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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
4
A clipped Roswell scene lists J L May from Portales on business. Roswell Machine Shop offers wagon repair and blacksmith work. J Tomlinson from El Paso visits. farm and horse services offered. advertisements for linoleum sale, rubber tires, life insurance, and loan services appear alongside social and church notices and a Farmers Institute program.
Washington Feb 11 Gov Curry and delegation urged a favorable report on a bill to settle land fraud cases in New Mexico Territory. The measure recreates timber contracts, authorizes deeds to record title holders, and redistributes timber lands with forest and land exchange provisions under interior department rules.
The notice promotes Great Western Life Insurance of Kansas City Mo highlighting 927,000,000 seven twenty five year plans with guaranteed annual dividends and pay up options. It details accident and sickness benefits five dollars weekly per thousand and double payout on accident death, under Missouri compulsory reserve laws. Agent T Whitaker from the home office will meet locals in Roswell to provide policy information.
Farmers can list properties for prompt sale at good prices as Roswell Title and Trust Co prepares a new farm list to send east. Small ads require prepaid cash and are counted to avoid maintaining multiple records.
A territorial act provides lands selected in trust join the national forest in the territory, with timber-cut rights reserved to New Mexico's commissioner of public lands. The measure aligns existing laws with the act and retains timber rights under existing sections. Local notices mention an expert horse shoer and a Valentine sale at Ingersoll Book Store, plus social visits and a tuberculosis death in Neodesha.
The Democratic state convention to nominate delegates for the Denver national meeting convened at Davidson Theatre with H N Mason as temporary chair. F Dorsey of La Crosse urged tariff revision and rallied behind William J Bryan as the people’s president. J B Atkeson arrived from Artesia on legal business.
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