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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-05-12

Mrs. Lucy Hawkins came
home last Saturday from Floyd,
N. NJ, where she had been on
a visit to her husbands people.
Pete Simpson has plenty of
garden truck raised on a small
irrigated patch.
The vine crop of the dry
farming section is likely to be
some pumpkins" this year,
Bet you the peanuts that this
country will be jam full of
"watermillions" by the middle
Of July.
w. B. Scott is doing a part
Of his patching during his
wife's absence by hiring" most
of his meals.
w. L. Lockhart arrived in
Kenna again last Friday. He
will only remain a few weeks
at this time, as he has good
job he cannot leave long, but
he will make arrangements to
have crop put out on his
claim.
Passengers on the trains stop
ping at Kenna now and seeing
all the grown-ups and children
about the depot and belonging
to the special work train that is
here to put in the coal chutes,
would fancy the inhabitants of
this part Of the country were
chiefly MeXicans. AS a matter
of fact we have no Mexican
people here at all, except those
in the employ of the railroad
company, not for miles and
miles, say so miles at least.
Mrs. O. M. Overstreet came
in last week from Oklahoma, to
look after her claim out south
east of town. She will have
a crop put out and do moro
fencing.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-05-12
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

If you are Proving up on
your claim be sure and read
YOUR Publication Notice care
fully when it appears in the
paper, and if there are any err
rors notify this office promptly
and they will be corrected.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-05-12

All kinds of field and garden
seeds have been in demand the
past couple Of weeks. There is
going to be a big crop acreage
here this season, and the
chances are that both man and
beast will have plenty of eatin'
after harvest time.
Mrs. w. P. Littlefield came
up from Roswell, Wednesday,
to visit while at the ranch.
George Huffman, of Wooten
was in town Wednesday. 1t is
the first time we have seen him
in Kenna for several periods.
]. F. Brogdon came home
again the first of the week, to
fix up fences on his claim and
see to putting out his crop. His
children are still with their
grandparents at Hereford, Tex,
and Jim expects to go up there
the last of the week and visit
them a few days.
Hens are laying so many eggs
now they are getting ahead
even of the cackles.
There are lots Of spring cal
yes in evidence now, but they
say there are always more cal
yes to be seen in a wet country
any time than in a dry one.
Families that have not at
least 'steen young chicks grow
ing up now must expect to do
their spring fry eating, when
they go visiting.
DR.. Fisens and wife have
gone to housekeeping in the DR..
Thomas residence.
J. A. Kimmons and wife Wis
tied last Sunday with Joe Coop
er and wife, eight miles north
of town.
Mrs. w. D. Chancey, who
has been sick all spring, is re-
ported not so well as usual.
Frank Parker and wife, C.
H. Prunie, Ernest Paddock,
John Mimms and N. w. Fry,
with their families, picniced at
the Brakes, last Sunday, where
they enjoyed a sumptous din
ner.
Mrs. Sid Birdwell returned
last Saturday from her visit
with her mother at Portales.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-05-12
BAPTIST SERVICES

Every End Saturday and Sun
day Sat. $50 P. M. Sunday
II A. M. and $50 P. M. Every
body cordially invited.
i. L. Kyle, Pastor.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-05-12
RAISE CANE,

This Is the year to raise Cane.
We have the Seed. Amber,
ORANGE and Sumac. Cabbage,
Sweet Potato and Tomato
Plants now ready.
ROSWELL SEED co,
Roswell N. NJ
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-05-12
GATHERED GLEANINGS.

