The Deming Headlight from Deming, New Mexico • 1

Hughes, DEMING HEADLIGHT Offeial Paper of Land Office Notices, Luna County, and the City of Deming. LUNA COUNTY OVER THE TOP Quota Set for the County Oversubscribed After the Big Patriotic Parade Friday. STIRRING ADDRESSES HELPED Columbus Got Her Figure Before Deming Did, But the Latter Finished Strong. A strenuous drive on last Friday, Liberty Day, by the loan committee, together with the enthusiasm generated by the parade and the stirring talks by some of the best speakers in the county and in Camp Cody, took Luna county out of the doubtful class and enabled her people to oversubscribe their allotment of the the third Liberty Loan. It was feared by some of those of weaker faith that Luna county would find the figure too stiff, and some of them even went -so far as to voice their fears that Luna county W83 going to fail.

But when pressure was applied it produced the desired results and Luna county now has won the right to fly the three-barred flag that is to be sent to every community that subscribes its quota. The flag is now here and it raised with appropriate ceremonies, as will also the one that has been sent to J. A. Mahoney, county chairman, for Columbus, which also oversubscribed its quota. The pageant of the decorated automobiles and boats was the best that he's been seen in Deming since the Liberty Bell celebration a few years ago, and the patriotic response this time was shown in the most practical form by the subscriptions that flowed into the two banks, either through the loan committees or directly.

Brief addresses were made by J. A. Mahoney, county chairman; A. W. Pollard, A.

A. Temke, Miss Dorothy Frooks, Rabbi Jacob H. Landau of East Las Vegas, James Carragien, J. B. Bell, Rev.

Rudolf Caughey, Rev. John B. Barton, Myron A. Kesner, Maj. S.

B. Philpot, Lt. Col. A. H.

Hollingsworth, Raymond Teal, John C. Watson, Rev. Holsapple, and each one of them drove home the vital necessity that exists to support the nation at this time by furnishing every penny that can be spared by any possible means. There was no similarity between the speeches, although they all dealt with the same subject. Every speaker injected his or her own individuality into what said, and each one brought up bint of view that was different Trim that of every other speaker.

Among the floats several wree especially prominent, among them being the Nordhaus float, with its immense Liberty Bell which had been made for occasion; the Teal theatre float with the Goddess of Liberty with a soldier protecting her; the float from the public schools; the Y. A. float; the Deming Ice Electric Field's confectionery, the Majestic theatre, Deckert Elufson, the Red Cross, the Rebekah lodge, and others who entered their cars in the parade were John Impolito, Sergeant Solomon, C. C. Collins, C.

J. Kelly Mr. Schusholdz, Lindauer Mercantile M. A. Kesner, R.

L. Miller, Cody Inn, -Smith Fruit Miss Goebel, H. E. Brechbill, Harley Martin, Dr. J.

G. Moir, Dr. M. J. Moran, E.

F. Moran, Western Transfer Co. (two (two cars). Sol J. A.

Tidmore cars), Carragien, Excelsior Laundry, C. W. Cook, Purity Bakery, Dr. Janet Reid, Rev. M.

Flores, L. Dornbush, Park Garage (two cars), Chris Raithel, Cody theatre, Military Laundry (three cars). The second section was composed of the 136th infantry city fire department, H. W. Schutze, Hub Guyon, Sam Watkins, Ed Godden, Miss Mary Mahoney, American Red Cross float, Mrs.

Alice Browning, G. K. Nenes, Newman Patterson, El Paso Times, R. E. Emery, J.

B. Borger, People's Meat Market and J. L. Loftis of Myndus. Of course the military figured to a large extent in the parade.

The soldiers helped to keep the line of march clear and they also rode in the middle and at the end of the parade, as well as away up at the head of it, and before the long line of cars and floats started, Co. of the 135th infantry put on a drill on Pine street which worked the people up to a high pitch of enthusiasm. The men went through their drill like clockwork, 'and many admiring comments were heard at the way they showed up. From the very start of the campaign the local committee worked like beavers to make the drive in Luna county a success, and Mr. Mahoney ungrudgingly gave the members the highest praise for the way they had worked.

Those who worked so faithfully with Mr. Mahoney were Phil McLaughlin, city chairman; J. G. Cooper, Arthur C. Raithel, A.

W. Pollard. John C. Watson, A. A.

Temke, M. Cotton, M. A. Nordhaus, R. L.

