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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1910
Page
3
Local items include car livery contact 9 City Livery and a two day stay warning from Father Christmann in Portales. A large modern house for rent at 608 W. 1st St. Szif. Pos arrived from Artesia to visit Roswell. J Goodman buys used heaters and stoves. Lon Cottingham heads to Dallas for the Texas State Fair.
Advertisement fragment noting a modern nine room furnished house for rent at $35 a month through Title & Trust Co. a name Cc Davis on a business trip to Pecos and Sweetwater. Roswell Floral Co reports fresh cut sewers manager F D Santheson Paone Rural No 8. 90110 Cy Waugh from Dexter after several days away.
Dr. J. W. Kinsinger leads a party of prospectors arriving last night from Columbia Missouri bringing a team of miners and equipment for exploration.
New and complete, well finished five room house with two lots offered by Title and Trust Co. at only $1,250 with easy terms. Phone 91.
Mrs. Page Hudson leaves a warning for Kansas City to visit relatives and friends. A rare chance for an investor shows a 20 acre tract on North Main street two miles out, advertised by Title and Trust Co. with phone 91.
C C Cagle, his wife and baby departed this morning for a ten days vacation to the White mountains.
A local grocer promotes a 6 pound bundle of pumpkin yam and sweet potatoe priced at 25 cents. The ad reads clearly and emphasizes value for shoppers seeking root vegetables.
Mr and Mrs James Ely came back last night from a six week visiting trip to Marion County Kansas.
H. W. Morrison returned to Carlsbad after a three day business stay. Hal Ware left for Greenfield to finish the Roswell baseball season. Guy Stapp arrived from Canadea Sonora Mexico and will remain through the upcoming court session.
2013 Yre Karrle departed this morning on his return to Henrietta after spending ten days in the area, seeing the country.
Rev. H. F. Vermillion and his family relocate from Eureka Springs Arkansas to Westminister Texas. The notice records a household move and identifies the two locations and the pastor’s denomination.
M. K. Miller, longtime employee of Roswell Gas and Electric, departed this morning for Los Angeles. Details of his destination or purpose were not disclosed.
A brief line notes someone planning to join his wife to spend the winter, indicating travel or relocation for the season.
W P Littlefield travels from his Kenna ranch to visit family in Roswell. Flossie and Bethel Wixom return to Hagerman after a two day Call quick house viewing at 192e 8 room house for rent 608 W 1st Lt. Mrs L B Phillips returns from Artesia after three weeks nursing illness.
E. C. La Coss arrived last night from Pecos with engine No. 0234, recently assigned to the Pecos division.
By our cleaning pressing dyeing and repairing we are known. 92 of Mrs Jake Owens of Carlsbad came up this morning for a few days visit with her son a cadet at the Military Institute accompanied by her little daughter.
Mrs. Frank Rose of Carlsbad who has been visiting her father's ranch east on the plains is now spending a few days with relatives and friends in Roswell.
Mrs. M. F. Booth with her daughter and son, visiting from eastern Canves County, departed last night for Lakewood and may remain there indefinitely.
Crescent Tailors offers up-to-date styles and a fit guaranteed for winter suits with phone contact at 517. 92tf.
Bob Smyth of Roswell Title and Trust Company arrived home yesterday by auto after traveling to Santa Rosa to handle abstract business for the Fort Sumner Land and Development Company.
Miss Dorothy and Master Leon Owen from Artesia came with Miss Edna Horrall to spend two days with their sister Mrs. Emory Hobson.
An old advertisement notes eyes may be defective and require glasses and invites readers to consult Valley Optical Kompany for a precise cause and fit. The message emphasizes that exact fitting calls for skilled service beyond ordinary capability.
The Wool market at Woo Market in St Louis lists territory and western medians with 18 23 for fine mediums 17 20 for fine and 14 17 for other lots.
Nogales Arizona reports ex governor Rafael Ysabel dies in Sonora Mexico with three day mourning decreed. A special funeral train carried officials and staff from the north to Nogales and will proceed to Hermosillo tonight.
Springfield Missouri October fifteenth Stanley Ketchel champion middleweight was shot on R P Dickerson farm five miles north of Conway. A farm employee Walter A Hurtz fired a small rifle wounding Ketchel who traveled by special train to reach a hospital with Dickerson and doctors. Bloodhounds were sent to trace Hurtz described as quarrelsome.
