The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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SOME NEW ARRIVALS FOR SPRING!
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HAVE VOL' LOOKED AT THE LACES—NEW LACES.
tinoiix them * ill be lound
NEW WHITE GOODS.
NEW WAISTING.
AND LOTS OF NEW SUITINGS.
complete. It consists of Irish Linen. Butchers Linen. Linen Fronting, and the New Dress Linen.
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REREUL REWS FROM N E CORNER
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That Coldest Day.
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1895— zero on Feb. 7.
1896— 10 degrees above on Jan.
1897— 8 degrees above on Jan.
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One Hundred i itousitnd Yards of Fine Embroideries <Jc Laces
1898—10 degrees
For full information regarding your trip, address
D. M. Morgan, Gus Hoover,
Traveling Paes. Agert, Traveling Pass. Agen'
Ft. Worth, Tex. Waco, Tex.
J. F. Lehane, Gen. Pass. Agent, Tyler, Tex.
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Are Tea Keefleae at Nlctat
And harassed by a bad cough? fee
Ballard's Horehound Syrup, it
•will aecure you sound sleep and
effect a prompt and radical cure.
25c. 50c and $1. J A Hail.
Never were so pre!tv as they arc
very pretty fabric. Just the thing tor ;i new Spring Drc».
“TO BE SURE YOU ARE SAFE”
RIDE ON
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FINEST EQUIPMENT AND SAFEST TRAINS IN TEXAS.
Pullman Sleepers. Parlor-Cafe Cars, .teclining Chair Care-
Seats Free. (Through without change)
All Trains Wide-X estibuled Throughout.
1899— 10 degrees below on Feb.
11 and 12.
1900— 12 degrees
Feb. 18.
1901— 9 degrees above on Dee.
1902— 15 degrees above on Jan.
26th.
1903— 3 degrees above on Feb.
16th.
1904— 9 degrees above on Jan.
26th.
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A life devoid of fame or praise.
Yet nobly spent.
How many can guess her iden-
tity? Surely Sharp Observer
can, who stands on the corners
to admire or disdain beauty,
which?
The roads
My Valentine?
She walks unnoticed on the street;
The casual eye
Sees nothing in her fair or sweet;
The wor.d goes by
Unconscious that an angel's feet
Are passing nigh.
She little has of beauty's wealth,
Truth will allow;
Only her priceless youth and
health.
Her broad white brow;
Yet grows she on my heart by
stealth,
I scarce know how.
She does a
things
That no one knows:
A loving woman's heart she " ””“J 8‘:: ” j >roiii zero io t uegrees uoiow, me ,
brjn_9 home. Mr. Win. Clinton is re- don t know whether he enhght- coldest weather Texas has ex-
To human woes- modeling and enlarging his home ened Prof. Simons as to his utter perienced in six years. It is a 188
And to her face the sunlight 1'*r' b,an<^8 *8 a*80 Pointing up incompetency or not, did he S. notable coincidence that six years 25th
clings and coming to the front. Coium-D? He evidently tried. ago, on the same day of the same
Where'er she goes. (bia is on a boom. ' The family of Rev. Hicks. I month and the same day of the
Jardin still aits a hamlet on the i (himself not excepted,) have aT week, Sunday, Feb. 12, the ther 4th.
And so she walks her quiet ways ! road “like a ragged beggar sun-!h-en in bed with catarrhal fever ; mometer registered here 14 de- ISu
With that content ^ing.” The R F. D killed all > but are up again, we are glad to I grees below, while at this time 28ih.
That only comes to sinless days , our little wayside villages where announce. ji hey registered as above stated, locS IQ det
And innooant; I people loved to congregate to The family of Mr. Polk, a well from 0 to 4 below, Monday morn-1 Dec. 10 and 11.
Today, the 14th, is the day of
all <iays to the devotees of love
and beauty. Socrates called
beauty a short lived tyranny
Plato, a privil-ge of nature; The-
ocretua, a delightful prejudice; The roads are almost impass-
Thcophrastus, a silent cheat; able and during the past weeks
Carneades, a solitary kingdom; wood has been marketed at enor-
Homer, a glorious gift of nature; mou8 prices but the men who
Ovid, a favor of the gods; while dared the storm and cold to bring
Aristotle affirmed that beauty it jn deserved all they got. This
was better than all the letters of weather has been severely felt by
recommendation in the *----,J ■
yet none of these di-tinguished
au horities have left us even a
hint of how beauty is to he per-
petuated. Now we have the
same right as the savants to ar.
ideal of beauty on this brtght
valentine's day. Can you rec-
ognize
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ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT FROM
FT. WORTH. DALLAS, WACO, TYLER,
TO
ST. LOUIS, CHICAGO, CINCINNATI.
above on
Our stock of White Linens is now
in price from 25c to 75c.
Come in and let us show you these new beauties. We will take pleasure in showing you. whether you buy or not
CRAWFORDNORRIS CO.
Com nerce, Texo-s.
very nice other farther south.
have left us in
' but we
of teel h
a stumble into the city plaza
All of these are J6 inches wide and range
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ui van iii^ ’>uil it 1 v a11v vo , j i W U ,
bog down all we have to do is to i
crawl out unhurt.
Miss Bessie Boyce of Boyce,
Ellis county, who has been visit-
usual ing her sister, Mrs. J. D. Steph-
enson, has left us, leaving many
wa.m friends and admirers. We
The Professor, as ev- hope Miss Bessie will soon re-
| turn.
