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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1910
Page
3
April 12 report from Hawkeye notes fine week weather with a recent heavy rain on Friday. D B Crouch and son J B attended the funeral of Mrs H F Lamm in Krum. E F Davis of Denton visited Friday. Farmers are planting corn and cotton as wheat and oats look well.
The stockholders of the Denton Woven Wire Fence Company will meet at the First National Bank at 4 o clock p m on April 18 to elect a book of directory and to transact other business as may come before the meeting. 212¢ W B McClarkan vice president.
Liverpool prices show small increases across spots while New York and regional markets hold steady or unchanged. Local market dullness contrasts with broiler demand, turkeys weaker, hogs softer with top figures noted. Fort Worth livestock reports supply and prices for beef steers, stockers, feeders, and hogs with modest shifts.
Market prices list for corn in car and shelled, cotton seed meal and hulls, corn chops, chicken feed, bran, shucks, and prairie hay. Includes wholesale and retail ranges with per ton, per 100 pounds, and per bushel figures.
A detailed price sheet lists wholesale and retail figures for groceries including Irish potatoes at 80c per bu wholesale and 25c per peck retail, cane seed 1.20 to 1.55 per bu, German millet seed 1.60 to 1.65 per bu, flour prices 3.05 to 3.30 per 100 lbs, corn meal 66 to 75c per 35 lb sack, lard 15c per lb wholesale with various can sizes, bacon 17c to 26c per lb, hams 16.5 to 18.75c per lb, and onions 3c wholesale 4c retail per lb.
Butter wholesale 10 to 30 cents per pound cash or trade. delivered to private homes, hotels, and boarding houses at 20 to 25 cents. Creamery butter 25 to 30 cents. Eggs wholesale 14 cents cash, 15 cents trade, retail 15 cents.
Prices listed for fowls and poultry items include turkeys at 10 to 13 cents per pound hens at 10 cents per pound broilers 1 to 1 1 2 pounds at 20 cents per pound fryers 12 1 2 to 15 cents bakers 10 to 12 1 2 cents old roosters 1 cent each guineas 1.50 per dozen ducks 3 dollars per dozen.
Livestock prices show hogs per pound gross light at 7 to 8 cents and heavies at 8 to 9 1-2 cents. Cows per pound range from 2 3-4 to 3 1-2 cents.
Radishes offered per dozen at four dollars past retail two, onions priced per dozen four dollars, lettuce per dozen four dollars with five cent retail per bunch. Greens sold by pound five cents with ten cents retail and twenty five cents for two pounds.
A fragmented message laments missing items and suggests the Record and Chronicle advertise in the fourth column to reclaim lost articles and regain direction.
Local item reports a Fort Worth presbytery committee planned to go to Sanger to discuss merging with the Denton presbytery. Denton favors the move, Fort Worth appears reluctant, and a key local pastor did not attend the Sanger meeting.
Readers learn that catarrh is curable through constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and claimed to destroy the disease's foundation by affecting blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any failed case and invite testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
NAVO April 11 reports rains stop field labor while cotton planting proceeds and corn makes a good stand. Wheat is booming with oats and alfalfa progressing well. Mr and Mrs B L Adams visit their uncle Dave Hutson.
Gall Keller's Grocery advertises cotton seed meal and other goods for sale, listing a variety of farm supply items and prices. The note appears in a sparse, abbreviated market listing with limited context.
At this season coughs are prevalent and Perry Davis Painkiller is offered as an effective remedy. The ad claims it is not a new nostrum but has stood the test of over seventy years and brings grateful recollections of its inventor to users, whether taken internally or applied externally.
An old classified item advertises cheap groceries with two phone numbers 312 new and 126 old attributed to H F Keller. The snippet is brief and lacks a clear location or date.
Bartonville reports on April 11 with George McMakin visiting. J. T. Simmons is ill. Mrs. Robert Keith improves after illness. Mr. McNeal and daughter Ida visited Landon McNeal. Charlie Garrison and family from Aubrey visited W. B. Garrison.
A Denton resident R R Turner of W Oak St testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills cured his kidney trouble and backache with lasting relief since 1905. The note also contains a 1910 city election petition excerpt about street improvements and assessments in Denton.
Delegates to the Sherman Presbytery meeting in Denton are hosted by citizens at various homes. opening sermon by retiring moderator S L Rieves of McKinney precedes formal organization. Several out of town delegates, including Rev T W Wharton and John S Kerr, are listed with hosting locations. An election order by Mayor Ed F Bates sets May 7, 1946, for a local vote on Chapter 14 regarding street improvement powers for cities.
The Record and Chronicle note expanding classified sections as results arrive. Readers urged to test and verify the growing listings through upcoming notices and ads in the paper.
Let the Record and Chronicle supply your magazine needs with any club or combination you desire at the lowest obtainable prices.
The State of Texas Den county sheriff sale notices issued March 5 1910 under an execution from Ellis County Justice Court No 1. The sale takes place Tuesday May 3 1910 at the Denton County Court House. Two tracts described: 48 acres in Denton County on Denton creek as part of a 320 acre Josiah Phillips survey and the south half of a 50 acre O W Harris survey.
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