Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-23
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe, AUGUST %, 1901.

day. Mr.. Colquhoun was down from
Clifton to meet them.
MI. and Mrs. L. V. McCourt passed
through on the east bound train Tues.
day, en- route to Mrs. McCourt's old
home In Canada for a visit.
Mrs. Baylor Shannon, who has been
spending some weeks at Cloudcroft,
Isl Paso and Silver City, was in the
city Friday, returning to her home IN
Clifton.
The baseball lovers have formed an
association, which everybody is in
vited to join. The object is to pro-
vide funds. Any person can join by
paying a dollar, aud can continue to
be a member by paying Hfty cents a
month.
S. j. Prudential was 10 the city
Saturday on his way for a business
trip through Arizona. While here he
heard Of the proposed ball game at FL
Paso last Sunday, aud returned to the
city Of the Pass to root for the El Paso
team, but his roofing did little good.
The adobe work on the new Catho.
lie church has been somewhat delayed
by the impossibility of securing car.
penters TO make the window frames.
, The work will be pushed as fast as
possible, and the building will be
dedicated this fall.
MI. and Mrs. @. NJ. Shannon re-
turned from their visit to Clcudcroft
aud Ell PasO Sunday. Mr.. Shannon
reports he found no hay fever az Cloud.
croft. They went up to Clifton to
look after the packing Of their house
hold treasures, which they will move
to Tucson, where they intend making
their future home. They were accom-
panied by @. A. Betterton, Mrs. Shan.
mons brother, who formerly was a
we'll known travelling visitor through
this section of the country.
Last Friday and Saturday this sec
tion was visited by a plague OF mos
quitoes. They were brought in from
the big pond west OF here, some by the
east wind that blew Friday afternoon,
and some by the cars, Everytime a
train came in from the west 1t was
loaded down by hobo mosquitoes. A
wind soon blew them away from town
1t is seldom the town is bothered by
mosquitoes, and when 1t is they are
very disagreeable, for the folks here
are the frst they eve had a chance to
dine on.
A. W. Clifford, after spending a day
or so at the Dundee mine, got anxious
to help and so went out in the morn
log to help hitch up the mule. This
animal is a wise Que aud belongs to
the union. He allows no q but a
union hostler to have anything TO de
with Mm@When Mr.. clifford picked
up the bride and started for the for
ward end of the brute. thinking that
was the safe end, the mule asked to
see his union card. Clifford said he
did not belong to the mule SINNERS
union. %whereupon the mule kicked,
and Clifford was laid up for a couple Of
days, and started for FL Paso as 500
as be was able to travel. When asked
il he is a "scab." Mr.. Clifford can show
the real thing on his left ankle.
The game of base ball played be-
tween the L%ordsburg and FL Paso
teams last Sunday was a great success,
as far as Lordsburg was concerned. 1
Saturday there were twenty tickets
sold here for Ell Paso, the railroad
having made a round trim rate Of one
fare for the game. The Lordsburg
boys ran up against a set Of good play
ers, and had their hands full TO win
the game, but win it they did. They
could not do otherwise when they
would think OF the game the previous
Sunday. Pitcher Stewart was on his
metal, and the FL Paso heavy hitters
could not dud bis ball. Several times
he put them out in one, two three
order. The Lordsburgers made but
few errors, aud were we'll satisfied
with the score, which was eleven to
six. Personally they do not know
much about the FL Paso team, as they
did not see a member OF 1t until they
got to the ball ground, and did not
see one Of them after the game. This
may have been because the Ell Paso
players went to Sunday school in the
morning, aud attended divine service
in the evening, but ever If that was
the case some of the Lordsburgers
thought they might have been in
ylted toattend. They are not heather
aud would have enjoyed a chance at
the contribution box. The FL Paso
papers, before the game had been
telling the people what a ane game
they would see, but neither the Times
nor the Herald had a word about the
game in the hrst papers they pub
Iished after the game. The News
had a short account Of the game, and
said the reason the El Paso team lost
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