Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-09-22

w. Wv oman 8 CLUBS annual mesp-
Oct. s-6-New Mexico 5ankers' Associ-
alton Convention at Grand Canon
Ariz.
Oct. 1O-13-Dona Ana County Fair at
oct. 5-15-Annuai Convention OF south
western Holiness Assn at Moriarty'
Columbus is preparing for a clean
up campaign.
A fair is to be held in San Miguel
county in October.
Plans are afoot to advertise the
Pecos valley as a winter resort.
The harvesting of the bean crop
has begun in Torrance county.
Gallup has arranged to sink a test
well for its municipal water works.
Mrs. T. NJ. Beckham Of near Alto
is the mother Of triplets, all boys.
Rio Arriba county has the ttate's
highest point-1S.3 06 feet above sea
level.
The foundation for the colored peo'
pies church at Gallup has been com
pleted.
Two daughters of the Baptist min
lister, B. G. Richburg, at Lovington
were killed by lightning.
The annual convention of the South
western Holiness Association will be
held at Moriarty oct. 5 to Is.
Verne Olsen, 16, was fatally
mangled when caught by a belt in the
electric light plant at Pennington.
Gallup is to have a Chamber of
Commerce and publicity bureau, with
Miss j.. E. Harrison as secretary.
New Mexico's State Fair Commits
sion now holds title to the Traction
park fair grounds at Albuquerque.
Governor Mcdonald appointed E. N.
Crossett, of Magdalena a mounted po-
liceman for the cattle sanitary board.
The Republican state executive
committee at Santa F6 elected w. H..
CLEARWATER of Albuquerque, chairman.
There are now $4,000 persons OF
school age in New Mexico, in the opin-
ion of State School superintendent
Alvin N. White.
S. p. Couch and others of Caballo
have been given permission to trap
quail. The birds are so numerous az
to be a nuisance.
Bears are reported to be more mum
erous in the upper Nambe river
country, a score or so of miles from
Santa, than in many years.
w. j. Lacouthre of Lewiston, Mont.
was struck and instantly killed by
Santa F6 train No. 9 a quarter OF n
mile from the station at French.
The program of the annual conven-
ton of the State Federation of Won
ems Clubs, which will be held at Las
Vegas, Oct. SO, has been arranged.
Gregorio Quintana of San Agustin
was fatally injured when he was
thrown from his wagon after his team
bolted. He died a few hours later.
For the purpose of holding auto and
other races, the Clovis-Texico Racing
Club filed Incorporation papers. The
capitalization is $4,000 of which $1,000
is paid.
Jack rabbits are a great nuisance
in the farming country around Clio
Wis. Russell Hardwick reports that
they grazed and destroyed thirty
acres of wheat.
e. P. Friend dropped from a moving
Santa Fe freight train at Clovis and
had his collar bone and several ribs
broken. He says he was thrown Off
the train by trainmen.
The Ramah Reservoir Company,
through its directors, has decided to
do some $4,000 worth of work on the
dam of their reservoir which furn.
ishes the water for irrigating the
Ramah valley.
Antonio Lucero. Jr, was appointed
s~tenographer to his father, Secretary
of State Antonio Lucero, succeeding
his sister, Miss Aurora Lucero, who
goes to Tucumcari to teach Spanish.
Nicanor Baca was appointed automo-
bile license clerk to succeed young
Lucero.
A check for Sl5.S4O.SS from the De
partment of Agriculture, representing
25 per cent of the net receipts from
New Mexico forests the past fiscal
year, was received by Governor Nc
Donald. OF this amount 1851, 3&
goes for good roads and $1O,329 to
the common schools.
New Mexico is to have a formal
adoption into the dry" campaign ter
ritory with the visit of the prohibi-
ton national committees train to
Albuquerque, Ration and Gallup. The
prohibition special that left Chicago
or a 9,00O-mile trip will pass through
this state on Sept. 25.
Red" Cheevers. the little trombone
player of the Thirteenth Cavalry, was
shot and seriously injured at Colum-
bus when another member of tbs band
accidentally discharged a firearm. The