze. Kenneth got too near the fire, and the powder in his pockets ignited. His clothing was set on fire, and though his companions rolled him in the snow, his burns were sufficient to cause his death. The lad died Saturday.
Mrs. Chas. B. Reid left Sunday for Florida, where she will spend several months visiting her mother, according to word received here. Mr. Reid drove his wife to Gallup where she took the train.
Word has been received in Dolores that a big boy was born Feb. 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Don McEwien, in Los Angeles. The youngster weighed nine and one-half pounds.
The many friends of Pete Huggins are glad to observe that he is back on the job as driver of the Cannon Ball stage which comes in here every day from Durango. Pete has been off for several months.
Tuesday night the English I class had a sleighing party. Mr. Brown furnished the pulling power of the sleds with his car.
The juniors have started practicing their play twice a day. They practice in the afternoon at the schoolhouse and at the Memorial Hall in the evening.
William E. Oliver, 77-year-old resident of southeastern Utah, and Norris Shumway, his 24-year-old grandson, were found dead last Friday, and James Cecil Palmer, a 35-year-old sheepherder, is under arrest at Sulphur Springs, Texas, charged with the crime. Palmer is said to have held up a trading post owned by Harry Goulding and fled taking $40 in cash and the trader's car.
Fees for grazing cattle on national forests this year will be 55 percent and for sheep 60 percent of the base fee, compared with 52 percent and 53 percent, respectively, in 1934.
Silverton is not the only city that is attempting to pass ordinances to put a stop to radio disturbance. In a recent article, we read that radio interferences in apartment houses in the larger cities has proven an almost insurmountable obstacle to the wider use of radio sets in those metropolitan centers.
Another million-dollar snowstorm hit the southwest country again this week and put railroads and highways largely out of business. Fully a foot of wet new snow fell in Dolores, and even more fell in the region north and west of here, it is reported. At any rate, there was a material addition to the water supply, already regarded as adequate. Snow on the mesa north of town is reported to be 3 to 5 feet deep. The roads between here and Dove Creek and here and Rico are completely impassable except to horseback travel.
Chas Arts, former manager of the New Mexico Lumber Co., came in this week and has been attending to business matters at McPhee. It is stated that he is there to go over the mill property and make an appraisal for the owners.
With the rapid approach of potato planting time, whether it be on St. Patrick's day, Good Friday, or any other sentimental date, considering location and the state of the season, potato-growers are advised by P.H. Stephens, economist and statistician for the farm credit administration at Wichita, to follow the old New England adage of "planting the same amount of dollars' worth of potato seed each year."
R. E. Cannon, Morgan County extension agent, organized rabbit drives with shotguns each Sunday, and hunters from miles around killed 14,000 of the pests in December. It is estimated that this number of rabbits would eat feed sufficient for at least 1,440 head of cattle.
Francis McCabe is driving a new Chevrolet coach. He went to Durango late Saturday to bring it home.
Floyd Wilber resigned his position with the Taylor Hardware store Saturday night and will have an interest in the Dolores Hardware company with J. B. Gelwick, which will soon be in shape for its opening. Floyd entered on his duties Monday morning.
