Winners Named in Army Essay Contest Recruiting Drive
The Army announces winners from the El Paso district and National prizes for the Essay Contest Benefits of An Enlistment In the Army. First place Donald L. Campbell Clinton High School Clinton Iowa. second Marjorie Sheets Chillicothe High School Chillicothe Missouri. third Bettie Bowen Easton DeSoto County High School Olive Branch Mississippi. Irene Lasater Santa Fe High School Santa Fe New Mexico. Fourth in El Paso district honors. ten honorable mentions receive certificates from Secretary of War Generals Pershing and March. El Paso district ranked third among 656 districts with 47.97 percent of quota. total recruits 476 versus national 23,640.
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Annioutcés
Donald L. Campbell
Clinton High School
Clinton
Iowa
Marjorie Sheets
Chillicothe
Missouri
Bettie Bowen Easton
DeSoto
Olive. Branch
Misa
Irene Lasater
Santa Fe
Santa’ Fe
N.M
el Paso
Pershing
March
Adjutant General of the Army
A. A. King
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Dalhart
Gallup
Las Vegas
Lubbock
Raton
Roswell
San Angelo
Silver City
Sweetwater
Harris
Women Delegates Elected to Republican National Convention
Fifteen women have been elected delegates and several alternates to the Republican National convention. Minnie J. Neilson of North Dakota, state superintendent, is the latest. Mrs. John Glover South leads the Women’s Division as a top organizer from Kentucky.
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Minnie J. Neilson
North Dakota
Miss Neilson
John Glover South
Republican National Committee
Kentucky
Butler
St. Louis
Missouri
New Mexico
Ragubbicars
National Committee
Otero-Warren
Chicago
George W. Reinecke
Rhode Island Republicans denounce marked socialism at conventions
Rhode Island party conventions elect ten unpledged delegates to the national convention. Governor Beekman heads four delegates-at-large. Speakers including Simeon D. Fess Ambrose Kennedy Le Baron Colt and Beekman assail President Wilson’s administration as extravagant and wasteful. The platform backs ratification of the peace treaty with reservations, a large merchant marine, a strong standing army, equal suffrage, and reduced government expenditure.
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Providence
R. J
Spaniel
Rhode Island
Beekman
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Wilson
Sident Wilson
Washington
Ambrose Kennedy
United States
le Baron Colt
Beckman
America
Camping Grounds for Tourists in Deming
The Borderland garage in Deming buys a house and several adjacent lots to create a summer camping area for tourists. A rest room and refuge will be provided, free water and light supplied, with the local chamber of commerce assisting the effort.
Senator Kirby on Democratic Candidates and White House
A quoted remark from Senator Kirby suggests Democrats lack a candidate and will wait for guidance from the President. He questions the administration’s mental strain and implies a desire for a White House figure to handle decisive thinking.
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Kirby
Arkansas
White ‘House
Ferguson for President on New Ticket
Texas former governor James Ferguson announces candidacy for U S president on American Party platform. He opposes the league of nations national woman suffrage national prohibition and compulsory military training. He favors light wines and beer until prohibition is repealed and would pardon Debs if elected. He argues for peace with hogs over battles asserting the world needs an army to raise hogs.
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Temple
Texas
James ’ B.ferguson
United States
American Party
Eugene V. Debs
Debs
Hung
Admiral vetoes Woods Hole as summer rest site
The admiral Doc Grayson rejects Woods Hole as a summer presidential rest site and seeks a drier alternative. He notes Woods Hole may be too salty for his needs and plans to hunt a better harbor.
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Doc “Grayson
Woods Hole
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