Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-11-13
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
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Court meets In Silver City on the
10th Of this month.
Sheriff Kohler, OF Sierra county,
spent Sunday In Rincon.
Died, at his home at Iona Parda,
on Friday, November 9th, 1896, Fred
E. Price.
lne nio urande dam company has
agents out securing right 0 always for
the dam.
Miss Dora Barker, the teacher at
Fruitland, is giving that place an ex-
cellent school.
The ladies Of the M. +. church, of
San Juan, will give a turkey supper
Thanksgiving evening.
Services at Hillsboro, next Sunday,
by Rev. Edward s. Cross OF the Eois.
copal church at Silver City.
There will be a grand masquerade
ball given by the Rebekah lodge, Of
Silver City, on Thanksgiving.
Mrs, A. Dean, of Pennington, is con.
templating the erection OF a four-room
brick residence in the Blake addition
0. Nichols arrived In Pennington
Sunday from San Miguel county, Colo
RADIO, where he has been since last
March.
The services OF the Fort Bayard
Brass Sextet has been engaged by the
Rebekah lodge of Silver City, for their
masquerade ball Thanksgiving even
ing.
Miss Arrow, representing the viavi
society, gave a very interesting and in
structive lect1re to the ladies Of Rincon
IN the Harvey hou ,e dining room. Sub
ject, "Health."
All orders can now be supplied in
Pennington for tinware, hardware and
agricultural implements by j. A.
Laughren's new store and factory, at
less than Durango prices.
John Hamlet and family arrived in
Pennington Monday. Mr.. Hamlet is
a brother Of Marion Hamlet formerly
OF that place, and has come from Ar
kansas Intending to make his home in
Pennington.
Lafayette Fox, who was shot by a
negro named Daniel, on Tuesday
evening of last week in Silver City,
was buried at Fort Bayard last Thurs
day, by one of the lodges of that post
to which he belonged.
A musical and literary program will
be rendered at the Jay Eye See build
ing IN Lordsburg this evening for the
benefit of the M. E. church. All are
cordially invited to attend. Admis-
sion % cents. children 10 cents.
Vol. 1, No 1, of the Normal Quar.
terly has appeared. The QUARTERLY is a
small paper, edited by Prof. Light, in
the interest of the normal school at
Silver City. The editorial part of the
paper shows a mastery hand has con-
troll of it.
The branding of cattle costs the
stockmen thousands of dollars annual
ly in the deprecated prices of hides.
Why can't some one invent some
method of Identification as efficient
and cheap as burning devices into the
skins with a heated iron.
The marketing of sheep from the
Catskill country has ceased for this
season. A large number have been
shipped from that section since tie
Gulf road was finished, the last train
load being received there Saturday
night and shipped to the eastern mar
kets.
Friday night, the postofice at Gen.
trail City was looted and robbed. The
robbers are thought to be the same
gang who have been holding up trains,
robbing stores and postofices in that
part of the Territory for some months
past. The robbers secured 800 in
money aud stamps.
DR.. Sloan and the other chicken
fanciers of Santa Fe county are quietly
making preparations for the annual
poultry show at Firemen's hall in this
city or next Tuesday and Wednesday.
It will be a free show and all owners Of
blooded birds in the county are invited
to become exhibitors.