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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
3
Local report notes Mrs Jaffa has been enjoying a summer stay with friends away from her usual residence, providing a pleasant social snapshot of the season.
A collage of short items lists eye tests in a jeweler's shop, travel departues to Dallas and Elida, tire sales, carriage and wagon work, and visits by local residents like Mrs. W. H. Smith and Miss Maud Roberts. Public notices announce Old Timers meetings and a forthcoming picnic. Flow into the Hondo reservoir shows a drop, and several residents depart for Abilene Portales or Oklahoma.
Mrs T Clark of Chillicothe Mo leaves for Amarillo and plans Roswell as future home after month away. $500000 loan offer on irrigated farms by J B Herbst. Metcalf returns to Evansville Indiana after five months visiting Pecos Valley. Elder C C Hill travels to Perry Mo and Mexico Mo for three weeks including a week of meetings. Sam Black returns to Fulton Mo after visit with H P Black. Annie Kennedy heads to Kansas City to reside after years in Roswell. Judge Hope grants temporary law licenses to J M OBrien Roswell H P Bailey Clovis and Andrew W Hockenhull Jordan NM.
Two story houses with 8 and 10 rooms offered on a corner lot with a large barn and lawn. Prices listed at 4750 and 5250 dollars, terms include 1000 dollars down and long financing at low interest.
A compact directory of Roswell firms including abstract and title services, real estate and loans, trading, hardware, dry goods, clothing, groceries, ranch supplies, and related retail and wholesale operations. Notable entries include Roswell Title & Trust Co and Jaffa Prager Co with broad Southwest reach.
Daniel Drug Co lists drugs wallpaper paints varnish repairs cleaning and pressing in Roswell. Dilley Furniture Co Kemp Lumber Co Western Grocery Watson Finley Grocery Roswell Wool & Hide Co offer building materials furniture groceries grain coal and hides with contact numbers and storefronts in the city.
The Roswell Record Job Printing Office at 402 N. Main St advertises neat and tatty stationery at reasonable prices. It asserts good printing leaves a strong impression on recipients and invites customers to try their services.
The first carload of fruit this season was shipped to Chicago on Saturday by Col. Parker Earle. It carried pears of the Margaret and Clapp's Favorite varieties. These pears were among the wind storm losses of July 2 and the trees yield two full cars last year, signaling the crop outlook. Levi Alvaro Trowbridge, who pasted scurrilous posters targeting a local fruit grower, was ordered sent to the Territorial insane asylum at Las Vegas after a district court hearing. He is held in the county jail and will be moved to the asylum in days. He previously worked for local orchardists and was known for verse writing. Mrs. M Firestone and Mrs. Dora Nichols traveled to Kenna to visit friends. Clarence Ulery departed for valley business for the Ulery Furniture Co. Mrs. J L Robinson arrived from Chicago to visit her brother, J M MacDonald, of the Ullery Furniture Co.
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