The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-10-18
LITTLE NEW MEXICO ITEMS.
Minor Occurrences Of More Than ordi
nary Interest.

new home.
The Southwestern Coal chutes at
Columbus have been completed.
Several carloads of apples raised
near Cloudcroft have been marketed.
Large shipments of livestock are
being made from a number of New
Mexico points.
The county clerk of San Miguel
county issued twenty-eight marriage
licenses last month.
In the death of N. s. Mccartney,
Roswell loses one of it's oldest and
most respected citizens.
Fire destroyed the residence OF
Conrad Luebbe on his place about
five miles north of Logan.
There is being arranged a rabbit
shoot between Silver City and Dem
ing, to take place October "a.
The Wagon Mound jubilee was an
exhibition of what that section can
do in the way of raising fine crops
Estancia Valley farmers are losing
thousands of dollars this year by not
having enough stock to feed the
bumper crops to.
The main ditch at Hands ranch
broke, flooding the Onava road for
nearly a mile west of Onava and
north of Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas High School Girls
Glee Club has begun rehearsing for
a one-act operetta which it plans to
present November 1.
Rev. B. L. Wray, of Kansas City,
conducted a series of gospel meetings
in tent on the lots of the Christian
church at Carlsbad.
In all probability a petition will be
circulated in Silver City asking that
the postoffice be kept open for the
distribution of mail on Sundays.
The annual conference of the New
Mexico Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, was held at Las Cruces. Bish.
OPP James Atkins, of Waynesville, N.
c., presided.
About seventy-five geographers Of
worldwide fame, representing the old.
est and largest universities of the
world, were entertained by the PEG.
pie of Santa Re.
Advance information gives assur.
ance that at least $50 teachers will be
in attendance at the New Mexico Ed.
vocational Association meeting to be
held in Albuquerque November 6, z,
and 8.
State Engineer French has returned
to Santa Fe from Salt Lake City,
where he attended the National Irri.
CATION Congress which he said was
the best attended in the history OF
irrigation.
One of the most pleasant social
events of the season occurred at the
Westbrook-Held hall, when the Laurel
Bachelor Club entertained the mem
bers of the j. U. G. Club and other
friends at cards and dancing.
A pumpkin grown by e. F. Hart, on
his ranch four miles east from Nolan
which weighs forty pounds and is the
largest of its kind that has ever been
raised in or around Nolan, is on ex
hibit at the postoffice and will be
taken both to Wagon Mound and Ra
ton for exhibition.
The big reception in honor of Hon
William C. Mcdonald, governor, and
his party, including Mrs. Mcdonald
Adjutant General A. S. Brooks, Cap
tain and Mrs. O'Reilly, Captain Cut
ting and Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer, and
to the Pecos Valley Press Association
was held at the Armory in Roswell.
With an escort of cowboys to the
city limits. an automobile, bearing the
remains of the late "Lige" Andrews
champion bronco buster of Eddy
county, killed in Roswell Wild West
events, started for Knowles, near the
Texas-New Mexico line, where await.
ed sorrow-stricken father mother
brother and sisters, with scores OF
admiring friends.
Rev. Milton Reece, the Baptist min.
lister who has been at Carlsbad few
years, left for Clovis, where he has
accepted a call. The Odd Fellows
gave him a farewell reception.
1t is stated that w. L. Paddock, OF
Pennington, tops the market this year
for profits in peach raising. On one
fifth of an acre he took off and sold
$500 pounds of Elberta peaches which
he sold at rs cents per hundred loose
to John Ritzman. This is net, save
the cost of picking and hauling, which
he did himself, $3SS.75 per acre. This
| shows that even at the low prices thai