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EL PASO EVENING POST PAGE NINE ONE DIES OF FRIGHT AFTER INDIAN FIGHT! Death Is 1 heme oi Poem Inspired By Trip Mother of Loretto academy, told of the establishment i Catholism in El Paso. She came across the prairie in a and tells here of her experiences. Her story; writing oi the experiences of the first group of Lorettines who commenced the work of education in the southwest, there still survives one who can tell the story of privations. Traveling in those days was quite different from what it is at present. When going on a mission they took neither trunk nor suitcase but all needs were supplied as they journeyed.

long and tedious journey came to an end in the trip from Loretto, Kentucky to Santa Fe, traveling by boat from St. Louis to Independence, and from Independence to Santa Fc by wagon. One sister died of cholera on this trip and another of fright when the caravan was attacked by Indians. Miss Eleanor Donnelly, the distinguished Catholic poet, made her death the subject of a poem, dear to the heart of every Loreltme. Her grave on the western plains was Old uarez Mission Church by St.out-Feldman This is a picture of the old Juarez Mission church, which has stood for centuries in Juarez.

The old steeple has been shot off during various revolutionary troubles. The hardwood oak beams in the ceiling of this church were hauled for hundreds of miles by ox team. marked by a simple cross, but the sands of the wilderness drifted over it and only the watchful eye of God sees where Sister Alphonsa is peacefully sleeping. this long and trying trip, a few years elapsed before another colony was at Las This time the little band left Santa Fe and traveled in two carriages to Socorro. Things went on smoothly until they came to the Rio Grande between Albuquerque and Isleta.

There they had to ford the river, and ill the month of January, a thin coat of ice had collected 011 the water. The first carriage passed safely to the opposite side; but not so with the second, for it was caught in the ice and the horses refused to pull until they were relieved of their load. The sisters had to be carried from one carriage to another before they could go on their way to Socorro. They were guarded by 12 armed men, as there was danger from Indians. When they reached Fort Seldon, they were again obliged to cross the treacherous Rio Grande, and the horses fell into the quicksand, and the sisters were in danger again.

Santa Fe and Las Cruces there is an immense tract of land, barren and level as floor, high mountains may be seen at a great tance 011 each side and this place i is called Journey of because in former times as the cara-j vans traveled over that desert waste of 100 miles, they were sure to leave some bones of man or beast. It begins at Paraje and ends at Dona Ana. The Indians scampered freely over these plains as they passed to and fro to the Indian reservation and sometimes they attacked people. well was midway on this desert an dthere travelers rested for three or four days. In later years the Martin family erected a windmill and had connected to it a large reservoir, where people could water their stock.

sisters had to try their skill at walking more than once 011 this trip, as the horses would stop and seem to say, can pull no more, so please get out and After walking and riding we reached Las Cruces in 10 days. The railroad reached Las Cruces in 1081 and just at this time El Paso was booming, but our academy was the only school, hence there were more pupils than could be accom- I modated. Fairs and bazaar 5 were 1 held to encourage Father Lassaignc to build a new church. The one hen used was an old abode, and pieces of abode would fall during; the services and frighten the peo- pie. Soon the church was built and I a large statue of the Sacred Heart was purchased and is still in the thru our records we find that Santa Fe must have been pro- i vided with a church at the time of its foundation or about 1606.

San was built in 1636, partly destroyed in 1680, restored in 1710. In 1617, three years before the landing of the pilgrims, there were already 11 churches in New Mexico. Sant a Fe was the only Spanish town but there were also churches at Galisteo, Pecos, Jemes, Taos and San EST WE FORGET These men, who with unbounded faith in El Paso, laid the cornerstone, yonder in those other days, of an industry that today is indeed a credit to their foresight and faith MAtL W. FfiWEL MR. ZACH T.

WHITE IN 46 YEARS AGO These pioneers, and their associates were responsible for the realization of El Paso first gas plant. They were far building an institution destined to far exceed their greatest expectations. To Mrs. Fewel, who still resides here, was extended the honor of lighting the first gas flame ever to burn in El Paso. Little did she dream that in the years to come GAS would be used in practically every home in El Paso for cooking, the heating of water, and in many homes for heating and refrigeration.

Mr. White today, from his office windows, looks out upon the huge storage holders where there are hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of gas constantly being drawn upon by the ever increasing needs of the real city that lie dreamed of back in those days when El Paso was young and somewha clined to be wild. in Major lewel has gone, but the torch he passed to us who carry on is being held high. Our objective has not yet been gained. We still strive for a better and greater City as a monument to I hem, THESE PIONEERS.

It is fitting then that we pay our respects to these men who by unselfish sacrifices, hard work and real courage laid the foundation of the PASO One of Oldest Missions In S. W. S. P. TO AID Early oumts NEW SETTLER Choose Juarez R.

E. Kelly Named Manager of Bureau Aid in development of agriculture in territory served by Southern Pa- cific lines of El Paso, will be offered by the department of develop- ment and colonization which has i been organized by the railroad. R. E. Kelly has been appointed manager.

Edward H. Sharpe and F. Q. Treadway are assistants. Kelly i and Sharpe have visited El Paso oc- casionally as members of the S.

