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t p Tucumcari News " AND TUCUMCARI TIMES Published Saturdays Tbe Tucumcari Printing Co. Inc. J. M. ALVEY, Pre. S. N. WHAMON.Sec-Tre. Official Paper of Quay County and City of Tucumcari. Subscrlption, $1.00 the Year 'Entered at itcen4tlM matter October JO. 1905 at the post offite at Tucumurii New Mexico under act of Congrcu ol March J, 1579." S. M. WHARTON, Editor. i. Notice to Advertisers. display ads 15c an inch a week and local liners one cent a word an issue. jSjbVritc it 1908. he News wishes you a Happy New Year. The Democratic party will hold it(iiWionafconvention. a.t Denver oaJuly- 7, 1908. This is quite n boost for5 the queen city of the Rockies. Curb your sporting proclivity in the games boys, as your .proneness to err t in this line must forever hold in Tucumcari after January 1. The sheriff has gone , on record under instructions from attorney general and district Judge and district attorney, that the wherr of the ball as it courses the circle must lie dead until generations for get. The News has a right to say Happy New Year to subscribers as we go into 1908 with over 1,000 paid up subscribers in Quay coun ty. We feel that this must be close. to the best newspaper list among the weeklies of New Mexico. Notwithstanding the money string ency over the country generally, ye feel that we will with our pres ent patronage be able to give them better service this year than last, We will try our best. The muddy, slushy, sloppy con dition of the streets here Christ mas Eve and the women wading it a reminds us that there is room for improvement in the streets of Tu cumcari in 1908. There should be miles of sidewalk built in this city and the city council should get busy and have ordinances complied with. There is not'much equity in making one property owner build sidewalkand letting another escape. A canoe was necessary here Wed nesday evening in order to get from one side of the street to the other, th 1907 has been a very prosperous year up to the last sixty days of it and we should not forget the good things that have fallen into our path when we are using profanity about conditions at present. We have one slim consolation and that is that it may get better some time. Street crossings must be im proved in Tucumcari. If the city can't get the funds for these im provements some other plan must be had. We can't condemn the council if there is no funds with which to do these things but col lections should be made and if then these needed improvements can't be made the people should know and let us try to reach some other way of accomplishing it. Now that we have a water sys tem let us organise a fire company tand get ready to protect property that is sometime 'going to be in danger of destruction. The fact that we have had no serious fires this year is no guarantee that this misfortune will never overtake us. The city must take up this matter for consideration immediately and expend something for equipment ol a fire dempartment. Let us think about it. One thing Tucumcari people should be proud of when Father Time chronicals tin- advent of, 1908, and that is real estate in this city is worth 100 per cent more than a year ag". Tin? popu lation has increased nearly 300 per cent and business in every form is starting out with good prospects for a prosperous year. Our sehoola are in excellent condition, our county bastile is next thing to emptv, the farmers have an abund ance of everything needed to carry them through to another crop and the people are in unison for the betterment of our county and city. Those are blessings for which we should be thankful. Quay county has a very fine season in the snow that fell here Saturday morning of last week. People coming in from the country say that it reached a depth of 12 to 14 inches on the level, or nearly as much snow fall as we had No vember a year ago. There is no better wheat anywhere than we have in Quay county this winter and this snow will push it clear through till spring. The plow is running all over the country now and there is going to be at least two hundred per cent more acre- J age in cultivation this year than last. There are more people in proportion to the population who own their own homes in Quay county than in any other place in the world, the tenant is an un known quantity here, there is in dependence her as our forefathers intended it. No mortgages and very little indebtedness among 'the bread earners of New Mexico. Why should we not love our sun shine territory? Gambling closes forever in Tu cumcari next Wednesday night at 12 o'clock. The games that have been running wide open in this city since its founding will ln his- ly bills and the tory only to the residing genera tion that will grow to manhood and womanhood here during the next decade and the property and fixtures used in the carrying on ol these various gambling games will be consigned to the scrap heap, where as they decay and rot they will be forgotten. The News believes that our local banks will notice an immediate increase in deposits of the wage earners and bread winners of this city who when the games are gone will be gin savings accounts with the banks, the merchants will have less difficulty in collecting their month- n w more wealth peJpita befor e in 1 ts his been the policf th knock no enttj Ise 0 that is licensed law, th th we believed beiif instead f&l the who a business un its Remove the cf and will immediate ue t! It is the unit verd people of Neffico t ing must quit Jsuch been passed an jiould ed; if it proves 1)0 U repeal it, but Morci This paper doot