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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
2
Evening Current presents a poem on winter with lines about the season's approach, nature's change, and mortality. It mentions the New Mexico post office listing and Carlsbad Printing Company as publisher, plus a stylized, hymnlike verse about frost, flowers dying, and spring returning.
If war lasts another year local farmers expect bigger crops in Pocus valley with favorable prices for cotton and alfalfa. Last season saw a one third rise in acreage and higher yields as dry years proved most profitable for Carlsbad Project farmers even with intermittent canal water.
A Liberty Loan inquiry from the Liberty Loan Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas asks how religious leaders view the current campaign. Bishop of Dallas and Episcopal Bishop pages weigh in on news value and church loyalties amid wartime fundraising.
A terse note records that a notary public witnessed an oath of office. The document confirms the ceremony occurred with the requisite legal formalities observed by the involved parties and attested signatures.
Community notes from Queen recount a Sunday visit by Lyons family and Abbott Lyons, with 100 cans of Dayton tomatoes delivered by Mr. Terry. A new forest project assists Mr. Grubaker in building telephone lines, possibly linking Sargent Seep to Weed and the ranger station. Local families dine together, a Sunday school forms with good attendance, and residents discuss cattle plans in Pinon. Apples, apple packing, and orchard sales continue as locals note branding at the Schermayer ranch and a turkey and cider feast. Dolph Shattuck and others visit Artesia via Dayton. Pat Middleton finishes angora shearing and ships hair to Carlsbad. goat and sheep ranch prospects surface as Gist McCollaum herds work continues.
Lovington visitor E H Price went to Roswell on business after a Knowles Saturday trip. Many residents attended to county headquarters business last Friday as a wave of activity swept the area. Black leg cases were reported and proved fatal, while land purchases and sales continued with prices noted for a quart of land north of town. Several residents traveled to Lovington and Amarillo for stock conventions and schooling, with others returning from Gaines and Monument.
The account notes improved health from mineral waters and a return trip by J. B. Coleman to old Dallas and Oklahoma stomping grounds. He recalls vast changes, finds much of the countryside grassed over, and observes a longing for long weekends. A Monday Lovington fire damaged nine business houses, traded off to safety stocks, with plans for concrete reconstruction to curb future fires.
Eddy County Farm and Live Stock Improvement Association will meet at the Court House in Carlsbad on Monday November 5. Prominent speakers include Hon Earon C Ely and a Hoover program representative from New Mexico. The State Council of Defense and a representative from the State Agricultural College will attend. Topics include prairie dog control range and crop production issues. An officers election and other routine business will be conducted. All are urged to attend.
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