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Newspaper
Alamogordo News
Location
Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1908
Page
1
The News reprints questions from the Washington commission on country life asking for local views. Readers are invited to answer about farm yields schools organization labor conditions banking and credit sanitation and social ties, with suggestions and the most important single improvement for rural life.
Mrs. Bush of Ohio street sent in a note about a pear grown on her trees this season. The fruit is described as as big as a pumpkin and weighs 26 1 2 ounces, heavy enough to pull itself loose from the tree when fully grown. Readers are invited to share pear stories.
At a Thursday night meeting nearly 75 representatives urged incorporation. Plans to adopt incorporation and begin routine work were discussed. Health costs and typhoid control, milk supply, and other city services were raised as reasons to pursue incorporation immediately.
Mrs. E Kreamer died Tuesday after a long illness. She was 68 and left a husband and seven children. The funeral was held Thursday with all children present except Frank in California. The Kreamers moved to New Mexico 28 years ago. Residents mourn the loss of a devoted neighbor.
Professor B P Fleming head of irrigation and assistant Jay B Stone King travel to Deming to test irrigation costs. The New Mexico Experiment Station conducts the study under USDA direction, with a report expected on cost to equip operate and maintain a pumping plant after two to three weeks.
A lyrical vignette by W. C. Blackburn of Kansas extols October in the East and the harvest glow. Images of harvest fields, corn shocks, birds, and tranquil rural life contrast with a hint of approaching winter as the narrator reflects on abundance and peace.
Hon W A Hawkins who moved New Mexico to locate the Blind Institute at Alamogordo is appointed by Governor Curry to join the board of managers and has accepted. He previously secured brick supply from the penitentiary warden and freight concessions from railroads for institute buildings. Amarillo Suffers $260000 Railroad Fire Destroying shops roundhouse and 12 engines.
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