Rio Grande Republican Sat. May 9, 1908 Local News Attorney H. B. Holt spent Sunday in El Paso. ____________________________________________ W. D. Buck the Alamogordo undertaker was a Cruces visitor on private business on Monday. ____________________________________________ Wes. Baker, and Mr. Browden were lover valley visitors in the county seat yesterday. ____________________________________________ Water Coolers, Water Sets, Water Glasses at Novelty Mercantile Co. ____________________________________________ Dripping Springs is attracting people who like to get away from town for a while. About half-a-dozen couples rode out last week. ____________________________________________ F. C. Barker & Co. and T. Rousault are growing extra early cantaloupes. They plant the seeds in small boxes covered by glass. Both have cantaloupes in bloom. ____________________________________________ Mr. P. Moreno leaves this evening for Las Vegas to attend the meeting of the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy, which body will convene up there for their annual meeting on Monday. ____________________________________________ Misses Cleotilde and Corine Amador returned Monday from Chihuahua, Mexico, where they went to attend the marriage of their brother. Another sister, Mrs. Daguerre, went from Parral, Mexico, to be present at the wedding. ____________________________________________ Harry Bailey is experimenting with tobacco stems for woolly aphids and codling moth. Mr. Bailey purchased the stems from the El Paso tobacco factory and is trying them to the trunk of the trees. ____________________________________________ Mr. Nathan Smith, who has been suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism the past two months, has so far recovered as to be able to leave for his ranch home near Engle this week. Dr., F. C. Campbell accompanied him yesterday and will spend the next few weeks recuperating. ____________________________________________ Mr. C. H. Williams Dead. Died - Sunday morning at 4 o'clock, Mr. Charles H. Williams to typhoid pneumonia. Mr. Williams had been ill only about a week. The remains were shipped to their former home at Hawarden, Iowa, for interment. Mrs. Williams and son, Lewis accompanied them. The deceased was quite a prominent and enterprising resident of the valley and his sudden death was a shock to the community. ____________________________________________ Marcena Thompson Dona Ana Co., NM