Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-21
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rNarina, Illinois, arrived in Springer
last week and will remain a couple Of
months. Mrs. Wade is a daughter of
SIR. and Mrs w. A. Aldredge of that
city.
The Gibson school closed on Friday
after a successful term of eight
months with an average attendance
Ga forty-five. Miss Dillon will teach
in Gallup for a few weeks on account
OF the illness of one OF The Gf,lup
teachers.
w. s. French, of the w. s. Cattle
Co., Is placing q new modern saw-mill
Of $4,000 feet daily capacity on the
Van Brimmer creek, northwest of
Springer. and in a very snort time
will have it in running order. He will
find a ready market for every foot
turned out.
Mrs A. Morton and the two little
children, Albert and Helen. left
Springer for Germany. Little Helen
has just from a spell of
sickness. Bon voyage q all
kinds of sympathies to the to be
lonesome Mr.. Morton, who is obliged
to stay at home n take care OF the
chickens.
The new Methodist Episcopal church
which was recently organized in
Carlsbad now has a pastor in the
person of Rev. j. l.. Anderson. Mr..
Anderson arrived there last Friday
evening and preached his first SER
mon Sunday morning. lie is a young
man and an honest wora II.
N. Il. Stevens of albuquerque was
here last week comforting with the
stockholders of the Montezuma Build
ing and Loan association, with a view
of merging the association into bank
ing institution, to be known as the
Montezuma Bank and Trus. coHlpal..
said Institution to be located at Albu-
querque.-Republican.
J. M. Jacobs and family, who FOR a
number of years have success ally
conducted the Springer hotel, will
sometime about the first o. May leave
for Tucson, Arizona, where they will
make their home. MI. Jacobs will
conduct a curio store at Tucson, a
business he considers more profitable
than running a hotel.
The handsome $685. 900 residence of
Chas. Springer. just north of Cimar-
ron, is almost completed, the finishing
touches being placed now This pal
atial structure, the handsomest and
most costly private residence in New
Mexico. is being deliberately furnished
and lately received several thousand
dollars worth of new furniture. Mr..
Springer expec to soon occupy it.
The Elks' minstrel troupe returned
from Albuquerque and Las Vegas.
They gave their performance in Albu-
querque Thursday night N in La
Vegas Friday night. In both places
they were cordially received by large
audiences and the trip was a financial
success as they had a $3.50 house at
Albuquerque and a still larger one at
Las Vegas-New Mexican
Frank Roy. of Roy, and one of the
best citizens of all Mora county. spent
Wednesday in Springer, returning
Thursday to his home. He. with roth
ers. own the townsite of Roy, and are
~disposing OF some of the lots already.
There are about fifty people living
shcre and Mr.. Roy expresses greas
aopes of it making quite a thriving
little town in the not far distant fu-
ture. ,sj1f
The ColoraCo Telephone Co. is put
ting rr the POLES for its new line
through Springer and she will soon be
in telephone communication with all
points in Colorado and Wagon Mound,
Watrous and Las Vegas. Later on
the company proposes to extend it's
lines from Cimarrron. Elizabethtown
and Taos, a great convenience to these
places as well as theirs along the
railroad.
Last Wednesday night Socorro sui
fered altogether the worst sand storm
of the season. In fact 1t was one of
the we're for years. The strong
wind and flying sand made the streets
well nigh impossible. The tin roof
of Mrs. Nancy Smiths two-story resi-
dence on the west side of the court
house plaza. was blown off during the
night. w. II. Byerts also reports the
%unroofing of his house at the upper
end of Fischer avenue
Last Sunday night some person or
persons entered the grocery store OF
w. S. Prayer in Roswell and forcing
open the money drawer, secured about
81. They forced an entrance BY break
lug open a shutter and smashing a
window. The same night the saloon
of Kipling Int Cummins was also Tor
chilly entered by opening the rear door.
A hole was bored sufficiently large TO
reach in and unlock the door. After
taking $1O.25 from the cash register
and what money there was in the
SLOT machines. and damaging property
generally, the thieves departed. Moth
ing was taken from the stock.
Sometime about a year ago MISS
Belle Horton. stenographer and type
writer in the law offices of Hugo Sea-
berg. came TO Springer. Miss Anna
Joyce. likewise an employee OF MI
Seaberg agreed with Miss Horton
that a dance sfis nd be given by the
one leaving Spri. GER first in honor oil
the other. Now Hiss Horton mas re
signed her position with Mr.. Sea-
berg and expects to go to Ration, so