Building Good Roads by Convict Labor in New Mexico
New Mexico leads the nation in using convict labor on highways. Since 1903 convicts have built roads with nonmilitary supervision, low cost, and high safety. The Taos Santa Fe road washout and a canyon road project showcased swift, heroic work under the highway department watch.
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Santa Fe
New Mexico
John B. McManus
Jas. A.french
Las Vegas
Santa Fe Canyon
Texas
Highway Department
McManus
Penitentiary
Rio Grande Canyon
Taos Co
State Highway Department
Penitentiary Board
H. P. Henning
August
Highway Journal
Rio Grande
Taos
New Mexico poised for oil boom with state leases spurring drilling
Santa Fe reports aggressive oil drilling on state and private lands as the Land Office drives activity. Wells are active near Artesia Springer Deming Aztec and other counties with major companies including Illinois Producers California subsidiary of Standard Oil Meadows Walker and Mitchell and Southwestern Tularosa Basin Oil and Refining. State leases offer one cent per acre for year one and fifteen cents thereafter with an eighth royalty to the state for producing wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
Land Office
New Mexico
Baca
Artesia
Illinois Producers Company
Indiana
California Company
Standard Oil Company
Springer
McKinley County
Champion Blackstone Company
California
Deming
Angelus Company
Los Angeles
Florida Company
San Juan
Aztec
Mesa Verde Oil Company
Meadows Oil Company
San Miguel County
Walker and Mitchell
Eddy County
Tularosa Basin
New Mexico State
Methodist Church Sunday Services and Pastor Invitation
Sunday worship at 10 a m and 7 30 p m led by Geo P Jeffus with League at 6 45 p m Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m The pastor Walter H Vanderpool urges members to honor vows to pay in full and extends a welcome to all to worship with the church in premises likely Sept 14 1924.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Jeffus
Walter H. Vanderpool
Beatitudes for Editors and Contributors
Editorial verse urges blessings on merchants who advertise and support newspapers and on correspondents who submit timely well written items. It commends party hosts and reporters for accurate wedding and party details and thanks neighbors who inform editors of events and file early copy for a thriving town paper.
Foreman Leads Workers as Traffic Restored by Noon
The men willingly followed their foreman and by noon the next day traffic was restored. The report notes cooperative action and rapid cleanup after the incident.
Echo of Geronimo Sparks Border Raid Tale
Last Thursday the sheriff’s office answered a riot call from Animas about Mexican Indians crossing the border and raiding the southern county. A posse tracked them to Little Hatchet mountain where the group abandoned loot and fled back across the border leaving horses saddles hides and gear. twenty horses were identified as local ranchers property but five remain with ownership unsettled. The attackers killed two range cattle and the band, about twenty strong, is said to be related to Apaches in the Sierra Madre region. The piece notes Geronimo’s historic resistance and expresses settlers’ hope the group stays south of the line.
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Animas
Allen
Little Hatchet
Persutt
Sierra Madre Mountains
Geronimo
Four new pupils join High School and band grows
The High School reports four new pupils J C Creamer Gay Ballard Creamer Genevieve Bailey and Marie Weaver totaling seventy six. Band enrolls fifteen with hopes for steady growth and a PTA gift of a tuba.
P T A Holds Strong Meeting At High School With Active Program
The Parent Teachers Association met Monday night at the High School chaired by President G P Jeffus. Officers and committee chairs planned activities, including buying a Tuba Horn for the Band, with Supt. McLeskey’s talk on Things Not Taught in School guiding home training responsibility.
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Parent Teachers Association
Cougill
Miss McCall
L. A. Jones
Holt
Summer
McLeskey
Basil Fuller
J. ¥. iFedrick
F. Lyday
Mr. Summers
Is There Anything New in the New Testament Sermon Review
The church invites attendees to a Sunday program with J A Phillips and Rachel Wood. Morning worship is canceled due to pastor’s Red Rock engagements. Bible study and prayer meetings run weekly on Wednesdays at 7 90 p m.
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M. Dorrance
Christian Endeavor
Rachel Wood
Signs of the Times
Red Rock
Eliminating Crop Destroyers in Roosevelt County
Twenty thousand jackrabbits were killed following a August extermination drive led by E H W Miller of the United States Biological Survey. Miller tallied scalps and farmer estimates for extras and poisoned rabbits not recovered as part of the total. Rabbits have caused substantial damage prompting the campaign.
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Roosevelt County
E. H W. Miller
United States Biological Survey
Mr. Miller
Extradition Transfers Murder Suspect From Lordsburg to Juarez
Sheriff Oscar Allen delivered Heriberto Faustro to the Mexican government at Juarez under Governor Hinkle's order. Faustro was seized in Lordsburg six weeks earlier on Juarez authorities’ claim of his involvement in the murder of Maria Halas. The event marks the first New Mexico extradition honored to Mexico in 14 years.
