The Commerce Journal. (Commerce, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, March 23, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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New Directory.
on
By far the best and cheapest feed
the
A/new cro^ for Texas which may prove more profi-
table than corn or cotton. Plant one acre at least as an
experiment. We have a limited amount of seed for sale.
Ask us about them.
We are prepared tocull cotton seed in any quuantity
for 10c per bushel ax'd will pay a good price for the culls.
Planting' Seed
Cull Your
We have ample supply of both.
Cotton Seed Meal
Hulls
an(J
Soy
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; \\ •• will i>sii<* a new I l>ii»<*toi\ on April 15th. <
; It \ou an* 1 liinkinj^c\f putting in a phone, do it now I
; so that you will lH^ist<*<\ in the new directory. <
■ Gulf States Telephone Co.:
> <>. B. KIMS. JR., Manager. “
market.
Rowden Cotton Seed
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Pure machine culled Rowden cotton seed direct from
Wills Point, Texas. Price S1.60 per bushel while they
last.
Miss Leia Fly nt left Wednesday
night for Tennessee to join her broth-
er, Carl, who h^s been there some
time for treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bagwell of
Memphis, Texas, are spending the
month here with their son, Boyd
Bagwell.
The Knickerbocker Stock Co. will
be hare the balancf of this week.
Don’t fail to see them.
Prof, and Mrs. f. W. Lagrone of
Marshall, have imn visiting
and Mrs. W. H. Fincher and
and Mrs. L. Gough.
By request frorfi many of the Hip-
Mr. podrome steadies, chapter number
Rev. one of “Patria” will be shown again
I Monday. .
Chapter one of Patria" will play
a return engagetjient with chapter
two at the Hippodrome Monday.
Commerce Oil Mill
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No. 4«J.
State Bank of Commerce
FRIDAY
EVERY
PUBLISHED
at
Miss
Sun-
RESOURCES.
c.
c.
com-
Wylie
in
Griffin
went
to
and
from
over
$176
TOTAL
29
Greenville
in
LIABILITIES.
OFFICE:
POSTOF-
her
to
Telephone No. 19.
from
Mrs. C.
C.
Tuesday
TOTAL
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$176,152.29
here
C.
C.
C. C.
from
J. D. Jernigin and W.
Roan
T.
Worth
MILLION DOLLAR
MEET TO PLAN
Fri-
REFINERY PLANT
RIVER TRAFFIC
c.
I
Dallas
John
returned
Brigance
from
Beautiful millinery at Mrs. C.
C.
Death of Infant.
w.
J.
Hon. O. C. Mulkey left for Austin
T. W. Thompson of Greenville was
♦
You’ll Want
To Dress Up
you’ll
This spring, and
want your new suit to meas-
William S. Hart. Triangle.
to the SEASON S
were
ure
up
STANDARDS.
Mrs.
i
‘The Model
' time—will surelj
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Hanan Shoe* Are Beat By Test
darine
o o oooooooooooooooooooo ooool
oooooooioooooooooooool
Chick Bell was over from Wolfe
Bell- City Sunda-V-
Miss Margie Ellison returned
day from Ft. Worth.
Mrs. Charles E. Gardner is visiting
her sister, Mrs. H. W. Brownrigg.
The best millinery at Mrs.
Faught’s.
Artistic millinery at
Faught’s.
Bruce Williams visited
Sunday.
Prof. J. M. Bledsoe, of the State
Department of Education at Austin,
was here Monday.
Miss Jewel Thomason of Klondike
visited Miss Elizabeth Ridley.
Jack Lilly went to Ddllas Tuesday
morning.
Miss Nell Sibley was in Greenville
Sunday.
Hardy Moore of Duncanville spent
Monday in the city.
M. L. Moore returned to
Tuesday morning.
Earl Sandridge of Enloe was here
visiting his father, G. W. Sandridge.
Mrs. Dick Faires left Sunday for
Hugo. Okla.
Raymond Boykin was over
Greenville Tuesday night.
Prof. Geo. H. Ihlefeldt was
from Cooper Wednesday.
R. H. Finney has returned
Oklahoma.
Miss Hortense Abernathy returned
from Greenville Friday.
Mrs. R. H. Mason and little daugh-
ter returned to Greenville Fruir.y.
O. M. Harper, of the Theta
munity, was here Saturday.
Miss Katherine
Dallas Saturday.
Friday
dozen.—
w ltd 70.
pros-
was
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF,
HAIR STOPS FALLING
! bottle
Iso
Capital Stock paid in
Surplus Fund _
Undivided Profits, net
Individual Deposits, subject to checl
| a hier’s Checks
OFFK 1 Al S I AT EM ENT OF THE FIN A Nt I AL CONDITION
OF THE
OPPOSITE
FICE.
