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Newspaper
Lovington Leader
Location
Lovington, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1949
Page
4
Ancillary executor matters noted. Mr and Mrs Henry Eaves and Dorothy visited Waco last weekend and attended the Baylor Arkansas football game.
The Northside Circle met at Mrs. F. L. Goodrich home with Mrs. E. H Byers giving the Bible lesson. The Southside Circle met at First Baptist Church with Mrs. L. W Hardcastle delivering a devotional. About nine members joined the Southside Circle for revival outreach.
The Love Kindergarten will relocate to a new 15 by 30 foot building next week. Mrs Bernard says the facility includes a bath gas water blackboards and hardwood floors and sits beside the current kindergarten location.
Schedule changes for Hobbs Town Hall concert series list Dr Polgar as opener on Thursday Oct 27 at 8 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. Tickets selling fast with a deadline extension to Oct 20. Tickets available at Hobbs Drug Midwest Drug Melody Shop or by calling Mrs Rudolph or Mrs Aldridge. Ruth Bryan Rohde rescheduled to Feb 3 as alternate U N delegate. other acts include Virginia Sale Grace and Kurt Graff and the Dorelle trio. Twelve subjects will be chosen for a portion of Polgar's act.
The WSCS of the Methodist Church met at the parsonage on Monday Oct 10 with eight members and two new ones Mrs Lee Burt and Mrs Difford Taylor present. They voted to serve refreshments at the Bull Sale on Nov 28 and elected Mrs Beverly secretary of Literature and Publications.
2 280 acre ranch includes 360 acre valley 190 acre irrigable land river frontage for 3 mile runs through property current herd 100 head cattle. Optional 15 extra sections raise capacity to 300 head for 15000. Deeded forest permit lease fence and full farm equipment cost 3450. Price 30000 includes bulls cows calves horses fish ponds lakes cabins. Terms 42 down balance 5 to 10 years. W R Moore Silver City NM contact by wire phone 163 W.
David Shoup visited Clovis on Tuesday and Wednesday. Clifford Cone traveled to Odessa for a circus on Wednesday. Tommy Cone visited the Love kindergarten on Tuesday. Janet Fessler recently visited.
Leonard Woodward and David Shoup celebrated birthday parties at the Love Kindergarten last week with games and cookies. Students also gave birthday cards made by the class. September birthdays were Marilyn Moore Archie Rogers and Linden Neyman.
Mrs Lois Bates of Pep New Mexico will speak nightly during a two week Assembly of God revival beginning Sunday. The event runs for two weeks with nightly services.
Watch for Rexall store promotions with a one cent sale next week, promising bargain prices and doorstopper deals for shoppers. This notice urges customers to plan visits to the Rexall venue for discounted merchandise and special offers on various items.
Rev. Orel Boteler spoke to members of the Women’s Missionary council at the Assembly of God church on Tuesday afternoon. He discussed “How to Be a Successful Sunday School Teacher,” the study topic started last week. Attendees included Mesdames Randolph Wallace Lula Teague H F Hand John Elliott Albert Harmon and Orel Boteler.
Seven members attended the Nazarene Women's Foreign Missionary Society meeting at the Nazarene Church on Tuesday afternoon. Attendees included Mesdames E. J. Bennet t H. H. Bennett C. F. Sanders Stanley Col lumn Paul Pearsall H J Burns and W I Coley. Joy Cowan visited her grandmother in Texas over the weekend. Margie Lynn Hollman has been sick this week. One cent sale next week. Her mother is in the hospital at Hobbs.
State Tourist Bureau figures show a major upsurge in out-of-state visitors across more than 15 communities. Fort Sumner counts rose from 550 to 1200 cars per day, Las Vegas from 490 to 745, and Santa Fe from 1100 to 1800. statewide 24-hour checks hit 3500 this year versus 2500 in 1941.
A nationwide Oil Progress Week is planned from October 16 to 22 to highlight oil’s 90 year history. The item notes oil’s wartime role and postwar surge in civilian demand, with 40 000 wells drilled last year and ongoing technological advances boosting usable products per barrel.
The Lovington Leader lists Jhad L. WilLy Otis A. Green and Mary Fay Green in its staff history. It notes establishment in 1909 and that it is the Official Publication of the U S Land Office. It was entered as second class matter at Lovington New Mexico Post Office.
The article notes Lea County farmers join the cotton harvest surge as irrigated land opens. Gins at McDonald Lovington Hobbs Prairieview plus Lovingtons Farmers Gin and Barton Gin began in 1948. Tatum remains without a gin despite growing cotton acreage.
In October 1949 National Bible Week runs from the 17th to the 23rd to highlight core Christian values. The piece laments crime, delinquency, mental illness, ridiculed religion, and rising materialism while urging adherence to religious morals amid global tensions and a plea that man cannot live by bread alone.
The piece marks the 76th anniversary of Edison’s incandescent lamp and extols the electric age. It praises free enterprise, U S leadership in power, and rapid expansion of the industry, noting how American homes rely on electricity and the country’s dominance in world output. It also hints at college life with football, house work, and college pledges, including Delta Sigma Phi at the University of New Mexico.
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