The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-08-03
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MOUNTAlNAiRe CHAUTAUQUA
Commencing August Fifteenth, 1908,
and Lasting Ten Days at Noun
t~ainair, New Mexico.
M~ountainair is located at the sum
NIT Of Abo Pass, on the new A. L.
& S. F. short line from Chicago to
the Pacific Coast. 1t is near the CEN
ter of New Mexico, forty miles east
of Belen and fourteen miles west OF
Willard. 1t is in the timber belt, ce-
dar and pinon, twelve miles from the
base of the Manzano mountains, and
is the nearest station to the historic
town of Manzano, b ruins of La
Cuara and La Graz Quivira. 1t has
fine water and the climate is unsur-
passed. It's altitude is 6,547 feet and
its average rainfall is about 10 inches
sufficient to make dry farming an as
sured success.
1t was the first town in New Mex
leo to prohibit by deed saloons, gam
bling and kindred evils. b feature
alone has attracted the best class OF
people, the kind who make a Chau-
~tauQua, erect school houses and
churches and build homes. It Is this
nucleus around which, amid the sur
roundings described that the good
people of the Sunshine Territory are
starting a Chautauqua Assembly this
year, n the cooperation of all good
people is earnestly solicited.
The assembly will continue for ten
days, and among the lecturers on the
program, are Prof. J. D.. Tinsley, Prof.
Luther Foster, DR.. c. H. Appleton,
president of the New Mexico Sunday
School Association, DR.. Samuel Blair,
chaplain C. C.. Bateman, Prof Chas.
H. Bagley, Rev. Fletcher Cook, sew
eral territorial officials, and others.
Governor Curry will be present on
the 22nd and will make a short talk
but will take no part in the political
discussions arranged for. Prominent
Educators of the territory will talk
upon the relation Of the great Chau-
tauqua movement to the schools and
colleges of the country.
A trained chorus will furnish music
at all the meetings and in addition
There will be prominent soloists dur
ling the entire ten days.
Mrs. L. w. Benadum, formerly a
kindergarten teacher in the Toledo,
Ohio, city schools, will nave charge
of this department. n mothers, for
a nominal sum will be relieved of the
care Of children during the program
each day and evening.
There viii be field sports n
games. Of different kinds during the
ten days. and this promises to be a
very attractive feature.
n point Of location, Mountainair
is the Oldest. town in Torrance coun-
ty on a railroad. but in fact it Is the
newest. Working in harmony with a
suggestion from the. Santa Fe railroad
,company no effort was mad to ad-
~vertise the place or its attractions,
until the road was completed and
Iready for business. The road was
turned over to the operating depart
ment July L this yea and through
train service will be established some
time this fall. At present there is
one passenger train each way daily
and a local each way which also car
ries passengers.
Arrangements will be made for
side trips to the mountains and other
points of interest In the vicinity, at
a small cost, and these will prove a
pleasing feature.
Those who contemplate coming
should notify the secretary, DR.. A. E.
Black at once, telling him when they
are coming, how long they intend to
stay and what accommodations they
will want, whether hotel, furnished
rooms or tent.
Do not come expecting too much.
1t is a big enterprise for q community
like this. Mountainair will do the
best it a to make your stay pleas
ant and agreeable. Come in spirit OF
helpfulness and a desire to encourage
an Institution which will do more
than any one thing to assist In the
moral and material development of
the Territory. Your help will be ap-
preciated.
Rates one and one-thtrd fare on
Santa Fee and Rock Island from all
points in New Mexico.