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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1917
Page
2
The Carlsbad Printing Company publishes the Carlsbad Current daily except Sundays with W H Mullane as editor and manager. It is entered as second class matter April 16, 1917 at Carlsbad New Mexico under the 1879 act. Subscription rates are listed and the paper is a member of the Associated Press.
Petrograd dispatch cites a captured German sergeant diary listing fraternizing acts with Russian troops. The document notes vodka distribution and a system of questions about armistice terms and peace talks. Included are episodes of friendly patrols followed by sudden shelling and officer reactions. Mary Ussery travels to Green McComb ranch to be governess. editor Witlack and cowman Bingham visit court.
The program for Children’s Day at the Methodist Church includes songs by the school and L T L groups, prayers, roll call of Cradle Roll babies, baptisms, recitations by young children, and speeches by Erma Linn Grantham Evelyn Moore Kircher Grattan Judkins Avanel Wright and others. A piano quartet and a closing hymn are noted.
Uncle Jess Rascoe lost the middle finger after a fan bolt struck his knuckle while oiling a car. The knuckle was rushed in the accident and the finger was removed after weeks of pain. Mrs Rascoe remains ill and confined to bed.
Mrs. Womack mother of Lee Womack died yesterday from a weak heart after residing near Otis and then south of town for about six years. She was over seventy, survived by her son Lew, his wife and three grandchildren. Funeral was at the family home at nine this morning. burial at Carlabad cemetery.
Messrs KR Thomas and Tom Tyler, who moved to Fluorine New Mexico to visit Mrs Johnson, report they have bought a large herd of goats and a good ranch in the Black range. They do not expect to return before October. The goats were to be shown and they have overseen the work, suggesting they are well paid for their time.
Miss Ellie V Hart leaves town tomorrow for Roswell to teach art at the Roswell school. She has long served as Malaga schools principal and taught in Carlsbad, earning many friends who wish her a pleasant stay and many new acquaintances in Roswell.
The War Department backs Fosdick in a campaign to remove vice near training camps. In Texas local authorities shut red light districts to bar liquor sales to soldiers and camps may be moved if conditions do not improve. Reports from St Louis note bartenders selling liquor to men in uniform and intoxicated soldiers on Broadway streets.
Stanton Texas resident Mr Hilger visits Nadine on Thursday as Nadine School opens with Miss Bertha Clark and Miss Nannie Terry teaching. Marshall Byerley visits, Tom Houston recovers from canned sausage poisoning with Dr Dearduff attending in Loving ton. Residents travel from Monument Knowles Midland Hurley and beyond for church and business as the fifth Sunday South eastern Baptist Association meeting nears.
KNOWLES A. J. theara ang Mrs Gip Cowden traveled to Midland last Saturday in a Stutz roadster with fear of being left behind. Stury Mr Heard reported heavy rain on much of the road causing trouble and an overnight wait but no complaint. McArthur passed Knowles on the mail car en route to Carlsbad to gauge future business, returning home to Lovington with Wesley McCallister Saturday night.
Two gray woike or two gray work is described as a farmer in Danville experiments with a method of raising portions by planting in individual boxes in a bot. A few days ago he transplanted and now shows a strong stand ahead of neighbors. If successful he will plant another crop of gwinton on the same round and store the last crop for winter.
For sale or trade two sets cone pottoya nine from 10 to 15 in diameter one good 16 in diameter pulley with 5 12 in face one 12 in pulley with 12 in face three steel shafts and one 60 in diameter pulley rite 6 3 in face This in made of bard Faquire or write Current arlabed N
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