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Show CARLT0NS VISIT DURANGO COLO. A most welcome visitor at the Her aid office today was K. S. Carlton, now of Beaver, Utah, who is camped, camp-ed, with his wife and son, Walter, at Brookside camping grounds. Mr. Carlton first came to Durango in 1880, as a young boy, with his father and' father's family. He grew to manhood in Durango and was in the Durango high school with Arthur Ayers in 1885. Carlton and Ayers constituted the class, which is still 100 per cent alive and going strong. That's a real record for a forty year stretch between reunions. A year Oi-two Oi-two following the D. H. S. graduated its first class, a class ot one. Tonio-r--row night these men will take a pride and a unique interest in the class of eighty-six boys and girls that will graduate from the Durango high school. Mr. Carlton started in to learn thu newspaper business as a kidi, folding and peddling the Durango Herald il. 1S84. This was the year of the never to be forgotten heavy snow when the railroad was blockaded for three j months. Unable to ship in any news-1 print, the Herald, firmly set on the policy of getting the news to the pub-1 lie, printed the paper on wrapping paper and at times on wall paper, secured se-cured from the merchants. Mr. Carlton Carl-ton vividly remembers delivering these old! papers. He now owns two newspapers in Utah, and is expresi-dent expresi-dent of the Utah State Press associa-' tion. He is another Herald Boy of which this paper is proud. The Durango Du-rango Herald can point to high officers offi-cers in the army and navy and bit men in the business and professional world, in various parts of the United States, who peddled the Herald! as boys. Harold Lloyd, of the movies, is ! perhaps the most famous. We are ! proud of them, and we are happy that i none are ashamed of where they started. To keep it ever so is one of the worthiest aims of this institution The Beaver County News of MU-ford. MU-ford. Utah, and the Beaver City Pre?., of Beaver, Utah, are the papers owned and managed, by Mr. and Mr.v Carlton. Mr. Carlton also worked in Durango Du-rango for the late Tom Garden, lie fore the Garden Mercantile company was established. His father. D. D. Carlton. Sr., was an early day lumber lum-ber merchant, and old timers will rejoice re-joice to learn that he is still living, hale and hearty at 84 in Indianapolis Before leaving the Carlt.ons want to see as many old-time friends as opportunity op-portunity will permit. They are enthusiastic en-thusiastic in praise of the Brook-sic-camp grounds and the courteous and (efficient management of the camp j sroumls by Tom Ballard. They say if is the best, and best managed public camp ground they have so far er-countered er-countered in their travels and that Durango is as pretty and progressive as any city they have visited Durango Du-rango Evening Herald. |