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Newspaper
The Old Abe Eagle
Location
White Oaks, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1894
Page
3
Methodist Church preaches Sundays at 11:00 AM and 7:45 PM with Sunday School at 10:00 AM Prayer meeting Wednesdays at 7:30 PM. Flymouth Congregational Church holds Sunday services 11:00 AM and 7:45 PM with Sunday School 10:00 AM and Christian Endeavor Wednesday evening. Anya A. Hunp, pastor.
Eastern mail from Carthage arrives at 7 a.m. daily. Eastern mail for Carthage closes at 2 30 p.m. Southern mail via Nogal St Stanton Lincoln and Roswell arrives 2 to 8 p.m. Southern mail for some points departs after eastern mail arrives. Post office hours Tam to 7 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 2 to 3 p.m. Money orders and Register Dept open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Velasco promotes itself as a healthful sea air retreat with ships frequenting its port and early ripening fruits. It offers fresh vegetables all winter, claims extraordinary warmth and mild winters, and bills Velasco as a top southern investment spot. Commercial Club, Velasco, Texas.
Prospectors are invited to Cochiti New Mexico for placer and quartz mining with easy access from Cerrillos Santa Fe or Wallace. Tickets to Cerrillos Santa Fe or Wallace are offered with varying fares and group discounts. Also included is a note on preventing croup in children with Chamberlains Gough Remedy and local availability through Dr M G Paden.
An Arizona style mining pitch touts Aztec in Colfax County New Mexico yielding 21 000 in gold in a week with a million to date. The piece promotes the Moreno Valley camp and Ute Croek district as healthful and rich, with staged travel routes from Springer to Cimarron and Baldy and Elizabethtown, detailing fares and schedules.
Notice announces final proof hearing for Libarda Harrela de Guevara heiress of Malena Carola deceased in Lincoln New Mexico on November 16 1804 and a separate writ of execution in a Lincoln district court case Simon Sanders Co v Peter Steinquist with real estate sale scheduled October 10 18M at White Oaks to satisfy a 404.54 dollar judgment plus costs and interest with one third undivided interest in NW quarter Sec 5 Tp7S R13E.
The notice announces John G. Baker Henry Dare and William Pusey through attorney George L. Ulrich filed for a patent for a gold bearing vein in White Oaks New Mexico. The description includes lot boundaries, corner markers, and conflicts with nearby claims. Adverse claimants must file within sixty days with Lincoln County Land Office.
Sanborn T. Gray, superintendent, certifies on October 6, 194 that License school funds for Precinct No. 4 in Lincoln County amount to 100 dollars. Total school age population is 168. Rate per scholar is 0.60. District No. 4 shows 00 scholars at 60 dollars.
Beaborn T. Gray county superintendent certifies the apportionment of the county school fund on October 1, 184. The total apportioned is $199 with 24 school age children. District No. 0 lists 71 scholars and $24 apportioned.
Seaborn T. Gray apportioned the county school fund on October 2 1804 totaling 615 dollars 15 cents for six hundred ninety four dollars and fifteen cents per scholar in multiple districts. The document also records attachments and notices in Lincoln County New Mexico court cases against The Vera Crue Gold Mining Company and related parties with specified damages and appearance dates. A quoted anecdote about Lord Bronson and Jenny Simpson appears in the ending.
A man seeks the Buffalo statistician and demands proof that Buffalo’s population is in the millions, claiming a street railway report shows 40 million people and threatening to publish the figures to spur monuments. The exchange ends with the man borrowing papers and leaving.
A light humorous tale from New York World recounts Robinson, an amateur gardener, misplanting 25 cabbage plants and uncovering odd white fungal sprouts while his wife teases his lack of expertise. The couple quarrels over gardening mishaps, revealing patience and humility.
A lanky stranger in a faded brown overcoat challenged a Dearborn Street restaurant with a mock demand for pork and beans in a staged extortion, finally leaving after paying a 25 cent bill and rebuking the implied robbery. The scene includes a wandering anecdote about a man’s views on newspapers and a brief aside about a conman.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions an invention and fortune, with scattered words like Harper Delicious and various phrases. The readable text lacks clear events, dates, or names to form a coherent news item.
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