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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1910
Page
3
Local notes show W L Bobo J F Joyce N J Winchell Clarence Allery and others arriving or returning from trips to Artesia Portal Dexter Beatrice Plainview Elkins and Roswell. Entries include editor I E Whaiseley district attorney O Fullen and tradesmen visits plus land and property notices near Artesia and Roswell.
A compilation of short agency and travel notices. Dexters Tom Lawing and Greenfield visitor A G Mills are noted along with a Denver business trip by Rio. Pearl Lewis returns from Artesia nursing, H M Dow from Hope on business, and Misses Haseltine travel to Belew N M. A Denver surgeon’s display is in Gilkeson rooms. Ed Tyson seeks a Chihuahua ranch sale. Enterprise Hardware promotes poultry netting. Mrs E P Leckart advertises Spanish lessons. W K Breeding returns to Lakewood from Texas.
Enterprise Hardware Company advertises poultry netting for small chickens. Cartt 7070 McDonald, a prominent local businessman, departed this morning after a several day stay, returning home.
Mrs J W Wright leaves this morning for her Ripon Wisconsin home after a two week stay visiting relatives in this city.
H C Schrader left Sunday for South Bend Ind to attend his father’s death and will return in ten days. A W North Central Texas farm valued at 8500 points to exchange for an improved Roswell area place. G A Payne, formerly of the city and now in Clovis steam laundry, returned from a business trip. F E Baker left for Carrollton Ill after a sheep buying trip found the local market depleted.
A collage of sale notices offers properties, animals, equipment, and a piano in North Central Texas and Pecos Valley trades. Items include 100 acre farms, 80 acre suburban homes, a Barker engine, a Fairbanks Morse engine, a 5 room house, a good cow and refrigerator, an Oliver typewriter, a piano bargain, boarding house sale, and land priced per acre with water stock.
Mr and Mrs W A Wilson and son William Page Wilson return this morning from a Sunday visit with friends at Carlsbad.
Ed Weidman came up from Dexter Sunday morning to join his wife who has been visiting relatives here several days.
Miss Phena and Hattie Graham left Sunday morning for Centerville Ida ho for a visit of three or four months with relatives.
A. A. Ririe departed Sunday morning for Hereford Texas to survey for a large irrigation plant planned for installation there.
Steve Sutton of Roswell Gas Company left Sunday morning for a visiting trip to Broken Arrow Oklahoma. Mrs. R. L. Malone has been ill at her home at 8th Street and North Richardson Avenue for several days.
J H Steele formerly with Jaffa Prager Co has joined Swift & Co taking the territory formerly held by J F Fenelon. He began his first northbound trip this morning. The note also mentions $2,900.00 belonging to a client is to be lent, handled by Title Trust Co.
Mrs Stella Whinery of Iowa Falls Iowa visited her brother Dr C L Parsons and underwent an appendicitis operation at St Marys Hospital yesterday her husband is expected to arrive in a few days
F. L. Austin, local manager for Kemp Lumber Co., departed today for El Paso to attend the annual convention of the Lumbermen's Association of New Mexico and Arizona, which begins tomorrow morning.
Short note offers two room office space on the ground floor for rent. Contact P. V. Land and Development Co. at 82 for details and inquiries. Also ad lists new stock of auto goggles and dust glasses from Valley Optical Company.
Miss Emma Anderson and her sister Mrs. Mathilde Dahlquist accompanied by G. T. Nevill left Sunday morning for Clovis after spending two days here to complete commutation proof on the two ladies claims. Mr. Nevill served as a witness.
The W C U will meet tomorrow at 2 30 with Mrs Clark Dilley and Miss Holt leading. Topic Evangelistic with Mrs Hartman superintendent guiding the program.
Mrs C B Hutchinson departed Sunday for several weeks of travel visiting Kirksville and various locations across Missouri.
W. M. Reed, supervising engineer for the U. S. Reclamation Service, formerly of this city and now of El Paso, came up Sunday morning from Carlsbad to spend about three days in Roswell on official business, accompanied by his chief clerk.
Mr and Mrs J C Hamilton and their children returned Sunday night from Penal Hamilton after traveling to Port Worth to meet relatives who had been in San Antonio for a visit.
