Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-06-21
WHITE OAKS KEEPING
UP COURAGE
1t Was Disappointment, However, That
the Railroad Extensions Being Built
Fail to Come to the Town.
A GOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Special Cor. New Mexican.

Special Cor. New Mexican.
White Oaks, N. M, June 20, 1901
There seems to be an indomtable deter
mination on the part of every one in
White Oaks not to be discouraged on
account of the great disappointment in
not getting the main line of the Rock
Island & E Paso railway. The disap-
pointment is exceedingly bitter because
we had been led to believe the road
would come through the town. 1t may
yet prove that this would have been the
better route even though the grade is a
trifie greater than on the line chosen, for
the company has not yet obtained water
and there is no telling when or where it
will get it, The prospecting and boring
for water has already been an enormous
expense to it, On the other hand had
it taken the route through White Oaks
and out over the mountain passes it
would have had an abundance of the
finest water for locomotive and all other
uses. However, that is its business, not
ours. As stated before, there is high
spirited determination to keep up cour-
uSS anu SulSCCb III SplOC VI ihc olSup-
pointment, This fine courage is seen
everywhere, even in the Memorial day
and Children's day exercises, which have
been better and more generally attended
than for several years. Rev. Mr.. Glad
ney, of the Methodist church. preached
the Memorial sermon on Sunday even
ing preceding Memorial day and Rev.
Mr.. Miller, Of the Congregational church,
delivered an address on the evening of
that day. when most excellent pro-
gram of music, songs and addresses was
presented. We venture to say that the
sermon and the address would compare
favorably with any of those delivered in
the large cities throughout the states on
that occasion, and yet our local paper
did not mention them, barely noted the
event Such extremely limited editorial
h ORION is to be deplored.
There is not q town in the territory
that can produce finer programs on
day, for our young people are
not excelled in ability anywhere. The
and Baptist churches
nave celebrated Children's day and the
Methodists will have their exercises next
Sunday. White Oaks has some most
excellent singers, and just now they,
ind the public generally, are rejoicing
,ver the addition of a magnificent tenor
o their number. Mr.. Wilcox, agent and |
operator at Carizozo station, is the pos
essor of this fine voice, and he has ar
anged to spend his Sundays in White |
oaks and sing with the Congregational
,hoir,
Colonel George w. Prtchard and wife |
eturned home Monday evening. They
will remain here for some time in order |
o give the colonel much needed rest |
nd recuperation from his arduous duties !
IS district attorney Later they will go |
asst to attend the Pan-American expo
ition.
Mrs. M. II. Koch and her two little
aughters start east next week to spend
he summer with her people in New
York.
Burt Timoney and wife are making
arrangements to go to the Philippine
stands soon. Captain e. Mob. Timo-
ey, the father, is already there in the
mploy of the United States postal SER
ice.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage engagement between Miss I
,argarett McCourt-step-daugh OF
Ion. w. G. Mcdonald and Mr.. Sumner,
on of Chief Civil Engineer Sumner of
he Ell Paso e Northeastern Railway
company. Miss McCourt is charming
oung lady of fine accomplishments and
ulture, and has lived here since she
yas o mere bit of girl, except the
ears she spent in an eastern boarding
chool.
Already the fishing and camping par
les are visiting the Bonito and Ruidose
ivers. Fish are reported more plenti-
III than has been the case for several
ears.
Stock ranges are still in good condi-
ion.
Several goat ranches have lately been
established in the foothills of the Carlo
The new law requiring teachers to
ndergo medical examination for
tuberculosis is causing some kicking in
his county by the friends of consump-
I'VE teachers. 1t is a good law and
hould be enforced strictly.
BY the way the New Mexican states
hat the Teachers Normal Institute of
lincoln county is to be held in Captain.
his is mistake in so far as the place
f holding it having been decided forit
not yet decided, and can not be for
ome weeks so we are informed by the
ounty superintendent of schools,
If records count for anything the pub
C shoos of White Oaks have been more
uccessful than any others in Lincoln
ounty. With an enumeration of 243
hildren of school age, White Oaks has
ad daily attendance of 1853 pupils.
Lincoln, with an enumeration of 247
ad q daily attendance of "a.
Captain, with an enumeration OF 333
hildren of school age had daily at
enhance of 96. This gives the per cent
f attendance as-follows:
Captain less than 20 per cent; Lincoln
little more than 3s per cent, and
White Oaks little less than 20 per
ent.
Clearly something is needed to rouse
he people to the necessity of keeping
heir children in the schools furnished
" the public funds, An excellent way
0 remedy this careless Indifference
would be to base the apportionment of
he general school fund upon the per
ent of children in actual attendance in
he schools of the several districts.
White Oaks is the only precinct in this
county that finds it necessary to employ
hree teachers.