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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1911
Page
3
Local residents keep busy with visits and moves. J B Badger leads city efforts while schools resume slowly after closure. Mineral and farming topics appear alongside road and property news, births, horse mishaps, and several moves to Hillsboro.
Prof J A Armstrong appointed by Dr Gass to lead Alamogordo Presbyterian Church this summer. Community notes report Hilltcher dry pulverizer plant near-ready by June first to treat cement from Slapjack Hill. Various locals listed visiting, traveling, and summer plans, with remarks on Rio Grande high water damaging Elephant Butte dam site.
On Saturday evening May 20 Mrs. Biincier Major of Artesia New Mexico Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star New Mexico made an official visit to Sierra Chapter No 31. The work was demonstrated. remarks and instructions followed. social time and refreshments were served. attendees expressed appreciation and hope for another visit.
Mrs Frank H Winston and Miss Lota M planned to depart Thursday with Mr Winston accompanying them to El Paseo. A mining man visited Julian Wild to inspect the Silver Monument district. Dies of Fairview discussed cattle business. Wi Harper paralyzed, brother Matt Harper from Mississippi arrives. James Eds car readied for rapid rail transfer. Kingsbury district seen unlucky with deaths from embaled beef and canned goods. Vance Carruthers returned from Grafton to map and assess properties of old camp. Walter Hearn digs a ditch to divert floodwaters. Chas Hollinger named foreman at Chloride mine. James Boone enlarges a villa frame above damping head. Mrs McCarty ill under Dr Blinn and Daisy Hearn care. Mohair crop moves to railroad. lambs and kids thriving. Monticello and Canada de Alamexa area prosperous with wheat, oats, alfalfa up. fruit trees heavy. Marcial and Mike Doran visiting from Hermosa. Chamberlains Liniment praised for muscle pain and rheumatism. sold by all chemists.
In Kingston Mrs Joseph W Reid hosts visitors as Ed Armer travels from town. Ed begins cutting alfalfa on North Pereira creek last Monday. Joe Jackson is injured after a horse mishap and receives a pay raise as a forest ranger assistant. Uncle Sam boosts Reid and Jackson salaries. A dog pest reportedly kills many town dogs. residents wish for its end. Rangers Tom Reid and Sim Reid with Edith Armer and Eula Richardson arrive with fifteen burros for Uncle Sam. A dance is planned for Saturday May 27. An advertisement extols Cham berlaine’s Tablets as a safe digestion aid improving appetite and blood purity.
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