Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1914-10-23

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Charles Spear was In town from An
imas Saturday, on land office business.
There were thirteen hundred head
of cattle shipped from Lordsburg last
Sunday.
S. r. Dunagan was in from his
home near the head Of the Animas
this week.
Postmaster Hardin made a trip to
the upper Animas this week, to do a
little electioneerlng.
The indictments against Joe Olney
and J. W. Gould, in the United States
court have been dismissed
At the Methodist conference held
at Pecos, Texas, last week the Rev.
w. S. Huggett was returned to Lords
burg for another year,
Mrs. R. P. Barnes, and her grand
daughter, Miss Westlake, came over
from Silver City, to visit her daugh-
ters, Mrs. Ritter and MIS-. Coon.
John r. McMullen was down from
Steeplerock this week, and made a
homestead entry on eighty acres of
fine land he discovered near Steeple-
rock.
The commissioners have ordered an
election to be held at Central on De-
cember 9Th, to decide whether the
sale of liquor in that precinct shall be
prohibited.
The American Automobile Asso-
citation has issued a permit for an
automobile race from Ell Paso to San
Diego, which will take place this
winter, probably in January.
Matt Danenhauer, chief justice Of
the supreme court of Clifton, the man
who sets the DRINKS to work on the
streets, was in town Saturday, re-
turning from a pleasure trip to Ell
Paso.
j. R.. Ownby hitched up the family
REQ last Monday, loaded in the women
folks and went to Deming, to see the
races Tuesday. B. 3. Ownby loaded
his women folks into his Ford, and at
four o'clock Tuesday morning, start
ed for Deming, to see the same races.
Last week there was a meeting Of
auto sharps at Bowie to boost for a
road from Lordsburg to Tucson, fol-
lowing the line of the Southern Pa.
cifc. If this can be made a practical
route it will shorten the t%ranscontin-
entail road fifty or sixty miles.
A. H. Hilton, Of San Marcial, the
merchant and good roads booster was
In the city Sunday. Mr.. Hilton has
discovered more ways of getting
around the country in an automobile
than any mar in New Mexico, and is
still busy hunting new routes.
The county commissioners last
week appointed G. w. Marsalis as
justice of the peace, to succeed the
late NJ. w. McGrath, and appointed
P. ]. Farley, James Cashier and D.
H. Kedzie judges of election, and sell
ected the Leader Office as the place
for holding the election on November
3rd.
Miss Thelma Marshall returned
Saturday from a visit with her sister
in Douglas. While there she had a
great time, learned to ride a motor
cycle, saw one Of the battles at Naco,
from a distance of a mile and a half,
but had a very good view Of it through
field glasses, and also saw the battle
at Aqua Prieta. She wanted to re-
main till the end Of the war, but had
to return and go to school.
Tomorrow is the last day on which
you can register for the election next
month, and If you want to vote your
name will have to be on the election
list. 1t may be there, and it may be
not. The board will meet at the
Vendome hotel, and will close the
books at six o'clock In the evening,
This is the last call.
Grant county's share Of the money
derived from the sale of timber and
rent of ground In the forest reserves
this year amounts to mo than 81,
600, which is another way of saying
that the United States pays Grant
county more than $4,000 in taxes this
year. The money will be equally
divided between the school and road
fund, and the road money will bC
spent under the direction Of Super
intendent French.
The republican county convention
re-convened In Silver City last week
to hear the report Of the committed
appointed to confer with the dem
ocrats regarding a joint Legislative
ticket. The convention nominated
. Harry W. Lamb, a Silver City mer