GATHERED GLEANINGS.
No doubt you are surprised
to see Ruth appearing again,
but she tries to make her semi
annual visits.
Everything is on the boom
around Olive. Farmers plant
ing fields Of corn, melons,
squashes, pumpkins and beans.
Grass is fine and the women
folks are making butter to sell,
and setting incubators. No
phones to talk over about the
young chickens, but they meet
occasionally and discuss the
chicken question.
H. M. Mercer, C. Long and
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Brown at
tended court at Roswell the
first Of the week.
T. Armagast, wife and baby,
Albert jennings, wife and baby,
c. C. Cloppert and wife and
Mesdames Bostwick and Long
took dinner Sunday with H.
Cloppert and family,
Mesdames Brown and Say
Ior spent the day, Tuesday, with
Mrs. w. S. Peters.
Six weeks more school at
Olive. The school is progress
ing nicely, with Miss Lee He
watt as teacher.
Oscar Hewatt and Jim Har-
ris came home Wednesday to
plant their crops.
Ground is in the best shape
for planting it has been in for
years.
Mrs. Atwood and daughters
are planning a trip to Roswell
next week.
DR.. E. w. McAnley left for
Arkansas last Monday, to be
gone a few months.
Mrs. o. H. Hewatt visited
Monday afternoon with Mrs. w.
S. Peters.
Mrs. H. M. Mercer called on
Mrs. Cloppert, Thursday.
The Easter picnic at the
Rock buttes was success.
About 100 people were there
and everybody enjoyed the occa-
sion.
The Anti-Saloon League will
give a basket dinner and render
a program at the Rock buttes,
May 21st. Everybody invited
Ruth makes a new resolve
every time she writes, thinking
she will let you hear from these
parts oftener, but this being
such busy world, we are on
the jump all the time.
Just the same l wish to speak
a word for our home paper. 1t
it Just as good as any other
home paper. 1t prints all the
news it can get, also | notice
it is the first paper opened and
read when received. So there
is no kick coming. Let us all
encourage it, and we will fee.
better for doing so.
DTTTIJ
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1911-05-12

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The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-01
Good Results.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov Is.
That the good roads movement
was given most effectual impetus
by the Southern Railways Road
Improvement Train" which made
a sweeping tour through Ala
bama. Mississippi, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida
between May l and October q,
is indicated in figures summar-
izing results of the campaign just
made public. In the period of
six months during which time
from one to three demonstra-
lions were given daily, the ex-
perts accompanying the train
instructed nearly $4,000 people
in the art of building good roads
and keeping them in repair. The
train travelled a distance of near
ly 1880 miles, stopping at 25n
towns which were located in 201
counties. The attendance at the
various meetings ranged from a
little less than 100 to over 1900.
The method used in showing
the people the advantages of
good roads not only afforded an
opportunity for them to secure a
practical education on the sub
ject of highway construction but
was so unique as to form a
source of real entertainment for
those not directly interested in
the movement. The train con-
sisted Of three coaches, two of
which were specially fitted up
for demonstration. One con-
tanned working models of good
roads showing the various ma
terials used in construction, min
iature road machinery shown in
actual operation, and enlarged
Photographs showing every
phase Of the good roads problem.
The other car was equipped with
a stereopticon and illustrated lee
lures were conducted by the gov
eminent representatives, show
ing in a very striking manner the
advantages Of good roads over
bad.
In some of the counties Wis
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-01

tied the interest aroused by the
train was such that the people
went actively to work improving
their roads, voting for bond is
sues and employing engineers to
give skilled supervision. A rep
resentatiye of the American AS
ISOLATION for Highway Improve
ment accompanied the train for
a portion of the trip and efficient
work was done in organizing
branches of the association in
many CT the counties.
The Southern railway handled
the train without charge to the
government or the people in the
belief that greater prosperity
will result from the construction
of improved roads in the South.
Without a single exception the
work of the Road Improvement.
Train was most heartily ap
proved and in every town there
were heard unqualified expres-
sions of the value Of the work
and public spirit shown by the
railway in bearing the
expense. :
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-01
Controlling Contagion.

In Washington, a member of
congress. accompanied by his
wife, was forbidden the privilege
of seeing their son, who was
dangerously i'll.
They live in a distant state of
the West, and when the news
was wired them that their sons
life was in imminent danger they
hurried across the continent to
the hospital in which he tossed
with fever.
The fact that admission was
denied seemed heartless at first.
Where the general public health
is involved the comforts of the
few must be cast to the back
ground.
The young man had a serious
attack Of diphtheria. He had
passed the crisis when his parents
arrived. He could not be remov-
ed from the hospital and they
could not stay with him. Enter.
ing his room and leaving it to
minpIe with peotIeon the streets
would have been a sure way to
The Tupelo journal., 1911-12-01

