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The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-10-02
ROSWELL MAN MARRIES
GIRL FROM ARTESIA.

G. R. Prunty, of the firm of Prunty
& Gordon, who run the Cash Gro
Gerry in this city, and Miss Nettie Cal
loway, formerly of this city and re-
Gently book-keeper of the Bank of Ar
tesla. We're married September II at
Amarillo and have returned to make
Roswell their home. having taken
rooms with the brides aunt, Mrs. Joe
Lynch at 100 n. Richardson avenue
Their wedding announcement comes
somewhat late. largely on account of
the fact that their marriage was
complete surprise to all their friends,
and they have just returned from
their wedding trip They were accom-
panied to Amarillo. the place of the
wedding, by the brides mother and
aunt
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subject, requiring such lights to be
put in at the expense of the railroad
The street and alley committee was
instructed to prepare a resolution
changing the name of Bayard street
to Albuquerqs street
! A resolution was introduced auth
orizing the making of an estimate on
tween Alameda and Fifth street. Up
on recommendation of the member
who introduced it, the resolution was
tabled
The fine of Juan an old
Mexican who is said to have been
ing his innocence, was ordered remit
ted and sentence suspended.
Chas. E. Baker served notice in
writing that he was about to close a
drainage ditch that will throw water
on Orchard avenue. The matter was
referred to the streets and alleys
committee.
The report of City Physician w.
w. Phillips was read, as follows:
There have been reported to this
office, during the month of Septem-
ber, seventeen births, seven males
was six. The cause of death in four
cases was tuberculosis, in one paral-
ysis, and in one premature birth
There have been three cases of scar
let fever reported, two occurring il
the same house. The usual quaran-
tine was established in each instance.
Each case was of mild type.
Seventeen cases of typhoid fever
have been under the care of the ply
sicians of the city. They have been
of a mild variety and no deaths have
occurred. In most instances one case
seemed to follow another in the same
neighborhood: due. perhaps, to the
infection being carried by flies or the
wind. In spite of the instructions of
the attending physicians the excreta
is thrown out upon the ground and,
in some cases, without any attempt
at disinfcction. The prosecution of an
offender, or two, might nave tend
ency to stop this practice"
The vote of the recent water bond
election w2s canvassed, and it was
found that the proposition was de
feated.
A number of accounts, approved by
the finance committee, were allowed.
A recess was taken until call by the
mayor.
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ORDINANCE NO. 1903.

An Ordinance Authorizing the Call
ing of an Election to Vote Upon the
Question of Issuing of Bonds for
Street Improvement in the City of
Roswell.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROSWELL:
Sec. 1. That an election shall be
called and held in the City of Ros-
we'll on the 9Th day of November,
lI9O7, for the purpose of voting upon
the question of issuing bonds for GER
tain street improvements in and for
said city, to the amount of $20,0OO.00,
and the City Clerk is hereby directed
to cause to be published notice (to
De signed by the Mayor of such cleo
| ton at least once in each week for
four successive weeks in the Roswell
Daily Record, a newspaper of general
circulation published in the City of
Roswell, New Mexico, the first pub
lication to be made 80 days before
the date of said election
Sec. 2 At such election no person
shall be qualified to vote, except he
be in all respects qualified elector
of the City of Roswell and the owner
of real or personal property subject
to taxation therein.
Sec. 8. The election hereby author
lied shall be held at the following
polling place: At the east door of the
Roswell Auto Company, corner of
Richardson avenue and End street in
the City of Roswell.
Sec. A. The election hereby author
lied shall be conducted by the follow
ing officers: G. L. Wilson, c. A.
Moore and Frank Easten, judges;
Laus Phillips and w. T. Wells, clerks.
Sec s. This ordinance shall be in
force from and after five days from
the date of its approval and publi-
cation.
Passed this 1st day of October. 1907.
Attest:
FRED ]. BECK,
(SEAL) City Clerk.
Approved by me this 1st day of
October, 1907.
GEO. L wYLLYS.
Acting Mayor of the City of Roswell.
Territory of New Mexico, City of
Roswell.-ss.
/, Fred j. Beck. Clerk in and for
the City of Roswell. do hereby certi-
fy that the above and foregoing is .
true and correct copy OF Ordinance
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START WORK
THIS WEEK

