Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1904 Page: 5 of 8
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Local News Notes
Capital stock
$50,000
Surplus and profits 77,5oo
Dallas county land.
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in South
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The New Drug Firm
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Yours to please.
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Oats, per bushel
Corn, per”bushel
Butter, per lb....
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a thousand dollars'
Christmas.
No matter how small your business, you will receive
courteous treatment, and every facility of the bank
will be placed at your disposal.
We want your patronage and will do our utmost
to merit it by fair treatment and honesty in busi-
ness.
John Kendall sells 2 dozen collar
buttons for a nickel
Just received the new brown
Dunlap Derby and soft brown
Tourist Hats for men at $2.50 to
83 00. Mississippi Store.
Frazer’s is the place to buy
They all are going there
To get the genuine bargains
in furniture and hardware.
All members of Decatur W. O.
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C- D Cates and C. W. Martin
are in Bridgeport today-
Cliff and Miss Ada Cates visit-
ed Dallas last Saturday.
Arthur Finger, of Anneville
country, was in town Tuesday.
The new firm of thoroughbred
hog raisers, Hogg & Rogers, are
shipping a number of their hogs
lately.
Have you seen those folding beds
At Frazer’s? I should smile!
They set all others in the shade
For beauty and good style.
The K. of P. Lodge has ap
pointed a committee to arrange
fora district meeting of Pythians
here in January.
The Woodman camp of Deca
tur is expecting to have a public
installation of officers and ban-
quet first Friday in January.
President McKinley’s favorite
hymn, “Lead Kindiy, Light,"
will be sung by a quartet at the
Methodist church Sunday morn-
ing.
Supt. Barton has traded his
home in Decatur for 60 acres of
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For the past seven months my wife
has suffered from Neuralgia of the
Stomach. After being treated by the
best physicians of the country and re-
ceiving no benefits, she was induced
to try Marshall** HEPATICURE (He-
pat-i-cure). She has taken in all three
bottles and is entirely cured.—A. M.
Sheperd. Reece, Kansas. For sale by
Man & Simmons, Druggists.
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I want every woman in Wise
County to visit my store during the
next 10 days—I have something in-
teresting to show you.
John Kendall, West Side Sq.
Dippers, 5c, Pans, 5c, Combs, 5c
Brushes 5c, Cups 5c, Glasses 5c,
2 doz. fish hooks, 5c, 15c fans for 5c,
800 pins 5c, 800 tacks 5c, 800 parlor
matches for 5c, and hundreds of other
bargains at John Kendall’s store.
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Sam Moore was in town Wed-
nesday with six bales of cotton
out of his crop of 14 bales raised
on 12 acres of land on Denton
creek bottom.
At an examination for rural
carriers held here last Saturday
ten applicants were examined
for routes out of Boyd and eight
for routes out of Decatur.
The Wise County Home Pro-
tective Association No. 1. having
nearly reached its limit of
membership. No. 2. has been or-
ganized and chartered and is
starting off auspiciously.
Is now fully prepared to furnish the public with
Ba nice, clean line of Pure Drugs, Patent Medicines,
Stationery. Paints, Glass. Wall Paper, and fill your
prepscriptions with the Best Medicines and
Chemicals the market affords.
Decatur.
D. J. Peninger & Co. will pay
the right prices for your cotton
and will sell you hardware, wa-
gons, buggies and furniture at
right prices.
Greenwood. Slidell and Oliver
creek farmers are taking ad-
vantage of the $1 20 per bushel
wheat prices by selling what
they have on hand.
Mrs. J. H. Hogg this week re-
ceived a telegram stating that
her mother, Mrs. McKinney, who
resides at Bennington, I. T., is
very ill and not expected to live.
Last Saturday the following
Decatur visitors were in Fort
Worth: Mrs T. J Keney, Misses
Opal Kenny, Ada Harding, Ada
Cates. Nellie Donald, Eddie Live-
ly and Mrs. Frank J. Ford.
We are constantly- receiving
our new stock of furniture. Just
think of it! Three cars shipped
at once to D. J. Peninger & Co.
You can buy what you want
right here at home.
Decatur is getting up her rep
as a fine stock shipping center
have taken four bottles of your HE-
PATICURE (He-pat-i-cure) and am
entirely cured of Dyspepsia. Constipa-
tion, Nervous and all Stomach and
Liver trouble, and am a well man.—
J. G. Smart, Coffeyville, Kas.
For sale by Man & Simmons, Drug,
gists. ______________________
The most complete line of
Furniture at Frazer’s ever shown
in Decatur at prices that defy
competition.
