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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1907
Page
3
The New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell is praised for its high faculty and cadet standards. Chaplain Cephas C. Bateman visited, noting crowded quarters and needed repairs, and urging broader local support to expand facilities and enrollment.
Deed filings show R A Holmes and wife selling about 70 acres to Felix Armstrong for 1600 dollars in 1 11 23. Ellie C Jackson and wife sell 120 acres to Rees er Blocker for 3000 dollars in 12 15 25. Milne Bush Land & Cattle Co to John Burcheding for 6400 dollars 160 acres in 13 10 24. J R Wilfrey and wife to L E Allen lot 5 block 10 South Roswell for 1 dollar. Shakespeare Club met with Mrs C E Mason to study Richard III act one. turnout unusually good.
Carlton and Bell advertise cash buyers for good residence property vacant residence lots and vacant business property. They urge owners to call their office opposite the Postoffice and provide a property description citing their proven selling record.
Longmont Colorado January 29 report that a great daily paper aiming to spread Socialistic doctrines nationwide will soon be established at Loveland a small town about twenty miles from Longmont the notice states
More than 1 000 lumbermen from Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Arkansas Indian Territory and Texas gather in Kansas City for the nineteenth annual convention. Headquarters are at the Coates house and three-day sessions in the New Casino address railroad rates car shortage and transport delays with potential relief actions. Elaborate entertainments have been prepared for visitors by local lumbermen.
Washington and Canton mark the 64th birthday of William McKinley. Roosevelt and cabinet officers with many lawmakers wear carnations in tribute. Memorial services and cemetery flowers accompany observances in Canton near the court house. Special bargain offered: five acres one fourth mile from courthouse with a five room house, alfalfa, water right.
E A Cahoon of Roswell reports in Santa Fe that residents of Eddy and Chaves counties oppose creating a new county from parts of their lands. Taxpayers, merchants, farmers and professionals sign petitions against the plan. Hagerman communities protest while Artesia area residents also reject the proposed Artesia county.
The Memphis Jockey Club spring meeting set to begin April 15 faces possible cancellation as Tennessee legislature considers making pool selling illegal. The article also lists racehorses including Banaster progeny leased from Clarence Mackay and trained at Montgomery Park, hoping for success at Hot Springs.
The report shows four meetings with Haynes at nine, Skipwith at four, Cottingham at eleven, Divers at eight, Beck the clerk at eleven, and Thompson the superintendent at eleven. Treasurers balance is 8050.78 with about 3000 expected before term end. Nine month run requires about 9000, with five monthly salaries and expenses totaling roughly 1800 monthly. Funds should cover through the term. Submitted January 25 1907. President Board of Education. Attest Fred J. Beck Clerk.
In Jamestown Magazine Katherine S Hassell details Fredericksburg Virginia as a colonial prize. It notes Captain John Smith selecting the site in 1608 and the 1627 founding, Washingtons Kenmore home and Meditation Rock, Rising Sun Tavern visits by Jefferson and Monroe, Williams Paul Jones grave, the 1862 bombardment, and relics on Marys Heights.
Farm near Roswell lists 44 acres in alfalfa 12 acres in bearing orchard 55 to 60 more in cultivation Direct water house and farming implements rents for part of crop See Carlton and Bell The Woman's Club meets Wednesday at 2 30 pm at Carnegie Library to study French literature led by Mrs J J Hagerman Full attendance desired and on time Rexes nine year old Rippy Oriental.
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