Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1914-09-25
WESTERN LIBERAL.

Virginia voted on the prohibition
question this week, and went dry by
more than twenty thousand.
r. M. williams, with his family, was
in town Saturday, returning to Cliff
ton after a pleasant vacation spent on
the coast.
The repair parts for the ice ma
chine have at last been shipped, and
in due time the machine will be run
ming again.
Lost, Sunday, between Lordsburg
and Leitendorl, a blue, tailor made
lady's coat. Finder will please leave
atLBERAL ONCE.
q. W. Clapp, assistant passenger
agent Of the Southern Pacific, was In
the city Wednesday, on his way to
Clifton on business.
r. D. Smyth has been enjoying a
vacation. He spent last week In FL
Paso, and has gone to Phoenix to
visit his brother Fred.
The school enrolment has increas-
ed to 223, and 1t has been necessary to
hire another primary teacher. Mrs.
Nat Cannon has been hired.
The press bulletin Of the Geological
Survey says that the only essential
minerals OF the first rank Of which
the United States has no known sup
ply at all commensurate with its
needs are n~itrates, potash salts, tin,
nickle and platinum.
Bay Shannon and John Crumb, Of
Clifton, were in town last Saturday,
returning from a trip over In the
Douglas country. Mr., Shannon says
the report that he was running for
sheriff in Greenlee county was a mis-
take he was only rambling, but
aged to ramble In ahead Of one lar
James Edgar was in from the noun
tains this week, TO get the wal news.
Although MI. Edgar was born In New
Jersey, his ancestors we're English,
and he takes great interest in the
war, and is pulling as hard IS he can
for the success Of the allies. He has
1t all doped out just how they will
win.
The commissioner of the general
land office has issued an order to the
various land offices In the country
directing them to reject all applica-
tions to make entry which are ex-
ecuted more than ten days previous
to filing. This order comes as the re-
suit OF q recent departmental deci-
eIon.
District court is still in session, and
will probably continue into next
month. Several Of the less import
ant cases have been tried. There are
three murder cases, Francisco PARA,
who is charged with shooting into a
house at Fierro, the bullet killing
Nicolas Montana; W. S. George, charg-
ed with killing Walter Allen, near
Central. last June, and August West
and Isabel King, charged with the
murder of George King, Mrs. Kings
husband, on the Sapello, last July.
The Lordsburg board Of registra-
ton consists of G. W. Marsalis, Oscar
Allen and d. H. Kedzie. 1t will meet
at the VeDdome hotel on October L.,
3, 10, II, and oath, that is Thursday,
Friday and Saturday Of next week,
and on the next three Saturdays Of
October. The board will try and get
the name of every voter on the list,
but 1t is the duty Of the voter to see
his name is there, and II 1t is omitted
1t is the fault OF the voter. He will
have no kick coming against the
board of registration.
A new arrival in Lordsburg was In
Yited to go out hunting a few even
lngs since, just after the opening Of
the snipe season. The party went
down en- the fat, where snipe are
thick. They had forgotten to take a
A., lantern, and so had to build a fire, to
attract the snipe. The new arrival
was left to keep the fire going, and to
hold the bag open, for the snipe to
run into, while the others scattered
TO drive In the snipe, While hunting
more fuel to keep the fire going the
FIRE went entirely out, The fire keeper
had no matches, but he wa game,
and started back TO town to get some
more, and IN some way found out that
IL Vas mosquitoes, not snipe, that were
thick on the fat.
Kids are kids, and some are more
80. There is a kid In L%ordsburg who
has got a grandmother who is not as
old as she will be some years hence,
and who to put of the arrival Of that
time uses a liberal amount Of cold
cream, as an aid to her complexion.
The other day the kid had been tax
ing his usual afternoon nap and when
IL was about time for him to wake up