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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1918
Page
3
The work to provide a windmill powered water system advances with a drilled well and planned hydrants across the cemetery. Water will be available once pipes are laid along individual lots and the tower and rains are completed, said Dr St J Boatman and his association.
Pete Craft resigned as station agent and will leave on the 16th for Kansas City to join a railroad regiment. The town wishes him well and Cap Wilson of Pecos is appointed agent here, with the cashier handling duties until arrival.
We express our grateful thanks to neighbors friends physician and Woodmen Circle members for acts of kindness during our illness and the death of our daughter and mother. The memory of kind words and deeds in Carlsbad will be treasured in our hearts.
Mrs Hughe hosts an informal Friday night dance with guests including Mr and Mrs Bert Rawlins Mr and Mrs H Christian Pete Craft and others. The evening featured a delightful time and warm hospitality at the couple's home with many attendees listed by name.
Red Cross rooms report seven ladies attended and fifty four abdominal bandages formed yesterday. twelve workers and seventy bandages produced today. Fred N Fisher and son George depart for El Paso as drainage project shifts machinery to the Rio Grande Project. Mrs A Rosenau is praised for knit socks while nearly blind, urging more locals to help in the war effort.
A Palm Springs era notice reports a loss of hip pocket books containing papers notes receipts bills of lad ing and bank statements plus $25 in currency. Reward offered for recovery. Finder to call Gilder Hotel Roswell New Mexico. F. M. Denton and Mrs L. Be Ervin hosted a luncheon for Mrs Hugh Gage and guests including Mr and Mrs Allen Hardy Mrs RE Dick and Mrs Bert Rawlins. News notes mention El Paso rail rates impacting local output from southern copper mines.
The report claims Idaho miners aim to justify mine seizures by demanding broad concessions under a national takeover scenario. It argues labor actions imitate railroad shop strikes once government control began. Workers reportedly refuse both work and strike actions.
The article recounts railroad men in Las Vegas tar and feathering an I W W member for a card deemed valid for train rides and mentions a rounded-up companion and threats. New Mexico railroad workers are said to be loyal and discouraging such talk. The piece also notes Southern Auto Company installing a Bowser gasoline tank on Fox street with a five gallon lift, distinct from others in town.
Miss Jane McClane of Roswell, guest of the Purdy sisters, will leave Carlsbad midweek after a two week visit. A rook party in her honor entertained many local youths with games and light refreshments. Catherine and Elisabeth Purdy plan to accompany her to Roswell where they will visit briefly. The Childress house party in Roswell opens on the 19th, with the two Purdy sisters invited from Carlsbad.
Ordinance No 142 changes section 6 of prior Carlsbad rules setting pound keeper compensation at 1.00 per day for each horse cattle and 60 per day for hogs goats sheep with 1.00 paid to the marshal for advertising. When the marshal is the pound keeper fees accrue to the official, and the ordinance takes effect five days after publication.
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