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Artesia Community Notices From August Events
Miss Lois Howard plans to depart August 19 for Albuquerque to begin college this winter. Miss Esta Rogers of Loving returns home after a Cottonwood visit. Ralph Hersey, sister Mrs die Schultz, and Ethel take a vacation trip east. Mrs. D. A. Bradley visits Roswell with Sam Bradley and family and meets daughter-in-law Mrs. Owen Phillips. Mrs. Glenn O Bannon takes children to El Paso to fetch Mrs. Mac Campbell from Carlsbad who has been hospitalized. A marriage license issued to Miss Grace Kimbell Artesia and Douglas O Bannon Lake Arthur for a wedding on August 13. Cottonwood Womans Club met in Artesia with gifts, demonstrations on dairy foods and group buying of canning supplies. Conley presented a gift for good service as she leaves Missouri. Mrs Thigpen also received gifts for a new home. Flower contest led by Mrs Zumwalt and Mrs Orval Gray with a wild flower poem by Mrs Bill Ross. Preservation of New Mexico wildflowers discussed. Next meeting will be at Mrs Virginia Briscoe’s Artesia home with co-hostesses Mrs Bill Ross and Mrs Willis Berry. Members present noted.