Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-08-03

Miss Mcvannum, Of Separ, has been
visiting with Miss Rae Miller.
S. A. Keen an family left Tuesday
for their old home at Delaware, Ohio,
for a visit.
A son was born to Judge and Mrs.
Frank W. Parker, at Silver City last
Friday.
G. f. Duuagan, after a pleasant
visit in Lordsburg returned to Hachita
last Saturday.
G. A. Thumm and wife are at Cloud
croft, where they are spending Mr..
Thumm's vacation.
e. L. Thornburg returned Tuesday,
after spending a month with relatives
at Pasadena, California.
Chiffon Belt is now doing the call
boy act for the Southern Pacific com.
pany here, in the place of George Nc
InturT, resigned.
Ben Wheeler left Saturday for the
California beaches, to get in good
physical trim to make a political race
this fall.
County Commissioners Cureton takes
three.quarters OF a column in the In
dependent of this week to tell how
many different kinds Of a liar is the
editor OF the Enterprise.
The carpenters have been busy the
past week framing the timbers for the
new round house, and have got a der.
rick into position to raise the timbers
into position.
L. G. Howell left the frst OF the
week for Wilmington, North Carolina.
his old home, for a visit. He has a
sixty day lay off, and expects to have
lots of fun 10 that time.
John McCabe has put In much time
this summer raising a garden, which
has been very successful, as the LIB
ERAL can testify, for it ate a very fine
melon from it this week.
r. L. Powell, the surveyor, is.at work
this week surveying the Dundee for
patent. The Orion company has got
tired of doing useless annual assess
ment work.
E. E. Kyes, agent for the Arizona &
New Mexico road, left yesterday for
his old home in Michigan, to visit his
relatives. Mrs. Kyes and her son have
been there for a couple Of months.
at Morenci Saturday there was a
meeting which passed resolutions OBJ
posing statehood. The Phelps Dodge
people are we'll known in their opposi-
ton to statehood, hence the meeting
and the resolutions.
The Eagle drug company's cash reg
lister has been overwOrked and quit
business, aud had to be sent back to
the factory this week for repairs.
While it is being repaired the Eagle
company is using a Runny sack In
which to keep It's money.
James P. McCabe writes that instead
of stopping at Mineral Wells, Texas,
he went on to Galveston, where he Is
in a saultarium, and is getting better
from the dropsical condition he is in.
He has been suffering from this for
some time, but expects SOC 10 be re-
lieved Of IL.
DR.. and Mrs. Croker leave tomor-
row for Bisbee, where they will visit
over Sunday with Mrs. Overman, Mrs.
Crocker's sister, and on Monday go to
Benson, where they will be met by
Mrs. L. NJ. Croker, and all will go to
Los Angeles for a month.
John M. Wiley, the newly appointed
postmaster at Silver City, took posses
sion OF the ofice on the first Of the
month, Wednesday. 1t is reported
that Mrs. Galloway who has held the
ONCE for over nine years, will move to
Albuquerque, where she has bought a
roomlng house, and give that her at
tentiOn.
The trainmen OF the Southern Pa
eide think they are oyerwOrked, and
are asking shorter hours and better
nav. They will ask for an eight hour
schedule, aud on freight trains a rul.
ing that twelve and one-half miles
shall be considered an hour work. Ii
this should be granted il would mean
the shortening OF divisions, and the
emnloymeut OF many more men.