Miller, I. A. Hanna and Forbes Parkhill, and to the last named is to be given the credit for getting up the parade and doing the greater part of the work in connection with it. Luna county has made good, not Deming, but all over the rest of the county, and Columbus deserves credit for getting allotment some time before her big sister at the county seat did and more credit for going right on raising several thousand dollars more than she was asked for. CHARLES AMENT HERE Charles Ament is home at present on a furlough from the training camp where he has been preparing to enter the war.

He was in poor health for some time after being called to the army, but he has now recovered and ig in frst-class shape for the rigors of the campaign. Mexico, Friday, May 3, 1918 Victory is a Question of Stamina Send- -the Wheat Meat Fats Sugar the fuel for Fighters UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION CHAUTAUQUA TO CLOSE TOMORROW Week's Entertainment Has Been a Source of Pleasure and Profit to Many Here, THAVIU'S BAND WAS Dr. Lincoln Wirt Will Tell of His Visit to the American Troops in France Tonight The entertainment provided by the Ellison-White Chautauqua system for Deming this year has been drawing fairly good audiences to the big tent numbers on the program have been greatly enjoyed by everyone who has heard them. One of the high lights of the week was' the lecture by Judge George D. Alden, who spoke on "The Needs of the Hour." on Tuesday.

Speaking of the needs of public life in America, Judge Alden said in part: "No student of history can fail to be appalled at the conditions that have prevailed in America for the past twenty-five years, for history shows us that every nation that has turned from God to gold has fallen. "We are going to be regenerated in this war. The fires have been lighted beneath the melting pot and out of the war is going to emerge the real American. "Our big financiers whom we delight in cussing as grafters, are only products of the spirit which 13 saturating America. They are exaggerated types of our own selves.

"I point to 'John the of oily fame, as only an exaggerated type of what most Americans are at heart. "To rid our national spirit of its undesirable phases, which many of us take delight in criticising, we must have a return of individuals to the sanity of honesty. "National politics will be clean after after we make our states clean; our states will be clean after we clean up our cities, and they cannot be reformed until we, as individuals, reform. "The man who puts sand in his sugar, or water in his milk, or uses 'ambuscade scales that lie in not the reform a nation. We must be clean at heart before we have a clean nation." Yesterday afternoon and last night Thaviu's band was the attraction and it delighted the people who attended by the rendition of an excellently varied program at each Tonight, Lincoln L.

Wirt, just back from the battlegrounds of Europe, will lecture on what he saw there and tell of the Pershing forces, what they are doing, and how they feel. The Chautauqua will close tomorrow night. LUCILE RAITHEL SHOWS EXCELLENT SCHOLARSHIP Lucile Raithel, the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Raithel, who is now at school at Long Beach, is making splendid progress in her studies, according to the reports which she has been sending home.

In a letter which she sent to her mother this week she says: "We got our report cards. You know we only get them twice a semester. I wish you could see them, but I can't send mine. 'A' is the highest, then and just like and in the Deming schools. They also grade in A plus and A minus.

Here is my card: Spanish, A minus; sewing, A minus; algebra, oral exercises, A minus; English, A for literature and for composition. If we get a certain number of points we get on the scholarship committee. I got there and I feel fine, and I am going to make it next time, too." For 36 Years Democratic in Polities, Volume 38, Number 33 GUARANTORS HAD TO MAKE GOOD Deficit of Over $700 Made Up By Those Who Signed Guarantee, But Never Again 1 The next time a Chautauqua comes to Deming it will have to come under its own steam and without any guarantee, if the decisions of the majority of those who signed the guarantee for the present one are maintained in all of their present adamant firmness. There have been so many different demands on the purses of the people of Deming that many of them did not feel justified in spending the price of a season ticket on what they regarded as more or less of a luxury at this time, and the consequence was that the advance sales, on which the guarantors had depended to make up the $1,500 asked by the Chautauqua people, fell away below the required amount, and in spite of the utmost efforts the shortage could not be brought below a figure slightly over $700. This put is squarely up to the men and women who had signed the guarantee, and the majority of them stood by their premise and made good the deficit, which amounted to $19.25 for each, but as they paid it they all lifted their right hands and swore "Never again," and Albert Field remarked, "I'm off the show business for life," to which more than one of the victims responded fervently, "You said it." Some of the guarantors had moved away from Deming since last year and a few refused to come through with their share, so that the burden fell on the of those who signed the guarantee.

