Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-09
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES.
New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
From the Newspaper.

Elmer Richey has resigned his DO.
sition with the Oasis ranch near Ros.
well. He will for the present cooper.
ate with his father in the real estate
business.
Guy Bledsoe, the little son of Louis
and May Bledsoe. died in Roswell.
Guy had been sick of catharral Group
and all medical attention seemed of
no avail.
The pipe being used In Alameda
Heights in Roswell is tested to $50
pounds to the inch. 1t can be at
tache TO any system regardless Of
pressure.
Frank Bond, of the firm of G.. w.
Bond and brother, of Espanola has
been in Santa Fe. He worked for the
passage of the bill to annex Espanola
precinct to Rio Arriba county.
Percy Schofield and Cy. Waugh, two
experienced and ~well-known ~tonsorial
artists. have opened up a handsome
new barber shop and bath rooms in
the new Sparks building in Roswell.
DIR. ID. T. Finlay is going to exper-
iment in raising small fruits and ber-
ries at Roswell. He has set out a large
number of strawberry plants, raspber-
ries. grapes. %currants, etc.
Messrs. c. E. Edegrton and C. J.
Bowman. both of Edmond, Okla, have
bought the interest of Hon. Jerry
Simpson in the real estate firm OF
Simpson & Wildly at Roswell.
Postoffice Inspector Doran drifted
into Roswell and busted himself watch
ing for the sspitters' at the postofice.
He seems determined that the rights
of the public of Roswell shall be pro-
fected.
H.. NJ. Adams, assistant manager OF
the Alvarado hotel in Albuquerque
has rendered his resignation. He left
Saturday for Unionville, Conn, to as
sumo the management of a large sum
mer hotel.
Benjamin Knight, aged so years.
died at the Shelby hotel. in Roswell.
Mr.. knight had been in the valley for
about three months. His home was in
Cincinnati, Ohio, but he anne there
directly from Canon City, Colo.
W. M. Woodward, an experienced
and thoroughly capable druggist of
Franklin. New hampshire, has be-
come a resident of Ration, and having
recently purchased the drug store of
Mrs. B. b. Fullinwider up there.
Rev. Chapel, of Brentwood, Texas,
came in to Roswell. Rev. Chapel is the
president of the Cumberland Presby-
terrain Board of Extension, and comes
for the purpose Of placing the church
there ON a more substantial basis.
A pretty wedding was that of Miss
Agnes Peden and Marshal belong,
which occurred in Ration, at the home
of the brides parents, the ceremony
Icing performed by Rev. NJ. Arm
strong in the presence of a large num-
her of guests.
E~-County Commissioner Harry
Braircrd and family came down from
ElizabeiStown to Ration leaving on
No. o Trinidad. Mrs. Brainard has
been suffering for some time with
.erysipelas and goes to Trinidad to con-
.sult a physician.
At the church of the Immaculate
On. ception in Albuquerque, Father
Berry delivered an eloquent address
on the confessional. after which he
asked a number of questions relating
10 the subject submitted through the
medium of the question box.
When Levi Springer opened the
Springer grocery in Old Albuquerque
The other morning. he found that the
place had been entered during the
night and goods to the value OF $50
had been stolen. There is no clue to
the identity of the thieves.
Marie A. P%astringo. a seventeen
yesr-old girl en- route from Los An
sele.s to Chicago, died at Springer OF
consumption. The body was brought
to Ration and placed in the hands Of
Fueate Bros. for embalming, after
with ii was shipped to Chicago.
II is expected that the building
iaborers would organize in Albuquer-
que and the timers. also. The bar
TENDERS and cooks and walters, who
1--we already taken out cards amliat-
inu - an with the Central union, are
exnec,ed - organize fully this week.
The Rev q. >rrge Hinson returned
to Roswell from his "uar'eris s,s'.
Pecos. He reports phe. 49,
cess in his work. During
days stay he baptized five al.
and thirteen children. and presented
a class OF nine persons for confirmation
to the bishop.
Pursuant to the request of the Ros-
well lodge. the FIT. Worth Order of the
Eastern Star, conducted the funeral of
Mrs Mary Beall in that city, using the
ritualistic service of the ancient order.
Mrs. Beall was a resident of Roswell
for many years. conducting a millinery
store and having many friends.
About 1880 Tuesday morning those
residing in the neighborhOod of the
Roswell lumber yards were awakened
by the cry of fire and the repeated
discharge OF fire arms. 1t was at once
seer that the lumber yard was afire,
the blaze arising from an immense
pile of shingles near the walk. l.. c
Amonett, who lives near by, turned in
the alarm by telephone.
A very large Rocky Mountain eagle
recently killed on the Jerome