The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-08-09

to return home Saturday.
A. J. Ritter, Mrs. ]. L. Gillian and
five Indian girls, two teachers and the
girls students from a college IN Ari-
IONA, passed through Tucumcari this
week on their way to Oklahoma where
the -irls reside.
Tucumcari now has the appearance
of a real live town. Brick layers and
carpenters are busy putting the Ma
sonic Temple up this week, and the
excavation on the G%oldenberg building
is about completed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hendrix, Mrs.
NJ. w. Clement, Mr.. and Mrs. F.. D..
Hendrix of Quanah, Texas, were Tu-
cumcari visitors this week. They had
been travelling through the wild and
woolly west on the Ozark Trail.
Saturday afternoon Tucumcari en-
joyed a light shower while only a mile
north and east they had a regular gull
ly washer. The rain reached the Ex-
pertinent farm and did considerable
good to the dry farm crops out there.
Gladney White, travelling evangel-
list musician, of Baltimore, met his
sister, Miss Bessie White, of CARR
zozo here this week where they visited
their uncle, Fred White, several days.
They left this morning for Carrizozo
where Gladney will visit his parents
several weeks.
Fred c. Sickles and family and f.
u. Spuhler and family left this week
on a pleasure outing to Las Vegas,
Taos, and other points in the noun
tains. They were preceded by Mr..
Sickles' father who will meet them at
Las Vegas. OF course they will have
a good time.
Services at Methodist church Sum
day, Aug. IL. Sunday school 9:45 a.
= M; Morning worship at II o'clock;
subject, Men Ought Always to Pray
and Not to Faint" Epworth League
at Z p. m; Evening worship at 7:45.
Your presence at these services will
be appreciated.
r. f. Stevenson, Pastor.
The Board Of Labor at the Mare
island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California
announces that there is urgent need
for skilled mechanics in the trades of
e boilermaker, boat-builder, machinist,
k and shipitter. Wages, s4.40 to s4.72
d per day. Qualified persons are urged
to apply at once to the local secretary,
ROY H. SMITH, Sec'y.
Mrs. La Manse, the great W. C.. T.
S U. lecturer, was here Sunday and Mon
day speaking at the Christian church
Sunday night and at the Methodist
church Monday night. Her message
was wonderful and the facts she re-
vealed about the old demon, "booze"
would make one wonder why the peo-
{ pie have allowed it to gain such a foot
hold in the civilized world.
e Jim Jordan was in town Tuesday
e and Wednesday. He harvested 100
e acres of wheat and said it threshed
[ "four acres" to the bushel. He left
home while the threshing was in pro-
gress and left word for his little boy
to take his wagon out and let them
{ dump the wheat in it, but was very
: much surprised when he returned and
9 found 26 bushels of wheat.
Miss Iva B. Fuchs, who has an Office
at the court house, will meet the local
merchants next Tuesday afternoon at
4 o'clock to obtain prices on fruit and
Q vegetables in carload lots to be ship
@ ped here for canning purposes. She
n already has some good prices but If
the merchants will meet them she
would rather handle same through the
o home people.
Fred Mcfarland and d. c. Clark of
Logan, were Tucumcari visitors this
{ week. They report work on the Ca
madam bank has been started which
will make it possible to cross the river
at Logan when the river is not run
ming much. They say the roads are
q very good from Tucumcari to the river
, now and with little work Will connect
u these two towns temporarily until the
bridge is built.
2 Fredia Vera Jones, the eighteen
months old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
? Calvin Jones, died Wednesday noon
: after an illness Of only a short dura-
ton. Funeral services will be con-
; Quoted by Norris ]. R%easoner, pastor
? of the Christian church, at the family
residence of East Center st. Friday
: morning at 10 o'clock. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jones have the sympathy Of all in their
? sad bereavement.
: Quay has been we'll represented in
? Tucumcari this week. A number Of
the boys were called in the draft. II