The Deming Headlight from Deming, New Mexico • 1

1 on Vote Tuesday for Hanna Bust Bursumism THE DENTING HEADLIGHT Omicial Paper of 8, Land Offee Notices, New For 38 Years Democratie in Polities Lana County, and the City. of Deming Mexico, Friday, September 16, Volume 39, Number One Deming, County, 1921 Inspiration Lies In Valley's Farms The time is ripe, in the opinon of many of the best posted men in the Mimbres Valley, for the opening of a constructive campaign to bring more farmers to the thousands of acres that are still lying idle in Luna county, and The Headlight -is planning to present to its readers, from week to week, both in Deming and in every other part of the country to which it goes, the advantages of this valley as an agricultural section. Farming here has passed beyond the experimental stage. Men who have been engaged in the taking their work seriously and sticking to it, working out their problems and giving their neighbors the benefit of their successes and their failures, and who have had the wisdom to profit by the successes and the mistakes of others, have shown beyond question that farming in the Mimbres Valley can be made to pay, and to pay big returns on their work and their investments. All over the Mimbres Valley there are farms that are monuments to the courage and the ability of the sturdy men and women who have given their strength to building up the farming industry here, farms that are an inspiration to the beholder, even if he knows very little about farming.

The valley needs more men and women like those who are working on these farms and who are winning success in a greater degree every year. The day of the settler who merely wanted to snatch a quarter section from the goverpment has passed. The valley needs farmers who will farm and who will put their shoulders to the task that they assume when they come here. It is also to be clearly understood that the day is past when the incoming farmer was regarded merely as a prospect to be separated from his money as rapidly and as efficiently as possible. This community must cooperate with the farmer, both with the man who is here and with the man who may come, and must strive to render him an asset to the county instead of a critic of this district and of its people.

The Luna County Fair has been abandoned for this year, but there is nothing to prevent the people of Deming and of the farms that are scattered over the valley from making a tour of inspection around the valley and seeing the wonder spots that have been built up in what was once open range. Deming can make the next few weeks, while the crops are maturing, a county fair that will be of more benefit to them than would be possible if the products of the valley were stacked in one or two rooms, where the people walked past the exhibits in a more or less perfunctory manner and forgot about them in a few days. There is not a farmer in the valley who will not be glad to talk about his work and to show visitors what he has done and is doing for the benefit of the community. Practically all of the farms in the valley lie within easy motoring distance of De ring. Take your choice of any direction next Sunday and ride around the country.

Take the trouble to stop for a few minutes and talk to the farmer, either round Hondale, on the Columbus road, at Luxor, down by the country round Capitol Dome and Waterloo, out by Tunis and Red Mountain, or go to Miesse, where the rich bottom lands are bearing crops such as are seldom seen anywhere. It will do the farmer good to see that you are taking an interest in him and his work, but, more than that, it will give the townspeople a knowledge and breadth of vision that they need at this time more than at any other time in the history of the Mimbres Valley, now when people are discouraged and when they need some concrete evidence to convince them that their own immediate surrounding country is prosperous. An abundant evidence of the actual and potential wealth of the Mimbres Valley lies right at our doors today, ready to convince the most skeptical that this valley can be made into one of the most important wealth producing sections of the Unived States. Judge Hanna Speaks Saturday Night In the Rialto Theatre Judge Richard H. Hanna, demcratic candidate for the office of United States senator, will address a meeting of the voters of Deming and vicinity at the Rialto theatre on North Silver avenues tomorrow night at 8 clock.

Previous to the address that is to be delivered by Judge Hanna, the democratic ladies of Deming are requested to assemble at the theatre at 7 o'clock, when matters of importance will be discussed, matters in which the women voters of this state are vitally concerned. In his swing around the state, Judge Hanna has been welcomed everywhere enthisiastically by the voters, and the manner in which he has been presenting the issues of the present campaign have won him hosts of friends and have rallied many supporters to his forces. voters of Deming, irrespective of party affiliations, are warmly urged to attend the meeting at the Rialto tomorrow night. CLEAN-UP SQUAD COMING SEPT. 19 FORMER SERVICE MEN OF LUNA COUNTY WILL SUBMIT ALL CLAIMS NEXT WEEK Miss Agnes Arbuckle, of the St.

