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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
2
The House of Representatives will act on the Sundry Civil Bill this morning after debate on the conference report. The measure is part of the appropriations package before Congress.
The conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was submitted to the house today and action on it has been postponed until tomorrow.
Washington telegram discusses the sundry civil appropriation bill carrying a 50000 dollar allotment for the Albuquerque international exposition and irrigation congress. House passage could foreclose Senate changes. Alaska Yukon funding sparks opposition and may threaten the irrigation allotment. Decision expected today.
Preparation for the congress advances with new awards arriving daily. Hon. Horace C. Abbott of Springer NM offers a $100 cash trophy for the best New Mexico sheep exhibit and plans to bring registered bucks to Albuquerque for sale. R F E Putney of the Mitchell Lewis firm adds a No. 3 mountain wagon for the best wheat exhibit in New Mexico and Arizona at the International exposition.
The Albuquerque public schools hold their second annual promotional exercises at the Elks Theater. The crowded venue showed a standing room crush as over sixty grammar school pupils performed drills and chorus numbers, earning praise for management and execution.
A large audience cheered as Robert Wigely greeted attendees and classmates. The program featured a girls Swedish Folk Dance, a military drill by sixteen boys, a hoop drill by girls, a boys dumbbell drill, the Flower Song, a flower procession led by Miss Lottie Pratt, and multiple recitations and solos. Superintendent Sterling announced promotions and urged continued study. sixty three graduates out of sixty five were promoted. The high school expects a larger freshman class next fall with about one hundred students and events continue into tomorrow’s ceremony at the opera house.
The Duncan opera house hosted a crowded season highlight as East Las Vegas High School class of 1908 staged She Stoops to Conquer. Performances by Bertha Cohn Helen Schaefer Lawrence Clark Ernest Hilood and Walter Burns drew strong praise for their acting.
In Mich igan on May 1 delegates converge as the state convention meets to endorse William Jennings Bryan for the presidential nomination and direct the Michigan delegation to vote for him. Some delegates favor an uninstructed delegation and Governor Johnson is floated by a few, but Bryan backers appear to hold a majority.
Birmingham reports show Bryan's statewide majority around three to one over Johnson after yesterday's primary returns. Bryan also wins one delegate from the ninth district while the other delegate's status remains uncertain.
Pitsburg May 19. A special committee on church union, named today, will report before the Methodist Protestant general synod adjourns. The panel includes one delegate from each of the thirty two district conferences in the United States.
Mrs. George J Gould and her children arrived in Paris from New York. Her presence is said to speed a potential withdrawal of opposition by the executors to the marriage of Madame Anna Gould to Prince Theodor de Sagan.
New York joins the prosperity drive with traveling salesmen to spread confidence aided by Comptroller Herman A Metz. A large August Commercial Travelers Interstate Prosperity congress will gather business leaders and reports on trade recovery. The piece also profiles Harlem housing growth, foreign birth trends, and notable urban shifts including bridge relocation and local gambling rumors.
In Topeka Kansas May 19 the jury in the state case against United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co ruled for the state seeking 159003.06 plus interest for losses from the First National Bank failure. The company argued the collection agreement expired and the funds were an ordinary bank deposit. The jury held the money was still tied to the collection contract.
Special Dispatch reports Governor Curry planned to leave Washington for Santa Fe last night to pursue important New Mexico bills. He travels with Albuquerque’s George Arnot, Irrigation Congress secretary R. E. Twitchell, and other New Mexicans who attended the governors conference.
Secretary Taft departed Washington to address the Tennessee Bar association in Nashville on Thursday night and then attend a Yale clubs reunion in Cleveland on Saturday, before returning to Washington on Monday.
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