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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1933
Page
4
Invitations issued for the annual Governor's Day barbecue at Camp Mary White on Sunday August 13. Elza White to preside as master of ceremonies for a meal featuring three beeves and all offerings. Roswell Girl Scout Council sponsors the camp and sends handwritten citations to friends.
A group from Oakland California visits Pine Lodge for a week while students travel to Los Angeles for Pasadena high school and USC. Others return from Colorado trips, visit relatives in Los Angeles, and attend church events. Birth announced at St Marys Hospital and local society notes fill the page.
The Presbyterian Missionary Society’s second thimble tea to raise the $350 quota was held Saturday afternoon at 205 West Walnut, hosted by Mrs. Julia Huff Dakens. Guests included Charles D. Keyes, Edward Gessert, LeRoy Thompson, John R. St. John, William J. Beatty, John W. Rhea, Arthur J. Stevens, Hettie Brown of Alva, and Miss Marie M. Holt.
Miss Nina Cullen hosted a garden party for P and O Chapter K on Saturday night. The event honored Miss Martha Cowan president who left the next day for a three week motor trip and visit to her Missouri home. Refreshments were served to Martha Cowan, Bess Bybee, Edith Geyer, Nellie G Mason, Nan Rasmussen, Laurene Peck, Gertrude Zink, Bandhe Cullen, Mrs. Walter Gill, and Mrs. Corrine Whitney.
Albany N Y August telegrams from Governor Herbert H Lehman directed 57 upstate sheriffs to appoint as many deputies as needed to quell milk strike disturbances.
Roswell American Legion post meets in Cahoon Armory basement at 7 20 pm with roughneck program at 8 15 pm All ex service men invited report from Department Convention delegate talk on Legion membership nominating committee report for post officers election in September wrestling bouts include Kendall Gaston Hewitt King boxing match Hicks vs Woods and a six man battle royal with Brown Woodard Davis Phelps Waynon Fryrd promoter Bill McKenzie
Classified note indicates a cash difference offer to trade a night car for a lot in a good location. Seller Tankersely at 409 W. 12th Avenue places the ad, implying a transfer exchange in a local marketplace.
An old advertisement promotes S S S as a skin health tonic. It claims skin affections arise from lowered resistance, and that increasing red blood cells and hemoglobin improves tissue vitality and fights infection. The copy urges using soap or cosmetics after laying a foundation with the tonic.
A Leavenworth residence was visited by Mrs Druggan, according to notes found in the house. Vase at its widest diameter was mentioned, with details focusing on the rooms and objects observed during the visit.
A Boehlner craftsman in Boeller's Jewelry Store shows a pine cone petal vase he made from 1600 petals with a symmetrical spiral of 23 lines and four rosettes. He also grows nut trees at 508 North Missouri, grafting English, butternut and black walnut varieties, including a black walnut tree with rare single lobe kernels.
Mr. Boellner, working in Roswell, reports bearing trees this summer and notes that grafting held trees back about two weeks, helping them avoid last winter's cold. He has created many varieties and excelled in budding and grafting. What’s your hobby?
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