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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1912
Page
3
Mixed late 19th or early 20th century notices seek a nurse at Denton Sanitarium and other ads offer buying an incubator selling Rhode Island eggs and seeking a white woman to cook and clean plus room rentals and lost items including gold broken glasses and small helper ads from a private family storefront listing rooms for rent and items for sale.
First class wood work using best materials at reasonable prices. See J L Waldrip at Lacy’s Blacksmith Shop 166¢.
Jean Matthews Barber Shop invites customers of Weet Side to visit and enjoy services. The note appears informal and lacks full details but signals an open invitation to patrons.
Local ad fragment advertises City Meat Market on West ak street. It urges customers to try their meats calling them fine and credits Nblett and Son as the sellers.
Frank Wilkerson advertises a meat market on S Elm Street offering fresh and tender meats. The listing notes contact options with old phone 212 and new number 8 3.
Lacy Blacksmith Shop on N Cust Street advertises reliable services with a specialty in horse shoeing and buggy work for local customers.
Short notice listing shows CHOPS BHAN and CORN HAY feeds with stove and seater wood on market. Prompt delivery and full measure offered. Contact Eim Street in Arkansas with phone availability.
Advertises drayage and moving work by Grownlow & Strickland at office end barn 86 East Hickory with new and old phone numbers for contact.
H. M Morrison features new phone 34 for calls anywhere in the city offering trunks and baggage services from Lips Omb Building and Old Shone.
A brief ad offers first class prompt service at reasonable rates from PARKS and LE offices. It mentions two moving vans for household moves and specialty items. Contact numbers are provided for office and residence inquiries.
Auto for hire listing for W W Billingsley with old phone number 350 and new phone 42. Car services advertised in local classifieds.
A. R. McGintry offers furnished rooms for rent in Denton located in all directions around the Exchange National Bank. Office is one door east of the bank.
Dr W E Botts operates as a veterinarian and veterinary surgeon with office in Denton. Filing shows telephone changes, with new Denton transfer company contact and updated phone numbers 70 and 295 for residence and office.
Rel Sam on N Elm street offers feedstuffs for all kinds including hay oats and bran. The stable keeps a team of horses and a herd of cattle and even offers an automobile line. Mr Charlie White operates the business. Both phones listed as 35.
Concrete walks and brick work offered by S A Bushey and J M Gurley, cement contractors. First class work at the right price. Get estimates.
Dr W A Jones dentist located on West Side Square and J W Fralin dentist on the South side square mid block upstairs in Denton Texas.
Magill and Shepard offer repair services for locks and sewing machines and make keys to fit any stock. Local shop advertises locksmith and keymaking capabilities.
A. A. Anderson's Harness and Shoe Repair announces its new location, first door east of Packett's Grocery, with a note about kerosene delivery at 70 cents for five gallons and a contact number for inquiries. The ad also invites calls to No 307 for scavenger work.
Dispatcher note lists two phone numbers for quick messenger service. Manager W A Brashears directs Hamilton and Yeatts office operations.
Classified notices advertise a desirable residence lot on North Locust Street with contact George Roark 167th area and a well built modern home. Also a fresh Jersey cow offered by Harry Charles Scripture and a bargain sale of a residence with address Leesburg Tex by F F Paschall with details and terms.
Bargain listing notes threeVent on sale with several houses and lots in Venton and two rooms for rent at 69 Welch St Denton. Also advertises a baby stroller cheaper than new at 140 West Oak in Denton.
Listing includes a used Frazier cart for gale, a lot for sale on es Xk Street near the car line, rent and a house, plus peanuts at one dollar a bushel. Orders from Sample and Crain and J J Mat No 165tf are noted.
Thoroughbred eggs for hatching Indian Runner ducks 14 for 1 50 Partridge Wyandottes and light Brahmas 15 for 1 50 Mrs A L Suit Route Aubrey Route 2 Aubrey 180ptl
The Cook’s Strain of Buff Orpingtons offers eggs at $1.50 for a setting of 15 with satisfaction guaranteed. Capt H R Lyon lists New Phone 358 Blue in Denton, Texas. The Tompkins and Kaufman Rhode Island Reds offer cockerels and pullets with 15 eggs for $1.50 and a Philo Brooder for $2.50. Contact W T Bailey for two large coops or to view.
Note all announcement details indicate action connected to the Democratic primary in July. The document references a settlement and investigation into certain aims and support actions and outlines potential political implications.
A list of local candidates includes Alvin M. Owsley for Representative, H Hoskins for County Judge, J Frank Tobin for Assessor, M. G. Gary for Treasurer, W. Reeve Miller for Clerk, Virgil Ann Hawkins for Tax Collector, O T Button for Clerk, W C Orr for Sheriff, H R Wilson for Attorney, McGoe for Superintendent, Durbin Briggins for District Clerk, McCormick for Justice Precinct No. 1, Tom Stover and George Watson for Precinct No. 2, John F Morgan for Commissioner Precinct 1, S Atcheson and J A Sweat for Commissioner Precinct 3, P J Beyett and D F Bates for Mayor, Be Fowler for Alderman Ward 1, J M Evans for Ward 2, R M Mitchell and W L Jones for Ward 3, T A Rubinson and Lee Pool for Ward 4, plus other listed nominees.
Geo Younger and Flizar Darnell, both of Pilot Point, received marriage licenses. The filing appears in the Pilot Point column, confirming their intent to wed locally.
