El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-22


George r. LIE Baron, who returned from
the Arizona mining town Tuesday.
"ConVicts are being worked on the
road between Bisbee and Tombstone
and 1t is in fine condition. There
viii be a big crowd at the Arizona
fair from BiSbee and they are strong
boosters for FL PasO over there. Con-
dittons in Bisbee are exceedingly fine
Little Petra wanted to go to school
ike the American girls did. But she
had to stay at home and with the
wisdom of - years play little mother
to very squirmy baby brother of less
than a year old, and also keep watch
out for a baby sister who was four
years old, and had an eYerlastingly re-
curing desire to tOddle away off down
the alley of adobe houses. Petra was
always. having to run after her and
bring her, loudly wailing her pro-
called home. Petra's ''madre" went
off early every morning to do wash
ing and did not come back until late in
the evening Petra's ''madre'' had no
sympathy with Petra's desire to go TO
One day the visiting nurse from the
Charity association found Petra and
the two babies and heard what the
association gave the little girl a lot
of clothes which by the aid of a small
nand sewing machine she made over
for herself and the babies. A little
ISOLATION and this was given to Petra,
and the determined and ambitious little
girl was helped to carry out her de-
sire.
youngsters and wheeling the baby boy
III the go cart takes him to the Sun
Shlne day nursery, with the baby sister
bringing up the rear The nursery
"a kes care of the two children through
the day while Petra goes to the Alamo
SchooL Then she takes the children
home at night and has supper ready
before the 'madre" returns from the
days washing.
Petra is supremacy happy.
John R. Penland. city engineer of
Albany, oregon, was a visitor at the
chamber of commerce Tuesday after
noon.
7 am on my way home from De-
troit," said Penland, where I have
been attending the good roads con-
vention. I have visited most of the
large cities of the country. and I must
say that FL Paso has more paving for
its size than any other city that I
nave visited. 1 am inspecting paving
with view of using what knowledge
l gain IN the paving of my home town
1 found that in Ell Paso the cost of
paving is % cents cheaper a square
yard than most other cities
am on my way to Oklahoma on
a short business trip" said J. ". Will
ent of the southern Pacific lines in
Mexico.
Conditions are about the same in
Sonora. as they have been since the
beginning of the war. There has been
no general exodus of foreigners from
Sonora and there is no apparent dis
position on the part of the "COnstitu-
tiOnalists" to modest foreign interests
and there is no indication of a near
settlement of the trouble Our com.
pany is only operating about 300 miles
of road out of a total of 1900 miles.
We are operating as far south as Her
mosillo. and the Naco and Cananea
branches"
we are giving JuaTez a thorough
renovating. says mayor GuillermO
Cruz. I have put crew of men to
work cleaning up the municipal
slaughter house in the southern por-
ton of town and I will replace the
present wooden flooring with concrete.
New stalls will also be- built. Several
sewer lines. a luxury Juarez has not
enjoyed to any extent. are being put
in The pipe was bought in FL PasO.
We are going TO try to keep our city
looking as clean as possible. too"