Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-24
CHAYES COUNTY NEWS.
Houses Are Scarce in the Towns General
Notes.

windmill on his ranch at Hagerman.
| Despite the many residences built in
Roswell the past year, there is now a
house famine. and rents are advancing
steadily. Hagerman, too, reports a
house famine.
Frank Anderson has been appointed
manager of the ]. J. Hagerman stock
ranch. L. s. McGuinn will succeed him
as manager of the irrigation company
at Hagerman
| uustave Lard was sentenced to pay a
fine of $40 and costs for assaulting T. A.
Goodwin at Roswell.
| j. r. Ray has purchased several
building lots at Roswell and commenced
the erection of four cottages thereon.
| w. G. Hamilton has commenced
building $4,000 residence on the Corn
farm, near Roswell.
A. W. Redderson started the building
of six-room ho',ee at Roswell.
| John S. Jarnigan. of Knoxville, Tenn,
has decided to settle at Roswell.
The grand jury at the Chaves county
district court recommended the building
of high wall around the Jail at Ros-
| we'll to prevent outsiders from ap-
preaching the windows and furnishing
| tools and delicacies to the prisoners.
A. j. Ballard raised some fine cotton
near Roswell.
John Eller, newspaper man from
Miami, Tex, spent some time at Ros-
we'll. From Roswell he went to the Sa-
| lado coal fields, where he intends to
start weekly paper if conditions ap-
pear Favorable.
A. E. Vincent, who drilled the big ar
tesian well on the railroad property at
Roswell, is making another on the old
Pierce farm on the Hondo, near Ros-
we'll.
Messrs. Richey, Maddox and Newell
are building dwelling houses near Ros-
well.
j. B. Trotter has just completed a
beautiful house on his ten-acre tract at
Fairview, near Roswell
Frank Calfee, "a business man Of Ros-
we'll, and Miss Adalie NJ Goodwin were
married at Three Rivers.
Roswell defeated the sewer bond
proposition at the polls by a vote of
40 to 30
The carpenters of Roswell held a
meeting, at which 1t was decided to ask
the contractors to give them the same
pay for nine hours work in winter as
they received during summer for ten
hours work.
1t cost $3,226.70 to hold the district
court at Roswell this term.
W. H. Barrow has erected a neat
house on piece Of homestead land he
took up near Roswell only a month ago.
John Goodwin, a Roswell barber, has
started overland for southern Califor-
MIA, where he intends to make his home.
J. w. Townsend, of Brighton, To-, will
spend the winter at Roswell with his
daugter, Mrs. H. F. Smith.
Mrs. w. G. Urton has moved from
Roswell to Kansas City for the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs John w. Poe left Ros-
we'll on an extended southern tour
Part Of a shed and five tons Of hay
were burned at Roswell In small ac-
cidental fire.
R. E. Banner, of Roswell, has been
appointed company photographer Of the
Pecos Valley & Northeastern railway.
A heavy frost damaged garden truck
and stopped haying at Hagerman.
George Banta has completed a new
house near Elk.
Whooping cough Is epidemic at Elk.
Beautiful stained glass windows were
put into the Methodist Episcopal church
at Roswell. The total cost Of the win
dows was $755.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Leonard, Of Kansas
City, have removed to Roswell.
w. r. Walton, Roswell photogra-
pher, has removed to Colorado Springs.