Denton social notes report the Wednesday Bridge club will not meet. Mr and Mrs L H Schweer hosted a Monday evening dance for guests Mr and Mrs Burton Banks of Fordyce Arkansas. Guests included Wylie Smith H F Schweer Burton Banks and others plus a chafing dish party hosted by Miss Olive Owens with attendees listed.
In Mrs C Lipscomb Jr s parlors the Shakespeare club of Denton with Ariel club guests and husbands enjoyed a program led by Mrs F A Hanstein guest of honor. Music by Majestic orchestra, civility by Mrs W Edwards and punch by Mrs Mc Cracken and Mrs Crawford, then a state capital matching supper in pink white decor despite heavy rain.
A one hundred dollar reward is offered for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice, from Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists of Toledo, endorses F J Cheney & Co and claims fifteen years of honorable business. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and affects blood and mucous surfaces. testimonials available. Price is one dollar per bottle and Hall's Family Pills are recommended for constipation.
Word reached here Monday of the death near Drop last week of D. M. Mills a well known farmer. Death was due to pneumonia. He was about fifty years old. A wife and several children survive him. Burial was in the old Sams cemetery.
The Denton County Medical Society met at the office of Drs. Inge and Kimbrough with Dr. Hooper presiding. Members included Drs. Copenhaver Painter Kinead Evans Kimbrough Morris Kimbrough of Krum Rowe Gammill Sanders Pierce Hooper and Howser. Dr. Painter reported thyroid tumor. Dr W C Kim reported cerebrospinal meningitis with lumbar puncture and serum. He also noted phlebitis after typhoid fever. Dr Inge described a retroversion operation.
Advert says Pape's Diapepsin cures stomach trouble in five minutes by stimulating digestive juices. A large 56 cent case relieves dyspepsia belching heartburn and nausea and helps food digest like a healthy stomach. Readers are urged to tell their druggist to obtain Diapepsin for permanent relief.
Real estate transfers list numerous transactions across Denton county including buyers and sellers such as Skinner, Ross, Sullivan, Houston, Estill, Costen, McLeod, Stanley White, Mrs Hodges, Baxter, Hoskins, Walter Gipe, Schweer, Beauchamp, Kimbrough, Swindell, Coffey, and others. Properties include surveys like M Forrest, Nathaniel French, M E P P Ry, TC Wilson, Wm Phillips, T M Boyles, F Marsh, F Y Guthrie, Joseph Gonzales, Industrial addition Denton, and Krum. Amounts range from 35 to 9,500 dollars and parcel sizes from 1 acre to 160 acres, with many parcels and lots transferred.
Fresh shipment includes oranges grapefruit and apples. Eggs priced at two dozen for 35 cents with other prices unchanged. Bread advertised as fine quality with large leaves mentioned.
March 4 report from Ponder notes Ollie McCurdy visiting in Rhome. J E Dugger and family visited Justa. E B Brown and sister Winnie return from Wolfe City. D M Mills, a west Ponder farmer, dies of pneumonia. New residence and home addition under construction. Mrs Davis of Sangers visits Mrs Staples. Born to CH Staples a son March 1.
Rainy weather affects crops with wheat and eats. several residents sick. Freddie Mergison of Bolivar visits Emma Gregory. Jennie May McNel sees home folks. Fred Monschir in Dallas. Josie Darden visits Denton sister. Sparkman baby improving. Adcock hosts Saturday party. Everett Haines of Sanger visits. Tillis Sparkman improving. Mrs Payne better.
Dr J T Curtiss of Dwight Kansas touts Electric Bitters as a cure for eczema and claims personal recovery. The tonic is hailed as a blood purifier and remedy for eczema tetter salt rheum ulcers boils and running sores, with liver kidney and bowel benefits and a 50 cent price.
A fragment lists train times and numbers for service to and from Dallas including No 205, No 281, No 713, No 206, No 282, No 714, No 210 and No 3 with northbound and southbound designations and a note on a Texas and Pacific route.
We have just received a shipment of spring silk embroideries laces and white goods. We will be pleased to show you the new items.
Frank Covert of Fort Worth visited his mother Mrs A M Covert. The Hart Adams infant was buried in City cemetery Monday. Mrs CC Potts of Brownwood visited Mrs J L Sullivan. J R Miller and family moved to Nocona. B Greaves of Nocona and Miss Hettie Mann of Pilot Point were married at Nocona. W E Calloway died Tioga and was interred at Pilot Point Tuesday. Elizabeth Kutcharosky aged 20 wife of Alex Kutcharosky died near Pilot Point Sunday.
Mrs. George Rickerich died at the family home in the Plainview community leaving a husband and eight children. A recent high wind damaged Krum with wrecked flues out houses demolished and windmills torn up. F M State Bank of Krum reported deposits of 62485.64 on February 20.
A half inch rainfall Thursday boosted crops across Justin. The paper notes approval of John Harmonson as commissioner to succeed Christal, and mentions Jess Dunagin, son of Jack Dunagin, undergoing appendicitis surgery in Fort Worth.
Short orders are served daily at Speal Restaurant with consistent dinners available. The note invites patrons to call for service and highlights regular dining options.
An old ad urges parents to keep HYOME! ready for croup. Use 20 drops in boiling water to create vapor, breathe the vapor, and call a physician. The text claims the remedy has saved many children and is sold by O M Curtis and druggists.
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