Carlsbad has a established a free circulating library. The ladies lliterary club has purchased 20  books, has  been given 200  books by residents, and has been given 500 by A. Palmer of Washington D.C. for naming the association Norman Crosby Library Association as a memorial to Norman Crosby a friend of Mr Palmer's who was killed in Cuba.Mr Palmer is a friend of Mrs. H F Hammond of Carlsbad.

On account of a dispute with the city council, the fire department of Carlsbad resigned.

The Westhoff building at Carlsbad is almost completed. The building is made of stone.

 Burglary At Carlsbad      News from over the County Eddy Generally        Date: 1899-11-22; Paper: Santa Fe New Mexican

The saloon of Kemp & Woerner, at Carlsbad was entered by a robber who tapped the safe, and stole $700, mostly in silver. He also secured several watches and a number of valuable papers. The small iron box in the safe was pried out with an ice pick. All the booty was carried away in a grip, which was found the next morning with the papers in the river. Elmore Clarkson  aged 21 years , was arrested, accused of the robbery. He had been playing monte, and was acting suspiciously, but the money which it is said he buried has not yet been found.

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Carlsbad is to have a wool scouring establishment. The promoters are Leon Haflin of Colorado City, Texas and J F Matheson of Carlsbad. The mill is now operated at Colorado City, but will removed to Carlsbad. The plant has a capacity of 10. 000 pounds of wool a day, and the cost of the plants is $20,000. The mill expects to handle a spring clip of 1,000,000 and will employ fifteen men for four months of the year.

W H Mullane of Carlsbad filed a complaint against J Barnett charging him with larceny of a horse.

J M Moody of Midland, Tex has moved to Carlsbad with his family.

Some malicious person the other day poisoned a bunch of pet dogs at Carlsbad.

Carlsbad Grove Camp, of Woodmen of the world, last Sunday  unveiled a monument over the grave of James H Carpenter.

Theodore McBurney, for a  number of years a resident of Carlsbad,  died at Lost Springs Kansas, of consumption.

A N Elliot has removed for Carlsbad to El Paso

William Edwards a brakeman on the Pecos Valley & Northeastern railroad was caught between two cars at Pecos and badly injured. He was taken to Carlsbad for surgical treatment.

W L Bobo is organizing a Athletic Club at Carlsbad.

C W Lewis, Eddy County inspector for the sheep sanitary board, received a letter from a feeder in the Fort Collins district, Colorado asking him to buy 5,000 sheep for the writer.

Parker Gage and his sister Thellma, of hope were visitors last Sunday

Mr and Mrs Kenneth Rowan were in roswell last thursday, where they visited their brother Ted at the military institute.

 has returned to her home

after a week's visit with the

 family  of J T McMahon

Mammoth Tusk Remains Recovered in Eddy County, (New Mexico & The West)

Byline: The Associated Press

Texas Hiker Discovered Fragment in Streambed

CARLSBAD -- A hiker has discovered what's left of a 10,000- to 20,000-year-old mammoth tusk, and it took a federal agency to free it from a streambed south of Carlsbad.

Bill Loos said he found part of the tusk protruding from an earthen bank in a draw in southern Eddy County last year.

"It looked like a root at first until I looked again. It was exciting because then I knew it was a mammoth tusk," said Loos, a power plant engineer from Monahans, Texas.

Soon afterward, Loos alerted the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, then showed BLM archaeologist Rose Marie Havel where it was.

But then Mother Nature threw a curveball. In June 1998 the dry streambed became a wet streambed, and the tusk was suddenly under water.

It was decided that a channel would be dug to divert water away from the tusk.

Permission had to come from the Army Corps of Engineers, then BLM workers along with wildlife biologist Ray Keller and archaeologist Doug Melton, both also from the BLM, took in a backhoe and two portable pumps.

They dug a ditch, lined it with plastic and rigged up hoses to pump water away from the site.

Last week, some 18 months after Loos' original discovery, the mammoth tusk fragment was removed.

Besides Melton and Keller, those participating in the excavation were Loos; his 11-year-old daughter, Rebecca; BLM geologist Mike McGee; BLM paleontologist Mike O'Neill of Albuquerque; and Gary Morgan, paleontologist with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History. Accompanying them was Dulce Wassil, a senior honor student from the University of New Mexico.

