The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-10-17
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
Oct. 15-25.--Meeting Masonic Grand
Lodge at Santa Fe.

The silo at the experimental farm
at Tucumcari was filled with kafir
corn.
Pennington people realized hand
somely on grapes and peaches, this
season.
A deposit of Fuller's earth is re-
ported to nave been discovered near
Benson.
Seventeen prisoners have made APP
plication to the State Board of Par
dons for parole.
A bale of cotton was shipped from
near Endee by Frank Mcdowell to
Shamrock, Tex.
Wolves and coyotes are said to be
annoying flocks of sheep in portions
OF Colfax county.
The Hubbell ranch owners in west
ern Socorro county. have Just finished
dipping 100000 sheep.
Twenty-eight cars of apples have
been shipped from Hagerman, and
there are more to follow.
The lovers of hunting in Quay
county have formed the Quay County
Game Protective Association.
Tularosa farmers are asking $14 per
ton for alfalfa and expect to receive
as high as $3.50 in another month.
Curry county in the vicinity of
Grady reports the building of thirty
two silos within the past six months.
Artesia boasts of having two real
red bats that will be sent to the
Smithsonian institute at Washington.
William l.. Mcclure has a ranch OF
100 acres near Lobo, sixteen miles
north of Taos. which il stocked with
$50 angora goats.
The annual rumor of the Southern
Pacific changing the division point
from Lordsburg to Deming is being re-
vived.
Buyers of alfalfa at Roswell are Of
fering $1S ton. Growers are now
making their fourth cutting. Crops
have been exceptionally good.
1t is stated that sufficient funds
have been raised to assure the build
ing Of the Methodist sanatorium in
Silver City.
An application to appropriate water
for irrigation has been filed in the
state engineers office by George d.
Lttrell of Maxwell
The annual convention Of the state
w. G. T. U. opened its session in Dem
ing with fine attendance. The ses-
sions lasted four days.
Ernest Matlock is reported to have
accidentally shot Ross Harp, a Texas
cattleman, while riding in an automo-
bile between Burley and Texico.
The Thirly-third Annual Fair OF
New Mexico, held at Albuquerque was
the biggest In point OF crowds and en-
hibits ever given in the Southwest
Theodore Goulet, serving sentence
Of from seventy to ninety-nine years
for murder. died and was buried in
the peniteniary cemetery at Santa
Fe.
Governor William G. Mcdonald APP
pointed the following persons notar-
les: Lawrence A. Tamme, East Las
Vegas, and Il. L. Love of Hagerman,
N. M.
According to E. H. Baldwin, con-
struction engineer of the Elephant
Butte dam, the work is about half
completed. while $50 men are EN-
ployed.
There are Twenty-Five school dis
tricts in Quay county with 1927 schoI-
ars enrolled, with an average of a lit
tie over forty-two to each. Teachers
salaries average $56s80 per month.
The Santa F6 people have de-
cided to call their city the Oldest
in the United States. st. Augustine
and other contestants for the honor
notwithstanding.
The State Corporation Commission
made protest to f. C. Fox, general
manager Of the A. T. & 8. F., against
the closing of the station at Dona
Ana, short distance. below Las
Cruces.
The rate on beans in carload lots
from Deming. N. M, to Eel Paso. Tex
has been reduced by the traffic de-
partment of the Southern Pacific road
from thirty cents to twenty-five cents
per hundred.
Forest reserves. where suitable
for grazing purposes. have developed
into quite a factor In providing an
income Tor state schools and roads.
They also solve the problem of range
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