For several days the water has been
turned from the two big irrigation
bitches in Roswell that are to be ce-
mented this fall, and they are rapidly
drying for the the work that is to
be commenced the latter part of this
week. The owners are doing the work
themselves, and they expect to begin
the cleaning and grading of the ca
nails within few days.
A. A. Ririe, the civil engineer VINO
has been in charge of the distribu-
ton of water in the. Hondo bitches
this fall. has been selected as super
i1tendent of the work and contract
has been entered into between him
and the committee. He will have his
first force of men at work in a few
days and by the time October Is rolls
around the cementing will be well
under way. October Is is the date set
by the court as the final limit in time
for the work to be commenced.
The ditch owners have bought all
their cement, the Pecos Valley Lum-
Der Company having kindly ordered
it for them at cost They are now
asking for bids for the gravel.
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Rev. john w. Smith, pastor of the
Southern Methodist church of Ros-
| well, and Rev Wallace Evans, pastor
at Hagerman, returned via the auto
| route yesterday afternoon from Ala
mogordo, where they had been attend
ing the annual New Mexico Confer
ence of their church. They bring int
eresting news of a church school, or
college, which their conference pro-
poses to build in New Mexico, and
of its possible location in Roswell
the college will be one worth an
effort of any town in the Territory
to secure. 1t was the decision of the
conference to have it built in the Pc
cos Valley. and the precise location
was left in the hands of a commit
tee composed of the new presiding
elder, J. B. Cochran, who was pastor
at Carlsbad last year, Rev. J. w.
Smith. of this city, and Rev. Mr..
Hedgpeth, WHO is the new pastor at
Carlsbad This building committee
will have entire charge of the loca-
ton and erection of the school and
they are to go to work at once.
AS everyone hoped, and as his mem
bers desired, Rev. Mr.. Smith was re-
turned to Roswell for another year.
Rev. ]. T. French, the former presid-
ing elder, was granted his request to
be transferred to the California con-
ference. Rev. J. B. Cochran, formerly
at Carlsbad, was made presiding ell
der, and Rev. Mr.. Hedgpeth, the new
pastor at Carlsbad, was brought here
from another conference. Rev. Mr.
Evans was returned to Hagerman-
Rev. Mr.. Messer, of Artesia was sent
to Pecos
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UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT FOR
MEMBERS OF THE ROSWELL
BAPTIST CHURCH.
CROWD HAS GOOD TIME
Months, Weeks, Days, Hours, Min
utes and Seconds Came and Each
Laid Contribution on the Table
that Held the Fund for the Win
doWs of the New Church.