A e would be glad to hear from
Mrs. Muddig, „
N. E. Corner, ing at break of day.
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Ihe> arc prcttk-r than any that have gone hch»rc. and coat less. \ hunched design* and widths, all new and *l)li*h. arc here al the very least prices
Oriental I .sees. Vaknciennc. Mechlin, Mullicnnc, lorihoo, and Ru -tan I aces.
huaftn thru* tn itiii a>«t
GUVGHAMS
lor this spring, and just think of the volume of styles and designs you have to select from here. We have the famous Red Seal Zephyrs here. A
A beautiful! arra) of styles and designs Amoskcag 4. F. C- fiingham for 10c per yard.
**** ’eYfr*l and w*<«t cmnpielt aaMwimcnt •»< I mfaufatru* and leer* e**< br»w»gtn <•> Mwwnwtcc, m isMr dtrwt l»«wn s«n,rfland to a»
and secured them at prke* that wilt rwabh w* t«* wit Iand IMhrMderie* ctMefNt than <>»<« w<r< e*w m«M Is LMMWrve brtwrr
11*e I MiwwMrric* err fwimtpalh Sw|«« Lnmbrtc and nod. «f the fin.M Moph bt th Im t Ihc MMMtarus. dchcucv pad strength at nery »ard i. nnMt*
takahlr I here net Idglng* and ImertHMia. baht width*, medium width* and H* hi tn mg width .
Pattcri** friwn a MbcMm «l an imh l«* a yard aide, with unuMiall* hberal mark.ns, luk d. Mgn wmngtK by needles, hand piled and sleam-drHtn arv diverMficd and aniMk
Neat, prclt), • caret cflcct* hr Raby Uotbea and Women c { nderaeer. Ikaiitflul styles far I rimming lheecs. and sbwny. elahwate effects far Ifoamea. Murts and Put Ik
Senilis. Vine*. Mars. Hcdfllions, CresceMs Itewers, Iht*. Circles, leaves and a unreal other pracdid ideas figure in the f mhindcr* schemes
We have the new design* fa I mhnmkrv . th inches w.d< far Corset Covers. Iho cmimhI el ft tads, leaves, fttrsesliaes. Hew dt Ids. RMrids. aad a number ol other hcautilul
designs, these are headed with the heading effect which work out hcatitilully in making Cored Covers.
However,
by noon of that day the enow and
ice were melting where fairly ex
poeed to the sun. Last year the
The blizzard which came up i coldest weather experienced was
Saturday night about 10 o'clock ■’ above, which occurred Jan. 26.,
did not subside until the ther- The coldest days for twelve years I
mometers of the town registered Pa8t are:
1893— 12 degrees above on
I Feb. 13th.
1894— 1 degree above on Jan.
hoar the mail called once or twice digger, have been great sufferer-*1
i a week. Century is a reminis- during this severe weather and
I cence of the past. The school is if their friends from the country, 1
(under control of a noble young John Frey, Jerry Hole.mb and
man and best of all for some others, had not come to their res-
concerned he is a Baptist. cue they would have been in
Some few have sown oats. W . most pitiable condition.
F. England put in quite an acre- What about the city lights? I
age during the fine weather Jan- Are they dying one by one? Two
uary, a wise thing, now they are , have been shut off from southeast
ready to come right up as soon corner of Commerce, one near
O. C. Mulkey’s residence, the
Mr. Obenchain, a very nice other farther south. The “city
young man from Greenville gave dads” have left us in “outer
us a call this week He is selling darkness,” but we have
pianos and tuning. He is an gnashing of teeth unless we
expert. His father has been a stumble into the city plaza over
paint brush lay idle, while rePa>rer and tuner of instruments the memorable crossing from
for thirty years and this young Presley corner to Driver’s gal-
man has been taught from his lery, for we boast no dilapidated
youth up tn that line. He be- plank walks out here, our side-
re- (onKs t0 the Greenville band and walks are naturalearth.no leg-
turned Saturday from an extend- fine on the cornet. breaking contrivances; if we'
ed visit to Fairlie. Mrs Kelly The German Profe-isor of mu-
attending the sick bed of her -sic from the E. T. N. called at
father, Mr Dean, one < ’ ’ "
and most respected members of
that community. P1— ------
Mr. Dean as i~.
the skillful treatment of Dr. Les- S. D. would argue with Orpheus
nett. -
Claude Cox has returned to his ery other German, has a great
home here after having quite a
severe illness while on a visit to lican ways, no doubt of his abil- our Ueulah land,
relatives near Fairlie. ity as a pianist but it seems that let us hear.
Columbia reports 98 pupils an- girls need, in music, a teacher
"'rolled in her school under the with fine manners and elegan’
supervision of Prof. Win Jackson language as well as a classic
assisted by Miss Smith of Com- artist. We speak from personai
merce. knowledge as w- yet remember
Mr. and Mrs. Braly of that with no good will our tier man
community are entertaining a teachers, Professors Schardtz
heart she a bab>’ girl in their beauiiful new and Mann, of ancient times. We from zero to 4 degrees below, the
home. Mr. Wm. Clinton is re- don’t know whether he enlight- coldest v>e*Uier
modeling and enlarging his home ; ened Prof. Simons as to hie utter perienced in six
as the snow clears away.
This
world, the wage earners, as almost ev-
1 ery branch of industry was froz-
en out and many a hammer, saw
ano
rents held on and the frosty air
only sharpened the appetites of
the forced idlers.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Kelly
contempt for America and Amer-
1---no doubt of his abil-
ity as a pianist but it seems that
rolled in her school under the with fine manners and pieman'
Mrs Kelly
lather, Mr Dean, one of the first Mrs. Ber.a England's home this
lembers of week—there met the redoubtable
She reports S. D. Simonds who as t
improving under jumped an argument (you know
himself.)
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McChesney, Nancy. The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1905, newspaper, February 17, 1905; Commerce, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1358971/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .