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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1903
Page
4
A long forgotten letter dated June 13 1910 was unearthed behind postoffice furniture. It contained two notes of sixty dollars each with 12 percent interest dating June 12 1910, sent to John Y Thornton in Lincoln County. Thornton pursued settlement, paying seventy dollars after delays and a lawyer.
A fragment from a column on marriages and love contrasts couples married for affection with those bound by social duty. Anecdotes include a husband investigating an unkept express delivery, Bishop Williams’s bachelor tax joke, and a strange hospital experiment where women resisted an imagined emetic while men purportedly reacted.
A stockholders meeting for Ida Tom Mining and Smelting Co. is set for Socorro New Mexico January 26 1903 to fill a board vacancy. Also notices include El Paso Midwinter Carnival tickets on sale January 22 1903, and a local health remedy advertisement for Chamberlains Cough Remedy sold in Socorro.
The senate adjourned Thursday with continuing talks of a compromise to admit Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state and New Mexico and Arizona as another. Leaders rejected the plan as infeasible. Mr Nelson resumed his opposition to statehood for New Mexico and Arizona but did not finish before adjournment.
Mrs. Harry Wade, a Clifton Kansas native born February 11 1876, died at home Sunday in Socorro after seven year illness. Survived by husband and two children Eva and Harry and brother George Kline. Services and return to Socorro planned in about two weeks.
Notice to Chieftain subscribers urging payment to avoid service cessation for those in arrears. Mentions Governor Otero’s report for 102 years and lauds it as the best yet, asserting it refutes Beveridge’s arguments against statehood.
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