Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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1965: A Friona man was treated at Clovis Memorial Hospital after he was attacked by an unknown assailant.
Investigators reported George Wayne Terry and a female companion walked into the woman’s home and he was hit in the mouth and over the head.
Several stitches were required to close a facial wound, the Clovis News-Journal reported.
1955: A Clovis man was fined $15.50 and convicted of using abusive language by Justice of the Peace V.G. Sullivan. The man, who was not identified by the Clovis News-Journal, was alleged to have called a woman a “hussy” as he attempted to collect money he said was owed him.
1922: R.W. Moore’s blacksmith shop in Portales had been broken into, with about $100 worth of plowshares and blacksmithing equipment stolen.
The property had been located in Clovis, where another blacksmith purchased it for $70. Moore gave the Clovis blacksmith $20, “splitting the loss” and recovered the stolen goods, the Portales Valley News reported.
A man formerly employed by Moore was arrested in Albuquerque and charged with the crime, the newspaper reported.
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1926: Molly Goodnight, the wife of Texas Panhandle Rancher Charles Goodnight and, at one time, the only woman on the vast JA Ranch established by Goodnight and John Adair, died at age 87.
The Texas State Historical Association’s website reports her headstone reads: “One who spent her whole life in the service of others.”
Among her accomplishments, she was known for protecting baby buffalo left to die “after commercial hunters ravaged the Plains,” TSHA reported.
“Through rescuing and raising orphaned buffaloes, Mrs. Goodnight helped establish the Goodnight buffalo herd, which became well known throughout the world.”
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