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The Fort Symmiroeir Review
VOL. 2 NO 7.
FORT SUMNER, GUADULUPE COUNTY, N. M., AUGUST 28, 1909.
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f I LOCALETTES I
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Kemp Lumber Co.
A. B. Harrii told four choice lota In
Fort Sumner to R. DeGraf termed on
Monday.
The public schools of this place will
open September 6th.
Nicolas Madrid has the second story
of his store building about completed.
Eighty Acres of patented land,
miles south-east of town for sale
C. W. FOOR.
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D. A. Cope, living sixteen miles
north of town reports good prospects
in his neighborhood for maize, sorghum
beans, etc.
Work on the public well on the Plaza
is progressing under the circumstances.
Arthur Taylor has the contract for
sinking the well.
Just received a car load of wire
Blankenship & Co's.
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Mrs. H. A. Wright, daughter of A.
J. Wilmeth, of Locust Grove, came in
Thursday to visit her father and broth
ers.
W. E. Wilmeth living near Locust
Grove was the first "Dry Farmer" to
market water melons and canteloupes.
We have some suspicions that they
were assisted by irrigation, be that as
it may, they are fine as the Review
force can testify.
lake Sumner is being filled again
following the completion of the pump
ing plant. While the water was low a
net wire fence was built on the inside
of the dyke and the dyke widened by
the addition of brush and gravel. A
portion of the beach will be gravelled
for bathing purposes.
The Barret School of Spanish wil
open its first session on Monday even
ing in the new Pecos Valley HoteL
Twelve students are enrolled
lively interest is being taken
work.
and a
in the
The Pecos Valley Hotel is being cov
ered with a coat of cement and will
soon be completed and ready for occu
pancy. The house has been furnished
throughout by L. Solimán, the Melrose
furniture man.
The G. M. McKinney home at the
lower end of the townsite is rapidly
nearing completion and makes a very
creditable, showing.
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Mr. G. W. Temple has decided to
cut his eighty acres, near G. W. Mc
Canne's place, just south of town, into
ten acre tracts, to be sold at $125,00
per acre. Every large holding, under
the canal, that is cut into smaller tracts
adds greatly to the possibilities of our
town. v
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Holds Enthusiastic Meeting.
The Fort Sumner Commercial Club
met Friday evening, the 20th and after
the careful consideration and adoption
of a constitution went into an enthusi
astic discussion of Melon Day. Plans
for Melon Day are described in another j
part of this issue of the Review.
The constitution of the club showed
evidence of hard work and thinking on
the part of the committee. In one of
its features, that the first setof officers
hold office for three-months and the
second for six months, it is unique.
The committee's explanation of this
deviation from the usual custom of
electing all officers for a term of one
year, is that inasmuch as our communi
ty is constantly and rapidly growing
and the greatest growth is looked for
during the next nine months, it is quite
the fair thing to make the term of
office short and give those who cast
their lots here during the next few
months a voice in the government of
the club.
Ail committee chairmen arc selected
from among the members and Vave tie
privelege of selecting their assistants.
The constitution provides for certain,
standing committees and chairmen
were elected as follows:
on Membership, Cv W Foor
on Advertising, L. C. VanHecke, .
on Rules, A. P. AcSya,
on Civic Improvement, G. C. Dean
on Entertainment, H. W. Naylor.
The elub is to be commended on the
elections of chairmen, each and every
one is amply capable of handling the
work assigned to him and handling in a
thoroughly efficient manner.
The public spirited men who are as
suming this labor deserve the moral
and financial support of every business
man in town. In the absence of any
organized town government the club
is especially valuable here.
MELON DAY
Looms Nearer And Bigger.
R. DeGrafteried was here the early
part of the week looking after his farm
under the canal. While hire hebought
several lots on Main street and Sumner
Avenue.'
FOR ALL KINDS OF
Building Material,
Paints and
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 Impliments and Wagons,
We have just received a NEW and COMPLETE
line of LADIES and GENTS FURNISHINGS.
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
SUNNYSIDETINSHOP
WATER TANKS, GUTTERING, WELL CASING, RUES and STOVE PIPE
MADE TO ORDER.
WINDMILL WORK "A SPECIALITY."
Agent for the Celebrated "ANN ARBOR" Gasoline Lights.
4. A. NORTH1NGTON, Prop.
Blankenship Co. have Eclipse wind
milis and outfits.
