Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-11-29
Pithy News Items
Gathered From An OUer
NeW Mexico

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Changes have been made no that
Ramah will have better mail service.
Great procession, with banners fly
ing, celebrated the fall OF the Hun at
Ration.
Raymond W. Sebastian. Fitzwilllam,
Is wounded. degree undetermined, &C
cordlng TO the casualty list.
The State Canvasslng Board will
meet al Santa re On Nov. 25, to can.
vass the vote Of tn, recent election.
Il. u. Putney pre- sented his reslgna-
ton az head OF the milling division OF
the United States Food Admlnistra-
ton for New Mexico.
Three fires took place at Tucumcarl
within t%wenty.four hours, causing an
aggregate loss of more than $4,000,
and incendiarlsm is suspected.
less Ingram. accused OF the murder
Of his sister, and who has been In jail
at Carrlzozo for practically a year, es-
capped from the Lincoln county jail.
The Carlsbad cotton gin has found
II necessary to double It's running time
In order TO handle the big crop in the
Pecos valley which is now coming in
for market.
In New Mexico, where may
not aspire to elective offices other
than those concerning the schools,
four women were elected county
school superintendents.
Torrance county has manifested It's
Interest In good roads by informing
the state engineer that II has raised
$4,000 for the Abo highway between
Willard and M%ountainair.
While on a business trip to the Nav
ajo mining camp, Pete Rolando and
Henry Balocco, OF Gallup, were severe.
ly injured when theiF1eam became UNI
manageable and ran away.
The corn crop of the state averaged
twenty-five bushels per acre, which
means n production OF 100000 bush
els for the state, or over one-half mil
lion bushels more than last year.
The election OF Senator Albert b.
Fall, Republican, to a second term In
the Senate by the voters of New Mex.
leo, makes the Senate sure OF forty.
nine Republican senators, n more
than a majority.
The "flu" epidemic. which has been
raging In several New Mexico cities.
seems to DO subsiding In Albuquerque,
and reports from several other cities
Indicate that II is not causing 30 many
deaths as formerly.
The New Mexico casualty list In
cludes Harvey p. Alderman, Las
Cruces, killed in action. Arthur Jan.
ney, Hanover, dead OF wounds received
in action, and William Anderson, Van.
houten, dead OF disease.
A German helmet, covered with dry
mud and blood stains, taken from the
head OF a Hun killed by Lieut.. w. l..
Grace, formerly a member Of the Hath
machine gun company, was received In
Albuquerque by Miss Halle Mitchell.
Consolidation OF schools and trans.
p%ortation OF pupils to and from schools
by motor trucks are developments In
Chaves county which mean better
schools. better equipment and more In.
tellectual development. according TO
the report OF Mrs. Ruth c. Miller,
state industrial supervisor, submitted
TO the state school superintendent.
Santa F6 turned out In mass to de.
nounce the kaiser and all his works
and all his pomps. In a magnificent
parade-the largest ever seen In San.
la Fe-the people Of the capital OF
New Mexico expressed their Joy over
the victory OF Americas allies, and
thea cheered wildly as the kalser-at
n time king OF Prussia's scientific
barbarians-was burned in efflgy.
The signing OF the armlstice was
celebrated in all parts OF New Mexico.
The percentage OF reflections among
New Mexico reglstrants lnducted into
the army under the selective draft has
been remarkably low. Only Rhode Isl.
and, according TO figures made public
by Gov. w. 10. Lindsey, has a lower
percentage. or 1858 men New Mex.
leo has sent TO cantonments for train.
ing at the time OF the governors an.
nouncemcnt 800. or 3.9 per cent had
been rejected al unfit.
With the victory OF the straight Re
publican ticket conceded. interest In
the morlbund election is now confined
largely TO those persons who have the
statistical bug. On the basis OF the