Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-04-03
FOUND PUPILS
WELL DRILLED
Mr.. Clark Again Writes of
Visit To Schools in Mora
County
NATIONAL GUARD PROMOTIONS
Forest Supervisor Andrews Finds
Snow Plentiful and Well
Packed.

Governor Mills has appointed Agnes
Niederkorn of Roswell, Chaves coun-
", notary public.
Land Entries.
The following were the land entries
at the local land Office Saturday: Jose
Bautista, Pacheco, Taos; Luis AtencioS
Park View; James L. Shields, N1tar;
William B. Garland, B. Garland, Es'
tancia; Zaida NJ. Swift, Pennington.
Building Trail.
Forest Supervisor Andrews has re-
turned from a trip to the Jemez for
est. and says that the snow Is wen
hacked and will sustain horse until
o to 10 o'clock in the morning. There
seems to be a good prospect for lots
of water this summer. Mr.. Andrews
says forest rangers are at work build
ing a trail across the Frijoles country,
several miles from the Frijoles canon.
Measured Streams.
photographer Robert L. Cooper has
returned from Tecolotito and CoWles,
where he measured the Pecos and
found lots of water.
Assistant Territorial Engineer Neel
is back from Glorieta, where he has
been looking after the building of the
road from here to Las Vegas.
For the Treasury.
Territorial Treasurer NJ. A. Otero
has received the following sums for
the treasury: Chris Raithel treasur'
er of Luna county, SALTS; Thomas K.
d Madison, of the second judicial
district, clerks fees, $706.S5; and
from Game and Fish Warden Gable,
$3150.
National Bank Chartered.
The Comptroller of the Currency
has granted the charter for the First
National Bank at Gallup, Mckinley
county. W. Y. Morris is president; w.
M. McDermott, vice president; 7. 2.
Tale. second vice president; o. A.
Fisk, cashier.
Mr., Clark's Letter.
Superintendent ]. E. Clark OF the
department of education writing TO
Chief Clerk Rupert F. Asplund under
date of March 20 thus describes his
visit to schools. He says: The trip
from Springer was made yesterday
without the slightest difficulty, very
little grading and couple of bridges
should make the Springer-Roy Caml-
no Real a ''boulevard.'
"On the way over we stopped at
Mills and visited both schools
wrote you of the two teachers, var
ginia Mcclure and G. Russell. Miss
Mcclure is teaching in little rock
house about 12x12 with walls neatly
papered and we'll tamped adobe f1oor
but with only little window. The
children are all Spanish-Amerlcan
but they are gathering up the Eng
lish words rapidly. Miss Mcclure is
strong in management and making
careful daily preparation and drilling
faithfully.
Mr.. Russells school made up o1
English-American pupils entirely
about %, representing as many states
of the Union, all of the first nine
grades are represented, therefore the
daily program is full. The children
responded enthusiastically to a drill
and proved to have developed a strong
power of attention.
I'VE enjoyed a bountiful dinner a
the home of T. Cress, the thrifty mer
chant of Mills who recently left th'
smoke begrimed Chicago for th'
cloudless skies and untainted atmos
phere of New Mexico. The slopes
about Mills are fast responding to thu
plow and the ranchers are hopeful TO
good crop this year. Net settlers
are arriving daily.
I'VE arrived at Roy late in the aft
ernoon but visited two rooms for
short time before dismissal. I'M
morning Superintendent Sanchez ant
| accompanied by the local school dl
rectors visited the three teachers lc
Gated in the village and remained un
til after dinner.
1--WE called on Miss Collins, VIII
teaches the Plainview school locate
about seven miles east of town but /
the Roy district 1t was almost in
possible to get away from Mr.. Johl
sons room. His children of the gran
mar and the ninth grades were so il
tensely interested in their work. s
well drilled on essentials, so euthu
iastic while | was testing them
arithmetic, orthography, geograph
history, grammar, etc. | have n,
found at any place more pleasal
company of young people each seer
ing anxious to make the most of II
time at school. Miss Jardees secon
third and fourth grades were in goc
order and read we'll for us from the
regular readers. | was much surpri
ed to find that the children of tn
room understood so much OF the mea
ing of our national flag. They to
me that the red stands for courag
the white for purity and the blue #
loyalty. They spelled well and e
joyed the number quizz
Mrs. Romine, who has charge
the primary grades is doing most e
cellent work. Her pupils are VIZ
trained in every subject. They sill
like the children in a we'll conduct
pure kindergarten. They read
though it were second nature. The
number work is first class. In eve