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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1913
Page
3
Lost items include a solid gold cuff button with diamond setting and a pearl brooch with small diamond setting, safety chain, and stick pin. Rewards offered for return to this office. Also a lost Masonic shirt pin with square and compass and heart hand symbol. Reward for return to P. C. Withers office.
Renters offered two furnished rooms for light housekeeping downstairs. Contact by phoneline 8 8 and reference listing at 236tfie.
An eight room house on Bernard street available for rent at $13 per month. Contact Olan A. Graham at 252tfe for details. Also Wright Opera House lease and suites formerly used by Ellis' lodge offered via P O Box 706 or office visit.
Public notice listing sale items and trade offer from GEO M Hopkins. A Jersey milk cow is advertised at 72 South Elm with phone 267 green. The ad also notes a good horse available for sale or trade and mentions a single or double harness suitable horse.
For sale near Coits on Oak Street Texarkana 158 20 acres just north of town with house and improvements to sell Also lots houses and Its Phone 153 or see L Fulton d268 witc
A sale notice lists Duroc Jersey pigs available for purchase. Details mention Bali breed and a reference code 28ic. readable fragments point to livestock auction language. The item is terse with limited identifiers and no clear seller or date.
Advertisement lists duck eggs from imported stock at 6 dollars per 13 with other specials at 4 dollars and 2 dollars for utility and pen ciled hunters. It offers 13 eggs for 1 dollar and parcels post shipping from Ben Fritz at P O Box 661 Deaton.
For sale four white rabbits and one buck at 1.50 each. Young rabbits seventy-five cents. Rabbit boxes offered by C. H. Davis at West Sycamore Street. Local sale notice for farm stock and equipment.
Ad offers a five room house for $860 with a down payment and balance terms. Also seeks to cut 4 acres into 50 acre blocks for sale just outside the corporation, with contact through FE T Browm or P O Box 366.
Hancock & Son seeks to buy three Jersey heifer calves aged two to three months. Inquiry posted by Hancock & Son for livestock procurement.
Trunks to haul call Skiles Transfer. Two good strong men available to move items. wagon service advertised for stairs and heavy baggage.
A family leaving town for the summer offers to store a piano and pay a small rent. They pledge to take good care of the instrument. Contact old phone 479 268.
Sanitary milk and cream notice lists Portwood and Hodges with new phone 426 and old number 287 for contact.
CHGPS BRAN CORN HAY and other feedstuffs offered. Best stove and heater wood available with prompt delivery and full measure. A power wood saw is available to run in connection with the wood business. ARKANSAS MILL Elmet. Both phones.
R. McGintie advertises furnished rooms for rent near Wilson H ann s in Denton Texas with contact phone 361. Located in North South Fast and West directions.
Come to Will Locknane's wagon yard on East McKinney Street for two fine Jersey bulls a black and a fawn colored. Season 14 cash to everybody. New phone S50. Also selling a house and lot on Lala Street.
Your Dray Business offers first class service for household moving at reasonable rates. Lester and Paschall advertise office Fox Bros with two phone lines. Arabian Complexion Lotion demonstration at Wilson-Hann Co on Elm Street. Packing and storage of household goods by John B Schmitz Furniture Carpets and Undertaking with two phones. Henry Kaltreuther lists woodwork blacksmithing horseshoeing rubber-tiring and shrinking on East McKinney Street.
Freight Transfer Co. advertises furniture moving with two phone lines and office on West Oak Street near Kine id wagon yard. The ad promises special attention to all items in the crate line.
G Schablow sky Shoemaker advertises Denton’s oldest shoe shop located behind the Denton Steam Bakery on the north side. The ad promises quality work and reliable service with the slogan Work done right. July 1944.
W E Botts graduate veterinarian advertises office at Hancock and Son blacksmith shop Lipscomb block. New phone 269 for office, residence old 486, new 132.
Quick messenger service hint to call 31. W A Brashears offers handling accounts for a ten percent commission on money collected. N B will oversee the accounts.
W. W. Billingsley offers auto repair services and rental cars. Old phone 330, new phone 448.
Charls Saunders dentist moves to offices over Long and King after February 1. W A Jones dentist operates on West Side Square. W N Rowell D D offers office over McCray's on the south side square. J W Fralin dentist located on the south side square mid block upstairs. Denton Texas.
Drs M L L Martin and B M M specialize in eye ear nose and throat diseases. They offer defective glasses and treat ocular and ENT conditions. Office located over Ra ley Co. building.
Piano tuners offer expert tuning services by H. E. Starkloff. Contact via Schmitz Furniture Store for appointments.
Repair and recovery of all kinds and colors umbrellas and parasols offered by M Berman located at 15 McKinney Street.
Short classified notice invites individuals to call 307 for scavenger work. Ad provides a single contact number and offers employment or task-based opportunities.
J M Gurley offers first class concrete walks at fair prices. Get estimates for cement work and driveway improvements. Local contractor with proven quality and affordable rates.
Carved in a 1910s ad, A. Bushey offers new phone numbers and estimates for high grade camera and work. The note invites inquiries to estimate the job.
