19 Sep 1910
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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1910
Page
1
A chill fog swept the army maneuver field as the national guard units from Arizona and New Mexico drilled under regular officers. Major F. R. Day from Ft. Mason San Francisco led the Arizonans while Lieut-Col. Pfister from the Thirtieth trained the New Mexico troops who arrived yesterday.
A launch carrying eight youths and girls overturned near Vancouver harbor. Three youths, William Woodruff, Robie Young, and Mary Young, drowned. An Indian in a canoe rescued the remaining three girls, and another launch saved the two surviving young men.
Rock Island passenger train derailed near Las Tancas on El Paso and Southwestern tracks after leaving El Paso. Two seriously hurt, including Mrs. J. T Marsh of Bernardino Arizona, as cause cited a soft road bed.
Pueblo, Colorado, September 19. The National Irrigation Exposition opened in connection with the Colorado State Fair. The National Irrigation Congress begins its eighteenth annual session next Monday. Exhibits feature horticultural and agricultural products of irrigated western lands along with related machinery and tools.
Milwaukee report says Abe Attell the featherweight champion denies any agreement to fight Ad Wolgast in San Francisco on October 31. Attell states Wolgast seeks forty percent of gross receipts while he wants twenty five percent. He will only consent if purses are evenly split.
Sandwich Massachusetts September 19 Myron T Whitney a leading American singer twenty years ago is dead He sang with the all star cast that produced Pinafore in Boston in 1879 From this company the original Boston opera company was formed and included Henry Barnabee Tom Karl George Frothingham Marie Stone and Mary Beels
Lawrence Kleinoeder and Ella Spain were quietly married at 6 30 Sunday evening at the Southern M E parsonage by Rev P T Ramsey. Only the bride’s brother R H McCune and Mrs McCune attended. They will reside at 306 West Tuaird street. The bride has lived in Roswell eight years and is well known. the groom four years a saddle maker for E T Amonett.
Elks stage a complimentary dance tomorrow night in honor of Miss St. John of Mobile Alabama visiting her brother John R. St. John. All Elks and ladies invited.
Roswell Auto Company began moving stock and equipment into its new garage on Richardson Avenue between First and Second streets. Finishing work inside the building continues and it will be several days before completion.
The entirely occupied new garage in Roswell will house rental repair and car boarding with space for a workshop housing the largest Pecos Valley lathe. The old garage remains as sales and office space and for new car storage. The 198 by 51 foot fireproof building uses concrete walls and floors, steel window frames, wire glass, steel doors, and a steel ceiling. Total cost exceeds $15,000, with two artistic street lamps planned in front.
Santa Fe will arrive by automobile tomorrow afternoon for the opening game of a five game series with Broswell. Three extra cars will meet the visitors at Vaughn. Teams from Santa Fe and Albuquerque have been playing in Albuquerque, then travel to Roswell. Rube Weeks, formerly of this city, is among the visitors.
The Roswell Telephone and Manufacturing Co invites the public to tour its new telephone plant at 209 W. 3rd St on Thursday Sept 22 from 1 to 5 p.m. Experienced staff will explain the system in each area. Children under 15 must be accompanied. Refreshments will be served.
Kansas City market update reports cattle receipts 27000 with southern stock and western cattle prices ranging from 2.50 to 8.00, hog receipts 3000 with prices from 9.00 to 9.50, and sheep 15000 with muttons at 4.00 to 4.60 and lambs at 6.00 to 7.00, noting steady trends.
S. S. Ward of the Flying Hranch is in town guiding a herd of 1 200 dry cows from west of Artesia to Riverside for shipment to Floydada Texas. Wollie Musgrave has set three races for tomorrow at three at the fair ground with no admission charged.
Sprinkling tax now due payable at City Hall Clerk's office 571f. J W Bennett Supervisor.
New Haven Sept. 19 President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt will hold a conference this afternoon on the New York political situation. Roosevelt came from Oyster Bay in an automobile. Taft attends Yale corporation fall meeting and discusses railroad bonding commission and professor salaries.
The Roswell First Presbyterian Sunday school expands after Judge Wm H Pope leads a drive for space. Construction begins on a 24 by 28 foot addition to the church at Third Street and Pennsylvania Avenue for the primary department. Contract by Cc D Smith. Building committee: Judge Pope E F Hayslip D W Elliott Howard W Cass and R S Hamilton treasurer.
Rev. Wm. Rhodes reports a 300 foot layer of fine potter's clay found in his Dayton artesian well. The clay strata begins at 40 feet and extends 300 feet deeper, with the first artesian flow at 565 feet and the well at 600 feet. Drillers plan to pierce for second and third flows if feasible.
The Wool Market in St. Louis on September 19 lists prices for various grades: territory and western mediums 17423, fine mediums 17 20, fine 14 17. Market notes indicate wool unexchangeable at the time.
Judge William H. Pope returns from Portales to Clayton to open a one week term in place of Judge McFie who is in Santa Fe. He will then travel to Raton and Carlsbad to cover sessions for the Fourth district amid limited funds and no jury cases at Clovis.