Mrs. Frank Divers gave a reception
and calendar party at her home on
Missouri avenue last evening to the
members of the Baptist church. and
it was a most unique affair.
When all had arrived, to the mum
Der of at least one hundred and fifty
seats were taken by spectators in the
front parlor and outside, in the hall
and different rooms formed parties
of the embership, divided as to age
and sex according to the plan of the
calendar. There was a whole year, in
the person of the hostess, the twelve
months represented by twelve ladies',
the weeks and days of the present
month, 50 in number, twenty-four
hours, represented by young ladies',
sixty minutes. who appeared in the
person of little girls, aad the seconds
grand procession that marched in
the order mentioned to the music of
''Gladiolus March,, as played by Miss
Mary Greenlee, before the spectators
into the front parlor and around a
table in the center of the room AS
each one of the party passed the ta-
Bile ne or she deposited theron the
coin that went with his portion of
the calendar, the months each a dol
lar. the weeks half a dollar, the days
dime, and the seconds a nickel. When
all had put their money on the table
it was found that in the whole sum
there was $210,
The money for the occasion had
been raised, by the thirteen ladies
who represented the year and the
twelve months It was special offer
ing they raised, eacn in her own way,
for the window fund of the new Bap-
tist church, during the past three
puts to rout the old theory that there
IS bad luck in the number thirteen.
Added to this amount was placed on
the table $1O6 cleared by the Baptist
ladies at the recent Chautauqua en-
tertainments, making a total of 1915
in the window fund.
The party last night was planned
as celebration of the success of the
efforts of the ladies of the church
calendar" 1t was quite impressive.
After the ceremonial the participants
filed through the hall to the dining
room. where each helped himself to
cake, waters, coffee and candies, then
proceeded on to the front lawn, which
was seated and brilliantly lighted for
their reception. Those who had been
spectators followed them through the
dining room and out onto the lawn,
where a pleasant evening was spent.
For the occasion the Divers home
was beautifully and arUistically dec
grated with cut and potted flowers.
Dahlias. roses and ferns filing many
vases occupied every available point
in the front parlors and drawing
rooms, and American beauties adorn
ed the dining room, and the whole
scene was one of happiness and de-
light.
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the district attorney, was assisted in
the prosecution By Capt. W. C. Reid
The defense was conducted by w. w
Gatewood, of Roswell.
Mrs. Hughes, bride of year, ap
peared as a witness for ner husband
and in his arraignment of the charac
ter of the saloo1keeper, Schoonover
Mr., Gatewood referred to him as the
keeper of the lowest dive in the city
whose testimony was pitted against
an angel of purity The trial lasted
for one week.
The defense, in it's testimony, at
tempted to show, and evidently did to
the satisfaction of the jury. that the
saloon keeper took the money him
self. There was considerable money
o1 deposit with him from gamblers
Masons Coming.
A committee has been appointed
by the Masonic order of Carlsbad TO
arrange for the meeting of the grand
lodge, which will be held in this city
from the 21st to the 25th of next
month Elaborate preparations are
being made for the entertainment of
the visitors.
Colonel Lewis, of Ell Paso, has
been in the city this week, organiz-
ing a class of Masons to go to FL Pa
so about the 1Sth of November to
take the thirty-second degree Mason
ry. He is canvassing the towns in the
valley and expects to have a class
of about fifty.
John R. Joyce, president of the
First National bank and the Joyce
Pruit company, both of this city, is
home this week from an ex-
tended tour of Europe and also visit
at his former nome in Tennessee.
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Money to Loan.
$4,000 to loan on improved farms
S3t3 WILL NJ. HICKS,
Room Is, SAMSON Block.
THE PECOS VALLEY AS
PART OF THE TRADE TRIP.

From Ell Paso Herad.
The Pecos Valley trip is entirely
feasible as part of the coming Ell Paso
business mems excursion. Arrange
ments can be made for enough auto
mobiles to carry the party with hand
baggage from Torrance to Roswell, or
the special train can be taken on to
Tucumcari and DaElart and around to
the valley by way of Amarillo, giving
the members of the party glimpse
of a country they would never see in
the ordinary course of things, since
it is off our main lines of travel
There are a great many reasons
why the Pecos Valley should be includ
ed in this trip. No other part of the
trip would furnish more pleasure or
ultimate profit than this. There is so
much to see around Roswell. Carls-
bad, Barstow and the other points
that would be reached, that the time
part of the general excursion, the
cost would be light and the time well
spent.
The general effect of such a tour,
in advertising El Paso throughout the
southwest and encouraging closer bu-
siness and social relations, is worth
more than can be estimated. The re-
suits of previous excursions are still
being felt by merchants. and these
results are cumulative, like any other
advertising the excursions create
good feeling and a better understand
ing of needs and opportunities, and
they have a splendid educative effect
on the individuals who take part.
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In the absence of Mayor j. w
Stockard, who is in Dallas, the regu
lar meeting of the city council last
night was presided over by President
George L. Wyllys. Other members
present were Bell. Church, Johnson
Robinson and Whiteman.
Minutes of last month read and ap.
proved.
Upon invitation to the citizens pres
ent TO bring up any matter they might
desire, Harold Hurd protested against
building a ten-foot sidewalk in front
of his property on South Main street,
as required by a recent ordinance. He
cited the fact that there are now two
sidewalks of three and a half feet
width ON South Main, and said he
would be glad to build such a walk
if the council would sanction same.
The matter was referred to the com
power to act.
w. T. Wells appeared in the inter
est of better electric lights. He de-
clared it to be a universally known
fact tnat the lights have been very
bad for some weeks, AID not good for
two years. He referred to the fact
that she council could cut down the
pric1 paid on street lights, but that
the people at large have no recourse.
He suggested as a remedy that re-
course be taken by the council for the
people by actin, on the provisions
of the light company's franchise The
matter was referred to tne water and
light committee with instructions to
"get busy"
The finance committee had no re-
port
The streets and alleys committee
reported on the proposed bond issue
of $4,000 for street Improvement,
purchase of lot for city market, etc.
recommending that the bond issue be
increased to $4,000, and that an ord
inance~providing for a special cleo
ton to take vote on such bond issue
be passed. The proposed ordinance
was read, aid after discussion of pro-
posed amendments, was finally read
by title and placed on its passage.
Lie NOtS IOi IT'S pdoodSO was
nous, the date for the election being
set for November 6.
An ordinance was introduced amend
ing ordinance No. 26 so tnat skating
rinks will come under the list of
amusements put under license and
fixing the amount at SIS per quarter.
Under suspension of the rules the or
dinance was passed by unanimous
vote.
A resolution was introduced author
izing a change in the plans and spec
ifications for the cementing of the
irritation bitches. The changes are
all beneficial for the reasons that
they provide for stronger cementing
than first recommended Another res
olution was introduced approving the
present plan of doing the work by
force account and showing the coun-
ellis good faith in the matter of pay
ing for same. Under suspension of the
rules, both resolutions were ulani-
mously passed.
An official communication from the
Santa Fe railroad was read in which
a fat refusal was made to put electric
lights at the Second and Fifth street
crossings. The city attorney was in
structed to draft an ordinance on the
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NEW MACHINERY IN USE;
BETTER LIGHTS PROMISED.

