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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1913
Page
3
W. F. Jarrell, Commander, and P. G. Beyett, Recorder are listed as officers for the upcoming lodge gathering. The notice names these individuals in the official slate and invites members to attend.
Lost fourth of July baby cap white linen hand embroidered crocheted edges. Reward for return to this office. 283¢.
Classified notice offering furnished rooms for rent at 38 dollars with a new phone. Also lists an exchange request for two furnished rooms in exchange for painting work. Contact Mrs. P at 18 East Oak Street and 39 East Mulberry.
Classified notice offers a ten room house for lease or rent near the campus. Former Ellis lodge suite available, contact P. O. Box 26 or apply at the office.
Used steel hay implements including self feeder sulky rake Buck rake and five foot rake offered for sale or trade. All in good condition. Write J P Magee in Denton Texas for details.
Local auction notice lists two houses on a lot with associated car and contact at Berry Awe. Details are incomplete in readable text.
Advertisement shows prepaid canned blackberries at 225 dollars per case of 24 No 2 cans. Offered by F M Morris Ambrey Texas with a Denton county rail station pickup note.
For sale a good Milch Cow capable of producing four gallons a day. Contact T A Robinson. 284c.
Classified ad offers 25 head of young graded cows and heifers for sale plus a 26 acre parcel with improvements half a mile north of town. Also houses and lots to sell. Contact J H Gray in Krum at 183 or L Fulfon by phone.
Classified notice offers sale items listed as soqw and three pigs plus eight shorts by Y M Turpin with contact phone 462.
Classified note offering a Jersey milk cow for sale located at 72 South Elm Ner ophone appears in broken text with contact partial 264 green details.
Five room home listing offers a £00M price and a $840 settlement due at signing. Down payment described as xpmall, with the balance due as rent. See Dr. W A Jones for details. Local notice implies purchase terms and financing options.
Miscellaneous classified items show an office request for a man to report after six and a job posting seeking a boy over 48 with neat appearance for work. Ads appear in the Record and Garonicle office section with unspecified dates.
Wanted two men to guard, with rooms. Apply Pearst. 276ti¢.
Notice seeks an assistant matron or similar role with guiding hall experience. Short term needs and steady salary offered. Call Standard Hall at old number 0138 for details.
J T Simmons advertises at McKelvy Wagon Yard on Siast McKenney street offering Groceries feedstuffs and country produce. Promises good service and invites local business. Phone number appears as 266 New Home.
Duck eggs offered in stock with several varieties and pricing. Eggs priced at $6 per 13 for educk eggs tier sale uses, $4 for special mating, $2 for utility per dozen. 13 eggs priced at $1 for a parcel post shipment. Send orders via parcels post from GON FRITZ P O Box 561 Deman.
McGintp advertises furnished rooms for rent in the Denton Texas area with contact details and multiple directions near Wilson-Hanna and the office location. Includes phone reference 361 and mentions North South East and West directions.
YQ IR DRAY offers first class service at reasonable rates with house and old moving as a specialty. Les ter and Wiles advertise from the office Laster and Interrod in New Pasne.
Local ad offers goods for sale with a new contact number 338 biur and lists Mrs. A L Alexander at 12 North Eikm Street. The fragmentary notice provides little other information.
Two strong men ready to move your trunks. Eisles Transfer offers reliable wagon service for stair steps and heavy loads.
An advertisement on East McKinney Street promotes two of the county’s finest bulls, a Slack Jersey and another breed, with a curious price mention of $1.50 fence per head. The ad also notes a new phone number 850 and lists Alec offering a house and lot on Lule Street for sale.
Henry Kaltreuther on East McKinney Street offers wood working, blacksmithing, horseshoeing, rubber-tiring and shrinking services.
A local ad offers fresh meat from Ben Sullivan with new phone 29 and old phone 385 for free delivery on the west side square.
Fragmentary notice lists buy selections and exchange offers involving Wy and Jersey markets. Names and details are unclear. text appears to be a clipped classified item about shipments and trade terms.
Classified brief seeking a four or two bedroom cottage for rent. Includes contact directions with a new phone reference and storage of household goods option. John Schmitz offers furniture and gas stoves for sale or storage at reasonable rates.
