The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Sept. 14, 1917: Booths for secret balloting will be used in New Mexico for the first time at the election on the “dry” and other proposed constitutional amendments on November 6.

The Santa Fe county commissioners are meeting today to name judges and clerks of the November election, and they will take steps to secure a supply of booths. Collapsible booths that can be stored probably will be purchased and bids for supplying them will be asked.

Sept. 14, 1967: Curious passers-by, seeing the network of scaffolding on the face of the new capitol building, may wonder if it’s close to falling down already.

While the answers vary on the seriousness of the building’s ailments, most agree that the nature of the work is corrective.

Simply put, all the drilling and chipping is designed to correct a “settling” of the year old building, apparently resulting from too much weight resting on horizontal bolsters in the basement.

Sept. 14, 1992: After Zozobra’s explosive greeting Friday evening, Fiesta was put to bed for a year Sunday with the whispered good night of hundreds of flickering candles.

More than 700 people attended the Sunday night Mass at St. Francis Cathedral, then toiled up to the Cross of the Martyrs for a final ceremony of prayer and music, lit by luminarias and candlelight.

Fiesta Council President Rick Berardinelli pronounced this year’s Fiesta “wonderful, beautiful and peaceful,” an assessment repeated by revelers and organizers.