Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-04-27

Sept. 25-2s-Seventh Annual Northern
New Mexico Fair at Ration.
The. new NJ. e. church at Gallup
has been dedicated.
Wagon Mound citizens want to in
corporate their town.
The Loving postoffice was robbed
Of about $500 in cash.
The rush Of applicants for enlist
ment continues at Albuquerque.
Ground has been broken at Dem
ing for a $4,000 Christian church.
Patriotic meetings are being held in
many towns throughout the state.
Peaches. pears, apricots and alfalfa
were reported damaged by frosts.
The Gallup woman's Rifle Club was
organized with twenty-six members.
The Masons laid the cornerstone for
the new Baptist church at Columbus.
Miners and railroad men at Ration
are to get an increase in wages May
LIST.
Increased acreage will be planted to
crops this year in all parts of the
state.
The members of the Christian
church at Deming are to have a new
edifice.
Thirty-seven persons residing in
Gallup were indicted on bootlegging
charges.
Juan Rodriguez was acquitted of
murder at Alamogordo on an instruc-
ted verdict.
Child Welfare Week" will be OBJ
served in Clovis between the dates Of
May 2 and 5.
The contract for the Clovis High
School building has been let to resi-
dents of that city.
Plans are practically completed for
the establishment of a Red Cross hos
pital in Albuquerque.
The town council of Clayton has
approved a petition that a certain dis
trict in the town be paved.
Federal Judge Neblett appointed
Miss Emma Carson, of Eunice, .
United States commissioner.
The county commissioners appro-
priated $1,000 to be spent on Bernalil-
10 county roads in two months.
The New Mexico Publicity Bureau
at Santa Fe has received a supply
Of 100,0 o Sunshine State" seals.
over fifty head of Holstein dairy
cattle have been purchased by farm
ers residing in the vicinity Of Clovis.
Lightning struck the home of Cash
Ramey in Clovis, causing a damage
estimated between $1,000 and $1,000.
Three Old Mexico natives are sus-
pected Of starting the fire which de-
stroyed a number of buildings in
Kelly.
Walter F~ronzille, a Magdalena bar
tender was jailed on a charge of at
tempting to shoot William Mckinley,
another bartender.
Frank Butt, Democratic county
chairman at Albuquerque, has been
appointed one of the clerks of the
United States Senate.
Ex-Governor George Curry arrived
in Santa Fe and offered his services
to Gov. ". e. Lindsey in any capacity
that he can serve.
The Santa Fe lodge of Elks adopted
resolutions approving the action OF
President Wilson and Congress in
passing the war resolution.
Roswell has appointed a committee
to prepare entertainment for the New
Mexico Bar Association, which will
meet there on August 9th.
Chester Nickerson, aged about "a
years, was found dead on the railroad
tracks near the ice plant at Carrizozo
His body was in a badly mutilatet
condition.
Rupert F. Asplund OF Santa Fe, wal
named secretary of the State TAI
Commission by President r. G. ReiC
of Roswell, and is now in charge o.
the office.
Pablo Ybarro was found guilty BY
a jury in the District Court of muir
der in the first degree for the stab
bling to death OF Sara Lemo, his par
amour, at Hurley.
At the first meeting Of the new
board of trustees of the New Mexic,
Hospital for the Insane, held at Eas
Las Vegas, Cecelio Rosenwald wal
chosen as president and e. J. Nc
Wenie secretary-treasurer.
The outlook for water for irrigation
in New Mexico is the poorest in sew
eral years, says the United State
Weather Bureau in the last snowfall
bulletin for the season, published a
Santa Fe. This despite the fact tina
the snowfall for the winter, %.
inches, was practically normal.
BY unanimous vote Of the newly-aI
pointed board Of regents DR.. Austii
d. Grille OF Roswell was elected pres
dent Of the New Mexico College of Az
riculture and Mechanic Arts, succeed