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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1933
Page
8
Advertisement for embroidered linens and stamped needlework from Art Gift Shop at 107 West 4th Street. Notes gift appeal and local availability with a brief promotional tone.
An advertisement offers furnished cabins in Ruidoso at The Hill Crest with wood and water supplied. It notes the office is the first house south of the Baptist Tabernacle and promises courteous treatment. Roy Burnett is the manager.
On August 6 7th West Texas and New Mexico beauties gathered at Yucca Theater for a parade to select the 1933 Queen of the West. Readers see Miss Gallup Miss South Plains Miss Roswell and others in positions with Jack Downs of Pampa winning first place. The revue will play Thursday and Friday with club entertainments and dances each evening plus banquets and a swimming party.
A parade of small town curiosities and chatter. Thorne Park fence whitewashed to improve curb appeal and deter peeking. Col Pearson’s fountain by Ray Dearholt features over a hundred fish, green frogs, two alligators, and mini waterfalls. Advertisers urged to plan ahead as hours tighten. College Humor film promotion excites readers. Ted Jones hints at a bathing beauty contest and related banquet debate.
The remark speculates that if the German regime banned women using beauty aids at meetings, Americans would see no women present. It implies a critique of gender norms and propaganda, contrasting hypothetical Nazi policy with American behavior.
J E Johns of Coca Cola Bottling Roswell and Mrs Johns return from Ogden Utah where he served as supervisor for New Mexico and Arizona in the N R A beverage code. Arizona bottlers accept the code and New Mexico meeting is set. Mrs Johns is NM association secretary.
The revival at North Hill Baptist Church continues this week with a sermon series on Prophecy. Tonight's topic is Daniel's Seventieth Week of Prophecy as the pastor preaches in an outdoor tabernacle inviting all to attend and learn about rapidly fulfilled prophecies.
D. D. Wimberley received a telegram from Mrs. Wimberley at Terrell Texas saying that her mother died there this morning. Mrs. Wimberley and daughter Louise had been at Terrell for the past several days.
Colonel J. D. Atwood arrived in Roswell last night after a trip from Washington to Amarillo by air and a subsequent bus ride from Amarillo to Roswell. He served as a representative of Governor Seligman on the oil code conference during his stay in Washington.
Flood waters swept western Kansas Saturday causing one death and unestimated property and livestock losses. A cloudburst in eastern Colorado and western Kansas sent normally dry streams in Wallace Greenley Wichita and Scott counties on a rampage. Union Pacific Railroad service resumed after crews replaced a mile of track in Wallace county.
Mr and Mrs J A Witt and Misses Tommie Charlotte Virginia Witt and Thelma McCully county school superintendent returned last night from a week long vacation at Adams ranch in the mountains twenty three miles from Las Vegas.
Heavy rain fell Saturday afternoon in Ruidoso marking one of the heaviest downpours of the summer. Local responders reported localized flooding and brief street closures as waters pooled along main corridors.
Mr and Mrs Henry Puckett and Ethel Gilbert spent the weekend at Ruidoso, enjoying the mountain town and its leisure offerings as a brief getaway report notes.
A Loyal Temperance Legion meeting is set for tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock in the Parish Hall of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. The event invites members and interested neighbors to attend.
Dr W E Goodsell residence at 102 North Penn Ave fully redecorated and ready for a responsible renter around August 20. contact 1268 J for details. Adv Alife Record Want Ads fret Results.
The Chaves County commissioners met in special session to address relief office space and clerical help, appoint John Tweedy to the Emergency Relief Committee, and consider costs for postcards and clerical mail notices. Election proclamations for a September 19 statewide vote were deferred pending state guidance.
Fourteen Roswell firms signed the NRA re employment agreement today up to 2 30 o clock including Greenhaven Service Station J N Chedester Thomas J McKnight Price Duke minier Bowen Baking Co White Mt Filling Station Gough and Andrews Purity Bakery White Rock Cafe J H Carpenter Chambers Service Station Citizens Finance Co Fisher Body Shop and Western Garage The second item reports Santa Fe freight car loadings at 21 033 last week down from 21 436 the prior week and 22 737 in the same week last year.
Ysictoria Chevez pleaded guilty in justice court to stealing a gun. She was sentenced to 10 days in jail and costs by L. L. Johnson, J. P.
Brinkley Ray Wilkins and Ver nie Lee Briggs of Roswell were married Saturday afternoon at the home of C. L. Wilkins by Rev. F. S. Spartman. A marriage license was issued Saturday to John Najar of Hagerman and Francisca Espinosa of Roswell.
Greenhaven Curio Shop advertises Navajos at a quarter off present low prices with only a few days remaining in the sale.
Advertisement touts Falcom Electrical Service run by a Radio Man with 25 years of experience at 123 West Second offering electrical work and radio sales. The ad provides phone number 289 for inquiries.
George Kaseman, president of Albuquerque and Cerrillos Coal Co, said there is nothing to reports of a walkout at the Madrid mine. He noted no trouble was reported and no county scale inspector has been appointed. Scales are tested with government weights and weighings match between mine and railroad scales.
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