El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-28
LAS CRUCES ROAD
ENTHUSIASTS MEET
Committee Of Five Appoint
ed to Attend Santa Fe
Convention.


Las Cruces, n. NJ, March 28.-Ctizens
| of Las Cruces and Dona Ana county
have held a mass meeting in the in
terest of good roads, and good roads
legislation 1t was well attended, and
some good talks made by the various
speakers.
A Committee of five was appointed
to 90 to Santa Fe to attend the good
roads convention on Wednesday, April 3.
Among them are +. E. Lester. VIM.
Palmer, IT., Moses B. Stevens and F. N.
Hayner, who viii represent Dona Ana
county.
A very pretty wedding viii occur to-
night at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Pen
delton Fuller, northeast of the city,
when Miss Edna Gill and ". Hustace
Hubbard will be united in marriage
Miss Gill has resided in Las Cruces for
the past ten years, and has made many
warm friends during her residence here.
She was one of the founders of the Las
Cruces Music club. and is an honorary
member The home of the couple, after
a trip to Pacific coast points viii be
Yonkers, n. Y.
A. Gill, brother of the bride to be, a
graduate of Annapolis Military academy,
and the prospective grOOm's father,
whose home Is IN New York city, are
viii be very quiet, with only few
friends TO witness the ceremony, and a
reception afterward to invited guests.
The bride is the daughter Of Capt.
Wm. B. Gill, and a good deal Of the first
years of their residence in Las Cruces
was spent at Organ camp, at one OF the
properties in which Capt. Gill is actively
interested.
The women Of the Methodist church
viii give a chicken pie supper at the
Lehman building Saturday night.
The women pledged themselves some
time back to the raising Of $1,000 for a
new church building, and so far, through
their efforts, have paid $3.50 OF this
amount into the hands of the treasurer.
The church stands at present at the
acequia on Griggs street, and 1t has been
discussed at various times, the sale OF
this church property to the Baptist
church, and the selecting OF another
building site for the new church, but
nothing definite has been settled upon
as yet.
It may be this present church viii be
enlarged and remOdeled entirely, and no
new site chosen OweveT, the women
are working earnestly and hard on the
$1,000 building fund to which they have
pledged themselves
A. J. Snowden is down from Albu-
querque spending the day in the valley
Vincent May is in Santa Fe. Jose Con
zales also is in the capital city.
R. H AldOns, of Clovis, \. NJ, is a
new arrival in the valley.
Mr. and Mrs. Vim. 81. Alley, of Santa
Barbara, Calf, are new arrivals IN the
city from California, and are looking
into the valley with the possibility OF
making it their home
P. II. Litton, Of Tonuco, Is spending
the day here, attending to some bust
ness matters.
The following business was done at
the United States land office for the
district:
Homestead entries: Sarah E. WoOt5n,
Deming. \. NJ, Sc IA sec s, tp 25 s, T |
10 W; Harrison I. Burwell, Columbus, l
Y. NJ, NV IA sec 80, TIP Is 8, s W;
VIM. Parry, Columbus. \. NJ, II, nv 1
l 4 and lots 8 and 4 or NV IA sec 4, TIP I
% $, VI.
Desert land entries: Frank L. Holmes, ]
Deming, y ", sw IA sec %, NV IA sec I
&c. tp "A s, T 6 W; Sam 7. Clark, Dem 4
ing. y. NJ. II Sc IA see 10, TIP p 5,
r W; Arthur c. Luhrs, Deming, y. NJ, /
e II sec %, tP "A S, y "; Walter /
Mclean COnnell Las Lunas, \. n, ne /
IA, ne IA sec Z, Sc IA Sc IA sec 6, tip I
2 s, 20 ". rejected for the reason that
the application Is executed before an Of
ficer in a county not in this district, and
for the further reason that the personal 4
check rendered cannot be accepted by
the government