The Fort Sumner review., 1911-06-17
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordI.
nary interest.

The Socorro County Teachers Insti-
tue was held at Socorro.
w. H. Carter of Loving has sold his
160-acre farm for $4,000.
A summer term of the Albuquerque
nigh schools is being held.
Five car loads of broom corn have
been shipped out of Portales.
Aztec has organized board OF
trade with Fred Bunker, president.
Lite Jennings, of Parsons, caught
$50 pound bear cub in trap recently.
J. D. Crawford was killed in the
cement mill at Ancho, Lincoln county.
The Santa Fe system has made
Carlsbad the terminal of the Clovis
run. ...-
The cotton gin at Loving will be re-
modelled and the present capacity dou-
bled.
Clovis will shortly graduate lodge
of the Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks.
Albert Cummings, bachelor, aged
43 years, committed suicide by hang
ing at Elida.
Early peaches are already on the
Carlsbad market and the season will
last until September.
Edward c. Bates, young man
whose parents live at Nobe, was killed
by the cars at Becker
H. c. Barron, bee inspector for
Chaves county, reports that the out
look for the industry this year is fine.
A movement is on foot to build
strong and large bridge across the
Gila river between Silver City and
Mogollon.
The annual session of the Roose-
welt County Normal Institute will be
held at Portales, from July 31st to
August goth.
The Cubero Trading Company of
Cubero, N. M. recently shipped 10000
pounds of wool to the Albuquerque
securing mills.
news that people are actively prepar-
ing to make postcard day, June 22nd,
a great success.
There are now two trainloads of al
falfa going out of the Pecos valley
every DAY, all going to market at $40
per ton to the grower.
The time for filing application for
water for dry lands under the Carls-
bad project has expired. Over 10000
acres were applied for.
A big rain and hail storm near En-
dee destroyed crops, washed out
bridges and five hundred feet of track
for the Rock Island road.
Governor Mills was one of the
judges who awarded to Miss Mary
Hayes the prize as best cook at the
Normal University at Las Vegas.
The funeral of City Marshal Roy
Woofter, who was recently killed, was
marked by one of the largest outpour-
ings of citizens ever seen in Roswell.
The President nominated as first
lieutenants in the army medical reserve
Corps, John w. Colbert, Herman W..
'Goelitz and William P. Mills of New
Mexico.
w. T. Green, an employe of the Sing
er Sewing Machine Company, aged So
years, was drowned in the Hondo
river, near Tinnie, fifty miles west of
Roswell.
DR.. David Starr Jordan president
of Leland Stanford university, deliv-
| cred the commencement address at the
University of New Mexico in Albu-
! querque.
Bids totaling over $4,000 have been
awarded by the reclamation service
| for the installation within the next 80
days of steam power plant at the
site of the Elephant Butte dam.
Governor Mills requests everybody
in New Mexico to write post card
to some friend in another state on
June 22nd.
The people of Dexter who are op.
posed to the continuance of the sa
loon there after the expiration of the
license issued by the last town board
will fight the case in the courts.
United States Marshal G. M. For
aker left Albuquerque with nine China
men to which number twelve were
added at Ell Peso for San Francisco
The Cinnamon will be deported tc
China.
There is one peach orchard in the
suburbs of Carlsbad which expects tc
ship 10000 boxes of luscious peaches
this season, and the lucky owner is
figuring on an income of about $25,00C
from that orchard.
The secretary of the interior has
awarded contracts for furnishing
steam power plants for use in connec
tion with building of the Elephant
| p,,tta dam of tho Pin Grandp irripa