P. I publicity staff. will help farmers with their marketing problems, standardization i of products, and development of irri- 1 gation said Kelly. will preach the gospel of honest representation of lands to Mrs. I.

A. Shcdd came thru here in 1885 en route to the home of ft friend of her attorney general of Arizona. She crossed the Rio Grande by ferry. Tourists went to Juarez even in the early days ot saloons on this side of the river. Mrs.

home w'as in souri. She made several trips to this part of the country in her girlhood. It was necessary to stay all night in El Paso as train connections poor. When she married the couple lived in Tucson before coming to El Paso. by Stout-Feldman The picture shows the old mission at Ysleta, one of the oldest church establishments in the southwest.

It was in use long before there was any church at El Paso. First Hospital 1 his City Had Too Much Low Wages I came to El Paso in 1911, the town was overpopulated with low wage R. D. Buchanan told a reporter, Buchanan came here from New Mexico, He formerly lived in south Texas. came hunting work and thought it could have been better if there had been more PASOAN GETS THRILL FROM QUAKE EXTRAS Did Not Like Mt Franklin When First Arrived Here ---------------1 In parts of Mexico large harmless snakes of the python type are kept to catch mice, as we keep house cats.

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Robertson came from Midland, in 1904. Mr.

Robertson was a druggist; he worked for W. A. White Drug store. Mrs. Robertson said that like Mt.

Franklin when first saw it. Now she thinks it is beautiful. The first thing that impressed her was the newsboys calling extras about the San Francisco earthquake. She came from a small town and liked the excitement. She was here at the time that dero took Juarez.

by Stout-Feldman The picture shows the first hospital El Paso had. It is the old home of Hotel Dieu, the Catholic hospital, now operated in a much larger building 011 N. Stanton st. at Arizona. Udefonso.

According to church records a church for was founded at El Paso del Norte in 1662. Santa Fe was destroyed in 1630 but was reestablished in 1693 Vargas with aljout 200 soldiers and 70 families brought from El Paso. In 1852, returning from the pro- vincial council at Baltimore, Bishop Lamy found sisters who would take the direction of a school in Santa Fe. Accordingly he called on the Sisters of Loretto, near Bardstown, Kentucky. Six Sisters of Loretto were designated by the council of their house to go to Santa Fe to open the school.

April 4, 1864, the Rev. J. B. Saliponte, parish priest of Mora, opened a school with the Sisters of Loretto from Santa Fe taking charge. It was also in 1864 that another colony of these sisters, at the invita- 1 tion of Rt.

Rev. Joseph P. Mache- beuf, founded a school in Denver 1 and from this foundation came into existence the St. Academy of Denver, and from thence the nationally known Loretto Heights college. 1870 the sisters arrived in Las Cruces and were received in the home of Mrs.

Tom Tully. In 1880, before the building at Las Cruces was completed. Mother Praxedes, now at Loretto college in El Paso, came to finish the work and established the League of the Sacred i Heart and the Sodality of the Children of Mary. A memorable instance of the year 1886 was the arrival in Las Cruces of Gen. Nelson A.

Miles and his troops after receiving the surrender of the famous Indian chief, Geronimo, and the subjugation of the fierce Apaches, who for years had terrorized the southwest, 1879 the sisters took up the work in Texas, founding a school at San Elizario. The ruins of the once picturesque adobe still remain. Petitions were sent to the council at Loretto for the sisters to move to El Paso and in 1892 preparations were made for the move and property purchased at 319 N. El Paso. "Not until October, 1881, was there a Catholic church in what is now known as El to this time those who wished to hear mass were obliged to cross the Rio Grande by ferry to El Paso cdel Norte, or persons living in El Paso at the time of the building of the first chapel to St.

Mary are still alive or exist in the memory of many. first section of St. school was built in 1903 on Myrtle avenue, near St. Vrain, and school was opened under the charge of the Sisters of Loretto. October, 1892.

month after the opening of St. Joseph's Academy, the Sisters of Loretto took charge of the Sacred Heart school for Mexican children, and in 3899 the beginning of St. Mary's school was inaugurated. In 1903 the school was opened, followed in 1905 by St. Ignatius and the Guardian Angels.

1923 St. Cathedral school and St. Joseph's Parochial school were opened and the transfer of the St. Academy to Aus- tin Terrace. Plans were laid in 1908 for the new Loretto college building.

School was opened in September, 1923. At this writing the work 011 the chapel is in rapid progress and will be ready for occupancy in a few weeks. Thinks Girls Too Frisky Nowadays are too frisky says Mrs. M. A.

Bailey, 94 years old. She ha lived in El Paso 26 years. would have liked to see my girls attempt to start for a dance at 10 as they do now. boys were made to understand they must go home by 10 when they came to see my girls. I had a girl now I would want to go to a Jungle to raise On Sale Tomorrow! One-Star Vests Regular $2,50...

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Thousands of homes have been furnished in an attractive way which would have been inconvenient and in many cases impossible by the old rules of payment. This company has grown with Texas. There are seven stores in five cities and the volume of business has increased from $43,000 to over $1,250,000 annually. The payrolls now Include 160 employes and a delivery fleet of 35 trucks and cars. The remarkable growth of El Paso and its surrounding communities is but an indication of its future and it is the determination of the Texas Furniture Storage Co.

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