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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1916
Page
3
The notice lists subscription rates and commodity prices from the Sierra County Advocate dated Friday June 23 1916. It records bar silver price at 8100? and other items including molper and lead with figures 63 cents 29 percent and 695 respectively.
Hillsboro items report T A Robinson hibernating in Kingston while J M Henderson traveled to El Paso. Frances Gillespie and grandson Mills Gillespie returned from El Paso. rooms for rent at Parsonage. Jobo Moffitt and J D Adams arrived en route to Kingston for development on Brush Heap mine, starting with a 250 foot tunnel to reveal new ground. John Moffitt pledges Kingston revival and prays Kingston will be on the map again. Dr F given learns of his father’s death in Wales Meine. he died of cerebral hemorrhage at 12:30 yesterday. The elder Given, 78, spent most of life near Wales. sympathy from friends. Two illustrated lectures on Papua by Dr Henry A Malley featured language singing, showing Papuan dress from dried grass. A new post office Caballero was established on the Green Arrey and Las Palomas. Mrs Berferigaberh, wife of John W Dawson, laid to rest in Hillsboro cemetery after funeral from Los Angeles.
Mrs. Dawson, born 1861 near Austin, Texas, died after Bright's disease. She and husband moved to Hillsboro in 1889 and later Dawson ranch on Percha Creek. Funeral held at Balen home and grave with Rev Gordon officiating. twelve children attended except eldest son Joan G of Amarillo. A large crowd offered condolences.
In consecration of the generous and sympathetic assistance during the illness and death of our Wife and Mother we publicly express heartfelt thanks to our friends and neighbors including Dom W W. Dawson and others for their support and kindness.
Rebecca James of Fairview died after an abdominal operation carried out following a diagnosis of bowel stricture. Her sons Edward and Johnnie and Miss Dairy Hearn accompanied her. Funeral services and wake were held with honors from Frank H. Winston, attracting many relatives. Survived by six children, the clan mourned at El Paso and San Marcial gatherings.
Public notices promote Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 prize for incurable deafness caused by catarrh. Canaries & Co of Toledo advertise, urging druggists to stock Hall's Family Pills. An advertising pitch promotes one year of Home Life Household Farm Life and Woman's World magazines plus The Advocate, for $1.18, with an offer of four magazines for 18 cents extra.
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