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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1913
Page
3
Lost on West Oak Street a handbag with a coin purse containing 3.50 in silver and other items. Old phone 425. Found Jersey heifer owner may claim by paying this notice. See Chris Lehrman at court house. 829tfe Found N T 8 N PM J 1 Class of 1906 claims at office.
Several room rental offers listed. Two furnished rooms for light housekeeping downstairs with a phone contact. Additional rooms for rent at 4 North Eko Street and 165 West Sycamore Street with boarder options. A grassy lot usable as pasture is mentioned among the listings.
Furnished rooms, one or two, available for rent at 18 East Oak. Contact Mrs P. C. Withers for details.
FOR SALE NICE JERSEY cow call 179 West Oak or old Phone 70. FOR SALE 162 ACRES FINE black land Eastland county well fenced two room house about 25 acres in cultivation abstracted and patented $25 per acre. For information see O PETTY 201 W Sycamore St Denton Texas. FIVE ROOM HOUSE $800 small payment down balance like rent See Dr W A Jones. LOT IN SOUTH FORT WORTH worth 400 to exchange for acreage near Denton will pay some difference P O Box 103 Lewville Texas.
Job notice seeking a young man to assist at an ice cream factory. Apply to Cox and Whitgon, Normal store. Sic.
Advertisement from Charles H. Smoot offering payment for Jersey heifer calves aged six to twelve months. Respondents are asked to call with available animals.
Gentle three year old horse for sale. Broken to work single or under saddle. Listed by Scott Tailoring Company.
WANTED good second hand burgy or survey in good condition cheap. DR. W. A. JONES sells Indian Runner ducks year old at $1 each. WEAR PROOF hose sales offer ten percent profits with part time work from 3038 Chestnut St Philadelphia. Flowers orders by Miss Leonora Hann. Chops, bran, corn, hay and other feedstuffs from Arkansas Mill 8 Elm St. Rents houses in Denton Texas and furnished rooms. Will Locknane's Wagon Yard offers bulls and a house for sale on Lula Street.
Skiles Transfer advertises two strong men for trunk and furniture moving. Portwood Hodges handles sanitary milk and cream deliveries with new and old phone numbers. Office at Kincaid wagon yard West Oak street. Also offers scavenger work with contact numbers 307 and 426.
First class dray service with reasonable rates for household moving. Lester and Paschall operate from Fox Bros offices with both phones listed.
Henry Kaltreuther offers woodwork, blacksmithing, horseshoeing, rubber-tiring and shrinking services along East McKinney Street.
Regular short order house at 31 Oak Street offers hot cakes mornings till 16 and fresh fish daily. The Denton restaurant bills itself as the cleanest in town.
A Wil son Hann Co. display showed a complete line of toilet preparations on sale from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 124 North Elm Street. New phone 338 Blue.
J M Gurley offers first class cement walks at the right price and invites estimates.
Old phone 579 updated to 931 announces messenger service by S. A. Bushey. Ad offers high grade cement and brick work estimates and urges calling 31 for quick service. Also notes N. B. Brashears will handle accounts for 10 percent of money collected.
Dr W E Botts graduate veterinarian maintains office at Hancock and Son blacksmith shop 8 S Elm St Lipscomb block. New phone 269 plus residence lines 486 and 132 listed.
Dr. Spocialists treats diseases of the eye ear nose and throat in the offices over Ra Ley Co. He fits glasses and offers general optical services.
Dentist offices listed in Denton include Charles Saunders over Long and King after February 1. W A Jones on West Side Square. W N Rowell over McCray's south side. J W Fralin on South Side Square middle of block upstairs.
W. W. Billingsley announces autos for hire with old phone 330 and new phone 448. Auto repairs available.
W M Gribble offers car service with trips anywhere in the county. Photos available in a 75 green or 5234 and at home 66 S Elmat. Car repairs promptly completed.
Duck eggs from imported stock priced at 6 dollars per 13 eggs. Special matings 4 dollars utility 2 dollars. Penilled if needed 13 eggs for 1 dollar. Parcel post offer by Ben Fritz P O Box 51, Denton.
Indian Runner ducks offered in heavy laying strain at 1.56 dollars for 13 pearly white birds. Denton Duck and Dairy Farm promotes best stock. New phone 257. Prop. T. F. Jasper.
