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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
3
H. H. Henninger traveled to Hagerman for a business visit. Deputy Sheriff Fred Higgins went south on business. Take Cruise’s car to Pine Lodge. Mrs. C. A. Miller and her son left for Pecos for a short visit.
Dex ter business visitor Adolph Vetter comes in from Dex ter this morning. Registration books are now open. Miss Helen Maryars left for Lake Arthur to begin her name. Nimitz Theatre plans are noted. Roy H. Paniel announces the birth of a son yesterday afternoon. Poultry buyers at U. S. Market pay highest cash price. J. Y. Thornton, Pecos Valley coal oil inspector, went to Portales this morning. Private funds for city lots. Roswell notices list 303 Main St. See J. bs. Herbst. R. D. Rightmire returns to Hageman after a Roswell business day. Miss Nell Snow returns to Trexter after visiting. Joan and Nora Gage travel to Artesia for three weeks. Pearl Lewis, nurse, travels to Portales for a typhoid case. Arthur Faulkner of Dexter was here on business yesterday. Ground bones for chicken feed advertised. W. F. Osborne from Hagerman on Broom Factory business. Registration books now open. H. B. Johnson of Carlsbad returns home after Roswell visit. Livery services advertise for hire. Mrs Fred Warner and Miss Dot Shafer visit Hagerman. Independent Market promotes Sunday roast at 118 N Main. Misses Agnes Caldwell Alma Purdue depart Elida after four months. Miss Bessie Wilson arrives from Portales to join Ruth Wilson visiting Mrs Chester Smith.
Mrs. Fred Lee travels to Dexter to join her husband who is temporarily stationed there with Kemp Lumber Co for a short stay.
Moore the photographer advertises cabinet photographs at $1.50 per half dozen and post cards at 75 cents per half dozen to promote a new gallery near the First National Bank. Rev P T Ramsey, pastor of the Southern M E Church, traveled to Artesia last night to preach at the revival there.
Saturday Evening Post Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion offered at $1.50 yearly with Hattie L. Cobean as agent. Mr and Mrs D A Paddock travel to Belen New Mexico where he taught. they will reside there. Valley Optical advertises V O K Y cleaner. First door north of Price Co. F L Steck of Austin Texas visits with sister Mrs Geo T Littlefield of Kenna then returns home. Title and Trust Co promotes building homes with lot purchase and custom plans. Wm J Carier of Sullivan Illinois arrives for late brother Jerry Carier’s funeral. Title and Trust Co notes ads for city property and remaining farm land bargains.
Rural letter carriers from nearly all New York state post offices gather in Watertown on August 12 to hold a two day convention and discuss union matters and route efficiency.
Advertisement notes that electric fans provide ideal ventilation and a more comfortable life with lower housekeeping costs. It invites readers to call 448 and contact Thos. Terry, Agent.
Ads include a good family mare with buggy harness and saddle priced cheap. Also a residence in a good locality with modern conveniences. Corner lot in a desirable city section. Other items listed include horse and saddle two riding ponies a tent house and a road wagon with contact numbers and locations.
Classified notices show multiple wants including a small irrigated farm near Roswell, a safe with details to notify, a first class rubber-tired survey, a teacher or governess near Kenna, two lady boarders in a private home, and a governess or teacher position in a private ranch setting with addressed inquiries to local names and locations.
An array of Roswell merchants markets a wide reach of services and goods. From butchers and meat markets to billiards, livery, hardware, lumber and ready-to-wear apparel, the ad page lists names like Jaffa Prager Co, Joyce Pruit Co, Roswell Drug & Jewelry, Dilley Furniture, Shrader Grocery, The Oriental Livery, Pecos Valley Lumber, Roswell Lumber, Kemp Lumber, and Moxerison Bros. The notices emphasize best quality, large inventories, and in some cases special services such as private ambulances and funeral arrangements.
The ladies of the Southern Presbyterian church will serve ice cream cake and lemonade tomorrow evening on the Sea lot corner Main and 5th street. Everyone is cordially invited. Mrs Frank Garrett and two children who were visiting Mr and Mrs A D Garrett left last night for Monahan Texas where they reside.
Several short rental notices list properties on North Richland Street Lea Avenue Main Street and First and Second Streets. Rentals include a two room light housekeeping unit a five room modern house with bath electric lights and city water and a four room flat with close in location all inviting inquiries to Dr J W Kinsinger Beeson and the Record Office.
Sister Taracilla, formerly stationed at Carlsbad, has been reassigned to the Sisters' Academy in Wichita and left this morning for her new quarters. She was accompanied from Roswell by Miss Erin Kimmel, who will enter the Wichita school.
Mr and Mrs L Marattay and baby arrived back in Roswell after extended visits near Louisville Kentucky. Mrs Marattay left Roswell last January and joined her husband in May. Mr and Mrs George Marriott and their son arrived from Amarillo and will stay several days. Marriott had been absent from his Pecos Valley railroad passenger run due to his wife falling ill in Louisiana.
A list of proposed constitutional amendments includes creating a uniform primary and referendum system, establishing state corporation regulation, mandating campaign finance disclosures, making the judiciary elective with separate elections, enabling Governor veto with legislative override, prohibiting legislators from appointive offices, and instituting fair legislative apportionment based on the 1910 census.
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