El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-28
THE CANDIDATE WHO
FOOLED HIS FATHER
Personalities of Alamogordo
and Something About the
Pretty Town Itself.
(By Mrs. N. A Tilton.)

Alamogordo, n. NJ, April 27.-They
are telling joke on Judge Sherry, the
new mayor. The judge has two sons
| just out of college, both in their faith
! er's law office At the recent election
judge Sherry nominated his old time
friend, judge Bush. for the office OF
city attorney He made a most eIo-
Quent nomina ting speech, dwelling par
ticularly on the years of experience
his candidate had had, Of his association
with Abraham Lincoln. as his legal
counsel. ETC. About 3 p. m. the day of
the election he strolled around to the
polls and discovered that his oldest
son, Prosper Sherry, had been put up
as candidate for city attorney and
was way ahead of the ticket and at
sunset he was elected to the office
The nonplused mayor went back TO
the office and told the newly elected
city attorney TO pack up his books and
get out, TO go to judge Bush's office IL
he wanted to practice law, and then
turning to his youngest son asked him
sif he had any office up his sleeve that
he was going 10 spring.
The Town of AIsmGgOrdo.
Just think Of little town out in the
desert having a park a mile long
full of green trees and flowers and
grass. You enter the park through
hedges of exquisite roses and all kinds
of flowers, I riot of bloom; walk past
the lake where swans gracefully sail
up in dignity and majesty and conde-
sendingly await the bit Of nut or
goOdie you are expected to throw them;
you walk on past the bears cage, past
the gorgeous peacocls. on past seats
placed fnvitingly under the trees, then
across a little stream into green alfalfa
fields, shaded still by the great alamo
gordos, on out at the other end and
your feet touch the scorching sand of
the desert, a desert of which as beau
tiful and romantic a story could be
told as that Of Hitchings's The Gar
den of Allah" You look off to the left
and see what al first looks like the
whitecaps dancing on the blue of ting
ocean, then you remember about the
great mounds of the white sands. an
unsolved mystery; you turn back and
walk through the grateful shade of the
park again and come out onto the main
street of the town, q broad street lined
on either side by large trees, and inter
sected by dozens of lovely tree lined
residence streets This broad main
street extends toward a towering range
of mountains. on top of which is our
much beloved Cloudcroft At the base
Of one of these mountains one sees the
sanatorium cleaning white against the
dark background ana when we have
Toasted our eyes on the beauty of the
town we stop and take a drink of the
"purest spring water in the world at
the fountain in front of the court house.
In the beautiful grounds of the court
house we meet the sheriff of Otero
county, Mr.. Denney, a man who does
not know what the word fear means,
and then we are greeted most cordially
by judge Sherry, the new mayor. whose
admirers say that he will make the
best and wisest mayor Alamogordo
ever had. We are invited to go through
the court house, and in the assessors |
office we are introduced to w. H. Pei
phrey, the assessor, who carries on the |
work of the office &c the satisfaction |
of all. At another desk sits the coun- |
ty superintendent of schools, Lacy |
with both arms off at the ell |
bow he is one OF the most beautiful |
penmen I ever saw, and lifts the sheets |
Of paper as deftly as any one with ten |
fingers. On coming out we meet w. |
H. Leonard, a wealthy farmer, who, /
though having only the stump of an |
arm, is also fine penman. Mr.. Leon |
ard graduated from Dartmouth college |
OF New Hampshire. He is only an |
extensive traveller, having toured Eu- |
rope as well as this continent
The social life Of Alamogordo is of |
a very high standard: the people here |
have their various social clubs, and a !
Shakspere club. the work of which |
ranks with any of a larger city The i
people of Alamogordo are hospitality |
itself