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The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
W. c. 7. L. Organized in Clayton


On Thursday night of this week
the people of Clayton were not only
entertained and instructed, but in
spired to live bigger and better lives
and TO undertake and accomplish
bigger and better things by the lee
ture given at the new Methodist
church by Mrs. Eva Craven Wheel
err. Mrs. Wheeler is w. C.. n. H..
worker of wide rcpute When she
came to New Mexico a month ago,
Mrs Wheeler had just returned
from Australia, where she had spent
several weeks Of strenuous cam
paigniug for prohibitions
Fortunately for New Mexico, Mrs
Anna Wilde Strumquisi president
of the w. G.. Y. u. for New Mexico
and one of the founders of the w
C. n. u. school for homeless girls
being established at Belen, induced
the national w C.. II. T.. lo give her
ten thousand dollars to help built
a home large enough 10 take care of
our girls in tins state Fifteen are
now being cared for in a six room
cottage and there are one hundred
three OF the waiting list lhat are
i'm desperate. need Twenty five
thousand dollars has been raised
and ten thousand more is required
to erect the building.
Mrs. Wheeler organized a local
w. G.. 4. L. while here which yin
meet at The Methodist church We'd
nesday afternoons at o'clock All
are invited TO be present who are
interested in this great work.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Grand Jurors.

w J Haggart, l.. N. Simms, Juan
C.. Martinez, Isaac Like, A. NJ Hol-
lenbeck, +. C. Stevens, Procopio
Martinez, William II. Duggee, Pablo
Rodriguez. J. w. Bette, Antonio
Belarde, H. c. Gillihand, Sam White,
w r. Guyer, Victoriano 5. Quintana,
r. G.. Nisbett, Sol Ham, Earl Snod-
grass, Ed Leighton, Nestor T. Ba-
ca, G. w. GuyeE Leck Burk, G. H..
Blaine Moses ViaIpondo, c. H. Rod
gers, j. S. Dean. w. NJ Maytum.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
PREsBYTERIANs GALL PASTOR

Rev Guy Davis, who is at present
pastor of the Central Presbyterian
church of Wichita Falls, Texas. has
accepted the call of the First Pres
byterian church of Clayton, and will
arrive with his family to taake
charge of the work about April.
IL is a source of much gratifica-
ton 10 the church here that Rev.
Davis is TO be its pastor as he is
one of the best preachers in the
Dallas Prcsbytery, is a finely edu-
Gated man and is thoroughly con-
secrated to his work During his
pastorate at Wichita Falls. the
church has made splendid progress
and it is with regret that they ac-
cept his resignation.
Lots for The new church have
been selected on Maple street and
il is expected that actual building
will be begun in very few months.
In the meantime services will be held
in the Palmer Hall. Rev Davis
gave two excellent sermons on Sun
day, and Rev Fincher of Mckinney.
Texas, will preach morning and eN-
ening. February 10th Sunday
school is held each Sunday morning
at 9:i5. G.. +. Lewis is superinteu-
dent and a cordial invitation is eN-
tended to all to attend On next
Sunday morning Mr. G.. r.. Field will
give an address which without doubt
will be worth your time to come and
hear.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
EIGHT PAGES
NEW COUNTY TAKES
MANY DOLLARS FROM UNION
New County of Harding 10 be Crea-
ted From Parts of Union and Mora
Counties; MOSquerO on the Map.

A new county division bill appear
ed in the legislature the past week.
1t provides for the creation of the
counties of Aguilar and Harding
from the present county of Mora
and part of Union and Colfax couu-
ties. Harding would be created from
the eastern position of the present
Mora and the southern part of Union
county 1t would take three and
half million dollars valuation from
Union and three million seven hun
dred thousand from Mora county.
The county seat would be Mosquero
north of Tucumcari on the Ell Paso
and Southwestern railroad.
Aguilar county would embrace
the remainder of Mora county and
"A strip from the southern end of
Colfax county, so that its valuation
would be about that OF the present
Mora county. The county seat would
be Wagon Mound on the Santa Fe
railroad. The present seat of Mora
county is Mora and it is not on a
railroad
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
ENT OF THE BEST IN OLAYToN AND UNION COUNTY
LIST OF JURORS SELECTED FOR
MARCH TERN OF COURT
Petit Jurors.

