Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-29
RENTED ALL
DANCE HALLS
A Democratic Trick in Socorro to
Keep Republicans from Holding
Public Meetings.
AN INTERESTING DOCUMENT
1t Was Signed by George Washington and
John Knox-lt Is Now Owned by g. T.
Brown, of Socorro- Other Terri
torial Notes.
EDDY COUNTY.

| j. .. Cameron and u. S. Bateman
have been named as central committee
men of the Democratic party for Eddy
county.
Last Sunday afternoon George W..
Barnes was baptized in the Pecos river
by Rev. j. H. Powell and Evangelist
| Brewer.
Dr. ii. c. Wright has commenced
work on his new residence at Carlsbad.
Fred Nymeyer, formerly of Carlsbad,
has purchased the new Commercial ho-
tel at Ell Paso.
| At the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. H. r.
Christian at Carlsbad, William r. Reed,
business manager of the Carlsbad Ar
gus, and Miss Leila Christian were mar
Texas.
| w. +. Polsgrove, Of Carlsbad mana
ger of the woolscouring plant at that
place, went east to be married to Miss
Ada Richardson of Muskogee. l. T.,
where the marriage took place.
CHAVES COUNTY.
Spiritualists held seances at Roswell
last week.
w. p. Seymour, of Portales, has re-
moved to Arizona.
Louis kelsea, formerly of Roswell,
was married to Miss Mary Kelly at st.
Louis.
The West Grand Plains school has
opened with Miss Maud Evans In
charge.
John Shaw and the V company ship
we'll to Kansas City.
George Munro and crew of men are
building several bridges on the lower
Pecos canal.
The streets and cutters of Roswell
were flooded last Tuesday by a 2-inch
fall of rain.
Amarah Damn, of Roswell, sold sixty
shorthorn cows to Frank Saunders, of
Alamogordo.
Grace Smith, of Roswell, sustained
painful injuries to the knee and a frac
ture of the femur near the hip joint by
being thrown out of carriage.
The bull given by George M. Slaugh-
ter to the Galveston relief fund was
won at Roswell by Walter Chisum. The
proceeds of the drawing, $500, We're for
warded to the Galveston relief commit
tee.
E. S. Crossnn has taken charge of the
brick machine at the Godair brick yard,
Roswell, and has commenced turning
out brick for the new $4,000 school
house The plant has been leased by
build the school house.
SOCORRO COUNTY.
Col F.. w. Eaton, of Socorro, has been
granted a patent on an ore washer and
The Santa Fe railroad has secured
some coal lands Just across the river
from Socorro.
S. Michaelis, a business man of Mag
dalena, has gone to San Francisco to
take himself wife.
Mr. and Mrs d. J. Green. of Skowhe-
gan, Me-, have settled at Socorro for
Mr. Greenes health.
The San Miguel band of Socorro has
its Sunday concerts, much
to the regret of Socorro citizens.
w. G. Hammel is repairing the Tyler
place at Socorro, which two years ago
was partially destroyed by fire.
Hon. H. NJ Dougherty has bought the
Orrin Rice property at the head OF
Fischer avenue, Socorro. The consider
alton was $3.50.
Miss Elizabeth Lockhart, formerly of
Socorro was married at Toledo. g., to
Lewis Cylde Van Week, al the home of
her sister, Mrs. Roland M. Barbour.
A. Lyle, near San Marcial. lost thirty
tons of hay in stack and several out
buildings by one of his little ones set
ting fire to some grass near his house.
Frank M. Dodds, a stockman of Mon
ticello was at Socorro last week for the
purpose of placing his daughter, Miss
Lily. at the Mount Carmel convent
school.
Jacob Hammel, who recently left So
corro to visit friends at Lake Valley,
Sierra county, suffered stroke Of par
alysis at the home of his son in Ell Paso.
When the candidates on the Repub-
lican ticket visited Limtar, La Joya
and neighboring precincts they found
that Leandro Baca. the candidate for
sheriff on the Democratic ticket, had Sc
cured options on all the halls used for
speaking and dancing until after the
election.
During the recent meeting Of the
Methodist conference in FL Paso, Bsh-
op Hamilton received letter from
some miners in the Mogollon mountains
asking for preacher. The request was
couched in the folio slng language:
"Dear Bishop-We're a lonely crowd UP
here. ana can't you send us sky
pilot?' The request was granted
A very interesting document has been
recently added to c. 7. Browns collec-
ton of curios at Socorro. The docu-
ment is certificate of membership in
the Society of Cincinnati, granted to
Thomas Posey in 1887. 1t bears the sig
nature of George Washington as pres
ident of the society. and that of John
Knox as secretary. Mr.. Brown pur-
chased the relic of Mrs. Dixie r. Quin-
Ian, of Socorro. who is a great-grand-
daughter of the Thomas Posey to whom
the certificate was granted, he having
been colonel in the revolutionary war.
Robert Lane fell from freight train
at San Marcial and injured his right
leg so that he has to go around on
crutches.