Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-14
CONVENTION WILL
OPEN TOMORROW
Teachers Are Already Arriv-
ing and the Hotels VIII
Be Crowded
EXHIBITS At The CAPITOL
Great Interest Manifested In
the Oratorial Con-
test.

tend the twenty sixth annual meeting
-of the New Mexico Educational AS
sociation which opens at O'Clock to-
morrow night in the hall OF represen-
tatives at the capitol.
1t is expected that from 400 to 500
teachers will be here and probably
most of them will arrive in time to
hear the opening address by Profes-
sor J. w. Searson of the Agricultural
College of Manhattan, Kansas, whose
theme is "Give the Boy Square
Deal"
The teachers will be quartered at
the various hotels and in private res
licences and those who have rooms to
rent should notify Secretary r. F. AS
plund.
Great interest is manifested in the
oratorical contest which will be held
here Friday night while the New Mex
leo Educational Association is in ses,
sion in this city. Eleven contestants
are entered and they come from the
northern to the southern border OF
the Territory; seven of the higt
school and four of the collegiate.
institutions that will be represented
in the collegiate section are the New
Mexico Normal University of Las
Vegas: the University of New Mexi
co, Albuquerque; the New Mexico
Military Institute, Roswell; the New
Mexico College of Agriculture anc
Mechanic Arts, Mesilla Park
Institutions that will be represented
in the high school section are the
Las Vegas high school, the Roswell
high school, the Ration high school
the Santa Fe high school, the Clovis
high school, the Tucumcari msi
school and the Otero county pubic
schools.
The Judges on thought and compost
hion have been selected as follows
COLLEGIATE section-Judge Ira A. All
bott, Albuquerque; w. J. Lucas. La
Vegas; Miss Evelyn Butler, Sllve
City. High school section: j. r. Mol
gan. Trinidad; George H. Kinkel. La
Vegas; Miss Ethel Hickey, Albuquel
que.
The members of the oratorical as
sociation will meet Thursday in thl
city to select six judges ON delivery
*hree for the collegiate and three 10
the hig hschool section.
Notaries Appointed.
Governor William J. Mills has ap
pointed Augusta Porterfield of SAINT
Fe Santa Fe county, and Elisha V
Long of East Las Vegas, San Mlgue
county, notaries public.
For the Treasury.
Territorial Treasurer Rufus ]. Pa
len has received the following sum
for the treasury: Thomas Mcbride
treasurer of Colfax county, S40l.o0
Game and Fish Warden Thomas /
Gable, $50.
Exhibits at the Capitol.
Professor J.. A. Wood, superintent
.ent of the Santa Fe high school an
many of his pupils, including severi
fair young ladies, were busy thi
morning at the capitol preparin
screens on w..lch to hang the exhibit
of the schools. These will be displa.
ed in the corridors and not at tn
high school as was formerly announ
ed. The exhibits will naturally /
seen by the educators as they NOV
around the capitol.
A, r. Mccord Promoted.
A. R. McCord, chief clerk in the su
veyor generals Office, and who hs
been in Santa Fe fourteen years, hi
been transferred to the surveyor ge
erals Office at Boise, Idaho. Th
transfer is in the nature of prom
ton at advanced salary. He leav'
December Is. Mr.. McCord is well al
favorably known in this city and
has taken an active interest in II
city's affairs. His family will folio
him to Boise in the spring.
Appointed Chief GeoIogist.
The United States Geological ST.
vey announces the appointment
Waldemar Lindgren as chief geo.
gist, to succeed c. Willard Hayes, wi
recently resigned from the surve
Mr.. Lindgren has been member
the Federal Survey since 1884 and h
been in charge of its investigatio
in metal-liferous deposits since 19(
He is the author of some fifty repol
published by the survey and in ad
tion has contributed between, fifty a
sixty articles to technical and scit
tific journals. Mr.. Lindgren is
trained mining engineer and has
worldwide reputation as an author
on the geology of ore deposits.
has been in Santa Fe in recent yes
and has visited every mining distr
in the territory.
Appointed stenographer.
At meeting of the board Of
gents of the New Mexico Museum h,
yesterday in the office of the gov
nor, Mrs. Vera Rathburn was appoi
ed stenographer for the museum. Nj
Rathburn is a sister Of Mrs. Kenn
M Chapman. Accompanied by
mother. Mrs. Rathburn will move
Santa Fe in short time.