Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-02-01


Feb. 11-1S-New Mexico Electrical As
ISOLATION meeting at Silver City.
March 4-6-Stockmen's convention at
Roswell.
March I2.14-Annual meeting New
Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers
Association at Las Vegas.
March. 19lS-Wool Growers convention
at Roswell.
Clayton is boring for artesian water.
Deming has ordered a S7.400 fire
truck.
It is stated that Clayton is to have
a third bank.
Mrs. v. X. Reynolds, postmistress
at Springer. has been re-appointed.
State retailers met at Albuquerque
and formed a strong organization.
The home of Mr.. Locke, railroad
m%aintainer at Corona, was destroyed
by fire.
Tucumcari is organizing a band in
der the leadership of a musician from
Amarillo.
Plans are being made by the
Springer Red Cross Society to take
up surgical work.
The New Mexico Bankers Associa-
tion will hold its annual convention in
Santa F6, Sept. $40.
The Farmers and Homeseekers'
week at State College was profitable
to all who attended.
DIR. Craig of Fort Sumner has re-
ceived a captains commission in the
reserve medical corps.
Steps have been taken by farmers
of Colfax county for the organization
Of a county farm bureau.
Construction work on the $500, 900
p%ostoffice at Santa Fe, will be started
within the next six weeks.
Gilbert Espinosa Of Albuquerque
has been appointed to West Point by
Congressman w. B. Walton.
The county commissioners have
voted $1,000 toward the expense of re-
pairing the streets Of Ca~rrizozo.
Santa Fe county during the past
fiscal year collected in taxes $780,
072.96. Payments were 1901, 4s6.46.
Walter Ross caught an immense
eagle in a trap near Roy. He meas
ured more than seven feet from tip to
tip.
Harvey B. Taylor of Pennington
has been appointed by Congressman
w. B. Walton to a cadetship at Ann
apolis.
The Colfax county chapter of the
Red Cross is making weekly ship
ments of knitted garments to the Den
yer headquarters.
A permanent organization of the
Dona Ana Poultry Association was
perfected at a meeting held at the
farm bureau at Las Cruces.
"Porkless Saturday" offers a new
opportunity for patriotic conservers
of the meat which must so to Amer
ica's associates in the war.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Newsom's home
on their homestead three miles south
east of Hagerman, together with prac-
tically all of their possessions, was de-
stroyed by fire.
William ]. Cone, a wagner in the
supply company Of the 134th infantry,
was struck by a service car on West
Pine street in Deming, and died with
in ten minutes.
The Year Book Of the New Mexico
Federation Of Women's Clubs has
been mailed out to the club members
of the state; also a number of copies
were sent to other states.
That the children of New Mexico
nnn unnn "a carload ~ oNnar 90 Tr,-..
is the idea of State Food Administra-
tor R. c. Ely, presented to the people
Of Clayton during the Conservation
Day" meeting.
The production for the Mogollon
mining district for 1917 was 1880
ounces gold and 723,5S1 ounces silver,
or at present prices $9OS. 900.
improvements of highways through
out the state which may be used for
the transportation of freight and pro.
duce which otherwise must be carried
by the railroads is being urged by the
New Mexico Council OF Defense.
In the first fourteen working days
of January the office of Secretary of
State Lucero mailed to 1901 owners
OF automobiles and motorcycles the
new licenses and tags. This is an
average Of nearly 700 per day.
Reports from Camp Funston at
Fort Riley, Kan, where many Of the
New Mexico soldier boys have been
sent, show the lowest number of re-
jections for physical defects on final
examinations. The percentage is ~.
Major Webb, assistant adjutant gen
eral Of New Mexico, wired from Den
yer that he was successful in passing
the examination for a commission in
the aviation section of the signal
corps, Notifying. and has been recon-
mended for a captaincy in the regular
army.
Wild animals and rodents annually