Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-30
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
Business In Progress at Roswell-0ther
Ohaves County News.
CHAvES COUNTY.

CHAVES COUNTY.
Carl Kirkwood, who had been at Ros-
we'll for his health. died at Baltimore.
Wilfried Robinson has bought a lot
at Roswell and will erect a cottage on
1t.
An effort is to be made to establish
a company of the national guard at
Roswell.
w. E. Wolf and Mss Leona Harlez
were married at Roswell by Justice
Williams.
F. w. Jersig, Kansas City capital
vestments.
The summer normal institute at Ros-
we'll will open on June II and continue
for one month.
Miss Martha Parker has let the con-
tract for the erection Of five-room cot
tage at Roswell.
The family of p. p. Quinn arrived
from independence, Kan, and will in
the future make their home at Ros-
well.
Mrs. William Meyers, who arrived re-
Gently at Roswell from Cincinnati, O.,
died of consumption.
w. E. Lindsay, a Chicago attorney,
has opened offices at Roswell. Mrs.
Lindsay comes to Roswell for her
health.
Mrs. Charles H. Sparks has donated
twenty valuable volumes to the library
Of the New Mexico military institute at
Roswell.
Joseph Carper has been awarded the
contract to drill an artesian well at
Roswell for Frank Large in the Spring
Mound valley.
Samuel M. King has purchased forty
acres of land from the Roswell Land
and Water Company. The land is situ-
ated at Fairview.
The question of issuing $25,0OO worth
Of bonds for school purposes at Ros-
well resulted in vote of 1872 for the
bonds and 26 against them.
The Democrats will. hold primaries
throughout the county on June 20 to
nominate candidates for the various Of
fees to be filled in November.
Mrs. Emil Fritz has sold the Felix
ranch to Edwin Wilson and Edwin and
Charles Houx. The title was given to
$3.50 acres, and the purchase price was
$25, 1000.
H. Palmer, of Amarillo. Tex. has ta-
ken position in the general freight
and passenger office Of the Pecos Val
ley & Northeastern railway at Roswell.
1. M. Chambers, of Colorado Springs,
has purchased block of building lots
at Roswell from Otto Hedgecoxe. The
consideration was $1,400. Mr.. Chambers
has let the contract for an artesia we'll,
and WI erect good residences on the
block.
w. w. Evans, son of Judge J. T. Ev-
ans, of Roswell, was married at Nash
vile, Tenn, to Miss Monta Coleman
The young couple will reside at Matan-
zas, Cuba, where the groom is employed
in the commissary department of the
United States army.
A party consisting Of c. s. Blodgett,
general superintendent Of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway;
DR.. M. e. Fenton and wife, DR.. w. E.
Jewett and Miss Griffin, all Of Cleve
land, O., were at Roswell several days
last week. They arrived on a special
car and took home with them Miss
Louise Blodgett, who had been visiting
Mrs. D. A. Starkweather.
COLFAX COUNTY
L. J. Apple has removed from Ra-
ton to st. Paul, MINI.
Manuel Macs, Of Weston, Colo, in
tends to locate at Ration.
Arthur Shoup and Miss Dora Duncan
were married at Maxwell City.
John Martin and Miss Mary ONeil!.
of Ration, were married at Las Vegas.
August Bracket is putting up
windmill on his ranch at Chico Springs.
Sixty laborers left Ration to work in
the sugar beet fields at Rocky Ford,
Colo.
The city marshal and policemen of
Ration have been supplied with new
uniforms.
DIR. T. B. Lyon, of Ration, received
word that his sister had died at Can
andaigua, N. Y.
Prof w. F. McClelland has been ap-
pointed teacher of a public school near
Elizabethtown.