Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-10-26
WESTERN LIBERAL.
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A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. j. c. Brock last Friday morning.

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Mrs. J. c. Brock last Friday morning.
r. d. Smyth left Wednesday for
Douglas to attend the convention of
the Y. NJ. @. A.. in session In that
town this week.
Miss Eta Dorsey, who has been
visiting with her people in Silver
City, returned 10 Lordsburg the first
OF the week.
o. P. Culbertson and family, who.
have been visiting at the old home in
Ashland, Ohio, returned to Lords
burg the first Of the week.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Virgil Harrington Friday night,
weighing twelve pounds. DR.. Crocker
held the scales, and vouches for the
weight.
Men are at work building a fence
around the hospital. DR.. Crocker in
tends starting a fine lawn and garden
in the spring, and will make the
place a thing of beauty.
DR.. E. L. Cassels died Wednesday
night from a complication Of diseases.
The doctor had been an invalid for
several years, and has been confined
to his bed for some months. He leaves
q wife and daughter to mourn his
loss.
The Lordsburg schools will not be
interrupted by the election. Instead
of holding the election at the school
houses the judges have secured the
building just west of Charlie Lees
store, and will use that as a polling
place.
When the board of registration met
last Saturday they raised the list of
registered voters to 1853. There are at
least three more names to put on the
list. This is the largest registration
ever held at Lordsburg, the next
largest was in 1900, when there were
143 names on the list.
C. f. Dunnagan, Of Hachita, &C
companied by his two sisters, were
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Leahy this week. The Misses Dun
nagan have been travelling through
the west for the past three months,
and expect to return to their home in
Missouri next week.
T.. A. Lister arrived in town Tues
day night from the east, and went out
to his mine, the r. E. Lee. There is
so much copper locked up in that
property that is worth twenty cents
a pound that Mr.. Lister contemplates
operations that will separate the cop
per from the mine, and put it on the
market while the present price con-
tinues.
The ~switchmen in the Clifton yard
of the Arizona g. New Mexico road
went on a strike Tuesday, which had
the effect of temporarily tying up
traffic. Wednesday morning the pas
senger train came down from Clifton
with the cars wrong end to, the
switchmen having refused to turn
the cars, or make up the train. The
trouble is over an imported foreman
and wages.
Charles E. Linney, director of the
weather bureau of New Mexico, was
in the city Tuesday. He inspected
the local weather office, and then left
for Douglas, where expects to remain
until the last of the week. He has
inspected all the observation stations
between Santa Fe and this point, ex-
cept at Fort Bayard, which place he
could not reach because of the slow
ness of the arriving Santa Fe train,
and the prompt departure Of the out
train.
The last ball game Of the season
was played last Sunday between the
Lordsburg and Franklin clubs. The
boys came down last Satur-
day prepared to do up the local club,
but alas their playing was not as hot
as their uniforms, and they met de-
feat to the tune of some twenty-six
to eight. The Franklin players are
good individual players, except
when it comes to locating curved balls
by the aid of the bat, but they fell
down on team play, and that was
where the LordsbuTgers had the best
Of the game. Captain McGrath is
glad to go into winter quarters with
the last game and two dollars and a
half to his credit, the game being won
from the Franklins and the two and
half being won from a Lordsburger,
who had an idea that Lordsburg
could win agame, and who paid
some $3.50 because Of that belief.
]. e. Hannum, of the Continental
oil company, was in the city Satur-
day on business. Mr.. Hannum puts
in a great deal Of time travelling
over the territory. He told the LIB
ERAL 1t was as tonishing how the
eastern section Of the territory was
filling up with farmers. He says that
all the land north of the Belen cut
of twenty miles was taken up by
farmers, and that the records showed