The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-07-18

Fire at Ration destroyed a cottage
occupied by Ralph Arid.
The state board of equalization
held meeting last week.
: Moriarity people are making an eff
fort to establish creamery there.
The Baptists of Columbus are
planning to erect a church building.
L. Meredith. 15-year-old boy, is in
jail. at Ration on a petty larceny
charge.
The state militia annual encamp-
ment will be held at Camp Melon
aid at Las Vegas.
Arrangements are being made to
continue drilling for oil at Oil City,
west of Lakewood.
Work on the Hammond Farming
ton Canal will start in short time, the
contract having been let.
Miss Annie McLaren of Magdalena,
was burned about the face while
lighting gasoline iron.
Col. A. o. Bailey, one of the earliest
illness of several months.
A fatal runaway accident occurred
between Leopold and Tyrone in which
Sonora Domingo Villanueva lost her
life.
The development of the San Juan
valley has reached such point that
the necessity for railroad is plainly
apparent.
Preparations are being made for
the Thirty-fourth annual Pennington
fair. Dates will be announced in the
near future.
The first cutting of alfalfa in the
vicinity of Pennington is nearly all in
the stack, and it is one of the heaviest
harvested in years.
About $50 pickers will be needed
during the heavy part of the ensuing
cantaloupe season in the Roswell Sec
ton of the Pecos valley.
A civil service examination for a
civil engineer student (male) will be
held in Las Vegas on August 6. This
position pays a~salary of 1920.
Luis Gonzales, of Albuquerque,
knocked out Bart Gordon of FL Paso,
Tex, in the third round of SEIZED
uled ten-round bout at Silver City.
Petitions are circulating in Eddy
county asking for special election
to decide the saloon question. Carls-
bad will vote on the question August
%.
Carlsbad is shipping peaches to
New York in car lots. Local ship
ments have been going out for the
past ten days, averaging 100 crates a
day.
S. Ernest Pollock of Pennington
has been appointed superintendent OF
the poultry department at the state
fair in Albuquerque to be held Oct.
to IL.
Manuel Will, who is charged with
the robbery of the Frank residence at
Las Vegas, was bound over to the
grand jury and placed under a bond
of $1,000.
The body of Frederick Parrish, an
old soldier, who died at Albuquerque,
was taken to Santa Fe and buried
with military honors at the National
cemetery.
While attending a party at the
home of Damacio Sandoval at
Springer, Gregorio Quintana was cut
in the face with knife or some sharp
instrument.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Ervien Gray temporarily, as a mem.
Der of the mounted police.
Ray Sumner, prisoner in the
Santa Rosa Jail, awaiting the action
of the grand jury, ON a burglary
charge. made an unsuccessful at
tempt to escape,
Tom Tucker, of the mounted police
has found the saddle owned by John
Griner, who disappeared near lula
rosa, and was afterwards located at
his mothers home in Kansas.
That prospects were never better
for bumper crop OF cantaloupe, and
that good prices win prevail, was
brought out at the meeting of the can
taloupe division of the Berrendo
Growers Association at Roswell.
The governor has appointed as dele.
gates to the Negro National Educa-
tional convention, to be held in Kan
sas City, July 1913, the following col
ored men Of this state: Rev. N. Per-
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