Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities

March 5, 1928

A Nara Visa bank robbery suspect was being held in the Curry County Jail. He said he won the $1,400 in cash police found in his socks while gambling in Oklahoma. … Slaughter Murray, owner of a Clovis confectionery, inadvertently sent pupils at Eugene Field School scurrying from their classrooms. He was looking for the school principal and rang a bell in hopes of attracting attention – which he did, having sounded the fire alarm. … City Bakery was offering bread “like grandma used to bake.”