Elbert Smith plans an a room house near the College addition south of the Normal campus. Deed transfers 2106 acres of the D M Culp survey for 8100 dollars. Denton Woven Wire Fence Co purchasers expected to run the business after dissolution. County census tabulation underway with Sanger returns pending. A new suit Mrs Margaret A Lindley et al versus P L Langford et al trespass to try title to remove cloud and for damages. Oil crew fished 100 feet of cable from Highland Park well now 1070 feet deep.
W J Slaton former county treasurer died Sunday night after long illness with Brights disease. Wilson an elderly Denton resident died after brief illness.
W J Sinton longtime Denton county resident and former Aubrey postmaster died at his Aubrey home Sunday night from Brights disease. He was about 55 buried Belew cemetery north of Aubrey. Native of Alabama, he settled in Aubrey in the early 1880s and served as county treasurer from 1902 to 1908. His wife and five children survive.
Thomas A. Wilson, longtime Denton truck farmer and merchant, died Monday morning after a second stroke following a prior illness. Survived by wife, six children, sixteen grandchildren, and other relatives. Funeral at Wilson Street home Monday at 6 pm, Rev. Oscar T. Cooper officiating, burial in City Cemetery. Mrs Cavener in Oklahoma City did not attend.
Mrs Fred Monschke wife of a Blue Mound farmer died Saturday night after a four year illness. The German Baptist church conducted the funeral with Rev A Becker officiating and burial in City cemetery. She was 49 and survived by her husband and a large family of twelve children eight at home. Two married daughters live in the North.
Mrs Josie Spinks widow of the late W H Spinks and a Denton resident for about thirty years died at her home 55 Railroad street Northeast Denton at 6 o clock Saturday afternoon after almost two years of illness She is survived by two children Mrs Mollie Price of Denton and Marion Spinks of Phillips Oklahoma and a grandson Elmer Reynolds who lived with her The funeral was held at her home at 3 o'clock Sunday with Rev E G Roberts in charge and burial in City cemetery
Joe Fred ten month old daughter of Mr and Mrs J Fred Nance died at the family home in Newcastle Young county after a bowel illness. The body was brought to Pilot Point and buried there. The baby was a niece of Assistant Postmaster S A Dowdell of Denton.
The real estate firm Wiley Smith & Co is dissolved by mutual consent with H D Stewart retiring and Wiley Smith continuing the business. They thank patrons and seek continued support. Version June 7, 1913. Fruit jars listed with TURNER ROS and phone numbers.
A drug store touts its prescription accuracy and purity with a large annual business of more than 12 000 prescriptions filled. The ad invites customers to use its services, offering reasonable prices and free delivery by phone number 52.
June 9. The Katy Southbound Limited crashed into a drove of horses at Hailey's switch yesterday. One passenger, Mrs. George Lewis of Kansas City, Mo., was killed in the chair car. Forty-four others injured, with Miss Annie Merritt of Caddo, Okla., and a Black porter among the seriously hurt. Bob will recover.
A Denton resident testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved backache and urinary troubles linked to kidney issues. She bought them at J F Raley Co. Drug Store and found prompt relief. Foster Mclean Co. Buffalo is the U S sole agent. Remember the name.
City Council rules require all rents be paid on or before the sixth day of the month. W. J. Grady, agent and party.
The Fad Studio over the postoffice invites you to visit for new styles and a photo session. Special prices run until June 15th and offer popular rates with attentive service.
Phone orders accepted for fruit jars in pints quarts and half gallons. Turner Bros. contact number listed as seven.
Advertisers urge readers to inspect stock and try on shoes to find better fits at lower prices. The ads emphasize store visits and direct examination of wares to entice spending.
Read the advertisements in the classified section for selling opportunities and new supplies mentioned in the notice. The snippet invites readers to place or respond to classified ads for items and services.
An Eastman Kodak Co agent advertises a well stocked depot offering Kodaks Brownie cameras papers films and photographic chemicals with a large and growing trade. A catalogue can be sent.
If we buy from our merchants and pay at home, merchants will prosper and help make the city prosperous. They can improve stores and hire more workers, boosting labor demand. A thriving local economy will attract people from neighboring towns and grow the community’s population.
A civic statement calls for residents to keep every dollar in the community to support welfare and building up the city. It emphasizes local spending as duty and benefit.
Alias execution issued against W M Grace for $40.05 plus costs. On the first Tuesday in July 1913 the sheriff will sell all right title and interest of W M Grace in 169 acres from F M Grace survey 40 acres from E M Grace survey and 13 acres from G R Martin survey to satisfy the Bradley judgment. Sale before the Denton Court House door.
Summons required by the state to publish weekly for eight weeks in a local newspaper stating unknown heirs of B F Leyneh and Justine Castaine must respond to a suit filed May 28 1913 in Denton County District Court No 45700 against A F Evers. Case concerns land described as a fee simple parcel in Denton County, about 14 miles northwest of the city.
W. E. Durbin, Clerk, Denton District Court, issues a writ in a 1913 case where the plaintiff seeks to quiet title to 428 acres of land in Denton County, part of the Benjamin F. Lynch survey. He asserts heirship, headright certificate 352, loss by fire destroying a Justine Castaine to M. J. Hall deed, and adverse possession to support a 6 and 10 year statute claim with cloud removal and costs.
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