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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1910
Page
1
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NEW ORLEAN La Dec 1 Tonight fair and rising temperatures. Friday forecast calls for fair weather and warmer conditions. No significant precipitation expected as the weekend approaches.
Fire in Fort Worth destroyed the 1890 Fort Worth High School, with losses to the building and books estimated at about 100000. The blaze started in the furnace room and a water main rupture hindered firefighting, delaying rescue efforts. Students will be reassigned to other schools as a new high school is planned for next year.
Mrs. Mary Tracy of Denver arrives to contest John Collins’s will, a Fort Worth wholesale grocer who died leaving about 350000 mainly to institutions including 50000 to Yale. It is alleged ten thousand dollars went to the attorney who drafted the instrument. Tracy, a cousin, is not named in the will.
The bank promotes its business identity as a community lender serving business and people under sound banking principles. It invites calls and boasts many satisfied customers as proof of reliable service.
Denton Chamber of Commerce directors discussed extending the street car line to the College of Industrial Arts. President Bizzell urged city support and a committee was named to confer with the Street Car Company on what is needed. Enrollment reached 278 as growth prompts requests for legislative appropriations and a possible private school.
Settlement of John V. Farwell estate is delayed by litigation involving the Capital Syndicate of Texas. Mrs. J. Babcock, wife of a syndicate member, won a suit against Farwell, but the executors plan to appeal, arguing the syndicate owes the estate. Farwell and associates built the Capitol in Austin in exchange for Panhandle land at $1 per acre.
In Sherman district court a jury awarded Mrs. Nora Johnson eleven thousand dollars for the death of her husband at Woodlake on April 13, holding the Texas Traction company liable for the fatal incident.
Reports from Alpine and Terlingua Creek state 200 armed revolutionists are at the old smelter and 1,500 guards protecting the Chisos mines. Sheriff Walton and Bosse dispatched to the area as excitement runs high near the Texas border. A separate fire at the Fair store caused minor damage to boxes and a porch, with a dollar or two loss. authorities contained it quickly.
J J Cope land a Henderson Tenn telegraph operator was found unconscious in a Denison hotel after a fast of twenty one days to cure a stomach ailment. He arrived three weeks ago and has had no nourishment since. His condition is serious.
In Dallas on December 2, only twenty one men qualified as jurors for the case of Freq Fleming charged with receiving deposits while Western Bank and Trust was failing. More talesmen will be summoned as thirty two must qualify to allow each side ten peremptory challenges.
State Treasurer Parks today issued his quarterly report showing a total balance of all funds at 1060,000. General revenue credit stands around 451,000, versus 1,344,000 last year, a decline near one million dollars attributed by Sparks to a lower ad valorem tax rate.
Dock Killingsworth, a formerly prominent Denton barber who was converted at Muskogee Oklahoma, was released on parole after serving four years and seven months for the killing of his wife and another woman. He arrived Thursday night from Ravenworth Kansas Federal prison and plans to reside in Denton thereafter.
In Marsal Alexander of Pilot Point authorities arrested Rube Lugrand, a 200 pound Black man, on Thursday and turned him over to the Sheriff's office. Lugrand is charged with aggravated assault on a white man, striking him with a public safety item, carrying a public safety item and drunkenness. The assaulted man is W. A. Robinson of the Fields ranch east of Pilot Point.
On December 2 in San Antonio the Texan Federation of Women's Clubs endorsed Dr. Malone Duggan's recommendations from the Texas Association of Social Hygiene. The resolution favors censorship of moving pictures in theaters and in schools encourages individual thinking cups, and condemns marriages involving imbeciles. The federation adjourned today.
Governor elect Colquitt arrived in Dallas for a two day stay and is housed at the Oriental hotel where crowds of applicants throng. He is expected to name appointees to key state offices on the following day. He is reticent today.
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