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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1910
Page
3
C Paley visited Boaz today while U S Market lists poultry prices. Thornton went to Portales for oil inspection. Rhode Island Red Eggs 75 cents for 15. Will M Hicks 5313. B Dietrich returned from Elida. Plain sewing offered at 508 N Penn Ave. J Husky back from Amarillo trip. Light housekeeping available at Nice and shady Mo S S Inn. C Robbins visited Day ton for business.
Local briefs note events at the Armory with appearances by St Roberts and Bob Smith. Connections include visits by D D Terple of Artesia and J L Wilson’s return from Roswell. Items mention real estate loans, jewelry stock and piano business, along with several residents traveling between Dexter Clovis and Greenfield.
Miss Helen Love of Oregon, who had been visiting the country for two days, departed this morning for Blida after a brief local stay.
Mrs H B Gilkesen leaves Roswell this morning for Wichita Kansas after a delay from the original plan. She will spend the summer in Colorado and return to Roswell next fall.
Mr and Mrs J H Hall came home last night from Grandview Texas where they were summoned by Mrs Hall's father's illness They report he is greatly improved since their departure
The piece promotes electric fans as the best way to live comfortably with less housekeeping, urging readers to consider the advantages of cooling and air flow as a practical home solution.
Fresh vegetables delivered each morning to any town location. Order the evening before. Also new alfalfa hay for sale from Owens Farm. Phone 293-6 rings. Owens Farm contact 52112.
Mrs M A Slaughter arrived back in Elkins this morning following a two month stay in Roswell.
Local notices advertise items for sale including a 3000 gallon tank tower, a Fairbanks Morse gasoline engine, carpeting, a gas range, a fireless cooker, a gentlemens furnishing store stock, a residence for sale, a $ Four thousand dollar stock of dry goods for trade for land near Roswell, a tailoring outfit, Virginia Jersey milk delivery, and a five room house with land. Contact details include Oasis Ranch Co, Rolland Bros of Carrizozo NM, Joe B. Miller Pecos Texas, Leroy Berrier Long Beach Calif, and P O Box 332 Long Beach Calif.
We will pay 25 dollars reward for the arrest and conviction of the parties who stole the bricklayers tools on the Military Institute B M L A No 5411B Mrs M R Ballard and daughter Miss Bernice and her six other children of Lake Arthur passed through this morning en route to Wichita Kansas to spend the summer.
Bob Smith appears at the Armory tonight while E L Love and J L Chatten return to Elkins this morning after spending several days here at court.
160 acres improved with house, well and windmill, stock sheds, corrals, and good wire fence. Adjacent to fine open range with free grass, suitable for dairy ranching and poultry. Cash or trade for Oklahoma Kansas Missouri property. Price 1600 dollars. E L Wildy 222 North Main St.
Earl Minteer of Amarillo visited yesterday on business related to the hardware trade and departed this morning for points north.
Miss Florence Selden a New York Institute of Musical Art graduate will take a limited number of pupils in voice and piano Apply 510 South Kentucky Avenue. Other short items note Joe Mitchell arriving from Texico for hardware business, for sale of farm eggs from Rhode Island Red and Leghorn lines, and various local movements including jeweler L B Boemner, Denver businessman George Cline in town, and Roswell area trade and railway notices.
Mrs. M O Becker of Lake Arthur visits a friend here with her daughter Dorothy and her young child Allene who returned home last night to attend a Lake Arthur picnic today. The party will stay a few days.
A collection of rental notices lists several properties around town. Includes a modern cottage on North Penna Avenue, two light housekeeping rooms on North Penn, a 12 room boarding house via Teeple & Day, a corner Kentucky and Alameda modern five room house, a brick house at Richardson and Walnut, a Main Street four room house with water and sewer, and several furnished rooms with monthly rates ranging from 20 to 25 dollars plus contact details such as names and phone numbers.
A purse lost with an estimated value between seven and eight dollars. Please return to E. Sandoval at Price and Co.
D P Greiner traveled to Lake Arthur this morning to organize a fresh Modern Woodmen of America lodge tonight with 35 charter members joining the group.
Rev. J. R. Jones departed last night for Jones county Texas to visit relatives. He may then travel to Magdalena New Mexico to see his son Joe Jones and to Clovis to visit his son Tom. He is expected to stay about ten months.
Mrs J I Higgs of Nicnaolasyile Kentucky arrived last night to join Mr Higgs in making their home in Roswell. She was accompanied by Mrs Ora Johns who will visit.
Local jeweler L. B. Boellner urges readers not to purchase a commencement present until they view the new jewelry stock arriving at his shop. A short promotional note appears as a small classified item.
