The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-24
Southwest News
 From All OUer NeU Mexico
 and Arizona
Cwestern Newspaper Union News Seryice.)


 The POrtaleS Valley banner sweet potato yield is 1900 to 1900 bushels on four acres, a showing of nearly 400 bushels to the acre, on the Kenyon place one mile east of POrtaleS, N Mex, raised by G. F. Clark and Claude Jones.
 Wagon Mound, N Mex, is one of the largest producing communities in the state is proven by the fact that the Sante Fe bills out to other points an average of little over five cars of livestock and produce, grain, beans, etc. every day. This excels any previ- ous shipping records of the town, and local merchants and shippers claim that the heaviest shipping has not yet commenced.
 A meeting of the county board of education was held at Mosquero, N. Mex, and $3,000 worth of bonds of school district No. l, Abbott, were sold at par, the buyer to pay cost of print ing the bonds. The same company al- so submitted the lowest bid for the erection of a fine new hollow tile school house, and was awarded the contract and will commence immediate work on the same.
 Wonderland Topics" will be the name of the official publication of the Automobile Club of Arizona, it was made known at Phoenix in connection with the announcement of prize win nerS in the clubs name contest, which has attracted statewide interest dur ing the past several weeks. The first prize, consisting of $10 cash and SIP membership in the club, goes to Ana lena Anderson of OrangewoOd, near Phoenix, Arizona.
 Sunday dancing has been stopped in BernalillO County, N Mex, according to Sheriff Tony Ortiz. For some time the sheriff'S force has been obliged to give up their much-needed day of rest on account of the many dances which have been held all over the cCflnty on Sunday. The sheriff has issued in- structiOns to the justices of the peace all over the county, forbiddilg them to issue any more licenses for Sunday dances as they have been doing in the past.
 Definite steps looking to the estab- lishment of public playground in New Mexico were taken at Las Cruces, when tn e Southwestern National Park Association of the Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce selected Fl PasO as executive headquarters. Sec convert parts of the MescalerO and Lincoln forest reserves into a national park, and connect them by a highway with the Elephant Butte dam and lake. It is expected that part of the Alamo forest reserve will be added when the bill for the park is drawn
 Governor Thomas D. Campbell, of Arizona, is in receipt of a letter from Governor D. W. Davis, of Idaho, in- forming him that the active cO-opera- ton and backing of the United States Chamber of Commerce has been Ob- tained for the reclamation policy be ing urged upon the national govern ment by the League of the Southwest, of which Governor Campbell is presi- dent, the Western States Reclamation Association and other organizations which are working in the interests of a comprehensive national reclamation policy. The surplus motor vehicles turned over by the War Department to the Department of Agriculture for dis tributiOn among the various states for road building purposes have been dis tributed through the bureau of public roads. Up to July l, last, total of 22,577 motor vehicles had been so dis tributed, BOP of such were allotted to Arizona.
 Clay McGOnagill, world champion roper, is dead. He passed away at Casa Grande, Ariz., and was buried in Carlsbad, N. Mex. Here one of the 1 famous characters of the southwest | dies-a wiz with the rope and the bronco, who has been a phenom ever since the old days when he used to | perform at the territorial fair in Albu- | querque.
 The judgment of the MaricOpa coun- ty Superior Court in cOnvicting Tomas l Roman of murder and sentencing him | to death has been affirmed by the | state Supreme Court of Arizona. The | court held that none of the alleged | errors in the trial of the case on which 1 counsel for the defendant appealed the | case were material or prejudicial to the defendant
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