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Newspaper
The Socorro Chieftain
Location
Socorro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1903
Page
4
The fall communion season begins this Sunday at eleven o'clock in Socorro. Anyone who loves the Master is welcome at the church table regardless of denomination or minor belief differences. Also notes on church activities include Ladies efforts, bazaar planning, and life of Christ study meetings.
A Pittsburg editor sends a young reporter chasing a steamboat disaster on the Ohio. After a failed station stop and late night efforts, a tramp operator breaches a window and sends the scoop to the paper before press time.
A south side businessman recalls using incandescent light bulbs as improvised ordnance when a burglar entered his dining room at 3 a.m. He hurled a bulb, it exploded loudly like a small shell, and the assailant fled amid a barrage of falling glass and more bulbs. An electrician attributes the effect to air rushing into the vacuum.
J L Terry and many others visit Socorro from nearby towns and ranches. Gallegos Jaramillo plan to open a butcher shop next to the Chieftain office. Officials discuss turning headwaters of the arroyo. Measles epidemic closes schools. Residents prepare for the upcoming territorial fair with attendees and volunteers listed.
In a Boston style exchange, a remark about a girl’s peculiar tau provokes laughter and a retort calling her a Boston girl, with the term cachination noted as the wit’s punchline.
Tickets on sale first and third Tuesdays of each month from eastern points to New Mexico at half first class rates. Notify your friends, THos. Jaguas, Santa Fe Agt.
Advert says teams are wanted to haul coal lumber and props to the Carthage mines. Address given as A. H. Hiro San Antonio NM.
A mixed page note lists seaside excursion tickets for California trips with return validity to Nov 30 1903 and prices for San Francisco round trips, plus Southern California point fares. It also includes notices on wills probate and mining claim expenditures, plus travel ads and brief local society items.
Notice is hereby given that Theophilos W Medley of Magdalena New Mexico has applied to select under the Act of June 4 1897 the SEs of the SHY of Section 10 T2N R9W W of the San Miguel Meridian Within thirty days from date hereof any protest or contest that the land is more valuable for its minerals than for agricultural purposes will be received and noted for report to the Commissioner of the General Land Office Santa Fe New Mexico Register
Land Office at Tas Cruces New Mexico dated September 1 1903 gives notice that Patrick Mclaughlin seeks final proof for his claim Ne Swi Se Nw Sw NeW and Nw Se Section 28 Township 2 South Range 4 West New Mexico. The final proof will be before the Probate Clerk in Socorro on October 17 1903. Witnesses are Brank Eyeblock Alfred Hutcheson August Revirk John S Hutchison all of Magdalena. Nicolas Galles witness.
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