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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1905
Page
2
The Roswell Daily Record discusses editorial changes and local business matters. M B Rhea is noted as an old timer, while Fraternal Sanitarium site talks and Artesia and Lake Arthur papers are referenced. Advertisers face caution on local ads as Roswell grows with Pecos Valley papers and a Roswell Canning Factory subscription issue.
Las Vegas New Mexico August 10 word from contractors bidding on tents for the National Fraternal Sanitarium says ten thousand tents will be let late August. The sanitarium needs funds as taxes on leading fraternal orders won’t be available for months. An audience with John D Rockefeller is arranged and he may contribute the remaining of the 75050 asked from public subscription. The management plans to open the sanitarium in October.
The Carpenters and Joiners union declares Pearce & Bixby responsible for hiring a non union shingler at the Canning Factory. After a union committee protested, workers stopped by pulling tools and the firm’s open shop stance is labeled unfair. The union says it will not work under current terms. Two Salvation Army cadets, Willie Crawford and Albert Miller, left for Chicago for officer training with a rigid six month program.
Miss Callie Townsend of this city won a Draughn school scholarship in Nashville Tennessee due to a misspelled word contest. She will depart October 1 for Oklahoma City to study shorthand typewriting and bookkeeping in a Draugan school branch, aiming to finish in three months. New Mexico contests award first second and third prizes with Roswell, Alamogordo and Texico noted.
Several deeds were filed for record Saturday and Monday in the Office of Probate Clerk F. P. Gayle. R. F. Gayle transferred to John F. Gayle for 500 dollars, lots 7 through 32 in block 12 of South Roswell. E. L. Wildy guardian for Ella Lea, a minor, to John B. Atwood for 1 dollar a one half interest in lot 4 of Lea’s subdivision in section 23 town 10 S range 24 E. Jeremiah Cazier and wife sold to C. L. Tallmadge for 2,000 dollars forty acres in section 7 town 13 S range 26 E. Mrs. C. Burd sold to Arthur G. Burd for 1 dollar the east half of lot 4 block 3 South Highlands. Mrs. C. Burd sold to Jessie M. Gammill for 1 dollar the east half of lot 4 block 2 Winfield Scott Day. Luella E. Garner acquired for 1,000 dollars a half interest in 20 acres in section 21 town 13 S range 26 E.
Dr Frank N Brown dentist advertises services with offices over Roswell National Bank. Specializes in pyorrhea and orthodontia. Contact numbers 146 and 353 listed.
Notices show South Bound trains close at 9 40 a m. An ad for Pecos Valley Lumber Co lists wallpaper glass paint and floor finish offerings.
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