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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1912
Page
3
Mixed classified items include sale offers for land and equipment, a buggy and horse, a delivery boy position after school, and a lost currency reward. Listings reference S A Dowdell, Walter Doyle, and Lloyd McCullar with locations and post office contact details.
Rental agents A. K. McGinde advertise houses and furnished rooms to rent in all city directions. Office located one door east of Exchang National Bank in Denton.
Local meat markets Sublett and Son and Frank Wilkerson advertise fresh and tender meats on West Elm Street and South Elm Street with old and new phone listings for customer contact.
The Lacy Blacksmith Shop on N Locust Street is highlighted as Old Reliable, specializing in horse shoeing and buggy work with a focus on traditional crafts and dependable service.
Roberts Barbet Shop on the West side invites readers to join a growing list of well pleased customers.
An autos firm lists contact numbers with old line 330 and new 48 for W W Bill. The brief entry notes a hiring or listing under AUTOS FC with updated contact details.
Moreman and Luster advertise the Red Barn offering good horses stylish bugges and many fees as the ad promises reliable service and phone contact for queries.
Local Arkansas firm promotes chops bran corn hay and other feedstuffs along with heater wood. Claims best stove and heater wood on the market with prompt delivery and full measure. Contact 8 Elm Street, two phones.
Votrinari na ca 4 B Botts veterinary surgeon located at Johnson Bros. Bau West Hickory 4. Office and residence phones listed old 486 new 298 blue. E Buyhor veterinary surgeon offers all kinds of work with prompt calls and office Red Barn 0th phones 35 Walter Lofton residence 6 Easy Sycamore Old phone 1 daw.
A Thomas M D advertises upstaIRS cures without knife or ligature for diseases of women. Special attention offered. New phone number listed.
A Bushey offers concrete sidewalks and brick work services. The note invites readers to collaborate on sidewalk and brick projects with consultation and planning.
Advertisement seeks assistance with all kinds of dray work and house goods moving. Contact Brownlow and Strickland at new number 134 or old number 45. Office located first year east Exchange National Bank.
Denton Transfer Co operated by G. W. Dalton in Craddock building on S. Elm St offers carriages and transfer wagons to meet all trains day and night. Calls available anywhere in the city. New phone 70.
An advertisement for a service called New Float Line-Anything offers various dravage needs. The ad provides a contact phone number 342 and identifies W. H. Parks as the proprietor.
We repair locks and sewing machines and make keys to fit any lock for Magill and Shepard.
Poultry hens for sale at 60 cents each from Mrs. V. C. Spong contact New phone 626. J A Minnerly on North Side offers fruits nuts cold drinks hamburgers and short orders. Scavenger work wanted call 307 or use phones v1. Messenger service quick call Brashears manager Hamilton Yeatts office. Use classified to sell items.
An Associated Press report from Dalhart notes trains have killed many cattle driven to shelter in railroad cuts by cold weather. Temperature rise is insufficient to melt the snow and relieve the herd losses.
Associated Press dispatch from Providence reports eighteen cotton mills in three states resumed full-time operations today after four months of reduced hours.
Beulah reports unsettled weather slowing farming but some fields being worked. Local residents include Miss Bessie Chambers returning from West Texas, Mrs. Wilingham and John Hey in Fort Worth, Mrs. Low and Wil lingham visiting Mrs. D Fortune, and a long list of visits and gatherings. Tom Breeland died in his yard December 29 and was buried December 28 at Prairie Mound cemetery.
Christmas and the old year pass as 1912 begins with hopes for better roads and schools in Denton County. Mentions include R L Dudley and Stinson Dudley, visits by Miss Lacy Clark and Aleen Nowlin, a Dallas operation recovery, and several local family updates. Births include three children born to local partners in December.
