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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
8
A long list of visitors and officials graced the Capitol scene this week. Notables include Stephen D B Day, J B Restiards, Fidel Oreja, and Charley Springer among others, with mentions of appointments, meetings, and weather impacts on schedules.
An exchange official from OW visits the capital, discussing regional factory development and transit projects. The report notes eastern New Mexico industry growth and a tentative outlook on fuel distribution and shipping routes.
Project No 39 in UAE county finishes and awaits Agriculture approval for a 4800 foot arch bridge over the Canadian River at Logan with an estimated cost of 129 000. A steel fence and posts arrive at the depot. War Department orders for highway construction equipment and locomotives, pumps, and rails are noted.
A state corporation wired a protest to the San Mateo Directory Freight Traffic Committee against reduced freight rates for shipping out of New Mexico. Three new rates were not acted on as required, with objections raised by rate clerk H L Withers and others in Deming, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque. The protest sought delay in adoption of new rates and challenged the process, with officials filing the protest with the San Ernest Commerce Committee.
Santa Fe society notes highlight many social visits and events across the city. Mrs Pred Lopez hosts a large home gathering with a reception and dance for about sixty guests, while Mrs Thomas Hall of Raton receives a surprised party of friends.
State highway department amended Federal aid project No. 37 plan to run eleven tile miles east of Des Moines and sent the revised statement to the secretary of agriculture. The update reduces the estimated construction cost to about 1308672 dollars.
The Woman's Improvement Association of Las Cruces will host an enchilada supper at the community building this evening. A special music program has been arranged as part of the event.
Socorro reports the largest enrollment in its history as many new students arrive on September 15. Soldiers and others seek mining engineering programs with demand rising. dormitories and temporary housing struggle to keep up as classes expand.
An article discusses how students once chose courses by chance and the shift toward educational guidance. It notes that freshmen often took easy or ostensibly hard subjects and frames vocational guidance as a growing need to help students pick suitable occupations.
William Boyce Thompson announced that nineteen current governors and sixteen former governors are backing the Roosevelt Memorial Association campaign in October 1927. The leaders emphasize a non partisan effort to honor Theodore Roosevelt and promote square deal ideals, urging broad public participation and fundraising.
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