----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Laird To: Jim Laird ; Jim Laird Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 1:24 PM Subject: Misc. Items; Anthony: May 13, 1898 The Anthony Weekly Bulletin Harper County Friday May 13, 1898 Jacob WALTERS of Harper recently had his pension increased form $14 to $17 per month. R.O. FISHER one of the soldier boys who volunteered from Harper, is a brother of F.D. Fisher, the globe trotter, and at present a correspondent at Key West; so says the Topeka Journal. The Poorman Milling Company mill is the buiest place in Anthony. The mill is being run 18 hours each day except Sunday, and cannot keep up with their orders for mill products. The erratic price of wheat the past month has made the business a trying one, but they keep on filling their contracts to the letter. The mill has enjoyed an excellent trade this year and the quality of their flour is second to none in the country. The many friends of Grant TRAVIS will be surprised to know that he is now a member of Troop C, New Mexico Cavalry Volunteers, or as they are more popularly know, "Roosevelts Rough Riders." Grant's school at Farmington closed about two weeks ago and he then went to Santa Fe with a determination to join the volunteers, and a brief letter from him mailed at Newton Monday morning of this week shows that he was accepted, and that he passed through Wichita Monday on his way to San Antonio, Texas, where the troops are mobilized. He was one of the 342 volunteers form New Mexico being transported there by a special Santa Fe train, and it may be Grant's fortune to be among the very first of the volunteers to invade Cuba, as it is said arrangements have been made to immediately send this regiment to Cuba via Galveston. It is thought they will be used to cut off communication between Havna and one of the northern ports of Cuba, through which the Spanish have been rushing supplies. We al! so learn from an Enid newspaper that Charlie ERMAN, another lad well known to many here, has joined this same regiment of western rough riders. John L. PICKENS left the first of the week for Danville for a visit of a week or town in that town and vicinity. Mr. PICKENS may decide to locate in Danville. There will be a tea at Mrs. JENNINGS next Wednesday afternoon, May 18, given by the ladies of the Congregational church. Everybody invited. Supper 15 cents. C.M. HOPKINS one of this county's up-to-date farmers, last year purchased a Twelve-foot Double Drive King Header and Binder combined and has left his order with James J. COSTA for a second one this year. He will use both machines in his one-thousand acre wheat field this year. W.A. MILLER was down to Nardin and Deer Creek, Okla., this week buying wheat. The fancy prices paid was bringing considerable of it to the market. Miss Ada COLLIER went to El Dorado this week to accept a position as "hello girl" in the central telephone office in that city, and will make her home there in the future. Miss Collier was a favorite in Anthony society, her musical attainments added much to her popularity and her departure is deeply regretted by her young friends in Anthony. Wellington has an ordinance against riding a bicycle on the sidewalks. Four or five offenders contributed one dollar and costs the first day of the life of the law. We believe Anthony has some such an ordinance but it is hardly ever violated and never enforced. The Anthony fire department has received from State Superintendent McNALL a check for $46.66 being the amount of its share of the fireman's fund for 1897, due the department of this city.