Local notes include visitors and Red Cross knitting plans
Miss Christian returns from Roswell to visit Mary White while Joe Lusk and Will Fenton visit town from ranches. Otis Red Cross auxiliary pledges 75 pairs of socks, Mrs Ellsworth and daughter Ethelyn commit 25 pairs. War Savings Stamps trip to Queen by Judge Stennis and Sikes. Mrs Julia Luke of Houston may stay until September. Thayers plan mountain summer. their ranch touted as oldest and finest. A C Hansen reports hog industry gains after tours of Eddy county farms. Lovings auxiliary aims to knit 40 more pairs. Church services preview June 20 with sermons and a chalk talk. Grace Baumbach to sing. D F Sellards, Pastor.
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Otis
The
Red Cross
Mra. Ellsworth
Miss Ethelyn
Holy Spirit
Grace Baumbach
D. F. Sellards
Sunday School Bazaar Plans Earnest Work By Pupils
Miss Pate's class met with Hazel Hamilton at her home yesterday afternoon. Although attendance was light due to heat, they accomplished a good amount of work. The girls hope to complete enough articles for a bazaar and if they persevere will likely raise the desired funds.
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Miss Pate
Hazel Hamilton
Visitors accompany Ussery as they leave town
Huling Ussery spent several days in town this week and left Wednesday with Miss Helen McTivain and Miss Gladys Bush. They will spend a week at the Ussery ranch. Miss Mary Mize spends the summer on the ranch with the three Ussery girls and the visitors, making for a lively time with Inele Green and Aunt Mary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huling Ussery
Helen McTivain
Gladys Bush
Ussery Ranch
Mary Mize
Ussery
I'nele Green
Mary
Mrs WR Robinson Heads to Oklahoma with Grandchildren
Mrs. WR. Robinson left this week for the plains country to visit friends. She is accompanied by her youngest son while the other two boys travel with their grandmother to Oklahoma.
Mrs Hanson and baby depart for Texas visit
Mrs L R Hanson and her infant left this morning for a several months visit with relatives in Big Springs Texas.
Perry family trip includes reunion with brother in Texas
J. F. Flowers and family returned home after a week in Perry, Coolidge Texas. They visited a brother who works as a bookkeeper for a Machine Gun company and was home on furlough from Greenville South Carolina before heading to somewhere in France. On the way back they stopped in Dallas to see Rex and Mrs Freeman and to visit Miss Gladya Nevenger at college. three sisters enjoyed the brief reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SL. Perry
Perry
Coolidge
Texan
Greenville
South Carolina
France
Perrys
Dallas
Rex Freeman
Carlsbad
Gladya Nevenger
Methodist Church Services and Epworth League Meeting
Methodist Church announces Sunday services at ten o clock with a preaching service at eight thirty. The eleven o clock service will be conducted by the laymen with Judge Armstrong delivering the address on The Edition and Duty of the Citizen to the Government. Other addresses by laymen. OMORGE HH. GIVAN, Pastor.
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Methodist
Epworth League
Judge Armatrong
Omorge HH. Givan
Way of Explanation to My Friends During Draft
A reader states they have been misquoted and misunderstood about comments on men volunteering or drafted for war. They affirm they are in Class One of the Draft and have been medically examined, but delayed by physical defects.
Local Boy Promises Duty to Country Amid War Efforts
A Carlsbad man from La Jolie, California, pledges patriotic support and contributions to Red Cross, Liberty Bonds, and War Savings Stamps. He notes plans for military service and mentions officers and non commissioned officers bound for Europe to study machine gun tactics as part of a larger mobilization.
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Lick the Kaiser Club
Red Cross
H. L. Moore
Carlsbad
la Jolie
California
Europe
Dean
Finlay
O'Quinn
McMillan
Mada
Artesia
Bill Foote
England
France
Toore Recovers from Operation Returns Home
Mie Washington Toore has recovered from her recent operation at Eddy County hospital and has been taken to her home in North Carlsbad.
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Mie
Toore
Eddy County Hospital
North Carlsbad
Hamiltons to Travel to Lovington and Brownfield for July Fourth
Mr and Mrs A M Hamilton and their children will leave tomorrow or Sunday by car. They plan to visit Lovington and then head to Brownfield Texas to join friends for Independence Day celebrations.
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Mra
Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton
Lovington
Brownfield
Texas
War Savings Stamps Ad Teases Cherries and Skyscraper
A fragment urges readers to buy war savings stamps and claims delicious cherries will be available until plans for a skyscraper on the old Hotel Bates site are built. The remark ends with a boastful line attributed to Jack Hooper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bates
Jack Hooper
Also Mentioned on This Page
Christian
Mary White
Roswell
Joe Lusk
Will Fenton
D. Stennis
Sikes
Queen
Julia Luke
Houston
Roy Dickson
Dearborne Place
Luke
Ollie Thayer
Mountains
West
Mrs. Gerrells
Mary Helen
Aker
Mia, Tucker
Thayer
Thayer Ranch
A. C. Hansen
Mr. Hansen
Eddy County
A. C Smith
J. W Knorr
State College
J. L. Williams
Malaga
National War Savings
National War Savings Committee
J. F. Flowers
W. F. McIlvain
Connell
Harry Woodman
Jacob J. Smith
Sears
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