The general feeling among the people here is that the Chautauqua will be welcomed to Deming if it is willing to chances of making a profit without asking the citizens to be responsible for that profit before the start of the week's entertainment. LETTER FROM SOLDIER SON J. C. Kauffman of Deming has received a letter from his son, S. L.

Kauffman, who is now employed in a government machine shop on the east coast, where he is engaged in working on all kinds of new inventions to be used in the war against the Hun. He likes the work and been advanced since he joined the service, but he says that he doesn't like the idea of going to sea in a submarine chaser, as they are small boats. Many people in Deming will remember the young man and will be glad to learn that he is not only serving the country. but that he is en TOMMY HULL WILL ENLIST A letter from Tommy Hull, formerly of the Princess theatre here, has reached the Headlight from Austin, Texas, where he has gone to enter the army as a wireless radio operator, and he expects to leave for France one of these days. He also has his eye on a commission, which he hopes to get three months.

He sends his regards to his Deming friends. T. Seth Hull, Tommy's father, and Mrs. Hull are now in San Francisco, where they expect to remain for some time. E.

F. HURT COUNTY ASSESSOR In making the race for county assessor, before the primary to be neid May 11th, I wish to say that I am and always have been a Democrat, because I believe in the principles of democracy, government of the people and by the people, and I believe that every citizen taxpayer should have the right of franchise, regardless of sex. I have property owner and taxpayer for twent years; have been a resident Luna county nine years and pay taxes in this county on live stock, ranch and farm and city properties, and I know from experience some of the problems confronting the varied interests. I am not in favor of taxing any imaginary values. For instance, values on the range, both of stock and range land, are governed largely by the conditions of the range, due to moisture and market conditions, even though the price be good and the demand strong and the cattle cannot be marketed because of drouth and poverty, the values are off because it is impossible to ship.

While farm values here depend largely upon the farmers' ability to the farm pay net earnings and city values depend largely upon the success and permanence of the business from which the town draws its support. All of our varied interests are entitled to proper representation before the board of equalization, that no one would be burdened with more than their share of the taxes. I favor cleaner politics and if we do not get it our governing power will weaken. I have always been a worker for common good of all and shall employ, nothing but the cleanest methods this relations contest. My all business and social with of you whom I have met have been pleasant.

If by your votes I am nominated and elected I will put forth very best efforts to do justice to all, and when through serving you I will step out without dictating who shall be my successor by using the influence and acquaintance gained while in your employment. With kindest regards and best wishes for all, I am, Yours for a square deal and cleaner P. O. Box 293, Deming, N. M.

politics. E. F. HURT, -Adv. G.

G. Crichet came up from El Paso at the end of last week to look after his property interests here, remaining until the first of this week J. A. MAHONEY'S ANNIVERSARY Generation Has Passed Since the Deming Merchant Opened Small Store on Gold Avenue. HARD WORK AND PLUGGING Readiness to Adopt New Business Methods Have Helped to Bring Clean Success.

THANKS DEMOCRATS FOR SUPPORT Washington, D. April 27, 1918. C. C. Rogers, Democratic County Chairman, Deming, -Z desire to express to you and through you the Democrats of Luna County my sincere appreciation for endorsements for senatorial nomination recently accorded me and of which have just learned.

W. E. WALTON. DEMING LUMBER COMPANY SOLD Foxworth-Galbraith Parent Company, Will Conduct Local Yard in the Future. A deal which has been pending for some time was closed last week, under the terms of which the FoxworthGalbraith Company takes over the Deming Lumber Company and will conduct it as a part of its business in future.

The local company has been a part of the holdings of the Foxworth-Galbraith Company, but owing to the great amount of work in connection with the making out of the monthly reports and in order to tion simplify the detail work in conneccompany decided to cease operating the Deming Lumber Company as an independent unit and will incorporate it into the rest of its holdings. This new arrangement will not make any changes in management or the personnel of the Deming Lumber Company. H. G. Bush, the manager of the Deming Lumber Company, will still hold the same position and the work will be carried out along the same lines as in the past.

Mr. Bush is also secretary of the Galbraith Company, which lion dollar corporation and which is reckoned as one of the strongest companies in the lumber business in not in the entire counW. L. Foxworth, who is associated try. with Mr.

