Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-07


AuG. s0-DemieralIe state Convention
sept t-I-slate Tennis Tournament a.
Sept is-3s-Live stock and Products
Exposition AZ Roswell
Oct ~ atrAicu BankerE AEsorl-
etinn Convention a Grand Canon
Aria
Albuquerque is to have a home
guard.
POrtales is to have a new grain
elevator.
Fire destroyed five frame houses
at Carrizozo.
The Clayton mill and contents we're
destroyed by fire.
A new ice factory has been com
p.eted at Pennington.
The capacity Of the Hondale can
merry has been doubled
Resources Of New Mexico banks
are now over 100000.
James Walker has been nominated
fo- postmaster at Estancia.
Plans are being mado to establish
a bottling plant at Deming.
Dirt Is flying at the big irrigation
dam on the Las Vegas grant
The Santa Fe County Institute will
last eight weeks instead Of four.
Melrose people have filed suit for
the disincorporation of that town.
The Ration city council decided to
purchase a motor truck fire engine.
The Rosa-Ignacio Telephone Com
pany filed articles Of incorporation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer Ketner OF
Gallup celebrated their silver we'd
ding.
The estimated cost of the proposed
Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. at Tucumcari is
$4,000.
Wool buyers are reported to have
purchased 25O.0CO pounds Of the wool
stored at Roswell.
Roy d. Brown Of Taos has been ap
pointed to West Point by Represen-
tative B. C.. Hernandez.
The State Livestock and Products
AARooAAAFh ~ AN0oMEA VIII Ut hEAh
during the week Of Sept. IS.
improvements at Roy tend to sur
pass those before the recent disas-
trous fire in that community.
The first forty tons of ore taken
for a now gold strike north of Organ
is said to have brought $4,000.
The explosion of a coal oil lamp
at Artesia caused a fire that de-
stroyej E. ]. Dixon's residence.
Miss Eugenia Roy of Roy, Mora
county, has announced herself a can
didate for superintendent of schools.
The people of Albuquerque are in.
terested in making this years state
fair the greatest ever held in tho
southwest.
The number Of automobile licenses
issued in New Mexico for 1916 is c.
252, as compared with 3.741 at the
same time last year.
Due TO the fact that its postal re-
eeipts in the last fiscal yea exceeded
$4,000, Clovis is now entitled to free
postal delivery service.
The Austin Copper Company has
recently been organized and taken
over 2SO acres of land in the Burro
mountains neal Tyrone.
H. B. Link, secretary of the Ele-
plant Butte Water Users Associa-
ton, has been elected to manage the
Dona Ana county fair this fall.
That the state troops are improving
rapidly in efficiency was the state
ment of Col. e. C. Abbott, command
ing the New Mexico regiment, in Eel
Paso.
Battery A of the New Mexico Ma.
tional Guard has taken up station at
Its new post, R Paso.
The greatest part of the 1903 acres
Of state land sold at auction in Ration
was purchased by George Gillespie.
His purchase amounted to S,1l3
acres.
The reunion of the Ancient and Ac.
Scottish Rite, Valley Of Santa
Fe, Orient of New Mexico. opened at
The Scottish Rite Cathedral in Santa
Fe with a class Of fifty-six candidates.
The Chino Copper Company are
making extensive improvements at
which when completed will
that camp n OF the biggest
most completely equipped mill
Mrs. William II. Pope. OF Santa Fe
VAS elected state vice regent OF
Jacob Bennett Chapter, d. A. r., at a
Meeting in Silver City. Mrs. 8. M.
Ashenfelter, OF Silver City was
.hOsen state regent.
Hanging from the limb of an apple
rec in the heart of an orchard on
Mountain road, the lifeless body
II Mrs. William v. Vaughn, wife Of
he engineer at the water company 1
liant, was found al Albuquerque. (
Developments of the Eberle prop.
a - a.