Alamogordo News publication details listed
Alamogordo News records show W. Morgan as Editor and Business Manager. The paper is entered as second class matter at the Alamogordo post office in New Mexico under the 1879 act.
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Newspaper
Alamogordo News
Location
Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1925
Page
2
Alamogordo News records show W. Morgan as Editor and Business Manager. The paper is entered as second class matter at the Alamogordo post office in New Mexico under the 1879 act.
A letter outlines ongoing divisions over prohibition as Congress opens its 69th session. It argues the nation favors tighter controls while some support light wines and beers. The piece notes many bills introduced on day one signaling strong public interest.
The Alamogordo Rotary Club maintains about 93 percent luncheon attendance over 18 months and leads district clubs in attendance for four months. It backs local projects such as the pavilion improvements, supports Boys work, and promotes citizenship. Nationally and internationally Rotary shapes business ethics across the United States and 82 nations with over 2200 clubs.
Southern Pacific geologist Mr. Melhase spent almost a week here studying resources including white sands west of town. He praised the area's natural resources and said sands could supply gypsum to California and the Pacific coast though transportation costs must be reduced. He noted commercialization requires a large financed company.
Alamogordo residents are urged to favor local merchants over out of town sellers. Local shops offer reputable goods at fair prices with the town’s tax base supporting schools churches and roads. Spending locally circulates money within the community and strengthens local livelihoods.
A local merchant is often accused of high prices when customers claim savings by shopping out of town. The passage argues that local sellers can match or beat out-of-town prices and still earn a modest profit. It notes that claimed savings are frequently overstated.
A community sing and old fiddlers contest are set for Friday night December 18 at the High School Auditorium. The program features an orchestra, Girls Glee Club, Miss Tweed, and Christmas carols with free admission.
The New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts offers a prize scholarship of about 175 dollars in tuition and lab fees to the top high school essay in the Chemical Prize Essay Contest. Essays under 2500 words on topics such as Chemistry health and disease and agriculture must be submitted by February 1, 1926.
State game officials consider hiring a game expert to survey New Mexico deer and refuges after a disappointing season. Veterans warn deer fattening suffered from misaligned feeding grounds and a dry spring, suggesting scientific refuge location could avert starvation.
More than 80 000 cattle were shipped out of New Mexico in October. Figures forwarded to M G Keenan secretary of the cattle Sanitary Board show inspectors across the state contributed data.
The Department of Agriculture estimates New Mexico cotton at 60 000 bales in October with 16 536 bales ginned by that date. Cotton seed yield is about 30 000 tons and the crop value exceeds 8 million dollars.
The U S Forest Service notes a petrified forest about two and a half miles north of Cerillos, west of the Santa Fe Railway. The main area covers about five acres with scattered fragments over a wide region. Trees reach eighty feet long and three to four feet in diameter. The wood appears shardwood.
A tubercular sanatarium will be located at Whitcomb Springs near Albuquerque by the Knights of Pythias. The site has been bought and work on the buildings will be rushed. The sanatarium is sponsored by the grand lodge of the state.
An advertisement for Hall’s Catarrh Medicine promises to relieve catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. It describes an ointment easing local inflammation and an internal tablet that acts on mucous surfaces through the blood. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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