The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-06-20

tnlnRS tDat must ne done,
Y. w. MooRF, President,
Bv II. II. MCELgOY, Secretary.
Join, Home Circle No. 1, OF the
Home Relief Association ol New
Mexico, and get $1,000. 90 protcc.
tion at absolute cost by paying S.
on death OF each member. See G..
/ a. Gamble, room 5, Simpson
building post office box 46I. g. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Judge l.. +. Sax.
on wete entertained last SUNDAY at
dinner by Mrs. DR.. Ruckcr. Mrs.
Saxon lett "Wednesday Tor a trip
to points IN Arkansas, Louisiana
and other states and will be gone
for three months.
Lawrence McCarty is putting on
the famous old play Damon and
Pythiss at Dawson the 27th inst.
This play is McCarty's speciality
and he makes more out of it than
most OF the companies on the road.
He plays Damon to perfection.
Mr.. and Mrs. !. n. Eady we're
callers at the News Office Thurs.
dav. Mr.. Eady has made final
commutation proof on his claim
near Logan, y. VI. and will make
lucumcarl his home IN the future.
We are glad to welcome such good
cItiZ,ns to our town.
. DR.. y. ]. Smith and son Ben,
OF ones county, Texas, are IN tue
city on "A visit to Mrs. 7. Wer.
theln who Is An aunt OF the doc.
tor. Ben attended the Baptist
SUNDAY school picnic "Wednesday.
and declares that "Tucumcari is
all right"
!. y. Nelson, OF Baraucas is in
the CITY today As witness tor W.
l.. Law cock who is making tinal
proof before Probate Clerk Douo.
hoo. Mr.. Laycock saws that IN
his immediate locality there has
been no rain Tor rs days, vet his
. corn ~ growing and looks we'll.
\ letter received Thursday by
Mrs. kuckrr from DR.. kucker who
IS IN Hugo, Okla, states that IL
has ralncd there every dav Tor
more than month; that business
. Is at stand stll, the streets full
oi water, and while he was writing
II was pouring down rain.
Miss Elizabeth Hedgepeth of
; Phoenix, Ariz, who is a sister OF
John Hedgcpeth OF this CITY, and
Rev. Iuel Hcdgeprlh OF Carlsbad,
: \ NJ. IS visiting in the city Tor a
few days. From here she will 20
to Carlsbad to spend sometime
I with Rev. Hedgepeth.
&. II. Cooper who lives south OF
the townsItr, brought To this othce
branch OF hlat kberrv brs b
e about } icet long that had some
thing like 500 berries on il. lie
/ informed the News that the vine
!. had had no irrigation this year.
+. About halt OF the berries are ripe,
5 This ~ the FIRST hlackberries we
p. have seen grown on the plains
country without irrigation.
Rev. J. +. Sherwood and wife OF
; Paris, Texas, parents OF Mrs. e..
7 b. Parchman and l.. T. Sherwood
5 OF this citv, arrived Tuesday even.
u ing, and will spend the summer
{ here. Rev. Sherwood is a mem
e ber OF the north Texas conference,
u NJ. +. church, south, and has been
an itlnerant preacher Tor 81 years,
n so years OF which he has been q
< member OF the north Texas, and :
e years the Oklahoma conference.
Mrs, Mary Elizabeth Davis, sis.
ter OF Mrs. 5. V. Williams OF this
city, died at an early hour yester.
day and was buried in Tucumcar
cemetery at 8 .. m. Rev. ]. w
Campbell conducting the service
e at the grave. Aunt Betty" a.
!. she was known by her friends
u came to Tucumcari from Vinita
Okla, with the family OF Mr.. vii
r liams, the grocerman, about Z
year ago.
Albert Dallinger returned Fri
day OF last week from Mineola
AZ kan:as. where he had spent th
u past three months working at tn
u carpenters trade. lie says IN
s. crops are good an wheat in par
y ticular, in many places making a
'n high as twenty bushels per acre
Orc farm in the vicinity al Minec
la OF Assoc acres will. they claim
ot make twenty-five bushels per acre
h, This crop was put in with a regu
On lar seeding machine after the so
th had been plowed very deep with
IT. steam plow. The secret Of sue
tn cessful farming in the southwes
ee seems TO be deep blowing aa
h. planting for small graius, and wit
other products shallow cult,vxtl