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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1913
Page
3
Stanfield Lodge No. 217 A F and A M meets on or before the full moon each Saturday. Denton Chapter No. 80 H A M meets the first Tuesday each month. Denton Commandery No. 45 K T meets the second Tuesday each month. E S meets Thursday on or before the full moon.
Lost white bulldog described as short ar s long tail with a black head spot on each side and one at the tail root. Scar on right hind side. Collar engraved W. W. CC. Reward offered at Collier's Wood Yard or W. W. Cagle No. 4 Denton.
Lost item notice and livestock alert describe a brown yearling bull marked with FH on left shoulder and hip. Contact Fred Hopkins at pew phone 506 or Purviance at new phone 43 for return. notice placed on East Mulberry Street with nearby location details.
The notice asks for the return of a black memorandum book left between Denton and Fishtrap on Elm Street. It requests the book be given to Record and Chronicle of H. Green. A $2.00 reward is offered for the return.
Furnished and unfurnished rooms available in multiple locations. Options include near square, Elm Street, Locust Street, East Hickory, Oak Street, North Bolivar, and West Hickory with gas heat and light. Also suites in Wright building and opera house building offered for lease. P. O. Box posting.
In Dellas Texas G C Masters offers a Peerless 36 by 36 cylinder thresher with a 45 horsepower Russell engine and full equipment. Will sell for cash or exchange for stock or any item of worth. Write Jackson Stewart 1319 Commerce, Dellas.
Multiple short notices advertise sale and trade items including a 4 cylinder auto, land parcels totaling 440 acres with a county well, horses and tack, an electric motor, two 4 room houses and 730 acres near Mannsville, plus general property and business listings. Listings include contact pointers to Fox Garage, Denton Trust Co, Lone Yard, and Ardmore area brokers.
Help wanted notices seek two dry hand milers for Portwood and Hodges with contact numbers 426 and 297. Also request two or three men with teams and plows to break stiff stubble and two or three single hands. For inquiries contact Mrs Portwood at old phone 544.
Classified notice from a reader seeking immediate rental space with three unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping. Contact via new phone 434, red.
Classified notice seeks a part time information reporter. No canvassing required. Earn 9865.00 monthly. Enclose stamp. File 358 Drawer 1569 Los Angeles California.
John B. Furniture and Gas Stoves advertises storage rates for household goods with a focus on affordable, compact rates and self service options. The notice highlights available storage space and contact details for booking or inquiries.
An ad extols durable insurers with long histories and large surpluses citing fires from 1871 to 1907 to reassure customers. It pledges prompt claims payment, low pricing, efficient service, and courteous treatment to win new policies.
Jake Johnson supplies hurried wood cutting services with a 157 white order and phone contact listed as Oid 230 New. The note notes work completed quickly.
Sanitary Milk and Cream lists new phone 426 replacing old 297 and directs customers to contact Portwood and Hodges.
The notice advertises two Jersey bulls in season at 41.50 cash to all buyers. It locates the yard at East McKinney street second yard from the square and adds a phone number 3530. It also mentions a house and lot on Lula street for sale.
H R Stanley announces the relocation of a shoe repair shop to a new row next door to the North Texas Gas Company office on West Oak Street. The notice appears dated October 3.
Freight Transfer Co invites customers to call for furniture moving services from their Kincaid wagon yard on West Oak Street. The ad promises special attention to all drag line items and prompts inquiries for moves.
Henry Kaltreuther on East McKinney Street offers wood work and blacksmithing services including hardware, horseshoeing, tire work, and shrinking.
A. R. McGintie advertises furnished rooms for rent in Denton Texas. Office over Wilson-Hann's at Old phone 3614. Also rents houses in all directions North South East and West.
Local butcher Frank Wilkerson offers fresh and tender meats at old phone 2412 and new number 83. Trade includes everyday cuts and specialties with a focus on quality.
Arkansas Mill on S. Elm St lists chopped corn hay bran and other feedstuffs plus stove and heater wood. Prompt delivery and full measure offered with both phones available.
The note informs customers that future earnings and transfer fare will be on a cash basis. Please remember this and pay the driver to settle all charges with Skiles Transfer Co.
Fort Worth bakery promotes fresh daily bread with a special offer of six loaves for a quarter. The advertisement lists Paul Ramires Restaurant at 34 West Oak Street as a related business or venue.
Local dairy ad offers to buy sell and exchange milk cows including a registered Jersey bull in service. From J. K. McKelvey located on McKinney Street.
Old phone 579 replaced by new 931 for high grade cement and brick work. Call or see S. A. Bushey to get an estimate for the project.
W E Botts is identified as a graduate veterinarian with an office at Hancock and Son blacksmith shop on S Elm Street in the Lipscomb block. Contact numbers include new phone 269 for office and 132 for residence, replacing old 486 and new 269 references.
Local notice advertises FIRST CLASS dray business offering household moving as a specialty. Les ter & Miles operate with office Lester & Sherrod and announce a new phone contact for inquiries and bookings.
W. W. Billingsley offers automobile line autos or hire with repair services. Old phone 330 and new phone 448 listed for contact.
Dr M L Martin AB MD treats diseases of eye ear nose and throat fits glasses at office over Raley and Co.
