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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1910
Page
3
Dexter visitor J H L Hendricks and many townsfolk return from business trips and church duties. Roswell residents including teachers, clergy, and merchants travel to Artesia, Kenna, Alamogordo, and nearby towns for work, schooling, and family visits. several housing and loan offers, real estate exchanges, and new local businesses announced.
An assortment of advertisements shows 160 acres of deed land near Roswell offered at 2300 total price with 1250 cash if sold in five days, plus multiple for rent notices for furnished rooms, office spaces, and farm land near Dexter New Mexico. Also a Johns Hopkins indoor meet preview and election registration notices outline in brief.
The Mothers Club of Central School, aided by Mr. Mitchell, has secured the Majestic Theatre for a dinner and supper on March 15 the day of the School Bond Election. Dinners are 35 cents and supper 25 cents. Support a worthy cause.
City ordinance mandates shade trees on avenues north and south and Alameda Street be planted on the center line of proposed street parks about four feet from the sidewalk edge. Strict adherence is required now to avoid later relocation to the proper line.
Various sale notices list items such as a 10 feet square tent on North Kentucky Avenue, apple wood by the cord with delivery, a 100 acre North Central Texas farm offered for Pecos Valley property, an eight horsepower mounted Fairbanks Morse engine, a buggy and harness from E G Minton, a princess dresser and other furnishings at 602 N King, purebred white Plymouth Rock eggs from W H Lowry, and secondhand buggies from Palace Livery Stable.
Classified brief listing jobs and livestock needs including request for clean cotton rags at the Record Office. Cattle wanted for pasture on alfalfa, forty head. A colored couple sought at Oasis ranch. Cook position at Hamilton Stock farm. couple preferred. Competent woman for general house work, mornings contact at 408 N Kentucky. Phone numbers provided.
The Board of Regents of the Military Institute opened bids for wiring the new $50,000 academic building replacing Lea Hall. Valley Electrical Company was the lowest bidder at 1487.50 and the project will be conducted in conduits under R. J. Gatlin’s personal supervision.
Roswell based deputy game warden Mrs B R Buffham writes on poultry success. She details buying New York Leghorns, incubating eggs, and avoiding weak hatchlings. She promotes independent farm life, partridge and quail raising, and urges self reliance. She notes using a Remington shotgun to protect songbirds and deter hawks.
El Paso Mayor Joseph A. Sweeney and ex secretary J A Happer left for Washington to present important Chamizal zone facts to the State Department. The delegation will lay out El Paso's claim and key details of the boundary dispute.
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