F. K. Sims, a clock man for the Santa Fe railroad in Topeka, departed this morning for the north after a visit in the Pecos Valley.
Local tailor offers custom made suits plus cleaning and pressing services. Contact W. P. Wood at phone 324 for fittings and alterations. Office at 6912.
Atlantic City records the formal opening of the national Grand Army of the Republic headquarters on Ocean Pier at Tennessee avenue. Veterans recall yesterday’s Philadelphia brigade reunion and a notable meeting between Colonel Hilary A Herbert, Vansant, and General Sickels. The Blue and Gray mingling proposal is expected to be discussed to organize a large joint gathering.
Workmen raised a six by twenty four foot mammoth sign on the Roswell Hotel. Electric lights will illuminate the sign at night to guide travelers seeking refreshments and rest.
Mrs Anna Belica of Chicago suburb attempted to start a fire with kerosene this morning. The blaze killed Mrs Belica and two children and fatally burned two other children.
Boston mass reports Senator Lodge collapsing after a speech in Norwood during a reelection campaign. He has been in poor health for years and may limit further appearances on the tour. The incident followed a fainting spell at the end of the address on Saturday night.
In Walsenburg Colorado on September 19 miners in the Pictou and Maitland coal camps halt work to aid in the manhunt for Henry Wortham a mixed race suspect described as a wall breed negro and Cherokee Indian accused of choking and assaulting Anne Hawkins an eighteen year old Maitland hotel keeper's daughter who was found unconscious by the roadside a $250 reward is offered and officials doubt Wortham will be captured alive.
Dayton hosts the industrial and agricultural expo and fall festival opening today with daily flights by the Wright brothers from their nearby aeroplane factory and testing grounds. Osaro Indiana Kentucky and Illinois governors will attend Governors Day and mayors from about twenty cities will be guests on Municipal Day.
Lexington Kentucky Sept. 19 The fall racing season opens at the famous Lexington track with five big stakes totaling 25000 dollars set for the nine day meet Horsemen from across the country have sent entries from major stables to compete The opening day events were postponed due to a heavy rain and flood watch forcing the delay of the program to tomorrow.
Charles R. Heike former secretary treasurer of the American Sugar Refining Co known as the man higher up in sugar underweighing frauds was sentenced by Judge Martin to eight months in the penitentiary on Blackwell Island and fined 5000 dollars for conspiring to defraud the government. A stay of execution was granted pending appeal. The ruling caps the federal case against American Sugar Refining Co officials and workers tied to underweighing on Williamsburg docks.
Oliver Spitzer was pardoned and turned state's evidence, his testimony helping convict refinery superintendent Heike Gerbracht and four minor employees. The sugar company paid the government two million dollars, revealing government fraud.
Las Cruces official H B Holt reports a special El Paso Mesilla valley train to the Eighteenth National Irrigation Congress with about 100 delegates and a 25 piece band. Former Governor L B Prince cites Pueblo and New Mexico’s growing role and benefits of congress gatherings.
One of the largest conventions in Des Moines opens with delegates from every U S state and Canadian provinces attending the biennial session of the International Association of Carpenters and Joiners. The Coliseum hosts daily sessions through Oct. 9 followed by a banquet for about 15 000 guests ten days hence. L G Bennett oversees local arrangements for Des Moines schools.
Chicago September 19 Judge Landis will hear W W Shaw Armours chief stenographer and two assistants on contempt of court charges related to the burning of stenographic note books sought by the grand jury. Alfred R Union was acquitted last month on the same charge.
In St. Louis on September 19 government experts will lecture on diet culinary topics economical marketing and scientific selection of foods as a remedy for the high cost of living at the Pure Food Show opened today in the Coliseum.
Mr Weymann an American and George Chauvez a Peruvian tried the across the Alps flight at Brig Switzerland on Sept 19. Chauvez rose to 7 546 feet missing the world record by 850 feet but winds forced a return. Weymann climbed to 1700 feet before baffling winds sent him down. The mission aims to clear the Simplon Pass at 7000 feet within the first hour over a 75 mile distance.
A dozen young ladies celebrated Miss Ruth Crutcher at her home at the corner of First Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday afternoon. The event featured a pink and white luncheon with decorated table, roses, birthday cake and initial-letter word questions on place cards. Her brother gained admission by disguising as a young lady. Snapshots and games filled the afternoon, making the party a very happy occasion.
Several hundred American Veterans of Foreign Service gather in Jersey City for the national encampment opening today. A military parade a ball and addresses by Gen. Grant Gen. Wood and others will highlight the event.
Buffalo New York September 19 The Association of Fashions took possession of Convention Hall for a week long exhibit to discuss and demonstrate the latest styles in feminine wear. New York Ohio Michigan and Ontario dress makers, nodistes, milliners and corsetiers join in shaping Buffalo as an annual fashion center with models displaying costumes.
Long Branch New Jersey marks the twenty ninth anniversary of President James A. Garfield's death with ceremonies in Francklyn Cottage on Ocean Avenue honoring his memory.
U S Weather Bureau Roswell New Mexico report shows the day's high 88 and low 54 with mean 71 and no precipitation. Wind light from the south, sky clear. Forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Tuesday.
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