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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1908
Page
3
For sale and exchange offerings include multiple city residences in Roswell and Beaumont plus farm tracts in Texas and Oklahoma. Properties feature five to seven rooms, orchard land, irrigation, brick business property, and numerous exchange options with favorable terms. Contact City Salesman Mr. Joseph E. Carper for details and prices.
In Chaves County District Court New Mexico The Jaffa Prager Company sues Robert S Goss and Julia F Goss to quiet title to the SW of NW section 31 township 10 south range 24 east and estop adverse claims. The suit seeks possession and legal title. defendant deadline to appear is 1908. W W Gatewood is attorney for the plaintiff.
A desperate man reveals how a sleeping baby in a bank cashier's nursery saved him from a planned theft. The cashier, watching via a keyhole, forgives and helps the man return to work, declaring his child’s innocent gaze made a man of him. The tale ends with a pact to keep the secret and prosper together.
Business card style notices list abstract firms, hardware stores, grocery, wool and grain buyers, and real estate agents in Roswell New Mexico. Names include F P Gayle manager and J M Nelson COO Architects with lines for loans, grain, coal, wood, and hardware. City listings note The Daily Record newspaper and piano tuner Bernard Pos.
Taffa, Prager & Co and Joyce Pruit Co operate the largest supply house in the Southwest offering dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies for wholesale and retail customers.
The New Gilkeson offers first class dining room service with meals at 50 cents and special meal ticket rates along with free sample rooms and private bath rooms one block west of the post office. Grand Central Hotel under new management Ellars and Ellars promotes itself as the biggest and best hotel with sample rooms and modern equipment.
Roswell’s Daniel Drug Co and Roswell Drug and Jewelry Co advertise as up-to-date sources for drugs wallpaper paints and varnish with the Roswell drug store claiming the oldest standing shop in town.
K. C. Dye Works offers alterations cleaning and pressing with J H Angell at 123 W 2d and phone 517. Bernard Gunsul electrical contractor at 110 N Main St lists GE as agent with all types of electric work. McGinnis and Dixon electrical contractors provide repairs supplies annunciator bell work and expert typewriter service with phone 105 104 E Second St.
Harry Morrison showcases watches diamonds jewelry rich cut glass and hand painted china along with silverware. L B Boellner promotes Roswell’s best jewelry line offering cut glass hand painted china diamonds and related items.
Roswell merchants promote Dilley Furniture Co with a swell line of furniture featuring high quality and low prices to attract shoppers. Local ads tout quantity and value in a bold sales push.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co offers lumber shingles doors cement paints varnish glass. Roswell Lumber Co claims to be the oldest yard in Roswell. Kemp Lumber Co invites calls for lumber shingles and more, located on East 4th Street.
The Western Grocery Company announces a bold leadership move as its chief executive eyes expansion. The statement highlights a focus on customer service and product quality, with plans for new store openings and improved supply chains.
In a local business note, Turner Studio takes over Hess & Co offering first class photographs enlargements and views for customers seeking quality portraits and scenery prints.
Roswell Seed Co promotes a broad range of field and garden seeds with a new catalog ready for free requests. Local growers and gardeners can request the catalog to compare seed varieties and prices.
Advertisements for Roswell retailers list new and second hand furniture at 100-02 N Main and 109 Main St. Hill & Duara advertise as managers with phone 69. Makins Second Hand Store promotes coal and cook stoves from seven to ten dollars and a broad furniture line with phone 227.
Dr. C. L. Parsons serves as manager for Roswell Tent City and Sana Torium, a newly organized entity. The notice records official-company designation and leadership.
Baker and Elliott offer stenography and typing services at 210 Garst Building, rooms 5 and 6. They invite busy professionals to have their work completed accurately and promptly.
W P Wood Tailor advertises cleaning and pressing services at 118% North Main Street with phone 409.
Dilley and Son offer private ambulance and undertaker services with prompt response. Jellery Furniture Co advertises undertaker contact numbers 75 and 111 for funeral arrangements and related services.
Sheriff Ballard returns from Melrose where the Melrose Hardware Co. enters bankruptcy as Roswell Title & Trust Co. stens upcoming real estate exchanges. A $500000 irrigation farm loan offer from J B Herbst is publicized along with a heavy well drilled by Harry Hutchinson for D N Croft.
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