From The Santa Fe New Mexican

Oct. 5, 1911: Mrs. Emma Harney has leased the second floor of the building formerly occupied by the Beavers and will rent furnished rooms with steam heat, hot and cold water. These rooms will be beautifully furnished and will attract many residents.

Lester Blair of Mountainair claims to be the biggest boy for his age in the new state. He is 9 years old and weighs 176 pounds, his height being exactly 5 feet. He came to Mountainair with his father, a section foreman from Texas, several months ago.

Oct. 5, 1961: Thanks to the community fair held on the grounds of St. Vincent Hospital in June the hospital now has a brand new machine to help save lives. The Auxiliary to
St. Vincent's has presented the hospital with a Morris External Defibrillator. The device, a new $523 machine developed by the Air Force and used with techniques extensively studied at John Hopkins, stops heart 'fibrillation' without forcing surgeons to cut open the chest cavity to reach the heart.

Oct. 5, 1986: Drug or alcohol use among children can start before age 12. Yet most drug prevention programs don't start until the child hits junior high school. That's the gap a pilot program at two Santa Fe elementary schools would like to fill. But the Lions Clubs' Quest Skills for Living program is more than just a drug prevention program say two Santa Fe educators. It is designed to make children feel better about themselves. Parents are encouraged to participate in the program as well.