3 The new machinery that has :
3 been in course of erection at (
9 the electric light plant during z
3 the greater part of the summer
= was this afternoon put into
= use, and the people of Roswell
:, VINO use electric lights are
g promised better service. The
3 capacity of the plant is great
3 ly increased, and the manage
. ment knows of no reason why
:, there should be any trouble
!. whatver in pulling the load.
g :
9, = = e 3 3 3 = 3 3 = = $ 3 3 :
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LAKE ARTHUR YARD AND
HARDWARE STORE

The Lake Arthur Lumber and Hard
ware Company, with A. R. Teeple, of
Hagerman, at its head, has sold out
to a new set of stockholders, who
have chosen the following officers: J.
e. Cady, president; w. c. Lawrence,
vice president; NJ. o. Becker, secreta-
ry and treasurer; w. A. Hams, man
ager. The new company has taken
charge and will continue the business
at the old stand without Interruption
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CHICAGO GAMBLERS
DYNAMITING ENEMIES.

Chicago, Ill, Oct. IA nitro-glyc-
crime bomb was exploded last night
on the roof of ex-Alderman John A.
Rogers saloon on West Madison and
May streets, doing considerable dam
age. Rogers was a witness earlier in
the day before the grand jury which
is expected to return wholesale gam
bling indictments.
This is the tenth explosion in a Sc
ries resulting from war among the
gamblers.
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ORDINANCE NO. 40.

An Ordinance Amending Ordinance
No. 26 of the Compiled Ordinances
of the City of Roswell.
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ROSWELL:
Section l. That Section ) of Ordi
nance No. 26 of the Compiled Ordi
the same is hereby amended by add
ing at the end of said Section the
words, Skating Rink S75.0O,' and
from and after the passage of this
ordinance skating rinks shall pay a
quarterly license of $500 to conduct
and operate a skating rink.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall
take effect and be in force from and
after five days from the date of its
publication.
Passed this 1st day of October, 1907
Attest:
FRED J. BECK,
CsEAL) City Clerk.
Approved by me this first day of
October, 1907
GEO. L. WYLLYS.
Acting Mayor of the City of Roswell.
Territory of New Mexico, City of
Roswell.-s4
l, Fred J. Beck, Clerk in and for
the City of Roswell, do hereby certi-
fy that the above and foregoing is a
true AID correct copy of Ordinance
No. 10 as the same appears of rec
ord at page 16S of City Ordinance
Record No. 1.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said City on this End day of October.
1907
FRED J. BECK.
(SEAL) City Clerk.
published Oct ?, 1eo7.-Record.)
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Removal.

