Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-21
suNNysInG NOTES.

Special Correspondence of The Optic.
Sunnyside. February 19.-All day
Sunday the pile.driver hammered
away at Its task Of bridging the
broad. sandy bed OF the ecos. An.
other week will see the piling clear
across.
Sisters OF Mercy from Amarillo
spent several days here visiting con
str,icticn camps II collect funds for
their hospital at TINT place. where
they are now crrirs for seven sick
men from the Inc.
Las Vegas mail IL sometimes on
the road from Monday to Saturday.
arriving rather stale. but ever vel.
come. This part OF the territory will
hail the day when better mail facili.
ties are in operation. as they will be
upon the completion Of the railroad.
DR., John Gerhardt. well known tn
Las Vegas business men, has been
confined to the bed several months
with general breakdown, due to ad-
vanced age. His home at Cedar
Springs on the Pecos, eighteen miles
north Of Sunnyside, Is a h0spitable
stopping place for belated travellers
between here and Santa Rosa.
Powers Gillespie has opened q
general supply store on the line
about seven miles out on the west
side Of the river.
Frank N. Page, the oldtime COW
man" OF Puerto de Luna and later at
! Clarendon, Texas, Is again back ~
these parts. and. It Is said, about to
open q q merchandise establishment
on the railroad line near Iona Alta
some twenty miles east Of Epris, at
the point where prophets say q ID
vision headquarters will be located
/ ultimately
w. r. ("Judge'D McCiil, who IL
boosting . new town Of his own on
the railroad about nine miles east o.
here, passed through Sunnyside Sat
urday. saying little but probably push
ing things hts way just the same
Tho Judge Is 4 man OF weight (about
2sc pounds), and one Of the kind
| hat does 'hty gs.'
rwo men W tblk'a- ct the re-,
taurant | DAY. one saving TO the oth'
or. "Wha I'D b. the use Of goin' 70
work for. Langtry & Sharp. Ia be
drunk tomorrow night ~! ten they
trow me out" This in allusion to
the fact that Lantry & Sharp allow
no drunkenness among their men,.
A fellow from Las Vegas feels not
a Stranger although IN a strange land
AT S~unnyside, for here and hereabout
are many familiar faces The stage
lands him at the postoffice where
Young Lorenzo Labadie Of Puerto de
Luna II postmaster. They he will
walk across the plaza" passing the
shop Of Wakin Allan. one-time Bridge
street merchant. to the Fort Sumner
store" where Brown Harris the "old
reliable IL manager. and where Hll
Hunter is boss Of the livery sta
BILE run In connection. Bill knows
everybody In two states and three
territories. and everybody ought to
know Bill. Here lives Celedon Tru.
lilo. who has traded with Las We
gas merchants for twenty years. and
at old Fort Sumner Is Manuel Alb
rem and Charles w. T00r. both nearly
as old settlers as the sand hills Of
the neighborhood. Not far away live
Herman Gerhardt and his father, Fred
who come here for mall. Other fac
ca once familiar at Vegas are those
OF Isaac SandOval and Jesus Silva
who used to drive here with big
freighting outfits years ago. John
Hull s4ii drives the six-maaaa. team
and 4Daslonally gets "bogked' In
that (oa6Kef6us Pec0s which 10 one
day Hoe and tomorrOSh Ghere. after
a-~>42r that ~sAaHlsatNeADtae !ypst
|expey{oced fosfAs,eMmegSs,4yery
day S>oebcdy hsltpSk:;Tth hH we
|and has to get help 10 "paN AtIM ont"