spread the germs Of disease.
Where contagion exists it must
be watched and guarded.
Two lepers were arrested in
Philadelphia last week and were
at once removed to a detention
hospital, yet of all contagious
diseases leprosy is the most diff
ficult to transmit to others. A
man may live in the same house
with a leper without contracting
the malady. Yet the fear Of it
is so great and the fatality of it
so certain, when contracted, that
the public demands the strictest
isolation when cases are discoy-
cred. They demand this in small
pox, the plague and other malig-
nant diseases.
The most alarming statement
made recently IS that many con-
tagious diseases have in the past
few years been making a steady
increase, and notably diphtheria.
This is directly due to the fact
that the patients are not proper
ly isolated. They are not suffi-
GENTLY quarantined. Physicians
are too lenient in allowing such
cases to be visited. The result
is that the danger is not confined
to the home, but is spread about
the neiqhborhood through care
lessness. Modern medical science
has demonstrated the absolute
ability of keeping all diseases in
check, and there can be no ex-
cuse for any Of them reaching an
epidemic form. There are those
in every community who require
watching. The public good de-
mands this. If not watched they
will give full sway to carlesnes
and infect others, who nigh
otherwise escape. They do not
do this proposely. It is generally
the outcome Of thoughtlessness:
It is this disposition that impos-
es q greater burden upon the
health officials. The slightest
relaxation Of firmness renders
the work Of control all the more
difficult.
While it seems cruel that al
moth II and father should be de
MED admittance to their sons
room, the public interest de-
msnds that such orders must be
issued. We cannot be too care.
full Elk.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
Especial to THE TIMEs,)

Crown Point, Ind, June 2s.--While
In an unbalanced state of mind be-
lieved to have been brought on by ex-
cessive drinking. Van H. Sherman, pro-
prietor of a barber shop, committed
suicide this morning by drinking white
hellabore, a poisonous medicine.
Before taking the poisonous drink
Sherman, who has been acting in a
semi crazy fashion lately, attacked his
wife at her home and cut her quite
badly about the head 1t is thought
that, perhaps, in a fit of remorse over
thsi shocking deed, he decided to take
his life.
He was discovered at home while
in the last agonies of death and doc
tors strove strenuously to offset the
action of the fatal dose. but it had
entered his system and desperate ef-
forts to save the unfortunate man 3
life were entirely unavailtng- The in
quest will be held tomorrow morning.
The decedent leaves behind him a
most estimable wife and sister. Miss
Emma Sherman. who made her home
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
BIDS ARE TAKEN
UNDER ADJUSTMENT
Nine Bidders Want to Sup
ply Hammond With
Water Pipe.

The board of public works this
morning took the bids for the big wat
er pipe extension under advisement
until next Wednesday, in the hope of
knowing more definitely how to pro-
ceed because of the special council
meeting that is to be held next Friday
evening, at which time the project will
be discussed. Bids were opened today
from nine bidders for the supplying
of water pipe and connections to the
main system These bids were also
taken under advisement.
The board passed a confrma tory res
olution for the Hamlin street pave
ment, and accepted the primary assess
ment rolls for the Becker and Bauer
street sewers.
An extension of time until July 18th
was granted to Newell Bros. for the
laying of the sidewalk on Sheffield av-
enue
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
IS
MISSING
FROM HOME
Fourteen Year Old Ham
mond Lass Disappears
With Money and Clothes
and Police Notify Sur
rounding Towns.

Laura May Williams. Ii years old.
mysteriously disappeared from her
home at 6S7 Webster avenue. Ham
mond some time after 9 o'clock Tues
day morning and has not been seen or
any word heard of hre since.
Mrs Williams left home early yes
terday morning and did not return un-
til O'Clock, when she first found out
that her only child had left home. The
girl had dressed up neatly in her best
clothes and took with her between $14
and SIS in money and a package with
one change of clothes.
Her step-father, Mr.. Bradshaw. noti-
fed the police and a thorough search is
being made for her. She left no word
where or why she was going, and the
last seen of her was shortly after 8
o'clock yesterday morning. She was
the only child and the parents are al
(Contfnued on Page 7l
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28

