Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-23
SPRINGER SOCIETY,
Some Local Happenings ChronicIed
by Our Veteran Correspondent.


TO the Editor Of the Optic.
: SPRINGER, N. M, January goth, '97
The ladies Of the Methodist churc
have inaugurated a system OF afternoo
teas. The first was given by Mrs. W
A. Phelps, wife OF the parson, and th
second was held Wednesday Afternoon
OF this week, when Mrs. j. A. Kremi
was the entertainer. The OrTIc's In
formant was allowed a peep Ut th,
table and filings and saw that all VA
Ia pink, even to the cheeks Of tn
ladies. Mrs. Pascoe will be the mex
entertainer on Wednesday, Feb. Sd
The church ladies have organized al
aid society to assist deserving poo
people. The me mbers will make sal.
able articles and dispose OF them fol
the object stated.
The young people have organized
social club and are enjoying visits a,
h~ospitable homes.
Judge Tewksbury, OF the Springer
land association, Is here from Chicago
and proposes to test the extent Of the
placer gold neld, discovered here last
summer.
w. H. Kremis. Chilly" ~ he Is
generally known, came up from San
Marcial, Monday, and spent two or
three days in business aud pleasure.
He found the town had improved some
and was pleased with the changes
made In the business in which he has
interests here. Everyone would like
to see Billy and his pleasant family
back in their old homo agsin.
Nearly a month of snow and mud
has caused some OF our people to get
more than q ''ten-cent move" on them.
selves. Sidewalks and good crossings
are now the talk Of the town.
The hose house Is being improved,
and the money to pay for it comes out
of the company's treasury.
Bert. Hubbard has recently put In q
steam engiae to u bis planning mill
and sash factory. and has added turn.
ing and saving. Bert is a f~rst-class
genius.
Farmers are getting ready for early
spring work, and cattle men predict
early grass. From present appearances
It is thought no spring irrigation will
be necessary. The ground 10 gettin1
the benefit Of all the snow that fell on
the 30lh ult.
The church choir organized by Mr..
George Anderson, furnishes excellent
vocal music to the worshippers at Rev.
Phelps's tabernacle.
Cattle buyers are always with us-I
that is, since November 81. Our cattle
raisers do not have to hunt a market,
bat sell at the yards here at good p~rices:
better prices than for ten or twelvr
years past. Last springs calves are in
demand at SIP SO to Sl4, and Charles
Springer sold some extra good ones al
s18 30. Yearlings and two-year-olds
are also in demand at good prices,
while large COWS are only worth about
BIG. The fashionable fad now is young
beef.
M. w. Mills has been under the doc
'or's care for q few days, but is conval
now.
The county clerks Office has a IA
niliar look again, with M. M. Salaza-
1t the desk and the county board OF
commissioners, with Jack Goblin at the
,elm, look like old times. The first
ime slack" apd this writer met, wss
IN the 7th Of April, 1862, when be was
member of Morgan L. Smiths old
'egiment, the 9th Missouri, the tough
'st regiment in fighting or foraging in
nt's army. Their battle song was:
We're the boys that are gay and happy.",
md have heard them sing when the
'attle was The hottest. Jack occasion
lily gives US a measure of it nowadays,
'ut he doesn't always like to have me
ell how the boys used to forage. !