Mrs. Carl Day was here from La-
donia Monday.
“Patria,” No 1 and 2 at the Hip-
podrome Monday.
See us about your butter fat at 31
cents per pound.—Commerce Produce
House. wit.
W. J. Taylor was
Saturday.
Bewitching millinery at Mrs. C. ( .
Faught’s.
STYLE
Suits that you'll surely like?
Suits that will dress you up
best,Are here by the score in
r
$ 25,000.00
15,000.00
3,695.77
132,149.62
306.90
every2conce*vable c°l°r and
pattern effect. All faultless-
ly ebrret for SPRING 1917.
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f E. MALONEY, President
APPRRSON, Assistant Cashier.
State of Texas, County of Hunt,
and C. C. Apperson, assistant ci
solemnly swear that the above
knowledge and belief.
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See Helen Holmes as “A Lass of
the Lumberlands,” at the Lyric Sat-
i urday.
We, E. E. Maloney, as president,
[r of said bank, each of us do
:$ement is true to the best of our
Subscribed and sworj
Lawrence Sparkman of Dallas was
here on a visit to his parents.
A man can’t keep hi* heart in his
work and on the Altar of Love at the
same time.
at Commerce, State of Texas, at the close of business on the 5th day
of March, 1917, published in the Commerce Journal, a newspaper
printed and pubished at Commerce, State of Texas, on the 23rd
day of March, 1917,
Misses
Lackey and Tom Hewitt and Delaney
Pratt attended a dance at Wolfe City
Monday night. ■ here Friday.
Prof. Powell went to Ft.
Friday.
Up to date millinery at Mrs. C. C.
Faught’s.
M. L. Moore was here from Dallas
Monday.
Prof. Lester M. Stone, of Yantis,
was here Saturday and Sunday.
W. J. Winstead, one of the
perous Cross Timbers farmers,
in town Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Waller are vis-
iting in Corsicana.
Rev. J. M. Lawrence was in Green-
ville Saturday.
Mrs. Ed Hajlewood was in Green-
ville Friday.
South-
was
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Roy Harrington and : sister,
Georgia, and Misses Marie and Bess
Brown, motored to Greenville
day.
Loans and Discounts, personal or collateral —•-
Loans, real estate
Overdrafts
Real estate (banking house)
Furniture and Fixtures
Due from Approved Reserve Agents, net
Due from other Banks and Bankers, subject to check, net--
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Currency ---------------- ---------------------------
Specie ---------------------------------------------
Other Resources as follows: Advance on cotton
Eugene Thompson, of the
western Paper Co., at Dallas,
here Wednesday on business.
Miss Lona England returned Thurs
from a visit with relatives in Wolfe
City.
I). E. Denney was here from Green-
ville Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Musgrove and
. Pleasant
I -- - -- - .
I family are moving to Mt.
today.
Mrs. J. E. McWilliams and
I Paul Bell went to Greenville Satur-
day.
Dave Hemsell, Claud Randle, J. W.
Manning and T. W. Thompson
here from Greenville Monday.
to before me. this 12th day of March, A. D. 1917
R C. HILL,
Notary Public, Hunt County, Texas.
Ik Weekly Journal.
HART BROS. Publishers. —---
visit to her sister, Mrs. Bob Hayes.
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Mr. Jas. A. B. Dilworth has been
in Commerce a few days visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Dil-
worth. He is on his Way to Fredrick,
Okla., where he has been elected to
the secretaryship of the Chamber of
Commerce.
CORRECT—ATTEST:
F. J. PHILLIPS,
P. A. NORRIS,
P. E. MALONEY, Directors.
$87,555.44
18,718.05
54.60
4,651.30
2,361.30
__ 36,591.97
776.22
562.23
3,682.00
1,285.07
19,904.11
Appearing in
“TRUTHFUL TULLIFER’’
at the
Hippodrome Tuesday.
And scraggy
a neglected
awful scurf,
destructive to
At Yobs the bair
ngth find its very
luefng a feverish
the s*alp, which
Miss Pauline Haislip (eturned Fri
day night from an extended visit to
her sister, Mrs. W. L. Patrick, at
! F'int.
Some fine millinery at Mrs.
Faught’s.
John Brigance
Greenville Friday.
Mrs. W. J. Walker left Wed. morn-
ing for her home in Bryan, after an
extended visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Sterling, and her son, Noah Walker,
and their families. Mr. and Mrs.
Sterling Hart accompanied her to
Dallas.
tonight—ntfa—■
save your hair.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton
Danderlne from any drug store. Yc
surely can have beautiful hair and Io*-
of It If you will just try a little Dan
Save yoar hair! Try it!
Stylish millinery at Mrs.
Faught’s.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hanks
baby are visiting in Dallas.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
aharacter, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation which
may appear in the columns of The
Jeurnal will be gladly and fully cor-
rected upon being brought to the
publisher’s attention.
