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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1910
Page
3
Local news list includes real estate loan ads from Roswell Title and Trust Co. and brief reports of residents and visitors: Sam Jones returning from Acme, Nicholson from a trip, George Hogan and W J Caffall from Dexter, and Mrs. J H Dammon back from six months in Roswell. Andrew Dies preached in Artesia, I C Stewart hospitalized post operation, appendicitis cases at St Marys hospital, and Mrs A V Gillespie recovering after surgery.
A. D. Graham of Albuquerque was in the city today. T. A. Stancliff traveled from Lake Arthur for a brief stay. F. D. Mitchell came from Hageman for a short business visit. First class baled hay for sale contact R. P. Bean. K. A. A. Johnson and O. Cummins came from Capitan for a few days in Roswell. A. Dixon returned from Lakewood where he managed L. W. Holt estate business.
Local tailor Chavez operates at 118 South Main Street offering cleaning pressing and repair services with emphasis on customer satisfaction. Contact details appear as 02126.
E. M. Sandoval departed for Portales this morning to meet his brother in law Nicholas Madrid of Ft. Sumner. They will conduct a brief business visit. Major Geo. W. Littlefield left for his Austin home after a short stay with relatives here.
C. P. Sherman resumes duties at the Hagerman dam Sunday night following a familial visit in Roswell.
W. C. Lawrence traveled from Lake Arthur on Sunday morning en route to St. Louis to pursue land and immigration business.
Miss Eddie Johnson a school teacher at Acme resumed duties this morning after a weekend with Roswell friends. Mr and Mrs J K Chester departed this morning returning to Sterling Illinois after ten days visiting their Orchard Park farm.
Walter P. Chisum arrived this morning after a trip down the valley where he conducted business as Grand Lecturer for the Masons of New Mexico.
Mr and Mrs Louis Payne and their baby, here for three weeks prospecting, left Sunday morning for Las Vegas. Their home is in Chickasha Oklahoma.
J H Steele returned home after a Saturday trip for Swift and Company and left again for the north this morning following a Sunday with his family.
J. R. Dendinger left Sunday morning for his Dallas home after several days in Roswell and at Lake Arthur. He plans to attend the cattlemen's convention in Fort Worth.
Classified item offers single comb Rhode Island Red eggs at 410 phone with 1.50 per setting of 15 eggs. Also for sale or rent a neat 4 room modern home with bath city water connections and 5 acres of land until January 1 1911 by W E Winston 222 W McGaffey St.
Misses Eleanor Blakey and Rachel Whaley returned this morning from a two days visit in Artesia.
L W Garner a manager of the Joyce Pruit store at Hagerman spent Sunday with relatives and friends in sale 11.
George M. Slaughter and Dr. Geo T. Veal of this city and Allen Heard of Carlshad left Sunday for Fort Worth to attend the Texas Cattle Raisers Association convention. H. C. Bales and family, long-time local employees at Dilley Furniture, departed for Lebanon Kansas en route to Martinsville Indiana, visiting on the way to their old home.
Geo W. Littlefield Jr returned to his home near Kenna after a business trip of several days in Roswell. He came to see his uncle Major Littlefield of Dallas during the trip.
Mr and Mrs D F Thomas and their little son plan a dawn departure to Camden Indiana after word his father there is gravely ill with heart failure and not expected to live. Also present here last week, Mr and Mrs E E Pollock left Sunday for Amarillo after performing vaudeville at the Lyric. A new team arrived Sunday night to spend the week, and the Southern Presbyterian Aid Society will host a lunch at Joyce Pruit Co store on the 16th from 2 to 6 pm with a silver offering to be taken.
J. R. Letton left for Friona Texas after two days with E. B. Evans seeking sheep. He found plenty of sheep but prices remained too high for purchase.
Classified ads list Apple wood in stave lengths six dollars per cord seven delivered Owens Farm forty-one percent east. Also an eight horsepower mounted Fairbanks Morse gasoline engine call Oasis Ranch Co. 1811. A buggy and one set of buggy harness nearly new E G Minton 109 East 3rd St. Second hand buggies for sale or exchange Palace Livery Stable 71f. Dining table chairs sideboard library table rockers heating stove cook stove bed springs mattresses 408 N Lea must sell Wednesday.
