The Lovington leader., 1916-03-10

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Juy .-s-co~boys Reunion 81 I
Vegas.
CLAYTON has a new brick plant
The Buckman bridge will be re
paired.
Carlsbad will celebrate the Fourth
OF July.
An epidemic Of smallpox Is reported
at Clovis
Fire DESTROYED the Gage hotel. an
old landmark. at Artesia.
A planning and girls, mill at Tucum
carl were damaged by tire.
A banque, was held n Roswell for
Brigadier General PerFhing.
Arrangements for the Eddy County
Fair are already being discussed.
John Harvey has succeeded John I.
Bolton as postmaster at Carlsbad.
With a cotton gin and a canning
plant Dayton will be lively town.
Five persons were arrested at Tu'
cumcari in raid OH gambling Gen.
Arch Brite OF Elk has sold his
ranch TO James Cady for $4,000
cash.
Death has taken sever members OF
the Silver City Elks lodge since
Jan. I.
Sugar beets will be raised as an eN'
pertinent this season In the Roswell
section
Road work has commenced In Col.
fax county on the Canine Real, south
OF Ration.
Capt. W. II. Jack Of Folsom. Union
county. member OF the State Cattle
Sanitary Board. died In FL Paso.
Bishop Howden OF the Episcopal
diocese of New Mexico las been visit
Ing In Grant and Luna counties.
Clayton Is advertising for bids ON
the $4,000 school bonds issue. which
was voted on about two weeks ago.
A total OF sle.o92.l6 was spent on
the improvement of tho Rio Grande
In nine months of the last fiscal year
John II. Riley. a pioneer OF the
Southwest and early resident OF Las
Cruces, died a, Colorado Springs
Colo
J. W. Phillips OF Deming shippct
carload OF calves 50 Fort Sumner
receiving an average OF $50 for 1871
stuff.
John Nelson, aged 20 years. a pio
neer mining man OF the Red River dis
t-ict, died at the Miners hospital /:
Ration.
The Lakewood district OF Edd.
county this year expects to ship fit
cars of tomatoes. as against thirty
five last year.
Muriel Hickman, an employt of tn
Chino Copper Company at Santa II
Ia. was seriously scalded by fallin
into IA steam barrel.
Commissions as no.aries publ
have been issued by Governor McDoI
aid to J. II. Daughiry of Roswell an
A. S. Hanson Of Roy.
Mexican beans sold Tor AZ cents
| pound In Clovis. J. W. Leagan, VIII
made the sale, said beans would nj
him $32 an acre this year.
The Mora grant, consisting of MOI
y than $1,000 acres, was sold at Ea'
Las Vegas, In two sections, under
court decree. for total Of $4,000.
W. G. Simpson was appointed she
I iff of Luna county, as successor
Sheriff Stephens, who was shot
} death by iailbreakers near Rincon.
The state game warden placed 1
order for 100 pairs of Chinese riI
! necked pheasants. market value nea
! ly 81 800, but will give native game
part payment.
4 The blanket raise of 50 per cent
J the assessment of mercantile firms
Silver City made by the State Boa
of Equalization was unauthorized {
cording to the decision ct Judge Col
Ncblett.
Owing to i'll health Jacob Klal
!: scnek of Ration. who hrs made
.. home in Colfax county for Il numb
:. of years. committed suicide by sho
ing himself through the head with
revolver.
The Santa Fe railway, through
n Chamber of Commerce. will be ask
to establish sleeping car service
its Silver City branch, IN addition
% the clectriclishtcd- chair car VIII
was recently installed.
The funeral OF Dwight b. Steph,
sheriff of Luna county who v
a killed in "A battle with escaped pris
crs near RinCon, was held at Dem
nnler the auspices of the Maso
and was the largest funeral ever h
~ there.
A charge OF assault and battery ,
made against Miss Lorraine Shrat
a teacher in the Roswell schools,
result OF administering punishm
to Mack Wilkinson, a pupil. II
said the teacher removed Il guam
Of hair from the boy in the course
the chastisement.
q Added to the troubles OF the
lf6 well postoffice of the last few We