While they pumped the water away, fragments of the tusk were found in nearby dirt and gravel. Several pieces of mammoth ribs also were found and removed.

"I think what we have here is a busted up mammoth that flowed down the streambed," O'Neill said. "This is a high-energy stream environment. The tusks are the first thing to get separated from the skull. It looks like it (the tusk) was buried and washed down within the last few decades."

"I think that we have the tusk and ribs of a Columbian Mammoth, possibly 11 feet at the shoulders and weighing 6 1/2 tons, from late Pleistocene or early Holocene (geological time periods)," O'Neill said.

After removal, the fragments will be cleaned, stabilized, classified, radiocarbon-dated and placed on display in the Museum of Natural History in Albuquerque

Artesia June 9, 1918 Copied from The Albuquerque Morning Journal

William Dooley and family have returned from a visit with family in Michigan.

August Strauss has gone to spend the summer with family in Ilinois

Joe Ford Jacobson has arrived from Tennessee, where he had been attending school and, will remain during his summer vacation.

Mrs James Scott of Queen is visiting the family of her father D T McMahon

Miss Mattie Hightower who is a teacher at Sumner is home to spend the summer with her parents.

Robert Means is in town on a visit with his brother Lewis Means, before his departure to Petersburg Va He is to join the veterinary Corps for army service.

J W Knour? an instructor in the state college moinerd? here for a short visit with relatives On his return he was accompanied by Mr and Mrs Brainerd.

Sam McMahon has gone to Kansas where he will spend the summer in the harvest fields.

Mrs W B Pistole and son Robert have gone to their summer home in Ruidso They were accompanied by Miss Goodnight a nurse, at the Artesia hospital.

Frank Burell has gone to Phoeniz Ariz.

George M Brinton Superintendent of Carlsbad schools, and a winner at the recent primaries for county superintendent of Schools was in town last week on his way to Las Vegas, where he will give instructions to pedagogy at the summer session of the state normal.

Ted Rowan and Marvin McIlroy two Artesia boys who have attended the military institute at Roswell last year have been notified to report at once to San Francisco where they will enter the reserve officers training camp at Presidio.Rowan has just turned 16, and McIlroy is but a little older, yet these boys were among the ninety-two who were successful, out of the 300 who took the examination for this promotion.

Miss Catherine Clarke invited her friends to a piano recital  at the Dr Clarke residence last Monday evening.

J M Pardue of Carlsbad has added a 16ft plank  sidewalk and new porch to his new store.

The young son Lee, of Mr And Mrs Adams of Carlsbad, died last Thursday of Scarlet fever, aged four years.

The wool scouring plant at Carlsbad shut down to await the arrival of new sacks for the scoured wool.

McLeanthen and Tracy have been appointed local agents  for the Maryland Casualty Company.

Mr J R Linn and family of Comnersville, Ind are expected at Carlsbad shortly to make the latter place their future home

Dr Bearup of Carlsbad, will leave that place in a few days for Socorro where he has been summoned for the grand jury.

Dr C H Wright  of Carlsbad was called to Miller Wednesday, to attend the 8 year old son of  W Carson who is ill with pneumonia.

The district court for Eddy County convenes on the 11 inst. and an interesting term is looked for. The trial of Cass for killing of Carpenter on Black River will be held at this term and from all indications will be a bitterly contested case. A large number of land cases are on the docket.

The following have been chosen for the grand jury by Jury Commissioners  F G  Tracy, A S Goetz, and S  T Bitting, E S Motter, B T Killough, J M Pardue, E H Gamble, H L Potter, W J Barber, John Byrns, W B Wilson, T J Fletcher, A S Harris, Peter Corn, Paul Kroeger, W T Bowman, H R Wilson, J T Cooper. The petit jurors are J H James, W W Galton, J F Matheson, J R Fuselman, J E Laverty, M J Murray, I S Osborne, M P Kerr, William Leck, T F Blackmore, L M Collier, J A Froman, R S Benson, Edward Scoggins, John Milfrod. WC Reif, John Romark, Henry Robb, J D Walker, R S Montgomery, V V Gleghorn, Frank Rheinboldt.

