From The Santa Fe New Mexican

November 4, 1909: Hon. A.L. Lawshe, assistant postmaster general, who is being urged by his Indiana and New Mexico friends for governor of New Mexico to succeed Gov. George Curry, is now an avowed candidate.

County School Supt. John V. Conway will leave in the morning for Agua Fria to install teachers at Lower Agua Fria and Cienegas, Districts 5 and 25. Next Sunday he leaves for the north to install teachers on Monday at Upper Nambe, Lower Nambe, Upper Pojoaque and Upper San Ildefonso.



November 4, 1959: Soaring social security payments in New Mexico have apparently brought an extremely significant change in the state's relief program for the aged. While the number of elderly citizens receiving monthly checks from the federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance program is shooting upward, the number of indigent old folks receiving state dole has finally leveled off after an almost constant climb over more than 25 years. If the 25-year climb in the cost of supporting the needy aged has come to an end as it appears, it's the best news in years for taxpayers. The seemingly endless rise in the number of aged on relief had long been a source of worry for state budget planners.


November 4, 1984: Alamogordo — Republican lawyer Sandra Grisham is spending almost twice the amount of her opponent in her bid to break the Democratic hold on the Otero County Courthouse and become the only woman district judge in southern New Mexico. Financial reports filed this week with the secretary of state's office show Grisham spent $15,935.65 through Oct. 20. Her opponent in the Division 1 judge's race, Democrat Norman Bloom, listed expenditures of $8,506.91.