A committee of Unity Council
Knights of Columbus, of which lodge
John Idzeorek, former manager of the
clothing department of the Lion store.
is member. took him to the Keilwortn
Sanitarium in Illinois last night, in the
hope that under the personal direction
of DIR. Sanger Brown there he may re-
cover. His mental condition apepars
to be such, that there is hope for his
recovery, and 1T is not thought that he
will have to go to the Longcliffe
asylum at Logansport.
The trip was made In an automobile,
and the patient enjoyed the trip and
his company to the utmost. In the
party were Louis Eder, who furnished
one of the two automobiles, John Car
roll, d. S. OConnor. William DAILY,
George Heiser, Joseph Roy, and George
Idzeorek and Jacob Young, brother
and father-in-Iaw respectively of the
patient
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
TOLLESTON MAN
ARRESTED

Edward Marauardt of Tolleston was
arrested yesterday morning by officer
Huber on a warrant sworn out by Mrs.
Nellie Miller. Charged him with as
sault and battery upon her husband.
Kurby Miller last Monday night in a
saloon south of Lake Woods park
The trial came up before Judge Prest
yesterday afternoon and Marquardt
was fined 81 and costs. amounting to
s15.40, which was paid.
The fight started over a bill for some
eggs amounting to 40 cents and Miller
received such a beating that he was
unable to leave his bed Tuesday morn
ing The saloonkeeper held Miller
while Marquardt hit and beat him with
his fists. After the trial Marquardt
swore Que an affidavit and said that
Miller hit him first. The date of trial
has not been set. When this trial is
finished the saloonkeeper will be ar
rested for holding Miller while Mar
Quardt hit him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
GROWN POINT MAN TAKES
HIS LIFE WITH POISON

with him; son, Raymond, and daugh-
ter Ethel. He was about so years of
age.
Van Sherman was descendant of q
respected pioneer family of Crown
Point and he himself was born here
and dwelt here all his life. He had
been in the barber business ever since
he served his apprenticeship thirty
years ago, and was very well known
all over Lake county, he having at one
time worked in Hammond. He was
quaint character and very well liked
by those who knew him. having a
droll fund of entertainment at his COM
mand. and Crown Point is shocked at
his dreadful ending.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
VETERAN PLA|NSMAN
ON COUNTRY WIDE TRIP
Eighty Year Young Ezra
Meeker Tells an Inter
esting Story.

Coming in advance of his prairie
schooner. Ezra Meeker, 81 years old
arrived here. this morning, where he
will await for his outfit, which will get
here some time Saturday from Niagara
Falls. Mr. Meeker is making a return
trip on the oregon trail movement
expedition and expects TO make a stay
of three or four days in Hammond aft
er his wagon and oxen arrive
He left Puyollup. near Tacoma,
Wash, Jan. 29. 1906. with a team of OK
en- and an oldfashioned prairie
schooner, built in part from the re-
mains of three wagons that crossed
the same plains ffty-eight years ago.
with a tar bucket LOG years old on
Aug. 9, 1906. one of his oxen died from
eating poison vegetation and another
one was secured which carried him 800
more miles to Omaha. Nebraska There
he secured another OK called Dandy.
and with this team he averaged Is
miles per day and went to Washing
ton, D. c., making a distance in all of
$3.50 miles.
On his first trip Mr.. Meeker erected
twenty-five memorial monuments on
the lost Oregon trail, marked twenty
boulders and set SO stakes He has a
bill in congress for $4,000 to complete
thc Woik Oh marking the loSt oregon
trail, and it has been reported favor
ably by the committee and amended
requiring estimate of cost.
Mr.. Meeker made a second trip with
his OK team during the summer of 1910.
and during that time recovered and
plated 1900 miles OF the trail The
estimated number of monuments that
is required to mark the trail will be
700 and the estimated cost of complet-
ing the work is SS5,0O0. Mr. Meeker
is very healthy and is a spry old man
for his age. IN speaking of his age
he claims he is only 81 young. He
is very interesting talker and has
an amount of interesting literature OF
postal cards of his trip which he sells
at his camping stop at night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
COUNTY SURVEYOR SUES
Ray Seeley Proposes to Find Out Who
Is Engineer in Lake County, He or
The Stone Trust.

Ray Seeley, county surveyor of Lake
county, has been compelled to file an
action in the Lake Superior court to
protect his rights to the emoluments OF
his office which are alleged to have
been jeopardized by the persistent re-
fusai of the county commissioners to
give him the work that naturally
comes to the county surveyors office
By the beginning of this action one
of the rankest deals in the history of
Lake county politics is about to be re-
vealed, according to Seeley's friends.
The action is entitled, In the mat
ter of the petition of Ray Seeley, coun-
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
HAMMOND PEOPLE
TO HAVE PICNIC

Hammond members of the Cumber-
land lodge. on the Kankakee river.
have received notice Aof good time"
that is in store for them at the head
quarters on July Fourth.
Games of all kinds will be the order
of the day, such as trap-shooting rifle
practice, pitching quoits, croquet. in
door ball (played outside) and dancing
Will be permitted on the lawn. says
the invitation. The kind that mother
made" has nothing on the menu that
is held out in tempting fashion for
the members. 1t is to contain new corn,
spring chicken, new potatoes onions.
radishes, string beans cherry pie. cur
rent jelly, topped off with nice new
homemade bread. coffee, buttermilk
and the 'tetc."
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
JAM LID
ON FIGHT
FOR 9TH
Action Regarding Proposed
Scrap at Aerdome Taken
by Board Of Public Safety;
Secretary White Gives
Reasons for Attitude.

The lid has been clamped on Garys
big Fourth of July bout. which was
to have been staged by Sam Sax of
the National Athletic club. in the big
aerdome now being constructed in
Tolleston.
Action regarding the proposed fight
was taken last night by the Gary
board of safety commissioners. H. H.
Highlands. Frank Borman and En-
met White
To Have order Rescfnded.
Today strenuous efforts are being
made to have the lid melted in order
that the fight may proceed.
This action does not prohibit box
ing in Gary. but merely stops the pro-
posed bout at the aerdome scheduled
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
TO BUILD
A GIANT
HOLDER
Northern Indiana Gas &
Electric Co. to Put up Mil
lion Cubic Feet Gas Hold
er in East Chicago on Site
of New Power Plant.

Manager w. D. Ray. of the Northern
Indiana Gas & Electric company, au-
thorizes the statement that a new hold
er of 100000 cubic feet capacity Will
be erected on the site of the new $780,
900 power plant in East Chicago. The
new holder has been purchased from
the Bartlett-Hayward company of Bal
timore. Nd. and will cost 100000.
1t was the original intention of the
company to build this enormous holder
in Hammond next to the 350,000 cubic
foot holder which is in use here, but 1t
was found impossible to secure the
necessary ground at a figure that war
lCantinned on pa ere
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
BAD WRECK ON ST. PAUL.

Janesville, WIS, June ia doz-
tn of the injured in the fatal st. Paul
wreck at Bardwell were brought here
today. All probably will recover.
The train was the regular Chicaog-
Madison flyer, No. 1877, north bound,
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad. The engine left the rails
about half a mile south OF Bardwell.
1t turned over and pirned the crew
under the wreckage.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
Ruff Building Fine One.

The proportions of the new business
block that is being constructed by
j. j. Ruff are surprising the people of
Hammond who did not realize that it
was to be large.
The main fioer of the building will
be occupied by j. ]. Ruff himself. The
offices on the second floor have all
been spoken for, but Mr.. Ruff said that
he did not care to say at the present
time who the occupants would be.
There have been number of appli-
cations for the third floor, but 1t will
not be leased until the building is
completed. Mr.. Ruff says that he has
had great success in renting the build
ing far.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-06-28
COUNTY SEATS
DOG VICTIM
Especial to THE T1MEs)

Especial to THE TIMEs)
Crown Point, Ind. June 2S-Crown
Points first case of dog bite for the
season has been recorded. young child
of Charlie Lamphire being the recent
victim of the dogs attack The wound
was cauterized by DIR. BPannon and
quite an incision was made in the calf
of the leg of the child. Ire dog has
been closely watched for signs OF
rabies, but none have been discovered
and 1t is now thought that nothing Sc
rfous will result from the bite of the
animal.