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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1909
Page
4
Denton store advertises Monday specials urging mothers and shoppers to anticipate spring values. It promotes light colored figured waistings and select plaid and check waistings in medium dark colors suitable for street wear or dresses.
A Tuesday price list shows Erie shop offering a range of goods priced from 9c to 39c for a Monday sale. The items include 10 1-2c 12 1-2c and 18c 21c 24c 32c plus 39c.
The board invites bids for the erection of a new school building with plans already accepted weeks ago. Submissions close at 4 o clock on February 24. Separate bids required for steam heating plant, plumbing, and electric lighting installations.
Dr W H Hawley of Pilot Point visited on business. Assistant County Attorney H R Wilson was in Lewisville Friday. Miss Pearl Stratton teaching at Willow Springs visited relatives. Misses Emma and Maggie Robinson left for Fort Worth for the Endeavor convention. J C Boston who left Denton county eleven years ago for Oklahoma then West Texas has returned and is seeking a farm.
Frontier Asthma Company offers a home trial treatment and full information free of charge. Agent invites interested individuals to contact Room 702, Buffalo, New York for access to trial materials and guidance.
Mrs Ella Reid Clark died recently in Winchester Tennessee where she had taught for years at the normal college. A former Denton resident she was reared by Mrs J S Chapman and her late husband. She attended public schools here and later went to Tennessee for college and marriage.
Minnis Drug Store offers nickel plated guaranteed alarm clocks for one dollar. Crain Grocery Company promotes Reed's Butter Scotch. Dencon feed claims best stock feed with discounts, 100 pound sacks from Denton Oil Mill. Birth announced of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Joe Bayes on Saturday morning.
A local church notice lists Cumberland Presbyterian Sunday school at 9 45 a m in the courthouse, First Christian with minister Otis Hawkins and services Sunday including Bible school at 9 45, morning sermon at 11, and evening at 7 30. Other churches noted are Bolivar Street Presbyterian, Oak Street M E, Pearl Street Church of Christ, First Presbyterian, and Westminster League events with service times and activities.
Tomorrow at 21 o'clock Rev J B Tidwell president of Decatur Baptist college will preach at the First Baptist Church. At night Rev M T Andrews of Waco will occupy the pulpit. Both services aim to support Christian education and invite the public to attend.
J. Richardson suffers a severe palm wound from a bagged pipe piece. Erysipelas has set in as a complication. He is hospitalized and receiving medical treatment.
A brief readable fragment mentions Lyons Ste and a grocery context amid unclear OCR. The text references a segregation topic and a location tied to a grocery, with minimal further readable detail.
A local ad promotes hoes priced from 35 to 75 cents and rakes 35 to 65 cents. It lists spades shovels and garden plows along with poultry wire in stock and offers prompt delivery by phone.
The January term of the county court ended Saturday afternoon after three weeks. Criminal docket dominated the first week with many pleas of guilty and civil cases largely disposed of by trial or compromise. District court begins February 22.
Valentines at Minnis Drug Store report higher prices with increased costs for customers. This brief notes a general price uptick affecting shoppers seeking valentines this season.
Drake, a Black resident of Pilot Point, paid the sheriff 121.90 for fines and costs after a conviction for refusing to work the streets. The case went from Pilot Point to county court then to the Court of Criminal Appeals, where the county court ruling was upheld. He served three months in jail for refusing to pay the 1 street tax assessment.
The Woman's Shakespeare club met February 4 with Miss Minnis leading a roll call. members recited current events. Mrs. Adkisson presented a paper on Shakespearean theater, Mrs. Haustein spoke on clowns, and Miss Bell summarized the Roman Catholic Church's status. Next meeting with Mrs. Wolfsohn on February 11.
Dallas lawyer Morris D. Gano will speak at the Pearl Street Church of Christ on Monday February 8 at 7 15 p m. His topic Verbal Inspiration argues the Bible words are inspired. Local ministers praise the forthcoming lecture and urge lawyers to attend.
The ad promotes the store as the largest cigar seller in town with better quality cigars for the same price. It claims 5c smokers now demand higher quality, with brands like Abaco Littleton University Club Minnehaha and Bonanza driving strong sales and invites customers to visit.
Minnis Drug Store advertises baseball supplies for sale. Also offers baled shuce valued at four dollars per ton or per bale with equal food value to prairie hay. Alliance Milling Co promotes big reductions and Crain's highlights French sardines on sale.
J. N. Rayzor bought the Denton ice plant from G. H. Blewett for about 20000 dollars. He plans to move the factory soon possibly to Commerce Farmersville or Wolfe City, as none of those towns then had an ice plant. Blewett meanwhile received a block of four brick business houses in Nevada Collin County in the sale.
Baled shucks priced around four dollars a ton equal in food value to prairie hay. Alliance Milling Company mentions 153tte in the context of this brief notice.
At Wrights Opera House a one night only engagement presents Uncle Josh Perkins a rural comedy drama praised for its love theme and up to date training. The cast consists of well known experienced actors and the production features elaborate staging and scenery.
The evergreen laugh provokes with McCabe and Mack and the strongest cast it ever had at Wrights opera house. The Irish Senator now in its second season of success with a high class vaudeville air features James McCabe and Andy Mack among many entertaining performers. Date February 12.
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