Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-05-04
NEW MEXICO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News seryice.

COMING EVENTS.
June 1S.-Reunion Of Scottish Rite Ma
sons at Santa Fe.
July 8-5-Annual Reunion OF Cowboys
association at Las Vegas.
Aug. 27.-Bar Association meeting at
Roswell.
Sept. 25-2s-seventh Annual Northern
New Mexico Fair at Ration.
Sheriff H. J. McGrath of Silver City,
announced his acceptance of the APP
pointment to the Federal Court clerk
ship.
Capt. James Baca of Company E,
First New Mexico Infantry, was APP
pointed Adjutant General to succeed
Harry T. Herring.
DR.. r. X. Mechanism, a Las Vegas
physician and Secretary Of the State
Board of Health, has been called into
the naval service.
Famed by a stiff wind, fire swept
and totally destroyed the Oklahoma
wagon yard and surrounding buildings
in the center of Clovis.
Clovis women are going to learn to
shoot. A woman's rifle club was or
ganized with a membership of twelve
and is rapidly adding recruits.
Under the direction of the CONNER
cial Club, a contest in gardening and
canning is to be conducted at East
Las Vegas this summer for boys and
girls.
Harmony Lodge No. 1, /. o. o. F.,
celebrated the ~ninety-eighth anniver-
sary of the founding of its o~Tganiza-
ton at Albuquerque in the Odd Eel
lows Hall.
A number of Albuquerque citizens
went to Santa Fe to urge Governor
Lindsey to call a special session Of
the Legislature to mobilize all the re-
sources of the state.
For the first time in the history of
Roswell a safe was blown and an
amount OF money of any consequence
obtained. The robbery occurred at the
Santa Fe station, the robbers obtain
ing about $500.
The Roy Home Patriots" organized
with Fred l.. Brown as chairman with
the object of encouraging interest in
preparedness along military and food
lines. A large number of men enrolled
in the organization.
The State Tax Commission will
place several additional agents in the
field under the supervision of Byron
o. Beall to ferret out property that
evades assessment, this being part of
the financial preparedness plan.
In accordance with a custom in
augurated last spring when the militia
was called TO the border, the normal
university will give full credits to stu
dents who leave school to join the
army, just as though they had com.
pleted the years work.
Governor Lindsey is to issue an ex.
ecutive proclamation detailing his
plans for recruiting to full war
strength of 2,4O0 the New Mexico Ma.
tional Guard, whose mobilization al
Columbus, for federal service in pc
Icing the border, was asked in a tel
egram from Gen. P%ershing.
The duty of the farmers of New
Mexico in the present war situation Ii
indicated plainly in a statement issued
by A. c. Cooley, director of the exten
sion service in New Mexico, who de
clares that the place for the farmer
at this time is on the farm, plantinf
for a greater harvest Of foodstuffs
and properly caring for his livestock
Ex-Congressman b. c. Hernandez wat
appointed a member of the Nationa
Defense Committee, each state Of thu
Union being entitled to n represent
alive. Governor Lindsey also ap
pointed twenty-three additional mem
bers on the State Defense Council o
Twelve, previously named.
There has been an increase Of owe
10000 head Of cattle in Quay count,
in the last four years, and the total 1
now over 100000 head; the county
wheat crop last year totaled approx
mately 250, 1000 bushels, and the pros
poets for this years croD are excellent