Ketchel fired toward Hurtz, Hurtz returned fire wounding Ketchel. A Conway doctor was summoned but arrived after forty five minutes. Three physicians and detectives pursued Hurtz, who fled to the river bottoms, where he remains sought with bloodhounds on a special train.
Paris on October 15 1920 directors of railroads in the strike agreed to a minimum wage of one dollar a day for workers on all lines. The wage takes effect January 1 and is the major concession demanded by the men.
Two hundred strikers stopped three trains near Cromeillas France on Oct 15 assaulting crews and passengers. They dragged off crews damaged cars and uncoupled coaches in a violent protest against service disruptions near Paris.
Several listings offer items from gas engines and harrows to a corner residence in a good city area. Other notices include a 160 acre Northwest quarter near Masonic Cemetery with cash terms, a frame warehouse 20 by 40 feet, two pianos for sale, and a 21 hand wagon offered by local businesses.
Multiple classified seekings include a man to cut grass and clean yard at 404 N Lea a pair of boarders at 112 S Ky for 5 dollars weekly a colored man for house work with good references a sewing job with Mrs Geo A Puckett 909 W 9th and men under 35 for government mail service Cedar Rapids Iowa salary about 75 dollars monthly with rapid promotion vacation and sick leave address I S C Box 1066 Cedar Rapids Ia
Classified rental notices list furnished rooms at Hobson Building near the Post Office and multiple flats and houses for rent. Details include addresses on Main Richardson North Penn Va S Ky and Walnut with terms ranging from several months to monthly rates and utilities.
A Rebeccah pin was lost Friday night between the lodge room and 509 North Washington. Return to 509 North Washington.
The office advertises a wide range of legal and real estate blanks including warranty deeds mansions, bills of sale leases chattel mortgages releases promissory notes receipts for rent and sale cards and similar forms. States laws justice court blanks and custom blanks are on hand with reasonable pricing.
Miss Campbell of Hamilton Ontario defeats Mrs. O M Martin of Tavistock England in the finals at Homewood Country Club to win the national women’s golf championship two up with one hole to play.
An attempted robbery of the MeteorNor ian bound fast passenger train on the St Louis San Francisco line failed near Heyburn west of Tulsa at daybreak. The train struck a pile of ties across the track but suffered no damage and was stopped before reaching the obstruction.
Enid Oklahoma October 13 a prize fighter named Ed Fisher died from a broken neck after a tenth round blow in Mono near Enid. The attacker was Frank Hall of Oklahoma City. Fisher collapsed and died shortly after the blow.
The coroner's jury found Fisner died from blows delivered by Hall who has disappeared but is expected to be arrested soon. The fight drew about four hundred witnesses including many women and children. The event occurred fifteen miles west of Enid.
The notice explains prepaid payment for small ads under one dollar to avoid petty accounts. It states cash for such ads must be paid in advance and is issued by RECORD PUB. CO.
Mary A. Cobean notary public notes cattle receipts of 700 with a steady market across categories including native and western steers and cows. hog receipts of 1,000 with a market strength up to five cents higher and price ranges from 8.60 to 9.10. sheep receipts 2,000 with a steady market for muttons lambs and yearlings and western ewes.
A sequence of Roswell and Pecos Valley advertisements lists U. S. Meat Market promoting quality, Jaffa Prager Co. dry goods and ranch supplies, Joyce-Pruit Co. large Southwest supplier, Oriental Livery and Cab Line with 24 hour service, Pecos Valley Lumber Co. offerings, Roswell Lumber Co. building materials, and Kemp Lumber Co. cedar posts.
W S Murrell piano tuning and repairing services with graduate credentials from Chicago Conservatory. Ample experience, guaranteed work. 348 E n St, phone 569. Also Morrison Bros ready-to-wear apparel store listing for men women and children with millinery specialty.
DILLEY & SON provide undertaker services with private ambulance and prompt service. ALLERY FURNITURE CO advertises undertaker services with contacts 75 or 1131 H. H. HENNINGER offers undertaker and embalmer services with private ambulance and parlors at 191 W. ith. Be-2 rings.
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