Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-28

"Via 81 the new drug 5tOTo a
Clayton was resumed again.
Robt. Collins, OF Socorro, is abou
again, after his severe illness.
q. I. Browns of Socorro, has been sui
fering from a fail for several days.
Fat cattle are in great demand, in
Socorro county, with none in sight.
Bora, at the Phoenix hotel, Clayton,
to Mrs. Chatterdon, a fine girl baby.
Rev. DR.. Reed, late Of EDDY, has
been called to the pastorate OF the Bap.
list church at Roswell.
Contractor Tax]s.-s not beer idle
-the past week, but with a large force
Of men Inns actively pushed the work
'on'thc sugar factory, says the Eddy
1rgus.
Otta Tuschka, a very popular young
man and an industrious student of the
school of mines, left Socorro for Mex
leo, where he goes TO seek "a position
with some smelter as assayer.
In the race at Springer between the
Olona mare and the Mora horse, the
Mora horse was declared winner by
half a neck. Nobody was loser as a
purse had been raised to secure the
race.
Mrs. Whitebill, OF Deming, COM
menced a private course of teaching at
Cooks, the trustees having been unable,
for two years, 10 hold public school on
account OF the district being deeply in
debt.
Information has been received at
Demiog OF the death, several weeks
since, of Edward Wakefield, which
sad event occurred at the home of his
brother, l.. t. Wakefield, Sioux City,
Iva.
John Stenson Las obtained the
services of ". z. Wilkinson, formerly |
in the employ of q. Wormser & Co.,
at Deming, who will hereafter be found
behind the counter of Stenson's mar
ket place, down there.
Miss Julia McCord left Roswell for
Fl. Worth, where she Joined her father
and went east on q trip of sight. seein 6
and pleasure seeking. They will visit
the Mammoth cave, Niagara falls and
other places of interest.
A deaf and dumb man from
Woodward, paralyzed in one side and
paralyz ed drunk in the other, who had
been making himself very obnoxious
about Clayton, was arrested by John
Brophy and placed in Jail.
Cards have been received at Las
Cruces announcing the marriage OF
Senorita Dolores Chaussee to Senior
Catarino Armljo, at the City of Mex
leo. The groom is a son OF Sr. and
Sra. Jacinto Armijo, of LIS Cruces.
The Maple Grove dairy at Ration has
received a new milk delivery wagon.
1t is elegantly painted, and was built
TO order with especial reference to pro-
tect the milk from churning by the mo-
ticn Of the wagon and the heat OF the
sun.
A Christian Endeavor society was
organized at Ervien's hall, over at
Clayton. Mr.. Evans, the postmaster,
was elected president, and the vice.
president is Rev. S. A. Dyson. Leon
McKcsson, secretary, and Sam Horr,
treasurer.
Lncas Meeryan, OF PInos Altos, and
Miss Sophia Gei'z, of Silver City, were
married in Deming at the home of Ben
Larson, brother-ln.law of the bride.
The newly married couple will make
their home at Pinos Altos, where Mr..
,Meeryan is engaged in business.
Will Gibbons, of the drug firm Of
Mickey & Gibbons, at Las Cruces,
came upon a ella monster 10 their
store, but though he attempted to
chioroform the thing, it succeeded 10
escaping into a convenient hole, and Is
0 rs ing low under the flooring.
A house full Of farmers greeted A S.
Goetz at Hagerman, Chaves county,
and listened, with great interest, to his
explanation of the purposes of the beet
sugar company and the terms OF the
contract the company proposes to make
with the farmers for the purchase Of
their beet crops.
Word has been received at Deming
of the recent death at Stuttgart, Ger
many, Of Hymann Wormser, the father
of Gustav Wcrmser, of Deming. De-
ceased was aged about seventy-seven
Years and death was due to dis
ca :cs incident to old age. A wife and
four sons and two daughters survive.
The new lodge, Daughters Of Re-
bekah, at DemIug, have elected the
following officers; Mrs. c. w. Wild
enstein, N. G /; Miss Della Pettey, ".
O.; i. S. Robinson, 2. G.; Mrs.
John Warren, chaplain; Miss Rosa
Hopkins, secretary Mrs J b. Hod.
gon, treasurer; T. S. Robinson, war
den.
The entertainment given Ia the
Methodist church at Deming By the
w. C. T. t., for the benefit OF the
free reading room. was largely attend
ed. aud the ladies realized quite an
amount OF money. In addition TO The
literary and musical program, Judge
Boone delivered a lecture on the SUB
ject of temperance.
J. G. Miller and Geo. G, Thomas, jr,
OF Philadelphia, have returned to Ration
from a months stay at Ojo Caiiente
Mr.. Miller, resided for some years In
Colfax county, and has many olt-time
friends in Raton. Mr.. Miller says that
n rich gold strike is reported at GOOD
Hope, about f1rty miles north OF ",
CaIienle. 1t is said the ore runs ABOUT
$500.
Incorporation papers have just been