The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1925 Page: 3 of 4
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/HE MBXIA WEEKLY HERALD
iding construction
$1,000,000.
- Local ntreets
Fall Patterns
low Ready
TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND IS
BEING SPENT
Fifteen New Homes
Under Way as City
Keeps Growing
We have the new Fall Wool-
ens now ready for your sel-
ection.
We Do Pressing and Cleaning
Jlajestic Tailors
Phone 17
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5250
Overland Touring
Ford Speedster 50
1824 Willvs Kr.-i'.fht Tour 950
1824 ford Touring
1924 Overland
19^ Overland
1.922 Stephens S.:c
.922 Stiidebaker
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250
300
330
275
250
CnoJvhird Cash—HsJaace Monthly
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Sirtme
Sales and Scrvice for
k Overland and Y. ,'Hys-Knigl
Automobiles
Hurdler,ton Hotel Eld;;.
Phone 739
Go A,. Walters
Attorney at I-ew
Office over Farmers State Bank
Notary Public
Phone 772
FARM LOANS
Liberal Contracts
TEXAS FARM SECURITY CO.
Capital $50,000.00
106 Nussbaum Bldg. Phone 535
see—
DR. JOE B. WILLIAMS
Optometrist
FOR BETTER EYESIGHT
Office Nussbaum Bldg.
h MEXIA, TEXAS
In spite of the drouth which may
have dampened the hopes of some,
Mexia continues to grow and is
right now building 15 homes and 11
other buildings, a total of 26 jobs,
with a valuation of $207,500.
Leading the list of improvements
is a contract for the construction of
three school additions, at a total
cost of about $100,000. The work on
these jobs is well under way and
should be completed by the opening
of school.
Fifteen new homes are being built
and many more planned.
A $30,000 garage and automobile
display and sales building is being
completed.
These figures do not include
many new buildings already com-
pleted, such as the Mexia Ice and
Cold Storage plant, the News Pub-
lishing company new home, several
now filling stations, a number of
new brick buildings erected since
the first of the year and numerous
other new homes.
Many more buildings are planned.
A r.ew sub-division is to be put on
the market soon for fine residences
and a number of expensive homes
are planned.
A modern bungalow residence is
| being built by A. Clifton on Com-
merce street near Ross avenue. M.
Bryant is the contractor, while the
Oil Fields Lumber Company is fur-
nishing the material. The home
will cost about $6,000.
R. L. Vickers has just completed
home at Palestine and Red River
streets, with Ingram and Swann
a? the contractors, and with ma-
terial furnished by the Oil Field
Lumber Company. The building cost
is estimated at $3500.
A home for W. Myers is bfing
j built at 732 Sumpter street, by the
Ingram and Swann contracting firm,
from material by the Oil Fields
Lumoer Company at an estimated
cost of $3500.
I A. R. Steele has just completed a
• home at 628 East Sumpter street at
a cost of $3500, estimated, with the
Ingram and Swann company con-
tractors and lumber by the Oil Fields
firm.
L. J. Ingram, contractor, is build-
ing a home for himself at 11 Tyler
street near the Mexia Planing Mill,
of which he is manager. The cost
of the home will be about $2500.
T. W. Denning, contractor, is build-
ing a pump station for the city at
an estimated cost of $4,000.
Jay's Cafe has just completed a
remodeling and enlarging of its
place on Commerce street. No esti-
mate of the cost is given.
Ennis Barber shop has just re-
modeled a place on Commerce street
for a new home.
John I. McElroy is just complet-
ing a new home on Palestine street
near Ross avenue, at a cost of $(',000.
The J. R. Neece Lumber company
furnished the material.
The home of W. W. Richardson on
Red River between Titus and Hop-
kins has just been completed by
J. B. Woodside, contractor, at a
cost of about $2500. The Neece
Lumber company furnished the ma-
j terial.
S. J. Stuart has just completed a
I house on Main street at a cost of
| $3,000 and remodeled a house on
| Titus near Bonham street at an
I expenditure of about $2,000. J. B.
I Woodside was contractor and the
DR. C. P. McKENZIE
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
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Phono 114; Office Phone 395
Office in Kemp Bldg.
MEXIA, TEXAS
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Harry A. Porter
Chiropractor
PALMER GRADUATE
Office and Res. Phone 207
619 E. COMMERCE ST.
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E. L. HARTLEY
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Located lVru:an?nily with
, A. M. WESSON
Jeweler
Phone 777 Mexia, Texas
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Room 205
Pittman Bldg.
MOVED
to
111 West Main Street
NOTICE
We have BOB WILLIAMS,
well known Automobile Pain-
ter of Fort Worth, who has
had 12 years experience in
the business.
Help keep a good painter
here by having your old ve-
hicle painted, re-topped and
upholstered.
We handle any size job—
35 different kinds of paints
from which to make your
selection.
We use Chasis Dread-
naught Motor Topping.
See our Dust Proof Var-
nishing Room.
AvaraTop and
Paint Shop
111 West Main Street
Teague Ginning
Two Weeks Early
Three gins of Teague, Freestone
county, have already ginned 25 bales
of cotton, showing the crop to be
two weeks earlier this year than
last.
No trouble over water or power
is to be experienced in Teague gin-
ning season, the operators of the
mills declare.
Neece Lumber material men for the
jobs.
J. F. Denning, architect, is com-
pleting a very fine home on Mc-
Kinney street at a cost of approxi-
mately $8,000, supervising the work
himself.
