The following is a recap of local events for this time period throughout history.
Nineteen-month-old Timothy Worden is one lucky little boy to have a big sister who babysits. About two months ago he sat at the family table after the blessing was said, beginning to dig into his taco dinner, when something went wrong. He was choking and beginning to turn blue. Tim’s father, Mark Worden, picked him up and gave him a few swats on the back but it didn’t dislodge the food that blocked his airway. “It all happened so fast – it was just a blur,” he said. “I was beginning to panic when my daughter Kelli had the presence of mind to save him.” Sixteen-year- old Kelli had taken a babysitter’s training course two years before and remembered what to do. She turned Tim over with her hand supporting his face, tilted him toward the floor and delivered several back blows between his shoulder blades. “Tim was turning blue – I struck him with the heel of my hand and it just dislodged,” she said. “He started breathing again and he was fine.” … The American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training course is a day-long class that teaches youth ages 11-15 how to care for infants through school-age children.
The Daily Times
The head must have been harder than the glass in a skateboard accident about 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Circle K Store, 1901 E. 20th, because the skateboard rider apparently wasn’t injured, but a hole was knocked in the store window. City police said their investigation into the matter was closed when the skateboard rider’s father, Ralph Lozier, advised he would make restitution for damages, estimated at $110. There was no indication of injury to the skateboard rider, Craig Lozier, whose age wasn’t given.
The Daily Times
The first woman jury in New Mexico was paneled in Justice Court last Saturday before Judge Fred L. Lawson. The jury was summoned to hear a water dispute between the Hill Ditch Co. of La Plata and John Rasmussen. The ditch company contended John had violated their rules so they filed a complaint. The case was brought to Aztec before Judge Lawson. A jury of six persons were selected and when a jury acceptable to both sides was paneled it consisted of five women and one man. The jury hearing the case returned a verdict of not guilty.
Aztec Independent Review
The cherry and apricot season is practically over here and the crop of each was the heaviest that has been raised here for several years. The most of the crops went to the mining towns in Colorado and the San Luis valley, but a considerable quantity was carried by trucks to Gallup, and a number of cherry shipments went into Arizona, and some even to California, which seemed like “carrying coals to Newcastle.”
Farmington Times-Hustler
The residents of Cedar Hill were aroused to a high pitch of excitement last Thursday by an attempt on the part of Jim McEwen to commit rape upon a little 10-year-old girl who was visiting at his home, and had there been anyone to take the lead there is no doubt he would have been lynched. McEwen was in similar trouble several months ago, his victim at that time being a 13-year-old girl who resides at Cedar Hill, and he was under bond for that offense at the time the second was committed. … Feeling runs high at both Cedar Hill and Riverside and it is hinted there that it would not be safe to turn McEwen loose in that community again.
Aztec Independent
E.A. Chubb, chairman of the Board of county commissioners, has sold his ranch to George B. Davis, late of Texas, for a cash consideration of $1,500. Mr. Davis is a cattleman of considerable means and will prove a valuable accession to that part of the county. Mr. Chubb will not leave the county but expects to go to Kansas and buy some of the cheap cattle in the drought-stricken district and bring them here to winter. Mr. Rodgers near Aztec will join with him in the enterprise.
The Farmington Times
This Week in Local History is compiled by Debi Tracy Olsen, local journalist and volunteer at the Aztec Museum and Pioneer Village. The stories are pulled from newspaper archives and are reprinted as they appeared, errors and all.