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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1905
Page
2
The Record notes the new law increasing salaries for county officials in Chaves County and the first class. Counts for County Commissioners are listed at 9000 per annum Probate Judge 600 Probate Clerk 1000 and County School Superintendent 100. A short editorial quip about Jia Jitsu contrasts Japanese and American wrestling styles.
A reader letter rails at misattribution of a Pecos Valley well to Washington in The Talisman edited by George H. Maxwell. The piece urges locals to protest theft of regional ideas. Also notes a church group led by Mr. Parsons meets with Mrs. Gertrude P. Johnson for a Sunday school quarterly review and social, outlining a long list of study questions.
The last legislature enacts that marriage licenses must be issued before solemnization in the Territory. Licenses are obtained from the probate clerk, with distant applicants allowed to use any officiant free of charge. The officiant must see the license, verify qualifications, and certify the marriage to the probate clerk within 90 days for entry in the record book, with a $1 fee to the clerk.
The act requires issuing licenses and recording them with probate clerks in each county. It mandates posting copies in at least three conspicuous places per precinct and prescribes the license form the application form and the certificate form. Violations carry a fine from 50 to 100 pounds and imprisonment from ten to sixty days.
Chas. C. Cooper, recently in the West for four years, returns to Plainfield to visit his parents and relatives before resuming duties as foreman on the Roswell Daily and Weekly Record. He plans another eastward journey in four to five weeks.
Notice: a blue cloak belonging to a girl has been lost and is requested to be returned to this office. Anyone with information should contact promptly.
Deeds filed for record Saturday in Roswell list transfers: R P Bean to A S Robertson for 5000 on 160 acres. H C Graves and sons to John W Hobbs for 250 on 4 acres. Wenzel Hoetzel to H Wallace Stevens for 500 on lot 1 block 3 Sunset Heights Roswell. W M Reed and W A Wilson to Charles Young for 1600 on 28 acres. Lost leather hand bag offered reward for finder returning to the Record office.
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