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Newspaper
Record And Chronicle
Location
Denton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
3
Classified ads include found bar pin and rewards, cotton picker offers, housing and room rentals, employment wanted and wanted to buy notes. Denton listings show hardware, dressmaking, scavenge work, automobile line, dray service, rental houses, insurance, feed, telegraphy training and business college offerings.
Property listing offering 120 acres of good arable and farming land near Altus Oklahoma and a block of residential lots in Cordell Oklahoma. Contact FE W Carlom Vici Oklahoma for details and potential trade options.
For sale listings include a good house on Lala street No 5 with details and contact J W Locknane at 34 McKinney street Plus a splendid milk cow for sale on Texas street and several items like rust proof seed oats and various farm and city properties including a lot on East McKinney street with water sewer connections and an ar tesian well Also listed are second hand Oliver typewriters rents on farmland and other real estate offers with installments and trade options through local sellers such as J M Taylor Menton Steam Laundry Co P C Withers and L Fulton with adds for a five room house and 20 acres near Berryville Arkansas for trade or sale and other property listings in the area
Dr W E Botts listed as veterinary surgeon at Denton Transfer Co. Lincom block with old phone 359. Residence numbers old 486 new 132. Mrs Moore offers china decoration lessons and orders at Palmer's Art Shop studio, open for class work October 8.
Dentists listed include Dr W A Jones at West Side Square Dr J W Fralin at South Side Square middle of block Denton Texas and W N Rowell D D S with office over McCray's south side square.
Concrete walks or brick work advertised by A Bushey M Gurley promises fair pricing and reliable cement services. Readable fragment shows class work completed and offers estimates for the right price.
By order of Denton County District Court judge I will sell on the first Tuesday in November 1912 at the Denton courthouse door the Arthur Beaver et al property, about 250 by 150 feet in Pilot Point, to satisfy a 262.14 judgment plus costs in Gordon Elmore vs Arthur Beaver et al. Denton Texas. Wm. Co., Sheriff. Regular dinners daily at Mith’s Restaurant.
A near Frisco property lists eighty acres of black land with a five room house a good barn and orchard. The entire farm is cultivated and offered as a smooth bargain at 55 dollars per acre with sale planned in the next few days.
George Melton of Winship Missouri visits his sister Mrs Robin F M Wade of Calahansony visits his sisters Mesdames C A Swenson and W E Murphy Mr and Mrs R E B Cobb return from summer on the Pacific coast mostly California President Bizzell of the CLA speaks at Gainesville before the Texas Conference for Education Mrs Nathan Johnsons illness shows no change Durbin couple depart for Dallas and Fort Worth to attend Byerspera house plans to see Maude Adams in Fort Worth
W C Dill ard sold his farm at 40 dollars per acre to Cal Harper. Mrs Sarah Gibbs and her son from Bartonville visited. C O Porter and Sam Calvert traveled to Grapevine. A C Calvert and family from Garva were in town. Fred McKinney of Bartonville visited. Charlies Calvert suffers rheumatism. Fleet Whitmore from Garza bought a farm and will move. Lester and son visited Coreiurn. Room house on Ges street offered for sale or trade.
Public notice in Denton County Texas directs the constable to publish service of a legal summons for A F P Gammon, non-resident, to answer a suit by J W Nelson & Co for 87 15 due October 1912. Court at Little Kim on November 25 1912. return required November 23 1912.
An advertisement promotes Cascarets as a thorough liver stomach and bowel cleanse. It claims headaches coated tongue sleep problems biliousness nervousness and fatigue improve after a Cascaret. It touts a 10 cent box as lasting health and advises including children.
Leader II, winner of Reserve Champion Percheron in the 1912 State Fair, led four of his colts to victory in every class shown. A two year old sold for 325 dollars, another pair fetching 400 dollars was refused. Imp. Gusto, a fine coach stallion, urged breeders to mare MacMahon fillies to this animal.
The Denton chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met with Mrs B Waldo Blewett to elect officers including President Mrs Frank Piner and Secretary Mrs Laurence McDonald. They discussed raising funds for a Confederate veterans monument, planned a Thanksgiving box for the Confederate home, and elected delegates Laurence McDonald and W E Durbin to the Fort Worth convention in December. The group adjourned to meet Miss Bainche Hosking in November.