Bush here in the management of the Deming Lumber Comis at present at the sanatarium pany, at Battle Creek, but as soon as he returns Mr. Bush will take an extended vacation. "THE KATZENJAMMER KIDS" "Katzenjammer Kids," the latest cartoon musical comedy to be produced, under the direction of Gazzolo, Gatts and Clifford, comes to the Broadway theatre Saturday, May 4th, transposing the pictures to the stage David M. Wolff, who wrote the book and lyrics, preserved all the funny characters whose antics have delighted thousands, young and old, and they are just as funny behind the footlights as in the colored supplements, with the added advantage of appearing in the flesh. Donald H.

has provided a musical score that is said to contain many tuneful song hits, and the new musical play is said to be a delightful entertainment from start to finish. The producers have been lavish to the point of extravagance in making their production "Katzenjammer Kids," the three acts being marvels of beauty and picturesqueness. And in the matter of the company, they have spared no expense, the players being well known to the musical comedy stage. But it is in the chorus they point with particular pride, the girls being the prettiest galaxy to decorate a musical play in several seasons. MOOSE ENDORSE LOAN COMMITTEE At the regular meeting of the Loyal Ordere of Moose that was held in the hall on Pine street last Friday night the members present passed a unanimous vote of thanks to the Liberty Loan committee for the excellent work that its members had done in securing more than the quota that was to be subscribed in Luna county, and the vote of thanks was spread on the records of the lodge.

Practically every member of the Moose order has invested money in the Liberty Bonds and some of them have done 80 when it has pinched them to spare the money. As with all the rest of the fraternal orders here, the Moose members are among the most loyal to be found in this or any other community, and their example in endorsing the work of the loan committee is to be commended. SIR E. E. SWINTON TO SPEAK HERE Inventor of British Tank Will Deliver Liberty Loan Address at Cody Theatre.

HONOR FLAG TO BE RAISED Frank G. Odell and Hon. Leslie M. Shaw Will Also Speakers at Big Rally. Even though the third Liberty Bond drive is almost over, there is still time for those who have any money left.

to bux. aqme BOOTA, to belp clusion, and they will have a chance to subscribe today when General Sir E. E. Swinton, the inventor of the tank and the secretary of the British war cabinet, will speak at the theatre this afternoon at 2 o'clock. With General Swinton will be Frank G.

Odell, of the Federal Land Bank of Omaha, and he also will bring a message to the people of Deming, the evening Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, former governor of Iowa and former secretary the treasury, will speak. All of these speakers are big men in their own lines and the word they bring i is one that every American who wants to see his country win the war, and win it thoroughly, should hear. After the speaking in the afternoon the Liberty Honor flag which Deming has won the right to display will be raised, with a degree of ceremony in keeping with the seriousness and solemnity of the occasion.

The following program has been drawn up for the entertainment of Deming's distinguished visitors, and, while a few changes may be made in it, there will not be enough of them to make much difference: 9:45 a. of visitors at station, Liberty Loan committee and officers from Camp Cody. Visitors to be escorted to Park Hotel by infantry company. 10:15 a. -Inspection of Camp Cody by automobile--military and Liberty Loan committee automobiles.

11:30 a. m. Military reception at division headquarters- -all general staff officers, officers members Liberty Loan committee; music by massed band. 1.00 p. by Liberty Loan committee at Harvey House; Brigadier General Mauldin to represent General Blocksom; guests, heads of staff departments and British officers.

2:30 p. meeting, Cody theatre military speakers, Major Robbins and Captain Bicknell. 8:00 p. Public meeting, tabernacle. HOW THE STAMP SALES The sales of thrift stamps at the schools are still rising in volume, and the total figure now stands at 557.10, as shown in the following list: Deming Public Schools, Wednesday, 1.

School Teacher Amt. Cent. 8A Mr. Smick 294.50 95 7A-8B Miss 186.75 100 7B Miss Phillips 447.50 100 64 Miss Lucas. 176.50 100 6B Miss Stevens 721.00 79 5A-4B Miss Hewitt 126.64 76 Miss Shepard 263.25 75 4A Miss Holt 100.50 81 4B Miss Seeger 605.61 77.5 34-B Miss Kaiser 133.50 75 2A-3B Miss Smith 157.75 87 2B Miss Stevens 135.42 69 1A-B Mrs.

