Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1899-11-10
WESTERN LIBERAL.
L~oRDsBURG. NOV. 10, 1899.

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yer City trip the first Of the week.
Mrs. J. p. Kerr and son have re.
turned from their visit down In Texas.
Jimmie Hughes is Ia the hospital at
Demlng. suffering from complications
OF the liver.
The weather for the past week has
been as delightful an Indian summer
as could be enjoyed In any mans
country.
Another son has been born to Mr..
and Mrs. c. B. Stevens Of Ell Paso.
Their many Lordsourg friends extend
congratulations.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Shine returned
from their trip into California this
week. They stopped in Lordsburg a
few days and then went to Clifton.
S. ]. Wright has bought him a lot
In town aud moved a house down
frem Gold Hill and put on the lot.
He will become a resident of Lords
burg.
]. 8. O'Brien, who has had charge Of
q passenger engine between here and
ri Paso for some time, has been ap-
pointed travelling engineer on this
division.
T. j. Helm, general agent of the
Denver s. Rio Grande railroad, with
headquarters at Santa Fe, was in the
city for a couple Of hours between
trains Wednesday.
Nessrs. Clapp, Hull and Wilcox have
rented the house recently occupied by
W. Hollingsworth and have set up a
bachelor establishment in everything
but the cooking line.
The steel and glass front ordered
for ]. A. Leahy's new building next
door TO the LIBERAL office, arrived
this week and II. L. Cannon is hard
at work putting 1t in place.
D. ". Reckhart came up from Ell
Paso to take another look at the Su-
perior mine. After his return Mon
day the Superior stock jumped ten
points In the Ell Paso market.
The Arizona s. New Mexico road
will make a rate OF one single fare for
. round trip ticket for all the: people
living on the road who wish to come
down and take 10 the circus next don
day. Better all come.
q. W. Nicklin, of Los Angeles, rep
resenting Barnhart Brothers s. Spind-
Ter, the Chicago type founders, who
made the type from which the LIBER-
AL is printed, was In town this week,
+. and is how at Clifton.
The Ell Psso morning Times now
reaches Lordsburg at one o'clock OF
the day it is printed. 1t has been a
lonEl time since Lordsburgers have
been able to read a daily morning
paper that was not a day old. The
Times is making arrangements to
have a carrier handle the paper here.
The Eagle drug mercantile COM
pany will build a large storage ware
house on the ground between the Wah
Lee wash house and Railroad avenue.
The company has commenced the
building, which will be in sections,
the portion now being built will be
used for storing grain.
County School Superintendent Link
has made an:apportionment of school
money from the general school fund
TO the various precinct funds which
amounts to one dollar for each scholar
In each district. AS there 12I scholars
in the Lordsburg preclnctsthe district
received 1921. The are 1854 scholars
IN the county.
The sanitary conditions OF Clifton
should be looked after more closely
than they are. There are a great
many back yards throughout the town
which are piled up with rubbish Of
all kinds and present an appearance
that is anything but pleasing to the
..eye aud an cdOr that will most surely
breed all kinds of diSease.-Era.
So much freight is now handled at
the local Southern Pacific office that
one man can not revise the figures
Gcharged for the freight, and the COM
pany has had to put a second man on
the revising desk. 1t is understood
that the company would not object to
putting a dozen men on this desk, If
it only had enough work to keep them
busy.
The Citizen announced the other
day that Miss Mabel Wakefield would
teach the public school at Guada-
lupitG. A postal card received yester-
day by this onlce now states that the
young lady will not go to Guadalupita,
but left this morning for Kelly, down
in Socorro county, where she will be-
come one of the public school teachers
Of that. prosperous town.-Albuquer-
que Citizen.
The Morenci Southern has opened
on Onice In Lordsburg. 1t has built
oaaoo hufldfna Waat, Of the AFIkOua