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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1907
Page
4
Local items note L. C. Card at Dexter and others visiting Portales Carlsbad and Nogal. Jewelry dealer Boéliner advertises cheaper prices. Covey arrives from Dayton. J R Corn from Eden Valley. Miss Julia Cooley visits Glen. Crawford returns from six day trip to Lymon Col. A boarding house job opening at 708 N Main. Rev BE McQueen Gray passes through town.
Make arrangements to attend Miss Morgan's entertainment on Thursday night. The event promises a lively program with local performers and a welcoming crowd at the venue.
George Weatherby left for Dayton for a day or two with friends. Walter Rogers began a two week journey to points on the Belen cut-off this morning. J. R. Shackleford left for San Antonio for a month with his mother. Mr and Mrs R. Co. Reid returned to Texico after three days here. Charles Whiteman came back last evening from a two week visit to St Louis and Kansas City.
Report notes the concert Thursday night will feature a male quartet and high quality music under Miss Morgan. Local residents including Tom White, Lee Richards, C E Odem, G T Creech, and G A Lipp are traveling through Roswell Hernandez Lake Hereford and Artesia area guests.
Mrs T M Waller and her young son traveled through Dallas last night en route to their Lakewood home after a visit in the city.
Mrs. A. Robinson formerly of this city is visiting for two weeks with Mrs. D. B. Jackson from Wilburton Indian Territory.
E L Head formerly of the Military Institute now at Silver City is here attending commencement events.
R. C. Johnson has arrived from Gainesville Texas to take charge of John H. McMurray's farm east of town as manager.
S J Jackson of Jefferson Texas, after a month of prospecting and a pleasure trip, departed last night for Carlsbad.
On Thursday evening Roswell will hear Mrs. Cook Mrs. Ellis Mr. Trube and other Roswell's best artists. Misses Abbie and Florence Reed of Lake Arthur passed through this morning en route to Temple Texas for a two months visit.
A. L. W. Nilsson left last night for several days on a business trip to Carlsbad and Pecos in the interest of the Honda Stone Manufacturing Co.
Mrs L A Smith departed this morning for Denver to spend the summer. She has been here since last year working as a professional nurse.
Clymer Coldren formerly of this city arrived yesterday by auto from a month long journey through Mexico and left today for his home in Texico.
J. A. Edwards, A. L. Patrick, S. W. Holder, J. J. Boyd, E. C. Jackson and G. B. Crippen came up from Lake Arthur this morning to spend the day.
Warren Wilkinson arrived Saturday night from Brookfield Missouri to spend Sunday with Miss West at the home of Mrs. C M Bird. He left this morning for his home.
Capt C C Smith and his wife arrived Sunday morning from Douglas Arizona to take charge of the local Salvation Army corps and conduct the Sunday services.
Mrs. Annie Wright visits at the Robbins farm six miles east of town to be with her children who are both ill with measles.
Tobe Odem and Lee Richards visited Riverside to inspect Little. Turkey Track ships 25 cars and the Tannehills 40 cars from the same point today.
W. H. Hill came back last night after a two day stay in Rome and states there is no truth to the report of a land disappearance that appeared in last night's Record.
Mrs. E. W. Prichard of Dallas left last night for El Paso after attending the funeral of her sister the late Mrs. A. Archey. She will visit relatives there before returning home.
H. R. Morrow and family depart this morning for Amarillo. Mrs. Morrow and the children will proceed to Denver and then Battle Creek Michigan where Mrs. Morrow will enter a sanitarium for treatment.
Chester O Read of Olustee Oklahoma Territory visited Pecos last night with A N Moore of Trenton Kentucky who is touring the Southwest. Moore came last February to spend two weeks and is pleased with the country. Record Want Ads Get Results.
Mrs. L. B. Smith travels from the Valley to Hereford with Willie Smith to join her husband Mr. Smith who is engaged in contracting work. She had been visiting her sister Mrs. Wilson and other relatives for two months.
Mrs J W Thompson of Toledo Ohio left last night for a stay in Cincinnati for a few months traveling via New Orleans She is greatly pleased with Roswell and expects to return in a few months
S. E. Leonard of Denver, superintendent for the Western Union Telegraph Company, was a pleasant caller at the Record office. The company’s service has improved recently with a line to the south and a complete battery system installed in Roswell.
Numerous residents travel and visit sites around Roswell. Individuals from Hagerman Carlsbad and Lake Arthur stop by for shopping court or business. Notables include J W Wilson J C Wilson and R M Roberts visiting from various towns with tasks in Roswell district.
In Cheyenne Wyoming May 20 the U S District Court heard government action against Wyoming Cattle and Investment Company and Federal Land and Securities Company both of Des Moines Iowa. The suit charges both firms fenced 27000 acres of government land twenty miles east of Cheyenne marking the first case from a state wide land fencing probe.
New Haven May 20. One thousand trackmen across divisions from New York to Boston walked out today. They protest a refusal to raise wages by ten percent from the current 1.50 dollars per day.
Premier Stolypin announced the discovery of a plot to kill the emperor Grand Duke Nicholas and himself as radicals were absent from the session. The lower house adopted a resolution expressing great joy at His Majesty's escape.
A warrant was issued for Nikolai Lenin's arrest on high treason charges as he attends the Social Democratic congress in London. He may be identified as Vladimir Ulianoff, a radical leader from the early 1890s, and is considered a dangerous revolutionary figure.
A bomb exploded in Odessa's Central Bureau on May 20 wounding seven others. Police chief and two detectives were killed. A trio including a terrorist leader named Tcherikoff carried the device. two men were captured while a girl fled. The slain detectives were noted as bitterly hated by the terrorists.
A Central Railroad passenger train derailed at Hillsboro, about 35 miles north of Macon, Georgia. Two coaches overturned and twenty six people were injured, none fatally.
Pat Crowe was placed on trial in Council Bluffs Iowa on the charge of robbing two street cars the night of June 4 1905 He pleaded not guilty and had been indicted while on trial in Omaha for kidnapping Edlie Cudahy.
Washington May 20 The committee of Democrats appointed by President W H Murray of Oklahoma constitutional convention arrived to consult legal authorities on the situation from Judge Pancoast s decision which postpones the election under the convention’s constitution until fall 1908.
Notice from JOE J. JONES withdraws all town property from the market as of today. Listing 6713 appears with no further details on location or terms.
Rosario Emillio and Florencio Gomez escaped Lincoln county jail by sawing bars and vanished. Rumors say Emil IO hid in Capitan mountains or fled to Mexico with Gomez. Authorities monitor El Paso Amarillo Socorro and Guadalupe County for contacts while speculation about aid from friends continues.
Property notice seeks a renter for Hotel Gibson in Artesia New Mexico with possession date June 7 1907. Contact E C Higgins for particulars.
For sale or trade a splendid hotel proposition described as a money maker the first day and every day. Prospective buyers urged to see Carlton & Bell for details.
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