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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1917
Page
2
Fragments describe visits among Carlsbad residents, livestock and goat herding activity, angora bucks orders, a mules accident and death, a birthday dinner, and Halloween events in the Guadalupe mountains with local families and guests.
The Third National Bank of Atlanta opened a special window in its savings department and established a unique program. Each baby born in Atlanta during the week of August 23 29 received a savings donation of one dollar placed into a new savings account.
An invitation notes women cannot vote but will serve lunch at the Court House for voters. The lunch offers sandwiches coffee and pie with no strings attached, urging support for Prohibition and a dry state. It emphasizes women can work and influence voters by appealing to family and community.
The article notes a new telephone line near Queen with workers pushing completion so residents mayHave homes with phones. It mentions wintery winds from the mountains and hunting activity nearby including deer and quail, plus a social note about Lewis Medne and Miss McMahan visiting the ranger station.
Knowles and Mrs Elbert Shipp visit, Inspector Heard in town, M Willhoit moves cows to Soldier Hill and others ship cattle to Brownfield Flora and Fort Worth. Nay and Lee Stiles form a herd for shipment. Knowles celebrates eighty third birthday of BL Knowles. H Arnold sells cattle to Elbert Shipp for 2750. Johnson Graham plans winter feeding. G F Isaaca returns from Carl bead with coal for local merchants.
This grainy update describes Charles Miller moving cows to Flore Texas for shipment via Midland, with talks on grass needs and feed costs. It mentions Lovington buyers Johnson and Dean purchasing eight hundred sheep at ten dollars each and other regional movements, arrivals, and minor accidents amid fall farm activity.
Classified advertisements list a Winchester 30 20 rifle with reloading outfit and ammunition for sale and a phone contact Floyd Thomas in Carlsbad New Mexico. A lost plain gold hat pin is reported missing Saturday between the opera house and Joyce Pruit Co with finder asked to return it to Current.
Prices paid for hides are noted at Hagheat in the Pecos Valley near Keuveny south of the Fire Hall.
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