Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1913-07-18

W. d. Buck and family, from San
Simon, are visiting in town.
j. B. Foster, Of the Bonny mining
company, is in town this week.
Isodore Armiio, Of Las Cruces was
in town this week, on business.
Miss Katharine Bailey left yester-
day for Deming, to visit with Mrs
Charles Miller.
r. H. Woods was in from Bedrock
Saturday buying supplies, which in
cluded a new dog.
e. E Wade and wife returned the
first of the week from a vacation trip
spent in Arkansas.
G. f. Dunagan was in the city over
night Sunday, returning to Hachita
from a trip to Globe.
The Morenci guards we're in town
Wednesday on their way to Prescott
for the annual encampment,
More than three thousand cars of
cantelope raised in the Imperial val
ley passed through here this summer.
Mrs. Baylor Shannon and daughter
were in town Wednesday on their
way to Silver City, to visit her sisters,
Mrs. Goodell and Mrs. Cox.
Mrs. Frank McCarty, who has been
here since the funeral of her father,
the late w. II. Stevens, returned to
her home at Liberal, Kansas, this
week.
The school board has elected the
following teachers for the coming
school year: Prof. Fitzgerald, the
Misses Bessie May, Inez Wright, Nina
Roberts and Katie Twaits,
Mrs. NJ. M. Crocker returned from
her visit to Los Angeles last Friday,
and brought with her Miss Louise
Moon, her niece, who has just gra-
duated from the high school.
Pete Torrance, the regular engineer
on the passenger train on the Arizona
s. New Mexico road, was in town
Wednesday all dressed up and on his
way to the coast for a short vacation.
F. A. Jones, the we'll known mining
engineer, has been appointed pres
ident of the school of mines. He held
that position some years ago, and re-
signed to go into the business of min
ing engineering.
L. F. Vaughn was in town this
week, en- route from Globe to Dun
can, to rejuvinate the Arizonian.
Mr.. Vaughn has had hard luck in
keeping his paper running in Duncan
while he has been living in Phoenix.
w. II. futile was in town Friday,
from 81 Paso, in his 4d car, travelling
west on pleasure and business. He
intended to visit and do business In
Duncan, Clifton, and other towns in
the ella valley, and 60 On to Oalifor-
mia, before returning.
This country is we'll rid of one in
dividual. Johnson, the colored prize
fighter, who is out under some thirty
thousand dollars bail on some white
slave cases. has gone to Europe, and
announces that he is not coming
back. This is entirely satisfactory.
Grant county is the great weather
county Of the country. Last Sunday
the thermometer was pushing up to-
wards the hundred mark In Lords
burg, while in the Santa Rita noun.
tains oye beyond the Chino mill snow
fell to a depth of several inches. The
Santa Ritas are sixty or seventy miles
from L%ordsburg.
Last Saturday E. E. Kyes took a
drink Of ice water and a chunk of ice
got under the crown which covered
n Of his teeth, at least he explained
that was the way 1t felt, and the
tooth kept busy at athletic exercises,
Monday he took the train for Clifton
and returned smiling. He said II
only took the dentist a minute to get
the ice out and relieve and quiet the
tooth.
The well drilling outfit has beer
taken down to f. r. Coon's ranch an6
put to Work deepening the hole n the
ground Mr.. Coon has in his front
yard. He expects to develop more
water than he has power to pump oui
Of the ground. With the water from
this we'll he will irrigate his desert
land entry, and use what is left to In.
crease the productivness of his home
stead entry.
Earl Kerr wanted to go out to the
Animas valley last week, 30 he mount
ed his motorcycle and started. Some
miners near the Bonney hill watched
him negotiate the hill and said he die
1t on foot, pushing the machine; tina.
It was a long hard hill, and 1t tool
Earl a long time to make it. A ma
chine that you have got to push VI
hill In order to ride down is not o