Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-04
BACK FROM GALLUP.
Rev. W. D. Clayton Returns to the
City After Visit to Or. Clayton,
FEW INTERESTING ITEMS.

Rev. William d. Clayton has been
spending several weeks at Gallup with
Dr. and Mrs. Edmond Clayton. He
tells The Citizen they are just as they
used to be before leaving Albuquerque
Rev. Clayton returned a few days ago
He called at The Citizen office to give
us few items. lie was preacher in
charge of the Methodist church in Gal
lup for four years, leaving there nine
and half years ago. He says the town
has improved wonderfully He. has not
been in Gallup for four and a half
years and says he would have hardly
known the place. So many new build.
ings. Some fine ones have gone up
since ne was there. Tie school house
is larger building thSn any of our
ward school houses in Albuquerque. Ii
has seven rooms and seven teachers.
Instead of only Roman Catholic and
Methodist church, the Episcopalians
and CongregatioRalists have churches
there. Many of the secret societies
have organized there. The Odd Eel.
lows and Knights of Pythias have fine
buildings in which those societies, not
having buildings of their own, arr ac-
commodated. At present some of the
mines are about closed on account of
strikes.
A building containing the finest ma.
chinery mas been erected just west Of
town for the purpose of making brick
of the refuse of the coal mines Ito be
used for fueD. Those drilling for coal
oil near the town insist that they have
found it, and the superintendent says
that if The water was shut off they
would get fifteen barrels of oil a day.
Rev. Clayton met many of his old
friends while there, although a great
many have either died or moved away.
He attended the Masonic lodge while
there and declared that the Gallup
lodge is composed of as fine material
as any lodge he has visited in New
Mexico, many of the best men in the
town belong TO it The deputy grand
lecturer of New Mexico was there last
week and the lodge gave a banquet at
the Harvey house on Friday evening.
to which the members were invited to
bring their ladies, their wives and
daughters and sweethearts. They first
went to the lodge room. where they
had fine talk from the deputy grand
lecturer, White, from Alamogordo;
then to the Harvey house, where they
discussed a magnificent meal, after
which the master of the lodge, w. III.
Wolff. called on each gentleman pres
ent. to say something and some nice
little talks were made. Rev. Clayton
was sitting beside the master and was
one of the last to be called on. He
said that in looking over these pres
ent he remembered so many who were
gone that he was sad and closed his
talk by saying that he almost felt like
singing the old song:
John Anderson, My Jo John we've
climbed the hills together,
And many happy days, John, we've had
with one another,
And now we must totter down. John,
But hand in hand. We'll go
And sleep together at the foot, John
Anderson, My Jo."
The banquet was a grand success
and pleased the ladies greatly.
Murry Johnson, an old business man
of Gallup, has gone to FL Paso, Texas,
to go into business. He passed through
Albuquerque last Saturday night. Rev.
Clayton says perhaps many of his
sons (Dr. Edmund Clayton) friends
will be pleased to learn that he was
not only elected one of the town coun-
Gil on Tuesday last, but was also
chosen by the men of the Caledonia
mine last Saturday to be their doctor
in the future to begin work on last
Wednesday This is one of the big
mines at Gallup, Of which Alex. Bowie
is manager.