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Newspaper
The Clayton Enterprise
Location
Clayton, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1906
Page
4
A vintage ad promises each family a free graphophon device after buying $20 in cash from shoe clothing and dry goods departments. Coupons are issued with every purchase until the total is reached, then exchanged for the machine. Only one machine per family. Includes mentions of loans discounts and steady cash deposits.
A roundup of residents and visitors: Mixa yeile Snyder heads to Angarilla for a month with relatives. Mrs Buck Miller moves to Arringtag House on Hast Main. A. C. Thompson cites a May 20 weather note from Salt Lake City. Various trips, school returns, embalmers license, band events, and a new two-room cottage project are reported alongside local social and school notices.
The text notes new clothing lines at the Union Commercial Millinery, mentions Miss Windsor's illness, a Des Moines post office milestone, and Ed Harrington’s death near Kenton. It also reports a horse trained in Clayton, a runaway accident injuring Miss Ruth Wight, and local schooling closings and rain. It ends with Dr Caldwell’s eye ear nose throat practice visits in Grayton on June 20 21 1906.
Mrs Dr Presnell of Kenton died suddenly of heart trouble Thursday evening, leaving her husband to mourn. Mev H Q Morton of the parish conducted the services at the Methodist church, at the deceased's request that her funeral be preached by a Baptist minister. Mrs Bertoll had been an invalid for more than a year and death came as a welcome relief to the bereaved family.
Clayton Bakery and Pierre and Nigholapn have reopened the shop at the old Bland location offering fresh bread pastry and all kinds of candies. Patronage solicited with phone number 87. Fourteen cars went into the ditch near Clayton Sunday forcing a twelve hour traffic delay around a wreck. No injuries reported. Bud Davie and wife of Cimarron were in town Wednesday.
Mr Toombs returns with daughter Cyrene and plans for Cyrene to spend summer in Padneah with her aunt. He arranged for Prof. R L Templeton to take the Clayton Public School principalship. Templeton is an 18 year old with teaching experience in Oklahoma and Texas and is a professor at Southern Normal School in Bowling Green Kentucky.
Lon Sears reports Ae Data supplies ranch meals Saturday as Clayton Bakery installs a large oven. The boy can bake anything from a flop to a Princess Ena Wedding enké.
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