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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1934
Page
8
Reader letter notes Main Drag dirt and mud after rainfall service. expects paving, blue and white license plates next year. comments on Yucca Theatre Dillinger film and Crime Does Not Pay. Mentions Courtesy Ticket to P D Taylor and a joke about car controls with a new girl.
A. C. Cooper chairs the exhibition softball games for Saturday night. Dexter faces two all star teams from Roswell National League and the American League in a doubleheader at home.
An advertisement lists frying chickens at 32 cents a pound and dressed hens at 60 cents. Eggs are offered by Deason Produce located at 605 S Main Street. Contact Paige Se for more details.
Roswell Floral Company advertises planting now for Oriental poppies and peonies. The notice provides a phone number 196 for ordering or inquiries, urging readers to plant at the proper time.
An old advertisement extols Sallee's Best Bread as tasty and nutritious, claiming it meets all dietary needs for active growing children and stresses the importance of thoroughly baked bread. The ad from Ideal Bakery at 607 West 2nd Street urges demand for Sallee's Best.
Sands underwent a tonsil and adenoids operation at St Marys Hospital yesterday. The procedure proceeded without complications and the patient is resting in recovery.
Gift Shop at 201 West Third Street advertises flower pots of all sizes and colors at reasonable prices.
Mrs. Claude M. Allison announces a new piano studio at 305 West Tilden featuring a special note book building program in Music Appreciation and Stories of the Operas.
Mrs. Jack Deaser yesterday won the news tip contest and secured two theatre tickets she can claim at The Record office. The attractions listed are Yucca, Roger Pryor and Heather Angel in Romance In The Rain, The Life and Death of Dillinger, and Harry Cary in Night Rider.
Roswell Yucca theatre stages Miss Queen of the West pageant with winners from Roswell Artesia Carlsbad and Hobbs traveling by NM Transportation bus to Albuquerque for finals at Kimo theatre. Local winners include Frances Brockheuser Dolly Duffin Nadine Hughes Leona Giebel Willo Dean Heston and a Hobbs entrant.
Fifty Boy Scouts from Breckenridge Texas plus leaders will arrive in Roswell tomorrow afternoon. They will stay overnight at Cahoon Armory and swim at the Institute Natatorium. Roswell Scouts led by Pete Stone will meet them and accompany them to the swimming party. Stone requests Roswell Scouts meet at courthouse lawn tomorrow at 4:30.
Brookshier Produce at 920 East Second offers flyers priced at 8S7, large hens 12c per pound, guineas 40c each, young ducks 15c per pound, roosters 7c per pound and fresh eggs. Drive in service advertised.
Dott and Allen Massey, and Mr. and Mrs. Milton Mabie known as The Westerners, plan to resume radio work in Chicago after vacations in Roswell and at Ruidoso. Dotty and Allen leave with Mrs. H. A. Massey and will join Dotty’s family in Chicago. Larry Wellington, the fifth Westerner, also traveled from Los Angeles to join in Chicago.
Funeral services for Jerry D. Hall aged sixty seven will be held tomorrow morning at ten o'clock at the Talmage Memorial Chapel. Rev W A Huffman will officiate with music from the Fundamentalist Baptist Church choir. Interment will be at South Park with Talmage Mortuary directing.
Fire crews battled a blaze in a chicken house at the residence of Mrs. Lillie Adams located at 505 South Missouri this morning. No injuries were reported and the cause is under investigation by local authorities.
G L Reese Jr district attorney was in the city today on official business.
Leave For Sweetwater David Grenier of Roswell and Miss Velma Lee Senn of Dexter depart this afternoon for Sweetwater Texas for a two week visit at the home of Miss Senns sister.
M. I. Botkin and Ed McDonald, once held for investigation after counterfeit dollars were found buried near Roswell, have been released as evidence did not justify charges.
Sixty eight Girl Scouts and nine student leaders begin the third two weeks at Camp Mary White in the Sacramento Mountains near Roswell. Miss Mary J L White, national official, directs. Dorothea Sullivan trains leaders in troop methods. Sunday Governor's Day barbecue draws nearly a thousand visitors as four beeves and piles of potatoes and beans are served. Elza White Sr heads the event and presides at the chuck wagon. After camp, August 26, Mr White guides a 200 mile horseback ride to Carlsbad Caverns. Roswell campers include Vicenta Burciaga Virginia Hudson Ruth Long Ruth Jean Smith Vanell Norton and Mary E Russell.
Leo Latham twenty formerly of Roswell was killed in a head on collision in Los Angeles last Saturday night. His sister Mrs Imez Mask and her husband Brownie Mask and a friend William Kephart were in the car. Mrs Mask and Kephart were seriously injured. Mr Mask was reported as being all right. Latham had many friends in Roswell and previously worked at Docs Sandwich Shop before leaving last June.
A local notice reports a free sample of goat dairy literature accompanying pamphlets as part of a sanitation campaign. No further details available.
Want bed furnished four to six room house or apartment. Address P. O. Box 200. Alitt3e.
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