By order of the Board of Equalization Denton County Texas notice is given that the board will meet at the court house in Denton on May 30 and May 31 1913 to hear reasons why property valuations raised by the board should not have been raised. Signed Oscar T Button Clerk County Court Denton County Texas Deputy A B Ivey.
Dr. King’s New Discovery praised by C Lower a Marion Colorado druggist who says it cured his wife’s severe bronchial cold after other remedies failed. He recommends keeping a bottle at home for all family use as a home doctor. Price 56c and 1. Guaranteed by J F Raley & C. Adv.
The annual meeting will be held at the company's Denton Texas offices on June 10 1913 at 10 oclock am for election of officers for the ensuing year and other business. J C Parr secretary.
A saying promoting Phones 44 promises quick access to top groceries and vegetables. The note highlights convenience and quality as selling points for local shoppers seeking daily essentials.
Frances McCann announces summer special rates to introduce her piano teaching method. Old phone number 465 provided for contact at 4 N. Elmor.
John Mulraney, executed in Sing Sing for the murder of Paddy Green, proclaimed he died a martyr to the crooks code of honor. He bid farewell to fellow death-row inmates including Charles Becker and four gunmen as he faced the electric chair.
About thirty two graduates of Denton High School receive a Sunday morning address at R E Lee auditorium from Rev. Dr. J W Caldwell. He urges a life that blends faith with work and service, quoting Paul to live as Christ and to die as gain. Mrs A L Banks and Mrs J W Sullivan sing Love Divine and Ruth Calloway performs Ever Safe With God.
Denton residents urged to try Dean's Kidney Pills for backache and kidney ailments. Mrs J F Stanley of 48 Bois d Arc St credits relief and improved energy after using the medicine bought from J F Raley & Co. Drug Store. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
The Educational Day picture shown at the Princess has drawn over 4,000 viewers in four days. Attendees praised the film loudly. Today marks the last showing here and plans to tour the county likely begin late this week.
An advertisement from Frontiers Athma Company promotes a free trial treatment for asthma. It lists Room 102, Buffalo, New York, with contact notes and a general claim of no charge for full information.
Advertisement offers 40 acres just outside Normal for sale, cut into 5 acre blocks. Terms and prices available from E. T. Broun or at P O Box 306. Describes land as sandy and suitable for development.
Chattanooga aviator Johnny Green describes the sensations of flight in his Cardus Flyer at seventy miles per hour. He details the feel of wind, vibrations, and the unusual freedom of motion above the ground.
Johnny Green, Chattanooga born aviator, explains the sensation of flying at speed in the Caydus Biplane, describing a disembodied feeling as the air strips away humanity and the earth looks insignificant. He and partner Carl Moorfield built the first South US biplane and now own Cardus Flyer Nos. 1 and 2. For the Confederate Reunion May 27–29, he will perform flights dropping ten one dollar envelopes donated by a local manufacturer.
Miss Monnie Ponder hosted a tacky party for her fourteenth birthday with the eighth latin class and friends. Cramer Grant and Miss Hawthorne won the tackiest couple vote and received chocolates. Guests enjoyed music, games, ice cream, and daisies in gold and white. Invitations note a May 20 1913 wedding in Houston between Madeleine Longscope and Nestor McGinnis.
Terry Barefield notes the sale of Studebaker 35 cars to District Clerk W. E. Durbin and Dr. M. L. Martin. The Ladies Mission society of First Presbyterian plans a 2:39 Tuesday meeting at Mrs. Banks. An infant of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stubbs near Argyle died Sunday night and was buried at Trinity cemetery. The Christian Endeavor society of First Christian hosts a tax party at Mrs. Charles Pettit’s home.
Sanbury Pa resident John Supsie calls Pr King s New Life Pills the best for constipation indigestion and liver complaint. The ad notes a 25 cent price and Recom mended by J F Raley Co as an advertisement.
An advertisement promotes Chase & Sanborn tea canisters claiming variety and quality. Turner Bros advertises the line with each canister occupying a distinct position in the Kingdom of Tea.
Denton Tailoring Co. announces updated contact numbers with old telephone 47 and new telephone 97, indicating a change in phone service for the remaining Watson Tailoring Co. successors.
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