Rain swept through the week as crops face uncertain prospects next year. Visits span Frost to J G Hosins and Mrs Hardin’s Dallas trip. A new baby girl born December 25 to Mr and Mrs H E Barghart. George Parks ill three weeks. Families move to Grapevine and Carrollton. Delia Hagsart from Dallas shares Christmas at home. Little Evaline Grace returns from Dallas.
Waco officials report Mayor Mistrot intends to remove the new box from City Hall and to block an investigation into alleged cruelties connected with a recent robbery. Two detectives are accused of cruel treatment as part of coercive questioning.
W J Burns arrived to testify before the Federal grand jury in the bombing investigation. He expected to collect about 30 000 in rewards for arrests already made, aided by eight assistants as the probe neared its end.
Public schools resumed after Christmas holidays with unusually good attendance. Superintendent Carlisle notes 25 to 35 new students across three schools, mainly in lower grades, and two new entrants in the high school. Faculty changes include Miss Buster and Miss Norma Smith, with Ruby McKenney filling a departmental slot.
Dr J L Gammill of Ponder and F A Wright of Pilot Point visited on business. Many locals, including W H Curry from the county’s east, Guy Huffmeyer of Dallas, and Squire W W Baxter on trips. Teachers Miss Katie Bass and Miss Jennie McNeil returned to Lewisville and Gribble Springs to teach.
Readers are urged to try Diapepsin a 50 cent stomach aid claimed to digest heavy meals in five minutes and relieve heartburn gas belching and nausea It promises quick digestion and no need for laxatives and even suggests a five cent trial for a family
A. K. Smith, an Erie veteran, writes of years of indigestion constipation and liver trouble ending after using Dr. Kine's New Life Pills. He praises the treatment and urges others with stomach or kidney troubles to try the 25 cent remedy at J. F. Raley & Co.
Jan 2 report from Dr. H. R. Levy shows four serum treatments produced marked improvement in a meningitis case. Public schools closed today due to the epidemic as city health officials monitor the spread and advise precautions.
Mrs D K Allison gripped by grippe. Otis King family sick baby. Thermometer 28 above Tuesday. Dowdell family moved to Whitsboro. Mrs Mercer Henderson visiting Pilot Point. Arthur Jones ill with fever better today. Beuna Sowell returns from holidays and reopens kindergarten. Gotcher family in Chicago en route to Garza. Roads improving after hard freezes. Widow with six children seeks aid. contact City Health Officer Piner. B M of First Christian to meet Jan 2 at 3 with program to follow. Case of scarlet fever quarantined in J D Peel’s family from Aubrey. no outside exposure.
Workmen prepare the first room east of the bank in the Exchange Bank building for Wells Fargo Express uptown office. J. M. Wood, formerly of Longview, will oversee. The office opens Wednesday marking separation from the joint office with American Express. Agent Roberts will remain in charge of the American office.
The State of Texas cites unknown heirs of Emily M Harper and others in a Denton County district court land case No. 546v0 filed November 24, 1911. W. T. Turner sues for fee simple ownership of 240 acres in the Suzuki or related surveys, describing tract boundaries and dating deeds from 1899 to 1902. The notice requires appearance at the next term on February 19, 1912.
Plaintiff sues to quiet title to 336 acres claiming 200 acres were community property and the remaining 336 were separate property, but a fire destroyed the deed record. Defendants include C. C. Yeatts and minor children Chester Emm Yeatts and Mabel Yeatts. The court is asked to appoint guardian ad litem and issue judgment for title and possession with costs and relief.
The State of Texas requires the Sheriff to publish a summons to unknown heirs of William Loving and others as defendants in a Denton county district court case. The publication spans eight weeks to notify heirs of a petition filed February 24, 1912, in Docket No 5459, where W T Johnson and A D Miller sue the unnamed heirs for ownership in fee simple of all acres in question.
The suit concerns ownership and clouded title to land in Denton city limits with multiple former deeds referenced from 1857 to 1903. Plaintiffs seek quieting of title, removal of clouds, and partition of the property with one party claiming separate property status.
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