Image 1 of The Roswell daily record (Roswell, N.M.), October 28, 1907
author: Anonymous
source date: 1907
availability: public_domain

J motel ID AIM KlME VOLUME 5 ROSWELL NEW MEXICO MONDAY EVENING OCTOBER 28 1907 NUMBER 205 r DEXTER HAD A BIG PICNIC CELEBRATED THE COMPLETION OF ITS NEW BRIDGE AT BARBECUE SATURDAY PROPITIOUS WEATHER Big Crowd Assembled to Enjoy the Fine Weather Companionship and Big Dinner Speeches Races and a Ball Game Were the Features of En tertainnvent The town of Dexter and the people living in that vicinity celebrated the completion of their new bridge over the Pecos river Saturday with a bar becue picnic The weather was ideal the people iiappy and every condition joined in the conspiracy to make the day the great success that it turned out to be The celebration was held in the Ca zier grove just northwest of the town Long before noon a crowd of about four hundred people assembled there to join in the festivities An amphi theatre of seats had been built in front of a movable platform and a large part of the crowd sought plac es there while the cooks and their as sistants busied themselves about the long rows of tables that were con structed for the occasion The Dexter band gave a splendid concert following