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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1918
Page
2
Teas Evening Current prints as a second class matter dated April 16 19 at Carlsbad New Mexico post office under Mareth Act 1879. Published daily Sundays excepted by Cartebad Printing Co.
A wartime plea insists money cannot buy food and urges everyone to work on farms. It stresses that real war workers should join farm labor to produce real food and win the war.
The May 60th World War proclamation calls Carlsbad residents to gather tomorrow at 8:39 AM at the Presbyterian church for a nationwide day of prayer and fasting. Mayor Ghant ham urges all to join the service for Allied victory, peace, and a just end to the war, with noon fasting to feel the hunger of Europe’s suffering.
Decorateon Day events are planned with union services at the Presbyterian church at 8:30 and a procession to the courthouse area for a graveside tribute. The Midland explosion fanned fires and casualties, destroying five business houses. one man killed, a woman injured, debris sent aloft, with no clear cause yet offered.
A government weather notice states tonight and Thursday will be partly cloudy and unsettled with little overall temperature change. No significant precipitation expected, and conditions remain mild with some showers possible in isolated areas.
Ned Shattuck arrives in town from his Queen area ranch as the school year ends and his family moves on to the ranch.
A veteran recalls the Nineteenth Maine's foraging during Civil War campaigns. He notes they "ate up the Southern Confederacy" by stealing pigs and plundering farms, while General Hancock jokes that the Nineteenth Maine will be coming next. The tale blends humor with foraging lore and wartime bravado.
Memorial day honors the Northern and Southern dead as wreaths are laid at cemeteries across the nation. Citizens lift eyes to the graves and pay tribute with flowers wreaths and crosses, expressing a national gratitude.
Mrs Frank W. Rosa leaves the last of the week for Red Bluff Oklahoma to visit relatives there and meet Mr Ross who will travel from Arkansas to Red Bluff. They expect to be gone at least a fortnight.
Sidney Bearup and Albert Ares enlist in the mechanical department of the United States Army and will report to Texas State University in Austin, Texas on June 5.
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