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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
3
T Meadows a horse buyer from Fort Worth arrived for a business visit this morning. W Longfellow passed through to Estahcia. D Amis returned to Hagerman after visiting here with G N Amis. A Ririe went to Lake Arthur for a surveying job will be away about four days.
A string of brief items reports Sheriff O. Z. Finley returning down the valley from a trip. Mrs. A. L. Schneider and relatives visit from Artesia. Jack Thornton returns from Carlsbad. D. C. Savage of Boaz returns from Roswell. Wade Swift and Will Foreman go to Clovis for business. Aurelius Pruit travels to Artesia for Joyce Pruit Co. business. Mrs. Eva Caskey and Hazel head to Hanford California. E. J. Evans of Folger Co. greets northbound coffee sales. Sheriff C. L. Ballard leaves for Albuquerque for a cattle sanitary board meeting. Mrs. Elmer Jacobs leaves for Dallas City after three weeks with L. A. Canfield, will stop at Elida en route.
H. C. Egleston returned from a northbound business trip. Louis Rucker offers transfer, furniture, pianos, and baggage handling, contact by phone 47 or 12. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. St.Clair, formerly of Kalamazoo, Michigan, are visiting Roswell after prospecting in the lower valley and Texas.
A list shows 197 new families moving to Roswell since July, placing children in city schools. Names span across states including Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Illinois, Missouri, and California, with entries such as Mrs. C M Arnold, Warren J Ayers, E Brooks, H T Becker, J W Bell, Mrs. Bob Calvin, and many others. The note credits school excellence as a factor in these relocations, per Superintendent Brasher.
A long OCR list catalogs numerous individuals by initials and full names alongside their home towns across multiple states including Missouri Kansas Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Nebraska Indiana Michigan and Illinois. The aggregation shows many appears to be members subscribers or participants tied to specific locales such as Ada Oklahoma Pittsburg Kansas Alamogordo New Mexico and Springfield Tennessee with scattered references to Louisville or Lexington entries. The item reads as a directory style roster lacking a narrative but preserving numerous named persons and places.
A long list of sales offers appears including a horse and buggy, oil drill rig, stallion Colonel, a modern 5 room cottage near Roswell, a peeler building on Main Street, a Fairbanks Morse engine, an Oldsmobile trade in, a 4 room east front house with fruit trees, an 16 acre property with well and outbuildings, a business building for sale, and pumps in Oklahoma. Also a lengthy Roswell bond issue letter urging support for a new high school building and ward schools, warning of decline if defeated.
Several rental notices listing furnished rooms and houses for rent in Roswell and nearby areas. Items include a 3-room with board at 314 N Richardson, a 2-room with board at 219 N Va Ave, a 4-room house on North Hill, a 10-room house near Feb ist with 7 furnished bedrooms and sale furniture, an office room with vault at Roswell B L Association, an office build ing suitable for offices or sleeping rooms, a 3-room housekeeping unit at 202 E Bland, a 4-room house with phone contact, and a cottage with 5 acres near West 2nd Street offered by Fred D. Welch of Roswell Rubber and Supply Co.
A young man seeks a bookkeeper position after completing double entry system with references furnished at C. B. care Record. Also an ad for repairs of sewing machines typewriters and bicycles at East Side Repair and Upholstering Shops 601f 210 E fifth street with phone 426.
Lost note shows a brown bulldog with ears and tail uncut wearing a heavy leather collar. A reward is offered for its return to 208 S Lea.
Investigators note 190 families from 21 states enroll in Roswell schools, placing heavy demand on teachers. The city’s faculty is hailed for integrating diverse educational systems into a strong local program, with parents praising Roswell public schools and expecting further growth in manual and domestic sciences.
V R Kenney is listed as a civil engineer and official surveyor for Chaves County New Mexico with railroad survey responsibilities. The office address given is 221 North Main Street Roswell New Mexico.
CHAVES COUNTY ABSTRACT CO led by F. P. Gayle emphasizes reliability and prompt service. THE BONDED ABSTRACT AND SECURITY CO with $50,000 capital guarantees abstracts and titles for loans. U. S. MEAT MARKET promotes quality meats and expanded livery with new buggies and driving horses for hire.
LON HOLLAND opens a shop at 242 Virginia Avenue offering horse-shoeing general blacksmithing carriage repair and rubber tire work with satisfaction guaranteed JAFFA PRAGER CO provides dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies Joyce Pruit Co proclaims itself the largest wholesale and retail dry goods clothing groceries and icemaker supplier in the Southwest
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