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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
4
Roswell residents and visitors are noted in a broad social and business roundup. Numerous moves and travel include shipments to Hereford and Roswell for butchering, trips to Kenna Tulsa and Alamogordo, and visits from Lake Arthur Artesia Denver and Dexter. Public notices announce land bids near Roswell and a dairy plant opportunity.
Senators Chester I. Long of Kansas and Allison of Iowa respond to Judge U S Bateman on annexing southeastern New Mexico to Texas if joint statehood fails. Long would study the proposal, hoping New Mexico and Arizona vote for statehood. Allison opposes, saying Texas is large enough. Other senators promised to consider the matter. Duke Carmack returns to Western Union. Joe Farmer resigns to join Slim Landers in mountain work until school opens. For sale sixty acres of Hondo.
Blanche Wagoner and Mrs Wagoner visit home for extended stay as a wedding pair. W W Atwood wed Miss Eva Bell at 8 30 am in the office of Justice J B Bai. The couple depart on an Amarillo line excursion with fifty four extra coaches. They will make their home in Roswell with the groom having resided there.
The Roswell Commercial Club discusses engaging Pecos Valley farmers in producing denatured alcohol from waste apples potatoes or vegetables. The fluid, a cheap fuel source, could power gasoline engines in the valley though it is noted as a highly poisonous fuel.
Sealed bids will be considered by the Board of County Commissioners for a bridge over the Rio Hondo near Amarillo. A wedding at nine this morning and travel details follow as well as court suits filed in district court. A Democratic convention call lists delegates per county and notes travel rates for Canyon City reunion events and related railroad tickets.
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