Monday evening Mr…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

at 33 per cent of the above amount which added, gives a fair idea of what our mines have produced. Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Betts gave a farewell party to Miss Frances R. Newcomb. There were present Mrs. W. A. Leonard, Mrs. L. B. Morrill, Misses Ada Martin, Amelia and Frances Ott, Messrs. Newcomb, Black, Cox, Aiken, Miles, Henry Carter. Miss Newcomb left on Tuesday’s train for her home at Boston, Mass. The Rain Makers Of Socorro The editor of the Advertiser and several others went up on top of the Socorro mountain on Wednesday last with several hundred pounds of giant powder and tried to make water, and after fooling around for a time they made wind, and came home. If, as the Chieftain meanly intimates. Brother McCutchen failed to make water, after climbing to the summit of the Socorro mountain he has our sympathy, but on the other hand McC. himself claims that he produced plenty of it, so much in fact, that the people of the surrounding counties would like to have him let up a little bit. The Enterprise whilst differing with the Chieftain in many respects, is not mean enough to wish the editor of the Advertiser any harm, and hopes that he may be able to produce the necessary discharges whenever called upon to do so. As for making wind. Brother Williams know how that is himself. From the September 11, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise