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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1909
Page
1
Get along just as well if you never bought any thing at This Store. We offer dependable goods at fair prices and emphasize shopping satisfaction. The ad highlights warm weather wear including Women’s Stocks Dutch Collars Jabots Wash Belts and pretty embroideries. Mothers see wash suits for boys at $1 and mentions Royal Society Embroidery Floss.
A local ad promotes cool oxford shoes in patent colt vidi gun metal and tan leathers. It emphasizes comfortable fit and encourages customers to choose a pair to carry them through summer with style and value.
A Texas storm near Haskell and Lueders causes multiple deaths and injuries. In Haskell an elderly woman dies of fright. in Lueders three killed and several injured as homes are destroyed. In Brazos River area a railroad train wreck kills J. E. Stamford and injures eleven. Paducah and Northfield suffer destroyed residences and store damage with widespread hail damaging crops.
Supplies and money were received here today for storm victims made homeless by destruction of their residences. Four deaths are reported with at least fifty houses destroyed and livestock losses noted. Ten injured are believed to recover under physician care.
A windstorm hit Haskell Texas on Thursday night killing seven people in a storm cellar collapse near Middleton farm. Homes and windmills were destroyed, roofs battered, rain flooded streets, and fright claimed Mrs. Brooks. The storm followed by further heavy rain and hail, then subsided as residents sought shelter again. In town trades day proceeded with strong crowds despite thrashing and threatening weather, exhibits, music, and friendly town spirit.
An investigation of our methods will show this bank is founded on the soundest banking principles with absolute safety as the cardinal principle.
Exchange National Bank lists officers including A. J. Nance as president J. R. Christal as vice president J. C. Colt as cashier and R L Bass as assistant cashier along with additional names BE Bates Williams J. M. Inge and Owsley Dr indicating a roster of bank leadership and board members.
Departments contribute to a village bargain event inviting crowds to visit daily next week with promises of satisfaction and ample selections.
The Ramsey home five miles north of Nacogdoches Texas was destroyed by fire early today. Investigators believe burglars caused the blaze to conceal their operations. The wealthy family was away. A hired man, John Henderson, spotted the prowlers last night and frightened them off. Loss is about $10,000.
A McKinney, longtime Denton county resident and Pilot Point settler, collapsed and died Friday afternoon while working on his farm near Pilot Point. At about eighty, he had served as a Texas constitutional convention delegate in 1876 and helped shape the state’s constitution. He was a Southland University board member. Survived by children Ernest Jean and Ruby, he was born in Missouri, from Green County, and moved to Texas in the early 1860s.
The body of Jack Duliz arrived in Dallas from Memphis for burial. The funeral will be this afternoon under the Sterling Price camp auspices.
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