Denton visitor Geo Rucker spent Sunday in Aubrey with local residents. Numerous residents and visitors traveled to and from Aubrey including families from Pilot Point, Denton, Frederick Oklahoma, McKinney, Sanger, and Dallas. Notable items include Jennie Wilson and H R Looper marriage, Cavness family moving to Nocona, and local notices urging moving services with parks & Lester at Fox Bros.
Miss Ruby Rhoads and Jud Sanders married on Sunday in Belew. Bertha Worley hosted a candy-breaking for the young people Saturday night. School resumes November 4 with Verdie Fisher as teacher. Families and neighbors from Bloomfield, Aubrey, Pilot Point, Kingston, and Weston appear in local notes. The Tobin baby is reported sick.
A short notice promoting Smith's Restaurant bread promises satisfaction and good value. It pledges bread that tastes right, aiming to reassure customers they get their money's worth from every loaf.
The newspaper page highlights today's ads from Progressive stores offering various items. Readers find the selections interesting with multiple price points and product mentions noted across the ad section.
In Corinth on Oct 30 residents report corn gathering cotton picking and other harvest tasks in progress Health is good with several locals like Clarence Oliver from Little Elm and Mrs Humphreys visiting Denton Community members including W D Pockrus improving Oscar Bryan and family visiting Sunnydale and Alton.
Sunny Dale reports attendees from local families at the fair including Minnie Stuart Marynd Aline Stuart Vincent Yrhghn El mer Ryan Leon Taliaferro Aring ton Stuart and Virgil Cargi. Frost was noted last week. Nearby visitors included J A Stuart Will Stuart Mrs R S Dobbins Rev J Larkin B F Hammonds J L Daugherty and L Yeck. Oscar Bryan of Corinth visits J J Bryan. Ada and Lizzie Robinson of Delhi Oklahoma visited J L Bryan.
After the first dose of Pape's Cold Compound the cold begins to break and most grip symptoms fade. A dose every two hours for three doses cures grippe or breaks up a severe cold, ending headache sneezing fever and nasal discharge. A 25 cent package is sold by druggists with no quinine and substitutes rejected. T. C. Sample advertises preserves from Reid, Murfock & Co. of Chicago.
Curtis advertises a complete stock of fountain pens from $1 to $10, featuring Waterman Ideal and Conklin Self Fillers. It asserts higher quality from Conklin or Waterman than cheaper substitutes, claims 175 pens in stock, and invites customers to find a pen matching hand, writing style, and budget.
An old fashioned advertisement warns seniors against calomel and harsh laxatives. It promotes Syrup of Figs with senna as a mild, natural aid for sluggish liver and bowels, claiming it moves waste by morning without griping, and urges reading the label for the California Fig Syrup brand.
Coop er News reports farmers in Cooper sowing wheat and many locals attending the Dallas fair. Matthew House heads to Ponder to start his shop. Henry Vanham returns to Midland. Grandma Johnson is very low south of town. Mrs Chas Ewing visits Dallas parents. Shelby Willis brings news of a diphtheria case. Mrs Reeves returns to Gonzales.
Plainview news notes activity as farmers near the end of cotton harvest and wheat sowing. Rev and Mrs Anderson attended the Dallas fair. Miss Daisy Rick returned from a Fort Worth visit. Miss Annie Herring visited her aunt in Collin county. D S Donald was at Clear Creek. A C Ball was in Denton.
A fragment notes several houses and items to sell at about fifty cents on the dollar. The message mentions a contact for fusion and a phone number, but details are incomplete and unclear.
Mrs Hixon Cowan and daughter of Temple are Mrs Sam Cowan of Fort Worth here. Clyde Trotter and Fred Jones returned from Kansas. Mrs Bertha Johnson of Sherman visiting sister Mrs J W Medlin Jr. Nell Mayfield visiting Oklahoma. Chloe Horton visiting Argyle. Miss Myrtle Lewis of McKinney. Virgie Morgan visited Arlington and returned home. Miss Fritz of Denton visited Mrs Humphreys here. Clary Davis in Fort Worth. F K Autrey in Port Worth. Miss Effie Wadle visited here. Mrs C L Lane in Fort Worth. John Segraves returned from Denison. Mr and Mrs Sebastian in Fort Worth. J J Gillespie and wife entertained young folks Friday night for Geneva’s fourteenth birthday. Mrs John Robbins and baby Cliff Stump in Fort Worth. Walter Samms of Vernon visiting here. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS.
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