Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-12-28
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LoRDsBURe, DECEMBER 2s, 1905
Happy New Year to an the LnnhAl

to spend Christmas with Jody Leahy.
Mrs. r. B. Ownby went to Houston
Heights, Texas, to spend the holidays
with her parents.
A son was born to County Assessor
Boulware last week. Luck seems to
be coming his way.
Senator Cleveland, Of Morenci, was
In the city the first Of the week,
returning from a political trip to
Tucson.
Louis Champie, of Bedrock, received
word this week that his daughter is
seriously i'll, and lac left yesterday for
her bedside.
George Bailey, who has been in the
railroad hospital at Tucson for some
time, returned Christmas, much inn
proved in health.
Judging from the number Of DRINKS
that were in sight last Sunday after
noon and night the Sunday law was
badly cracked that day.
]. c. Hemingway, who spent some
months here last winter, has returned,
glad to get out of that Iowa climate
at this season of the year.
w. A. E. HUT, of the Geological
survey, is in this section with a party
of men. He is making a geological
survey of the country from El Paso to
Tucson.
The Southern Pacific put a couple
of more carloads of screened rock into
the small Salton sea just south of the
depot this week, and now 1t is pretty
we'll flied up.
The Bedrock p~ostonlce was turned
over to Arthur Harper last week by
Louis Champie, who resigned several
months ago, and has had a bard time
in getting rid of the office.
There we're two trees Christmas
Eve, one at the Methodist church, and
one at the Christian church. Both
were well attended, and the kids pro-
nounced them each a success.
J.H. Berry, who works with the car
repair outfit, dislocated his ankle
Christmas night. He was getting on
a moving caboose, and his free foot
swung out and connected with another
car, with this result.
The Misses Bonnie, daughters of
Superintendent Bonnie Of the Shannon
company, were in town Monday, re-
turning from Tucson, where they had
been attending the University, to
Clifton, for the holidays.
A. w. Morningstar, president of the
Morningstar mining company, who
has been spending some months at
his old home in Pennsylvania, returned
to Lordsburg the first Of the week,
and is again attending to the affairs
of his company.
Col. S. L. Bean came in from New
York last week, and has been busy at
Shakespeare ever since. The colonel
Is still working on his big project to
build reduction works at Shakespeare,
and is very confident that he will sue
coed in the neal future.
Charles Dunn; jr., who has been
with Charlie Lee ever since he started
in business in Lordsburg, left the
latter part of last week for Los An
geles. The old gentleman is suffering
from a cancer of the tongue, and it is
possible this trip will be his last one.
He is now with his wife and daughter.
There has been a change of time on
the Southern Pacific, and now the
eastbound limited gets here at 1O:4O
a. M, instead of 9:4O, local time. BY
this change the Arizona & New Mex
leo will make close connections with
the limited, as it arrives at 1880. 1t
Is not thought that the change was
made to make this connection.
Once in two years the recorders
Office gets cleared up on its work, and
that is when the old clerk goes out of
office and the new one comes In. If
the old clerk did not clear the work
up, the new one would have IL to do,
and draw the pay for doing it. This
rule does not work when the clerk is
reelected, for then he has the same
cinch no has at all other times.
George S. Ramsey, representing the
Albuquerque Journal, vas in the city
this week, and while here secured a
nice list Of subscribers for that paper,
The Journal is one of the best papers
in the territory, and from it one can
get more accurate, unbiased terrific
rial news than from any other source.
1t will be particularly interesting dur
ing the coming legislative session.
Cupid has a hard time Of it in New
Mexico, under the present marriage
law. A Lordsburg couple made prep.
arations to be married Christmas, but