At the Carlsbad term of district court a jury acquitted W G Cass on a charge of murder.  He killed James H Carpenter last April. they had a quarrel in which Cass accused Carpenter of having instigated a contest upon a homestead claim of Cass. As Carpenter started to leave Cass shot him.

A party was given at the home of Mrs. T E Rogers on Friday afternoon, Mrs. Rogers and hr sister Mrs. Robert Finley being joint hostesses. The dining room, living and den were effectively decorated in American Beauty Roses. Thirty guests were in present and a afternoon was spent at bridge. Mrs. Holly Benson taking high score. At the close of the games a delicious two course luncheon was served.

At noon Saturday, troop B, New Mexico Calvary left for a hike and camp on the Pecos river at the six mile dam, south of town. On Saturday night  the boys arraigned a special campfire program with the cavalry string orchestra for music and visitors were invited from town to joint in the festivities. Visitors were also invited down for Sunday dinner.

The body of Flin Tuck, Eddy county boy who was killed at the battle of St. Mehiel France November 9, 1918, arrived in Carlsbad Wednesday of last week and his funeral is announced for today. This will be under the auspices of Bryan Mudgett Post American Legion and burial with full military honors. Sergeant F Flynn acted as military escort to the body from Fort Bliss.

Mrs. George Tracy and Mrs. George McClure, sister of the World War hero, Flinn Tuck, have arrived in Carlsbad from their homes in California and will remain through the funeral and burial of their brother.

Mrs. Francis G Tracy was hostess to the bridge club on Saturday afternoon at her home in LaHuerta Mint ice and cake were served after the close of the  games to the following club members and substitutes: Mesdames Brandon, Benson Bujac, Christian, Dilley, Dailey, Holt, Sikes, Hudgins, Joyce, McAdoo, Wright, John Merchant, Mary R Miller, S L Roberts, and Miss Howell.

Mrs. R N Ott, nee Miss Violet Gossett and young son accompanied by Mrs. H A Sutton, both of Dayton Ohio, are in Carlsbad for the summer, having leased the Milton Smith bungalow on Mermod Street .

Mrs. Leilaetta Hanson has accepted a position in the National bank of Carlsbad taking the place of Mrs. Robert Finely when she recently resigned.

Mrs. Lee Hanson was hostess to twenty six young children on Saturday afternoon honoring her little daughter Roberta Lee. She was assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Marvin Livingston and Mrs. J. S. Oliver.

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Dow arrived in Carlsbad Monday from Fort Worth, bringing with them the body of their little daughter, Isabel, for burial in the Carlsbad Cemetery. The little one died of pneumonia Saturday while Mrs. Dow was on a visit to her father in Fort Worth. The funeral occurred Tuesday morning at the Methodist Church. Rev. Douglas officiating.

Mrs. John Moore and her daughter Emily left Monday night for New Orleans, where she will board a steamer for Spanish Honduras, to join her husband their after an extended visit with her Mother, Mrs. A. C. Geer in Carlsbad.

A delightful social affair of the week was a bridge party given on Monday afternoon by Mrs. W. F. McIlvain at her home on Canal Street. Crystal baskets and vases of American Beauty roses decorated the attractive rooms of the bungalow, and a two course luncheon of chicken salad and pineapple ice was served. Thirty guests were invited and Mrs. McIlvain was assisted in entertaining by her daughter Miss. Helen McIlvain and her daughter Mrs. Henry Tipton of Otis.

Mrs. W.F. Glaiser entertained at bridge on Tuesday and Wednesday. Twelve guests present each day. The high scores made by Mrs. W. G. Donley, and Mts. Holly Benson-son.  Refreshments consisted of a salad course and an ice course. The guests on Tuesday were Mesdames Sam and Ann Lusk, Charles Montgomery and Harry McKim and W. E Carter. Gene Roberts, Thorold Eltier, W. G. Donley, George O'Connor, Lee Hansen, Joe N Livingston, Westfall and Miss Howell. On Wednesday the guest list included Mesdames E. P. Bujac, H.F. Benson, Lawrence McAddo,  Allen Hardy, Rom Holt, Marvin Livingston, C.C. Sikes, Mary R. Miller, W.S.Moore, Howard Moore, and H.M. Dilley.