The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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We Mention a Few of the New Bargains.
Dress Goods.
New Novelties.
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Clothing.
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Staples.
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PERKINS BROS.
Greenville,
Kaufman,
Decatur.
Commerce,
Sulphur Springs,
Winnsboro.
Gilmer,
Purchased on our last market trip are now about all in. The purchasing power of 14 Big Stores for spot cash
enables us to offer more and bigger bargains than any other store in Commerce could possibly offer. We have
the outlet for the goods, the cash to pay for them, and that's what it takes to get the price right.
Just received new lot ladies belts, side combs, backcombs,
embroidery turn-overs, lace turnovers, etc. Pretty embroid-
ery turn overs 3 for 25c.
Athens,
Vernon,
Quanah.
Jacksboro.
Alvarado.
1 errell.
Altus,
-.--$3.85
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Embroideries.
Hundreds of pieces of new goods marked 1c. 5c, 7c, 10c and
15c that are worth almost double this for many pieces. New
corset cover embroidery at 25c, 35c and 50c.
Millinery.
Special prices on al! ladies’ and children's hats.
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Men’s 5.00 coats and pants now at.........'....
Men's 6.50 and 7.50 eoats and pants now.........
Men’s extra well made wash pants, with belts, at
Men’s regular 1.00 wash pants without belts....
Men's 2.50 light weight wool pants now..........
Good calico, in indigo blue, greys, fancy styles, and shirting
styles at .....................'.............3c yard
Pound thread cotpin cheeks ........................2 l-2c
Regular 7c gingham at................................. 5c
Double width per cale at...................5c per yard
Shoes and Slippers.
60 pairs of ladies fine slippers, in black and tans, worth SI.25
to $2.0**; sizes 3 up to 5. all in one lot..............96c
47 pain sample slippers ami sandals, in both tan and black;
sizes 3 up to 6; worth *1.5<> on up to *2.50; all in a lot *1.29
89 pairs of men’s 3.00 and 8.50 low cut, hand welt shoes, tan
or black, all sizes.......... $2.20
21 pairs men's black kid ami patent leather low cut shoes,
value 2.50, marked .......................... *1.65
Hundreds of pairs of sample shoes and slippers at all kinds
of prices.
THE NEW GOODS
Our Spring business in dress goods has been such that we
find our stock almost all sold out and on our last market trip
we bought a new and complete stock.
25c value mohair lustre at ...................14c a yard
Mercerized chiffon voile..........................10c a yard
Jacquard knicker voile................ 10c a yard
Knicker zephyr linen .............. 10c a yard
29-ineh white dress linen .......................19c a yard
29-inch blue dress linen ........................19c a yard
36-ir.ch white dress linen.............. 25c a yard
10 pieces “Dolly Varden” organdies, 25c goods,.. 15c a yard
Big showing of pretty new lawns, cords and other wash fab
rics at 10c and 5c that are worth much more.
Jardin Jottings.
ly enough of them left to show great deal of good accomplished
bad weather, and the afternoon
was spent tn trying to tune up
our long neglected voices for
singing, and last but not least, a
We would like to say here that
the Jardin Whitling club is doing
a grand work this rainy weather,
--J membership increases with .
every rain. Observer.
sicKness.
The infant of Mr. and Mrs.
Will Jackson was i
Sonora cemetery on the 27th.
Last Sunday morning our Sun- that they ever existed since they through the Union, and really
day school met for the first time “run the price of cotton up,” but think it a grand thing indeed if itJ
in several weeks op account of then you know that was their they will all be true members.
1 think everyone hrs gone into
the poultry business.
When asked why his corn was '
so little and yellow, Clark Estell
said, “why I planted the little
and yallow kind.”
Jim Collins says the reason it
rains every Saturday and Sun-
day is to keep him away from
Mr. Dunn’s, but it doesn’t keep
' him away, we notice.
There is a great deal of wheat
around that is just about ready
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about them but I don’t know they are always “sliding back.” few days sunshine harvesting
interred in what it would be; there are hard- However we think there can be a would begin in earnest.
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MALLETT & BERRY
Have the newest, freshest, Staple and Fancy Groceries
in town. Our stock is select, the best quality, and
sold at right prices. Perfect satisfaction is guaran-
teed. If what you get here isn't as represented bring
or send it back and get your money.
We are dispensers of fine goods, and hence headquar-
ters for good things to eat.......
' ' Respectfully,
MALLETT & BERRY.
Monday dawned bright and
clear and the busy houswives
and.?'Tin? byld*y,i?h.l’ fine"'sZ’rmon at~'night”by”litav7
Barter Morrow, a Presbyterian
minister from Alabama, who is
here on a snort visit with his
sister, Mrs. W. F. Stovall. Bro. | it.
Morrow is a fine man as well
an excellent preacher.
jolly as he is interesting, and I to raise it for that and then they
wins the love and admiration of, “later on” just jumped at 7_*a
all who meet him. for theirs they had been offered
Was that you, Political Pete. 104 for. Some of them really
me about our Farmers said it was almost as good a thing
Well, well, I 1 as the “Church of Christ,” and
I its members do remind
and when old Sol beamed forth
his bright face in the far east he
was greeted on every side with a
cheerful “gee and haw” from
the farmer boys as they went up
and down the long row of corn
and cotton trying to persuade
“General Green” that his day of
grace was over.
