El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-05
ELEPHANT BUTTE
SCHOOLS OPENED
Labor Day at the Dam Is
Observed Quietly and
Most Work Suspends.

Elephant Butte N. NJ Sept. 4-The
public schools opened here Tuesday
with a full corps of teachers
Labor day passed of very quietly
At the dam. All except necessary
work was at a stand still. Quite a
number of men spent the day at Cut
fer and a few visited their homes in
the towns of the state, A company
of men composed OF E T. Johnson,
Frank jackson and the BagIey D5otn-
ers made a trip to Monticello and in
tervening country, taking many pic
t1Ires nv the way. Another company,
composed of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
Dice. Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr.. Coop
err and Miss Myrtle Warren and others
Dicnicked at the Butte and Ash can
Won. Those who remained at home
were entertained in the evening with
moving pictures handled by Walter
Pack the government photographers.
r J. Schmalhousen, general foreman,
is acting as superintendent until
the arrival of the new superintendent,
Good progress has been made during
the past month in filling in the con-
crete in the flume section of the dam
An the rock used for this purpose is
crushed by one of the large crushers
on the east side of the river and trans
ported by skiffs across the river on the
cable. The rock is brought to the
Mrs. Zenas D. Clark is visiting with
her parents and relatives at Barstow,
Texas.
MI. and Mrs. F. D. Hewitt, Of North
Yakima, Wash. have moved to camp
and have built house on the west
side of Main street Their son, o. ".
Hewitt, resides with them
Mrs. Black and her mother, Mrs.
Hewitt. are spending a few weeks at
PaIomas Springs. Mr.. Black, though
1,ig
at the warehouse, makes the trip
night and morning between the camp
and the springs
DR.. ]. D. Graham. the camp physi-
clan, is spending his vacation at LIE
Roy, Kans., after making trip to
Kansas City. He is accompanied by
his son. Calvin, and grandmother
Blue. DR.. E. K Mcneil of La Mesa,
n. NJ, is acting as camp physician dur
ing DR.. Graham's absence.
B. S. Appling in the meat department,
and o. B. Moor, of Mangum, Okla,
who is one of the clerking foce-
E. W. Knapp, who was accidentally
shot in the eye nearly two months ago,
has returned to his position as fore
man in the machine shops So far the
eyeball has been saved but the sight
is practically destroyed.
Wesley Jones, long resident at the
CAMP is visiting at Coffeville, Kans.
California, is visiting IN camp.
Mrs. A. il FARRELL and little child,
have returned from Mangum, Okla
Mr.. Worden has been crippled for
some days by a wound from a nail that
went through his foot
Bill Arthur and family have re-
moved from camp, going to Santa
Rita
NJ. Owens has been Joined by his
wife and son from St Louis, Mo.
Frank Beihl and family have moved
from their ranch, four miles from
camp, and now occupy the Arthur
place in town
Mrs. Tom Williams and child are Wis
iting the old home in Arkansas.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bergans have
moved 20 camp from Santa Fe, and oc-
cupy the Frank Litton place.
Mrs. Mcdonald Mrs. Bergan's
mother, is with them
Miss Myrtle Warren is on a trip
to Monticello.
Mrs Edmondson is recovering from
a long illness.
Heavy rains have fallen at Elephant
Butte during the past week.
Mrs. Alexander was up from PalO'
mas Springs and reports her son, Luz
Their Thornton, as little better.