Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1915-12-16
WHAT'S DOING
ABOUT TOWN

R. N. Maxwell has been on the
sick list the past week.
J. L. StubbIefield was among
the grip victims this week.
For sale, matched team of un-
broke 4-year-old horses. j. ].
Smith. IL 9-tf
Fine Clothes. For an up-to-
date suit, and guaranteed fit,
| see S. N. Jenson.
If you want to buy or sell any
kind of live stock. call, phone or
write Jenson, Pace G. Keene.
DR.. Amble returned Tuesday
from his Minnesota visit. He
reports the weather quite cool in
the northland.
H. V. Lipe reports the sale of
the W. A. Lassell place north
west of Mcintosh to D. M. Sewell
of Texas.
The next meeting of the A.
H. T. A. will be held next Sat
urday. and members are request
ed to be in attendance.
J. N. Bush went to Willard
Monday to do some inside work
on the bank building there. Mrs.
Bush went along to keep him
straight.
DR.. Wright, father of Mrs.
John Block. who has been
here several months, left for
Texas and Oklahoma Wednesday.
He will return In the spring.
80 acres fine land 5 miles
northeast of Mountainair. Well,
windmill, good house. fenced
and cross fenced. For sale
cheap.-W. F. Martin, Mountain
air, N. M.
Jenson, Pace & Keene handle
all kinds of live stock. If YOU
want to sell they will pay you
the right price, and if you want
to buy they will furnish what
you want at the lowest possible
price.
Miss Ettie Meador, a Torrance
county teacher, was married
November II, 1915, at Meridian,
Texas, to Mr.. Frank Laschke,
an enterprising farmer of Fan
min county, Texas.
The school at Silverton has
been closed on account of scarlet
fever, and the teacher, Miss Big
bee, left Saturday for her home
near Encino, to remain until
school re-opens.
w. T. Cosand of Haviland,
Kansas, who owns land in this
vicinity, has been here during
the past week looking after his
interests. He has been trying
to find somebody to drill a we'll
on one of his places, but up to
last report had not succeeded in
finding a driller who could take
any new jobs.
Fred H. Ayers, one of the at
torneys for the defense in the
cases against Ham Holloway and
Joe Mckinley, returned the first
of the week from Las Cruces,
where the trial Was held last
week. The court instructed the
jury to return a verdict of &C.
quittal in the case against Joe
Mckinley. Holloway was found
guilty of manslaughter, which
carries a sentence of one to ten
years. A motion was made for
a new trial, and meantime Hol
loway was released on his own
recognizance, and is at present
hunting and trapping in the
country north of Las Cruces.
On the jury were eight Spanish
Americans and four Americans.
P. A. Speckmann and family
left Sunday. Mrs. Speckmann
and the children going to Mag
dalena to visit Mrs. Speckmann's
mother and family till after
Christmas. Mr.. Speekmann
went to Albuquerque to take
charge of the Mission Press, a
printing establishment where the
work for the state mission de-
partment of the M. E. church is
done. Rev. T. M. Harwood, who
conducts the establishment, is
also at the head of the Spanish
mission work for the M. E.
church in the state. The Speck-
mann family will move to Albu-
querque as soon after Christmas