Lordsburg Athletic Club Organized for Youth Development
The Lordsburg Athletic Club is being organized with community support to promote sportsmanship among youth. Plans include daily activities at Azteca Hall with initial boxing in Silver City Safford and Lordsburg and later baseball and tennis. A winter program may use a hangar at Municipal Airport and an outside boxing exhibition is planned. Manuel Lopez is president with a slate of officers and local officials aiding the effort.
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Cfty
Azteca Hall
Fa Kennelly
St. Joss Catholic Church
Silver City
Safford
Lordsburg
Ting
Alan Koff
Municipal Airport
Manuel Lopez
Chente
Mike Rez
Joe Sanfile
Art Talavera
Ray Talavera
Galvan
Celso Sanchez
C. C Martin
Armando Letrada
Memo Lopez
Joe Ser
Boxing Fights Postponed to Friday at Apache Grove
The boxing program at Apache Grove is postponed to Friday night September 2. Crawford of Apache Grove Promoter announced the rescheduled fights and that six members of the club were to participate.
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Apache Grove
Ich
the & Athletic Club
Crawford
Mrs Sarah Rosentein Oes Rites Set At Heather
Sarah Rosentein Oes, wife of Entein, died at the family home in this city after a period of failing health. Funeral arrangements are pending at Heather Mortuary for information.
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Sarah Rosentein
Entein
Heather Mortuary
Displaced Person Arrived Tuesday
Mrs. Otilia Felzens formerly of Riga Latvia arrived in America under the Displaced Persons quota and was met at the Lordsburg railroad station Tuesday afternoon by her daughter Mrs. Louis Espilza of Moren ei Arizona. Both endured hardships in the war years including Latvia’s 1940 fall under Russian rule.
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Otilia Felzens
Latvia
Morenci
Arizona
Riga
America
Lordsburg
Louis Espilza
Morenei, Ariz
Mrs J A Foster Named State Chairman
Mrs J A Foster president of the Lordsburg Woman's Club and district public welfare chairwoman has been named chairman of the state department of public welfare. The National Federation of Woman's Clubs recently created the department and will drive nationwide. A welfare unit will form in the local club with plans to work with the local hospital board and Hidalgo county health nurse Mrs George Schmidt to aid underprivileged children.
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J. A. Foster
Lordsburg Woman's Club
4Th District For Public Welfare
State Department of Public Welfare
National Federation of Woman's Clubs
Department of Public Welfare
Hospital Board
George Schmidt
Hidalgo County
Honest man found in Lordsburg story told by Shafter man
Max Smith of Shafter California recounts meeting Ebb Jackson of El Rancho Feed Store in Lordsburg. Jackson remembered a $20 debt from 39 years ago and paid it in full. The note also mentions Ralph Smith’s gall bladder attack at Lordsburg Hospital.
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Max Smith
Shafter
Calif
Lordsburg
Diogenes
Mr. Smith
Ebb Jackson
Ki Rancho
Liberal
el Rancho
Ebb
Banner Mine keeps perfect record with no hit win
Frank Bowman threw the first no hit game of the Lords burg Muny League season, as Banner Mine defeated C. P. S. 7 0 to preserve an undefeated record. The Miners sit two wins from finishing the first half unbeaten, with Mavericks and Moctezuma upcoming.
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Frank Bowman
Banner Downs C.P
Lordsburg
Banner Mine
Banner
Mavericks
Moctezuma
Lordsburg Receives Praise For Sanitation Efforts
Lordsburg is praised in the Silver City Enterprise for its sanitation work during the polio era. The piece notes a firm supplying 1500 pints of DDT free and describes Lordsburg’s power sprayer used with regular garbage collection to target fly breeding sites.
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Lordsburg
Silver City Enterprise
Silver City
Ground Broken For New City Water Tank
Ground work begins on a 300000 gallon water tank near the present tank in the southwest city area. Alan Koff oversees from Southwest Supply Co. with a $14950 contract to Consolidated Western Steel of Phoenix. King Hoover Co. of Phoenix will install the transmission line for 69893.94, vein type system to save taxpayer costs. Three wells depth 250 252 260 feet will supply 1600 gallons per minute. The new tank will be 50 feet diameter and 22 feet high, connected to the old tank for equal pressure.
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Alan Koff
Southwest Supply Co
Consolidated Western Steel Company of
Phoenix
Ariz
Phoenix Company
Dozer
King Hoover Company of
Lososeues Lisseat
Sam Gass
Lordsburg
First Cloverdale Picnic Held In 1918 By Ranchers
The Cloverdale annual picnic drew 600 plus attendees from Silver City Las Cruces Deming Douglas Lordsburg and other areas. Ranchers supplied free barbecue beef and lamb with salads cakes and pastries from Cloverdale residents. The event on August 14 featured a ten acre grounds and a cement dancing platform with dancing at night and noon and midnight barbecues.
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Cloverdale
Lordsburg
Ben Robertson
Victoria Land and Cattle Co
Monroe Dunagan
Silver City
Las Cruces
Deming
Douglas
Bisbee
Scout Leader Meeting Tonight at City Hall
A meeting of the Scout leaders is scheduled for tonight at 7:00 p.m. in City Hall. District commander H. A. Stillwell will preside over the gathering.
Mavericks Grid Games Announced for 1949 Schedule
Lordsburg high school will play Clifton Hatch Hurley Deming Las Cruces Silver City Deming Anthony and Duncan with open dates Sept 23 and 30 being arranged. Coach Linquist requests all football candidates to meet August 22 at 9 am in Room 9.
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H. L. Linguist
Lordsburg
Clifton
Hatch
Hurley
Deming
Las Cruces
Silver City
Anthony
Duncan
Linquist
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Pet Pacific Railroad
Agust
Ralph Smith
Lordsburg Hospital
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