The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-17
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeW MexiCO
 and Arizona
(wsstern Newspaper Union News Serice.)

more building going on in MOuntainair N. M., at the present time than any time during the past five years.
 Lyle Gray, aged 10 years, of Arte- sia, N. M., was instantly killed when he was struck by a motor truck. The boy, it is said, attempted to cross the street in front of the moving truck.
 Forty convicts from the state pen itentiary have been put to work on the roads near Cimarron, N. M. It is thought that the gang will be kept in this district until the first of the year.
 T. H. Moen, local merchant and rancher of Mora, N. M., lost about $10,000 in a big fire which destroyed nearly all the outbuildings on his farm and large quantity of hay and oats.
 Mrs. Teresita Montoya, aged TOT years, dropped dead as she was about to sit down at the dinner table at her home in Albuquerque. She was born at Tome, N. M, and never had been seri- Ously i'll.
 If the plans of the committee in charge of the arrangements are car ried out, Armistice day, Nov. II, will be observed at Albuquerque, N. M., with the largest parade ever seen in that city.
 Lieut. Robert Leslie Finch of Tempe, will represent the state of Arizona at the funeral of the unknown soldier in Washington on ArmiStice day, accord ing to an announcement made by the governors office.
 With total enrolment of 117 boys and girls taken as the town runs, the Pima United Boys and Girls Club of Graham county, Ariz., makes the un- usual record of completing 100 per cent of its enrolment.
 The state road from Romeroville to Della, near Las Vegas, N. M., which has been in bad condition for the past two years, is being repaired by a crew sent by the highway commission. This road is part of the Ozark trail route.
 R. J. Parsons, formerly chief clerk in the office of the collector of inter- nal revenue at Phoenix, and later au- ditor of Phoenix theater, has as- sumed his duties as assistant prohibi- tiOn director for the state of Arizona.
 State American Legion Commander Duane Bird appointed Charles W. Hartman of Phoenix to represent Ari- zona at the ceremonies at Washing ton Nov. II, pertaining to the burial of an unknown American who as a member of the American expeditiCnary force lost his life in the World war.
 Fire, origin of which Is as yet un- known, totally destroyed the home of Thomas A. French, secretary of the Arizona State Federation of Labor at Phoenix. French, his wife and step daughter, who were in the building at the time, effected a narrow escape from being consumed in the flames. Nothing was saved.
 The work of forming a grand lodge of the Pythian Sisters of New Mexico was completed when representatives from all over the state met at Albu- querque for two days session. The address of welcome was given by City Attorney Keleher and this was fol lowed by an address by Joseph Pies of the Knights of Pythias.
 Capt. B. NJ. Robison of Flagstaff, Ariz., commanding officer of the Bat tery A, First Field artillery, Arizona National Guard, has resigned his com mission in the guard, according to an announcement made at the office of Adjt. Gen. Walter S. Ingalls,. Captain RObison automatically retires from the general staff on which he has served for some time past.
 Development work at the Carlisle mine near Lordsburg, N. M., is pro- gressing rapidly and plans are now being made to sink the main shaft to the 1,OO0-fOot level. A large quantity of ore is already on the dump for ship ping.
 The committee working on the new railroad which is to be southern out let for the San Juan valley from Az tee, N. M., is meeting with great sue cess and at recent meeting turned in over $80,000 in pledges. Farming ton boosters also report good progress in that section.
 The Agua Pura Company of Las Ve- gas, N M., is making plans for the in- stallation of a chlOrinatiOn plant for the purifying of the water furnished the city. The new plant will be in op- eration by the first of the year and will insure the city of an absolutely pure supply of water.