Mrs. Jackson returned
from a visit at Horton.
|nter'<l as second class matter
April 7, li'i ■, at t e postoffice at
Cocw rce, Texa under Act of Con-
gress. March, 1879.
Floyd Ferguson was
Wolfe City Sunday.
Thin, brittle, colorlass
hair Is mute evidence of
scalp; of dandruff—thjft
There is nothing i
the hair as dandruff,
of its lustre, its strw
life; eventually prem
ness and itching of
If not remedied causes ths hair root
to shrink, loosent and die—then th<
hair falls out__£ay. A UHle Danderlm
Boys, bring your pigeons
and Saturday, $1.09 per
Commerce Produce House.
We wonder if Governor Fer-
guson does not sometimes pine
-4or the solitude of his
Bosque ranch, as of the days
of yore, before he decided on
the 1.3th day of the month and
the 13th anniversary of his
wedding, to become the 13th
candidate for Governor of Tex-
as T—Mesquite Mesquiter.
Carl Prtgmor* nd Mr, and Mrs. I
Dutch Prigmore of Pecan Gap motor- ,
ed over here Sunday night.
By United Press.
NEW ORLEANS, March 19—Gov-
ernors of Mississippi valley states
met here today to plan to use of the
Mississippi river and others to obtain
relief from freight rates which tend,
they say, to force shipments by lake
and rail instead of via this port. Faught’s.
Dr. Will Santrell of Greenville was
here Friday.
Jack Lilly has returned form Dal-
las.
Dwight McDowell was here from
Ladonia Sunday.
High class millinery at Mrs. C. C.
Faught’s.
$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be
pk&sed to learn that there M at least
one dreaded disease that Science has
been able to cure in all itf stages and
that is catarrh Catarrh 'Seing greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine is fatten internally and
acta thru the Blood gt the Mucous Sur-
faces of the Systenyjhereby destroying
the foundation of thMdisease, giving the
patient strength bjr miilding up the con-
stitution ami assisflne nature In doing its
work The prnpfe^nrs have so much
faith in the curative powers of Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any ase that it falls
to cure Send for list of testimonials
Address F J CHENEY & CO . Toledo.
Ohio. Sold by all Druggist. 7Bc.
Mr. and Mrs. D. If. Morgan and
son and daughter visited in Wolfe
City Sunday.
v Business wasn’t so bad for
the railroads in 1915. The I
statement of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company shows an went to Austin Sunday,
increase of $6s,399.726 in oper-
ating income for the entire
system and an increase of $47.-
436.409 in operating expenses,
leaving a net income of $20,-
963,317 from railway opera-
tions.— Ft. Worth Record.
Don't shoot your pigeons, 1 will
pay $1.00 per dozen for them.—Com-
merce Produce House. wltd70.
Tonight: Cloudy; Friday f Cloudy,
cooler northwest and northeast por-
tion East Texas.
Mrs. John Eaton rtturned to her
j home Saturday in Brownwood after
a visit to her sister, Mrs. Bob Hayes.
Mrs. J. C. Haislip and baby re-
turned to Farmersville Saturday.
$1.00 per dozen for your pigeons,
Friday and Saturday.—Commerce
J’roduce House. w ltd JO.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
WEEKLY JOUR.\AL.
One Year
Six Months
Three Months
I>A1LY JOURXAL.
B>j Carrier or Mail
•no Week 10c
•no Month 25c
One Year (in advance) $2.50
$1.50
.75 1
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Miss Virgean England returned to
Ft. Worth Sunday after n visit here.
( Lawrence Sparkman returned
Dallas Sunday night.
31 cents per ]v»unji'for your butter
fat. Why sell ypdYsfiutter for 20
cents. Commer*6 Preface House. It
Save your Hair! Get a 25 ce
of Danderlne right now—/
stops itching scalp./
S/jeeitl to Commerre Journal.
Rg United Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., March
17.—Tank cars, boilers, tanks and
construction steel have arrived at the
85 acre tract east of the Fair
Grounds where construction work on
the million dollar refinery plant for
the Home Refining company has
started. The company expects to
have the plant running during Aug-
ust with a capacity of 2,500 barrels
daily. Besides gasoline, a wax by-
product will be made. Materials
costing $400,000 have been ordered
for the refinery.
“Weather or No.”
’i
Miss Margaret Donavan, of Green-
ville, visited Miss Ixyola Devaney
Sunday.
Rev. M A. Smith was in town
Friday from his farm south of the
creek. He is looking well and says
he is in better health than for sever-
al years. .
------ It is understood that Dr.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Hill is doing very well.
Tom Chapman died Mon. morning.
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Lillian Craig and Sybil Friday afternoon.
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