Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1903-10-28
Silver City Locals

visiting relatives in FL Paso, returned
home last week.
Miss Anna Ashenfelter returned to
Silver City last week after ten days
visit with friends in Albuquerque.
Editor Fred A. Bush, of the Silver
City Enterprise, was an albuquerque
visitor last week.
Miss Kate Crawford, who has been
spending the summer with rel ,tives in
California, returned home Thursday.
The Daughters of Rebekah will give
their annual masquerade bail in New
comb hall Thanksgiving evening.
Mrs. William H. Jack has returned
from Paris, ILL.,, where she has been
visiting relatives for some weeks.
There are more than the usual num-
ber Of building operations under way
in Silver City at the present time.
The Silver City Commercial club is
trying to get concessions from the
Santa Fe so as to encourage stock ship
ments from this point.
The second carload shipment Of ore
from the Gold Gulch camp was made
last week. The shipment was Joint
one from the Owl and Pactolus mines.
w. c. Silsby, a goat raiser of the
Burro Mountain district, shipped 1878
lbs. Of fine mohair wool from this point
Saturday to Sanford Me.
The Broadway Restaurant, which
has been temporarily closed, was re-
opened under new management Tues
day.
Regular services in the Episcopal
church, which has been suspended dur
ing the absence of the rector in the
east were resumed Sunday.
The new street lightning system
which goes into effect on the first of
the month substitutes ncandescent for
arc lights.
Business conditions in Silver City and
Surrounding camps are showing rapid
| Improvement. The state of affairs is
largely the retult of the increased act.
ivity in the mining industry.
II. W. Page, who cas- besn visiting
his sister Mrs. L. j. Newell and bro
ther Walter Page in this city, has re-
turned to his home in Bloomington, ILL.,
Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Heather
are visitors in Silver City from Cliff
where Mr., Heather conducts a large
mercantile establishment.
d. j, Mooney, a Grant county boy,
who has been in Colorado recently, has
returned, and will engage in the cattle
business in the vicinity of Santa Rita.
The management of the Hanover
Mining and Milling company has decid-
ed to increase the capacity of their
concentrating plant from 80 to 25O tons
daily.
A. +, Atkins has commenced the
nnuet v.tottov, cf ., ,.o,;Iono, -, L.. -.
in the northwestern portion of town,
recently purchased from Richard Hud-
son Of Deming.
Messrs Thomas L. Lowe and Sam
Agee, Meseames Sam Agee and Victor
Culverson, and Mrs. Adelaide Lowe
and Matte Agee comprised a hunting
"arty that spent Saturday and Sunday
az the Clark hotel on the Gila.
Comfortable quarters are being fit
ted up in the Silver City National bank
building for the use of the city officers
and will be occupied about the first Of
the month.
Word was received here Friday of
the death at his home in Easton, Pa, e,
of Leeds M. Hackett who spent sew.
eral months here for the benefit of his
health.
Colin Neblet, Reginald Platt, A. H.
Harllee, J. j. Kelly and W. F. Lorenz
were Silver City visitors in Albuquer-
que last week in attendance at the
Masonic grand lodge sessions.
The special term of Grant county
court will covene in this city next
Thursday. There is quite a deal OF
business demanding attention, especial
ly in a criminal way.
Charles G. Bell, a we'll known resi-
dent Of Grant county, who for the past