Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-09-01

Aug. 30-sept. Annual Convention
P%ortales Baptist Association at Fort
Sept 4-7-state Tennis Tournament at
Sept. 14-16-Fair at Artesla.
Sept. 15-16-Fair at Dexter.
sept. 14-1S-State Fair at Albuquerque.
sept. 1S-2S-Live Stock and Products
Exposition at Roswell.
sept. 2S-Fair at G~reenville.
OCT. 6-N Mexico anker Associ-
alton Convention at Grand Canon
oct. 1o-1s-Dona Ana County Fair at
Las Cruces.
Work is being rushed on the new
Columbus camp site.
Nearly every train into Stanley
brings in homeseekers.
There will be a big parade at Al
b%uquerque on Labor day.
The ned spillway for the Carlsbad
project will cost $15O,0O0.
Shoes left behind by a thief at
Questa may prove his undoirg.
Ration is suffering from an cpl
demic of automobile tire thefts.
The Dayton canning plant is to be
ready to begin operations Sept. 8.
The 7-year-old son of r. j. Shirk Of
Levy, was bitten by a r~attlesnake.
A Silver City man is to furnish q
500 cavalry horses for Uncle Sam.
Herman seitz, of Mills, received an
accidental gunshot wound in his leg.
N. T. Bowman reports finding good
ore in the new copper distric: near
Cuba.
There has been an outbreak OF
measles at the McGaffey lumber
camp.
There were 74O automobiles in use
by individual owners in Albuquerque
on Aug. /.
A big class will be initiated into the
Knights of Columbus at Albuquerque,
on Sept. 3.
Camille Arrighetti of Albuquerque
was fined $40 and costs for illegally
shooting doves.
A new postoffice has been estab.
lished in the Kiowa valley and chris
tened "Hatodd."
Arthur Kaiser, IA, came near being
killed when he fell from a load Of
hay at Dayton.
C. M. Bolts of Albuquerque was
elected president of the New Mexico
Bar Association.
Bank deposits in New Mexico state
banks increased $4,000, 900 during the
year ending June 80.
About a dozen Old Mexico natives
engaged in a small riot among them
selves at Blossburg.
Moriarty, Torrance county, has
gone dry by four votes. The vote was
40 for and SO against.
Tucumcari business men are max
ing plans for a Cowboy Carnival"
to be held there in October.
Dewey Johnson, charged with the
murder of N. A. Hypes at Clayton, has
been released on $4,000 bond.
Alum introduced into Red river
through rains and high water killed
thousands Of trout in the stream.
When all the soldiers expected at
neming are on the scene, it is said,
the monthly payroll will be 100000.
There is a petrified forest 100 acres
in extent in Chaves county. 1t lies
about forty-seven miles east Of Ros-
well.
II Il nav;g Of MogolIon Dlnoaol
guilty to having killed a turkey out
of season and was fined $50 and costs,
amounting in all to $50, which he
paid.
Caballo complains that quail have
been destroying the bean crop.
]. A. Jones, of eighteen miles
southeast of Cuervo, has fifteen cuts
in his scalp, said to have been in
flicted by a nelghbor with a stone.
1t is stated that the 15O-ton mill Of
the Pintada Consolidated Copper
Company at Pintada Station, near
Santa Rosa, will be in operation in a
few days.
The 1000 needed to obtain the op-
tion on Traction park at Albuquerque
for a permanent site for the State
Fair Grounds was secured and the
deal for the park will be closed.
The new general offices and store
building of the Burro Mountain Cop
per Company at Tyrone are going up
rapidly. The contract has been let
for the new postoffice building and
the passenger depot.
The announcement that one night
81 the state fair week will be given
up to a grand mask ball on Central
avenue, the principal thoroughfare of
Albuquerque, makes it certain that
those who enjoy real rollicking fun
will be satisfied to the utmost on that
occasion.
Robert s. Randall of Albuquerque,
sentenced to the state penitentiary in
June, 1913, to serve from six to eight
years for embezzlement, was par
doned by Governor Mcdonald.