Health in our community is
very good. However. Dr. Whit- asking
ley of Fairlie has had a few calls Union over here?
from our town, but no serious hardly know what to tell you. 1 ' its members do remind me of
would like to say som -thing good some church members I’ve seen, to cut, and if we could hav-
mission here, and now, like the From the looks of the crop of
“ground hog,” they have gone spring chickens coming on the
back in their holes, till-we get Methodist ministers will live high '
our crops made and then they this summer. It has been such '
will come out and raise the price dreadful weather for farming till
of cotton again for us. Really,
Pete, I don’t believe those fellows
know a good thing when they see
They actually laughed at us
asffor taking 10 and 10‘s for our
He is as i cotton and said we couldn’t afford
’ I to raise it for that and then they
Officeat the Ninkel Store every Monday and
Saturday. Permanently located here.
IF YOU NEED GLASSES
SEE
WATSON, THE OPTICIAN.
COMMERCE, TEXAS.
Examination Free. Satisfaction Guarantee!.
Local Option Legislation.
Base Ball Excursion.
A. M. Wai-
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eating liquors in any county, tion, except in cases where good ^tare<
justice precinct, city or town in reason can be shown why in- »iay you will get a bad
this state, in which the sale of j junction proceedings cannot be I f?r Ippeurchis? Safe'
- liquor has been prohibited by laid betore the judge presiding Iieg in pr, King's New Life'
law.” over the district in. which the’ Pills, a sure cure for all bowel and
Second. Liquor houses ship- case arises, such as the judge is stomach diseases, such as hea<l-
* ping intoxicating liquors by ex- sick, out of the district, refuses *che, biliousness,^costiveness, etc
press are required to label their to act, or that such judge is dis- ,
ira naan ’ r-. tv n 1♦/t a/vt hsiam 4Ka sama I J
goods are not taken from the ex- which disqualification must be
press office by the consignee fully set forth in the application!
within seven days after their re- or petition.
ceipt at the point of destination,! The punishment for the bench Worth. Ft. Worth, Texas. June
. the local agent is required to re-; of any of the first named statutes I U> 1905. Round trip tickets
'* “ Sell for
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turn the goods to the liquor above mentioned is a fine and Commerce $1.50.
house. confinement in jail for a number (ti?,?ni i'• m- « morning
Third. Proprietors or em- of days, not less than twenty. No. 102 of that data”'‘
’'' of cold storages in local;The fourth, being merely a re- lace, agent. Phone 100.
option districts are prohibited' striation thrown around district
I from permitting liquors, wines or judges, which they’ will have to
The legislature passed four im- any other intoxicants to be drunk conform to as they do all other
portant bills pertaining to local within their premises. restrictions.
option matters: Fourth. Judges are prohibited i These acts will go into effect
First. Agents are forbidden to from issuing injunctions in cases {July 14, 1905.
solicit “orders for any intoxi- arising outside of their juriedic- i ~
. I in cases where good
reason can be shown why in- j
in which the sale of junction proceedings cannot be
,---- ------— «--o- i---------e iy n0.-)ii Dr. King’s New Life!
j over the district in. which the ■ Pills, a sure cure for all bowel .nd
Liquor houses ship- case arises, such as the judge is ' stomach diseases, such as head-
’ ex- sick, out of the district, refuses »cbe> biliousness, costiveness, etc
■ ‘ ■ • .....- - -- 1 Guaranteed at C J Hundley’s,
goods plainly, and in case the qualified to act upon the same, j J 1 r' tllr,n’
Base hall game, Dallas vs. Ft.
Commerce journal
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COMMERCE, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 9,1905.
NO 43
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Legal Blanks.
We keep a full stock of Mort-
gages. Releases. Bills of Sale,
Meuliuiiic's Leins, Rental Con-
tracts, Notes, etc., on band.
v0L. XV.
Our Job Department
is constantly being supplied with
new type faces and other neces-
sary material for turning out the
most artistic work in this line.
E. E. Wayman & Co.,
a
Office in Markely Building, over Perkin Bros, store; both 'Phones,
References: Planters 4 Merchants National Bank, Commerce.
FRUIT JARS at
The Commerce
Mercantile Company.
COMMERCE TELEPHONE CO.,
CLAUDE RANDLE, Manager.
Subscribe for lhe Old Reliable. A Home Enterprise.
BROKERS.
Cotton, Stocks, Grain and Provisions bought and sold for Cash or
Carried on Margins.
FRUIT JARS at
The Commerce
Mercantile Company.
We have just received a
car load of the celebra-
ted Mason’s Ball Top
Fruit Jars, and we are
going to sell them at
right prices. Come at
once, as the demand for
them is strong and they
are going fast.
Connections with all parts of the surrounding country. Saves
the farmer needless trips to town. Brings the market to our JO jr
Reaches Greenville, Paris, Cooper, Cumby, Campbell, Lone QA4
| and many other points ii^surrounding counties. * r
Keep Commerce Money in' Commerce and Help Your Country
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