The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-03-31
DODSON DOINGS.
What is Going On in the Village of Our
Neigkbors TO the South Of Us.

Capps.
Walter Elliot is out after a long seige of
the grip.
James Wise is going to farm so acres
this year.
Surface water was getting scarce before
the late rain.
Mart Horton is here from Oklahoma
visiting the Coopers.
7. A. Wayne's horse past ure is now all
filed on by homesteaders.
Messrs. Stephens, Horton and Briscoe
are branding calves this week.
John Horton and II. +. Cooper we're
guests of VIM. Caps Sunday.
Nine more prospective settlers we're
here Monday looking for homes.
Gus Buyers will put in twenty acres of
beans and G.. w. Jones fifteen acres.
Gus Buyers, who dug the we'll on the
Caps homestead found water at : , feet.
AL Bearman has left an order with w.
M. Briscoe for a riding attachment pillow.
Sid Williams has sold out his claim and
improvements and has moved north of Bud
Capps.
Mr.. Hearst. Of Arkansas, who is here
looking for a home is reported sick at I'm
Gle Dick Stephens.
Miss Ida Elliot is visiting at Mrs. Ran
dal's, Pink Randall is over on the Dawson
line visiting his brother, Oscar Randall.
T. A. Wayne has lost a part of his field,
being filed or by newcomers. The mis-
take came through inaccurate surveying.
Gus Buyers thinks New Mexico has the
record for high prices when he has to pay
$40 for a cow and 80 cents a piece for
hens.
Mesdames Peggram and Cooper are
planting gardens. Mrs. Peggram has
fenced her garden with rabbit-proof wire.
There was a large number of people
gathered at the school house for Sunday
school despite the prevalent grip and colo
weather.
Billie Moore and sons left too much fire
in camp where they we're plowtng for Mr.
Wayne and burned their bedding and
camp outfit.
b. Moore and sons have los acres o
land broke and are ready to begin plant
ing as soon as it rains enough. They vii
plant so acres of beans.
Now is the time to fix sweet potato bed
and to plant Irish potatoes, Eslinger hat
good luck with his Tennessee Triumph
Irish potatoes last year.
Eslinger's son is reported on the plain
has papered his house ard has one of tn
neatest little homes in the community.
lanes Wise has shelled his corn croI
He got ;, 500 pounds off of four acres. ii
has two ricks of feed I2x6o feet which h
says he will save over for another year.
Peggram bought two tons of sorghum
from MIR. Jones and all of his bean vines
Cattle will leave sorghum to feed on bea
vines, which are splendid feed for them,
Mrs. Straton of Moore, has returne
east. Mart Horton and Claud Bake
started for Oklahoma Saturday. w
Horton of Cedar Rincon reports a goo
rain.
Mart Horton has failed so far to find
claim that suits him that is not filed OF
He is looking for a country where he ca
live n little easier than has been his lot
Texas, where he worked in a cemen, IA
tory days and cut meat at night.
Billingsley's fine gray team got into Il
y. c and one of the horses is dead and Il
9th seriously cut, and may yet die OF /
worads. This is very much to be regre
ed as Mr.. Billingsley can i'll afford to 10
his team at this time when the crop scasc
is just opening.
BE sure and get a start OF chicken
they will help you to get started Oh I
farm. AT one place near here they St