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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1907
Page
3
Local notices show low refrigerator prices and various errands. Carlton and Bell advertise legal blanks and screen wire while workers travel to Carlsbad Artesia and San Antonio. Community notices list visits, entertainment at Soum M. B. Church and business trips from Dexter Lake Arthur and Artesia.
Wanted clean cotton rags at the Record office miles from Bovina. Wednesday morning. F Rhea went to his ranch 25.
Woodruff and DeFreest Sheriff C L Ballard traveled to Hageman on a brief business visit. Mr and Mrs E F Cooper went to Dayton after a short stay here. Entertainment at South M E Church begins tonight at o clock. 231 Dr and Mrs T W Grace left for El Paso to locate. J A Manning returned Wednesday from Carlsbad after a brief business trip. Mrs Johnnie Wilson and Mrs B O White returned from Barstow Texas where they visited sister Mrs Royal Whitaker.
W P Dyer and W S Davisson arrived from Kentucky and Hagerman on business. C L Higday returned from Deming and El Paso. Worsening weather prompts entertainment at South M E Church. Will Lawrence ends visit to Roswell and Lake Arthur. John W Rhea heads to Lubbock for a week. George A Landrum to speak at Southern Methodist Church tonight. Dock Sears back from Roswell visit. Dr A Anderson departs for Sioux City to join wife. Cemetery Association meets Saturday at 2 30. W Adams and Dr Peters travel to the White Mountains for mining interests. Mrs P E Malone visits Hagerman. Dan De Arcy plans to make Roswell home. Prof E B Hinshaw and wife leave for Durant Oklahoma for ten days.
Elza White departed for Albuquerque to attend a territorial sheep sanitary board meeting. Dr. Leslie Audrian left for Amarillo for a position with Drs. Johnson and Ely. Phena Tooley headed home to eastern Kansas after a visit. Heflin and Nisbet returned from Carlsbad where they attended court. An SMU church entertainment is planned by the Military Institute. S. F. Ballin, formerly of this city and now in El Paso, arrived from the South on business.
Mrs. M. Weil, who has been visiting her husband, departed Wednesday for her Kansas City home. She was accompanied as far as Amarillo by Mr. Weil.
Co. C. Shelburn came back Wednesday from Van Horn Texas after a ten day absence due to his brother’s illness.
E. L. Higginbotham, a grocery salesman, departed Wednesday to work several days at points between Roswell and Amarillo, after staying in the area for several days.
H. L. Elting and Ed Sullivan of Macomb Illinois came in Wednesday from the South where they have been prospecting. They propose to spend several days in Roswell.
H W Titus and wife returned from Artesia Lake Arthur and nearby areas where they pursued interests of the Pos Piano Co. B T Camp, six weeks with Dr R L Casburn and Hagerman land, left for Carthage Illinois. Scott New departed for El Paso to study western Texas land offers for homesteaders eight sections each. Harry Lenox and family returned from El Paso County bringing Louis Lenox who has suffered bilious fever.
The Ladies of the Maccabees met at Maccabee Hall Tuesday night with about 200 in attendance. Next Tuesday April 2 after the review they will entertain the Sir Knights and friends. Nell Williamson arrives from Shearman Texas and will visit Roswell before returning to the mountains. Evening church entertainment marks first of three, with magician and musical troupe to follow. Separate tickets 50 cents. E W Kline returns to Tulsa after a Roswell stay and property sale profits. Mrs Albert Petty Heft travels toward Bisbee Arizona to join her husband. Mrs J B Frickey leaves Wichita with Frickey.
G. H. Merridit left Wednesday for home in Chicago after spending several days here prospecting and seeing sights. He plans a future visit to invest, impressed by the Pecos Valley resources and potential. B. L. Sullivan, Government structural engineer in New Mexico, arrived in Santa Fe yesterday on the auto front.
The individual has left last night for Carlsbad, where he will establish his headquarters. He reports Santa Fe experienced heavy rain during his stay.
George Ady and his son George Ady Jr. hosted a six day visit while evaluating oil prospects on the son's property west of town. Ady said the drilling uncertainties persist but signs look promising as he heads back to Denver.
Dr E K E Roberts departed Wednesday for Fort Riley Kansas after spending a week with Capt Murray He bought 21 acres of the Hagerman orchard at South Springs and will return later to tend his prospective crop John Hyatt visiting his brother in law A T Gunter left Wednesday for Deming NM by automobile
Seventeen month old Ethel Allene Miller daughter of Mr and Mrs R L Miller died at the Capitan Hotel at 3 40 this morning from spinal meningitis after a week long illness. Funeral services were held this afternoon at four from the home with Rev H F Vermillion of the Baptist Church officiating. Interment followed in South Side Cemetery.
George A. Landrum of Fayettesville Ark arrives from Artesia and Carlsbad to present the first of three entertainments at the Southern M E Church under the Military Institute. The talk will be amusing and instructive, not a formal lecture, and rich with stories.
In South St. Joseph Missouri, cattle and hog prices fell modestly after last week. Steers eased 10 cents, cows and heifers 10 to 15 cents. best heavy beefs sold 5.75 to 6.00, most weights 4.75 to 5.40, light killers 4.25 to 4.60. Hog prices drifted down with tops around 6.12, sheep and lambs mixed with lambs 7.85 to 7.80 for heavier kinds. Market noted rail strike talk influencing prices. notes Warrick district.
Real estate transfers include Robert L. Stedham to J. S. Tucker for 850 dollars covering eighty acres in 22-15-25. Lake Arthur Townsite Co. to James M. Neff for 200 dollars, lots 1-12 in block 103. John W. Clemens and wife to Sidney J. Gillett for 1 dollar, a 250 by 250 foot lot in 13-13-25. Wm. S. Prager and wife to R. L. Olmstad for 6720 dollars, a 160 acre tract in 30-11-24.
An important meeting of all the ladies of the M. E. Church South is scheduled for tomorrow at three o clock in the church. All members are urged to attend.
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