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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1912
Page
4
Feb 6 Roanoke report notes W. W. Prewatt in Fort Worth. Mrs. Forest Pruit and children of Foteau Oklahoma return home after visiting her mother. J. C. Melton and family relocate to Carlsbad. Monday observed as clean-up day in Roanoke.
With days left to obtain service in the Sixteenth District court, new filings appeared Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Plaintiffs include Jamesy Watson and others seeking partition and title actions, while several debt and foreclosure cases arise among listed defendants.
County Clerk Oscar Button remitted 987.20 to the County Treasury as excess fees for the year ending last December. The report details receipts from daily, civil, probate and lunacy fees totaling 6497.23, with large disbursements for deputies and the clerk. Gross office business nears 7000, including uncollected civil, probate and lunacy fees.
At Minnis' drug store prescription work is made a specialty. Get your seed Irish potatoes now and save money. You get the best herte-Ma''ne Triumph. TURNER BROS. Phones 7.
Former Denton citizen J W Long died of heart failure at Hillsburg on Tuesday afternoon aged 35 years 8 months and 6 days. His wife Miss Georgia Farrs, daughter of Mrs W N Farrs living northeast of Denton, survives. The body was brought to Denton for burial after services at the First Baptist Church at 3 p.m.
Lewisville reports visits and moves among residents including A E Graham in Denton and M Wood moving to Denton. Miss Blanche Degan of Fort Worth visits, Eunice Minnis stays with her sister in Ardmore, and Mrs Frank Keesee is ill. A funeral for Mrs Pulliam is noted along with various social visits and a pneumonia scare. An advertisement promotes King’s New Discovery for colds and lung troubles with testimonials.
Mrs. Oscar Hall of Paducah visits her parents Mr and Mrs Underwood. W W Baxter suffers lagrippe and threatened pneumonia. L T Fowlkes confined to bed. Bill of lading received for new street lights of tungsten pattern. W B McClurkan and Mesdames Sledge and Adams leave for spring markets. W Mass of Southwestern Telephone in Denton for first time in twenty years. Maas comments on city progress since last visit.
Local ladies plan a Saturday meeting to form a Ladies Aid society. DS Donald entertained the young folks Friday with fruit served. Mrs A A Bast visiting her sister at Haslett. Miss Nannie Wilson of Krum called on Miss Bessie Barnett.
A group of young guests enjoyed a Tuesday night dance at L H Schneer residence for Mamie Keith of Waco visiting Mrs Herbert Walden. Music by H F Schweer L H Schweer and Christie Wolfer, with a buffet lunch of sandwiches olives and punch. Chaperoned dance and chafing dish lunch at Cuff Cairn Club Lake led by Clifford Witherspoon. Also features a medical ad for electric Bitters highlighting kidney and bladder benefits.
W L Jones listed as a candidate for Akerman from Word 3. Denton resident endorsed by friends as a good worker for the office. An anecdotal note mentions a medical claim about Drning's New Life Pills curing indigestion. Available at J F Raley and Co.
A woman who placed a brief ad in the Record and Chronce for a cook attracted six responses after removing the ad once she secured the needed help. The short notice proved effective in filling the position.
Bright hay advertised at 35 cents per bale with a general sale notice. Classified section invites readers to list items for sale.
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