We have moved our office from
Room of the Texas Block to the
front rooms over the FIRST NATION
AL BANK, where we will be glad to
meet the public to transact business
in real estate, fire insurance, building
and loan, loans, taking of dispositions
and notary work. Accounting a spe-
cialty. ct
MILICE, DUDLEY & WILSON.
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WHAT DEBT" MEANS


"A number of Kansas towns are
boasting that they are entirely free
| from debt and don't owe a penny
but they are not the best Kansas
towns Parks, fine streets and otner
improvements which make a town
worth living in call for indebted
ness
This paragraph from The Star
has been copied by many Kansas
newspapers, and in nearly every in
stance the accompanying comment
has been commendatory. This fact is
in itself a most cheering demonstra-
ton of the Kansas sptrit-the spirit
which gets there" by doing things.
The newspapers of Kansas reflect the
sentiment of the people of that state
No more mistaken or prejudiced no
ton ever fastened itself upon the ear
lier communities and commonwealths
of America than the one that a town
or state should ''pay as it goes The
inevitable result was that the towns
and the states which adopted that
rule did not 'go" very far; and it is
a reasonable assertion that practically
all the advance they did make was
through deviating from the rule and
going into debt The cause of this in
evitable fact is obvious.
When citizens have to dig down in
their pockets for those public works
which are TO confer continuing bene-
dts they usually viii not dig and
they go without the improvements.
What was good enough for our fore
fathers is good enough for us" is the
Bourbon spirit engendered by that
doctrine. Furthermore, there are ma
ny advantages which one generation
may reasonably expect to secure all
for itself which it cannot afford to
pay for ia a lump sum. Then again
many civic improvements give per
manent increase in value to landed
property, and this increase progresses
every year-that is, it becomes larger
eacn year than ii was the year be
fore-''it grows by what it feeds on
The people feel the absurdity of plac
ing all the burden on the one year
which has not received any of the in
crease
debt is in no sense a debt when
it represents a property or value
which the people cannot justly obtain
in any other way and which they can
not afford to do without. 1t is in such
case an investment To object that
if a city or state goes in debt it
might be extravagant and conse-
quently it ought never to go in debt
is to confess belief in the failure
of elf-government 1t is as though
an individual should plead imbeciIity.
The evil of extravaganza, or of the
dishonest disposition of public mon
ey, is of course to be guarded against;
but an abnormal fear that the public
will not get its moneys worth should
no more induce policy of not secur-
ing what the public needs than a per-
son should fail TO invest in needed
suit of clothes or needed dinner or
a needed home because one might be
cheated in the transaction.
Those Kansas towns are the best
Kansas towns-taose towns anywhere
are the best towns of their common
wealths-which do not pay as they
CO. but which provide their citizens
with the public works and the COM
forts of good living that caa only be
justly provided by indebtedness And
these same facts and this same prin-
ciple apply with identical force to
great cities and to counties and
states--Kansas City Star.
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ALLEGED RoBBER Is
ACQUITTED AT CARLSBAD.

Carlsbad, N. NJ, Sept. 30.-After a
most bitterly contested trial the jury
gave in verdict Sunday morning
of not guilty, in the case of Charles
Hughes. accused of robbing the safe
in the saloon OF Sol Schoonover, in
June of this year. The defendant was
arrested on complaint of schoonover,
in whose employ Hughes was engag-
ed as day bar tender. L. o. Fullen,
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Owing to the advance in mine pric-
es of coal, caused by car shortage and
scarcity of miners in the Colorado
coal fields, and as coal is bought for
cash and carried in storage for sew
eral months, on and after October
irst, coal and wood delivered from
our yards will be strictly cash.-Ros-
well Wool & Hide Co. If
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Notice to Stockholders.

The office of the ROSWELL Bull
DING & LOAN ASSOCIATION has
been moved from Room of the Tex
FIRST NATIONAL BANK, where
payment of dues will be received.
st. A o. MILLICE, Secy.
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w r. Mansel, of Cherokee, Ia. has
bought the W. G. Hamilton 120-acre
farm east of Roswell and proposes to
make his home here. His brother,
R. S. Mansel. is here also with the ex-
pectation of locating. The brothers
are native Englishmen and R. S. Man
sci has lately come from Africa. where
he spent twenty years touring the
whole continent
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The firm of MILLICE, DUDLEY &
WILSON will act as our agents in
transacting Fire Insurance business.
They will be found at our office,
front rooms, over the FIRST Ma
TIONAL BANK.
st R. L. & T. H. MALONE.