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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
3
A local tailor advertises an extra pair of trousers to extend the life of a good suit. Customers are invited to bring the coat and vest for a coordinated tailoring session to complete the latest style ensemble.
A local shop advertises cleaning and pressing plus tailoring for trousers coats and vests. The note promises a near new suit for any occasion except the most formal events.
Roswell residents and visitors are referenced in a string of short items: free eye tests offered by L. B. Boellner, travel updates for J D Whelan from Artesia, and multiple trips to Jonesboro Ark Wichita Falls Petrolia and Portales. Local birthdays camping trips and farm finance notices appear alongside ads and a milk supply notice to Dr Jenkins.
Notice states an owner may recover a telescope found on the road to Diamond A ranch by calling at the home of James Sutherland and paying 25 cents.
Classic directory item listing vendors in Roswell including CHAVES COUNTY ABSTRACT CO F P Gayle manager ROSWELL TITLE TRUST CO ABSTRACTS Roswell Wool & Hide Co grain coal wood Roswell Trading Co coal hay grain East Second St Phone 126 Roswell Hardware Co wholesale and retail hardware Enterprise Hardware Co 322 N Main U S Meat Market Independ ent Hardware Co Ririe Mussen den Land surveying and mapping Valley Transfer Cattle Exchange and residence telephones 409 455 C J Tally 410 limo
A compilation of Roswell business notices lists abstract services at Roswell Title and Trust Company and real estate listings from Gilmore and Fleming. Nell R. Moore promotes ranches and city property, Morrison Bros. Outfitters advertises ready to wear, Marin offers value on goods, Hills & Dunn buy second hand items, and Roswell Tent City and Sanitarium operated by Dr. C L Parsons is noted.
Local Roswell merchants advertise Jaffa Prager Co Joyce Prito Co Roswell Drug and Jewelry Co K C Dye Works and Dilley Furniture Co as the largest supply houses in the Southwest Wholesale and retail offerings noted Meal hours at the Roswell Hotel list breakfast dinner and supper with the old time chicken pie featured twice weekly and a guarantee of satisfaction or no charge.
The Western Grocery Co promotes itself as the premier store offering top quality goods. It emphasizes a commitment to serving customers with the best products and attentive service.
J Q Cummins drilled a monster well for W T Wells on his land three miles east of South Spring. Water flows 44 inches above an eight inch casing. Local pride quotes it as the biggest well in the valley amid ongoing reports and campaign busy days.
Mrs. B Owens sold her 360 acre farm three miles east of town to Mr. Berryman of Arkadelphia Arkansas for 80000 dollars 225 dollars per acre Possession on September 10 and the Owens family will move back to Alan Reed Texas The farm is known as the George W Medley place and includes the Medley home.
Lincoln Neb August 18 1908 response from William Jennings Bryan to AP correspondent Robert T McClung Roswell New Mexico. Bryan says to check Democratic platform showing support for New Mexico statehood and Arizona separation statehood position.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co offers lumber shingles doors lime cement paints varnish and glass. Roswell Lumber Co proclaims itself the oldest lumber yard in Roswell for all building materials and paint. Kemp Lumber Co invites customers to see standard Apple Boxes.
A historical note observes that well made clothes influence judgments about a person and compares this to printing. Neat tasty stationery is noted for its positive effect on perception and impression in print culture.
Merchant tailor F A Mueller guarantees all work and also performs cleaning and pressing. Located in the rear of The Wigwam Cigar Store.
Private ambulance and prompt service offered by Dilley and Son undertakers. Allery Furniture Co advertises undertaker services with contact phones 75 and 111.
A Clovis New Mexico Post piece extols the ideal good citizen as someone generous to community enterprises. He invests in ventures and real estate, promotes the town, believes Clovis is healthiest place and destined to grow, and wishes to be buried there. The town has many such live and enterprising residents ready to act.
A formal call from the 19th Representative district Democratic chairman orders a district convention in Hagerman Chaves county on Monday September 7 1908 at 1 00 pm to nominate a Democratic candidate for the 19th district to represent in the 38th Legislature of the Territory of New Mexico. Eddy Chaves Roosevelt and Lincoln counties are to be included.
A Roswell submission proposes delegations to a convention using one delegate per 100 votes or fraction, plus one for each voting precinct created by county commissioners since 1906. The plan stays in effect unless the Central Committee changes it.
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