Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1914-08-07
WESTERN LIBERAL.
LORDSBURG, Aug. I, 1914.

bne uISb Ol Jne Week.
J. P. Mansfield was down from
Stems Monday, returning Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Small are en-
ioying life at Long Beach, California.
]. B. Foster left yesterday for Mil
waukee, He expects to return about
the 18th.
Willard Hardin, deputy postmaster,
is spending his vacation at the Day
Foster ranch.
]. r. Todd and family from Clifton,
we're In town Tuesday, en- route to
the coast for IN outing.
B. B. Ownby has an important an
nouncement which is made on the
fourth page of this issue. Look at it.
M. Q. Hardin is raising ONE fine
grapes in the yard at the hotel. The
LIBERAL sampled them this week and
found them fine.
Croquet is getting to be more pop
ular than baseball in Lordsburg. Its
deEotees carry lanterns and play till
late hours in the night.
The school board has elected Ney
b. German as principal. Mr.. German
was superintendent Of Luna county
schools from 1907 to 1911.
The railroads and the engineers
have compromised all differences ex-
cept the matter of wages, and have
agreed to arbitrate that.
Norman Carmichael, Of the Arizona
copper company, was in town Tues
day, en- route to Phoenix, to consult
with the taxing commission.
The fine stallion owned by Nc
Grath Brothers, which has been in
pasture at Silver City, died this week
from the effects of a snake bite.
Mrs. E. c. Belt and Miss Carmita,
passed through on the west bound
train Tuesday, returning to their
California home from a visit to Ell
Paso.
A new time card was put in force
on the Southern Pacific Sunday. There
was no changes at this point. In fact
the only change was taking off trains
9 and 10 between Tucson and Los An
geles.
Mrs. Swan and Joe Woods and his
family, who went to Arkansas about
a year ago, where they intended to
farm, returned last week, complain
ing that the country vas suffering
from drouth.
Mrs. D. L. Sellards has purchased a.
couple Of lots in the Croker addi-
tion, and is going to build a three
room lumber house on it. Mrs. Sell
lards, very wisely, thinks 1T Is a waste
OF money to pay rent.
The European war again reached
Lordsburg Tuesday. On that day the
IS company shut down the mine.
There is no market for copper, hence
there is no use of mining copper ore.
Two hundred men we're thrown out
of employment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Allen have been
spending the week at Sheriff Nc
Grath's new ranch on the river. The
sheriff wants MI. Allen to take
charge of the ranch for. him, as super
intendent, and so he took his wife
out to see how she would like ranch
life. 4
The European war reached Lords
burg last Sunday, and interfered with
some business here. The c~orrespon-
dents of the First national bank,
through whom it sells exchange on
China, notified the bank to sell no
more exchange, owing to the troubled
conditions existing in Europe.
The Mexican government has turn
ed the Southern Pacific road Of Mex
leo back to the company, after hav-
ing run it for a long time. The COM
pany is now running a train from No
gales to Guaymas inc day and back
the next, making three round trips a
week.
Messrs. A. P. and G. H. Warner ar
rived In town last Sunday, and have
been having lots Of fun since then, all
dressed up In khakai, putting in the
time at the IS company's new power
house, helping get the lei engine
into shape. Both brothers are me-
chanical experts, and when they get
job like this 1t is more fun than 60
ing fishing.
All of Europe is at war, but there
has not been any fighting. There are
two groups, in one is Austria, Ger
many and Italy, in the otheris France,
Russia and England. The papers tell
OF ultimatums and threats and every
thing but fighting. The smaller ma
tions of Europe want to keep out of
the trouble, but as they occasionally