Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-20
Portales

Professor wilson, superintendent OF
our schools, and family, have moved
to their new home west of town.
Mrs Kohl has installed a large new
oven in her bake shop at this place.
Mrs. Culberson, of Wtughn, n. NJ.
visited her friend, Mrs. j. i. Jones of
Portales, last week Mrs. Jones has
Just returned from Atoka, Okla,
where she went to visit her son and
family. While she was there her son
was stricken with Spanish influenza
and died. He was a prominent law
Yer of Atoka, Oklo.
Miss Uhla May Terry, one of our
teachers, who has been very sick for
some time, has so far recovered as to
be riding out.
Many wagon loads of sweet potatoes
are being stored in the sweet potato
houses of this place. Some farmers
planted from twenty to thirty acres of
potatoes and they report u large
yield.
John Yound, a cattle and horse
dealer of Portales, shipped three car
loads of cattle and two car loads of
horses to market last week.
Influenza has struck our town Four
have already died. two Mexicans and
two white men, More than one hun
i'll at this time are Miss Maud Webb,
of the Travellers Inn, and a travelling
man for the overland Car company,
at the Inn also. His home is at Ros-
we'll, N. M. Schools, churches and
picture shows are all closed and chill
dren are not allowed to play on the
streets.
The strawberry growers of this val
ley are still harvesting their berries,
and will continue to do so until freez-
ing weather Berries still sell at
twenty cents per box.
The many friends of Professor j.
V. Bieler and wife, formerly of this
place, will be pleased to learn that
they are nicely located at Montrose,
colo, where Mr.. Bieler is principal of
the central school building, which Is
well equipped and has twenty teach
ers. Altogether there are fifty teach
ers in the town.
Gladys Stone, Claudine Turner and
Heck Harris, who are attending school
at Clarendon, Texas, this year are at
home, the school being closed on ac-
count of influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sanders moved
to Clovis this week. He resigned his
position with the Joyce Print company
and has accepted another as private
secretary to the superintendent of the
Santa Fe. Miss Myrtle Cunningham
fills the place vacated by Mr.. Sanders
at Joyce Prints.
Syvalon Norris is with the First
National bank of this place. He has
accepted the place made vacant by the
resignation of Mr., Sheppard.
Mr.. Carl Muller. one of our pros
porous farmers, has built sweet po-
tato house and is now storing his
potato crop in it. He raised twenty
acres of fine sweet potatoes and many
acres of grain which is yielding well
Vinson Carroll, who was stricken
with heart failure and was so serious
ly i'll in a Kansas City hospital for
several days, as he was on his way TO
Jacksonville, Tenn, to work in the
munition plant at that place, has been
brought to the home of his parents in
Portales and is slowly recovering.
G.. w. Sheppard has resigned his
position with the First National bank
of Portales and has accepted a posi-
ton in the bank at Elida, N. M. Por-
tales regrets losing this good family
Rev. Gambrel, pastor of the Baptist
church at this place, has ORGANIZED a
company of Boy Scouts Thirty one
names have been registered at head
quarters and nine more boys have
made application.
The Boys and Girls clubs at Por-
tales under the supervision of Mrs. j.,
S. Long, have been doing fine work
the past summer. They gave an eX-
hibit of their work recently and it
was surprising to see the nice canned
vegetables, fruits, pickles, jellies and
preserves the girls have prepared for
winter use. And the boys are not
any behind. 1t was wonderful to see