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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1918
Page
8
Local and state figures visit Santa Fe this week with plans for public meetings. Elks prepare for elections while the Historical Society schedules events at the Governor Prince residence. Military officers discuss training and deployments as New Mexico volunteers head toward duty in nearby theaters.
New Mexico Red Cross report details Scot Torrance County and Mora County chapters delivering 90 articles this week including socks wristlets and sweaters. shipments to Denver and Santa Rita programs note fundraising events at school and a Red Cross sewing session. a sock knitting machine purchased for ongoing production is now operational.
A Red Cross ball at the Lakewood Inn raised funds and the Quay County Chapter shipped hospital garments to Denver while sending knit articles to the Quay area. Masons and Citizens aid, with sweaters and socks, and plans for a road to Tucumcari emerge. Nara Visa eyes a motion picture show and a church charity drive continues. Portales Sunday School class raises funds for a French family, Colfax Chapter reports February output of 1667 articles for Red Cross, and the Junior Red Cross showcases finished items at the Cis library.
Long column of society events and Red Cross activity across New Mexico towns. Santa Fe members discuss war work at the capitol, with officers elected for the Santa Fe Club and church missions noted. Red Cross chapters in Roswell Lordsburg and Grant County report sewing, hospital garments, and donations. Community halls host drives, dances, and lectures as women organize patient aid and relief efforts. Local clubs plan purchases, quilting, and layettes for France and Belgium babies.
A vintage ad touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as a method to darken faded gray hair to a natural glossy shade. It claims simple application with a sponge or brush, and notes cosmetic use rather than disease treatment, with a note of a Baptist supper and war won’t be linked to the hair product.
The Mountain Mark district debate on schoolhouse use by an evangelist was sent to the county board for solution after a 7 to 1 vote. The county board will decide, likely stirring mixed reactions among local residents and Mamogeriy News.
Socorro New Mexican townspeople and nearby residents plan a two thousand dollar raise to connect Socorro Boulevard with the Elephant Butte dam. LB Boyle, cashier at the First National Bank of Socorro, confirms the effort.
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