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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1913
Page
3
Stanfield Lodge No 217 A F and A M holds its regular meeting tonight with W M P Lipscomb and Secretary Evers listed as officers initials indicate a local Masonic gathering in the period style.
Advertising note offers a 16 room house near the Normal campus for sale or rent. Contact Rh J Wilson for details.
For sale two hundred to three hundred dollars worth of good vendor lien notes. Inquire at this office for details and arrangements.
Short classified note offers a new room bungalow for sale with a large 100 by 300 foot lot. Includes incomplete address directions and box number 306 for inquiries.
For sale a six year old gentle buggy horse described as solid bay. Buyer contact C W Henson at 19 Center St Sp.
Three room house on East Oak Street and a four room house on Botivar Street offered for sale. Small down payment, then monthly installments. Contact George Fritz care P C Implement Co Dallas Texas.
Auction or sale notice offering a fine Jersey cow yielding 3.5 gallons daily a saddle pony multiple horses second hand buggies and wagons inquire at Will Lochmann's wagon yard East McKinney Street reading as a local classifieds style advertisement showing livestock and equipment for sale.
Short classifieds list multiple sale items including rigs milk house mare and foal two year old filly and a bay mare with contact names Woodson Harris A D Turner W J Simmons M B Whitiekok with locations Hickory street Long King Waylor Hardware Co Lone Star Marble Yard and Kostie indicating medium size rural business notices
A fragmented OCR item notes a complete butcher setup linked to a shop at 41 Avenue and an old phone number 586. Ang2zic appears as stray text. No clear event context or date available.
Property listing for 20 acres with improvements located a half mile north of town. Includes up-sell options, business house, and slots to sell. Contact phone 183 or visit Multon for details.
Classified note seeks a three or four room house for rent. Inquiries directed to the office for contact and details.
Wanted to buy roll top desk. Contact J. P. McGee at First Guaranty Bank by phone or in person to arrange purchase.
Application notice indicates Mrs Frank Mahan at 200 W Sycamore St Denton Texas is applying under a warted A cook German preference. The fragment provides a name and address with unclear term usage and miscellaneous code a08ifow.
A brief notice seeks a competent hand for Springside Jersey Farm Wilt Parks as manager. The ad requests experience in farm operations and leadership to oversee daily duties at Springside.
The notice from Skiles Transfer Co states that cab and transfer fares will be on a cash basis after this date and requests collection and payment to the driver.
An advertisement notes household goods at reasonable prices from John B. Schmitz featuring furniture and gas stoves. The listing emphasizes fair gates and items available for purchase.
Wreight Transfer Co advertises service from Kincaid wagon yard West Oak street offering furniture moving with careful attention in the dry season. Call for arrangements and rates.
Local dairy notice lists buying selling and exchanging milk cows. Includes a registered Jersey bull and references McK LY and CAR BAUGE McKinney Wagonyard. Amount £63 cited.
Local listing shows Frank Wilkerson operates a fresh meats shop at 212 Maw Phone Avenue offering ender meats and daily selections. Neighborhood patrons are invited to visit for quality cuts.
A brief notice noting the loss of milk and cream from Porwood and Hodges. The shipment amounted to 426 units with contact via old phone 897.
While notes mention mhops corn hay and ikar feedstuffe, the fragment indicates Arkansas Mill on S M Street seeks prompt delivery of feed materials and fair measures for stoves and heaters.
Henry Ealtreuther of East McKinney Street practiced wand work blacksmithing and horseshoes with rubber-tiring and sanjaking noted.
Local listing advertises furnished rooms for rent across multiple areas including North South Basland West Denton Texas with contact window at office over Wilson Hane's old phone 861.
Public notice from Will Locknane advertising two Jersey bulls for sale at 150 dollars cash season price and a new phone for 50 dollars. Also listing a house and lot for sale on Lula street. Located at the wagon yard second yard from the square on East McKinney street.
The notice advertises W S Botts as a graduate veterinarian with a practice at Jancock and Jon Dhlackemith shop, 8 Elm Street, Lipscomb block. It lists new contact numbers 269 residence, old 48 and new 183, indicating updated phone details.
W W Billingeley offers autos for hire with an old telephone number and a new price of 30 dollars for service. Repairs to automobiles are also available under the same listing.
Dr. A. B. M.D. specialized in diseases of eye ear nose throat. Office listed over Rasey Co. with location noted. Potentially a medical advertisement or directory entry from the period.
The notice lists residents and businesses in Denton with upstairs offices and locations on Long and King streets. Names include Chas Bouders, W A Jones, W N Rowell, J W Spralin with office sites described as over McCray's and on the south side square in Denton.
A terse fragment notes someone seeks scavenging work and mentions a number 307 in unclear context. The readable text provides no names or locations.
8. A. Bushey advertises high grade brick work and general brick masonry services offering estimates after contact.
The Record and Chronicle urges readers to rush for the New Modern English Illustrated Dictionary before the 12 o clock deadline. Coupons must be presented or mailed before closing. after tonight the book sells at stores for four dollars.
Mary Marugg, daughter of F Ma Rugs, living north of town on Cooper Creek, was thrown from a horse at home Friday afternoon and her arm was broken with both bones at the wrist.
Six people were killed when a Santa Fe passenger train struck an automobile at a crossing in Carrollton Missouri on August 16.
Saturday filings with the County Clerk outline a 4462.43 acre estate of the late Leck S. Forester Sr. and details of a nuncupative will dividing lands among his children. Deeds from Ada Forester and M L Martin convey 1740 acres to E W Forester for partition.
