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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1912
Page
3
A mixed listing of lost found and classified ads from Denton, Texas includes a found pocket book with handkerchief and coins, a found fragment of money, a lost black and white spotted hog, and help wanted notices for house to house canvassers, servants, vendor note buyers, corset sales, warden work, and general labor. Also requests to trade sandy land for city property and various contact details.
W E B Botts veterinary office at Hancock and Son blacksmith shop promotes CHOPS BRAN CORN HAY and other feedstuffs. It announces new phone numbers 269 residence 486 old and 132 new, and advertises heater wood sales with prompt delivery. Arkansas Mill on S Elm Street offers cord wood and custom sawing with two phone lines.
Dr W A Jones dentistry Near Side Square J W Pralin dentistry South Side Square middle of block Denton Texas W N Rowell D V Office over McCrays south side square A R McGintie old phone rents houses in East West South and North Denton Furnished rooms for rent
J M Gurley advertises as a first class cement suptractor offering quality work at fair prices and inviting estimates from potential customers.
Sheriff Orr and County Attorney Wilson returned from Pilot Point after investigating a miniature Wild West performance. Joe Moody pleaded guilty to drunkenness and disturbance and bonded for a trial on unlawfully carrying a pistol after firing a plate of ham and eggs with an antique pistol, frightening patrons. A lost silver open-face watch with New York movement and leather fob is advertised for reward.
Eight room house on large lot with barn two blocks from car line and Normal college. Includes electric lights bath and city water. Price twenty dollars per month.
A county court term opens Monday with a heavy non jury criminal docket. Typhoid affects Mrs. Lyne’s child who shows improvement. Sheriff Orr buys a new Overland touring car. A pecan crop sale nets 51.50 from two trees. Cleve Starks faces minor-at-poolhall charges. bond set at 100. Choir practice at First Baptist. Dr Munday speaks on morality to men. J P Peak resumes drilling after a Monday injury. Pythian Sisters host Thanksgiving entertainment at Castle Hall. Woman's Shakespeare Club postpones Friday meeting to December 5 at 2:30.
Wm. L. Foreman of Oklahoma City arrives, George F. Moore returns from travel, G Horton of Greaton New York visits his mother Mrs. C. E. Simmons and relatives, Mrs. J. Beil and daughter Vera expected tonight from Dallas to spend Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Rayzor
Sage and Sulphur hair tonic promises color restoration and scalp relief. Wyeths Sage and Sulphur combines sage and sulphur with remedies to curb dandruff itchy scalp and hair loss. A fifty cent bottle from druggists carries a guarantee of refund if not as represented.
Mary Robertson of Denton visited Argyle while Mr. and Mrs. King went to Denton. Rev Sooter traveled to Garza Wake and Whitt Baker returned from Lewisville. Mrs. McDowe’s was in hand and many attended a conference in Dallas. Rev Hickey baptized five persons Thursday as a Realist church event. A Denton classified for a store drew many replies.
There will be no prayer meeting at the Church of Christ tonight. An informal service will be held tomorrow night at seven o’clock. An offering for the Belle Haven Orphans' home will be taken during the service.
Mrs Riley Laramore of Goodwater Missouri recalls years of severe indigestion and heartburn eased in days by small nightly doses of Thedford's Black Draught. She used two small packages and reports lasting relief with no relapse. The ad urges others with eating distress to try it.
Little Elm Texas November 25. Miss Lois Drice of Italy visited Mrs. R. Simms. Mrs. T. M. Manard and son returned from Fort Worth. Charm Hart of Denton was here. Sam Kaie bought property in Little Elm and will move there. W. B. Page bought the barber shop and J. B. Johnson residence. Mr. Johnson will move near Aubrey. Willie Baker and daughter of Denton were here. Dr. and Mrs. Dunkin visited Frisco.
An item notes Crusto as a vegetable product that aids digestion and helps meals digest better than hog lard. A man with indigestion can assimilate foods cooked with Crusto more readily.
Sheriff W C Orr announces a cash sale on the first Tuesday in December 1912 at the Denton County Courthouse for a lot in Denton described by Eckleberger and Schoolfield deeds. The sale satisfies a $196.75 judgment in favor of J C Coit against G W Wilson, with title to all rights held Jan 28, 1907.
Notice to all persons that during the next regular session of the Texas Legislature convening January 14, 1913 in Austin, railways will apply for a special law. The Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway seeks to lease multiple lines including from Waco to Rotan and other branches to various towns and counties. The Wichita Falls and Northwestern, Southern, and other companies request leases extending to the state line and through counties such as Wichita, Young, Collingsworth, and Clay.
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