Mr and Mrs Roy H Mook and Mrs Mooks parents Mr and Mrs Fruchey of Marion Indiana returned Sunday night after a short stay at the Yellow House ranch.
Mr and Mrs Harold Thompson spent Sunday at Carlsbad after traveling down on business and returning this morning. They spent the day with Mr Thompson's brother during their stay in that place.
For sale pure bred white Plymouth Rock eggs from Fisher's egg laying strain. 12 hens laid over 19 dozen eggs in January. 15 eggs for 1.00, 50 eggs for 5.00. Address W. H. Lowry Box 774 Roswell. Saturday. ttf.
Exchange proposal for a 320 acre tract and a 200 acre tract of level land with splendid soil near Hagerman in the Artesia belt for Roswell property. Contact John I. Hinkle Hagerman New Mexico.
A note identifies Mary A. Cobean as notary public at the Record Office. The item conveys her official role and location.
Liquor cases in Amarillo are stalled as Judge D B Hill rules the Potter County local option result void for irregularities. Cases charging violations of local option statutes remain on dockets without trial pending finality. Many matters were to be heard in County and District Courts, including those filed under the new felony statute.
A collage of small ads seeks work and housing: clean cotton rags, a colored couple at Oasis ranch, a saddle horse, a bookkeeper position with references, a man with plow and harrow, a man to work a garden for liberal shares, first class room and board for two gentlemen about April 1 to 10, a 30 year old man offers general office work and bookkeeping with references.
Classified notice compiles several rental offers including furnished house at 601 South Main for 25 dollars monthly with phone number 55, an on site office suite with water for E. W. Mitchell at 861, a Good barn at 9302 North Main, an office room with vault access via Roswell B. and L. Association for R. H. McCune, and a 21 room house at 209 West Tilden listed by W. C. Buckley in the Texas block with contact details.
Mrs. Phoebe Pierce entertained a close group of friends Saturday evening in honor of her birthday. Guests included C. A. Baker Clark Dilley W. T. White A. C. Wilson I. P. Wetmore C Martin Harry Morrison Rosa Bird York Wilson Blakey and Dr. F J Walter. Refreshments followed at ten with a social closing.
A trash fire spread to a hay-filled barn owned by Manuel Muraga in the Chitihuahua addition at 11 20 this morning. Fire fighters laid 1300 feet of hose before reaching the blaze. The barn was nearly destroyed while the adjacent house was saved with losses not expected to exceed thirty dollars.
Mexic Tex March 3 all business houses and schools closed during the funeral hour to honor the memory of the late Judge D M Prendergast. Friends and relatives from other cities attended the service held this afternoon between 8 and 4 o'clock.
Mrs. J L Leonard received word that Boyd S Smith died yesterday at the Oaks Home Sanitarium in Denver where he had been treated for tuberculosis after nearly a year in Roswell. He was 29, leaves a wife and infant. The body will go to Pleasant Hill Missouri with relatives from Deaver.
Joan R. Gass the Synodical Missionary of the Presbyterian church was seen traveling through the valley on Saturday night en route to distant assignments.
J. L. Norton departed Roswell this morning for Little Rock Arkansas on a business trip of undetermined duration. He may not return to Roswell.
A Western Union ruling goes into effect allowing letters of up to fifty words to be sent by telegraph at night for a rate equal to ten words in the day. Night rates are reduced to one fifth of day rates to keep wires busy and encourage business correspondence after dark.
Judge Wm. H. Pope and court officers departed for Portales to open the Roosevelt County spring term. Clerk S. L. Roberts traveled ahead to ready the court. District Attorney L. O. Pullen, Robert C. Reid and A. J. Nisbet accompanied the judge. court proceeds to Clovis afterward.
J B Herbst, financial agent at 303 N Mann offers long time loans of 500000 dollars on irrigated farms. Interest payable annually with privilege to pay off before due.
A counterpoint to city prices notes meal tickets at the Roswell Hotel cost four dollars and fifty cents, versus five to eight dollars elsewhere, claiming meals there are as good as any in town.
Photographs are offered at reasonable prices by Ray's Studio located at 207 West Fourth Street. The studio advertises latest styles and invites customers to visit for portraits and photography services.
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