Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-15
LAS CRUCES BRIDES
Weddings That Will Occur In the
Mesilla Valley and At Las
Vegas.
A SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION
A Curious Accident That Befell F. E. Les
ter and Family-Improvements At the
New Mexico College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts.
Special Cor. New Mexican.

MoSllld L dIh. N. M. June II, l5OU. -
Fruit is ripening rapidly in the Mesil,a
valley here. Plums are ripe on the
college farm, and promise larger and
more varied crop than ever before.
Peaches will be shipped from the orch
ards here before the close of the month.
The Messilla valley fruit crop will
probably be one of the largest ever
known.
H. 4. P. Thomes, member of the
class just graduated from the college
here, has been elected professor of ma
tural science in the Silver City Normal
school. Mr.. Thomas is spending the
summer with his father at Organ, and
will move to his new field Of work by
September l.
A number of June weddings among
those connected with the college are
announced Among these are those of
Prof. L. D. A. Cockrell, the college and
station entomologist, who has Just re-
signed his position and is now at Las
Vegas, and whose bride-to-be is Miss
Wilmette Porter, of the Las Vegas Nor
NAL University. The wedding is an
nounced for the 10Th inst. On the 2lst
inst, old Mesilla will witness the we'd
ding of Miss Ida M. Jones, recently
resigned from the professorship of
Spanish in the college, and R. Y. An
ders0n, OF Las Cruces, who is manager
of the leading mining company there.
On the 14th inst, Miss Millicent Barker
at one time student Of the college and
now one of the most popular young
ladies OF Las Cruces, will go to the altar
as the bride of Walter Browning, u
prominent mining expert of Mexico.
The wedding will take place in III Paso,
Tex.
Much interest was manifested in the
recent school board election here, by
reason of the fact that it is the first in
the newly created Mesilla Park school
district. The board as elected consists
of Prof. r. r. Rankin, Fabian Garcia
and David Albillar. The two first
named are teachers in the college, and
the board as constituted is guarantee
that the new public school to be opened
here in September will be of high
grade. The effort to establish q school
here has been made for some time past.
and the successful outcome will be a
great boon to the many families who
moved here to send their older children
to the college and their younger ones to
q public school. The work of the
school will be made, as much as possi-
BILE, to harmonize and fit in with the
lower grades of the preparatory depart
ment OF the college.
Mr.. F. E. Lester and family met with
an accident the other day which might
have been very serious, They were
bound for the Organ mountains on a
week lend trip, going in a covered
powder, packed in the wagon, exploded.
BY rare good luck, beyond sustaining
some burns, none of the party was Sc
riously injured. The fire which broke
out in the wagon, was only extinguished
after loss of about $l5 of goods. The
party continued the trip and returned
on Monday.
Mr.. w. b. Bull, student of the stem
ography department in the college, left
today for Ell Paso to accept position in
the law office of M. w. Stanton.
The girls dormitory is closed for the
summer, and the matron, Miss Alice
Horning, has left on a vacation for her
home in Oregon. All the students who
will not stay here for the summer have
left for their homes. Most of the pro-
fessors anu instructors in the college
will spend greater part OF the summer
here this year. Prof. f. f. Barker
and wife will leave at the close OF the
month for California, and others will go
to the Sacramento mountains for few
weeks.
The administrative department. Of the
college is very busy at present prepar-
ing orders for department supplies
which will be purchased during the
summer. The college library alone
will receive additions aggregating in
value over $4,000, and the agricultural
and mechanical engineering depart
ments will receive much additional
equipment. he former department is
engaged in establishing a college herd
of thoroughbred cattle and purchasing
the necessary apparatus for work in ami
NAL husbandry and dairying.
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