Mr and Mrs John Hoard and their child ran visitors departed this morning for Chickasha Oklahoma. They were accompanied by Mrs George Morris the Hoards mother who had been in town for eleven months visiting Mrs C J Price.
Gregory S. Moore, a New Mexico Board of Pharmacy member, left this morning for a week long trip to Las Vegas, Raton, and Tucumcari to attend board meetings.
Traveling men offer small-town customers 5 to 10 dollars a day in earnings by carrying a pocket side line. For details write to 20th Century Mfg. Co., 1308 Wells St. Chicago. S612
Judge J T Evans returns after a fifteen day trip to Mobile Alabama for the national Confederate reunion and to visit friends and his old Mississippi home near the Mississippi Alabama line. He reports the reunion was a great success in every respect.
Mrs. D B Jackson of Roswell and Miss M B Demaree of Long Run Kentucky, who have been here four weeks, depart this morning for a few days in Portales. Afterward Miss Demaree will return home. Demaree has also been through several lower valley towns prospecting and bought a small farm at Lake Arthur.
The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church gathered Friday afternoon at Mrs W S Murrell’s home. Forty five members attended in an event described as among the most enjoyable and enthusiastic meetings held. Pastor Rev Van Valkenburg gave a helpful talk on the occasion.
Miss Dolla Draper arrived home in Carlsbad last night after a two week visit with her sister Mrs George Brantley of West Tilden. Mr and Mrs Brantley planned to go to Carlsbad Tuesday where Brantley has taken a position with the new mercantile company and holds an interest. Brantley has long been with Jaffa Prager Co store in Roswell.
W H Dearstyne on a short vacation from Peters Paper Co Denver visited his brother Frank M Dearstyne and dropped in at the Record office to listen for a few minutes to the music of the Linotype.
Yesterday afternoon at 2:40 a fire alarm rang for a fire in a pile of wooden materials including a coal bin, work bench, and trash behind the Frank Snipes store on Main Street. A trash blaze blew near the bench and was extinguished with buckets of water, causing little damage.
Mrs Sadie Mullane introduced a typical negro song with banjo, followed by Miss Nel Mason reading and Mrs Murrell giving a solo. The hostess, assisted by Mrs Brewster, served delicious refreshments.
Merged balance sheet as of March 1 1910 shows assets totaling 13 757 970 10 with stock and bonds 10 468 899 00 cash and deposits 1 467 630 04 and real estate 67 500 00. Liabilities include unearned premiums 7 547 000 00 and reserves for contested liabilities 634 073 19 with surplus to policyholders 4 699 112 46 and net surplus 2 199 112 46.
The Bonded Abstract and Security Co offers guaranteed abstracts and titles with loans. Located in Oklahoma Block, contact via phone 87 for services centered on property financing and title guarantees.
U S Meat Market advertises top quality meat with the motto quality. The note emphasizes using only the best products and stresses a commitment to high standards.
Geor B Jewett at 212 Main St advertises billiards and pool with notice of new regulation equipment.
Lon Holland opens a new shop at 242 Virginia Avenue offering horse-shoeing general blacksmithing carriage repair and rubber tire work with satisfaction guaranteed.
Jaffa Prager & Co offers dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies. Local catalog listing details available at main store with seasonal selections and bulk discounts for ranchers and households.
Roswell Drug and Jewelry Co claims status as the oldest drug store in Roswell and advertises being up to date with all products and services offered.
Local ads promote Dilley Furniture Company highlighting the swellest line in Roswell with high quality and low prices. The Shrador Grocery Co offers strictly good goods at reasonable prices, inviting patronage. Roswell Hotel promises comfortable dining and courteous service.
A notice invites readers to call the Record Office to obtain prices for all kinds of printing. It promises the best work at reasonable prices and encourages inquiries for service details.
Roswell merchants display offerings from house furnishers and hardware stores to livery services and lumber yards. Ads promote Hills and Dunn furniture and sewing supplies, Roswell Hardware Co offerings, Independent Hardware, Oriental Livery, Palace Livery, Pecos Valley Lumber, Roswell Lumber Co, and Kemp Lumber Co with key contact cues.
W S Murrell offers piano tuning and repair services with gradual Chicago Conservatory training and guarantees his work. Located at 348 E 5th St. phone 569. Ready-to-wear apparel at Morrison Bros Store offers men women and children outfits with millinery specialty.
Private ambulance and prompt service offered by Dilley and Son undertakers, with Ullery Furniture Co also advertising undertaker services. Henninger undertaker and entertainer lists private ambulance and prompt service with parlors at 121 West Fourth and telephone numbers 75 or 73-2 rings.
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