The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-05-15
SOCIAL NOTES AND
PERSONAL MENTION

G.. Il. Vaughn, contractor who
is working rear Bard, was 10 the
city Thursday to purchase sup.
plies.
Louise Elder, the little daughter
OF MIR and Mrs. .. +. Elder, ccle. :
brated her first anniversary last
Sunday.
W. + Chissom, Masonic Lee.
turef, who made an address here |
last Monday, visited the Logan
Order Tuesday.
Conductor Frank Simmons has
purchased the residence oi J.. V.
Colvin on Third street, in the
McGee addition.
Deputy Sheriff Ben Crawford,
has returned from San Francisco
wher. he accompanied y. l.. Mil.
ler, the navy descrter.
Mrs. +. NJ. ClOugh entertained
a party Of friends at dinner last
evening IN honor oil Mrs. DJnohoo,
who is visiting from Chicago.
Master mechanic, Eugene Cor.
don, and water service superin.
tendent Clough, made an Official
visit to CarrIlozo last Tuesday.
Fireman Dram, who was recent.
~ transferred here from the I'll
Paso division, is very i'll and was
sent to the hospital in Alamogordo.
Stanley Lawson has let the con.
tract Tor the construction OF a six
room adobe house on Second
street. Work will begin a, once.
Juan Sena, prominent ranchman
at C%uervo, who was operated on at
the Tucumcari hospital, recently,
has returned home greatly improv-
ed.
Passenger traffic seems to be
heavy over the Rock Island and
Southwestern. \ great number OF
people are getting OFT AT this point
this month.
The American Furniture Com
pany has received another large
shipment OF household goods.
hey have also installed some new
show cases.
&. {. Batson, brother OF Wash
Batson OF Endee, was in the city
Wednesday. He is gathering
Batson Brothers cattle, the round.
up now being west OF the city.
{. {. Chapman announces that
he has sold more wind mills this
week than any other period since
he has been in business here.
This signifies that somebody is
finding water.
Geo. w. Evans, Jr., spent
Thursday in Endee. As president
and manager OF the Evans Realty
Company, he Is manager oil the
townsite out there and business in
that connection took him to the
LEI town.
DIR. l.. {. Rucker, spent several
days here assisting Mrs. Rucker
in settlement with the insurance
companies carrying policies on
her millinery parlors, which were
a total loss in the FIRST National
Bank fire.
Tucumcari is being congratulate
ed this spring on the number OF
beautiful lawns being grown.
Among the most noticeable and best
cared ior are \. K. Carriers K. A.
Prentice's Y. ". Moore DR.. Mac
{. Slanhl's
NJ. {. Mcchem lett yesterday
afternoon tor Trinidad, Colorado,
where he will JON Ihos. Chitten.
den and VIM. Rapp aud make a
hshlng TIP TO the Stone Wall
country. MeChem will be- gone
tor two weeks.
Nios tlOlu btHot ~ htdIutI w
the public schools here, entsrtain.
ed a number OF her friends last
Wednesday evening. The affair
was a most pleasant n and sew.
eral splendid musical selections
were enjoyed.
W. +. Buchanan has set aside
an acre OF his land tor experiment.
tai purposes. He has planted
several new grams and grasses
never tried in this country before.
The seeds were given him by the
railroad company and planted on
the advice OF +. NJ. White.
T. M. Murray who purchased
the !. =. Owen farm six miles
east OF town, brought to the News
office Wednesday a sample OF his
fifty acres Of wheat which is Just
now booting. II He gets any
season this month the field will,
he says, make as TO 90 bushels
per acre. The long selge OF wind
and cold weather we had the FIRST
two weeks OF May has made every.
thing backward, and moisture has
reen drawn from the earth To an
alarming extent.
Thomas Van Brimer, agent Tor
National casualty insurance com.