The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1918 Page: 12 of 16
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THE WEEKLY PBIIOCBAT-QAaWB, THURSDAY, 8BPT. I, Wl.
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cKINN
The Logical and Most Attractive
Trading Center in Collin County
McKINNEY OFFERS YOU:
One of the best cotton markets in North Texas.
More than 25 firms and buyers.
Six modernly equipped gins with a daily capacity
of 500 bales. No waiting with your cotton.
Twenty-five first class livestock buyers. Good
market prices.
Largest mule market in Texas.
One of the largest and best grain and hay mar-
kets in Texas.
High market prices paid for everything grown on
the farm.
Positively one of the best produce markets in the
state. . .
Seventeen retail dry goods, shoes, furnishings,
millinery and ladies' ready-to-wear stores carrying
an aggregate stock of more than a half million dol-
lars worth of merchandise. You can get what you
want from them.
Six hardware, furniture and house furnishing
stores with stocks representing an investment of over
a quarter million dollars. You can always find what
you want in hardware, furniture and house-furnish-
ings in McKinney.
Twenty retail grocery stores with stock amount-
ing to more than $100,000. Always observing the reg-
ulations but giving the best values obtainable in Col-
lin County.
Three modern banks with deposits amounting to
nearly $3,000,000. Offering banking facilities not sur-
passed by any city in the state.
Twenty up-to-date garages and sales rooms
handling every standard make of automobiles,
trucks, tractors and accessories.
Five attractive drug stores with immense stocks,
expert pharmacists and modern fountains.
Three of the best theaters in this section of Tex-
as. Showing the best of first class pictures and oth-
er forms of amusement.
A strictly modern steam laundry, dyeing, hatters
and cleaning plant.
High class restaurants, hotels and boarding
houses.
The County seat of Collin County.
High class tailoring establishments, cleaning and
pressing.
Four modern barber shops.
Two book stores and three attractive jewelry
stores.
Necessity stores with attractive stocks.
Planing mill, blacksmith shops and machine
shops all equipped with the best in their line.
Two marble yards with large capacities.
Two large implement houses.
Bottling works and ice cream factory.
Five shoe repair shops, three of which are elec-
trically equipped. Quick work and good work.
Headquarters in the county for painters, paper-
hangers, brick masons, carpenters, tinners, plumb-
ers and general biulders.
Two first class firms doing electrical work, gas
work, plumbing etc.. and carrying large stocks in
their line.
Large ice plant with excellent capaicty.
Professional men who have given years of their
life to equip themselves for their work.
Reliable insurance firms.
A most excellent nursery.
First class telephone plant, electric light plant,
gas plant, etc.
Five establishments doing commercial printing.
Two modern photograph studios.
Two weekly newspapers and one daily news-
paper.
Candy kitchens, confectioneries, etc.
Two well equipped bakeries.
Coal dealers. $
Extra large music house.
Three meat markets. , '
Three large abstract concerns.
Very progressive vehicle, saddle and harness
stores, making leather harness, etc.
Two of the largest lumber yards in this section
of the state.
One of best flour mills in the entire Southwest.
Several grain elevators, warehouses, cotton oil
mill, huge cotton mill, garments factory, etc.
Piked roads lead to McKinney from every direc-
tion connecting up with our fifteen miles of finely
paved streets.
Magnificent city parks.
Our public schools rank among the best in Texas.
Street car system, jitney routes and good rail-
road facilities.
About forty interurban cars in and out of McKin-
ney daily in addition to incoming and outgoing rail-
road trains and jitneys.
STANDING UNITED MEANS SUCCESS—The continued growth and prosperity of McKinney and
Collin county can be attributed to the loyalty of the people who believe in and practice "BUY AT HOME."
Loyalty is the watchword now. No man can claim to be 100 per cent loyal who does not advocate and practice
buying at home, especially so when this can be done at a financial saving.
McKINNEY MERCHANTS BOUGHT EARLY—It is a fact undisputable that our McKinney mer-
chants are unusually fortunate in that they bought their goods early, before the recent advances. It is a posi-
tive fact that many items of merchandise are being sold at prices lower than they could be bought at whole-
sale. Think that statement over. Investigate for yourself.
BUY IT FROM McKINNEY MERCHANTS FOR LESS- It is a positive fact that in every line of busi-
ness you can buy it for less in McKinney than elsewhere. A broad statement but it is backed up by cold facts.
First. McKinney merchants have the financial ability and experience to buy their merchandise in the great
central markets at the very lowest prices, have the cold cash to pay for it and with their large output they are
enabled to buy in large quantities from first hands, thus placing them on the ground floor and enables them to
give the buying public the fullest benefit of their underbuying. THEY ARE NOW READY FOR THE FALL
TRADE. J■■■!>■■ n.ia«i«awiaiim
McKinney Business Men's Association
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Perkins, Tom W. & Wilson, Walter B. The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1918, newspaper, September 5, 1918; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299952/m1/12/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.