The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1914-05-01
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strictly modern, to cost at least $780,
600.
Forty-five bolts Of silk, valued at
$500, were stolen from store In Las
Cruces.
Harmon Fox of North Des Moines
has been commissioned fourth-cIass
postmaster.
Luna county has purchased a $3.50
traction grader for use on the high
ways of that section.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
Cruz B. Gonzales of Chaplain, Union
county, notary public.
A shipment of Angora goats equal
to fourteen cars or 1900 head was
made from Silver City.
An election on the prohibition issue
will be held in Pojoaque district, San,
ia Fe county, on May %.
During one week thirty-one auto II
censes were issued by the secretary of
state to Silver City motorists.
A.. ordinance has been passed by
the Las Cruces City Council requiring
all saloons to close ct 80 p. m.
The farmers of Logan and vicinity
are reported to have set out several
thousand fruit trees this season.
Educational rallies in every county
of the state are looked forward to by
officials of the department of public
instruction.
About 5000 new fruit and shade
tres have been set out by farmers, citi-
zens and the county in the Mesilla val
ley this spring.
county fair for Quay county this
fall is being discussed. The commits
sioners will contribute $500 toward
the enterprise.
The records of State Secretary Lu-
cero's office show that nearly 2.100
automobile owners have taken out IL
censes this year.
Fort Sumner has contributed $500
toward starting canning factory.
That established, it will endeavor to
secure a creamery.
The San Antonio Life Insurance
Company, the office of which is in San
Antonio, Tex, has been admitted to do
business in New Mexico.
Las Cruces cantaloupe growers will
put in smaller fields this season. 1t
is believed the melons can be handled
better in smaller tracts.
Citizens in Deming are subscribing
literally toward the $4,000 bonus to
secure million dollar iceless refriger-
atOr factory in that town
One murder charge and nine
charges of horse stealing are made in
the first ten true bills returned by
the Chavez county grand jury.
The month of March averaged
slightly below the normal in tempera-
ture, and much below in precipitation,
although the snowfall was practically
normal.
, That a gravel road far outclasses
the regular dirt highway was a gen
eral expression of the automobilists
who made the trip to Valmora from
Las Vegas.
The New Mexico Fire Brick Com
pany, at Gallup, filed notice with the
State Corporation Commission that it
has increased its capital stock to
100000.
The New Mexico Colorado Lumber
Company, capitalized at $4,000, was
admitted to do business in New Mexi-
co. Its office is at Albuquerque with
A. H. Heyn. agent.
Grant and Socorro counties, says
Prof Fayette A. Jones of the State
School of Mines, will furnish the bulk
of the mineral display of New Mexico
at the San Diego exposition.
The Tailors' Industrial Union OF
Illinois has filed trademark In the
office of the state secretary
Representative Ferguson of New
Mexico presented a petition in Con-
gress from forty-one citizens of Text
co, 1O4 from Tularosa and 207 from
Alamogordo praying for national pro
hibition.
Clayton is preparing to make a big
noise on Tuesday. May 5, when she
will have the honor of entertaining
three real live governors at once. as
a result of the plans for the sociability
auto tour to be participated In by the
governors of the states along the Old
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