The Fort Sumner review., 1911-06-10
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordl'
nary Interest.

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In the Aztec vicinity spraying ap-
pie orchards has been finished.
Pennington is enjoying an unusual
ly large strawberry crop just now.
Governor Mills has proclaimed June
22 as New Mexico postal card day.
The open season for fishing started
May Is and will last until October Is.
Lite Jennings, of Parsons, caught
$50 pound bear cub in trap recently.
A pension of s12 a month has been
granted to Pedro Dominguez, Colonias,
N. M.
A civil service examination for
stenographers will be held on June
14th.
The New Mexico normal school
opened in Silver City with 200 teach
ers in attendance.
Ground has been broken in the court
house yard at Portales to build an
electric fountain
The new high school building at
Deming. one of the best in the state,
is rapidly nearing completion.
Hay is going to market from every
station In the Carlsbad project, at an
avrage price of $40 ton.
Work on the construction of Dem
ing's new and modern s28,000 sewer
swstem is proceeding rapidly.
Spurgon & Shelhorn of Mogollon re-
Gently sold 400 head of steers, re-
ceiving 500, $24 and $2S head.
The Pennington Fruit Growers AS
socistion has elected George N. Nor
ton manager for the present year.
A three-day's session of the Chris
tian churches of West Texas, New
Mexico has just started at Albuquer-
que.
The annual session of the Roose-
welt county normal institute will be
held at Portales from July 31st to
August 29th.
The body of Manuel Pine, who was
drowned in the Rio Grande near San
Acasio, Socorro county, several weeks
ago, has been found.
Catalina Chacon was arrested re-
Gently at Ell Paso for smuggling a
horse across the boundary. His bond
was fixed at $500.
Daily mail clerk service has been
established on the Tucumcari and
Memphis railroad between Tucumcari
and Amarillo, Texas.
Postal savings bonds in denomina-
tions of 500, $100 and $500 will be
available for purchase by depositors at
Silver City July 1st.
Pearl Spriggs, aged five years, fell
from a farm wagon near Montoya,
Quay county, and broke her neck,
death ensuing instantly.
The Reclamation service has a
bunch of men at work putting in con-
crete head gates in the laterals be-
low and around Otis.
Santa Fe seems to be enjoying
building boom. Some of the lesi-
dences are very fine and a good deal
of money is being spent on them.
D F. Dolan, former U. s. postoffice
inspector, was sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary at Alamogordo on
a charge of falsifying his accounts.
A number of men are at work on
the new hospital building at Elephant
Butte. The new mess building on the
hill near the office is now under roof.
Postmaster A. H. Rockafellow has
received official authority to make
the Roswell postoffice a postal saw
ings bank, beginning the 18th of June
Gov. Mills has issued a proclama-
tion declaring June IA Flag Day and
calling upon the people of the terri
tory to celebrate the day with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
Ray A. Murray won the oratorical
contest for the Morton medal at the
Ne wMexico Military Institute at Ros-
well with the Grafton, "The Present
Talk of Environment"
Preparations are actively under way
Tor the annual convention of the Sun
lay schools of Bernalillo county to
convene in Albuquerque June 10 and
IL.
The Aztec school board is planning
10 add new equipment in several
rooms the coming year in the way of
maps, globes and diction-
aries.
John Hart. Paul Owen and Jack
Padget, all sentenced for larceny. es-
capped from the road gang working at
recolote Hill near Santa Fe. A re-
ward is offered for their capture
Francisco Segura accidentally shot
himself at Vaughn, Guadalupe county,
while cleaning a revolver, the bullet
passing through his left hand and
arm.
A sneak thief climbed over a 12-foot
railing in the postoffice at Las
Cruces, which was closed for Memoir
al day, opened the tills with file and
.ook SIS.
Territorial Engineer Miller has re-
ceived word from San Antonio that
he Rio Grande in the vicinity was
very high and the waters were doing
damage to low lands.