July 15, 1909: Owing to the fact that the W.C.T.U. medal contest will take place at the Elks' opera house tonight, no moving picture show will be given.

Work by the convicts on Tesuque Circle Drive is progressing finely. Mayor Jose D. Sena is a daily visitor to the camp to watch the work.

Santa Fe train No. 7 was annulled last evening. Train No. 1 was six hours late, and Train No. 9 five hours. Train No. 3 was eight hours late. All of these trains were from the east and were delayed by the floods in Kansas and Missouri.

July 15, 1959: Photo: Mrs. Marilyn Chavez is shown with her four children, two of whom she is giving up for adoption, because "can't feed them, and they need a father.'"The father was killed in an auto accident near Lamy recently. The mother is expecting a fifth child in about three weeks. The two younger boys will be turned over to the Child Welfare Agency for adoption. Mrs. Chavez, who is not a New Mexico resident, is receiving some aid from the Welfare Department and is trying to get back to her home in New Jersey.

July 15, 1984: Washington — Within the next few months, hundreds of thousands of American consumers who have never thought twice about what company handles their long-distance phone calls will have to start thinking. They will be told that their local telephone office is being 'cut over' to provide something called "equal access." They will be told it's time to pick a long-distance company. The process is almost guaranteed to produce confusion and possibly mutterings that the government should never have broken up the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. "for the first time in anybody's life, when it comes to long-distance telephone service, a person or business has the opportunity to take exactly the same service and pay different prices for it," said MCI.