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Newspaper
Jefferson Jimplecute
Location
Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
12
Jefferson reports 2015 bales weighed by Public Weigher John D. Aiken with prices quoted today. Public notice urges voters to pay poll tax for next year. Local ads promote Lathrops and Grays market lard and piano tuning deals. Rev T B Anderson and wife reside in the Methodist parsonage. Holiday ads from J F Crow Drug Co showcase Christmas merchandise. Postal date d23.
The ad touts a complete holiday stock of fruits and dried fruits including Bananas Oranges Grapes Apples Lemons Cranberries Dates Smyrna figs and more. Also provides Gelatines Jello Jelly Sugar fresh cakes crackers cheeses pickles sauces dressings and a full line of coffee tea canned goods and fresh candy.
A funeral notice from December 2, 1905, records the death of Mrs. M A Fitzgerald at her family residence after months of illness. The service at New Prospect cemetery included Rev J D Stringer delivering a brief sermon. the widow and children mourned, with references to Christian faith and the promises of the Father.
Letter to Superintendent Thomas Kennedy discusses paint values and false measures from Devoe and Co. alongside a jurors notice for Marion County Texas reporting grand and petit jurors convening January 2 1906. The notice cites Judge P A Turner and Clerk L B Wesstee. Christmas sale ads and local notes on residents and events follow in the same column.
Gen Dick Taylor Camp U C V No 1265 and G W L Dawson Com Geo T Topp Adjt Gen announce a regular meeting next Sunday at 3 PM at the court house. Also note a Christmas gift stock sale by Rosenfeld Co with practical goods suggested. A leather bill book containing notes mortgage and papers is missing and a reward is offered for its return. W H Bramnerr Jr requests not to trade for the items.
Sixty to seventy words warn of Christmas rush and low prices at P. E Springer with crowded gift goods. Report notes a Tuesday night depot ticket room robbery at T and P, and Wednesday arrest of Bennie Wright, colored cab driver, bonded at 200. Mention of White Cat underwear and Black Cat stockings offered by Wm. Crark.
Notice of trustee sale of the estate of M. T. Glass bankrupt by order of the US District Court at Jefferson. Land parcels include 90 acres William Edminson Survey, 99.5 acres Elijah Young Survey, and 793 acres Jackson Grayson Survey in Marion County about 11 miles east of Jefferson. Properties to be sold separately to the highest cash bidder on first Tuesday in January 1906, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. by trustee J. H. Benefield. Boarding offered at residence of Mrs D WunrenauenH.
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