The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1913-08-08
Big Banquet rendered the Visiting Del
egates at the Vorenberg Hotel
Monday Night by the Local
Chamber of Commerce

says We have q more beautiful state
han the sun Kissed and flower bedeck
ed california. May The tribe Of FIem-
ming increase,
senator Alliyodgc talked ou " Need.
ed Legislation. The senator believes
,uat Cougrr.. should not discriminate
agains. the pioneer homesteadcr lie
thinks they deserve 800 acres of land
whether It is contiguous or not. lie
hops 70 see law giving Us more land
and Withdrawing the restriction men.
toned. Mr.. Alldredge spoke OF his
handsome young bachelor friend SEN
ator Mabry, who j. descrycdly popular
with the ladies.
Mr.. Khnefelter ot Obar was the wit
of ,hr occasion. lie declined to talk
on his subject Tariff Protection for
Bear Grass but spoke on "Milk."
lie reviewed our dairying interests and
his talk was cuiCrcd 10y all.
MI schmidt, the Immigration agent
for the Rock island System spoke OF
New Mexico ia ucl romantic period.
lie told an interesting story of the
Duke 81 Sutherland, one of the wealth.
lest landlord, of Great Britain acting
a. engineer for the train on which were
most distinguished foreign capitalists
upon q journey through New Mexico
in he early days of cur railways here.
L. l, D D.u al
lrrtions OF New Mexico : Earliest Rail
! ways for oul Historical Society. They
would add valuable asset 10 our his
tory of this STATE.
Professor Vaughan. of the State Ag-
ricul;ural College spoke Of the province
Of state Agricultural Colleges and how
,hcy aid Agricultural life.
Professor Muudel spoke Of the Ex-
pertinent Farms Professor MundeIl
! .ad in the afternoon entertained the
delegations at the farm where all who
attended were delighted with the work
he j., doing there
Mr. Harry McElroy spoke on the
County Fairs and his advice was
sound aud TO- the point lie states a
fact conciscly and is very convincing.
| lie stated that the fact that We may
not be- able 10 get the $4,000 The law
! allows each county 20 be appropriated
for premiums in the county to be- TAX
en- from the county funds since there
are no funds available for same In this
| county should not deter US from hav-
! ing county fair Mr. MrElrov ~
chicken fancicr and has some Of tho
finest fowls in New Mexico aud no
states he had uS soon have a rihhou Of
| recognition rs to secure small money
prize lie states that j. the attitude oe
| others who raise fine stock and that
whether we have much or little money,
We should have 70 fair this fall. II Is
hoped hat quay County will make an
effort to have fair. We lost the
County High school for lack of inter
est, let a. nave enough county spirit
| 20 have a fair
Mr. Holman, of Amarillo, spoke on
the Great Panhandle Fair, to be held
there in October Mr.. Holman is tho
greatest organizer in commercial work
of the association and n Secretary is
keeping the pot boiling The Amarillo
Fair shOpld be- great success
Mr. Fuqua, ot Amarillo, made one
of the most talked Of banquet address.
es, His pleasing manner Of expression
and his personality add tremendously
to the sentiments he expressed His
language in this address while dealing
with the prosaic subject of Securing
Money tO Develop Our Industries" was
so carefully selected that his prose
seemed poetic in the expression Of IL.
Mr.. Fuqua, following somewhat the
ideas Of Judge liamlin, spoke OF our
homesteaders. lie thinks a great book
can he written reflecting the heart
throbs of those homeseekers who fought
but 20 fail and the pathOs Of their pa.
triotism can hardly be measured now.
The desire in the heart of man to
own a plot Of ground to call home
comes to all men AS almost a primcval
instin"r and now that the fertile lands
of The water belts can no longer be se-
, cured by the poorest farmers, they are
seeking TO build their houses upon the
> sands and the records of their heFoisn
caHr"; be 'eeorded IN 10 sand dnBes
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