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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1910
Page
3
Dallas visitor Victor C. Jones transacted business while Topeka and Kansas City guests called at the Grand Central. Numerous named residents and out‑of‑town visitors list short trips, hospital notes, and family visits. Echo Sain recovers after appendicitis. Beula Hatler visits relatives in McKinney. J E Mitchell advertised plumbing and farm goods.
Frank Brown arrived from Amarillo to visit relatives and look for the city with a view of locating. Mrs Lala Dearhoit returned to Dexter after six days for her brother Wyatt Mason. Jess Anders C Richhard Co Standish of Plainview Texas arrived and are lodging at The Gilkeson.
H. C. Krukenmeier a Greenfield farmer arrived this morning to spend the day tending business matters. Clarence Davidsson traveled from Hagerman this morning to spend the day with relatives and handle business affairs.
Classified note offers to trade income, residence and business property in Colorado City for Pecos Valley land. Provides reply address P.O. Box 325 Roswell and a figure of $116 as part of the proposal.
Cee Howard a rising young attorney from Portales arrived in Roswell for a short stay to handle legal matters and land interests. He plans to spend a few days in the area meeting clients and reviewing local cases.
Mrs J W Fletcher left last night for Stanton Texas after a two day Roswell visit with friends. Mrs C Shay and two children departed this morning for Boaz after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs A M Carr.
A. A. Ririe arrived this morning after a surveying excursion around Lake Arthur. Frank Talmage of Greenfield appeared in town to join the New Mexico Odd Fellow's Orphans Home building committee meeting, where he serves as chairman.
Miss Harriet Bruner of Clovis and Mrs. L. J. Sherman of Onawa are spending several days here visiting their sister, Mrs. H. B. Davis, northeast of town, in a brief family gathering.
Tobe Cazier returned yesterday from a ten days trip to El Paso and Grand Falls Texas where he secured the contract for a big job of duening and other irrigation work.
Mr and Mrs G W Robinson proudly announce the arrival of their fifth daughter early this week. Mr Robinson belongs to the Turner-Davis Land firm.
Miss Anna Belle Farquhar with sisters Flossie and Hssie and Master Edward Farquhar depart Roswell for Navasota Texas to join their father who recently moved back to the town. Mrs Farquhar will stay in Roswell for about six months.
A compact page of sale notices lists 5 room houses and other properties in Roswell area, with prices from 900 to 2800 and terms like 300 down. Also advertised are pumps, a horse and buggy, a standard oil rig, a Fairbanks Morse engine, and a building for sale. Names include Roswell Title & Trust Co, Ernest Malone, Miss Nell R. Moore, and Jas. P. Brinkley.
A Roswell page lists multiple rental offerings: a barn or stable at 902 North Main, furnished rooms with board at 314 N Richardson and 219 N Va Ave, a furnished 4 room house on North Hill via Room 11 Oklahoma Block, a 7 bedroom furnished 10 room house at 600 N Richardson, an office room with vault for Roswell B L Association via R H McCune, rooms for light housekeeping at 16 N Main, and a 4 room house plus a cottage with 5 acres near West 2nd Street offered by Fred D Welch, plus a cow at 309 N E Avenue. Also listed: 2 rooms in an office building suitable as offices or sleeping rooms, phone 86, and inquiries for a good cow and other rentals.
A man and wife with one child seek a position on a ranch. They can be reached at 1200 N. Washington. Also advertised is a repair service listing sewing machines, typewriters, and bicycles for repairs at East Side Repair and Upholstering Shops, 210 E. 5th St. Phone 426.
Classified notice concerning a door lamp from an automobile found or misplaced. Owner must call at this office, prove property, and pay for this advertisement to claim the item. 112
Mrs J F Joyce and her young son Joan R Jr departed Roswell for Carlsbad after several days visiting Mrs Joyce's sister Mrs Shelby Moore and brother W M Atkinson.
E A Cahoon and Harry Hamilton of Artesia came back last night after attending the Scottish Rite Masons of New Mexico gathering in Santa Fe.
Mrs Francis Divers arrived from Kansas City where she had been visiting since early last summer. Mr Divers accompanied her and returned with her stopping yesterday at Clovis for a brief business visit. He is expected home tonight or tomorrow.
Mr and Mrs W F Dunn left this morning for Guthrie Oklahoma after three weeks visiting their daughter Mrs Tom Wallace at Steel Springs on the Block ranch west of Roswell.
Mrs Josephine Macomber and Miss Kate Warmker depart Roswell after several days touring Lakewood land drawn in the Lakewood drawing. They head to Triniday, Colorado, on business connected with their recent land allotment and travel down the road to their homes.
Judge W. E. Rogers returned from a Texas business trip and has decided Roswell will be his permanent home. He has moved his family here and will open a law office in Roswell, after living in Carlsbad and other points along the road for several years.
The monthly meeting of the Anti-Saloon League will be held Sunday afternoon the 30th at 3 o clock in the basement of the Baptist church. Members are urged to attend. important matters will be considered. Ex. Com. Jany. 29th, 10.
United States Supreme Court Justice Brewer will be the principal speaker at the Kansas Society of New York annual dinner at the Plaza Hotel. Other guests include Sen. Joseph Bristow editor Henry J. Allen and Hamilton W. Mabie.
The Territorial Building Committee of the Odd Fellows let the contract for a new home for aged and indigent members to Roswell contractor G N Amis. The bid was approved by committee members from remote districts and Pecos Valley. Construction to begin in the coming days.
On January 10 1910 letters testamentary for the estate of James J Hagerman were granted to Anna O Hagerman and Herbert J Hagerman by Judge J T Evans. Creditors must present claims within legal time. Helen Sutherland was taken to St Marys hospital yesterday for appendicitis operation and rested well this afternoon.
J. A. Graham secretary of the Plainview Commercial Club and former Roswell club secretary arrived in the city with W. T. Dowden, a Plainview business man, to spend a few days attending to business.
Judge Gatewood and R C Graves traveled to Amarillo to attend the murder trial of John Williams for killing John Armstrong former XIT cattle manager. Williams previous trial ended without a verdict. The new trial opens before Judge Browning on Monday January 31 in Amarillo.
K Fitzhugh, president of the rmit Townsite Company, with Co A C Reither, the autioneer at Elida, conducted a Rosell auction sale of lots in the new town of Permit. It was the second sale by the company and proved more successful than the first, with four to five hundred dollars of lots sold and several deals opened to close later. Fitzhugh and Reither left this morning for their homes.
Roswell Seed Co offers cab and livery services with contact phone 182 for supplies and transport assistance aimed at poultry owners and rural customers.
Hayes County Abstract Co offers reliable titles and loans under manager F P Gayle. The Bonded Abstract and Security Co displays capital and guaranteed abstracts. Butcher shops and Roswell Hardware Co advertise quality meats and hardware supplies. Independent Hardware Co sells hardware tinware wagons and plumbing. Palace Livery promotes new buggies horses and 24 hour cab service.
Lon Holland opens a new shop at 242 Virginia Avenue offering horse-shoeing general blacksmithing carriage repair and rubber tire work with satisfaction guaranteed.
The entries name Jaffa, Prager & Co and Joyce Pruit Co as dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies. Described as the largest wholesale and retail supply houses in the Southwest with both dry goods and groceries to their credit.
DILLEY FURNITURE COMPANY promotes the swellest line of furniture in Roswell emphasizing high quality and low prices. THE SHRADER GROCERY CO advertises strictly good goods at reasonable prices and requests patronage from customers.
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