The Dolores star., 1916-07-07
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
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Aug. ss.Repubiican State Convention
A:s. se.De"isr..,e state conv.n,,o.
capt. s-7-sisis Tennis rournamsnt at
sept. is-is-rAvs stock and Product,
Oct. S-s-New Mextco uankerr Asr"cI-
alton Convention ut Grand Canon.
: Albuquerque IL to have . home
guard.
.fsetascs isyto ,~haSe q new. grain
elevator.
Fire destroyed five frame houses
ct Carrizoxo.
The Clayton mill and contents were
destroyed BY fire.
A new ice factory has been COM
oieted at Pennington.
The capacity Of the Hondale can
uery has been doubled.
Resources OF New Mexico banks
are now over $11.0O0.0O0.
"a James Walker has been nominated
for postmaster at Estancia.
Plans are being made to establish
bottling plant at Deming.
pirt is --lyins at tha big irrigation
dam .on the Las Vegas grant.
- Tho 9nnta 70 County institute will
last eight weeks Instead OF four.
Mssrose people have flied suit for
the dlsIncorporation OF that town.
The Ration city council decided to
purchase q motor truck fire engine.
The Rosa-Ignacio Telephone Com
pany filed articles of incorporation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer Ketner OF
Gallup celebrated their silver wed.
ding.
The estimated cost of the proposed
Railroad Y. M. C. A. at Tucumcari is
t25.GQ0.j
Wool buyers are reported to have
purchased 100000 pounds OF the wool
stored at Roswell.
Roy ID. Brown OF Taos has been ap
pointed to West Point by Represen-
tative d. G. Hernandez.
, Tho State Livestock and Products
Exposition at Roswell will be held
during the week OF Sept. IS.
improvements at Roy tend to sur
pass those before tho recent disas-
: t2ous fire In that community.
/ ,phe first forty >~tona,- of > ore taken
for q new gold strike north of Organ
: b said to have brought $4,000.
!. The explosion OF coal oil lamp
at Artesia caused q fire that de-
I. stroyed u. J. Dixon's residence.
Miss EugenIa Roy Of Roy, Mora
county. has announced herself can
didate for superintendent OF schools.
( The people CT Albuquerque arc 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. 19fG sissG,-
252. as compared with :3:.741 at the
same time last year.
Due to the fact that its postal re-
ceipts in the last fiscal year exceeded
$4,000. Clovis is now entitled to free
postal delivery service.
The Austin Copper Company has
recently been organized and taken
over $50 acres of land in the Burro
mountains near 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. Il. C. Abbott. command.
Ing the New Mexico regiment. in FL
Paso.
Battery A Of the New Mexico Ma
tional Guard has taken up station at
its new post, Ell Paso.
The greatest part OF the 4.3O3 acres
OF state land sold at auction in Ration
was purchased by George Gillespie
His purchase amounted to S,113
acres.
The reunion of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite. Valley OF Santa
Fe. Orient OF New Mexico. opened at
the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Santa
20 with class OF fifty-six candidates.
Uhe Chino Copper Company are
making extensive improvements at
Hurley, which when completed will
make 1that camp one of the biggest
and most completely equipped mill
towns.
Mrs. William Fl. Pope. of Santa Fe
EaS elected state vice regent of