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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1907
Page
3
T M Rabb's Shop offers blacksmithing and wood work services with rubber tire fitting and horseshoeing highlighted as specialties. Local tradesman advertises broad craft capabilities and quick service.
Roswell Drug and Jewelry Co announces itself as the oldest drug store in Roswell offering up to date goods and services. The ad highlights a full range of pharmaceuticals and jewelry in a long standing local business.
Roswell jeweler Feingberg offers a swell line of jewelry at 203% N Main St. Watch repairs are available with all work guaranteed.
Local supplier Pecos Valley Lumber offers a range of building goods including lumber shingles doors lime cement paints varnish and glass for contractors and homeowners. The ad promotes available stock and home improvement materials at competitive prices.
The text outlines duties of a prison board to gather information on prisoners before committal, assess character and prospects for reform, and adopt rules preventing recidivism. It details intake records, medical examinations, discharge procedures, and reporting to the sentencing judge, with conditions for parole and penalties for parole violations. The act also covers transportation, post release support, governor’s role in pardons, and repeal of conflicting laws.
The Territory of New Mexico considers indeterminate sentencing for felonies excluding murder in the first degree and treason. The act details court discretion, parole terms, parole board duties, and superintendent powers for monitoring prisoners and enforcing parole conditions.
Local notes report numerous visitors and movers in Artesia and nearby towns. Names include C Higgins from Artesia, Oscar Smith prospecting, Mr. and Mrs. C S Brown visiting Texico, T H Craig in Carlsbad for a short home visit, J K Hearte from Lake Arthur, Ed S Gibbany returning from Artesia, J E Cathcart of Hagerman on business, and groups from Dexter Lakewood and Artesia on various trips.
The Shakespeare Club met Saturday afternoon at Mrs S T Peters home nine miles southeast of Roswell. Some members were delayed and found by men from the house, then arrived at 3 o clock for a generous 1 30 luncheon. The meal was enjoyed and patrons shared several more happy hours socially.
J. B. Russell, recently in Dexter, has purchased Dan Majors shop in this city and will move his family here this week. He plans to rent his Dexter home while relocating back to Roswell.
A financial notice offers $500,000 in loans on irrigated farms with long terms and annual interest payments. repayment in full before due is allowed. Credit by J. B. Herbst, Financial Agent, 303 N. Main, opposite the post office. Also brief ads for buggy painting and cheaper jewelry from Boellner.
At a Roswell Farmers Institute gathering fifty to sixty farmers elected Chas de Bremond as president and approved forming a public scales and weighmaster office funded by a small salary. The group appointed J C Hamilton Edward Ellis Arthur Stevens and others to push the proposal with the City council while hearing notes on draft horse breeding forage grasses and horse management. The meeting adjourned to April 18 for a cattlemen’s convention address by Mr Campbell.
Death at Elida Saturday from bowel trouble. W S Page a settler who arrived two or three weeks ago died at noon. Widow accompanies the remains to Council Bluffstown. Page was young with no children.
Mrs. Anne Hunter left Sunday on the morning train for Cleveland Ohio returning home with the remains of their baby that died two months ago after traveling with J. H. Shaw and family.
Mr and Mrs David S Rosenwald of Albuquerque departed Sunday morning after several days visiting friends and handling business before returning to their home.
The obituary notes the death of Reverend E McQueen Gray who passed away Saturday night while en route to his Carlsbad home after a business trip to central territory. Emmett Patton spent Sunday at Hagerman.
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