The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-07-31
STATE NEWS
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NEW MEXICO
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS


Aug. 24-Republlcan State Convention
at Santa re.
Sept. S-ii.-san Juan County Fair at
Sept. IS-1s.-County Fair at Farming
Oct. 1-s.-Dona Ana County Fair at
Oct. 1s~Live Stock and Products ex-
Nov. 2s-25.--Meeting State Teachers
Association at Albuquerque.
Homegrown cantaloupes- are ON the
Roswell market.
The addition to the court house at
Carlsbad is about completed.
The D. & r. G. has completed its
new stock yards at Pennington.
The vets triumphed by nine votes
in a test of the prohibition strength
at Estancia
Work on the new high school build
ing at Gallup will commence within
the next few days.
w. G. Silsby. the Burro Mountain
Angora rancher, had thirty-two goats
killed by lightning.
The assessed valuation of Silver
City is approximately $945,000, an in
crease over 1913 of $4,000.
Twenty-Five cents a pound is the fig.
ure offered by the civic committee of
the Portales Women's Club for flies.
The new steel cable for the San
Juan Basin OIL Company has been re-
csived. The cable is 1000 feet in
length.
The prohibition election in the dis
trict composed of French, Miami and
Colmor, resulted in victory for pro-
hibition.
The five-room home of G. d. Smith
OF Roswell was almost entirely de-
stroyed by a fire, the loss being up
wards of $1,000.
Fenton ]. Spaulding, who disap-
peared from Albuquerque, was found
standing waist deep in a swamp near
Isleta, in demented condition.
D. X. Smith of Roosevelt county So
cured judgment in the Supreme Court
for $65 from the A. T. & S. F. road
for the killing Of Jersey COW.
Only occupation tax imposed by cit
les can be collected by cities, accord
ing to an opinion handed down by At
torney General Frank w. Clancy.
1t is stated that winter wheat on the
Rayado ranch near Cimarron will aver
age fifty bushels to the acre, and other
small grains will do proportionately as
well.
Report comes from Mesa, Dona
county, that labor for harvesting crops
is scarce notwithstanding the great
number of Mexican refugees from
across the border.
The governor has appointed M.
Cooney of Socorro as member of the
board Of trustees of the New Mexico
School of Mines to take the place of
Coney T. Brown, resigned.
The state veterinarian was called to
Buchanan, in the county of Guadalupe,
to inspect reported cases of pink eye
said to have developed in cattle
brought into the state from Texas.
The Maxwell Supply Company
shipped car of wool to Boston which
was sold for is cents. The car con-
tanned 10000 pounds. This is a low
price, but was contracted for before
the raise.
The Espanola Valley Development
Company filed incorporation papers
with the state corporation commission.
Its office is Espanola and its statutory
agent is Frederick s. Blackmer. The
company is capitalized at 100000, d.
vided into 5000 common and 5000 pre-
ferred shares, at $40 share.
DR.. w. ]. Armstrong of Roswell is
the new president Of the New Mexico
Dental Society, which concluded its
seventh annual session at Tucumcari.
The 1915 convention will be held at AL
buquerque, and the society will attend,
in a body, the 1915 convention of the
National Dental Society, with which
the state society lie affiliated.
James B. Horn, ella valley farm
or, will make a test Of the profitable
ness Of canning home grown fruit and
vegetables during the coming season
which, should it prove as successful
as It has proven elsewhere, will revo
lutionize vegetable and fruit growing
along the river by providing an outlet
for oil narfaha hIa farm nroducta