El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-09
DAILY Rains ARE
broken IN CRUCES
Friday Is First Day Without
Rain in Week; bitches.
Give Way.

las Cruces. n. NJ. AUG. 9..-No rain
falI here Yesterday, it being the. Iirst
dav this week that rain has not 1allen'
There was water in the Rio Granqe III
the morning. but the Dona ana ana Las
cruces bitches had been broken by IIoo0s
from an arrova above Dona Ana and not
&c c-re9t benefit was derived as other
wise would have been, as the amount o.
wafer Is said to have been su1tIclenG TO
I'm the numerous bitches. The How
droDDed from 1900 cubic feet per second
to loo cubic feet per second IN a Ie"
hours. s.4
ting growing crops in this secUlon, anu
the fact that there has been scarcity
of water in the Rio Grande has not been
To+;ced as it otherwise would have been.
Five Cars Of Melons Daily.
The cantaloupes are turning out tlne,
and about five carloads OF eantalo1 pc
per day are beng shIppeu ION =. -
Cruces and Dona Ana. The ones shIpPed
from Dona Ana 90 to New York CITY,
,Tbilo the ones shipped from Las cruces
90 to Chicago and various northern
p'--''9 Literary Society Meets
The meeting Of the High School Lit,
orsrv society was held in the Central
school building last night. a large num-
her of the scholars were present ana
several visitors. The program was as 1ol-
lows:
A review of a book entitled BOOK OF
Ten Thousand" BY Aida O'Hara-
Humorous reading by Frances Burke
from "Peck's Bad Boy.
Song bv the society, No AZ.
Rive minutes speech by Roy Bean
Vocal solo BY Marion Wade, accom-
panied BY Winifred Crater, pianist ana
Prof. Twining, violinIst- ..
Debate. question, Resolved, JnaC oocif-
try life IS more pleasure bic =, t 5 Guy
life" Affirmative. Kenneth McClearnons
BIaDcb Brownlee and Charles OLlara
NEGATIVE. Isabel Brown, Lyman Hoagland
and Miss HeinTeich-
The decision of the judges, who were
Prof. Sloan. Henry StOes and sam BEAM
was for the affirmative When the de-
bate was open for general discussion re-
marks were made by Prof. Sloan, henry
Sfoes. DR.. o. Brown and Vi. Z OH3ra.
who all commended the speakers and the
society on its general conduct.
The next meeting viii be on August
q. and during the teachers institute,
which IS to be held here. The question
for debate at that time viii be: "Re-
solved. that the schools of the country
should be under federal sUpervlslonF
Yesterday there were nine refrigerator
cars on the siding at Las Cruces await
ing shipment. Three cars OF cantaloupes
we're shipped to Chicago yesterday.
Eutertains at Bridge.
Mrs. Glen DeYViggins entertained sew
eral friends at bridge at her pleasant
country home near here The invitations
were unique and were written IN verse
The invited guests were: Mrs R o.
Faulkner. Mrs Nigel Flint. Mrs. Petln,
Mrs Frank ". Hayner. Mrs Oscar B.
LOhman. Mrs. Winters, Mrs c. N. Poole,
Mrs Frank Islas, Mrs. John Mcclure,
Mrs Scale, Mrs. Dyne, Mrs. Ed Ehle'
Mrs P B. Hinton, Mrs. Fred Hess Mrs.
Gordon H. Mccoy, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Joe
" Lowe, Mrs. Edward c. Wade, II, Mrs.
Cornell Mrs. Vincent B. May. Mrs. L
Day. Mrs Paul Ruhle. Miss Henrietta
Petin Las Cruces, and Mrs. John Lemon
ami Miss Bradley. of FL Paso.
The house was decorated with sun
flowers and ferns. The highest score IN
bridge was won by Mrs. Nigel Flint and
the lowest BY Mrs. Frank NJ, Hayner.
The score cards were hand painted in
sunflower design The color scheme, vel
low and green, was carried out IN the re
fTeshments. consisting of a three course
luncheon. After refreshments. each guest
low and green, was carried out IN the re-
cipe in a book which was presented to
Mrs. Paul Ruhle, the guest Of honor
and a bride, being formerly Miss Bertha
Brown.
Hand painted boxes filled with sailed
nuts were given to the guests as favors.
The Ladies of the Maeca bees of the
World held a meeting IN Elks' hall yes
terdav afternoon. The next meeting viii
be held on August p, at the same place.
Mrs. P. B. Hinton entertained the
Bridge club of which she Is a member
at her home on Hinton avenue in COx's
third addition.
Health Seeker Dies.
John F. Keogh died at the home Of
Mrs Brewer, near town, after a resi-
dence of five months here. his remains
were sent by express last night to his
former home in jersey City, y J. He
was about 80 years OF age He was a
heahh seeker.
Henry c. McCowen, a graduate Of
State college, and now located at Amar-
lilo. Tex arrived here yesterday to
visit his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan
8lcCOwen. Mr.. McCOwen Is assistant ag-
TicUltUral demonstration for the Santa Fe
system.
Paul Ruhle viii soon move from apart
ments IN the Don Bernardo hotel to the
north half of the HOsmer cottage, on
Miranda avenue.
Bruno. the great mastiff watch dog of
the Peterson ranch. was shot while
away from the ranch yesterday morn
ing
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Peterson left town
last evening for the Las Cruces colony
at Soledad canyon. They were going