The past 100 years

From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 1, 1917: To the President White House Washington, D.C. We wish you know that the mass meeting held here last night, from which a resolution was sent to you concerning the treatment of suffrage pickets did not represent the views of the men and women of Santa Fe.

Not over 70 people attended the meeting and a number of them were children and young girls.

Sentiment throughout New Mexico is strong against pickets, notwithstanding the message you are receiving through the efforts of Miss Anne Martin.

Mrs. W.E. Lindsey, Acting State Chairman National American Woman’s

Suffrage Association The foregoing telegram was sent today by the wife of the governor to the White House to counteract the effect of the resolutions wired as a result of the meeting held by Miss Martin last night.

In addition, Mrs. Lindsey and many prominent Santa Fe women proposed statements condemning the tactics of the picketeers as “silly,” “futile,” “unseemly,” “willful,” “harmful” and otherwise.

Dec. 1, 1967: “If he was in a room with some other migrants leaning up against the wall he would be the last man you’d pick as a leader. But then you would listen to him, to his low voice, and you would understand.”

A young Spanish-American is speaking of Cesar Chavez, the 35-year-old leader of California’s successful “Huelga,” the fruit picker’s strike in Delano which broke the back of major San Joaquin Valley fruit growers.

Chavez will speak at 1 p.m. tomorrow in the Great Hall at St. Johns College under the sponsorship of the St. Johns Student Forum.

This is his first foray into New Mexico.

Dec. 1, 1992: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to build a new and much larger Santa Fe store on a 12-acre site on Cerrillos Road that has been the location of a flea market, the local Wal-Mart manager said Monday.

Construction on the 140,000 square-foot store could start in February, Fred Woods said.

Also Monday, the new Sam’s Club Members Only store on Rodeo Road continued screening applicants for the 150 full-and part-time employees it needs.

… The new Wal-Mart store will be about 70 percent larger than the current Wal-Mart in the College Plaza shopping center on Cerrillos Road, Woods said.