Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-11-13
C0LFAX and
UNION COUNTIES
Happenings Of Local Interest That
Have Occurred During the
Past Few Days.
RATION is MAKING CROSSINGS
A New Methodist Church Is Being Built
at Clayton-A Clayton Young Man
Returns from the Philippines
Other Notes.
COLFAX COUNTY.

on the tree at Dawson.
John Routh moved to Ration last
week from Johnson Mesa.
w. c. Wrigley of Ration, is spending
few days at Roswell on some import
ant legal business.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
M. e. church was held at Ration on
Sunday, November 11th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lowry returned
to Elizabethtown from Ojo Caliente,
both greatly improved in health.
The basketball teams of Ration
played a match game on the school
ground last Saturday afternoon.
The city of Ration has purchased, at
Denver two carloads of earthen soil
pipe. to be used in making crossings.
| Will Welsh and Charles Chambers,
of Trinidad, are visiting the former S
lmother. Mrs. James Welsh, of Ration
l.. J. Burt, w. H. French and Norman
Perry of Elizabethtown are ranging the
hills in that vicinity in search of ven-
ison.
Thursday evening at the Methodist
church at Ration to Presiding Elder A.
P. Morrison.
Judge S. T.. Booth, of Ration, left last
week for Kansas City. on some mining
business in connection with the Legal
Tender property at Eizabethtown.
Rev ]. w. Wright, of Ration, has
been assigned to the Cimarron, Eliza
bethtown and Red River charges by the
Methodist conference.
Fireman Robert Mckinley, of Ration,
was stricken with paralysis last week,
soon after retiring to his room. His
condition is thought to be serious.
w. F. Degner and Rev. H. H. Hawk
treasurers to receive funds for the
building of the African NJ e. church at
that place.
A. Il. Mcintyre, mining man from
the Elizabethtown district, stopped off
at Ration while on his way east in the
interest of the Gold and Copper Deep
Tunnel Company, which is running a
tunnel into Old Badly.
Thomas Herburger and Amelia Froe-
Itch. both of Elizabethtown, We're mar
ried on November Sd. The ceremony
was performed by Judge w. C. White
scarver at the residence of the brides
father, H. Froelich, at the above place.
UNION COUNTY.
j. Kelley of Folsom, has gone to
Colorado.
Robert Mansker has moved his family
from Cimarron to Folsom.
Mrs. Honeyfield, of Folsom, has
moved to Ration for school advantages.
Miss Maud Fowler has returned to
Folsom after a stay of several weeks
at Ration.
Miss Addie Goode, of Clayton, is able
to resume her school duties after a
slight illness.
The foundation for the new Methodist
church and parsonage at Clayton has
been laid
Cecil Thompson has completed his
new residence at Clayton and will move
into it shortly.
Varro Carnes, of Clayton who has
been to the Philippine Islands as a vol
unteer has returned broken in health.
S. J. Murray, of johnson Mesa, in
tends to locate permanently at Folsom
in few days.
A. ]. Crowley, of Folsom, went to
Thatcher's ranch to dig up and ship 200
black locust trees to Texas. He will
also build some barns, sheds and do
other carpenter work.
William French, of Bland, accompa-
week. On account of i'll health, Mrs.
French was compelled to seek lower
altitude, and in all probability the
family will reside in Albuquerque for
the winter.
Mrs. e. P. Morris and son Arthur, of
| New Hampshire, arrived in Thornton
last Saturday evening, where they ex-
pect to locate for several months. The
yOuU6 lldH has DcCII III q ioIi6 tiiAC
| with tuberculosis and was advised by
his physicians to come to New Mexico.
Miss Amy Diamond, aged 16 years,
died at South Bland, last Wednesday
evening at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Virginia Diamond About a year
ago the young lady snuffered a severe
attack of typhoid fever, from which she
never fully recovered. The past few
weeks she had been unable to leave
her bed, and the physicians We're pow
erless to aid in her recovery. The fu-
neral took place from the home Of her
mother on last Thursday afternoon,
| and the remains were laid to rest in
the cemetery on the mesa south of
Bland.
Mrs. Lucy Stickles of Bland, received
a message last week from Cripple Greek
] stating that her son, William Slator,
had met with an accident at the latter
place and was dangerously injured
Mrs. Stickles left the same day for the
home of her son In Cripple Creek.
Moore & Nickoson, the dairymen Of
Bland have completed the erection OF
a barn on their ranch property in South
Bland.