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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1909
Page
4
Cleans, presses, alters and makes men's clothing and also cleans and presses skirts. Will call for and deliver. New phone 40. Address No 6 West Side Square.
About 7 30 Tuesday evening a horse driven by J F Bell and J Ed Wilson was struck on West Oak street by a street car. The horse plunged onto the tracks and hit the car causing the head to smash the glass in the front. The buggy occupants escaped injury.
J L Davidson, longtime manager of Bradford Bros Co in Cleburne, will depart for Fort Worth to join the Fort Worth store as the firm concentrates its interests there. The Cleburne stock is being closed out by Mr Price over the next thirty days. Davidson expresses gratitude to the community for support and kindness during his tenure.
The item notes prescription work at Minnis Drug Store and urges obtaining prices from Wilson Hardware Company for plumbing supplies and plumbing work.
The local Royal Arch Masons chapter on Tuesday night elected officers for the ensuing term. Elected: J. Lee Zumwalt high priest, H. C. Storre king, J. L. Miller scribe, M. S. Stout treasurer, pEd F. Bates secretary, S. wi. Bradley C of H, B. F. Paschall RA C M B. Whitlock P S 3,0 RV Beket hot 2, John Johnson M of 8. V. Joe Mercer M of T. V. J. A. Fain sentinel.
Mrs. W. E. Bass of Whitesboro spoke to the Denton Clubs Presbyterial Society about the Biennial Review proceedings held in St. Louis in April. The meeting included songs readings prayers a duet and an address by Mrs. Bass who then left for Lewisville to address their Presbyterial society.
An old line touts Colds and Grip Ilicks Capu chine as the best remedy for colds and feverishness. It relieves aching and cures the cold restoring normal conditions. The liquid works immediately and is sold at drug stores in 10 25 and 50 cent sizes.
Hundreds of visitors from Denton and across Texas toured the Denton College of Industrial Arts as students from all departments displayed butter making, laundry finishing, manual training, metal and leather work, china painting, basketry, bookbinding, and domestic science menus. The event highlighted practical training and featured exhibits from Fine Arts, Biology, Photography, Commercial Arts, and the Senior and Junior classes with notable displays of household articles, furniture, and finished garments.
The city schools board ordered furniture from C. A. Bryant & Co. of Dallas for the new Central public school. Shipment arrives about August 15. Desks will be single or individual except in the study hall and auditorium. Opera chairs go to the auditorium and cane-bottomed chairs to the study halls.
Minnis Drug Store lists paper napkins lunch sets and doilies for sale. Local shoppers can find these household items among the store’s general merchandise offerings.
During the week ending May 31 the T. and P. railway handled forty six carloads of merchandise at Denton. Thirty cars were received and sixteen were sent out. The average weekly car handling, excluding the Katy, runs about twenty cars.
Minnis Drug Store lists a range of toilet articles including soaps, powders, tooth care items, creams, and basic personal care essentials. The display emphasizes daily use products and household convenience for shoppers.
Prof Jno E. Atcheson of Fort Worth and Miss Mittie May Peters wed at the bride’s father B F Peters home in Farmer Young county on Sunday May 30 at 2 15 pm. Atcheson is noted as principal of Farmer public school and will begin a third term. The couple plans to reside in Fort Worth after visiting relatives.
The four month old child of W D Franklin died Tuesday three miles south of town from brain trouble. The infant Ben was interred the following day at the city cemetery. Also notice sanitary plumbing offered by Wilson Hardware Company.
Eugene Floyd aged 12, son of Mr and Mrs C L Floyd, sustained a serious eye injury Tuesday at the Floyd home in East Denton while whittling when a Diade slipper ag struck him. Doctors feared he might lose sight, his father said Wednesday.
Miss Nell and Ethel Hester visit Dallas friends while Mrs. Edgar Kelly attends a Methodist conference. Miss Ellen Buster of Sanger visits Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Buster. Maud Naylor Turner plans a Seattle fair trip. Aubrey guests Beatrice Allen and Audrey Lanforg visit Maud Zumwalt. Pat Naylor travels to Fort Sumner New Mexico for summer with her brother. W F Dupree returns from Meriel after cotton buying. Sanger girls Jennie Bowers Effie Gree and Ruby Jones attend summer Normal. C I A commencement hosts Mrs C W Childs and daughter with Mrs E Flint. Jessie May McClurkan Mrs. Sledge and Mrs. Sledge depart for six weeks in California. Abney Ivey Ruston La and Walter Ivey Dallas attend Myrtle Ivey and Hall wedding Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J W Farr and son etc.
Victor travels to Fort Worth for ministerial meeting and closing exercises. Asthma cure claims offered with trial treatment and information free of charge from Frontier Asthma Company Buffalo New York.
Shipped twelve cars of steers to Kansas City. Mrs H A Wolfsohn burned arm spilling boiling water. Dr and Mrs M L Martin depart for New York for three months. J E Hollers sold $830 of concrete work totaling $8390 contract. German farmer Clas Wolfe reports wheat yielding 25 to 13 bushels per acre. J W Cook showcases wheat heads near Stony with three-grain meshes noted in Mediterranean wheat.
Marriage license entries listed include Jim Whitley and Alice Hod ey, Henry Vanzandt and Martha Whit, Harrison Harpool and Jessie Skiles, M L Johnson and Henretta Trimble, Nealy McNatt and Flora Law e, M Beck and Emma Lark, T F Gosset and Etta Jones.
Readable scraps suggest a classifieds note about renting a furnished room. The fragment references the Rec ord and Chronicle as outlets for want ads.
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