Juan C. de Baca, j. w. Jameson.
Joe Green, A. j. Turner, Alcutt Nc
Naughton, d. ID. Briggs, Herman
Gillespie, Ralph Moreledge, w. f.
Fronbarger, b. w. carp, S. b.
Merefelder, Manuel d. Abeyta, Eel
ipe Arclano, Forrest Towers, A. w.
Mills, j NJ. Darden, o. s. Markin
Ben Harrison, Arthur Haley, W. C.
Bugh, Ed. Anderson, Juan S. Valdez,
H. p Smith, n. C. Brington, NJ. C..
Scofield, Guy Petty, Ferrole Gale
gos, }. w. Horn, Guy L Bean, C.. j.
Flowers, Alonzo G de Baca, J. J.
Brown, j. f. Seton, C. w. Ander-
son, A. NJ. Shearer, Guy II Robertson.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Clayton Chamber of Commerce Az
ter Better Freight Rates

At a meeting of the Clayton Cham
ber of Commerce Tuesday night OF
this week, the question of better
freight rates was discussed with
representative of the e. & $. rail-
road. Immediate relief has been
promised and it is to be hoped that
IL will not be necessary for farmers
to haul their grain through Clay
ton to find better market. Under
the present freight rates, as they
apply ON shipments of grain to Tex
as points, TeNline has the best of
Clayton to The tune of 20c to SOC ON
the hundred. Such a difference he
tween two towns only ten miles
apart is unfair, and is an injustice
to the dealers of the town discrimi-
mated against and is an even great
er injustice to the farmer who is
forced iQ haul his grain the extra
mileage in order TO realize the diff
ference in price that can he paid
The Clayton Chamber of Com
merce has every reason to. believe
that the changes in freight rates
they have asked for will be granted
I'm case this evil of discriminatory
freight rates can be speedily cor
recred, the people of Clayton and
vicinity should feel indebted to the
executive board of the chamber of
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
INCOME TAN REPRESENTATIVE

Albuquerque, n. NJ, Feb 3, 1921
Clayton News,
Clayton, n. NJ,
Gentlemen:
A representative Of this office
Will be in Clayton from February
18th to 18th inclusive, 10 assist those
desiring to file income lax returns
for the past year
Please give this all the publicity
possible in order that your people
i'm Union county may have advantage
of his assistance
Very truly yours.
j, D. HANNOT,
Chief Field Deputy.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Cornerstone of the New Christian
Church To BE Laid Sunday

The now ChrisIian church is now
assured and it. will not be long until
Clayton can boast OF another beau
tiful church building The basement
has been finished and the laying Of
the cornerstone Will take place sun
day, the 18Th The cerecmHny will
be under the auspices of the Mason
ic Lodge, and Tue principgl address
will be delivered 10y Rev Dr sidney
Bedford, pastor Of the Christian
church of Roswell, n. NJ.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Democrats Assist Farmers of the
State.

Relief to the New Mexico farmer
is sur eto result from the resolu-
tion-introduccd I'm the house of rep
resentaliVes by Coe Howard, DEM
ocrat, of Roosevelt county, and in
the senate by Hull, of Curry, and
also a democrat.
The resolution calls upon the
state corporation commission to re-
duce rates upon hay and grain
shipped within the state in order
that the New Mexico farmers may
meet competition from Arizona and
Colorado. At present, Interstate
rates are so low that grain may be
shipped in from other states cheap
er than from the Pecos Valley, aud
the coast side. The resolution in
tends TO have the Interstate rates
brought down to level with rates
from surrounding states in order
that the surplus grain and produce
crops Of farmers of the states may
be quickly moved
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
a REVIEW OF THE WEEKS HAP
FENINGS AT SANTA FE.
Santa Fe, n. NJ, Feb z, 1921.
Teachers Pensions Asked by Dem
OcratS.

Teachers who have served for
twenty years in the public schools
of New Mexico. will be pensi6ned
in the future if the legislature acts
favorably upon the bill proposed in
the house of representatives by Pur-
year. democrat, of Chavez county.
Under provisions of the bill any
teacher with twenty years work in
New Mexico schools would be elli-
gible to retirement on a pension
of $500 a year, the sum to be paid
out of the general school funds of
the year
At present Chirty-lhree states of
the union and virtually all of the
pension laws for the teachers upon
their statute books. The democrat
ic proposal is based upon experience
which shows that the pension sys-
tenn promotes efficiency of the peo-
pie employed.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Jail Breakers Caught ut Woodward
Oklahoma

Two Of the men who broke jail
here two weeks ago We're arrested
at Woodward. Oklahoma the first
of this week. They were travelling
i'm a high-powcred car said TO be-
long in Clayton, and reports from
the Oklahoma town Indicate that
their arrest was caused by the pos
session of "a large amount OF con-
traband wet goods. Sheriff Roberts
left the first of the week 10 return
the prisoners io Clayton.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Road Bosses Near End of Soft
Snap.

