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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1917
Page
2
Evening Current announces editor Jim Mullane and details on publication, postage, and Associated Press rights. It notes a Pecos Valley train service change to relocate engines for government business, reflecting local wartime or federal needs. A.M. HOVE is referenced.
The Santa Fe Railway announces Oct 1 changes to service between Roswell and Carlsbad. Daily freight service is restored while the mixed train is removed due to equipment shortages. The low freight southbound and northbound schedules remain, with passenger accommodation to be added as needed. government war traffic pressures prompt locomotive reallocation.
Notice reports the death of Frances Bowman, wife of Chatham Bowman, daughter of Col. W. P. Craig, editor, after a fall from a doorway in Gladstone Boulevard area. She died from a brain concussion at University Hospital. Left behind a son, Craig Bowman, and other relatives.
Major Be. VP. Bujac, long visiting the court, bids farewell to friends and departs for Albuquerque to join his battalion. He has served in the Philippines and hopes to see home again if fate allows.
A Santa Fe telegraph says Governor Lindsey commuted Juan Rodriguez sentence from hanging to life imprisonment. Sheriff Rector and aides planned to move the seafold and stockade from the courthouse yard and return to Roswell. The town had expected executive clemency and the group had traveled to Santa Fe to bring the prisoner for execution before learning of the reprieve.
A temperance cantata by the Loyal Temperance Legion titled The Liquor Traffic Must Go will be presented at the Armory on Saturday evening September 29 at 7 45. A chorus of about fifty children plus many characters and soloists including Miss Columbia Catherine Purdy Governor of Kansas Anson Jones U 8 Judge Virgil McCollum Police Watham McCollum Soldier Ployd Childress W T U Representative Avane Wright Grace Bearup Mildred Rackley and accompanist Elizabeth Purdy. Admission is free with a collection taken. Vote it Out The W T U will meet Claude Wright Tuesday October 2 at 4 pm Those needing conveyance should meet at the Methodist church at 2 20.
Eddy County New Mexico Board of County Commissioners met September 26 in regular session. Members discussed attending the State Lawn Board meeting in Santa Fe on September 28 to determine indebtedness, and submitted tentative levies to the State Tax Commission for 1917 across county general funds road funds and school district special funds including district building sinking and interest allocations.
A board adjourned under J. A. Swigart as chairman with notes on sinking and interest in Lakewood Hope Loving Malaga Dayton Artesia Atoka Cottonwood and other locations. The document lists totals, interest, and judgments with county clerk attestation by ALR O'Quin.
The board orders the treasurer to pay delinquent 1911 taxes excluding state funds and Wild Animal Bounty. Five percent goes to the General School Fund and five percent to the General Road Fund. Clerk to issue warrants 449 to 24MM for claims allowed. Board adjourned with Swigart, Mann, and O Quinn as officers.
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