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II "uiiI"i EifldN llGh' VI lHt huouN
hUildiue opposite the Raycl store.
Rube Gullcy this week opened up
an ice cream and cold drink stand
\ IN the lobby of the post office build
/ I'M. where cream aud cool and re-
| irc,hing drink. can BE- obtained by
| those who desire same.
j. H. Osborne departed recently
for California, Going Ia Los Angeles,
\ where he will enter the old soldiers
home at that place and will perhaps
remain there permanently,
This week Mrs Oscar +. Lucdtkc.
accompanied by her children, arrived
from Forl Riley, Kansas, and will
| spend the summer vacation here with
her husband. Chief Musician Lucdtkc
J. A. Amer and G. G. Gard are dig
ging and marketing potatoes from
their patch on the Waterbury place.
The success these men have had in
raising potatoes disprovcs the state
mcnt that we have heard that pota-
toes could not be successfully grown
ia this country. We have not been
Informed what the crop will average
per acre but the potatoes are of good
size and excellent quality.
W. IT, Foster and q. \. Melone,
with their families. boarded The train
last Sunday, bound for their old
home in California. We do not know
their future plans toward the devel-
opmcnl of their claims ON which they
recently made final proof, after II
ihrcc ycnr. residence thereon, but we
do know that these claims are good
ones and will some day be very valu-
able when put in cultivation.
The recent rains have created
quite demand for seeds for plant
ing in the fields and gardens and the
supply the dealers had on hand was
soon exhausted aud orders have been
placed for more. There will be a
large acreage planted as soon rs the
\ usual summer rains begin.
\ Mrs. Bert Perdue departed last
/ week for u two months visit with rel
ntivcs at her old home in Indiana.
She was accompanied on her way ms
. far rs FL Paso by her husband, Color
Sergeant Pcrdue.
Dorothy Hoover who was badly
burned abnni the feet and ankles
two weeks ago when she walked into
pile of hot ashes. is recovering
from the burns received and will
soon be able to walk about She has
been u patient little sufferer.
/ Ed Simmons and 7. 4. White re-
/ turned the first of the week from a
/ trip into western Texas. where they
went to look up possible location
for lumber yard. We understand
they did not find location that suit
ed them.
T. G.. Cloud of Killcen. Texas, was
- Columbus visitor This week. Mr..
Cloud il II nephew of j. l.. Walker
and, being in III Paso on business
matters, came ont and made his rel
ative short visit.
Another advantage has been given
us by the making of Columbus n
stopping place for the Golden State
Limited train going each way. Pas
-engers can now board this train nj
| this place bound for any station ut
which this train makes n stop.
| The discovery of what appears to
be a good vein of ore in the Tres
| IIcrmanas mountains will doubtless
/ lead To n more determined effort to
/ learn of the value of the ore that is
doubtless covered up in these noun
tains.
The Amigo Sunday school class
left early Friday morning for the
Tres lIcrmanas mountains to spend
the day. They took lunch and had
very pleasant time. There were
more than twenty in the party.
Hood Brown and family of Silver
City motored down Sunday and spent
the day in the city.