Postmaster W. H. Parker was called
to his old howe at Duncan, Okla , on
account of the serious illness of his
father, and leit Friday and will probab
ly be gone several days.
Rev, James Brown. Presbyterian
Minister will preach at 'the School
House on Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m..
and 8 o'clock p. m. The public is
specially invited to attend.
D. W. Taylor, living twenty-two
miles north of town, was here this
week and reports a very destructive
hail storm which fell on the 21st and
destroyed his crop of ninety acres, fif
teen acres for Mr. Clark and forty for
11. S. Guest. Crops escaping this hail
are in a fair condition.
"It Gives AH The
Subscribe to your home paper
and then take the El Paso Herald.
The Herald is the best medium
keep in touch with general news
well as news of the whole southwest,
News."
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Frank A. Manzanares has solved the
valley's water problem, if there ever
was one, by striking excellent water
for domestic use at thirty seven feet.
J. A. Northington has just completed
the eqipment by erecting a steel wind
mill over the well.
At the last meeting af the Commer
cial Club the Melon Day proposition
was thoroughly discussed and all mem
Oers wre unanimously in favor of
pushing through to a rousing hnish.
C. VanHecke was elected cnairman
of Committee on Melon Day ana tne
movement is now well organized. En
couraging comment has been received
from J. M. Connell, General Passenger
Agent of the Santa Fe and advice of
excursion rates is expected any day.
An excursion train from Portales
and Clovis should bring down 600 peop'e
and an equal number will undoubtedly
The Misses Mabel and Lora Lovelace
left Friday .for Albuquerque to take up
their studies again after a months
vacation spent here. Their visit was
pleasantly enjoyed by all with whom
they came In contact and they return
to seheol with the very best wishes of
the entire community. , .
' Miss Arloa M ;Canne, who has been
been slightly ill for several days, has
regained her usual good health.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Westbrook en
tertained at their residence in La Lande
Thursday evening in honor of Miss
Pearl Westbrook, who is visiting her
brother. Games and refreshments
were the order of the evening.
The following Fort Sumner young
people were fortunate in being invited:
Misses Mabel and Lora Lovelace, Mr.
Harry W. Naylor and Dr. W. R.
Lovelace.
Character and Eccentricity.
Eccentricity has always abounded
when and where strength of character
has abounded; and the amount of ec
centricity in a society has been pro
portional to the amount of genius,
mental vigor and moral courage it
contained. That so few now dare to
be eccentric murks tie chief danger
f the time. John Stuart Mill.
Mr. W. L. Spear, of Coon Rapid i,
Iowa, a fruit grower of wide experience,
inspected the valley this week in the
course of a trip throughout New Mex
ico. Mr. Spear has visited practically
every irrigation district in the South
west and his comments on the various
projects were both interesting and in
structive. In one place the sand filled
ditches turned him away, and in anoth
er the alkali whs objectionable, while
in still a.iother the expense of pumping
prevented him from commenting favor
ably, but here under the Fort Sumner
canal he found a self scouring ditch,
absolute freedom from alkali, a gravity
ditch, a perfect drainage and a climate
a'most perfect His final comment
before he left for Kansas and Iowa to
report to his waiting friends was,
'Here I have found a project that is as
near perfect as anytning I have ever
seen in my three trips of investigation
throughout the Southwest.
Sheriff J. M. Casaus was in town the
first of the week on official business.
come from Melrose and intermediate
points. The dateset by the Committed
is October Fifth. There is just six
weeks in which to do ail the work and
the planning and in the meantime our
kind,New Mexican sun and the waters
of tjtfe Fort Sumner canal are growing
and ripening the big gneen fruit that
is to tickle 2,000 palates on the first
Tuesday in October.
Let everyone join in with a will and
lend their hearty support to tliose on.
whose shoulders has fallen the burden
of the work. Now is the time io sv. ell
Fort Sumner's reputation for melons
and hospitality.
t CITY WATER SYSTEM
Pipes Being Laid And
Service Assured.
Pines were strung .throughout the
main townsite this week and the work
The building over the Pumping plant
on the lake front is nearing completion
and will add materially to that portion
of the town. J. H, Akeis is in charge
of the construction work and has a
large force of men at work. The fiatt
car of anthracite coal, that will be used
f putting them -under round has eom-for generating gas, arrived
necessary t take care of the work al- enure enure p.t
ready planned and the service will be I under the supervision of H C. Hu.it
extended as rtpidly as the needs of the ot uenver ano . . P"- -
lommumty demand it The pipe wül " " wm W""T
oe put down about eighteen inches unr
d-.r ground and the -work can be carried
on much more economically than in the
eastern states where the danger of
freezing mtst be combatted. The pneu
matic tank ordered from the Kewanee
Water Supply Co., has not arrived but
the delay will not interfere with rapid
c mplction of the system. The present
t -nk w 1 1 gravity pressure will De usea
until the air pressure tank arrives.
