This is tho season to invite your east
ern friends to visit you and the Estancia
Valley.
Taken Charge at Willard.
Hon. Carl A. Dalies of the John
Becker Company took charge of
the Willard store this week and is
now an enthusiastic citizen of Tor
rance county. W. A. Dunlavy who
has had charge of the store at that
place for the Dunlavy Mereantile
Co. has gone to Torrance to Man
age the store there for the Becker
company.
Htv. George .1. Julliard, Furnishes Intersting
Article.
Writing for the Gallop Republican, Rev.
Geo. J. JuiUard has this to say about one
of the ancient churches of one of the anci
ent Pueblo Indian villages of Northern
New Mexico.
The Acoma church u;ts built in the mid
dle of the seventeenth century, later it
was destroyed by the Indians in the revol
ution of 1680 and rebuilt in 1697. It is tin
most imposing mission building in the
territory. It is over 150 feet long
and 44 feet wide and 40 feet high At the
east of it, a spacious convent built by the
Indians used years ago I y the Franciscan
Fathers, still stands beautiful in its oddity
as a monument of the love of the Acoma
Indians to tneir priests.
How grand these buildings appear to
the occasional tourist, crowning as the
do the lofty peaVs of the huge Acoma cliffs
When yon approach the western part oi
the city of the clouds, you cannot fail but
admire them, About the sandy plains
as a Gibralter above the sea, arise the Is
land of dented plastered rock. It giev.
