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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1906
Page
4
Local Roswell items report cattle shipments to Bovina, clothing and laundry services, real estate offers, and a broad mix of social notices. Cattle interests drive travel notes, while businesses like The Racket Store and Roswell Steam Laundry feature ads and service details.
A suggestion urges heavy hauling be postponed until roads dry to improve winter streets. Mr and Mrs Z Leonard and daughter Lou Belle Leonard depart Roswell for Pleasant Hill Mo after a month with J L Leonard. For sale by F A Mueller tail or 25c per bottle noting twenty years tailoring experience.
Chaves County New Mexico invites sealed proposals for a wooden bridge at the South Spring river crossing between ranges 24 and 25 east, township 11 south. Bidders may supply all materials and labor or labor only with county materials, or both. A certified $100 check must accompany bids filed with the Probate Clerk in Roswell by 9 a.m. December 3, 1906. The Board may reject any bid.
Numerous sale notices list land scrip machinery and livestock. Items include a rotary drill, a mare with gear, a riding outfit, a one acre alfalfa lot with furnished house, two work horses, a milch cow, hay, a four room house with outbuildings, and 320 acres near Artesia N M offered at ten dollars. Also postoffice fixtures including Yale lock boxes and calls offered through the Roswell Record office.
Several notices seek housing and work in Roswell. A four room house for lease via Will Sweet of Roswell Gas and Ice Co. experienced farm hand sought by R. M.. 300 grain and oats sacks needed for Roswell Hardware Co. insurance sales positions with Horace A Lay of Occidental Life. furnished near downtown house for six months starting December 7. trade an old piano for horse team or wagon or cow via Bernard Pos.
An advertisement touts clean cottages with diligent sanitation and trained medical staff. It lists contact through Dr. C M Yater at 119 W 2nd St Roswell NM and notes premium meals and healthful living as part of the offer.
Small classified items advertise a barn with buggy shed at 210 W Walnut St, four well furnished rooms with water in house at 2111, and two first class rooms for light housekeeping at 813 N Richardson Ave from the Record office.
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