Louis office of the southwestern division of the American Red Cross, was in Deming at the first of the week arranging for the visit to Deming of the clean-up squad that will be here from September 19 to 21, for the purpose of adjusting the claims for compensation any of the ex-service men or women may have to present. The members of the squad will hold their sessions in the Moose hall on West Pine street, and it is desired that any former soldier in Luna county who has any claim to present for compensation should appear before the squad during those three days, with all papers pertaining to their service. Transportation will be furnished the men who come to present their claims, and in order to secure transportation it will be necessary to make application to the home service bureau of the Red Cross, at 109 North Gold avenue, for the necessary blanks. These blanks are to be taken to Dr. R.

C. Hoffman, local representative of the public health service, who will authorize the transportation. In the clean-up squad there will be a man to look after the compensation claims, as representative of the recently organized Veterans' Bureau, a vocational specialist, an examining physician who is empowered to provide hospitalization for such veterans as may be in immediate need of it; a Red Cross representative and a member of the American Legion. The Red Cross is co-operating with the Veterans' Bureau and with the American Legion in this work, and Miss Arbuckle stated that the local branch of the Red Cross has been of material assistance in helping the exservice men and women in the presentation and adjustment of a large number of claims in the past. MRS.

R. B. GRIFFITH DIES Mrs. R. B.

Griffith, wife of the former editor of the Deming Graphic, died at St. Paul's Sanatarium, Dallas, on August 26, after an attack of spinal meningitis that followed typhoid fever. At the time of her death Mrs. Griffith was a member of the staff of the Breckenridge, Daily American, of which her husband was sporting editor. Mrs.

Griffith made many friends during her stay in Deming whe! will regret to learn of her death. JARD SELLS 18-9-8 AVE. STORE WEHMHOENER HAYES TAKE OVER RETAIL GROCERY AT END OF SEPTEMBER Announcement was made yesterday by John P. Yearwood, president of the Standard Grocery the local stotre of that company had been sold to Gus Wehmhoener and R. B.

Hayes, two of the best known grocerymen in Deming. The sale has already been completed and an inventory of the stock and fixtures will be made on Friday, September 30, so that the new owners will assume entire charge on October 1. An estimate of the stock and fixtures that will pass to Messrs. Wehmhoener and Hayes places the value at about $10,000, and the good will of the Standard Grocery Co. also is included in the deal.

The Standard Grocery Co. has been operating in Deming as a retail store for almost three years, and previous to that time the company maintained one of its wholesale branches here. Mr. Yearwood stated yesterday that the firm's relations with the people of Deming had been at all times pleasant and profitable. Mr.

Wehmhoener, since disposing of his store on South Silver avenue some. time ago, has been visiting in California and in Oklahoma, but he believes that Deming at this time offers an exceptional field in which to embark again in the business that he knows so well. Mr. Hayes has been for some time employed in the E. A.

Tovrea Co. store, and is posted on every angle of the grocery business, and the partners expect to secure a fair amount of the local trade from the very beginning of their operations. It is probabie that several of the present staff of the Standard Grocery Co. will be retained by the new owners, although no definite decision yet been reached on this point. SALESMAN JOINS BASSETT CO.

H. Lyman, an experienced Ford salesman, on Monday joined the staff of the Bassett Motor Co. and will be actively engaged in covering the firm's territory in future. Mr. Lyman comes to Deming from Denver, where he was advertising manager of the Colorado White Marble and before engaging in his Denver job he was engaged for five years in selling Ford cars in Cedar Rapids, la.

As soon as Mr. Lyman has found a suitable residence here he will bring his family to Deming. ANGELUS BRINGS HEAVY WELL RIG NO. 2 WELL TO BE EQUIPPED WITH STANDARD RIG, SAYS SUPT. R.

C. NELSON Plans that have been perfected by the Angelus Oil Mining Association's directors within the past few days call for the immediate installation of a standard drilling rig on the company's No. 2 well, 25 miles north and west of Deming. The Star rig that has been on the property for some time past was dismantled this week preparatory to being removed. As soon as the standard rig is on the ground the work will be pushed forward 38 rapidly as possible.

It was stated yesterday by Supt. R. C. Nelson that the company has mapped out a program of extensive development work in Luna county, where its directors are persuaded that they are certain to find oil. "We are in Luna county to stay," said Mr.

Nelson, "and we ask that the people here be patient with us for a short time longer, when we confidently expect to bring in a commercial well on at least one of our well sites, and possibly more than one. The indications that we have encountered ever since we entered this field have encouraged us to believe that we are on the vrge of striking oil in commercial quantities, and a successful well, such as we hope to develop within the near future, will mean an immense asset to Deming and Luna county." PARA TO FACE GRAND JURY ON TWO CHARGES Pablo Para, a well known resident of Deming, was arrested on Saturday near Hondale by Sheriff P. L. Smyer, Deputy L. Z.

