Estancia news-herald. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1912-19??, 1916-05-25

from the meat market, and tn
business will be carried on by O
r G. Marker.
Reports are coming in o
a good many cases of thistl
bloat in cattle. A few case
K have proven fatal.
Prof. Russell was down from
e Moriarty last Friday, and filet
an application for the position O.
principal of the schools here.
The father of Mrs. G. B. Ro
land, who has been visiting hi
) daughter for some time, returned
Tuesday to his home in Texas.
G. M. Milbourn says there was
a frost in Butler county, Kansas,
the same night that our freeze
came here.
i Don't forget the Memorial and
| Decoration Day exercises. A
full announcement with the pro-
gram for Decoration Day was
printed in this paper last week.
A number of automobile loads
of Democratic delegates from
counties east of here passed
through Tuesday enroute to AL
buquerque to attend the DEM
ocratic state convention.
Len Booth came over from AL.
buquerque last week for visit
with his sister, Mrs. Amble and
family, and his brother, A. Booth
and family. He is an express
messenger on the run between
Albuquerque and Ell Paso.
| D. C. Howell, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
A. Hine went to Albuquerque
Wednesday morning. Messrs.
Howell and Hine are delegates to
the Democratic state convention.
Juan C. Jaramillo of Torreon,
and G. B. Seaman of Moriarty,
are the other delegates.
1t is reported that Mrs. Grace
Goodin, formerly of this place,
and Frank Donlin, clerk at the
Sturgess hotel in Albuquerque,
were quietly married last Sunday
evening at six O'Clock. They
have the congratulations and
good wishes of a large circle of
Estancia friends.
A. Salazar had trouble with q
nice COW a few days ago from a
stoppage of one of the teats.
This is a trouble which may dam
age a COW very seriously, but it
can be overcome by proper treat
ment. County Agent Harwell
treated Mr.. Salazar's COW and
she is now all right.
O. w. Kemp returned last Sat-
urday from his visit in Oklaho-
ma. He says the spring has
been cold and backward there
the same as here. Their par
ticular cross in the county
where his relatives live is the
burdensome taxes. The average
tax on a quarter section of land
is about $3.50.
John Gloss, who lives north of
Mcintosh, was in Estancia Tues
day. He says cut worms are not
bothering his crops-in fact he
has never suffered much damage
from this pest. Some of his
neighbors report some damage.
He thinks that as a rule land that
is kept clean doesn't harbor cut
worms.
W. H. Ligon, who doesn't
come to Estancia often, was here
Tuesday. He lives west of Nc
Intosh in the foothills. Not long
ago he bought the Jep Morris
place adjoining his homestead.
Mr.. Ligon is one of the few who
raised some beans the "dry
year" and he sold some of those
beans recently. He is planting
45 acres of beans this year. He
intended farming some on the
Morris place. but it was so wet
through April he could not get
the land ready.
l. M. Bolton, whose place is in
the foothills west of Estancia,
was in town last Thursday de-
livering some pigs which he had
butchered. He says that so far
cutworms have done little dam
age on his place. Speaking
about the depth to which mois-
ture has penetrated the ground
this spring, in digging for a cave
on a hill side where the surface
was sod, Mr.. Bolton found the
moisture had penetrated a little
more than six feet.
C. M. Milbourn returned home
last Saturday from his trip to
Kansas City with the cattle, hav-
ing stopped on the way home to
visit his former hcme in Butler
county, Kansas. Butler county
has developed into an oil country
since the Milbourns left there,
and some of the land formerly
owned by Mr.. Milbourn has
made its present owner wealthy.
Mr.. Milbourn made it a par
tini,lar mint To inni1ira of man