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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1908
Page
4
Numerous town happenings are recorded in Roswell with names like Muncy returning from Elkins and Ingersoll from Bay City and Ann Arbor. Notices include free eye tests, boarding offers, laundry service, farm loans, title company reminders, and residents traveling to Hagerman and Dallas for work or affairs.
Money to loan on real estate appears in a Roswell Title and Trust Co advertisement. The note lists several local figures on business trips to Chicago Portales and Texas towns including Avery Turner of the New Mexico Eastern Railway and Lee Steen. Mention of Mrs Hedgcoxe’s health update and a local councilman example closes the item.
The community mourns Pat Garrett a longtime New Mexico lawman born in Louisiana about 54, with ties to Roswell Dona Ana and El Paso. He served as sheriff of Lincoln County and Dona Ana County, aided byoutlaws and rustlers. He left a widow and four children including Poe and Pat Garrett Jr. His last visit to Roswell was with novelist Emerson Hough.
Boston reports over five thousand granite cutters quarrymen and workers in Barre and Montpelier Vermont and Westerly Rhode Island were suspended as unions and manufacturers failed to agree on a new wage scale and working agreement.
Washington March 2 The Interstate Commerce Commission denied all petitions for more time to comply with the hours of service law. The reasons will be set forth in a forthcoming report and announced soon.
The passenger steamer Como of the New York and Porto Rico Line went ashore in dense fog on Jones beach on Long Island's south shore, twenty miles east of Sandy Hook. The wind is light and passengers are believed to be in no immediate danger. Dr. Samuel McCleneghan from Omaha has arrived to wed Miss Elizabeth Yoder.
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