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Newspaper
Lordsburg Liberal
Location
Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1931
Page
2
The Mavericks voice of the school issue from December 1951 presents period student writing and school news in a yearbook style front matter. It introduces the first volume with a holiday period focus and catalogues early content.
Notes list moves of Mildred and Bonnie Lea Halloway to Losles and sickness of Vera Bea Riggle and Addie Louise er from the Senior Class. Lordsburg teachers attended a banquet in Deming for Mrs. Bowman, with Scales Kelly Dahl and Schiefelbein present. The band room sings Holy Night as Christmas program work continues. operetta began last Monday night. The Maverick issue dated Monday January 4, 1932, will be published next week due to Christmas vacation.
The senior class is organizing a Christmas party for the juniors on Wednesday night December 23rd. This will be the fifth school party planned for the year.
The High School Glee Club has been asked by Father Powers to sing at the Catholic Church during midnight mass on December 24. The ensemble will participate in the mass and in singing Christmas carols.
A school survey shows Miss Dahl pursues dietetics, Davis favors books and reading, Miss Fairly loves horses, Coach Mhrhardt is keen on horses, Misa Green supports football and Girl Scouts, and Miss Schiefelbein collects Indian jewelry.
The Girl Scouts are busy gathering and fixing donated toys to gift to needy children for Christmas. The effort also serves to thank the donors who contributed toys to the collection drive.
December birthdays are saluted for Pauline Austin Mary Louise Foley Love Jones Jr Olive Harper Karl and Burl Hindman Doris. A joke about Inuit fishhooks as money and wives recovering hooks from sleeping husbands follows with a light exchange on long nights.
Reports show most Lordsburg faculty plan to stay local for vacation. Names and destinations include Miss Kelly in Deming Miss Mearns in Bay City Texas Miss Badington in Abilene Texas Miss Dahl in Las Cruces Mr Davis in Roswell and Hagerman Miss Roberts in Roswell Mrs Kerr in Tucson and Miss Schiefelbein in Pittsburg Kansas. The group remaining in Lordsburg over the holidays includes V C Tolle Miss Gayner Miss Seales Miss Johnston Miss Laham Misses Chase Miss Grandall Mr Arnold Miss Fairly Miss Johnson Miss Green Mr Ehrhardt Mr Scott and Mr Bartlett.
An OCR fragment lists roles and names: Editor-in-Chief Louise Ball Associate Editor Myles Cohen General Reporter Paula Johnson Sport Reporter Hasli Puller. Sponsor appears as onc ccene. The readable items show a newsroom staff lineup and sponsor note.
The Maverick offers a holiday greeting to all readers, wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The staff joins in the well wishes for a joyful season.
Home economics girls plan candy making from now until next Wednesday using their own materials. Some students intend to give the candy as Christmas gifts if it lasts that long. Fruit cakes will also be prepared.
A line from the New Castle News notes cautionary insight about urban opportunities and the need to recruit more men to seize them, reflecting a harsh view of city life and ambition.
Minis leads the December assembly with Uncle Remus stories and the Christmas Chimes. A Third Grade musicale is planned for December 15 with Wilson children assisting. A room tree in each room is set for December 25 at 1 18 PM followed by a miscellaneous program at 2 PM. The Junior High cheer box grows and the Kindergarten Christmas party is scheduled for December 24 morning.
A sizeable gathering of about fifty members attended a Thursday night Boy Scouts meeting led by Mr Mestrazal in charge. He demonstrated how to organize a troop system for managing troops as the chief Seoul executive for the El Paso Area Council.
Officers urge all members to attend at the high school next Monday evening December 2nd at 8 o clock plan for the holiday banquet with the trade.
Wilson School presents a December 24 program at the Aztec Theatre featuring grades performing songs and plays including Jingle Bells and Silent Night both in Spanish and English. A variety of dramatizations and recitations showcase First through Sixth Grades with room decorations and class parties planned before dismissal for the holidays.
The Wilson School and Central School announce a Christmas program for the high school and Central School assemblies Friday afternoon featuring The Almost Wasnt Christmas by first to third grades Noche de Paz beginners and a dramatized song Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone by second grade boys.
First Grade works on a sand table project The Community Christmas Tree and Chicken Licken booklets Second Grade creates an attractive Santa Claus castle in the sandbox The Commercial Club sponsored a Friday program with unusual entertainment An ogress figure was made in typing class A five minute speed test for second year students and a five minute test for first year students followed by typing by music students.
A list of quirky items and names appears, including Dephane Cawyer, Myles Cohen, Jean Goneh, Miss Halil, Pauline Austin, Miss Kelly, Virginia Conningham, Ruth Wallace, Vera Den, and others. Also notes a Parent Teacher Association meeting on December 24 with Christmas music and a refreshment committee.
Christmas spirit fills Lordsburg as schools announce an all day vacation from Wednesday December 28 to Monday January 4 1982. The Glee Club sponsors a program the day before vacation at 3 30 with details pending. Miss S. recounts Solomon in Ancient History.
The Enna Jettick airship circled Lordsburg for a few minutes Sunday around 11 am but did not land. Commanded by Major A G Wadsworth, with William J McCracken as chief pilot and 1 Lieut W D Buie as co-pilot, the 138 foot long craft carries 86 000 feet of helium and is valued around 100 000 dollars. It began the transcontinental flight at New Bedford Massachusetts September 19 and has visited 185 cities on a goodwill tour advertising Enna Jettick women's shoes manufactured in Auburn New York. Union of Lordsburg handles the line locally.
University of Iowa develops an instrument to test singers voices by registering off-key tones. York experimenters report advances in voice transmission on a beam of sound for long distances. Census figures note 1942 blind and deaf Americans. discussions mention the phrase dumb as a dated term.
A chronicled tale from the Newgate Calendar recalls James Aitken a Scottish born patriot who fought for liberty then waged a one man burning campaign in Britain. He built a crude time bomb, burned ships and wharves, was captured after a chase, hanged in Portsmouth, and his body left on a galley mast then chained at Blockhouse Point.
Gene Tunney comments on American novelists loving American life while abroad and mocks an American painter in Paris who jokes about village life and neighborly visits with a pun about missing wood. The humorous exchange highlights cross cultural jabs and literary pride.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes a tense exchange with a president and a manager about Dubleigh. The manager claims Dubleigh’s wife forced him to demand more money, implying pressure and a lucky outcome for him.
A brief quip from the Louisville Courier-Journal hints at gossip as one speaker accuses another of revealing a secret to Doris while noting she moves toward the telephone. The exchange captures light social tension in a city paper tone.
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