Mr. F. L. Holliday has the work in
charge.
grt rt and th' first big step toward
i aking Foi t Sumner auother Roswell
WW .ve bee.i ta&en.
Bees and Sparrows Fight for Tree.
A fight between a bait dozen Eng
lish sparrows and a swarm of bees for
the possession of an old tree on the
lawn of the Ser rill house, Main street.
was witnessed by a number of Inter-, naf) gone ,nto eftect there have be,
Steins Are Burglar Alarms.
In a New York rathskeller they
have devised a novel way to protect
the ornamental steins on the saelf
running along the side of the room.
Each stands upon a burglar alarm con
nection and when one is-removed a
contact Is made, a drop falls on tne
annunciator Indicating the position of
the table and a bell rings. In a second
half a dozen waiters are In attendance
at that table and the stein goes back
on its peg. The proprietors have lost
so many valuable pieces of hric-a-brao
that they were constrained to adopt
this measure. Since the alarm system
Mrs. D. Hoodenpyle has been in
Texico for the past week looking after
her farm.
U. S. Court Commissioner Frank N.
Pape of Buchanan was transacting
business here the fore pi rt of the week.
Mr. Willard E. Holt, of Bellvre,
Mich., spent two days in the valley
this week after spending several days
in Santa Fe. Mr. Holt came to the
southwest primarily to inspect the Fort
Sumner country and went away thor
oughly satisfied that this is the place
for his family and friends to make their
future home. He filed on three gov
ernment lots for himself and a friend
and will return shortly to make his
home among us. Mr. Holt is a "live
wire," full of wholesome enthusiasm, a
valuable man in the community where
he has resided and is welcomed as a
wide awake booster for Fort Sumner.
Mr. Holt reports that during his trip
throughout New Mexico, which includ
ed a visit with Govenor Curry ar.d
Delegate Andrews, he found everyone
boosting for Fort Sumner and prophe
cying great things for her future.
LOST A black plmh cape.
ti tins office and receive reward,
Bring
Remarkable Bat Cave.
In a mountain near Montalban, Lu
zon, there Is a large cavern, with
many branching chambers, and a cen
tral dome 200 feet In belpht, perfor
ating the mountalntop, from wM.h,
In December, 1S07, Mr. Hugh H. Smith
saw Issue a solid column of bats,
which flew rapidly In a straight line,
for 15 minutes, disappearing over a
mountain range In the direction of
Manila, without a single bat having
left the column. American engineers
stationed there told Mr. Smith that
the flight of bats had occurred, at
practically the same time each day.
during two years. From other sources
It was learned that the phenomenon
had been observed for at least 30
years. Youth's Companion.
ested spectators, says a Philadelphia
correspondent. The colony of bees
jwarmed around the tree and discov
ering a hole about 40 feet from the
ground flew In. The first of the army,
which filled the air like a miniature
cloud, had hardly entered the hole be
fore the sparrows came out ruffling
their neck feathers and chattering
with anger.
There were six sparrows living in
the tree and for five minutes they put
up a gallant fight for the possession
of their home, but the bees were too
much for them and after a time they
slowly drew oft, fighting to the last
many surprises, but no losses.
Metal Has No Properties.
When 70 per cent, of cerium is al
loyed with 30 per cent, ot iron the
metal thus produced possesses the re
markable property of giving oft a
shower of sparks when struck lightly
by a steel wheel. This subBtance has
been employed for making auto ignlt
ters for gas burners, miners' acetylene,
lamps and cigar lighters. Recently H
has been proposed to utilize it for lg
nltlag motor headlights, and even as a
substitute for electric ignition In ths
cylinders.
Jhttmptite intg Gin.
Drugs and Medicines,
Toilet Goods,
Perfumery,
Soaps, Brushes,
And Syringes.
Ice Cold Drinks and Choice Candies
Of All Kinds.
We SOllClt yOUr 0ur Stock I. Complete.
trade because 0ur Dru88 Are Pure.
We give yon what you ask for.
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