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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1910
Page
3
Local notes report J Solis returning this morning for Artesia. W Rhodes traveled to Dayton on business. T A Stancliff of Lake Arthur visited today. D Denning returned from a several day stay at Artesia. Mrs H R Webb went to Dexter last night for a brief business visit.
F Mass arrived from America for a brief business visit. C M Yater departed for Portales for a short business trip. C L McMillen from Fayetteville Arkansas arrived for a business visit. F W Smith came down from America for a visit. U S Market reports high cash prices paid for poultry. Morrison returned to Carlsbad after two days in Roswell. Mrs. Howell Pitts arrived from Clovis for a visit.
C Smith returns to Aome after spending several days away in a period described as uneventful. The notice notes his return and the brief absence without detailing circumstances.
J C Douglass and A G Mills are mentioned as local figures in a brief notice. The fragment indicates their association but provides minimal details on event, place, or date. Further text would clarify roles or actions involving these two individuals.
Names and movements of local figures visiting Artesia and surrounding towns. J B Herbst of Roswell on business to San Francisco. Dr P N Baker of ArteSia travels via Roswell. W A Stewart railroad special agent visits Amarillo. D L Newkirk Artesia postmaster passes through en route to Santa Fe. J C Wilson returns to Hagerman. W F Thomson of Lakewood en route to Shawnee for land and immigration work. W P Anderson Santa Fe livestock agent travels from the north to Artesia.
Greenfield and other business visitors were in Roswell today. A Picnic Wagon was noted at City Livery. Lawyer J. H. Jackson of Artesia was en route to El Veso and Amarillo. S. W. Holder returned to Lake Arthur after a short Roswell visit. James P. Stone left for Portales after desert selections for sale. D. J. Temple of Title & Trust Company returned to Artesia after two days in Roswell court. Mrs. Edna Romich of Colibus Ohio arrived and may locate in Roswell.
H. Long, formerly of this city, sits here for a business visit from El Paso lasting several days.
Mrs J S Dyer arrived last night from Lawton Oklahoma for a visit with friends in Roswell.
The Record notes a fine lot of engraving and embossing specimens to view before purchase. Ensign Sainsbury of the Salvation Army returned from a road trip this morning. E Ward of Hope visited yesterday on real estate business and returned home last night.
Mrs. Ada Harris departed this morning for a six month visit with relatives and friends in Durant Oklahoma.
Notice announces residence at 104 South Kentucky for rent furnished with modern amenities. Also offers a Buick 17 car for sale or trade in first class condition by R. F. Cruse. tf
A jumble of brief items records Mrs Fannie Overman travelling to Dexter then Red lands Ranch, Mr and Mrs M Bishop and daughter arriving from Scottsboro for prospecting, Godager Woodard selling goods, Miss Lena Hen visiting Chicago and Milwaukee with a brother in Valparaiso, and a Lane stand offering fresh vegetables and ice cold drinks near Owens Farm.
L K MacGaffey came back last night from a week on business travel to Albuquerque and other northern New Mexico points.
Mrs W A Vickers returned to her Hagerran home last night after spending two days in town visiting Mrs Fred C Hunt and other friends. The best white oak sales sewn on for 1.00 at Godager Woodard successors to Fred Carstensen on East 4th Street.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy will meet Friday afternoon at 2 30 with Mrs. Lee Russ at her home on North Kentucky avenue.
Fresh vegetables delivered to order every morning anywhere in town. Place orders the evening before. Also new alfalfa hay for sale five shillings. Owens Farm. Phone 293-6 rings.
Yi R Parsons Fort Sumner attorney left Roswell after a several days stay en route home. Godager and Woodard advertise railroad men uniforms. Dee Goldsmith formerly of Roswell Fire Department departed for Bakersfield California on prospecting trip seeking opportunities.
Mr and Mrs J J Jaffa and their son will arrive this evening by special auto from Santa Fe where they spent two or three weeks visiting Mr and Mrs Nathan Jaffa.
W. H. Askew and his wife plus two children traveled from Columbia Mississippi arriving last night and will settle here seeking health benefits. The family relocates to improve wellbeing and health conditions.
Wim Ivis Farris was brought from Frida last night and operated on at six yesterday evening for appendicitis. The operation was performed at St. Mary's hospital. The patient was resting well today.
Mrs Stehn Ritter leaves for a six week summer program with Chicago masters of music. She will visit her old home in Jackson Tennessee and return in the fall to resume music classes.
A series of small classified notices seeks a plowable hand with team, a safe driving horse for a lady, a reliable general laborer, county and district agents for selling Mexico Tropical lands, second hand furniture buyers, and a competent girl for general housework. Contact Record Office and local addresses for details.
Several rental notices list houses and rooms for rent in the city. Properties include a partly furnished seven room Sheridan residence at Seventh and Richardson, a four room Main Street home with city water and sewer, a furnished four room house for twenty dollars monthly, a five room modern house with bath on Lea Avenue, rooms in Hobson building over the post office, and a four room cottage on West 8th Street. Contact numbers and addresses provided.
Miss Betha Dysart a popular Roswell teacher left this morning for a short visit with relatives in Round Rock Texas and will travel on to the University Normal at Austin. She plans to return about the middle of August.
Roswell to Pine Lodge auto service runs every Tuesday morning from Roswell and returns Wednesday weekly. Round trip fares are five dollars for travelers staying a week or longer, seven fifty for shorter visits. Tickets sold at Persons and Lawrence, 215 North Main Street.
Harrison G Otis left yesterday for a month’s trip to his Cleveland home and the Adirondack mountains. He will return July 1. D W Low of Cincinnati, an investor in Berrendo Farms, departed this morning for Chicago en route home. Dr K L Bradley and son Palmer returned after several weeks away. Palmer stayed with his mother in Texas while Mrs Bradley and children went to Tennessee to stay another month.
A compact listing highlights several Roswell businesses including U. S. Meat Market with motto Quality, George B. Jewett billiards, City Livery and Transfer Co, Anderson & Channing, Jaffa Prager & Co., Joyce Pruit Co., Roswell Drug & Jewelry Co., Roswell Hardware Co., Independent Hardware 29, and The Oriental Livery and Cab Line operated by Paine 40 with W. R. Bond as proprietor. The page emphasizes goods, services, and contact pointers for local commerce.
Advertising copy states the Roswell Hotel will provide food plus fans to guests as they dine. The brief blurb emphasizes hospitality and cooling comfort as a featured amenity in its dining experience.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co offers lumber shingles doors lime cement paints varnish and glass. Roswell Lumber Co proclaims the oldest lumber yards in Roswell and invites customers for building materials and paints. Kemp Lumber Co promotes fine cedar posts.
Notary Mary A. Cobean at Record Office and piano tuning by W. A Murrell, graduate of Chicago Conservatory. Ample experience, guaranteed work, 348 EB Ltd St, phone 569. Racket Store G A Jones & Son lists queensware and more at 324 N Main, always for less.
Undertakers Dilley and Son offer private ambulance and prompt service. Allery Furniture Co advertises undertakers with phone numbers 75 and 1111. H H Henninger advertises as undertaker and embalmer with private ambulance and parlors at 121 W 4th. Phone listing appears incomplete.
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