The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-04-04
NEW MEXICO
IN BRIEF
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
May 12-14.-State Retailers and Bust
ness Mems Association Convention at
Roswell

paying $500.
The famous New Mexico Central
case is drawing to an end.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new cold storage plant at Silver City.
The annual meeting of the State
Federation of Womens Clubs was
held at Albuquerque.
Those farmers who made deep plow
ing last fall are the ones who will re.
ceive the full benefit of the recent
snow fall.
Arthur G. Godair, banker of Ros
well, was killed in ST. Louis Marcn
10Th when his taxicab was run into by
street car.
The Gordon Panoramic Photo Com
pany filed incorporation papers. Its
office is at Magdalena and T. w. Will
son is the agent.
The funeral of Mrs. Rhoda McKin.
ley Carlow, who died at st. Vincent j
sanitarium after a long illness, took
place at Santa Fe.
Mrs. V. A. Massie received slight in
juries when she lost her balance and
fell from her horse which she was rid
ing to Wagon Mound.
The Nelson ranch, ten miles from
Lordsburg, recently changed hands.
The sale includes $500 head of cattle
and the price realized 100000.
A railroad twenty-five miles long,
which connected Silver City with Pr
nos Altos, is being torn up. 1t origi-
nally cost over $SOO,OOO\to construct.
While cranking a car on East Third
street, ]. H. Lee of Grandledge, Mich,
who is spending some time in Roswell,
sustained bad fracture of his right
arm.
On July 1st DR.. W. f. Garrison will
retire as the president of the New
Mexico College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts. AS yet his successor has
not been named.
March rains are very uncommon in
the Pecos valley and the blains and
mountains adjacent. In fact no other
March in eight years has rain fallen
to compare with March. 1913.
The Hunter Milling Company, a
Kansas City company which had Of
fices at Melrose, has filed notice with
the state corporation commission that
it has decided to leave the state.
The innocent swallowing of several
strychnine tablets brought about the
death of the nineteen-months-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Tedrow,
residing about three miles west of
Roswell.
Mayor Lorenzo Delgado of the
town of Las Vegas has issued a proc
lamation for an election at which
members of the board of education
will be selected The election will &C.
cur on April 10th.
The Silver City, Pinos Altos and
Mogollon railroad, the narrow gauge
line which connects Silver City with
the Pinos Altos mines, has been sold
and the work of tearing it up will be
commenced at once.
Sidney w. Cooper, government
drainage engineer located at Roswell,
has received word from headquarters
in Washington that he is to be as
signed offices in the new federal
building, about completed.
A pretty romance, begun while both
were patients at the New Mexico Cot
tage Sanatorium, had it's elimination
when Miss Kathryn Mather of Utica,
New York, became the bride of Albert
Gallatin Simms of Texarkana, Ark.
Wilson w. Mills, son of former Gov
ernor and Mrs. William ]. Mills of Las
Vegas, has been signally honored by
election to the Theta Kappa M fra
ternity of the University of Michigan,
from which he will be graduated in
June.
A frame building on the corner OF
Hudson and Twelfth streets in Silver
City, opposite the old baseball ground,
occupied in one end as an assay office
by ]. c. Woodward and in the other
by W. T. Cherry, was completely de-
stroyed by fire. causing a $4,000 loss.
The Postoffice Department at
Cloudcroft issued an order instructing
the carrier between Cloudcroft and
Alamogordo to travel the New State
Highway" which has just been
opened to the public. This is the new
BOX Canon Road" that has caused
so much comment lately.
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