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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1907
Page
3
Carlton and Bell advertise as the most complete abstract books in Pecos Valley with fifty-five years experience. P Gayle is manager of Chaves County Abstract Co offering reliable and prompt service. 4126.
Local meat market at 123 N Main St offers corn fed beef and all other meats with a phone listing for orders and inquiries.
T M Rabb's Shop offers blacksmithing and wood works. Roswell Wool & Hide Co sells rubber tires horseshoeing grain coal and wood with hides bought. Roswell Trading Co supplies coal hay and grain. All on East Second Street with phone numbers listed.
Bernard Gunsul electrical contractor at 203 North Main offers all kinds of electric work and represents General Electric Company with phone 141 for inquiries.
A pleas place to spend your leisure. A line cigars and tobaccoes.
Local advertisements list Kipling's Candy Store with candies cigars and hot drinks, and Roswell's hotels offering rooms with private baths and easy payments. Also promoted are Grand Central, El Capitan, Hotel Shelby, Morgan's Second Hand Store, Roswell Hotel and Makins Second Hand Store with services, prices, and contact details.
W P Lewis Hardware Co presents a bold notice claiming to be the largest house in the West with a complete stock and right prices. Located on First and Main, the ad solicits reader business.
James Lloyd Thompson advertises surveying designing and drafting with concrete work as a specialty. All work guaranteed. Office in Garsting building Room 9.
T. Reverman invites inquiries before building with 25 years experience and satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 107. G and Sparks advertise as contractors and builders offering painting and paper hanging services with P O Box 566 459 E 5th.
J Prager & Co and Joyce-Pruit Co promote dry goods clothing groceries and ranch supplies. They claim to be the largest supply house in the Southwest with wholesale and retail options for broad consumer needs.
Roswell drug store scene lists Roswell Drug and Jewel Co, Daniel Drug Co headlining as headquarters for drugs, wallpaper, paints, and curios. Payton Drug Book and Stationery Co markets goods and curios. Prescription filling highlighted for care and accuracy.
Cooper and Millice advertise rooms 8 and 8 in Texas Block while Scarlton and Bell claim the city’s largest real estate business. IgElmore and Fleming offer real estate and live stock from the Garst Building room 8, and Nell R. Moore promotes property pricing near the American National Bank, phone 47.
Morrison Brothers Store offers ready to wear apparel for men women and children with millinery as a specialty.
The Roswell Produce and Seed Co invites readers to request its seed catalogue featuring field and garden seeds. The notice emphasizes a wide selection and prompts customers to write for the catalog.
The St. Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railway completes 106 miles of main line and branches known as the Rocky Mountain Route. It links Des Moines via the Colorado & Southern to Raton and Vermejo, with branches to Clifton, Koehler, and Ute Park. The line serves coal mining operations and includes new locomotives and passenger cars. A large civic parade in Gardiner highlights events with Colonel A M Fuller leading.
The Peeler Shoe Store advertises Peters and Stetson shoes as exclusive specials.
The page highlights shops in Roswell offering watches diamonds jewelry and glassware. Harry Morrison promotes exclusive jewelry and silverware while L B Boellner claims to be Roswell’s best jeweler with cut glass and china. C Feinberg invites visits to 20314 N Main St and pledges repair services with guaranteed work.
Pecos Valley Lumber Co offers lumber shingles cement paints varnish and glass. Roswell Lumber Co promotes as oldest lumber yard in Roswell for all building materials and paint. Kemp Lumber Co invites customers to call for lumber shingles and more at East 4th St.
Capital Life Insurance Co of Denver Colorado a Western company proclaims itself the largest dividend payer in the business. Horace A Lay sets out as manager inviting potential buyers to see policies with no obligation to purchase.
Roswell Tent City and Sana Torium, Incorporated. Dr. C. L. Parsons, Manager.
R. H. McCune acts as agent for U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co arranging bonds on short notice for surety needs.
W P Wood, tailor at 118 North Main Street, advertises custom made suits plus cleaning and pressing services with phone number 409.
Downtown phone 224 residence phone 426.
Ex Governor David B Francis of Missouri led a St Louis party praising Jamestown Ter Centenni al plans on opening day in Norfolk Virginia. He praised the project’s scope weather delays and predicted completion within four weeks with government support and strong exhibits, landscapes and waterfront appeal drawing large crowds.
A mass meeting in Turnhall united the German American alliance of Delaware with Irish American participants to launch a campaign opposing the local option crusade. Dr. Hexamer of Philadelphia led the alliance as its president, while the Anti-Saloon League organized temperance forces aiming to enforce the local option law at the November vote.
An elderly owner urges potential sellers to consult Ma kin’s Second Hand Store before finalizing any deal. The note provides a contact phone number 227 and emphasizes seeking guidance prior to sale.
The plan calls for 200 additional ovens at Koebler by July 1 producing about 175000 tons of coke annually. The company owns coal across 800 square miles of the Raton field and 300 square miles of surface, with total area larger than the Pennsylvania anthracite regions. A Cimarron & Northwestern feeder railway is under construction to support timber development, linking Cimarron to the Poin t river. The St Louis Rocky Mountain & Pacific company lists 15 million dollars of 5 percent first mortgage bonds, 7 million issued, and 1 million in preferred stock.
