The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-12-14

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Get it at CARROTS.
Good coal "Swastika." Phone 100.
Frank NJ. Tatum, Of Dalhart, was
here this week on business.
Ben +. Blair, Of Sedalia, Mo, was
"A Tucumcari visitor this week.
T. c. Collins was down from Obai
Friday and Saturday on business.
Harry Brainard Of Las Cruces, was
in Tucumcari this week looking after
business matters.
CARROTS store Is open from o u. m.
to o p. m. every day. He sells most
anything you need, West Main st.
Big bargains in Pawn Brokers cloth
ing now here and due to arrive. The
prices are right. Garrett
Judge Cutlip is moving into his Of.
fee building south of the Postofice
and will practice law hereafter.
Fred. Mcfarland was here from Lo.
gan Monday night to attend the meet
ing Of the Good Roads boosters.
All kinds of fashionable dress-mak-
ing. Phone 210, residence Of A. Hur-
ley. Mrs. s. l.. Lehrman. q
Am expecting a shipment of shoes
any day. Should have been here last
week. They're bargains. Garrett.
J. Floersheim and wife came in on
Monday evening to visit friends and
Mr.. Floersheim attended the Good
Roads meeting Monday night. They
returned to Roy Tuesday.
C.. c. Chapman, formerly of this
city where he owned and operated Il
hardware store, who is now located
in Oklahoma City. was here several
days last week on business.
Pete Stefan. James o. Jordan, and
Ernest Hall were in from Jordan this
week on business concerning the new
school house. They report plenty OF
cold weather and SNOW on top of the
Cap.
Thursday morning was n of the
coolest Of the winter although there
was no snow on the ground it was
clear and cold. At times during the
day little flurries of now were seen
in the air.
Coal is climbing skyward. The al
ready high prices have advanced and
this week reached the $500 mark and
promises to go still higher. The peace
proposal by Germany has had no eff
feet on prices here.
Fred Walther, the jolly "dutchman'
was in town Saturday on business and
pleasure. He told of the big" snow
between his home and Clovis. He said
his I'll DuStltu ~ dii'du UNI ~ "a
as high as the radiator. The queer
part of it is that his car is not a Ford
hut is just a common Studabaker.
Wheat has dropped to Sl.55 per bu.
in Tucumcari and Mr.. Higday is ex-
p~ecting it to drop still lower. The
price of flower will no doubt hold up
for sometime. but it is bound to come
down some if wheat continues to fall
as rapidly as it has within the past
two weeks.
On account of n mistake in the AS
sessing Of the school levy the books
will be help up until the LIST Of Jan
uary and Collector Pearson will not
, he able to receive your money in pay
ment Of taxes until after the books
are ~rechecked and worked over and
the school levy included.
The merchants are too busy this
week to advertise but they promise
to liven things up next week. Their
stocks are full now and buyers are
busy picking out what they want. II
you wait until the last there will per
haps not be much choice in the mat
ter but you will be glad to get any
thing somewhere near suitable.
Messrs. McMullen and Lane, of Dial
hart were Tucumcari visitors this week
They have located a mining tract and
were preparing papers to file same
There is no doubt now but that the
miners will be thick as hops in this
county before another year rolls 'rounc
and mostly on account of the success
finally achieved by the Red Peaks Cop
per CO., now being worked south OF
Norton in the Cap Rock.
+. d. Bruce was in from Ogle Flats
yesterday with eggs, beans, pork ant
mutton. He said he got too much fol
his eggs and beans, but not enough
for the meat, considering the price OF
all kinds Of feed. The eggs brought