The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-08-28
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OLD SETTLERS, SOCIETY.
President. ....... ~. p. White
Secretary. ...... &c.,. ]. F. Hinkle
Other members of the Committee:
Capt. C. w. Haynes, w. M. Atkinson,
NJ. L. Pierce. J.. ]. Rascoe.
The Record wishes this column so
far as possible to run itself, and in
vites communications.
(The following article was written
by an old timer, and after the Rec
ord had it in type he came in and
asked that the article shoul not be
published. having changed his mind
as humorists often do, and pronounc-
ing the whole thing mere f~oolishness.
The Record, however, considers the
production too valuable to lose, and
prints it without the name of the
writer. Nobody takes himself mor
seriously at times thar the genuine
humorist, but If every man ook him
self seriously all the time the world
would be one vast mad-house. We
on the Old Settlers Society-yet it
reminds us hat twenty years is but
a passing moment in the history of
the world, and gives us another OPP
portunity to pause and laugh at nur-
selves.-Ed.)
1t may seem like presumption for
a tenderfoot who has resided in New
Mexico only t~wenty-four ear n
has lived in Roswell less than six
years of that time. to compare notes
with some of the old settlers of the
Pecos Valley who have been here
ten, fifteen or twenty years, and
have seen the country develop and
grow. So I shall omit all mention
of myself and my ~blood-curdling ad
LIN CoSopOS
and say a few wore about the old
est, original and only genuine first
settler. This statement is based, to
some extent at least, pom the theory
advanced by A. M. Swan. late of
Albuquerque, but now departed TO a
ed on the subject.
Many years ago a man suddenly
appeared in h Rio Grande Valley
in New Mexico. not a thousand miles
from the present site of the city of
Albuquerque. In fact, that place is
supposed to be the identical spot
where he first camped in the Terri
tory. No a human being, beside him
self existed in the whole country;
for that was before the days of the
Aztecs or Toltecs, Or any other kline
of tees. The country looked inviting
to the stranger and so he concluded
to settle right there. After a while.
however, he grew very lonesome
and tired of patching his own
breaches and darning his own socks.
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clothes either, for that matter. In
deed, he was the original sockless
statesman. But then there were no
fools in the and to herald his fame
abroad as a sockless statesman. At
any rate he was tired of his job and
meditated upon drawing his pay and
quitting.
One beautiful morning, however,
he woke up to find a woman in the
camp. He didn't know where she hail
ed from and he didn't care. She look
ed all right to him, and it didn't take
long for then to conclude to unite
their fortunes and thus promote their
mutual interests. And, as there was
nc preacher in town, they took h
chances of arrest for violation of the
Edmunds act, and vent to living to-
gether regardless Of what the cruel
world might say about them. They
might have continued in this happy
state ever after had 1t not been for
the m h had a keener taste
than her lord and master, and thought
Sne hHeW d SoOu lAiAS when oAC
saw it. That was in the days before
the Pecos Valley had become fam
Gus for it's big red apples. There were
some kind of fruits, such as wild
plums and prickly pears, growing
along the Rio Grande; and there was
also one apple tree. In the course of
time the woman's appetite went back
on common fruit, beans and bacon,
and she began to banker for apples.
In that respect she was like many