Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-09-21

CruCea.
Sept. 2s-2s-Dona Ana County Fair
at Las Cruces.
Oct. 2-5-Convention Of Women's
Clubs at Gallup.
Oct. 1l-l2-Woodmen Of the World
rally at Santa Fe.
At Bstancia s5 voted for prohibition
and SO against.
An attempt was made to blow up the
light plant at Socorro.
The cowboy camp meeting in Grant
county was a great success
Albuquerque Woman's Club has
started a campaign for $50 new mem
1ers.
More than 1000 people attended the
Feast Of the Immaculate Conception at
cuba.
Crop experts Of Curry county estl-
nate years wheat crop at over
1900, 900.
FL Paso residents have recently paid
900 for licenses to fish and hunt in
Vew Mexico.
The $4,000 bond issue to finish the
addition to the Santa Fe high school
'arried by 2O5 majority.
Mrs. Nora Bell is in the Bernalillo
Ounty Jail awaiting the action of the
grand jury on a white slave charge.
State Bank Examiner George H. Van
Stone addressed the state banks war;
ng them against permitting over
traits.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars in GER
ificates are being issued by the coun-
y commissioners for road improve
nent in Colfax county.
H. T. Herring, formerly adjutant
General of New Mexico, is now at Pc
ria, ILL.,, arranging to establish a trac.
or training camp there.
Indications from the first day Of reg
stration at the Silver City State Nor
nal point to a record-breaking enroll
nent for the winter session.
The ~13-year-old daughter of MT. and
Mrs. r. Ragle of Lovington dropped
wenty feet off Big Cap Rock, and sus-
aimed many gashes, but will survive.
All women's clubs of the State Fed
grafton are requested by the president
% be represented at the convention at
Gallup, Oct. 25. An interesting pro-
gram has been arranged.
A gasoline explosion on the Duke
arm, twenty miles northwest of Clio
Tis, fatally burned Mrs. Duke and Sc
5erely injured her husband. Mrs. Duke
lied at a hospital.
nh Co,Nu M -,EI-,,.v -, ,--onIoI
r @ the Supreme Court from the deci-
,ion of the San Miguel County Court
by which Thomas T%ransgard was civ
IN $4,000 damages.
District Judge Reed Holloman
, signed the mandamus on State Treas
. lrer ]. L. Hall, commanding him to
honor a warrant for $4,000 in favor OF
Attorney Clancy.
The Socorro Woman's Club has do.
T. lated $25 toward Christmas boxes for
g soldiers at the front; these boxes to
De prepared under the supervision OF
he local Red Cross chapter.
The Gallup Woman's Club is plan.
: ling an Historical Pageant Of New
Mexico which will be given under the
leadership of Mrs. A. ]. Keith, the pro
0 ,eeds to be used for civic improve
q ment in the town.
The governments September croI
'eport for New Mexico forecasts the
/ sorn crop at 3,3S0,00 O bushels; winter
D wheat, 100000; spring wheat, 1850.
4 200; oats, 2,140,000; potatoes, 1921,
300; hay, 3 1000 tons, and apples, 212,
300 bushels.
b The Y. M. C. A. is doing good worl
a at the Deming camp.
e A disease which has caused a LOST
; Of from 80 to so per cent Of the sprinl
chicks among flocks which have be
come infected with it, is now spread
a ing from farm to farm around the Dex
ter and Greenfield districts.
4 Gov. Lindsey has issued an order re
storing to citizenship Julian Trujill,
Of Chimayo, who was one Of the Ri
Arriba county members Of the FRS
4 State Legislature, arrested in connec
ton with the Room A bribery inciden
. and who was fined 500.
II was announced at the adjutan
generals office that Capt. ]. H. Toul
ouse has been appointed inspecto
general Of the guard, with rank o
major. succeeding Mai. Bronson N
Cutting, who resigned to take the pc
n sition Of captain in the national army
The State Tax Commission refuse
~ to pass on the constitutionality Of tn
: mine tax law on points raised by Al
y torney General Harry L. Patton, d.
, claring that it is merely a minister's
body. The assessment on private ca
companies was fixed at $1,439. 760. TIL
valuation on Pullman and express con
panies is $497, 905.
IN The gang of men who have bee
putting in telegraph and telephon
~ poles and s~tringlng wire for the MouI
tain States Telephone and Telegrap
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