HAS STOOD THE TEST 25 YEARS
The old, original GROVE’S tasteless
Chill Tonic. You know what you
are taking. It is iron and quinine in
a tasteless form. No cure, no pay.
50c.
Wanted—applications for po-
sition of telephone operators,
both day and night work, te be
placed on file for future vacan-
cies. Decatur Telephone Co.
My tradehas increased to such
an extent that I have found it
necessary to keep two delivery
wagons on Saturdays in order to
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you buy a sewing machine? Fra-
zer will sell you as good a ma-
chine as is made, guaranteed for
five years, saving you $15 to $25
on the purchase
her pastor, and Rev. Johnson, church above debt and in good
financial condition.
sengers in the towns are wonder-
ing where so much stuff comes
from.
Lost—At Rhome. Nov. 17, be-
tween drug store and Mrs.
Reeves’, near big gate, ladies’
pocket book containing two $5
bills, one dollar and small
change, trunk key. Reward for
return to this office.
If you think you have to con-
tinue to go away from town to
buy your furniture, call at D. J.
Peninger & Co’s, and inspect
their stock and you will find that
it is not necessary to do so.
Dr. and Mrs. Noah Fields
LOCAL MRKET REPORT.
The market report here given is cor-
rected every Thursday morning by re
sponsible merchants. Below are the
ruling cash prices paid on Thursday
Hay, per ton....................$8.c
Wheat, per bushel.............. 81 15
Cotton..... .................. 8.624e
Cotton seed, per ton ..*1.50 to $12.00
D. J. Peninger & Co. can suit
you in buggies.
Frazer has the prettiest and
best line of Furniture and
Queensware and the lowest
prices, ever shown in Decatur.
See those 25c buggy whips for only
10c at John Kendall’s Store.
tangled in the lines and was
dragged about one hundred
yards, and as a result he re-
ceived some painful bruises on customers.
first of the week for Canadian,
Texes, near which place they
will locate. These excellent peo-
ple are commended to the good
people among whem they settle.
Next Sunday morning at 11 a.
m. union thanksgiving service
will be held at the Methodist
church, the sermon to be preach
ed by Rev. Carver. An inter-
esting program of music has al-
so been arranged.
Grandma Worlsy died at
Boonsville Thursday of last week,
at the home of her son, E. E.
Worley, and was buried the
next day, funeral services being
We are closing out all the old wall paper at a
discount of 25 per cent and will guarantee to fur-
nish the citizens of Wise County wall paper for
less than express charges would be if it was given
to them. Our prices will be in keeping with best
goods and business methods, and we wish to state
that under no circumstances will we allow any
dealer to undersell us in anything we carry in
stock. You can make sure that our prices will
be as low as the lowest and goods the best, espe-
cially so in our prescription department, which
will always be kept at the top in purity.
$60, to be distributed by a com-
mittee appointed by the churches 1
of the town. Yesterday was ob- w
served as holiday by the school. I
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W. G. Cook and family left thei Drake, of Tientsin, China, have
i been in Decatur recently visiting
Mrs. E. C. Terrell and family.
Dr. Drake is now stationed in
China in the service of the U. S.
government.
C. W. Martin has sold his farm
and home on the east side of the
railroad, nine miles south of town
to Denton parties for $30 per acre.
300 acres are involved. Seven
years ago this land cost Mr.
Martin $6 per acre
Revs. Sweeton and Vaughan
are attending the North Texas
Methodist conference at Bonham
this week. Rev. Sweeton’s pas-
torate of the M. E. church in De-
Good people, you all know that we make the best pictures made
in Wise county, and really, no better made in Texas. We know
this, for we have worked in more than 100 towns in Texas, including
Dallas, Houston, Hillsboro, Cleburne, Tyler, Waco and many small-
er towns. We have photos from $1.50 dozen to 89.00 dozen. Enlarg-
ed portraits from 81.49 to 815 each. Picture frames from 95c for 16x
20 to 86 50 each. Come to see us.
^unneU Art Kompan
southern part of the state, where
they will spend the winter.—
Wellington Times.
Sewing machines sold at
Frazer's like other goods, at a
small profit on the cost. We give
a five years' guarantee, and will
save you $15 to $25 on your pur
chase.