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Hinkle
Oscar Allen
Heriberto Faustro
Fl Paso
Juarez
Oscar
Faustro
Lordsburg
Maria Halas
New Mexico
Mexico
New Mexico Leaders Named in Democratic Ticket
J. O Phillips reported from Santa Fe that Hidalgo county backed a harmonious Democratic slate. Bratton Hannett Morrow and Bratton for Senator and Governor respectively led the ticket with others including Tafoya Chacon and Arm strong. Quarterly foreign trade shows New Mexico exports rise with cattle leading the list, followed by coal and lumber.
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Sam G. Bratton
Clovia
A. T. Hannett
Gallup
John Morrow
Haton
Supreme Court
L. Bickley
Naton
Numan
Krenger
Las Crees
Felipe Banchez Y. Haca
Tucumenrt
Mia
Soledad C. Chacon
Albuquerque
Isabel L. Eekles
Silver City
Juan N. Vigil
Tans
Warren Graham
Justiano Baca
Magdalena
O. BL Rarickson
Fort Burner
Felix Graeta
Lumberton
Mre
Jose A. Daca
Las Vegans
Senate
U. S
New Mexico
New York
Texas
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
California
Louisiana
Michigan
Timois
Osio
Massachusetts
Newvada
Dor. Juliue Klein
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commeree
Hidalgo County Leads State in Net Profit for 1928
The Public Relations Department of the Mescal Paso and Southwestern railroad notes Hidalgo county shows a profit of 12415.22 for 1928 while eleven of twelve New Mexico counties served by the railroad show local maintenance costs exceeding revenue. The overall statewide figures show higher expenditures than freight and passenger income.
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Mi Paso and Southwestern Railroad Company
Liberal
New Mexico
Hidalgo County
Our Friend the Merchant
A nostalgic sketch praising a local home merchant who supports the community and teams, contrasts home buying with distant firms, and notes money cannot buy brains or character. The piece blends humor with civic praise and a call to mutual support among neighbors and businesses.
Preachers Face Public Scorn For Not Upholding Law
A letter by W. W. Wilkerbon Lawtist Church rails at public critics of preachers for condemning gambling and lawlessness. He argues ministers and officers only do as much as people support and warns against repeating falsehoods.
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Lorde
Lorg
America
W. W. Wilkerbon
Lawtist Church
Merger outlook bright for New Mexico rail lines
New Mexico official Hugh J. Williams reports no opposition to the Interstate Commerce Commission merger proposal. He expects a favorable year end report and notes citizens favor grouping New Mexico Central with Southern Pacific over Santa Fe in future proceedings.
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Nanta Ve
Hugh Ji. Williams
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Williams
New Mexico
New Mexico Central
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Editorial note on knickerbockers by Arthur Brisbane
A historical editorial fragment critiques knickerbockers as sensible only for certain figures. The piece mocks women in knickerbockers seen in the North, comparing them to a stout stone wall and suggesting some could topple easily.
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Arthur Brisbane
Willie Hearst
Character in Stone: Dream Cut from Human Quarries
A stark line of thought frames a tale that questions identity as sculptors hew figures from living material. The metaphor explores how culture shapes personhood through labor and memory, turning marble into meaning.
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Methodist Cithen
Editorial
Beatitudes
J. C. Creamer
Gay Ballard Creamer
Genevieve Bailey
Marie Weaver
Virden
P.T. A
Royal Order of Bobbies
Helen Chase
Viola Thomas
Jewell Ownby
Alleyway
Bridge
Louise Wallace
Supt
Alfred
Eddie
Calvin Conner
Margaret Everett
Charles
Robert Dunagan
Nannie Brown
Robert Briel
Ima Fairley
State
A. & M. College
Ora Fuller
Tempe
Arizona
Silver City Normal
Mary Clark
Margaret Green
Ruby Peak
Winnie Gilbert
Wilson School
Louise Kanon
Muir Ranch
P.T. Association
Christian Cho
J. A. Phillips
J. O Phillips
Democratic Central Committee
Perfect Harmony
Jim
Sierra
Grant, Luna
Socorro
Hidalro
L. B. McHalffey
Lordabure
Torrance
Otero
Linc Wola
J. W. Montgomery
Ketaneia
Shatriet 5Ernalillo
Sandoval
William Butler l
Marnsington
Distriet
Union, Colfax
Marding Counties
W. J. G. Johnson
Noy
Grant and
Hidalgo
John ‘T. Muir
Lordaburg
Smith, Tyrone
Union
Harding
Luis ©. de Baea
Harding County
W. Proftt
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