The article argues time is an estate to be valued and spent wisely. It cites indolence and procrastination as hindrances, noting lost time cannot be recovered while industry and steady toil yield harvests. It credits persistent hard work as the key to great achievement and genius.
Memphis Tennessee May 8 the national board meeting of the women s club federation opened with a welcome address by Mrs Charles Niles Grosvenor a luncheon at the Woman s building and sessions of the national board managers auxiliary board and sectional meetings The visitors will be hosted by the Beethoven club with several receptions and concerts planned during their stay the convention runs through Saturday afternoon.
The twenty sixth annual encampment of the Kansas department of the Grand Army opened in Topeka with Commander Patrick Coney delivering the annual address. The session focused on business items including officer reports committee appointments and communications. The gathering featured a formal reception and ongoing formalities.
Thousands of Knights Templar Masons from across the United States attend the grand encampment in Atlanta. The centerpiece is the cornerstone ceremony for the Masonic temple on Peachtree Street with Most Eminent Grand Master George Moulton presiding. About 509 delegates are joined by an estimated 10,000 additional Masons in the city as the conclave continues.
Riverside California May 8 The Transcontinental Passenger association of America cancels today’s meeting by unanimous vote. The next session is set for June 19 in Chicago to discuss changing rules requiring three of four annual sessions in southern Rocky Mountain or Pacific coast cities. Pacific coast trips had become pleasure junkets for the passenger men.
New York May 8 opening day for Del Monte park features the 10000 Metropolitan handicap as the inaugural event of nine days of Westchester Racing Association sport. The Jamaica meet ends this afternoon as bettors eye a strong field with Grapple and Rosebud among early favorites and many milers plus top three-year-olds in contention.
J B Herbst financial agent at 303 North Main offers five hundred thousand dollars in long term loans on irrigated farms with annual interest payments and the right to prepay before due. Offer targets farmers seeking large farm financing and cites location opposite the post office.
Ardmore Oklahoma May 8 The program for this afternoon includes a 100 yard foot race for firemen a 100 yard hose real race a ladder climbing contest and a plug and nozzlemen race. Teams may enter eight men and a foreman with 200 feet of hose of which 150 feet are laid after 100 feet to the hydrant. The climbing contest allows two men from each company to run 50 feet and climb a 50 foot ladder. A business session was held this morning and a stag social will be held for visiting firemen.
Miss Martha Landstreet heiress and great granddaughter of former President Andrew Johnson will marry Robert Willenham in Richmond today. Relatives travel from southern and eastern cities to witness the ceremony. Miss Landstreet’s grandmother Mrs Martha Patterson served as White House mistress during Johnson’s administration.
Telegraph operators in West Virginia threaten to strike if wages are cut when the new eight hour law goes into effect tomorrow. Railroads have served notice of proportionate wage reductions following enforcement of the act.
Miss Phenie Lauritzen of Chicago marries H. M. Brown captain in the Maszila fire department after a years long mail courtship. Brown arrived from the Philippines following the Spanish American War era courting began during his army service.
Volunteer firemen from smaller Texas cities converge in McKinney for the annual association meeting. Mayor J L Doggett opens the event and Captain T F Ganagam speaks for the local department. A business session is held and an evening entertainment, smoker, and exhibition races are planned, ending with a ball and reception Friday.
The Cincinnati Spring Festival began today under the Cincinnati Advertiser and runs ten days and nights. Advertising men aim to raise 20000 dollars for the entertainment of National Association of Advertising Clubs delegates at the August convention. Local commercial organizations join in the effort, promising the most successful event yet in the Queen City.
Governor Vardaman will be the chief speaker at the Mississippi Anti Tuberculosis league congress opening in Meridian for a three day session. He will discuss methods of treatment in vogue at the time.
Insane sanitarium reforms including isolation and outdoor exercise have greatly cut tuberculosis among patients. Several distinguished specialists will speak at a league meeting attended by many of the state's leading physicians.
Mark Alfred Carleton a cerealist with the United States Department of Agriculture arrived in Roswell by auto from Torrance Tuesday afternoon and will stay several days to investigate farming and farming possibilities in the Pecos Valley before continuing to Amarillo.
Richard son Mason and Harle three Americans convicted of murder in Chihuahua to secure the life insurance of their victim have been granted an appeal to the Mexican supreme court delaying their execution and moving the case toward review.
Probate Clerk F P Gayle records transfers valued at 2500 dollars from T J Anderson and wife to C D Thompson for lots 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 block 16 West Side addition including water rights in Roswell. Arthur N Geyer transfers to Edith M Geyer for one dollar and other consideration, lots 6 and 7 block 4 North Spring River addition to Roswell.
Petition seeks sale of Fred Roth real estate to pay debts with defendants including Oscar Roth Ernest Roth Gustave Roth and heirs of Robert Roth. Default judgment possible if appearance not entered by June 4 1907. Attorneys Ira P Wetmore Karl A Snyder Roswell NM. Also local note on San Angelo couple heading to Dayton to settle in new home.
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