Davis and Customs Inspector Jack Breen, with a cargo of two four and a half gallon cans of alcohol, 35 quarts of tequila, 20 pints of tequila and a gallon of whisky. The liquor was packed on the horse that Para was riding, and Para was also carrying a carbine and a six-shooter when arrested. He was arraigned before Justice C. C. Rogers on Monday charged with transporting liquor and with carrying deadly weapons while transporting liquor.

Justice Rogers held Para to the grand jury in $2500. CULBERSON CAMPAIGNS Vie Culberson, head of the G. O. S. Cattle passed through Deming on Monday night, en route to Sierro county, where he will campaign for Bursum.

WANT FT. BAYARD HOSPITAL MOVED VETERANS' DELEGATES WILL ASK HOSPITAL TRANSFER TO DEMING LOCATION Concerted action by the Veterans of Foreign Wars at Fort Bayard to have the hospital removed from its present location to Deming was promised by the delegates who will go to Detroit from Fort Bayard to attend the convention of the organization that is to be held there next week. L. Lyon and James McEnteer will be the delegates from Fort Bayard. At a meeting that was held in the rooms of the Deming Business Men's Club on Monday evening the question of co-operation between the promoters of the rodeo that is to be held here in October and the Fort Bayard promoters was discussed.

Last spring the Fort Bayard men staged one of the most successful rodeos ever seen in the Southwest, and it has been suggested that they lend their aid to Deming in making the coming affair as successful as possible. The veterans are in touch with many of the best riders and ropers in the country and can secure their services, and it is probable that they will agree to aid in the local enterprise. Another matter that came up for discussion at the meeting was the proposal to make Deming the state headquarters of the American Legion. With the influence that Fort Bayard, with the largest post in the state, can bring to bear on the question, it is more than likely that the headquarters of the Legion in New Mexico can be brought to Deming, and a number of those present at the meeting agreed to work to this end. During the evening the Fort Bayard visitors were the guests of the club at a smoker and were also entertained at a dance afterwards.

DINNER PARTY ON BIRTHDAY Miss Wandra Pollard on Tuesday evening celebrated her birthday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Pollard, with a dinner party at which twelve of her friends were the guests.

The color scheme was carried out entirely in pink. After the dinner the guests spent the greater part of the evening in dancing. ANOTHER HOSTAGE TO FORTUNE A baby daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A.

Lynd at their home on East Birch street last Friday morning. Mother and daughter are both progressing splendidly. MIMBRES VALLEY FACING ERA OF PROSPERITY AS FARMERS BRING EXPERIENCE OF YEARS TO BEAR ON PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT THE AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY HERE; EXPERIMENTAL STAGE HAS PASSED Many Show Places Among Farms of Valley- Cultivation of Crops Assures Success Individual Production Greater Than That of Any Former Period Farmers Handling Only Acreage That Can Be Cultivated with Economy-All Agriculturists Optimistic as to Outlook for the Future Agriculture in the Mimbres may be said to have safely passed the experimental stage and to have future that is filled with promise. The garded as a stable industry, with a reached a point where it may be retion in the Mimbres Valley were first few years of farming by irrigastrewn with the wrecks of men who were guilty of mistakes in judgment, or who were badly advised, or who were the victims of others whose principal aim was to separate the farmer from his capital without caring whether the farmer received any return for his expenditure or not. The men who are farming in the Mimbres Valley today are men who have stuck to their guns in the face of what were, in many cases, overwhelming odds, men who have profited by their mistakes and by those of others, as well as by their own and others' successes.

Today, the volume of individual production is appreciably greater than it was during the experimental stage, when a greater acreage was in cultivation. Men are learning, year by year, what is best suited to the soil here, and they are concentrating on the crops that they are best able to raise at a profit. The soil of the Mimbres Valley is adapted to practically every kind of crop except citrus fruits, and a visit to the farms of the valley demonstrates the variety that is being raised, and that is being raised at a profit. A list of the crops that are being cultivated now embraces corn, beans, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, tomatoes, alfalfa, watermelons, cantaloupes, kafir corn, milo maize, wheat, all kinds of garden truck, with beef and dairy cattle, hogs and chickens to eat the feed crops and to clean up the waste that is inevitable around a plant of even a moderate sized farm. My pumping costs for this last year have figured out at about 10 per cent of my gross outlay.