$2.50 62 1B Miss Bonham. 51.50 40 Kindergarten Mrs. Anderson 46.00 45 High School Meyer, PrincipalSenior Class. 71.75 100 Junior Class. 24.00 46 Sophomore 70.68 29 Freshman Class 93.25 43.3 Amount subscribed Per cent of school that have started an investment.

73. School with largest per capita Investment, 6-B. Largest per capita investment, 25.75. On next Tuesday, May 7th, the J. A.

Mahoney store will celebrate its thirty-third anniversary, and on this occasion, as on previous anniversaries, a special sale will be held in every department of the business, when marked down prices will attract the close buyers of the community to the store in search of bargains. Some of bargains will be found listed in the firm's advertisement which appears on another page. Just a generation ago J. A. Mahoney opened a little 18x25 foot store on the corner where his store stands today, with a stock of groceries and fruits, and he admits that he opened that first store mainly on his nerve, as his capital was, to speak conservatively, very modest.

Today the premises occupied by the business cover many times the space of the first store, but the nature of the business has changed from groceries and fruit to hardware and furniture in all of their various branches. In the little store occupied by Mr. Mahoney the first postoffice was located in Deming. Previous to that time it had been located in a box car by the 1 railroad tracks, as a sort of a side 1 line to a store, but when it was moved up town and made a permanent office it was housed on the corner of Gold and Spruce. In the rear of his little store Mr.

Mahoney slept in a portion of the space that was divided from his place of business by a curtain, but later he built a small shack behind the store, and he could look through the cracks in the roof of it and watch the stars wheeling across the sky at night. He was his own salesman, bookkeeper, janitor and porter, and he got his meals sent in from nearby eating house, rather than leave the store and miss a customer. Some of the customers who bought their groceries at the first Mahoney store are still regular patrons of the big store, although their numbers have shrunk with the passing of the years. It was everlasting hard work and steady plugging that brought J. A.

Mahoney the success he enjoys today, but he never allowed the hard work he had to do prevent him from As soon as he saw a new idea that he thought would increase his business he adopted it and put it into execution, and today, the merchandising methods of business are the most modern to be found anywhere. One of the practices to which Mr. Mahoney attributes a great deal of his success is the constant use of printer's ink, and he has always used a good percentage of his capital for advertising in the local papers. He has endeavored, in all of his commercial career, treat his customers fairly and to give them value for the money they have spent in his store, and the number of accounts on his books show that he has succeeded in pleasing those who bought from him. In.

1913 he incorporated his business, but this made no change in the methods or in the personnel of the business. A merchant can very often be judged by the way his employes regard him and by the length of their connection with the firm, and J. A. Mahoney has an enviable record in this respect, as many of his men have been with him for all or the greater part of their working lives and they are as loyal to him and to the business as any body of men could be. His years of work built up the business until it is classed as one of the most important in the southwest, with a financial standing that places it on a high plane, and, with the present methods of doing business that are in force, there is no reason why J.

A. Mahoney, should not show an even greater increase in the future. RED CROSS NOTES The bridge party given by the Red Cross ladies lest Thursday was well attended. Mrs. Hon won the bridge pirze and Mrs.

E. C. Wells the 500 prize. Field's most kindly donated delicious punch and J. A.

Kinnear Co. gave the prizes. Mrs. George Sheperd was hostess at the party. On account of this being Chautauqua week, the party will not be held until next Thursday, May 9th, at 2:30 sharp.

Mr. Fitzpatrick, who is opening up the Bone Dry Palace as a skating rink, has most generously offered to donate the proceeds from the first and third Monday nights of each month to the Red Cross. We hope every one that skates will take notice. Miss Mary Mahoney has been appointed supervisor of surgical dressings at the Red Cross work rooms. The following ladies have charge of the different days: Monday, Mrs.

Magnuson and Mrs. Schwartz; Tuesday, Mrs. McLean and Mrs. Overstreet; Wednesday, Mrs. Mann and Mrs.

'Slaker; Thursday, Mrs. Lehman and Mrs. Merlin; Eriday, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. H.

Hall and Miss Leonard. BUY MARX HOTEL John T. Verlin, manager of the local Harvey House, and H. J. Pickart have bought the Marx Hotel on east Pine street and will run it in the future.

They are making a number of changes and improvements in the hotel and expect to build up a steady trade. Mr. Verlin will remain in his present position at the Harvey House, where he has made many friends in the short time he has been here..