New Mexico Liars Contest Highlights Local Hunting Tales
The New Mexico Weekly Newsletter recounts a playful Liars' contest with tall hunting stories. Highlights include W. O. Sissel of Los Alamos killing four mountain lions with two shells and a cave chase, plus various other humorous yarns about deer, turkeys, pheasants, and quail mishaps from New Mexico communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott Barker
Game Association
Los Alamos
W. O. Sissel
Hillsboro
Sissel
Springer Tribune
Tom Bushnell
Tiny Las Vegas Week Lacks News Worth Writing
A spoofed slice notes there’s nothing major happening locally for three days while Gordon Greaves finds a Portales man who discovered ten six foot rattlesnakes on a board two miles from Delphoe. The piece pokes fun at typos and trivial items, finishing with a Christmas poem dedicated to fathers.
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Las Vegas
Gordon Greaves
Portales
Jim Boyle
Delphoe
Gordon
Elliott Barker
Little Argus
The
Argus
Jack Sitton
Merry Tree
Jimmy
Janie
Susie
Jewelry store share and leftover buck in Grit note
A short note from Chas. D. Rice in Grit describes a mother owning half a jewelry store and a turkey eaten with scraps given to Rover. The writer ends by asking if a buck remains, addressing Nick.
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Rover
Nick
Chas. D. Rice
GI Home Loan Program Succeeds in New Mexico
The VA home loan program in New Mexico shows minimal losses with only $4,714 in defaults on nearly $21 million guaranteed. VA regional manager Gene A. Robens says lenders have not lost a cent on VA guaranteed loans in the state, and total government losses average 80 cents per loan on about 5,787 guarantees totaling $20,924,034.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Veterans Administration
Gene A. Robens
Martin J May
New Well Drilled On James Reeves Farm
James E Reeves owns a farm near Lordsburg and is among the first in the Lordsburg valley to drill for underground water and seek a state permit. A 12 inch well was sunk to 325 feet with water at 90 feet, and drilling will continue through about 34 feet of coarse gravel. George M McKensie of Southwest Drilling Co El Paso is the driller. Bailor tests show favorable water potential.
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James E. Reeves
Lordsburg
Reeves
George M. McKensie
The
Southwest Drilling Co
el Paso
Reeves plan 80 acre truck garden project near Capitan link
The land to be irrigated from this water supply is beyond present speculations. Mr. Reeves plans to put big 80 acre farm into a truck garden development. Mr. and Mrs. Reeves, former Capitan residents, moved here about two years ago with their one and a half year old daughter Martha.
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Reeves
Mrs. Reeves
Capitan, N. M
Martha
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Kitts Twins
Bill and
Zeke
Dr. G. Ward Fenley
Charles Milligan
Oter County
Milligan
Tony Garcia
Santa Fe New Mexican
Bill F. Daniel
Hunter
LEE Rawson & Sons
Ellen and
Sis
Westerner Cafe
Run of the Mill News
Los Angeles
Philip Burrows
Gallup Independent
Joe Martinez
Independent
Martinez
Reelinys
B & B Motor
Mr. and
Mrs
Art Blanscet
N. Mexico
Mr. Robens
James Reeves
Yucca Motor
Cerest
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