Dr. Berry Bowen. One feature that is proving of terial aid to the farmers in disposing of their crops is the silo. Many of them now have silos filled with food that will carry their stock over the winter and well into next spring, insuring a ration that will bring about the fullest development of the livestock on the farms and suving them Headlight Starts Thirty-Ninth Year This issue of The Deming Headlight marks the start of the paper's thirtyninth year of publication, and we enter on the new year with an enhanced belief in the prospects that await us and the valley where we are so fortunate as to be placed. The year that has just closed has been one that was filled with difficulties and a few discouragements, but they have not been insurmountable.

In fact. the depression that has existed in business here, and which has been light compared with that which existed in many other parts of the country, seems to have brought the people of Deming closer together and to have taught them to help one another to a greater degree than has sometimes been the case in the past. The growth of this spirit is one of the most encouraging signs of the present time, and one of the aims of The Headlight in the year that is just opening for it will be the cultivation of this spirit to an even greater degree, in every branch of the life of the community. We intend, from now on, to cut ourselves loose from anyone who has not faith in this town and this valley, and to embark on a campaign for the upbuilding of Deming and Luna county that we shall strive to make constructive te the fullest degree in our power. It is our firm belief that the Mimbres Valley stands at the opening of another era of prosperity and success that will make the times of yesteryear pale into insignificance by comparison.

The valley is through with booms and with tural get-rich-quick dreams. Its agriculindustry is on a solid basis now, and prosperity must inevitably follow the coming of more farmers here and the cultivation of more of the valley's fertile acres. It will be our aim to make The Headlight a better paper from every angle. Our subscription list is growing steadily every month and we shall exert every means in our power to merit the support of the people of this town and this county, and to render full value for every dollar that is spent with us. SPEND VACATION HERE Hugh H.

Williams, chairman of the state corporation commission, accompanied by Mrs. Williams and their three-year-old son, are in Deming for a vacation, visiting friends. DEMING'S HEROIC SON IS HONORED MONUMENT TO CLAUDE C. HOWARD UNVEILED MONDAY WITH IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES the expense of buying feed during the months that production has ceased. A severe handicap under which many of the valley farmers labored in the past was pumping plants which were improperly adjusted or that were out of proportion to the amount of land to be cultivated.

Either the plants delivered too much water for the land that had been cleared and cultivated, or they failed to deliver enough. In some instances the pumps and engines were totally out of proportion to one another, and this resulted in a loss of water, of power, and a downright waste of money throughout the farmer's year. This problem is now being solved, and the farmers have learned, in large measure, how to handle their pumps and engines so that they will produce the right amount of water at a cost proportionate to the crops that are being raised, and they are also laying stress on the cardinal principle of farming that no more acreage should be cultivated than a man is thoroughly able to handle with the funds and the man power at his command. There's nothing the matter with this country. But a farmer must work hard if he is going to succeed.

Mrs. J. B. Anderson. A trip around the Mimbres Valley will prove an eye-opener to those who have bewailed the supposed failure of the farmers around Deming to build up this immense agricultural area here into one of the nation's storehouses within a period of ten or twelve years, a great part of which has been spent, as already stated, in experiments.

To hear some of the local critics talk, a stranger would gather the idea that production in the Mimbres Valley had absolutely ceased, 80 far as farming is concerned. There never was a grenter mistake. It is true that the area under cultivation has shrunk from the figure it reached a few years ago, when there were about 400 farmers settled on the land in the valley. But those who have remained have increased their production along the most efficient lines, until the farming industry now is rapidly coming into its own as the most important business here and one that is standing face to face with the dawn of an era of prosperity that will prove to be the golden epoch of Lina county. How many industrial lin Luna county, outside of the railroads, are paying out $500 a week to their employes? The Hondale cannery is doing that every week of the canning season, lasting for more than two months, and even after the canning season is over and the force has been reduced, the cannery still requires the services of a number of well paid employes to superintend the shipping and other details incident to the wind-up of the season's work.

The farms begin right at the edge of town. As one starts toward Hondale he passes the C. L. Baker ranch, showing feed crops, beans and alfalfa, with the farm buildings lying behind a sheltering windbreak. The Cooper orchard, the Ernst and the Bumpus ranches, with their crops and dairy cattle, lie close enough to Deming to allow of their inspection within an A farmer can succeed here more easily than any other piate I have ever been, but he must stick to staple crops and cut out the fancy trimmings and experiments.

H. P. Vestal. hour's time. Open country intervenes until one comes within a short distance of Hondale, when cultivation begins again.

