Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-29
State Normal
SILVER CITY.

SILVER CITY.
| 7 Miss Martha Piotrowslti, head of the
/ English department, is enjoying holt
! day visit with relatives in Kansas.
President +. L. Enloe and Andrew
! McCurdy were among the guests en-
joying the hospitality of Former State
/ superintendent Alyan N. White at a
'possum dinner. The 'possum was the
gift of j. F.. Conover, the well-known
representative of Benjamin II. San
born & Co, textbook publishers. The
possum, fat from continued contact
with Arkansas persimmons was sur
rounded by the proverbial yams, and
the table was provisioned with a gem
erous array of other substantial
viands
Word has been received here of the
death in Kansas of Miss Ruth Hooper,
q graduate from the normal college
department last May and one of tho
most promising young teachers it has
ever besn our pleasure to hand the
diploma. Miss Hooper's father, DIR. L.
w Hooper is doing service as an army
captain overseas. The young lady
was his constant companion during
his summer at Camp Cody and the
sorrowing family are the recipients of
the most genuine sympathy of their
large circle OF IflenuS.
VIII Wyman and Gerald Gouin, for
mer normal students, are home from
the students army training camp at
the state college
Clifford C. Blood and Ellis Hunter,
two young men, former normal stu
dents, recently purchased the Silver
City Transfer companys well estab-
lished business All bespeak for them
a well-deserved success.
Miss Edna Baughman, head of the
commercial department, has been
acting as secretary of the Silver City
Chamber of Commerce during the va
cation of Miss Titus, the regular in
cumbent. Prof, Myron r. Lugibihl of
the department of education did val
liant service in the jewelry store of f.
C. Rieckhoff while Prof Andrew Nc
Curdy, instructor in Latin and history
has been putting in full hours in the
office of f.. Cosgrave, Inc, a local
hardware firm. Prof. C. C. Golden.
the newly acquired manual training
instructor, who is an experienced
mechanician, has drawn the regular
scale in local garage for several
days.
Others of the students and faculty
have taken advantage of the long
versatility by engaging in other lines
of endeaVOr. Assurance is now given
of the official ban against school pur-
suits being lifted by January 6.
Miss Isabel Ward is enjoying an ex-
tended holiday visit with relatives I'M
Montalvo, Calf. Miss Ward has
charge of the department. of modern
languages
Perry Crawford, a normal alumnus
has returned with honorable discharge
from the r. S. army engineering corps,
to resume his regular occupation in
the prosecution of manganese miningsI
here where he is a partner in the firm
of Kirchman & Crawford. The plant is
operating dav and night and although
the enterprise is still comparatively
new one, the project is making
splendid showing and its success isl
pronounced
President f. L.. Enloe is in attend !
ance upon meeting of the state board |
of education at Santa Fee where an inn
portant session of this controlling
body is to be held.
President Enloe will also be in at |
tendance upon the inaugural ball
which will usher in the governorship |
of O. A. Larrazolo, governor-elect of
New Mexico
official notice has just been re-
ceived by Vice President Brownlee |
that school may be safely resumed |
on Thursday, January ., as health |
conditions in this section are showing
such marked Improvement as to war
rant this decision. The Silver City
and Grant county authorities have
shown the most admirable conserva-
tism in dealing with the very difficult