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LOCAL ITEMS Please Telephone All Small Items of Local Interest to No. 134 Harvey Robertson spent last week end in EI Paso Agent Danielson was down from the Agency Monday on business. Virgil York, of the town force, returned last week from two-weeks' vacation trip to San Francisco. Mrs. Charles W. Winchester of Santa Fe, is the guest this week of her mother, Mrs. Anna Simms. Morris Robertson, now attending State College, accompanied by friend, Wm. Gregg, visited Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Robertson over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Burch and small son, are here from Las Cruces for few days. Margaret remains in Las Cruces to attend school. Mrs. Geo. Threlkeld, of Roswell, who during the summer, managed the Pavilion Tea Room, Cloudcroft, visited friends here this week. Bill Potter old resident of the Sacmountains, was over from the San Andread to take in the Rodeo. Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder were among the former residents here for the Rodeo, coming up from El Paso, and had some guests with them. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Einhart are the guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Miller, while en route from their California home on a business trip to Alabama and Mississippi. There was quite a delegation of the Mescalero Indians here for the Rodeo. They put on a free show Friday night and pay shows Saturday and Sunday nights. Mrs. Henry Sutherland, former resident of La Luz in the early days, came up from El Paso Wednesday, called the fatal illness of the little Robertson boy. A number of local golf players plan to enter the Popular Dry Goods Golf Tournament in El Paso next Sunday Those now planning to en ter are John Kowiak, S. M. Groom, Leo Garrison and Clarence Insall. Arch VanWinkle, former resident of Otero county for many years, and his son, were over from Hot Springs to take in the Rodeo, and shake the hands of many friends and neighbors. Word from Dr. Duncan states that he and Mrs. Duncan are enjoying good health and have left Pasadena, California, for Phoenix, Ariz., where they will be with their daughters, Misses Fidelia and Katherine, this Omer Kersey arrived this week from Marfa, Texas, where he has the contract for drilling several water wells His son, Harold, member of the well-drilling firm, who has been attending to business matters in this state for the past two weeks, will leave Friday morning to attend to drilling operations in Marfa. The ladies of the Civie League are announcing Rummage Sale for Saturday, Sept. 26, to be held at the old Peoples State Bank Building. Many people of limited means have been taking advantage of these sales in the past, and many articles of clothing still having good wearing qualities in them are each year contributed by people of better means. These may usually be bought at a very low price. The Tie Treating plant is closed for the remainder of the month. Mrs. Major Thomson and little son left for home at Santa Rosa Monday, after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Hickson for a short time. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harrington left Monday morning for an auto trip and expect to be gone for two weeks or more and as far as Florida. Mrs. Vance Thomas who has been over from Carlsbad visiting at Cloudcroft, is in Alamogordo for few days visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. E. F. Olds, and daughter, Miss Maude, and son, Frank, were over from Las Cruces last week end. Frank is attending State College this year. A group of Alamogordo men who are interested in mining property in the Jarillas, state that they may have something interesting to report soon. Mr. and Mrs. George Munson came in from Pinon the first of the week bringing their little son in for medical treatment, his horse having thrown him, in which fall he sustained a broken arm. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brooks left for their home at Amarillo, after few days visiting with relatives and friends in Alamogordo. They were accompanied by Mrs. Harold Murphy and little son, Bobby,' who had also been visiting here. Robert Hall 69 well known mining man of New Mexico and Arjzona, dropped dead at his cabin in the mountains north of Orogrande Monday afternoon, of heart disease, He had been living in that vicinity for the past two years. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wicks and little daughter returned the last of the week from six weeks trip through about five of the southern and eentral states. Mr. Wicks is engineer at the Tie Treating plant. He states that he saw considerable distress and unemployment while away, but there are good crops everywhere he visited. C. M. Harvey, president of the El Paso National Bank, was in Alamo Tuesday on business. As he frequently does, he called at the News office to get "sniff" of printers' ink as he was once a "printers devil" and lata newspaper man himself. Mr. Harvey stated that there was very un important run on his bank at the time the First National closed, and he deeply appreciats the confidence in his institution that this evinced. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gottlieb, well known photographers of Ruidoso and Lincoln and Otero counties, were here Wednesday bringing in a number of beautiful colored photographs of White Mountain scepes. Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb are leaving today (Thursday) to spend several weeks in various Arizona points, during which time they will visit with a Mr. Boundy, formerly of Alamogordo, and who is custodian of the Tumacacori Spanish Mission, a National Monument near Nogales. Mr. and Mrs Gottlieb will spend the winter in Arizona after returning here following their present trip.
