Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-20
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspapers.

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interests in the Alhambra. was a Sill
yer City visitor.
The Commercial club at Silver City
is boasting of a new sign on n of
their large windows.
Prof. L. w. Martin, superintend-
emit of the Roswell city schools, sold
his residence lots last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Barnett have
zone from Albuquerque to Rosalia,
Mexico, Il spend a few weeks.
Word has been received that the
school furnishings have been shippeS
and will arrive in Silver City within
a few days.
Colonel j.. w. Fleming. collector of
Grant county. arrived in Santa Fe
from Silver City. He is there on Of
fetal business.
Mrs. Harry Dillon of Silver City,
who has been quite i'll for the past
week with facial paralysis, is report
ed convalescent.
Judge Lucius p. Deming drove into
Silver City from Burros on business.
He reports work on the teacher as
progressing nicely.
DIR. Peter Arnold and his mother,
Mrs. Lucia Arnold, OF Wellsville, Mo-,
are visiting Roswell and are stopping
with Rev. p. F.. Wilson.
Mrs. Ella Gilbert, who is well known
in Silver City. n has many friends
there, will make her home in Deming
in the future, acting as a trained
nurse. So
Mrs. Porter and daughter, Marie,
will soon return to their home in
Pittsburg. Pa. Mr.. Porter will remain
in Silver City for the rest of the wiz
ter and spring.
Nina Turner and Viola Reed, who
ave been absent from the Silver
City schools with ~fevers, have re-
turned and resumed their work.
Ernest Julius Kilt and Miss Sar-
ah NJ. Rowe. two we'll known and pop
ular people of Graham, were united
in marriage at Whitewater, Socorro
county.
A series of gospel meetings arc be-
ing held in the Baptist church of Sill
yer City, conducted by Rev. NJ. II.
F1field, the newly appointed district
missionary of New Mexico and Ari-
IONA.
Capt. Lea has o. C. Beach drilling
a well on his residence property in
front of the court house in Roswell
and is going after ~artesian water,
which he will get as a matter OF
course.
Work for the organization Of the
cattlemen of Grant county is going on
steadily n it wi be only a matter
of time until a complete organization
is obtained after which several plans
for united action will be made.
A very substantial dam is being
put in place above Silver City by the
Silver Valley Water Works
and is rapidly nearing completion. It
lie hfilf in tho chana <f m ,u;o. o.1-
main which supplies the town.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mann and lit
tie grandson of Gainesville, Texas,
are quartered at the Shelby in Ros-
well. Mr.. Mann expects to open up
a wholesale branch house there, a
branch OF the Kemp Grocery COM
pany.
Morgan Mollahan. a wealthy cattle
feeder of Marion. Kansas, a guest at
the Grand Central in Roswell. left fe
home a few days ago to close the sale
of one of his farms near Abilene. Kan
sas. and expects to return to invest
there. ;1'iHW
Through their attorney. w. B. Chill
ders. Ophelia A. Pearce and Frances
L. Pearce. plaintiffs. have instituted
suit in the Albuquerque district court
against the Cooperative Building &
Loan association of Albuquerque, de-
PENDANT.
A vaudeville entertainment is to he
given at Fort Bayard on the evenfng
of February 21st. The men who took
part in the minstrel performance will
ave the entertainment in charge and
a most elaborate program is being
prepared.
The Mandolin club of Demingg en-
tertained some very jolly guests at
the residence of Mrs. c.. A Ament
on the evening of February IA. The
party was made up principally of the
younger married people and the old
err young folks.
Mr.. L. B. Tannehill of Roswell, Is
is now in Chicago buying elegant
furniture and fixtures. including spe-
cial shelving for hardware for the
fine new store building. 5Ox19S feet,
now being erected by Morrow & Tan
nehill on the corner of Main and
Third streets.
Johnny johnson and his partner,
Sol Moore. have disposed of the ranch
and cattle near Hachita for the round
sum of SIC per head, and will prob
ably locate further south as soon as
they can get hold of another bunch
The purchaser of their outfit was
Steve Dunnigan.
While driving from Hanover to
Santa Rita Miss Jose Murray was
injured in a runaway. The 10Y was
falling so heavily that the road was
indistinguishab1e. and a sudden jolt
into a rut frightened the horse which
ommenced to run. Miss Murray
Jumped from the buggy. and falling
heavily. dislocated her shoulder. Miss
Dora Titus and r. v. Bible %ere also
in the buggy. but remained in until
they were finally tipped vel. These
latter did not sustain any injury.
Lodge No. 413. b. p. o. E.. of Sill
yer City. is making great prepare
tions for their dance to be given on
the Esd of this month. This is to be
one of the most elaborate affairs OF
the season and a most enjoyable time
is to be expected by all who attend
The mining camp of Pinos Altos,
nine miles from, Silver City. which
has been quiet since the cessation OF
operations by the Pinos Altos Gold
Mining company-the Hearst people
lis again looking up, and from al
indications will sun its wonted &C
tiyity in a very short while.
A Joint meeting of the irrigation
commission and the council committee
on irrigation was held in Santa FL
at the ohce of Colonel George w
Knaebel. secretary of h commission
The bill IprovidiEg for the appoint
ment of a Territorial engineer was
under discussion and other matters re
lating to irrigation and reservoirs.
It'll is reported hat an attempt Is
being made to move the office of thu