The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-08-15
NEW MEXICO
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.

hudl ldlf at bennington,
September 17-1g-First annual San
Juan county fair at Aztec
sept. 25-Pumplxin Pie Day at Maxwell
sept. 29-Oct. Northern New Mexico,
October 1-4-Tifth annual Navajo
fair at Shiprock.
| oct 6-11-State Fair at Albuquerque.
A woman's club has been organized
at Moriarity.
The first fire in five years in Kenna
destroyed drug store.
Special trains are being run out
of Roswell to haul the cantaloupes to
market.
San Juan county turned out and
worked the roads near Pennington
last Friday.
A Roswell creamery sent 10000
pounds of butter to Kansas City in
single shipment.
Southwest New Mexico shipped
nearly one million dollars worth of
range steers this year.
There is fair sized peach crop in
the San Juan this year, and shipments
are being made right along.
AT AUGUST Il, one OIL
the choicest programs of the Noun
tainair Chautauqua sessions will be
held.
Frank A. Hill of Albuquerque has
been appointed a member of the
mounted police force by Governor Nc
Donald.
1t is reported the Bell Cattle Com
pany has sold 5000 acres of their
holdings along Ute creek, in Union
county.
Fort Sumner will have such an
abundance of melons it proposes to
invite the state to its Melon Day,
September 10.
The president has nominated, Paz
Valverda, register of the land office,
and Thomas e. Owen. receiver of pub
lie moneys at Clayton.
From three to five cars of alfalfa
have been shipped daily from Fort
Sumner since cutting began in ear
nest.
About ten cars of apples of the Bah.
bitt variety will be shipped from the
Roswell section of the Pecos valley
during the next ten days.
Charles Moore, the twelve-year-old
-son of Mr.. and Mrs E. l.. Moore, &C
cidentally shot himself in the face at
Ration while experimenting with a
gun.
The third wing of the Hagerman
barracks of the New Mexico Military
Institute buildings, work on which
was begun this summer, is about COM
pleted.
The returns are coming in telling
of bumper crops from various parts
of the state. The Lakewood section
hopes to output from forty to fifty
cars of tomatoes.
The federal grand jury for the Octo-
Der term of court and the petit jury,
and the petit jury for the special term
of the court to be held at Albuquerque
commencing October 81, have been
drawn.
Chas. Rouse of Palomas Springs re-
ports subdued excitement there over
the discovery and location of several
paint mines located near Salt Springs,
few miles westward from Palomas
Springs.
Jerry Williams had narrow escape
from being stung to death at Lake Ar.
thur. While hauling hay from the
farm of r. L. Thompson, a swarm OF
bees settled on him and the horses,
singing them seriously. Jerry had
forty singers taken from mis- face, and
was sick man for the time being, but
soon was none the worse for his ad-
venture.
A change in the office and regis
tered agent of the Karakule Sheep
Company has been filed with the
state corporation commission. For
merly George +. Clancy of Las
Cruces, was the agent, but under the
amendment filed H. s. Bowman. is
the agent of the company.
The oil machinery is now being
hauled out to the oil fields near Farm
ington and drilling operations will
commence about the middle of this
month. There were seven carloads of
the machinery, which comprised the
second largest shipment ever sent int
Pennington at one time, the largest
being the material for the waterworks.
San Juan county this. year boasts
OF three fairs, which is probably the
most held in amy county of the state
this year. One of these fairs, the
one at FarmingtOn is the oldest ono