Aided by five independent repub-
licans the democratic minority in
the senate nearly wcdged a mon
key wrench into the republican ma
chine Standpat republican sena-
tors attempted to modify the bill
abolishing the road superintendents
so that the present republican in
cumbents might hold office until
the middle of June. The democrats
and Independent republicans beat
three of their proposals in rapid
fire style
The democrats were not able TO
force the passage of he bill with
the emergency clause, hut effected
compromise which will transfer
the powers of the road superinien-
dents to the county commissioners
and eventually force republicans
away from the pie counter in the
democratic counties
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Memorial Helps Soldiers

The senate has passed joint
memorial by Zinn democrat of
Quay, asking congress that eighteen
million acres of public domain, un-
reserved and unapproprated, with
in the state of New Mexico, be do
mated TO the state for division among
the ex-service men and nurses, in
loAs of GAO acres without other re-
striction than proof Of honorable
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
GAsOLINE DROPs n CLAYTON

We are advised that the price of
gasoline has been reduced 10 Clay
ton, and filling stations are now able
TO sell gasoline at 81 ceu,s per gal
lon. Only last week gasoline deal
ers were forced 10 freight their
gasoline from reNlinc on account
OF tila discrimination ia wholesale
prices.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Minority Placed On sheep Board

? There will be a democratic repre-
sentatiOn on the sheep sanitary
board if a senate amendment by
Hull, democrat of Curry passes the
house as il did the senate. The re-
publican bill for the creation of
a sanitary board provided for five
members, all of whom might be
from the same political party
Hull introduced an amendment
stipulating chat not more than three
members should be from the same
political party The republicans
had planned ON a solid board, but
saw the wisdom of permitting min
otity representation and passed the
bill with the Hull amendment.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
Game Bill Gives sportsmen squea

The republican majority lived up
to its threats and took the whole
-(og in the game protective dispute
leaving the sportsmen Of the state
nothing hut the squeal The house
of representatives has passed the
Gable bill for the protection Of
game, this measure squarely Oppos-
ing the desires of the state game
protective association and of the
sportsmen not satisfied with that
body
The game protective association
asked for The creation Of com
mission with absolute power to open
and close localities to hunters and
fishermen They receive in the Ga
BILE bill a commission with powers
to suggest such closings. but the
governor has the absolute power
in his ability to veto any sugges-
Lion.
They asked the appointment of
the game warden lhroug hthe com
mission. The Gable bill provides
for the appointment by the govern
or, with neither the advice nor
consent Of the commission.
In other words, the sportsmen of
the state received through the Ga
Bile bill, a pUwerless commission and
the double cross.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
II. r. Mills. Director.

Come TO the Senior Mock Ly-
ceum" at high school auditorium,
Thursday, February i7th, al 8 .. m,
Admission % cents.
The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1921-02-12
sEEn pOTATOES FOR sALE-

Free of disease, clean, sound. Buy
early and get the best, These spuds
are same variety as those shown
by me at the Union County Fair
and awarded first premium Raise
your own. Price, S2.25 per cwt
Cash on delivery. Location, Three
quarters of a mile north of Royce
Switch.-C. C.. COppedgc. 1-Sc
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service in the army, navy or ma
rine corps. or as a governmental or
Red Cross nurse. The remaining
balance would be sold in tracts Of
four sections, and receipts going
to the commono school fund
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
IS ABLE To WALK
DOWN TOWN AGAIN
STATES MRS. PAUL

Before I got Tanlac couldn't
walk a block. but yesterday walk
ed down town shopping and came
back feeling fine" said Mrs. G. w.
Paul, 1915 Enterprise St.. Los An
geles, Cal. Mrs. Paul has lived in
Los Angeles for thirty years, ana
is highly esteemed by large cir
Gle of friends.
about a year ago I caught a
severe cold and my stomach got in
an awful condition. No matter
what ate. ! suffered about all the
misery that goes with bad diges-
ton. I finally got to where I could
scarcely eat anything, and was so
weak I couldn't do my housework
without stopping every little while
to rest. / got so / couldn't sleer
and my state of health was so poor
it alarmed me very much.
"It looked like nothing uould
help me. but Tanlac has acted just
like 1t had been made especially
for my case. Why, it helped me
right from the start, and now / am
eating just anything l want and
my stomach never gives me the
least trouble. sleep well, too
and am doing all my homework
with ease. Tanlac is just grand"
Tanlac is sold in Albuquerque by
the Alvarado Pharmacy and all
other leading druggists everywhere.
-(Adv)
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
GRAND JURY To
TAKE ACTION IN
WOOL WINE CASE
District Attorney of Los An
geles May Be Tried on a
Charge of Misuse of Funds
of His Office.
RY The AesOcihied Press.)

