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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1907
Page
4
A collage of items lists ads and brief notes on events and visits. Miss Rabb's recital, piano solos on June 4, jewelry ads, and daily travel notes from Artesia, Carlsbad, Amarillo, Artesia. Various locals attend errands, business trips, and social visits. mentions include Portales, Denver, Van Alstyne, and Hagerman.
J. P. Hinkle and wife visited with his brother John I. Hinkle. Miss Winfiell of Wichita Kansas left Roswell after a health-improving winter. The jury ruled against Darius Hicks in the Shearman Cummins suit with damages of 131.25 dollars. Missionary Miss Anderson leaves for Elida to speak on Sunday. First National Bank of Atchison and Union National Bank of Kansas City vs J P White before the court. Mrs Ora Currie returns from Nashville intending to enter school but decides to stay home. H D Bradley departs for Brady Texas after weeks in the Valley and may return. Mrs Dick Gayle heads home from Big Lake Washington after her sister’s illness and death. Mrs J H Putnam of Artesia passes Roswell en route to Houston for a visit.
The Roswell Commercial Club will hold its yearly meeting on June 13. Important railroad business will be discussed and three directors will be elected.
Miss M Lewey departed Roswell this morning bound for her home in Illinois after spending several months there for health. District court convened Thursday and Friday for the First National Bank of Atchison v Phelps Waite. Miss Sadie Martin returned home from Stevens College Columbia Mo after nine months away for summer vacation. Harry Jaffa and family traveled down the road for a several day trip for business and pleasure.
Percy Evans, the Record’s local editor for two years and a half, departed this morning for Chicago to take a role traveling for the Oliver Typewriter Co. The move marks the end of Evans’s tenure at the paper.
Mrs. R. C. Divers from Beaumont Texas visits the family of Wy C. Ferguson of North Pecos Avenue. Divers was formerly a Roswell resident and lived on Military Hill.
Mr and Mrs A B Robinson left Roswell this morning for Amarillo after visiting Mrs Robinsons sister Mrs Harry Morrison and on business. Miss Edna West also left for Brookfield Missouri ending a winter stay and friends anticipate her return in fall. Allen Hulsey Grand Central Hotel bell boy dislocated his left wrist while striking a rider near the house in a non serious injury. A man rode a bucking bronk on Second street causing minor commotion as the bronc threw both rider and saddle. Mrs Nathan Jaffa and ciren depart for Denver Colorado to meet Miss Julia Jaffa and spend the summer in the Colorado mountains. Mr and Mrs W G Hamilton Mrs McGaffey and Mrs McIntire sail Monday for New Orleans to board a steamer to Jamestown Exposition and visit eastern cities before returning to Roswell. Horace A Lay of Capital Life Insurance Co Colorado reports good business after a short southern Valley trip reaching Carlsbad.
Miss Mary Greenlee leaves Roswell for Kansas City and St Louis then spends the summer in Warrensburg Missouri before returning in fall. J G Lakenan and wife arrive from Amarillo to tour Roswell country. Lakenan & Barnes real estate firm operates between Mexico Missouri and the Panhandle. Joyce Pruit Co. hires K S Woodruff to assist in groceries. L N Muncys depart Roswell after bedside case for Artesia. granddaughter Alma Muncy accompanies. John DeFoe of the Military Institute leaves for Jamestown Expo and eastern cities then Hast Douglass Massachusetts. Mrs H G Ingersoll, mother of Harry and B E Ingersoll, recovering in Chicago after May operation. plans to settle estate in Michigan and return to Roswell by September first.
At John Street Methodist Episcopal Church in New York a tablet marking the founding of the oldest Methodist church in America will be unveiled tomorrow. Four additional tablets are to be unveiled on Tuesday night inside the church.
Rear Admiral Joseph Bullock Coghlan retires from active service and says if given another life he would join the U S Navy. He argues the navy is the finest in the world with greater inducements than any other nation and urges expansion to deter war, warning that true peace is unlikely.
A Rome dispatch reports the Pope, who adopted a vegetarian diet in January to ward off gout, has not been afflicted since and credits the change to his plant based regimen.
The note advertises a night of humorous films shown at the Majestic with admission "10 cts" per seat, promising the best yet in a compact cultural program.
New York June 1. Howard Gould answers his wife’s plea for separation with two counter charges. He claims she is inordinately extravagant and irksome to him with her temper and showy jewels, which disrupted his social life and domestic happiness.
Henry Johnson, a middle aged Black man, was lynched last night in Echo Louisiana after being taken from the jail by about 150 men. He had been arrested on charges of an attempted assault on his employer’s wife.
Drillers report a bright prospect with gas striking near the surface at the Roswell Oil Company site. The Roswell oil well was abandoned after pumping dwindled due to heavy water, with about 100 barrels recovered. Plans call for a new nearby well once arrangements are completed amid outside interest in surrounding claims.
Clay MacGonagill of Monument New Mexico world champion bronco buster and wild steer roper was arrested at Midland Texas by Deputy Sheriff J D Palm of Bellville Texas. He was released after bond. Indicted at Bellville on three charges of nonse theft involving horses moved from New Mexico to Texas. Jurisdiction questions loom with similar NM indictments. District court opens at Bellville next Monday where his case may be heard. He is son in law of James Johnston one of the south Texas wealthiest stockmen.
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