A sequence of classified help wanted notices seeks a colored couple at Oasis ranch a Hamilton Stock farm a competent woman for general house work and plain sewing for children and adults plus two agent positions offering cash commissions for Winona Mills Hosiery and Underwear representing Tucson Ariz and Santa Fe Territory with pay ranges mentioned in the first year all accompanied by contact phone numbers and addresses
Multiple short rental notices list diverse accommodations and spaces for rent in Dexter and Roswell area. Items include furnished rooms with meals, unfurnished suites, a furnished house, office space with vault, light housekeeping rooms with bath, and a 40 acre alfalfa and 500 acre salt grass pasture. Also listed are two lost items: camp bed west of Dexter and a gold buckle watch fob between Gilkeson Hotel and Alameda Street Elktooth.
Jack Higham a former coupler for the Roswell Fire Department left Sunday morning for San Francisco to join a local company. He travels with Harry Nelson who will seek prospects across California, and Ed Cronk who has been at the New York Shoeing Shop for twelve months and heads to the Philippines for a U S army horse shooing post formerly held there.
Pecos Tex March 10 W L Carwile president of Pecos Valley Southern Railway filed a 25000 bond guaranteeing construction with trustees A prior bond was surrendered upon receipt of construction bond A supplementary contract grants trustees a lien on materials entering the road to protect bonuses as work progresses The large grading outfit belonging to Tom Brigance Fort Worth and twenty five car loads of track material are en route Also two locomotives and several cars will arrive before the 20th Chief Engineer Anderson directs plans for bridges stations roundhouse and shops to be built in Pecos Ongoing grading allows start of track laying as ahead of traders
Baled hay for sale at C A Dotys mile south of Hospital. The Old Clothes Man will be presented at the Armory on Friday March 15 in four acts and nine scenes. Special scenery is carried for the production with Herbert De Guerre in the title role and a strong company. Scenic equipment has been thoroughly prepared by Clison and Bradfield for a highly finished show under their management.
Mrs. W A Van Zant aged 27 died Sunday afternoon at her College Boulevard home after arriving from Oklahoma a few weeks ago seeking tuberculosis care. She leaves a husband and two young daughters. Funeral was at 2 30 p m from Dilley parlors with burial at South Side cemetery. The husband and children expect to return to Oklahoma.
Valley Optical Kom pany reports new stock of auto goggles and dust glasses arriving for motorists.
Ground floor two room office space available for rent. Apply P V Land and Development Co 8217.
A city ordinance requires trees planted on north south avenues and Alameda Street be on the center line of proposed street parks about four feet from the sidewalk edge. The ordinance must be strictly observed now to ensure correct alignment later.
Sealed proposals from the Chaves County Board of Commissioners for a new County Court House and Jail in Roswell are due by 12 noon on April 5 1910. Plans available at I H W M Rapp Co offices in Santa Fe and Trinidad and Roswell. The board may reject bids.
Bonded Abstracts and Security Co offers capital of 50,000 with guaranteed abstracts and titles for loans from Oklahoma Block, contact via phone 87. Hills and Dunn advertise furniture hardware rugs and sewing supplies at 395 307 N Main, phone 69. Roswell Hardware Co lists wholesale and retail hardware, engines, pipes, pumps, fencing. Independent Hardware promotes wholesale and retail hardware, tinware, buggies, wagons, and plumbing.
Keeps nothing but the best.quality is our motto.
Lon Holland announces a new shop at 242 Virginia Avenue offering horse-shoeing general blacksmithing carriage repair and rubber tire work with satisfaction guaranteed.
Dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies offered by Jaffa Prager and Co department stores.
The Oriental Livery and Cab Line offers 24 hour service with Paine 40, W R Bond as proprietor. Reliable carriage and carriage service provided day and night for all callers seeking prompt transit.
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