Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-01-13
NEWSY ALBUQUERQUE BUDGET.
Recent Happenings of Interest at the Ducal
City As Reported by the New Mex
leans Diligent Special Cor
respondent.

Special Correspondence.
Albuquerque, Jan. IL, ls9s.--The Of
t@icers, elected by Excelsior lodge No. /.
Degree of Honor. Ladies' auxiliary to
the A. o. e. w.. at the meeting last
Wednesday evening, were installed with
ceremony on Tuesday evening. The
officers are as follows: Past chief of
honor. Mrs. Paulina Martin; chief of
honor, Mrs. Kate Harsch; lady of honor,
Mrs. w. w. Geuter; chief of ceremonies,
Mrs. A. l.. Gray; recorder, Mrs. E. b.
Hoffman; tinancier, Mrs. R. }. johnson;
receiver, Mrs. II. j. Eddings; usher,
Mrs. A. M. Whitcomb; outside watch
man, G.. B. Hawley; inside Waterman,
E. Brittenstein; maids of honor, Misses
Mamie Shoup and Nellie Emery: trus-
tees, Mrs. M. A. Shoup, Mrs. H. J. Ed
dings and G.. Il. Hawley.
The ladies are making preparations
for a ball to be given on Second street
on the evening of January 10. The
members, having the reputation of be-
ing entertainers of the first class, there
will doubtless be a large attendance.
President Joshua Reynolds, of the
First National bank, who has been at
tending the meeting of the board of
directors of that institution, departed
for Ell Paso yesterday. All the officers
and directors of the bank were re-
elected.
The work of ballaSting and otherwise
improving the Santa Fe track between
here and Isleta junction is going on
under the supervision of Roadmaster
Devine.
The installation of the officers of the
temple of the Mystic Shrine, recently
elected, took place on Tuesday evening.
They are: Illustrious Potentate, DR..
j. II. Wroth; assistant Rabban, Arthur
Everitt: high priest, Chas. Mansard;
treasurer, L. H. Kent; recorder, Frank
Mckee; captain of guard, George Kase-
man; ceremonial master, A. G. Stockett;
outside guard, A. M. Whitcomb: mar
shall, Z. O. Spencer.
County School Superintendent B. f.
Perea is making a tour of the schools in
the county and will not return until Fri
day.
An event of much interest to the
young principals in the ceremony and
their many friends in Old Albuquerque
was the marriage on Tuesday morning
of Miss Fidelia Garcia, of Los Griegos,
and Mr.. Luis Herrera, sacristan of I'M
maculate Conception church. After u
wedding breakfast, Il procession, headed
by the First regiment band, formed and
proceeded to the home of the bride,
where a day of Notification ensued which
concluded with a grand ball in the even
ing.
Before departing from the city j. W.
Reynolds awarded a contract for the
erection of three new houses of brick,
costing about So, 900 each. The cot
tages will be built near the corner OF
Railroad avenue and Edith streets, T. L..
| Wilson secured the contract.
Postoffice Inspector Chas. Fl. Thomas,
with headquarters at Denver, has been
transferred to this point and now has
an office with the local postmaster.
Conductor Hufford had charge Of the
extra freight, which was lying at Ala
media siding early Wednesday morning,
when it was struck by regular No. IS,
in charge of Conductor Webb. The
damage wa about as reported in yester-
days NEW MEXICAN. An investigation
now being pursued will place the blame
of the accident where 1T belongs.
Sheriff Hubbell is out Of town inves-
tigating a supposed case Of murder in a
remote part of the county, information
of which was brought to this city by
two gentlemen, who had business in that
section and returned yesterday.