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Fori Synraner eview VOL 2--NO 6. FORT SUMNER, GUADULUPE COUNTY, N. M., AUGUST 21, 1909. SI A YEAR, CASH. me Oosr Invitation t Tk First National Bank, cf Fort Sumner, N. M. FOR ALL ft Faints and 6 Builders Hardware "Prices Right.' Harry W. NAYLOR, Local Manager. EARICKSON & Co. SUCCESSORS TO A. B. HARRIS. FORT SUMNER, N. M. DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Gent's Furnishing Goods, Furniture, Hardware, Groceries, Hay and Feed, Farming Impiiments and Wagons, We have just received a NEW and COMPLETE line of LADIES and GENTS FURNISHINGS. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT. SUNNYSIDE TIN SHOP Water tanks, guttering, well casing, flues and stove pipe MADE TO ORDER. WINDMILL WORK "A SPECIALITY." Agent for the Celebrated "ANN ARBOR" Gasoline Lights. J. A. NORTHINGTON, Prop. Once each week we pay for this space for the private only of inviting you once again to become a depositor of our bank. The person who reads about us fifty-two times a year ought to know us at least fifty-two times better than if he had read of us but once. The better he knows us the more likely he is to like us and our business methods. Your account, large or small, is urgent ly solicited and respectfully invited. KINDS OF LOCALETTES Mr. Menefee, of Floridada, Texas, a member of the Southwestern Holiness Association, has bought twentv acres of irrigated land and will move his lamily here in November. J. W. Ruane, salesman for Ilfele Co. paid our town a business visit this week. A. C. McElwain. reDresntintr Hamil. ton-Brown Shoe Co., interviewed our merchants this week. Sam Perkins went back to Texas this week to visit old friends. Ray L. Showalter left Thursday for Lubbuck, Texas. La Voz Publica said last week "the only complaint we hear from the county officers is that they now have to walk so far." Why not buy an automobile and hire a driver to go around and take the county officials to the court house. The Honorable Board of Ccounty Com missioners would have equal authority for doing so as they had for buying a Burroughs Adding Machine. Application has been made to Wash ington for 200,000 stock Basa and Crappies with which to Btock Lake Sumner and surrounding waters. The tish car is expected through here in October. Telephone. Rapid progress is being made on the new telephone plant. Poles are being set throughout the depot addition, but a little delay has occured in the town site on the matter of putting poles in the alleys. The exchange building is about com pleted and is by far the best telephone home owned hy the company. The interior woodwork has been burned and presents a neat, artistic effect. Can You Beat It If anyone doubts the efficacy of the Campbell system of soil culture he should read the following; come to the Review office and see the samples of corn displayed, or better still make a visit to Mr. Yockey's farm. Mr. Yockey lives six miles south of Ft. Sumner and on last Monday brought to this office about a dozen stalks of corn ranging from four md a half to six feet in height, each with a fair sized ear of corn on it, which was tak en from a field of about forty acres grown by him this year, directly under his care. Mr. Yockey has followed the Campbell system to the letter in its production, and says, making a conservatatlve es timate, he thinks this forty acres will make an average of fifteen bushels to the acre without any more rain. When you examine the record of the rainfall you will be more than ever wonderfull No rain since the last date up this writing (Aug. 17), this shows perhaps the least rainfall of any place in this part of New Mexico. L. R. Schoch has entered for the Southwestern Marathon Race, of 15 mlies, to be run at the Albuquerque Fair on October 16th. Rev. Dr. John R Gass came in Thursday and will determine the loca tion of the church, and work will commence as soon as the specifications arrive. R. DeGraftenreid came in Thursday via Roswell, where he purchased six head of fine horses for use on his farm. One team weighs 3260 pounds and the others being as large in proportion to their age. G. W. Temple, of Dpnver, President of the Fort Sumner Land and Devel opment Co., is here on one of his periodical visits. convinced that this is a showing. May 19, 1st rain .25 Jnne 3, 2nd ,, .25 14, 3rd .30 22, 4th .16 25, 5th .06 July 1, 6th .25 ,, 13, "th .06 22, 8th .22 29, 9th .31 Total rainfall 1.44 Over La Lande way -things are quiet ly booming. The gentlemen in charge of the Southwestrn Holliness College are losing no time and ground is being broke for the first building. Their people are beginning to come in and