An advertisement touts plain sewing services as the cheapest in town with guaranteed satisfaction and a new phone line at 434 Red. 2¢1tfe.
A new PEACOCK 3&OS restaurant opens in Légoscomb block offering diverse meals with a focus on short orders and square meals. The ad highlights readiness to satisfy any eating request and features Monday specials.
Sanitary milk and cream service contact urged via Portwood and Hodges with new phone 426 and old line 297 for orders and inquiries.
Bray Business advertises first class moving service at reasonable rates with a focus on household moves by Lester Hk Paschall.
Classified note seeks a used refrigerator over 100 pounds in good condition. Contact by calling 16143R.
A local buyout ad lists cash for junk, rubber tires, bottles, brass and poppers. J A Stroud offers services at 25 East Sycamore and phone 1566 for inquiries.
An advertisement for Freight Transfer Co offering furniture moves from their office near wagon yard on West Oak Street. They promise special attention to drag line items and invite customers to call for service.
Local notice advertises for CHOPS 5RBRAN CORN HAY and other feedstuffs. Also requests best stove and heater wood with prompt delivery and full measure. Contact details show ARKANSAS MILL, Bim St. Both phones.
W E Botpas a graduate veterinarian opens office at Hancock and Son blacksmith shop on S Eem St Lips comb block. Phone numbers listed as old 486 new 132 and new phone 69 indicate contact details for his practice.
AUROMOBILE LINE. AUTOS FOR HIRE. W. W. BILLINGSLEY offers auto rentals with old phone 330 and new phone 448. Automobiles repaired.
Fragmentary ad claims a messenger service will dock offers or advances for ten percent of money collected. The text is unclear about date location and full terms.
Dr M. L. Martin presents treatment for eye disease throat and nose ailments at his office over Ray Co. A&W location.
Advertises D NTIO PS CHAS SAUNDERS, DENTHST. with office location over Lome & King after February 1st. Details indicate dental services available at this new address.
A fragment lists individuals associated with Denton Square including Dr W A Zones Danthit W N Roweus D DB S, and J W Fralin Dentist located mid block south side square with upstairs access. Denton Tem as.
Starkiers offers piano tuning services with phone Schmiez for furni use stere. No clear date or location.
Classified notice asking 4nybody wanting scavenger work to call number 307 for job opportunities. No specific dates or locations provided. Provides a contact method and a general call for applicants.
Concrete wagss offered by J M Gueley with a focus on reactor components. First close work at right price. Get estimates now.
Six thousand native black workers from the Rand gold region joined a local labor upheaval today, raising fears that if disaffection spreads to about 250,000 more workers white residents may face a growing "black peril."
Wogales Ariz July 8 Gen Juan Cambreal of Constitutionalist forces, arriving from Guaymas last night, states rebels are making deadly work against federals with artillery and that federal provisioning is exhausted. He expects Guaymas to capitulate soon.
Galveston July 8. Attorney General Looney said the 2 cent gasoline cut stemmed from the States suit against Magnolia company. Magnolia's John Sealy and H S Reavis of the Fuel Oil Journal contest the claim saying the suit had no relation to the price drop which followed after a rival announced a cut.
A rural drug advertisement touts Texas Wonder as a cure for kidney and bladder troubles in men and women and in children. It claims to dissolve gravel cure diabetes and rheumatism and offers mail order from Dr Hall St Louis Missouri with a two months' treatment per small bottle.
County agent Bernice Carter showcased a two month demonstration before visitors highlighting expert techniques and club participation. The event drew a sizable audience of club members and local supporters.
July 7 featured the Girls Canning Club of Centre Point with Miss Carter county agent leading lectures and demonstrations on fruit and vegetable canning. Attendees included Mayor Bates local agents and professionals from Grayson and Denton counties observing productive tomato plats and a vine bearing thirty fruits. The event underscored Denton county’s potential to become a producer of high grade canned goods.
In July ninety four percent of 76000 union members in the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and Order of Railway Conductors favored a strike against Eastern railroads in a wage dispute, according to vote results announced today.
