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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
9
Citizens and visitors frequent the capital city during a busy week. Business figures and officials from Santa Fe and surrounding towns attend meetings, Red Cross events, fundraisers, and social gatherings. Highlights include hospital supply drives, bake sales, and community updates from the state capitol area.
Reports indicate a record cattle outflow from the county over the coming weeks as dry conditions force variety of owners to seek better grazing. The Turkey Track outfit plans large shipments from Artesia area to eastern markets while others move stock toward Texas and northern states. Goats were recently sent from Chaves toward southwest Missouri amid favorable grazing.
New Mexico News Review reports on G. W. Zimmerman bringing 308 goats from Ricardo to Fort Sumner, noting their fat sassy condition amid weeds cans and old boots. Celestine Sandoval returns from a sheep shear season calling it among the hardest for sheepmen with wool dirty and hard to shear. AW Wright, a contractor, is seriously injured after falling from a scaffold at a new building site Monday morning.
Dona Ana Splendid Enterprising Women led by Mrs Nutia Reymond announce construction of a community pool to serve swimmers and residents of Las Cruces. The association will maintain the facility after completion with work starting soon under Rascam-Weench Co. on land donated by Mrs Duncan McCowan behind the Methodist church, at an estimated cost about 2500 dollars. Also noted are new fruit arrivals in Las Cruces Valley and local women signing up to harvest peaches and other fruit, with pear picking starting next week. The federal building near completion will house the post office on the first floor and federal court on the second, housing federal officials.
A feature on friendship fidelity and criticism within wartime societies. The Liberty Girls Club aids the war effort through gardening sewing and knitting for soldiers. Notes on church groups, war songs, and local social events accompany portraits of community volunteers and a Las Vegas Presbyterian picnic at the U. S. Indian School campus.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Mrs May Randall entertain soldiers at YMCA huts with readings and poems. The duo receive ovations as they tour US and plan to return to America by late August. The work mixes humor with serious verse and aims to boost morale amid wartime conditions.
A twenty eight car ore train derailed at about ten o clock heading down a steep grade near the Fistra ranch and struck a sharp curve plunging into a ditch. Trainmen escaped by jumping. one brakeman was lightly injured by a gash in the leg. In another note C Hinman narrowly escaped a rattlesnake bite while gardening near Silver City. his arm swelled and turned green to the shoulder despite quick medical help. A major fire near Silver City destroyed the Bennett Motor Transit garage at 6 30 p m in what is described as the most disastrous blaze there in years.
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