Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-10-01
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Oct 5-7--Meetine Federation OF wom-
ems Clubs at Portaies.
Oct. 11-16.-state Fair at Albuquerque.
Mountain sheep have been found or
the Tonic forest.
Tie Roswell Gun Club has a large
active membership.
Plans for a $4,000 M. e. church at
Gallup are being prepared.
State officials will attend the state
fair at Albuquerque.
The new Christian church at Roy
was dedicated Sunday.
Mrs. c. c. Cloppert has been desig-
mated acting postmaster at Olive.
The windstorm at Espanola did
considerable damage to orchards.
The New Mexico bankers will hold
their convention at Roswell Oct. 4
and s.
Charles w. Adams has been com
missioned postmaster at Cuchillo, ST.
ezra county.
T. A. Rouall Of Las Cruces was
thrown from a buggy and had his
skull fractured.
Santa F6 horses entered in the
State Fair races at Albuquerque have
been shipped to that city.
Game and Fish Warden Trinidad C..
lie Baca has appointed Walter Settle
field a license collector at Cliff.
It is announced that the Clovis
Elks' lodge has completed plans for
construction of a large auditorium 100
feet square.
Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, national
authority on the subject Of illiteracy,
will address the State Teachers Con-
vention in Albuquerque Nov. 20.
1t is understood that the State Tax
Commission, which has adjourned. de-
MED most of the appeals made to it
for reduction of assessments on vari-
ous classes of property all over the
state.
Owing to other engagements this
fall, Vice President Marshall will not
be able to fill any speaking dates in
the southwest, n therefore cannot
appear at the Eddy county fair, as ad-
vertised.
After thirteen years of persistent
search the famous lost French mine
has been located, on the flanks of the
Truchas Peaks, the highest peaks in
New Mexico, thirty miles north Of
Santa F6.
The Democratic party of New Mexi-
co sustained a loss in the sudden
death at Tucumcari of Henry Swan,
the fighting member of the Demo
cratic minority in the last House of
Representatives.
T. R. H. Smith, former president Of
the First State bank Of Las Cruces,
has been indicted on t~wenty-seven
counts by the grand jury, which has
just adjourned. The charges grew
out of the failure of the bank.
In order to permit necessary work
on the scenic highway near Ration the
county commissioners of Colfax coun-
ty have loaned $4,000 to the County
Road Board, pending receipt of the
state highway bond money available
for that county
The Tucumcari City Council has
postponed the prohibition election
from Tuesday, October u, t o the fol-
lowing day. Wednesday the 18th. This
was necessitated on account Of the
18th being Columbus day-a legal
holiday.
Judge William H. Pope, in Federal
Court at Santa Fe, handed down an
order in the case of the Santa Fe
Lumber G. Transfer Company, some
days ago thrown into bankruptcy, APP
pointing C. G. Mardorf as the receiver
of the company.
L. C. Mersfelder, county superin-
tendent of schools of Curry county,
has rendered his resignation to the
county commissioners, stating that
his health was such that it would be
impossible for him to continue in
charge of the office.
At least six counties in New Mexico
are now spending their money to i'm
prove the highways. So State Engi-
neer James A. French discovered on
his return from a weeks tour Of Ber-
nalillo, Valencia, Socorro, Dona Ana.
Grant and Luna counties.
Irwin Ogden. publisher of the Roy
Spanish-American at Roy. Mora coun.
ty, went to Santa Fe with a sentence
of six to nine months I'm the state
penitentiary hanging over him for
criminal libel; he left for home with
a full and complete pardon signed by
Governor Mcdonald, who also remit
ted the fine Of $500 with costs.
The exhibit of the State Department
Of Education at the State Fair will be
a large statistical map showing prog
ress made in education in New Mexico
during recent years.
A new elevator is under construc-
tion at Dedman, Union county, one of
a dozen new plats established to take
care of the great grain r in north
eastern New Mexico this year.
The State Tax Commission has ap-
pointed a number of special agents to
visit Union, Taos. Rio Arriba and
other counties to locate property that
iidn't get on the assessment rolls.
Early reports from hunters and
trappers report an unusually large
number Of bears in the Black range
Of Socorro and Sierra counties this
year.
Governor Mcdonald has appointed
eighty-eight delegates from all over
New Mexico to the tenth internation-
al Dry Farming Congress which meets
in Denver Oct. At.
The Plains Buying and Selling AS.
ISOLATION, office at Clovis, ]. Simpson
Morgan. statutory agent. filed incor-
poration papers with the State Cor
poration Commission.
Meagre reports of a murder az the
McGaffey lumber camp, near Tho
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