Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-12-21
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRnsBURe, DEcEMBER d, 1905


readers,
Christ Yaeger was in El Paso this
week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. b. Ownby made a
trip to FL Paso this week.
Mrs. o. L. Pease, Of Tucson, is visit
ing her relatives, the Ownby family,
during the holidays.
b. ". Randall made a trip to FL Paso
the latter part of last week, on bust
ness Of the Orion company.
j. Fred Brown has been appointed
postmaster at Separ. Mr.. Brown is
the Southern Pacific agent at Separ.
School will close today for a two
weeks vacation on account Of the
Christmas holidays, to the great de-
light of the little ones.
Sheriff James Parks, Of Graham
county, was in the city Tuesday. He
looked as happy as though he had
been reelected to serve ten years.
Tom Tong returned this week from
his trip to China. He has been gone
about a year, and reports having a
very good time, but was glad to get
back.
Mrs. e. C. Belt, who has been spend
ing several months in Los Angeles,
returned home the first of the week.
She is greatly improved in health, and
her trip did her much good.
Charles O'Miley came in from the
mountains to get a bit of Christmas
egg nog. His calendar got busted and
he got mixed on the dates, but got
here in plenty of time, a week early.
George Bailey left Monday for Tue
son, where he will go into the railroad
hospital for treatment. Mr.. Bailey
has been suffering for some time from
stomach trouble, and as long as he
stays at home he will keep working,
Sc it was thought best for him to go
to the hospital.
Albert Schramm, who worked in the
LIBERAL Office so long, and went to
Clifton just In time to get caught in
the flood, returned Saturday and left
for Tucson. He was in one flood at
Bisbee, and this one at Clifton, and
now promises to keep in the open
country, where floods cannot catch
him.
A new style of architecture is being
evolved in Clifton. The new houses
are to be built of lumber on large and
strong sills.. Then, as new ground is
made and the streets fill up, the houses
can be raised easily, and kept on a
level with the streets. Reinforced
adobe is not a popular building mate
rial in the new city.
George Ross, who mined in tile
Shakespeare district some years ago,
but who now lives at Van Horn, Texas,
and is one of the commissioners of
El Paso county, was in town Sunday,
visiting his brother, Robert Ross, and
shaking hands with his many friends.
He was on his way to California to
spend the Christmas season on the
beaches, and watch the pretty bathers.
Last Sunday a Lordsburg kid was
explaining that he was sd glad it was
Sunday. 1t was not thought that he
had any particular knowledge of Sun
day as being different from any other
day, as he gets three square meals
every day, and so he was asked why
he was glad it was Sunday, and he
explained ''because there is only one
more Sunday before Christmas, " a very
good reason.
Col. M. j. Egan was down from Cliff
ton Wednesday,. He was away from
home at the time of the flood, and on
returning found that his house had
been flooded, for the first time in his
tory. There had been about thirteen
inches of water in his house, which
had ruined Ills hard wood floors and
some three hundred bound books and
thousands of pamphlets that were on
the lower shelves of his book cases.
The Southern Pacific made a good
start ON repairing the street in front
of the depot this week. There is a
low spot there in which water collects
after a rain, and makes a bad mud
hcle. The Company bought a couple
of carloads of screenings from the rock
crusher at Stems and dumped them
III the hole. they proved to be enough
to about half fill the place. 1t is
probable some more cars will be sent
down, and the job finished.
Superintendent Fitch of the 50 mine
has been busy breaking ere and had
all his Slopes and drifts filled with
shipping ore. Monday he started to
hOlsting, intending to ship four cars
of ore this week. After the hoist had
been running a short time it went out
of commission, and 1t Is probable a