New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-11-23

i, The Navy League, from which
Secretary of the Navy Daniels re-
fused to receive any more donations,
is supplying from 10000 to 1900
articles per week to the soldiers and
sailors. These are sweaters, muf-
~flers, writlets, socks, etc. 1t would
be interesting to see what the Lea
m1e would be able to do if it had
the encouragement of the Secretary
of the Navy.-Exchange.
New Mexico went dry by a big
majority Tuesday, estimated any
where from five to ten thousand. San
Juan county voted four to one in
favor of adopting the prohibition
amendment. Several of the cities in
the state went dry also, including
Gallup, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las
Vegas and Las Cruces.-Farmington
Enterprise.
When Hannibal crossed the Alps
no press agent ground out reams Of
Monograph copy claiming that the
Old Boy was going to make a sucker
out of Rome. In those days press
agents were thrown to the lions
which is probably the reason SO many
Of the lions died of Indigestion
New York Tribune,
Judge Reed Holloman and At
%torney General Patton were in town
Tuesday appointed as committee by
the State Bar Association to investi-
gate Attorney f. D. Tittman on
| cl,,rro of h,,:- AL,r,~xaJ Az ,,~~1,
of the State Council of Defense in
the interest of Germany.-Hillsboro
Free Press. - ,at.' .l,
Columbus followed suit with the
State of New Mexico Tuesday and
voted dry" by a majority OF 10.
There were only Sc votes polled out
of a registration of over 400 in this
precinct. Fifty one votes were cast
for the prohibition amendment and
thirty five against ,it.--Columbus
Courier. if..fr.
Three-cent postage is, all right, and
we will pay it with a grin if it will
help win the war. Still, we can't help
thinking there should be some way
of extracting a few dollars from the
tons of matter carried out of Wash
ington under the free ranking sys-
tem.-Silver City Enterprise.
Five million people in the United
States are members of the Red Cross
1t is proposed to enlist ten million
more people into the business of
doing something for our boys and
boost the membership to fifteen mil
lion by Christmas.-Las Cruces Re-
public.
The question is now what is to
be done with our .stumps speakers ?
There will not be another election
for another year, they are TOO strong
for work, and when it comes to the
army, they believe in letting George
do it.-Cloudcroft Cloudcrofter.
One of India's poets begins his eff
fusion thus: "The rivers run, the
rivers rum" He was not speaking of
New Mexico rivers at this time of
year. They never have got the habit.
Albuquerque Journal.
The Wilson Company, which bought
a great area Of state land, in Mora
New Mexico, at the public
sales, last spring. sowed wheat upon
all of it, this fall. This company
conducts a Touring mill at Mills, in
Mora County. The Earth.
Ever since the Pilgrim fathers
up prayers of gratitude for
the blessings they enjoyed, Thanks
Day has been of the i'm
p~ortant occasions of the year to all
good Americans.-Hope Press.
The revised d raft regulations will
be a keen disappointment to a few
who had been looking for
to the time when they'd have
only themselves to support.-Las
Cruces Citizens.
New Mexico, one of the youngest
Uncle Sans" large family, has
herself in the majority crowd,
IN the side of prohibition and prog
'ess.-House Pioneer-News.
Germany exults over the success
" her latest war-loan, which re-
US that when Lee surrendered
he most plentiful commodity in
Dixie was Confederate money.-Bos-
on Transcript.
The American troops in the trench
S have captured one German prison.
r. %1ncidently they shot him fatally
efore the capture. Every little
elps.-Fort Sumne r Review.
The dispatches from France an
ounce that the Missouri mule has1
the fighting-line. The Ger
rams will do we'll to keep in 'front.'
f him.-Topeka State Journal.
Tularosa enjoyed an old fashioned
own pour rain Thursday morningl
nd the grass is again growing. Let
S all cheer up.-Tularosa Tribune.
New York City had a Billy Sunday
.vival in the spring and then %elect-
! = Tammany Mayor in the faIl.-
ew York World.
Premier .Kerensky is. about a year
I'd a half late with the news that
ussia is tired of fighting.-New
ork World.