most of them are looking over the country pretty thoroughly. Con siderable property has changed hands in the last few weeks and the move ment is bound to grow into larger pro portions from now on. Many of their people are buying homes in La Lande and farms under the ditch here in Fort Sumner. Professor Beeson has laid plans for a big gathering of Holliness followers to be held at La Lande from Sept. 15 to Oct. 10th. It is estimated that between three and five hundred people will gather there at that time and listen to sermons ' by the best preachers the Holliness Association. The gathering at La Lande will be simultaneous with our own "Melon Day" and doubtless we will have the pleasure of entertaining them here for a day. Since we have two new County Com missioners may we not hope to hear from the petition for a Herd Law that was signed by a majority of our qualfied electors, and possibly from a petition signed by a larga number of our busi ness men asking for the appointment of a Constable for this precinct. May we also dare hope to have the right to use the calaboose which our citizens built without any expense to tha county, hoping to be able to pro tect ourseves. These matters are still to be settled. The Santa Rosa Sun made a noise like someone had got stung on the new $15,000 Court House. We had thought there was something "dead up the creek." If you know anything Judge, tell us what it is. The taxpayers down this way want to know how their money is spent. The Pumping Plant. Mr. Howard Hunt, expert machinist for Fairbanks-Morse Cp., is here set ting up the gas producer, engine and pump that are to supply the High-line Canal with water. The plant is nearly assembled and will soon be housed in a building of the bungaloo type. Every effort is being made to turn the plant and building into an artistic assett on the lake front. Considerable ground has been reserved around it and will be planted to shrubs and trees. The generation of electricity will be a matter of considerable importance. Ordinarily it is a iong, tedious wait in new locality for proper lighting facili ties but here where a big enterprise is quietly growing around us, such crea ture comforts come almost unbidden. A "MELON DAY For Fort Sumner. It has become very popular for every irrigated section to celebrate some day during harvest season to call atteiit-n to one of its chief proaucts. "Melon Day" at Rocky Ford and "Peach Day" at Grand Junction have done more to advertise those places than all other advertizing they have done. A movement is being started to hr.ve a melon day at Fort Sumner, about October 2nd. If the Santa Fe Railway Company will co-operate and er cour age such a celebration here by 8 cheap excursion rate from nearby tow.is, we can make a success of such a day here. This being the beginning of intensive farming in this part of the valley the farmers connot be expected to be as well prepared as they will be in an other season ; but they say they can supply all the melons two thousand people can eat, and can make a very creditable display of products, that will interest our visitors. It is expected a very low rate and a special train can be secured to bring people from Portales, Texico, Melrose, Clovis and other nearby towns to spend a day under the snade near Lake Sumner and enjoy a picnic with us, supplemented by all the free melons they can eat. Boating, bathing and other amusements may be added. "It Give All The News." Subscribe to your home paper first and then take the El Paso Herald. The Herald is the best medium to keep in touch with general news as well as news of the whole southwest Blankenship 4 Co. have Eclipse wind mills and outfits. GONE TO TueumcHri Sun. The "Bull" Stood on the doubtfull "plank," Whence all but him had fled; That "statehood pledge" kept bobbing up. And he wished that he was dead. Yet stern and stubbornly he stood, And swore he'd put "It" through; If but elected just "once more," He sure would something do. The people watched in fear and doubt. And read the platform well; The "Bull" pot wild, the "plank" it broke, And statehood went to eternity. The Story of a Key. C. W. Howe, who is doing some grubbing and clearing for the Devel opment Company, found another in teresting relic near the ruins of the old fort a few days ago. It is a brass key six inches long, which was probab ly used in locking up unruly Navajos, for it bears the record of its victims in eight notches filed in its stem. The custom of keeping the record of human victims on instruments of death or torture used by bandits and savages, from prehistoric times, came to be very general in frontier experience, even by law