CHAS SAUNDERS DENTIST OFFICE over Long & Kings Both phones W N ROWELL D D S OFFICE over McCrays south side square New Phone 433 Old Pace 344 DR W A JONES DENTIST WEST Side Square
J W Fralin Dentist located at South Side Square in the middle of the block upstairs in Denton Texas invites patients to visit for dental care. The ad emphasizes convenient upstairs office in a central location.
A terse job note invites interested individuals to call No 307 for scavenger work. calls may be made via any phone.
J M Gurley offers first class cement walks at the right price with prompt estimates.
A registered Jersey bull Padisha of St Lambert son of Wilna A with a merit cow butter test of seventeen pounds seven ounces in seven days will be at Pinckley's wagon yard West Oak Street after October 14. Season 5 cash with return privilege. See pedigree and merit certificate in the wagon yard office.
Tender fresh meats touted by L. W. Brooks, operator of the McKinney Street Meat Market. Old number listed as 380 new 70, indicating a business contact for customers ready to place orders.
Hampden and Lucy Wilberforce flee a mutinous crew to a near island. They discover a treasure cave, a stair of stone, and a cache of gold and jewels guarded by hostile savages. The pair plan escape while preserving a divided treasure bag and facing pursuit on the reef.
Old Denton market notes report cotton futures opening strong in Liverpool and New York with Dec Jan Mar Apr moves and spots values. Local Denton receipts total 1,394 bales, with 790 bales in shipping, and lint and seed prices listed alongside grain and feedstuffs prices and farm produce.
In Garza area two diphtheria cases are reported two miles south of town. Affected are a one year old boy improving and a five year old girl from Jim Miller's family. Local residents and visitors list names and activities while noting cotton shipments, sales, and town events.
A narrator and a companion uncover a silver casket amid rotted crates and dust. Inside are precious stones including diamonds emeralds sapphires and rubies. They stash several handfuls in coat pockets and plan to flee with the treasure despite unease.
A testimonial advert promotes Electric Bitters for fainting, dizziness, backache, headaches, weakness, constipation, and kidney troubles. Laura Gaines of Avoca Louisiana recounts doctors giving up until she used the product, then recovered. price is $1 through druggists or by mail from H E Buecklen & Co. Philadelphia or St. Louis.
W B Brown returned from Pilot Point on business. Several residents visited Denton and Roanoke. Cottons being harvested. sun returns after three days rain. Ruby Boyles improving. Marie Souter recovering from fever. Baptist and Presbyterian church activities noted with local pastors.
In Bartonville on September 30 Ben Tisdale and Frank Wood travel to Denton and Lewisville. Alex McMakin and wife visit A. Wilkinson's family. Mrs. T. B. Breeding and daughter visit J. R. Chambers. Neal Wilkerson and family see her father near Fort Worth. A nail injures little Weldon Broun. Born Sept 24 to Fd Mason and wife a girl. Bartonville gin reports over 200 bales ginned this season.
In NAVO on Sept 20 about 2 percent rainfall halted farm work but sowing wheat has begun and cotton gathering surges. Cotton pickers fetch 70 cents per hundred as yields are projected to exceed expectations. Local updates note Miss Mary Gibbs improving, Mrs Holbrook ill, and visits from Master Leonard Harper of Prosper. Church services canceled for two Sundays due to rain.
General tonic advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as quinin iron tonic for malaria chills fever weakness debility and loss of appetite. Claims it boosts nursing mothers and pale children and purges biliousness without laxatives. Says it arouses liver action purifies blood and guarantees by your druggist at 50 cents.
Mr and Mrs Bell of Quail visit sisters Mrs Williams and Mrs Martin. Mrs J R Phillips and daughters Elsie and Maurine visit Aubrey relatives. Several residents from Salt Branch Seymour Valley Grove Denton Aubrey and Pilot Point appear in the week’s social rounds. An arrest in Aubrey for pistol theft is noted along with illnesses and family visits.
Navo remains cut off from the outside world due to telephone issues. Dr. Sims reports surprisingly good health in the area, while noting his new car should be allowed to rest safely in a new garage.
The Plainview community greets rain for cotton harvest and reports the Denton County Baptist Association closed its year with a small treasury balance. Residents mention trips to Denton, a new schoolroom addition financed by lumber, and ongoing cotton-picking demand for workers.
Miss Parlee Johnson and Bob Owens of Aubrey were married Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Billie Hodges of Collinsville were here last week. J. A. Johnson sold to H. R. Edward.
On Sunday night the Epworth League held its annual installation service at the Methodist church with O L Hamilton of Lewisville, president of the N T E L Conference, conducting the service. Misses Dyess and Bean visited Gainesville and Dr and Mrs Gilcrist of Gainesville were here Monday. Mrs Charles Garrigan was transported to Gainesville Sanitarium. Tom Peter, an early town president, is visiting relatives as J M Miller remains ill.
Roanoke reports visiting notables from Oklahoma to Fort Worth. A 2 year old child of Mr and Mrs Bradley died of brain congestion after a brief illness. Newborn son to Rev and Mrs Thompson born Sunday. Local residents and relatives from Port Worth Denton Mineral Wells and Aubrey are mentioned with several social visits.
Fragmentary notices show Little Elm residents like J. G. Wilkins and Robbie Clark visiting Harrig and Denton. References mention Mrs. Ora and Miss Robbie Clark with unclear totals and accounts.
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