Los Angeles, CALM, sept, jO.---
The county grand jury is ready TO
take action against Thomas Lee
Woolwine, district attorney of Los
Angeles, following a three months
investigation of his conduct of Of
flee, it was announced here tonight
by Charles l.. Elmendorf, foreman
of the grand jury.
Late today in the partial report
of its activities, the grand jury
asked the state attorney general
to provide special counsel to aid
it in inquiring into conditions IN
Mr.. Woolwine's office.
Tonight, by Elmendorf's order,
the county counsel gave out a re-
port made to the grand jury by
committee of its members which
had active charge of the inVestiga-
ton. Excerpts from Ibis report
fellow:
Total expenditures for eighteen
months from the secret service
funds, for which no vouchers have
heen filed, total $5i,S59.52.
The amazing number of persons
charged with felonles who are not
prnishe shows either tremend-
Gus number of guilty felons a:e
turned loose or the wholesale
branding as felons of innocent per-
sons. - The district attorneys
office is being used as collection
agency. Your committee feels that
only the surface has been scratched
in the investigation of this
carnivaI of extravaganza, waste, in
efficiency and corruption"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
AVAILABLE FARM
HANDS IN i. s.
To BE SURVEYED
Committee of Five Scientists
Has Been Appointed to
Consider the Problem OF
Land Utilization.
fBs The Associated Press.l

Washington, Sept. 30.-Appoint-
ment of a special committee OF five
scientists of the department OF ag-
riculture to consider the problem
of land utilization was announced
today by Secretary Wallace. Con-
sideration will be given to such
factors as present and prospective
production, domestic consumption
and foreign demand. and Indicated
increase in population.
The committee probably will I'M
dertake as a collateral problem, a
comprehensive survey Of available
farm lands in the United States,
including arid tracts in the west
suitable for irrigation, swamp lands
which may be reclaimed by drain
age and cut-over timber lands, OF
which there are very extensive
tracts in practically every section
of the country. Cut-over lands will
be considered both as regards
availability and reforestation and
cultivation. Included on the COM
mittee are:
DR.. L. c, Gray, agriculture econ
omist; C. V. Piper. agrostologist III
charge of forage crop investlga-
tons; DR.. G. M. Rommel, chief OF
the animal husbandry division; c.
F. Marbut in charge of soil survey,
and E. e. Garter. assistant forester.
MANY persons assume that there
is an unlimited reserve supply of
farm lands,' Secretary Wallace
said. such is not the case, how
ever, as by far the greater part of
the billion acres not yet in farms
probably can never be used for the
growing of crops. and that part of
the reserve land which may be re-
garded as potential farm land can
only be so used at heavy expense
for clearing, drainage. irrigation or
fertilization"
Predicting a national population
OF 150,000.000 by 1850 the secre-
tary pointed out that the acreage
of improved farm land per capita
has steadily decreased since 1890.
To maintain the present per capita
acreage in 1850, he said, 243,oo0,-
600 acres must be added to those
now listed as improved lands"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
COUNTY JAIL To
Be HEATED WITH
MODERN SYSTEM

Arrangements for installing an
adequate heating system in the
county jail were made by the
county commissioners at their
meeting yesterday. The heating
situation at the Jail was brought
to the commissioners attention by
Undersheriff Fred Fornoff. The
budget for the coming year carries
an appropriation of $500 for in
stalling n system to replace the in
dividual stoves now in use.
Eight stoves are used to heat
tho Jail in cold weather. This is
most unsatisfactory method, ac-
cording to the jailor and the sher-
ifs office, as it does not COM
pletely heat the building and is
very expensive. The grand jury,
which inspected the Jail last week,
also recommended that some type
OF heating system be installed at
once.
The sheriff's department was
authorized to obtain figures on
the cost of installing a complete
system and to report at the next
meeting of the commission in or
der that the Jail may be heated
when cold weather makes it nee
essary.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
CONFERENCE COMPLETES
EMERGENCY PROGRAM TO
RELIEVE UNEMPL0 YMENT
CONTINUED from Page one.)