A Thanksgiving offering was
made by pupils and teachers at
public school Wednesday morn-
ing, amounting in value to about
A. D. Rogers is on the road
again taking orders for spring
clothing. While traveling abroad
he is taking orders for thorough-
bred Poland-Chinas raised by the
firm of Hogg & Rogers. These
gentlemen contemplate putting
in 25 acres of alfalfa on ther
ranch on Catleet creek and of
augmenting their breeding stock
by fifteen or twenty brood sows.
See D. J. Peninger & Co. for
wind mills, galvanized tanks and
well casing.
Recent shipments of fine stock
away from Decatur include near
a dozen game cocks, sent to Oid
Mexico, Dee McCracken, and
ten crates of thoroughbred Po-
land-Chinas, fancy barred Ply-
mouth Rock chickens and White
Holland turkeys, expressed by
John and Cliff Cates to various
parts of the southwest.
Last Tuesday afternoon while
G. F. Plaxco was coming to the
city with a load of wood his team
became frightened and ran away.
Mr. Plaxco in jumping from the
wagon got his right foot en-
if you want to sell anything, Why pay agents traveling ex-
Decatur gives you the top of the penses and commissions when
He wants to buy in one direction anyhow. Bob
worth for! Moore says the express mes-
market. If yeu want to buy
anything, Decatur sells it as
good and as cheap as you can
get it anywhere.
You lose money if you buy
Furniture, Stoves, Queensware
etc., before looking at Frazer’s
mammoth stock. $1 00 saved
is $1.00 made.
For several years past I have been
afflicted with Dyspepsia. Stomach and
Liver Complaint, my nervous system
being completely broken down. I
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you should be ~e ~ ~e
R. K. Halsell came up from Ft.
Worth Sunday.
Lawrence and Vaughn Jones
were in town recently.
Prof. J. T. Wallace was here
from Keeter Saturday.
J. Logan Wright was a visitor
to Rhome last Sunday.
J. T. Buckaloo has been on
the sick list for several days.
J. M. Dalton, of Childress, was
in town Saturday looking for a
location.
Dr. C. L. Wilson and wife, of
Alvord, were here Sunday- visit-
ing friends.
R. G. Hill was here from the
Boonsville community- the first
k of the week.
R. R. Stanton will preach at
Slidell next Sunday at 11 a. m.
at M. E. churoh South.
Mrs. Jeff Sweet (nee Saun-
ders), and babe. of Fort Worth,
are visiting in the city.
January 10th the City Nation-
al Bank and C. B. Gunn. drug-
gist, will exchange locations.
Rus Arnold has purchased a
barber business at Vernon and
will reside there in the future.
W. G. Owen and familv have
moved to a farm near Vernon,
where they will reside in the
future.
M. D. Sellars only bought $825.-
75 worth of turkevs last week for
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Go to D. J. Peninger & Co. for a;
hardware | iF
Get you one of the new Puff ibs
Ties at the Missis-ippi Store. ib
J. J. Burt and wife left over I W
land this week for Chico and the ibs
W. camp are requested to be
present at next regluar meetieg, I
Friday evening, Dec. 2, 1904, at
which time there will be election
of officers for the term of 1905,
and other matters of importance
disposed of
W B. Man. Con. Com.
D H Payne, Clerk.
Everybody that is right side I
up with the world, apd that j
ought to include everybody, sure ,
enough are beginning to feel al-1
ready that the air is getting
‘ Christmasy."
Mr. Joe C. Cates has accepted
a position with Russell & Dallas,
where he will be pleased to meat
his old friends as well as many
new ones. Joe is a wide awake
grocery man and will serve you
well.
Go to Frazer's for sewing ma-
chines. furniture and hardware.
He will save you money.
Mr J. T. Couch, of McKinney, ‘
spent several days last week and
this visiting the Hood Bros., deal- i
ers in pianos and organs. Mr '
Couch was raised in the north
part of this county and enjoyed
his visit to old scenes and the
renewal of old associations.
W. W. Bowen was recently ex-
hibiting on our streets some
mammoth specimens of a new
sweet potato he is raising and
with which he is highly pleased.
Thirteen of these potatoes ag-
gregated 70 pounds in weight
The largest of them were cer
tainly enormous in size.
For sale—53 acres of land
one-half mile from court house,
Decatur, Texas. 30 acres in cul-
tivation. 7-room frame house. '
well, windmill, cistern, barn 26x 1
32, springs of living water. See
or address Messenger, Decatur,
Texas, or C. H. kinneburgh.
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Halcomb, N. W. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1904, newspaper, November 25, 1904; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1560926/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .