Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1916-06-08

from Arizona for a visit with hi
brother.
| Harlan Matthews reports ths
| the cutworms got his Suda
grass crop.
}. Mrs. D. M. Short came in las
Saturday and will remain durin
the summer.
J. L. P. Walter was here fror
Negra last Saturday. He bough
l. a pair of mules from Robert Bur
, rus.
Mrs. VIM. Dow of fatigue wa
4 here Monday to see her daugh
ter, Miss Hebe Whitman. off fo
Las Vegas.
Casio Conner was in town Sat
= urday, the first time since hi
, accident. He gets about or
crutches.
The Ladies' Aid of the M. E
church will meet with Miss Ruth
Crawford June 18th for an all
day session.
j. W. Kooken has twenty-five
acres of his crops to replant in
consequence of ravages by cut
worms.
Deputy Sheriff Dee Robinson,
who went to Palomas Springs a
couple of weeks ago, has not
returned and it is reported that
he is ill.
The baby of Mr.. and Mrs, G..
M. Bates, which has been ill for
a long time with complications
following measles, has been very
bad for the past week.
| Miss Hebe Whitman left Mon
day for Las Vegas to attend the
Normal summer school. Miss
Whitman is ambitious to make
grades for first grade certifi-
cate, and We hope she will win.
Mrs. Grace Donlin and son
Vernon came in Sunday for a
visit with relatives here before
moving to Kansas City. Frank
has resigned his position in AL
buquerque. having secured a bet
ter one in Kansas Citv
A baby boy was born to Mr..
and Mrs. M. H. Senter last
Thursday night, but the little
one lived only twenty-four hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. Senter have the
sympathy of the community in
their loss.
An officer looking for recruits
for the state troops was in this
county several days during the
past week. AS far as we have
been able to learn he found no
volunteers. There seems abso.
lutte Indifference on this subject
in this county.
Mrs. Maud Tibbets, sister of
Mrs, J. G. Peterson, and her two
daughters Blanche and .Eunice,
of Toledo, Ohio, came the first of
the week for a months visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peterson plan to
leave Saturday with their guests
for a two weeks trip to the upper
Pecos, Colorado Springs and
Manitou.
j, A Cooper was over from
Mountainair Monday on business. |
He has increased his acreage a
little this year, and will put in |
about 260 acres. He did not get
his plows rugged in time to use
his tractor for blowing this
spring, but will use it for that |
purpose this fall, and also for
threshing.
R. A. Marble has bought the
R. L. Porter ranch, which ad-
joins Mr.. Marbles land, on the
Torreon draw southwest of Es-
tancia. We believe the Porter
ranch comprised four hundred |
acres. Mr.. Marble has filed on
water sufficient to irrigate three
hundred acres. Mr.. Porter came
out from Oklahoma last Saturday
to close up the deal. He tells us
that crop prospects in Kay coun-
ty, Oklahoma, are pretty p oor on
account of lack of rain. There
had been no rain for five weeks
when he left, Oats were entire
ly gone, and wheat was badly |
damaged.
During the past two months
our readers have been pretty |
well posted on the weather by
weekly mention, but a resume
may be of interest. April was a |
very unusual April, the precipi-
tation having tota!ed 2. "a inches.
There were ID windy days and 21
clear days. May, with the ex-
ception of the snow on the first,
heretofore mentioned, was dry
as a bone. There were % clear
days and % windy days The
winds have sucked up the sur
face moisture. Plenty of moist
ure is reported in the ground in
fields that were cultivated last
year, but ground that has been
growing only weeds for several
years past, and more particular