was urged to make these recon-
mendations effective.
No suggestions were made by the
committees on mining, shipping
and transportation, it being eX-
planned that they felt there could
be no emergency measures during
present economic conditions.
Protracted Debate.
Adoption of the major parts of
it's program by the conference was
without discussion except upon the
unemployment estimate, the con-
ference's estimate of about four
million on the basis of payrolls
bringing objection from Secretary
Davis and provoking a protracted
debate, participated in by a num-
Der of the delegates, including
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Joseph II. Defrees, president of the
United States chamber Of COM
merce. An indefinite total was
agreed upon as compromise.
An effort was made by w. L..
Burdick, of Fargo, N. D., who said
he represented four million peo-
pie, to bring before the conference
statement In behalf of agricul-
tdral workers, but the matter was
deferred to the consideration of
permanent measures.
Urban LedouX, who recently sold
labor on Boston common, led an
army" of unemployed numbering
about thirty to the doors Of the
conference building, whefe they
sang amidst a shower of coins and
bills but were not invited to the
conference.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
'O[D PAL SUNG
BY WANDER ER AS
F. TRAP IS SPRUNG
Chicago Man Put to Death
After Being Convicted OF
Staying His Wife and a
Ragged Stranger"
(By The Associated Prcss.)

Chicago, Sept. 3O.-Singing a
popular song, Carl Wanderer, con-
yicted of the murder of his wife,
her unborn baby and a ragged
stranger" whom he hired to stage
a fake hold-up, was hanged at the
county Jail at 7;19 o'clock this
morning.
Wanderer marched to the gall
lows with q firm step, and as he
took his place on the scaffold, re-
peated short prayer after a min
lister. Asked IL he had anything to
say, he replied in the affirmative
and as a shroud was adjusted, In
a clear voice started the old song
"Old Pal, Why Don't You Answer
Me? ?" He was singing when the
trap dropped.
The chorus of the song Wander
err chose is as follows;
"The long night through, I wait
for you,
"Old pal why don't you answer
me?
"My arms embrace an empty
space,
"The arms that held you ten
derby;
"If you can hear my prayer away
up there,
"Old pal why don't you answer
me?"
x
z The crime for which Wanderer
was hanged was the murder of
Edward j, Ryan, the ragged
stranger" a West Madison street
vagrant who he had hired for IS
to stage a fake hold-up and then
killed. Ryan's body was long uni
Identified. Wanderer was also con-
victed Of the murder of his bride
of less than year and her un-
born child but the jury in that
case fixed his punishment at TWEEN
ty-five years Imprisonment.
Mrs. Wanderer and the "strang-
er" were murdered in the hallway
of the Wanderer apartment house
in June, 1920.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
CRYING OF BABY SAVES
LIVES OF SIX PERSONS

Denver, Sept. S0.-The crying of
a baby saved the lives of six sleep
ing persons from asphyxiation
here today. Aaron Rothschilds.
who with his wife, was sleeping IN
an apartment house where gas
fumes were escaping, IL at the
county hospital in a critical con-
dition.
Mrs. L. Gladstone, who occupies
an apartment above the Roths-
childs. was Weakened at 2 o'clock
this morning by the cries Of her
s-months-old daughter in time to
detect the odor OF the ESCAPING
fumes before ANYBODY in the build
ing had succumbed. Her husband
was almost overcome.
Mrs. N. L. Birge, the landlady.
was aroused by the Gladstones, as
was Edward Rothschilds before
either of them were injured by the
fumes.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-01
SHIPPING BOARD ANO
EMERGENCY FLEET TO
BE SEPARATED TODAY
fRv The Associated Press.)

Washington, Sept. SO.--Com-
plete separation of the United
States shipping board from the
emergency fleet corporation. eff
fective tomorrow, was announced
today by Chairman Lasker. Au-
thority for the divorce" as he de-
scribed it, was given in the Jones
act, Mr.. IIasker said. and the sep
aration was determined upon with
view OF relieving the board of the
many responsibilities connected
with the operation Of its corporate
twin.
Upon the resignation Of Chair
man Lasker, who was eX-officio
president, Joseph w. Powell. gen
eral manager of the board, today
was elected president and general
manager of the corporation. He
will be assisted by six trustees or
vice presidents. who were formerly
officers of the board. They are j.
w. Smull, w. ]. Love, A. j. Frey
Harry Kimball, Elmer Schlesinger
and f. P. Farley. T. u Clear,
form erly treasurer Of the Panama
canal was appointed treasurer.