Al McGlamery, with 160 acres of land cleared, is raising sugar beets, cantaloupes, melons, corn, maize, hogs and 200 head of beef cattle, for which he has plenty of alfalfa and other pasture. McGlamery is pumping with a 40 horsepower Fairbanks Morse engine and is getting 800 gallons per minute. In addition to his faro crops he has a home garden that contains a wide assortment of truck for his own use. "The Mimbres Valley could supply the requirements of the consumers in the entire Southwest and render that section practically independent of the eastern and western markets, if truck farming was carried on on a larger scale here," said J. C.

Ingram, who employes anywhere from five to fitteen men all season on his 30-acre truck farm near Hondale. Mr. Ingram is shipping every day to the surrounding towns and has built up a trade during the past few years that brings in a steady income. Three truckloads of vegetables went to Lordsburg this that week, and was only a part of the Ingram shipments. The heeds of the wholesale buyers in southern New Mexico could be supplied from the dimbres Valley, if a Mr.

larger acreage beplanted to truck, Ingram lieves, he adds that he has found this the most profitable line of farming that he has undertaken since coming here. Have you fellows had dinner? No? Well, let's eat. 0. E. Suppiger.

Mr. Ingram pumps with a Bessemer oil engine and an Advance pump, lifting his water from a depth of 60 feet, with a 15-foot drawdown. Hondale's principal feature is the cannery, where the work of packing the season's crop of tomatoes is now in full swing, with a daily capacity of 20,000 No. 2 cans. Over thirty women and men of the immediate neighborhood are working in the factory, and the cannery payroll is spent at Hondale.

The first run few lots picked from the adjacent farms were damaged slightly by cutworms, but the tomatoes that are coming in now are clean and solid. The farmers have this market right at their doors for every pound of tomatoes they can raise, and they know before they set a single plant what they are going to receive for their tomatoes. This year they are getting $15 per ton at the factory, and an average estimate places the crop at eight tons to the acre. Picking and canning will last until the frost comes, and it is not anticipated that the canning will be finished until close to Thanksgiving. I haven't spent any money for repairs on my pumping plant in the nine years it has been running.

am farming over 50 acres this year. Elihu Ousterhaut. The Hondale farms lie close to the little town, and within a redius of a few miles there are Joe Clary, E. Ousterhaut, T. B.

Keel, Temme brothers; Dr. Berry Bowen, Walter Gregory, E. J. Bernwick, Merle Pringle and a number of others, all of whom are producing and making a profit. On the T.

B. Keel ranch there is a large (Continued next page) With solemn and fitting ceremonies, the monument to Claude Close Howard, who gave his life on one of the battlefields of the great war, was unveiled before an immense concourse of Deming people who had assembled at the court house on Monday afternoon, just three years to the day when Claude Howard first left the trenches to share in the drive against the Germans. Within a few days after he had first started across the open spaces in front of the American trenches, Claude Howard yielded up his life in the shell-swept battlefield. In addition to the members of the Claude Close Howard post of the American Legion and of the local cavalry unit, Troop there was a strong representation of veterans who are now stationed at Fort Bayard. Hundreds of Deming's citizens thronged the lawn of the court house and the school children were released from the schools that they, too, might participate in doing honor to Deming's heroic dead.

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Howard occupied a prominent place at the exercises.

Promptly at 3 p. Major S. D. Swope, commander of the American Legion post, commenced the simple exercises of the day, delivering a brief but touching address. Major Swope said in part: "My friends, we have gathered here to unveil and dedicate a monument to the memory of a hero brother, whose body lies in an unknown grave on battlefield of France.

He sleeps not alone without a name above his grave. I myself have seen a thousand graves upon thousand hillsides, marked with simple cross, upon which was written 'An Unknown Sometimes the cross marked the resting place of an Australian, sometimes of an Englishman, again of a French poilu, and again the grave of an American soldier, or even of a German. Only by some article of their uniform could they be identified. that wonderful arch, built by Napolen, at the end of the grandest street, in one of the greatest cities of the world, Paris, sleeps an unknown soldier of the world war. The Arch of Napoleon's victories marks the resting place of our unidentified comrade in arms.

In the most famous church of all England, an unknown soldier's body has been laid away with great pomp and ceremony. Many, many people will look upon the last resting place of this hero of the great war, and wonder whether the mortal remains of their unidentified brother, son, sweetheart or husband, sleep beneath the spires of Westminster (Continued on next page).