Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-09
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TRY III ONCE: The brick conun-
drum Is now taking the place Of How
Old is Ann?' It goes: III q brick
weighs seven pounds and a half a
brick, how much does a brick and a
half weight"
PAYING BUSINESS: The chief
matter Of interest in the Roswell
newspapers Just now is the fresh an
"nouncement each day OF some candi-
date for county office. The Record
has q solid column Of such amuse-
ments and space Is getting scarce.
NEW CHURCH: Roswell Is to have
a me new Methodist church. The
services OF the church according to the
Roswell newspapers are now being
held Id an abandoned boiling house.
OF course. the place has been disin-
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NOT A CANDIDATE: w. e. Kelly
OF Socorro denies that he Is a candi.
date for the judgship in the new Sixth
district. He says he has filed no ap-
plication and does not intend to.
There Is one less OF the brethren to
consider.
HEAR, HEAR: The continued ex-
change OF complimentary notices be
tween the esteemed bureau OF imml
grafton in Santa Fe and the esteemed
San Marcial Bee Is really touching
The latter may resolve itself into q
question a. TO who Is being touched
Albuquerque Journal.
PA8roR 70 WE'D: Announce
ment ID made Of the engagement Of
Rev. II. Van yalkenbnrgh. the pastor
OF the First NJ. p. church, at Ala
mogordo to Miss Myrtle Bailey Of
Mesilla, N. M. The Rev. Mr.. Var
valkenburgh was for several years
pastor OF the Gold avenue M. II
church at Pinos Altos.
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SUDDEN DEATH: a. telenhon,
message from the ella farm brought
to Silver City the sad intelligenc,
that Johnnie Carson, eldest son o
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carson, had beer
found dead in bed at Clark's hote
on the ella near Gin. The boy wa.
subject 10 epileptic attacks and 1t Ii
supposed that he passed away Will,
suffering from one Of these attacks.
KICKED BY A HORSE: Abraham
Hunter who was injured In an aN
dent near Cliff last week. Is In a pre-
carious condition. Mr.. Hunter WA
kicked by q fractions horse he wal
driving and sustained a fracture o
the hip bone. besides being otherwis,
badly bruised. Owing to hts advance,
years, II Is feared that his injurieI
may prove fatal. He Is confined a
the home Of his son Frank Hunte
on the ella.
COMING TO THE FRONT: Las
fall. after the big fire in Springer, III,
Toresheim Mercantile Co. conceive,
the idea OF erecting a large oper,
house In that city. Contract was al
most Immediately lot after the Are 70
the erection Of the opera house, an,
by next Tuesday evening II will be al
most completed, II Is one OF the mos
commodious and handsomest play
houses In New Mexico, having I'm
curtains. slide scenery and stage furn
ishings OF the most elaborate nature
II has q seating floor space Of 500
square feet, and the floor Is OF tn
best hard maple. making II most es
%cellent for dancing purposes.
MILES or WIRE: The Gran
county Telephone company last wee
let contracts for the construction q
nearly thirty miles OF additional tels
phone lines and which when con
pleted will extend into Socorro count
on the north. The new lines vii
start from Terro and viii conncc
the @. o. S. ranch headquarters on I'll
sapello with the Silver city exchange
The length Of this line will be thil
teen miles. From there another q
tension will travel on up the ella !
Thomas Lyons hunting lodge on III
east fork Of that river in Socorr