officers, and there can hardly be a doubt that these notches on the key mean the number of human beings who have died as a result of the use of the key probably in prison The old-timers tell us that the soldier guards were very harsh in their treat ment of rebellious indians. There are places along the line of the old canal where several skeletons have been plowed up at one place. These may be the bones of a bunch of workmen who mutinied, or got tired and ' 'struck. ' ' Several skeletons were unearthed when the ground was being graded for the Kemp Lumber Co's office, and there are also plain indicationsof indian graves beside I.akf Simmer. the canal just below Rockford, III., Aug. 15, 1909. Editor Ft. Sumner Review: On the occasion of a recent visit at Ft. Sumner, I was much interested in the activities there and the plans for building nnd improvements that were going on on every hand. With your natural resources of cli mate, soil and railroad facilities aided by the enterprise of the company that has delivered the water in abundance on the land and the hustling spirit that prevails, Ft. Sumner is destined to have a large growth, and that very forcibly impressed me with the neces sity for great care on the part of the people living there in observing sani tary precaution and care of refuse. At this season of the year much care is necessary to prevent typhoid fever and this is disseminated usually through the watei supply and decaying animal and vegetable matter. I would suggest that steps be taken to compel the observance of certain rules in regard to vaults, seeing that they are properly disir.fected by use of lime and earth. To thosn building new houses I would suggest that no vaults be dug. Make a cement floor with a trap door in rear, use plenty of earth and lime daily and theil occasionally the refuse could easily be taken cut and buried. This would provide a great aid in preserving health and add to the comfort of all. An outbreak of typhoid fever would be a severe blow to the community and retard your growth. I am looking forward to another visit in October and hope to note im provements along this line. Truly Yours, W. R. Franklin, M. D. Drugs and Medicines, Toilet Goods, Perfumeryt Soaps, Brushes, And Syringes. Ice Cold Drinks and Choice Candies Of All Kinds. We SOÜcit your Qur Stock Complete. trade because-- ur Druss Are Pure- f We cive vou what you ask for. ETERNITY. La Lande Letter. La Lande, N. M., Aug. 19, 1909. Editor Ft. Sumner Review: There has come a change for the better in our town on account of the many visitors to it. The growth is very rapid and we shall doubtless have a population of several hundred. Our visitors represent many towns and several states. Rev. J. R. Helm from Plainview, Kansas, spent several days with us week and preached for us last Sunday. Bro. Helm and his wife aré going to be in the college here for five years to prepare themselves to go as mission aries. He bought the X C. Nelson house and farm while here and donated $1,200 cash to the college. In addition to this he bought twenty acres of irri gated land. Mr. W. J. Willingham from Water Valley, Ky., paid us a visit this week i and bought a house and six lots. Mr. Willingham has also expressed s desire to secure the seven lots adjoiniag those he bought. J. W. Easley and brother, from El dorado, Okla., and A. M. Baker, from Running Water, Texas, were with us a short time during the earlier part of j week. Mr. Spear in company with hi- wife rnd Fon, fromTtilia, Tex.; cam- ftwmii-b the coBntry for a visit and isstüT with" us. Mr. Spear is a man of consider able means and will invest several thousand dollars here. Two sons of his will also attend college here. Rev. C. J. Menefee, with his fellow townEman, Mr. Ford, with their fami lies, from Floyd&da, Tex., have been camping with us several days. They will probably locate here. M. L. Hines, of Emory, Tex., came in this week, bought twelve lots and departed Saturday. Rev. H. L. Hubbard, traveling Holli ness Evangelist, from Pilot Point, Tex., and will remain for at least one year in our college. Rev. J. M. Scott from Pearson, N. M., is here for a short visit and will probably invest. Our public spirited citizens have raised money by donation to drill a well and eqip it with a wind-mill, watering trough, etc. The well is to be located on the plaza just south of the depot. W. A. Tipton, left Thursday business trip to Santa Fe. Miss Carrie Bullock is again with Blankenship & Co., after a month's rest and much improved in health. Just received a car load of wire at Blankenship & Co's. Eighty Acres of patented land, miles south-east of town for sale C. W. FOOR. ten