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of employment.
IN LAS VEGAS a laundry wagon
driver, Il. j.. Ryan. sued his EN-
ployers for his weeks pay, which
was withheld because he had failed
to collect current bills. Ryan got
judgment for his salary on his
promise to collect some of the bills.
A STRONG Lick the Kaiser club
has been formed in Carlsbad. Com.
mittees are busy c~anvassing the
town and surrounding country to Sc
cure new members.
TWO BOYS escaped last week
from the State Reform school at
Springer. A horse belonging to the
institution and one the property of
Carl Brown disappeared with the
boys. The Springer Stockman, which
mentions the escape, fails to give
the boys lanes
MISS LEILA MANVILLE, principal
of the New Mexico Normal Training
school at Silver City and prominent
among New Mexico educators, Will
be superintendent of the Silver City
schools next year. Byron j. Read,
the present superintendent has re-
signed. tu.
IN A BRAWL in a Deming poll
hall recently Pedro Rodriguez was
stabbed in the breast by a man who
is believed to have made his escape
on a freight train. Rodriguez will
recover.
ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR
young men of Eddy county have
been accepted for military service
In Eddy county. The exemption
board was pleased with the large
number of refusals to ask for ex.
emptions or deferred classification.
TRAIN NO. FL out of Clovis and
running behind time on Tuesday,
struck a closed car driven by s. !.
Morrison, a resident of Hereford, on
the railroad crossing just west OF
that city, killing him sinstantly. It Is
believed that the closed a kept
him from hearing the approaching
train. Morrison's neck, shoulder and
several ribs were broken.
MRS. ANNA FULLY, mother ~
Senator James Tully. died last week
at her home in Glencoe at the al
vanced age of 81 years. Mrs. FULLY
was the oldest member of the Epis-
copal church in the Roswell district.
c. f. HAWKINS. of Alamogordo,
was called to southern illinois,
where his father had been drowned
in a mine when a bulkhead broke.
The elder Hawkins, who was the
foreman, had gone to warn other
men to get out, when the water
rushed in.
ALBUQUERQUE police yesterday
recovered jewelry to -the value Of
$1,000 recently stolen by a burglar
from the John Lee Clark store. A
boy of IA is said to have confessed
his guilt. The boy was arrested
after theft of a typewriter from
the public library had been traced
to him.
REV. HERBERT Il. NIXON has
severed his connection with the
Grace Methodist church Of Des
Moines, and will enter into eyangel-
work, with New Mexico as his
field.
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TUCUMCARI has shipped out 500
car loads of bear grass in the past
Bear grass is excellent for max
ing fiber, and lately it has been discov-
cred that it is good for fees.
THE ~PORTALES Women's Aux
iliary Of the council of defense is
ready to resume active work, which
was allowed to dwindle during the
winter.
j.. G. LARSEN has been named a
member of the Des Moines school
board to succeed @. J. Dunshee, re-
RATION TEACHERS are showing
c~ommendable patriotism by working
afternoons after school and in the
evenings assisting the Colfax county
board. Those who are helping
are Helen Hornaday, Eta Clark, Min
ME Stump, Mabel Benfer, Ruth With
ford, Edna Oakley, Louise Nesbet,
Bell, Clara Coulter, Miss
Poynter. Mrs. Jennie Bennett, Mrs.
Gussie Dyer.
THE CURRY COUNTY Farm Loan
association has placed sos, 900 in gilt
edge loans since it's organization. The
money is being put to good use in
Increasing crop acreage, purchasing
livestock and making permanent i'm
provements.
I. COUNTY AGENT II. H. BROOK,
on Dona Ana county, will act as a
marketing agent or manager. He
will endeavor to standardize the
products OF the Mesilla valley 50
that IL may become known for stand
ard breeds of hogs, dairy cattle, po,fl-
try, apples, peaches, melons and
other products. Each variety will be
for it's suitability to climate
and SOIL MI. Brook will ~endeavor
10 watch the markets and get buyers
and sellers together.