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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
4
Brief notices show numerous residents leaving Roswell for trips over the coming weeks. J R Cobra departs for Lake Arthur. Li C Walker to Chicago for two weeks. Dr C F Beeson to have practice covered by his colleague. Horace A Lay to El Paso for insurance business for about a month.
Wilkason of Wichita left for home after a week in the valley visiting friends and surveying the country. A house for sale at 1202 N Ky. Bixooms. Mr. McEhinney brought in six foot four inch oats from L. F. ranch. Mr. and Mrs. S, who have been in the valley two weeks, left for Lero. Miss Williams of Carrier Oklahoma left Roswell for home after visiting James Bartlett. H. B. Houston went to Carlsbad to meet daughters en route home from Valentine. Miss Tannehill and father left for Amarillo to visit Mrs. W. Boyce. Jed Grant, son of J. C. Grant, arrived from Cananute and will work at Cole Bros. machine shop.
Miss Estes Beck returned from Cottey College in Nevada Missouri after nine months of study. She stopped in Kansas City for a several week visit with friends.
Mrs. A. M. Stringer and son C. H. Stringer traveled to Artesia to join Mr. Stringer who is inspecting the grounds with plans to open a moving picture show during the Alfalfa Festival.
Thomas E. Milholland, visiting Roswell for two weeks with the Church of Christ, departed this morning for Fort Worth after reporting fourteen new converts in Roswell.
Mrs. E. O. Creighton widow of former editor and proprietor of the Record travels with her cousin E. O. Perkins through Roswell last night en route from Kansas City to Dexter where Mrs. Creighton holds land interests.
Miss Evelyn Hunt of Price & Company leaves for a two month vacation to care for her ailing mother and hire a nurse and housekeeper. Emancipation Day brings a full watermelons car, afternoon baseball, and an evening dance for Roswell’s Black community. James Quinn, from Davenport Iowa, travels via Roswell, purchasing 200 acres for 20000 dollars and planning to reside there. Piercy and Flack announce the Princess Theater to occupy the former Alery Furniture space.
A front is to be built for the new theater with Miss Amy Stiger overseeing the cloak department at Price & Co. She returns from Elida reporting heavy rains and improved country conditions. Mr Jessa and Mrs S W Gilbert arrive from Ar Kansas City area on their way home from Williamsburg Missouri visiting relatives and Mrs Gilbert’s kin.
An OCR fragment notes a sale offer of $800 for a 110 item on Main Street with a deadline in the next few days, mentioning parties Carl ton and Beil.
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