Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-14
MINOR CITY TOPICS.

Nickel plated copper ware at Goebels.
Clean cotton rags wanted at the New
Mexican Office.
There will be an adjourned meeting
of the city board of education on Mon
day evening.
Michael Thyme came up from Albu-
querque yesterday and went to work
for George Blunt at w. R. Prices place.
Drink from the fountain in the plaza,
but throw all waste water into the
basins attached to the fountain, for that
purpose.
Tomorrow is St. Swithin's day. A
common superstition is that if it rains
on st. Swithin's day, it will rain 40 DAYS
afterward. But not in New Mexico.
you bet.
1t is requested that no water from
the plaza fountain be thrown upon the
ground, and notices to that effect, in
English and Spanish, have been placed
that all may read and heed.
Charles Beinert is slowly but surely
getting the machinery for his new steam
laundry in place in the Chavez property
near Guadalupe bridge. He hopes to
start up the last of next week.
Edgar Andrews, of Bonanza and John
Daley, of Cerrillos, passed through the
city this morning en- route to the Santa
Fe mountains where they will put in
80 days prospecting for mineral loca-
tions
Fisher & Co., have %remodelled their
recently purchased brick on Gaspar
avenue, converting 1t into a first class
livery barn. and are now occupying
same, having removed their stock from
San Francisco street.
Mrs. w. H. Goebel a few days ago
discovered a centipede gamboling
across the floor near her baby. Mr.. Goe-
bel says it doubtless came from a pile
of lumber stored in the cellar at the
Ramona building. The animal meas
ured four inches.
Custodian Woodruff, at the Historical
society's rooms, has on exhibition a jar
of the largest %gooseberries probably
ever shown here. They were grown in
Mr.. Woodruff's garden from bushes set
out n year ago, and are larger than
pigeons eggs.
The ball game booked for tomorrow
afternoon at the college grounds has |
been post poned to 2 p. IN. on Monday.
The catchers will be G. w. Parsons and
A.. Astler, pitchers David Shoemaker
and Horace Otero.
Abran Valencia, who was bitten by a
dog the other day, today showed signs
of delirium and was lodged In the coun-
ty jail. Valencia seemed badly scared
and carried a large, black crucifx be-
fore him on his way to jail and per-
suaded a boy to read aloud out Of a
Spanish prayer book all the way from
his home to the county Jail.
At the Bon-Ton: A. C. Clark amt wife,
Durango, Colo; Antonio Rael, L.amy;
Jose Madrid, Lamy; Gus johnson, Chas.
H. McIlvaine, Ell Paso; George Ed
munds, Ration; H. c. Duncan, Mary
Johnson. Las Vegas.
Thomas A. Lewis, st. Louis; j. E.
Erwin, Denver; George A. Steele, Louis
vile, KY; c. l.. Harryman, Kentucky,
are among the visitors in town to-day.
At the Palace: Erwin p. Hits, C. E.
Hits. st. Louis; E. A. Sackett, Denver:
w. J. Walters, New Jersey; G. A. Car
ruth, Antonito.
Frank P. Seiglitz, jr., here several
days on a visit to his father, left this
afternoon for Solomonville, Ariz, where
he IS employed as q merchants clerk.
He said he had a good job to protect or
climate at Santa Fe would soon
pull him out of Arizona where "about
this time a year the Thermometer usually
ranges about ia In the shade"