Herring Glidwell, 19, son of S. B. Glidwell, was adjudged insane Saturday before County Judge S. H. Hoskins. Testimony showed periods of sanity and violent spells. he will be sent to Terrell for confinement.
New suit filed Saturday by G. W. Martin against John Hopkins Clara Hopkins and Tillie Hopkins seeks to try title and damages. A separate County Court filing Friday lists Kirkland & Son versus J. S Derr for realty commission amounting to 500 dollars.
T. L. Dorris of Lewisville said the town received its first bale of 1913 cotton on Thursday and a second bale on Friday while nearby Denton had no new crop cotton. The first bale was marketed by John Brown.
In Brownwood on August 16 Clarence E. Cohen shot his sweetheart Daisy Clingman after she refused marriage, then wounded her before killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot.
Advertisement urges readers to use Ballard's Snow Liniment for stiff necks and back pain from drafts. Claims it is the best pain reliever, selling at 25c, 50c, and $1.00 per bottle, via R.H. Garrison.
McAlester Oklahoma acting governor pardoned convicts during Crince absence. The men were freed yesterday on habeas corpus writs.
A wet cotton cloth with BAL LARD'S SNOW LINIMENT is touted for wounds cuts burns sores and blisters with claims of prompt powerful healing. Advertises bottles at 25 50 and 75 cents sold by R H Garrison.
Miss Bluford Sanders, 24, and Paul Miller, 27, members of an outing party, drowned in the Deep Fiddy on the Colorado river near Austin on August 16.
A local ad invites customers to let the store handle groceries with full service. It directs readers to call on two phone lines, 4&4 Long and King, for assistance.
Mrs Eula Mae Reid of Hines Alabama endorses Cardus the women’s tonic saying it cured her fatigue and digestion, helped her gain weight, and stopped coughing and spitting. The ad claims thousands of letters prove Cardus relieves common female ailments and urges readers to consult a Chattanooga advisory department for treatment and a 64 page booklet.
Auction rumor describes an 8 acre tract with about 600 peach trees and assorted plums and dewberries in good condition. A four room house with full finish, cistern and well, and a front and back porch.
Owner announces sale of a property in Denton after ten years of income between 600 and 800 dollars yearly. The seller, claiming age and inability to work, will handle the sale personally. Potential buyers urged to contact the owner directly.
H. W. Sanders notes at First Presbyterian Church Sunday school begins 9 45 a m Westminster League 6 30 p m Cumberland Presbyterian Church Sunday school 9 45 a m W W Baxter superintendent prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 p m
Central Presbyterian Church lists Bible school at 9 45 with Supt Criddie Junior Endeavor at 4 p m Christian Endeavor at 6 30 p m Wednesday prayer at 8 15 p m Church of Christ at Pearl and Bolivar 40100 to 41 00 m Bible classes 9 00 to 11 00 m preaching 11 00 m and 7 45 p m by C BE Wooldridge First Baptist Church Sunday school 9 30 a m J H Legett superintendent Sunbeams 3 30 p m Junior B Y P U 5 p m Senior B Y P U 6 45 45
The First Methodist Church hosts two evening services on the lawn with Rev E Taylor Bates preaching at 11 a m and Rev T Cooper at 8 15 p m on the theme Victories of the Kingdom The union service involves First Central Presbyterian First Christian and First Methodist churches with the Young People’s Federated Union leading the 7 45 p m youth service Everyone is invited and Sunday school starts at 9 45 a m with M L Williams as superintendent
The First Christian Church led by Pastor A. D. Rogers lists Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. with Prof. P. E. McDonald as superintendent. Junior, Intermediate, and Senior C. E. groups meet at 4 p.m., 7 p.m., and 6:30 p.m. respectively, with specified supervisors. Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 8:45 p.m. The Seniors will join other youth at the Methodist lawn. Susan Gobb leads. S. W. Sutton, state S.S. superintendent, preaches at 11 a.m. No night preaching due to union services at the Methodist Church.
Advert reads that Texas Wonder treats kidney and bladder issues, dissolves gravel, helps diabetes and back pain, regulates children's bladder problems, with a two month supply per bottle. Dr. E W Hall of St. Louis offers mail order and local druggist sales, testimonials requested.
Fresh vegetables arrive at Pas challs with a phone contact 8&6. A wide range of scent packages and 10 cent snacks listed, including Select City Soda’s Ginger Watere and Nut Creams Yum Yums, plus 15 cent Cheese Sticks and Tulip Ginger Snaps at T. C. Sample's phone 342.
If you have poultry for care phone me and I will come for them any reasonable distance. G W Elbert.
Denton daily notes list numerous visits and travels by residents. Fred Bottorff and others travel to Aubrey Dallas Fort Worth Whitesboro and Houston area for business and family visits. Local figures including Misses Skiles Shepard Fox and balancing names record travels to Plano Lewisville Nocona and Cleburne.
An old advertisement touts HERB INE as a chill medicine to prevent or cure malaria. It claims to expel impurities that support the malaria germ, strengthen the liver and cleanse the bowels. The ad notes the price and that it is sold by R. H. Garrison.
Long & King advertise phones 44 as a memory aid and promise satisfactory service and groceries. They urge customers to call and see how well they can please you.
A letter received Saturday morning from J C Coit of the First Presbyterian Church announces Rev J N MacFarlane of Mineral Wells has accepted the church call. He hopes to join by September if no obstacles arise, ending a year without a pastor since Rev Fred L McFadden’s resignation.
A Louisville Post report states a Kentucky editor wrote Dr Spriggs about nightly sleep under blankets at Nature Bridge. An investigation revealed the blankets were stored on the building's third floor.
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