The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1922-01-14
LAND OFFICE NOW UNDER
REPUBLICAN, MANAGEMENT


on last Saturday, as register Of the
United States land office, and the
assuming of the duties by II. H.
Errett, marked the changing of the
office from the management of
Democratic to that Of Republican
appointees. For the past eight years
the office has been under the man
agement of Mr.. ValVerde and Mr..
Thomas +. Owen, they being ap-
pointed when Woodrow Wilson be-
came president Mr.. Owen was re-
lieved short time ago, by MateO'
Luian, while Mr.. Erretfs cOnfirma-
lion was made the 22nd of Decem-
her
Appointments a Reward for Service
The appointment Of both these
men come as a reward for service
rendered. In giving a short sketch
of the lives of each Of these men
it will be seen that no silver
spoon politically, was inherited,
but that all their attainments have
come as the result of. hard and ef-
ficient service:
II. H. Errett was born on farm
near. Gridley, Kansas, September q,
1885, w6s educated iii the public
schools and prepared himself for
the teaching profession at the Kan
sas State Normal School, atA En-
poria, Kans. He taught three years
in Kansas, and then the cah of the
West lured him to New Mexico. He
came here in March, 1903, filed on
homestead rs miles southwest of
Clayton, and entered the teaching
profession. He served two years as
superintendent of the ,Des Moines
schools, and was offered the posi-
lion for the third time, hNat. eIected
to go to Folsom as superintendent
Of the Folsom schools.
The call TO the political field came
to him in 1911 when he was nOmin-
ated at the Republican county con-
vention for County Superintendent
Of Schools. and was elected TO that
office, leading his ticket at the cleo
lion. He served a term Of five years,
and in spite of the fact that gem
eral Democratic landslide occurred
in 1916, he was re-elected. leading
the ticket again and was elected
over his opponent by a majority of
347, while the democratic officers
we're elected by majOrities ranging
as high as 500 During his term of
office as superintendent, he entered
into a matrimonial alliance, when,
in May, 1912, he was married TO Miss
q. LenOre Farr, at Dcs Moines, n. NJ.
That his work as an educator was
recognized is attested by the fact
that he was prominent factor in all
educational meetings of the state
and was selected as a special repre-
sentative by Governor Mcdonald Ia
attend the National Educational
Convention at ST. Louis, in 1918. He
was also cOmplimenied on his work
(by Ex-P President Frank H. H. Rob-
Nfs. of the Normal University al
las Vegas After making a COM
plete Investigation OF The schools in
Union county, Or. Roberts said oil
Mr.. Erretcs work:
My work as an educator has
placed me in close touch with cOun-
iy superintendenis all over the
Southwest. III al bl lug thuCdtibid
work ] have never seen a man who
held Che confidence Of his teachers
10 a greater extent than Mr. Errelt
nor have / seen a county superin-
iendent who was more helpful tC
his teachers in the matter of dis
cipline and instruction than Supl
l.Prett
J. H. Wagner, former State Super
intendent of Public Instruction; A
n. White, former State Supcrin
tendenf Of Public instruction. anc
others have all complimented thl
work of Supt Errett, as being on ,
high plane
In 1918, Mr. Errelt was chosen a
chairman of the county Republican
central committee, and conducte
the campaign of 1918. He was re
elected in 1920, but resigned the Of
flee at the beginning OF the cam
paign. At the state convention O
1920, he was rendered the nOmina
lion for State Superintendent a.
Schools, and at the county conven
ton was offered the nomination 70
County Assessor and County Treas
urer, also Representative, but dc
clined all these nominations.
He was appointed register of III