New Mexico State News Highlights War Effort and Local Events
The New Mexico items report seed potato shipments to Cimarron, enlistment drives for the National Guard and officers corps, farm weather and crop plans in San Miguel and Valencia counties, and the Pecos valley expansion. It notes the Army aviator M. M. Eberts killed near Columbus, drought and fire concerns, and Girl Scouts aiding war effort.
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Cimarron
M. M. Eberts
Columbus
New Mexico
Silver City Elks
Grant County
San Miguel County
Otis Hyatt of Artesia
Marine Corps
Lindsey
2000 Acres It Beans and Indian Corn Boost Planned War Gardens
Roswell New Mexico report on Chaves county farmers league advertising campaign with Ad Club Roswell offering free services to increase production. Campaign focuses on farm census membership and city garden planting while banks cooperate as 2000 acres of New Mexico beans and 5000 acres of Indian corn are planned plus increased livestock fattening this winter.
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Western Newspaper Union News
Roswell
N. M
Chaves County Farmers’ League
Ad Club of
New Mexico
Chaves County
Will Furnish Seeds to Farmers in New Crop Campaign
In Santa Fe Governor Lindsey and the Council of State Defense approve a plan appointing five financial agents in twenty eight counties to handle loan and seed distribution to farmers. They will review aid applications, arrange seed security on crops and property by chattel mortgage, and manage eight month loans at six percent. No cash will be advanced directly to farmers.
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Santa Fé
Council of State Defense
Lindsey Snon Adiinson
Congress
United States
District of Columbia
War Department
District Court of
Woodrow Wilson
States
Board of Commissioners
Washington
United States of America
Mirabal Named Captain In Santa Fé National Guard Unit
Governor Lindsey commissioned Gilberto Mirabal as captain and Hilario A. Delgado as first lieutenant of a National Guard company of Spanish Americans at Santa Fé the capital. They have recruited seventy men for the unit. First Lieutenant Luna A Bergere and Second Lieutenant Howell Ervien recruited a company of seventy men at Clayton Union County.
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Mirabel
Ta Fé
Lindsey
Gilberto Mirabal
Hilario A. Delgado
Santa Fé
Luna A Bergere
Howell Ervien
Clayton
Union County
Beating Bandits with Silver Sack in Albuquerque
In Albuquerque a saloonkeeper named Jake Armijo fought off two footpads attacked him with a sack holding $100 in silver. Armijo also carried over $2,000 in gold, checks, and silver. He used the sack of silver to strike one assailant and knock the other unconscious. East Las Vegas notes urge a woman to replace the late Pacido Batram as county superintendent of schools.
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Albuquerque
Jake Armijo
Armijo
East
Las Vegas
The
Woman's Club of
Pacido Batram
Reid Named Disbursing Officer for New Mexico Draft Funds
Santa Fe report states R. Reid, legal adviser to Governor Lindsey, is designated by the federal government as disbursing officer for the New Mexico troop recruiting effort. He will handle all money paid for drafting and other recruiting expenses.
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Santa Fé
R. ©. Reid
Lindsey
New Mexico
Santa Fe Council of State Defense Elects Officers
The Council of State Defense, formed by the governor under the public defense bill, was organized at an extra legislative session. Secundino Romero of Las Vegas was elected chairman and Phil H. Lenoir of Las Vegas remains secretary.
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Santa Fé
Council of State Defense
Secundino Romero
Las Vegas
Phil H. Lenoir
Santa Fe Leaders Head to Army Officers Training Camp
State Senator M T Dunlavy civil engineer Jay Turley assistant attorney general Milton J Helmick and mining engineer Emory Marshall depart for the Presidio San Francisco to enter the army officers training camp.
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Santa Fé
M. T. Dunlavy
Jay Turley
Milton J. Helmick
Emory Marshall
Presidio
San Francisco
Rattlesnake Bite Fatal to 4 Year Old Girl
Deming report: Leela Matthews four, daughter of Mr and Mrs W E Matthews of Mimbres, died after a rattlesnake bite while en route to school. She succumbed at a local hospital.
Alleged Rustler Captured in New Mexico Bed Arrest
Las Vegas reports Eleuterio Lopez, a fugitive since 1915, was captured at Watrous by Sheriff Lorenzo Delgado who located him in bed.
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Las Vegas
Eleuterio Lopez
Watrous
Lorenzo Delgado
Proclamation for the 1917 Selective Draft Registration
President Wilson issues a formal proclamation to activate the wartime draft law. The text details who must register, how and when to register, exemptions, and penalties for noncompliance. It frames the draft as a national effort to mobilize both military and industrial labor in support of the war.
Wilson orders army to France mobilization 1917
President Wilson calls millions to register for service on June 5. He signs the draft bill and orders the National Guard recalled to full strength and mobilized by August 5.
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ARMY
AEW Registration Rules Time Place and Eligibility
Time Tuesday June 6 between 9 am and 5 pm Registration for brecinet residents twenty one to thirty one years old not in army or navy service. Absentees may mail registration before June 5 with receipt at their home city clerk if in cities over 30 000 population, apply to county clerk for instructions.
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Om and
P Om
Brecinet
Nation to Register 10 Million Men for Selective Draft
President Wilson proclaims June 5 as registration day for men aged 21 to 30 as the nation gears for a World War I selective draft. A regular army division of about 28,000 under Gen. John J. Pershing will sail to France, with the National Guard called for training later this summer. The policy emphasizes turning the entire country into a combined military and economic force and railroads home to a front-line camp for rigorous trench warfare training.
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Washington
Wilson
France
J. J. Pershing
Villa
Mexico
War Department
National Guard
John J Pershing
Pershing
Front
Guards for Federal Service
Washington reports that all National Guard units will be called into federal service between July 15 and August 5. Governors are authorized to recruit to war strength. Western states assembly begins July 25 with Minnesota Iowa North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska. August 5 for Oklahoma Texas Kansas Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah and California.
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Washington
Alug
Minnesota
Iowa
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
California
Rio Grande Must Pay Bond Dues
New York report states the Denver Rio Grande railroad must pay the remaining 32,272,274 on the 50 million bond issue guaranteed for the Western Pacific. Judge Hand ruled in the federal court in New York.
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New York
Denver
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J. A. Massie
New Mexico National Guard
State Corporation
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Mewilis Valley
Valencia County High School
Girl Scouts of America
Clara A. Liseter- Lane
Silver City
Officers’ Reserve Corps
W. P. Waltz
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Edward S. Doan
Church of the Holy Faith
Adjutant General’s Office
Zuni Mountains
James F. Mullen
Manzano Forest
Randolph Cook
Harry Cronenberg
Pecos
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Chaves
New Mexico Military Institute
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E. P
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Reed
Defense Council
Union News Bernice
Regular Army
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Alaska
Hawaii
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Western Newspaper
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Rio Grande
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Lovington, N. M
Carlsbad Automobile CO
Daily Mail
Carlsbad
Lovington
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Nadine, Hobbs and Knowles
BUICK
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EXIDE
Carlsbad Auto CO
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Lee Haywood
HOTEL
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Lovington Pharmacy
Phonograph and Kodak Supplies
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