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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1917
Page
3
The Junior Christian Endeavor of the Presbyterian Church gathered Saturday night at J. R. Linn’s North Halgueno Street residence. Despite lower than expected attendance, guests enjoyed a pleasant social with candy and nuts as refreshments.
Tomorrow morning at nine the Presbyterian Bazaar will open at Thorne's Furniture, tore U. 8 Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs WH Dishman returned Saturday night from a three month stay in Helen and other places in that part of the Sunshine State and are at home at the Cottage Sanitarium in Went Carlubad.
The notice suggests saving by using oleomargarine Cutter at 406 per pound. Joyce Pruit Co. and Fred Nymeyer and family departed Eunice after a pleasant visit. Leck and family came from Kermit Texas to attend the roping and riding content and dine with Mr. and Mrs. William Lock, then left for home yesterday morning.
Mrs Hoyd Enken recovers after surgery at Eddy County Hospital on Saturday. Rev J H Fitzgerald, presiding elder of El Paso district, preached at the Methodist church yesterday. His work spans New Mexico, parts of Arizona and Texas, the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, and perhaps another state. The sermon held the audience with rapt attention, and Mins Walters performed a pretty solo, Abide With Me, during the service.
The Carla bad Light and Power company completes a new refrigerating plant delivering 14 tons. A trial run cooled to 21 1 2 degrees in 30 hours. They have 160 three hundred pound cans on hand and offer ice at loading platforms, homes, or businesses. Prices: 60 cents per hundred at platform and nearby, 76 cents outside city limits. Mr. Tansill credits cooperative effort for the successful work.
A local notice announces food and fancy work activities at the Presbyterian Dasaar on Tuesday. The item highlights community event details and schedule for visitors seeking goods and craft items.
C P Wilson from Roswell went south this morning for points south. J B Gaither and Pas Gaither of Monument checked in at the Palace yesterday. Dee Harkey his wife and daughter Miss Harkey arrived from their Black River ranch for early Christmas shopping. Remember the Taptint ladies Wazoar Saturday. A rare sight on Cablebad streets as Jane Bernard Brown comes in a teen ration suit and patty cap today. The Current hopes for a note from Herward Ninself about life aboard Uncle Sam’s warships.
Mrs Nellie Eaken Mitehiner arrives tonight from Miteti oulmana for a holiday visit in the city. Friends look forward to her arrival as plans unfold for the stay and social engagements during the season.
Min, Wd, Barber visit town from the ranch today to manage shopping details at the Baptist ladies bazaar. The event continues with familiar faces overseeing arrangements and plans.
Walter Woodman and his wife from Patagonia arrive Saturday for a relatives visit and plan a brief stay before continuing to Amarillo for a short time.
Harry Woodman and his wife plan to depart tomorrow for a holiday visit to relatives in Phoenix Arizona. The trip includes Mr Woodman and family seeking a brief respite with kin in the Arizona city.
Mrs Paul Aves, Albert Area and Mrs Aves brother Melvin Bearup are in town from the ranch today and expect to return tomorrow. Melvin has nearly decided to return to the Pecos valley to live as his health has impaired during residence in the north.
A Red Cross shipment left Saturday from local work rooms, involving 11 pajamas sets, 14 aventers, 14 pale socks, 1% pales wristors, and 11 yearas. The items go to Mountain division headquarters in Denver, with a call for donors of old muslin to wrap belongings.
The Alexander home on Alameda hosted the second Sewing Club gathering with many little girls making handkerchiefs and enjoying refreshments. Mary Frances Joyce and Mildred Rackley supervised as two absences due to travel and whooping cough reduced attendance. Attendees included Dorothy Flowers, June Joyce, Hazel Oliver, Sue Hines, Loudale Zimmerman, Erma Jean Quivey, Annabeth Alexander, Mildred Buckley, and Mary Frances Joyce.
The Weldon children of Mr and Mrs Rufus Weldon are progressing well after an illness. Their recovery brings relief to the family and neighbors in the community.
Mrs Mary Ro Miller of this city, an aunt of Sidney Gite hore, reports Shiney Gilmore was thrown from a horse and injured Sunday. The horse kicked him, breaking no bones but piercing the bladder and leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. An operation may be required and his mother stays by his bedside awaiting the outcome.
Local shoppers note a vivid display in front of Corner Drug Store highlighting the Nyal Qual ty store branding and inviting passersby to inspect the display and enter for offers.
Archie Clifford Wilkinson and Mise Luli Galloway of Stanton Texas obtained a marriage license in Carlsbad this morning and wed at Nev A O Kuhn's residence at 10 oclock. They were accompanied by the bride's mother Mattie Jones and returned to Carlsbad on the noon train.
Sam Helmick returned from a mountains trip with two fine wild geese weighing about twelve pounds each. He gave one to a friend and stored the other for future use, then resumed his activities.
Miss Christine Britton, an operator on the central telephone line for over a year, departed Saturday for her home in Graham Texas. She had resigned about a month ago, and her continued ill health has confined her to her home.
A short notice notes oleomars sold at the Joyce Print Company in California. No further details on price quantity or availability are provided in the fragment.
Grandpa and Grandma Andersen celebrate the birth of a son to Mr Harry Yardley and Mrs Yardley, youngest granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Andersen. Edith Lee Moore, first great granddaughter, resides with her parents in Newell, South Dakota, where the Yardleys also live. Congratulations and best wishes flow from family and friends.
Mrs Rebecca Cox departs Saturday to Vecas for an event described as a quake an eatened Vinit at the tome of w vester and then proceeds to Odeon to spend the rest of the winter.
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