Mrs Ben Key confined to bed with infected foot. E Edwards and others fall ill. typhoid fever reported at Taylor home. Hospitals note various ailments including pernicious anemia in Mabel Phelps. Streetcars run as usual tomorrow. Denton Bank building progress resumes after delay. exterior nearly complete and move pending by Aug or Sept. Union Depot repainting ongoing and Denton County Medical Association meeting held. Threshing continues with favorable weather. minor sprout damage. Denton W O W camp reports traffic, new members, and special dispensation.
The Case tractor and Madamakinge outfit arrive Tuesday for a public road demonstration north of the Turnner place in Commissioner Sweat's precinct. Sweat plans a six day trial of three machines to pick the most economical option, with funds to purchase a road tractor to replace mule teams, while keeping some mules for prairie and sandy land work.
Will D. Burks of Pilot Point reported the city council will open bids Tuesday night on street paving funded by a $12,000 bond issue. Plans call for macadamizing the public square with a half inch gravel layer and extending paving to the depot with concrete curbs and gutters.
Havana July political and military figures were present as Gen Armando Riva chief of the Satianal Police was shot during a pistol fight that erupted after a raid on a crowded gambling club. Gen Ernesto Albert governor Senator Morakes and Rep Arias were involved. The clash followed a Saturday night raid that led to fines for many patrons.
At the B Airdome tonight manager offers two vaudeville sketches headlined by Shappy Doe Girlland plus three reel pictures Mr John Bunny's Dilemma The Last of Compensation and In the South Seas four vaudeville acts offered in the program
Tonight at the Princess theatre the Selige Company presents a two reel political drama The Change of Administration described as a timely masterpiece of political evil. A comedy drama The Jockey for Love screens alongside the feature, telling how the race was won and the girl.
An advertisement promotes Kickapoo Worm Killer as a candy lozenge to expel worms in children. It claims to ease fretful behavior and stomach pains, restore health, and features a testimonial from Mrs. J. A. Brisbin of Elgin Illinois. Sold by druggists or by mail for 25 cents from Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. Philadelphia and St. Louis.
G. E. Neeb athletic director for Chautauqua will establish playgrounds on the High School campus for boys and girls and at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning has asked the children to meet him there. He plans supervised games and plays and on Saturday will take the boys on a hike to Club Lake for a day of fishing swimming and games. A boys camp already exists on the High School campus with Mr Neeb overseeing welfare and outdoor life.
Chicago expert B W Snow estimates the 1913 corn crop at 2 064 000 000 bushels based on 85.9 percent harvest condition, up 153 000 000 bushels from 1912.
Denton faces widespread tree deaths from borers. Instructions describe making a pesticide with whale oil soap and chemicals, to be painted on trunks at dusk, with straw mulch at the base and periodic watering as treatment.
Milner urges opposition to unlimited bond issuing by the Legislature. He argues that centralizing power would dissolve A and M College, absorbed by the University, and warns voters to guard government tax authority.
In Denton county opponents of Senate Joint Resolution 18 plan an aggressive campaign. After Col Milner's Monday speech an executive committee was formed with F F Hill as chairman and members J P Broun J W Sulliven B F Pasehall T D Ferguson Lee Zumwalt Jom A Hann A L Banks L Berden S M Bradley J J McGook J W Beaty Geo M Hopkins J Goit and W Y Johnson. A representative committee for each voting box will be named later with more speaking dates to follow.
Col Hughes will personally conduct an excursion from Fort Worth to Fowterton in La Salle County Texas on Tuesday July 8. The trip promotes buying land with abundant crops and low prices. J H McAnear at Denton City Hotel is the contact for trades and details.
Pension Commissioner Br. A. Buford resigned yesterday due to ill health. George W. Kiiser of Caldwell County was appointed to succeed him.
Notice commands Denton county sheriff to publish summons for R. F. Beck eight weeks and Sunman Williams colored in a Denton district court suit. The Petitions by Ione Beck and Flora E. Roark seek dissolution of marriages and partition of land disputes involving heirs and co owners including L Fulton Belle Fulton Lillian Hill and J A Young. The case covers allegations of abuse and joint land ownership with a homestead claim and requests injunctions and division of property. The writ directs appearance at the next term in Denton Texas.
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