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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1917
Page
3
Local items report Robert Keenum and wife traveling to Pecos for the Chautauqua event, ticket prices at $1.00, and various community notices. Updates include visitors from Fort Worth, El Paso, and Monument, weather notes on recent rain, summer plans, health notes, cattle shipments, and ongoing oil well drilling at Vineyard Stock Farm with gypsum strata.
George A Bowman of Galveston Texas came as a pleasure seeker to Carlbad yesterday and departed for Amarillo this morning.
The notice notes Ascension Day on Sunday as a Christian observance worldwide except in parts of the United States. It mentions Charles Rarey’s recuperation after a southbound train trip to visit his mother in El Paso. Social scenes include visits to Springs hotel guests T B May of Hope, Otis Alston from the plains, and a dance at the Armory. Company B plans a baseball date with NM M I while the Springs hotel serves many men and transients amid Willis Moore’s illness improving.
Mr and Mrs C W Lewis and their son Cheater Burch travel from Artesia to town for important business.
C Sellers reported ill again today as a large circle of friends hopes for a quick recovery and a return to his place of business tomorrow.
Four or five local high school girls left town early to help Uncle Green Ussery pen his 160 big steers for shipment. Mrs Ussery Ca De, Miss Macie and Mary Mize and Mary Fletcher ride out to assist at the noon chuck box. Eddy Lodge No 21 F and A M calls a special communication tonight at 8 PM for work in the M M degree.
A four o'clock meeting was held at the club rooms to plan cooperation with the YMCA in improving moral welfare and uplift for those in army life. It urged local citizens to support the effort as important for the community.
The report lists many people visiting Granite City and nearby areas from Monahan Texas to Black River and Abilene. Names include Dorothy Draper, H W Brough and family, Clyde Andrews, F E Littles children, Si Davis, Oscar Music, Barney Beech, Dave Clemens, Mrs Pitchford and daughter Evelyn, Mrs Thompson and Lowell Price, D Jernigan and family. News notes travelers and ranch life, with comments on measles recovery and recent rains.
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