The Socorro chieftain., 1907-10-05
Ter the telephone wires.

EStcNdu DdCd Saloon business
/ was represented by fully equip
ed bar, and nobody was the
worse for the liquor dispensed.
Two big floats decorated with
bunting and loaded with dozens
of laughing and cheering school
children could of course not fail
to attract attention everywhere.
Geo. +. Cooks livery business
was called to mind by a wagon
properly decorated and labeled
and containing a burro hitched
to cart.
Loewenstein Brothers furnish
ed an exceedingly tasty float
decorated in the national colors
TO represent their general mer-
chandise business.
DECORATED PRIVATE CARRIAGES
Much was added to the at
tractiveness of the procession by
the line of decorated private car
riages.
Sheriff and Mrs. Aniceto c.
Abeytia rode in a carriage pro-
fusely decorated with flags and
bunting.
Mrs. w. T.. Martin drove a
fine pair of horses to a carriage
which she herself had decorated
Handsomely in purple and white.
DR.. G. G.. Duncan's carriage
was beautifully decorated in
white. Little Miss Dorothy
Hill held the lines and the horse
was led by colored boy in full
uniform.
Miss Lena Prices horse and
buggy were very prettily decor
ated in yellow and white, the
School Of Mines colors. Miss
Lena herself was the driver.
Mrs. Geo. +. Cook drove her
handsome black, horse and bug
gy tastefully decorated in black
and white.
Miss Lena O'Gara's Shetland
pony and diminutive cart, pro-
fuse in bunting, attracted
great deal of attention.
Superintendent w. X. Etter of
the Rio Grande division of the
Santa Fe rode in a carriage
] equipped with the national coll
Ors and the company's familiar
device.
Jose +. Torres added n hand
somely decorated double carriage
to the long line.
These were followed by a long
line of carriages and other We
hicles without decoration and too
numerous to mention.
Saturday afternoon was devot-
ed to sports. There was a 300
yard horserace in which h. C..
Ross Sly Nell beat Clay c.
Cooper's black horse BY a mar
row margin. There was bronco
busting to satisfy the most ex-
acting. II. G. Medley rode
dun horse with a bad reputation
which it failed to sustain. An
ambitious lad hailing from New
York made his debut ON an iron
gray which promptly pitched its
rider over its head and was then
ridden to a standstill by Maria
Baca. Baca then mounted a
cream colored animal that did
some vicious bucking but was
soon subdued. Milt Craig was
then announced. He tackled
vicious buckskin that furnished
plenty of entertainment for the
grandstand but was soon made
bridlewise.
BARELAs 3, SANTA FR o.
Saturdays ball game. the first
of the series for the purse OF
$400, was between the Barelas
and Santa Fe teams aud resulted
in a score of 3 to o in favor of
Barelas. Galgano and Diamond
were the battery for Barelas and
Isbel and Pettus for Santa Pc.
Combs umpired the whole series.
The Barelas team made its three
runs in the fifth inning as the
result of long drive by Clancy
and an overthrow.
RECEPTION TO GOVERNOR CURRY
A reception was given to Gov-
ernor Curry in the opera house
Saturday evening. The govern
or greeted here scores of his old
time Socorro county friends, and
after the greetings were over
dancing was INDUCED in, though
under difficulties, for the large
room was fairly crowded with