The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-11-21
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO

The Morenci Standard is red ho
 for county division.
 Hon Henry Hill has been on the
 sick list for the past few days.
 L. Segal, formerly of Clifton. has opened store in Los Angeles
 The Detroit Copper Company will suspend Sunday work after the first of the year.
 The Bras new gasoline engine is a decided success All of the. press es are now being run by power.
 A new and neat counter has re- gently been added to the Clifton Ho- tel Manager Jake Abraham cer- talnly believes in Improvements.
 Ira Thomas was this week in re- ceipt of 5O-pound catfish. which was sent to him by brother at Del Rio, Teras.
 Williams & Blair, contractors and builders, are finishing a barn 32x 100 feet on Hills addition for MT. Turner, of Duncan, who will use T., as a base of supplies for hay and grain
 Two or three wagons were caught in the quicksand of the river during the recent high water. There are now twelve or fifteen cases of smallpox in town, only one or which is confined to the pest house, which is in very poor condi- tion.
 Joe Heron has been selected as deputy recorder by Mitt Simms, the recorder elect, who will assume the duties of his office on the first day of the year. Joe is a competent man for any position.
 Ground is now being broken for the new A. c. Co.,, meat market build ing, which will adjoin the ice plant The building will be 3Ox6O feet and will be constructed of brick. w. A. Pitt has the contract
 Migneu Bissera of Metcalf was held up Friday night last and reliev- ed of $113. He was bound and gagged, his left hand tied to his right foot and his right hand tied to his left foot. He was roughly used but not seriously hurt, for which reason he has been thankful.
 Vim. Ringwalt is now in iail at SolOmonville, charged with the mur- der of Paddy Lynch, of which men t1on was recently made in the Era.
 Dispatches announce that the bank at Hillsboro, N M., was held up on Wednesday of last week by rob- bers, who escaped with considerable booty, as but a short time before a number of cattlemen had deposited some S3O,OOO.
 The Bazar department store will soon put another story on top of it's present building on Copper Avenue, which will double the capacity of the present building.
 The Clifton public school is in a good condition. It promises to be one of the best in the county. The present number enrolled is $50.
 O. Perry, who was with Louie Smith at the Candy Kitchen, but left some months ago for California, has returned, and has secured his old position
 George Graham, an old time citizen of this county, who located here in 1878, and resided here for many years, but who has been engaged in the cattle business in Oklahoma for the past eight or ten years, visited Clifton last week
 A heavy rain fell in this section | Friday night and Saturday.
 The Era is permitted to announce | that Miss Lillian McCabe and Nit | Simms will be married on Christmas day at the home of the brides par ents at Morenci. They will make their future home in SolomonvilIe after the first of the year
 E. F Everhardy arrived home last week from Kansas City, where he lad been with traln-load of steers Ir. Everhardy requests the Era to ,nter his protest against incolpcI- ltion :. Constable Keppler of Morenci was . ried last week before Justice Set le for the recent killing of a Mexi- an, who was shooting at the off CT. It was a clear case of justifi- ble homicide, and the case was dis lissed.
 John Childers, who recently beat man to death at Deming with a six hooter, has been arrested at Lake alomas, Mexico, by Sheriff Baca of una county.
 The people of this section feel