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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1917
Page
2
The Evening Current lists Wm H Mullane as editor and manager. Publication details show Sundays issuance with subscription prices for one year six months and one month in advance, sample copy, and a cents notation. The text reflects period advertising language and rate structure of 1879.
Captain William W Dean writes to A R O Quinn thanking Carlsbad and Lakewood donors for enormous tea boxes and two generous checks totaling 41700. He notes pro rata fund division, public support, and the unit pride. He recounts a drill where Company B led and aided Company H, and mentions notifying the Star Pharmacy to publish the news.
Frances C Moon, daughter of Thomas and Carmen Moon, born Feb 26 1916, died July 3 1917. She contracted pneumonia after a cold and remained patient and obedient throughout. Born in Eh Pus, she later moved to Richmond where she was beloved by all. Her loss is mourned by family and friends as she rests in the better world.
A poetic fragment lingers on a cherished rosebud and a tale of a mother Mrs Hattie Roberts well known locally now living east where a daughter died. Local notes mention visitors J F Crozier El Paso Helen Crozier and Arthur Crozier plus auto trip to Fleurine and weather dust.
Lea County commissioners canvassed bond election returns and found Beep received a majority of 41. The Eddy Red Cross Chapter will meet this afternoon at the courthouse to organize and reimburse under the direction of Mrs. J. F. Joyce.
Albert Ares and Mrs Paul Ares were Sunday guests at Mrs Bearup’s residence. They were planning to return to Queen 5 by the 16th, with Leth and ki mentioned in the passage.
Miss Ruby Louise Bean of Roswell attends a visit with Mrs J Frank Joyce and comes as a special friend to Miss Allie Atkinson also of Roswell who now visits her aunt Bean a marian of exceptional talent heads to Van Horn Texas to instruct a class this fall and water
The line appears to be a fragment referencing performing oaths or swearing in at a current office with a notary present. No clear event, date, or public notice details are evident to summarize into a coherent news item.
A long list of election clerks and judges such as George M. McDonald J R Middleton and J B Gaither is given, followed by numerous W A B claim numbers and amounts. The notice appears to document payments by the county to election officials and claimants, with scattered remarks on local activity and weather.
A New York fund to aid the committee for the United States and the allies is meeting success here. C Kerr collected fifty and by noon had thirty dollars for the boys at the front. A small bag holds a penny per year of relief, to be drawn by card and sent free to New York.
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