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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1906
Page
3
Jefferson listings show 6119 bales of cotton weighed by L. C. Pruitt, plus shop offers from Corti and Eugene Meyer. W. O. W. election results, church notices, property sales, and local trades feature bri ck, coffins, china ware, wine, heaters, and a phaeton buggy for sale.
Notice states the U B A will meet Saturday night December 15 at 7 30 with officers to be elected for the ensuing year and other business to transact all members urged to attend Davis Biggs president L B Todd secretary includes Christmas goods promotion and stock invitation. also notes a wedding of Charlie Kistenmacher and Miss Genevieve Murrier at the bride’s parents in Sulphur Springs on the 5th with best wishes from old home friends. seeks return of a white liver spotted pointer puppy left weeks ago with rewards. church notes services omitted on the 16th and resumed on the 23rd. Rosenreitp Co and Mrs G W Stephens mentioned as visitors from Leadville Co and staying with Eloise Thomas.
A 1906 Washington letter from Morris Sheppard donates 25 dollars to the Jefferson Texas Oakwood cemetery Confederate monument project via Rogers National Bank. The piece notes a forthcoming meeting of Gen. Dick Taylor Camp at the courthouse and lists a Christmas goods catalog style section.
Grange Hall hosts a pupil play by Miss Inez Wurts Friday night with admission five cents for adults and twenty five cents for children. Local businesses advertise shoes hardware Christmas goods and a cure for piles. Notices include rentals, real estate, farm animals, and a lost tooth plate near the depot.
Afr John Bemis sells a large timber tract west of town toward Kellyville for 60000 dollars with 5000 down and the balance as timber is cut. Wurtzbargh, a seasoned millman who runs Little Cypress Linb Co.'s mill four miles southeast, will move his mill to the new tract in about four months and ship lumber via the M. K. T. road.
Strayed from my lot on the night of December 12 a black 15 hand horse lame in hind leg a brown 5 year old mare 154 hands a speckled gray 144 hands sore back a dark bay mare blaze 2 or 3 white feet extra fat and 14 hands high finder to notify and be rewarded J M Vines also a note urging readers to dispose of street papers properly to keep streets clean and neat.
Walter Frances shot and killed Dick Turner the bartender at the M K & T saloon on Lafayette street on Wednesday afternoon. Turner died soon after. Frances was arrested and to await a Friday preliminary trial. Turner was brother in law to the saloon's proprietor Mr Newell. Bodies were taken to Gilmer for burial. Frances later posted bond of 85000 pending grand jury action.
Frank J. Cheney swears he is senior foe of F. J. Cheney & Co in Cario Toledo area and offers one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The note cites the product as acting on blood and mucous surfaces and invites testimonials.
Sunday services at 11 am and 7 15 pm will be led by Rev A A Wagnon. All invited to attend and hear him as the new pastor joins the congregation. Also noted are advertised textiles and a note on the death of Hon R R Lockett in Texarkana. Four female Scotch Collie pups available for delivery January 12th from J D Wixson Shreveport and Alexandria. A cold remedy is advertised with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets by E W Grove.
A farmer W R Davis shares spoils of a 250 pound hog with neighbors in a social feast. Advertisements promote ready to wear hats skirts waists and cloaks by P Elpripee. W A Douglass mill man dies at home near Ayinger on December 6 after illness. L O Tribble and son return from Glen Lumber Co mill and plan building work. M Bower offers pretty bugs and matting.
A call for a class of industrious and economical workers is issued, promising abundant employment opportunities at fair wages. The appeal emphasizes dependable labor and reasonable pay.
Mrs Rosinthal of Turner Michigan says Chamberlain's Cough Medicine has long served her family and children and she highly recommends it as the only remedy for croup. For sale by all druggists. Also an ad for Lathrop Liverman offering pork steak sausage and roasts.
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