C. D. Davis has just completed a
new home on Ross avenue between
Palestine and Carthage at an ex-
penditure of about $7,000, doing the
work with his own forces.
P. M. Speed has made $2,000 worth
of repairs and remodeling on his
residence on Red River, the work
being done by J. B. Woodside, con-
tractor, with Neece Lumber com-
pany as material agents.
Gregory and MacAIpine, contract-
or#, have just completed a city pump
station at the up-town reservoir at
a cost of about $2,000.
Gregory and McAlpine are almost
through with the remodeling of the
second floor of the Schulz building
on Commerce street, where offices
are being made. The Neece Lumber
company furnished the material. The
building is owned by A. T. Schulz.
A new house is being built by
Mrs. Lulu Bounds Martin on Rusk
near Kaufman. The building is to
be a dwelling and will cost when
completed about $0500. Roy Dodson
and Ernest Nordston are the build-
ers getting material from the Neece
firm.
M. A. White, Dallas contract.)"-, is
in charge of the building of three
school additions in Mexia at a cost
of about $100,000. The Neece
Lumber company has the material
contract.
The Phillips Ice and Coal company j
is building a five room cottage and
ice service station at Commerce and |
Ross avenue at an estimated cost of
$C,000. J. B. Woodside is contractor
and Neece has the material con-
tract.
Oscar Robinson, contractor, is
building a fine home for Walter
Beaver on East Hopkins street at a
cost of about $8,000. The Farrar
Lumber company is furnishing the
material.
L. L. Brown, mayor of Groesltck,
is building a very fine automobile
building at Main and Sherman
streets at a cost of about $30,000.
The building, when completed, will
hou\e the Oliver Motor company,
SMITH IS NEW
LIVESTOCK MAN
FOR LIMESTONE
Fortenberry Transfer'd
to New District by
State Department
R. J. Smith, formerly of Nacog-
doches, has been appointed state
livestock inspector in charge of tick
eradication work in Limestonce and
Nacarro counties, succeeding T. J.
Fortenberry, who has been trans-
ferred by the state department to a
new district composed of Jasper,
Newton, Orange, Hardin and Tyler
counties.
Mr. Fortenberry will make his
headquarters at Kirbeyville.
The new inspector here will be
stationed at Groesbeck, county seat
of Limestone county. He has heen
livestock inspector for eight years.
WANT TO
BUTTER - EGGS - CHICKENS AND
Bring It to Us
We Will Pay You the Highest Spot Cash Prict.
BUY
OTHER PRODUCE
Beer Gardens of
Teague Are Raided
TEAGUE, July Z3.—A beer gar-
den three miles from here was Thurs
day raided by City Marshall Davis,
Prohibition Officer Lee Shannon and
other officers. No arrests were made,
but 47 bottles of beer were taken
from a refrigerator. Five customers
were in the place. Officers say that
the proprietor, a prominent Free-
stone county man, charged $3 to
admit customers to his house, and |
that when there they were entitled j
to drink as much as they could.
They also made other beer raids. I
All three were merely distributing j
points no manufacturing apparatus j
being captured.
Arrests are expected to follow.
WE SELL
ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES, MEATS, FRUITS AND
VEGETABLES
Park your wagon, buggy or automobile in front of our store and
trade with us!
Plenty of Parking Space
KING
Tom King
Set Dates for
Freestone
V '
tan
October 7, and and 9, are the dates
se for the Freesone county fair to
be held at Teague. according to an
announcement by L. E. Peevy, sec-
retary-manager of the fair.
A list of premiums to be offered
will be made public soon and farm-
I ers of that county are urged to pre-
pare exhibits for what Mr. Peevy
hopes will be the biggest fair yet
held in that county.
Phocion S. Park of Bryan was a
business visitor to Mexia a few days
ago ar.d meeting his many old time
friends here. He will leave in a few
days for Portland, Oregon, to attend
the national convention of Ke ghts
Buick dealers. A. O. Evans is I Templar as one of the three officers
architect of the building and direct-j of the Grar.d Commandery of Texas
ing the work. Buckr.er and Wright j as delegates from the state organ-
are furnishing the material for this
job.
The American Salvage and Supply
company has just completed a ma-
chine shop at a cost of about $1500.
The contractor was J. C. Hodges and
the material was supplied by Buck-
ner and Wright.
ization. Phocion lived in Mexia for
many years and ba= many friends
here who are always glad to see I'.im.
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iCormick and Deering Farm
Points, and Repairs of
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Machine.-. Extra
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
The commissioners court of Lime- i j
stone county will receive sealed bids ! 3
for the purchase of the old court
house and grounds on the 10th day
I jf August, 1925, at Groesbeck. Tex-
, as, at 10 o'clock a. m., a certified
! check for the sum of of the
| amount bid for building and groonds
j mu:<t accompany each bid as a
! guarantee to tlie court that If ycur j
i bid be accepted by the court, that
you will pay said amount offered
by you for said building and grounds,
the court reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids. Mail bids to
the County Judge of Limestone
County and mark on same bio for
old court house and grounds.
J. B. WATSON, Jr.,
County Auditor.
(1G-23-30 Au<r. 0) j
ASPERMONT.—Hydrographic ar.d
topographic surveys of streams of
county have revealed several excel-
lent irrigation sites.
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GTDD1NGS.—New
being installed.
sewer system;
GARLAND.—New high school un-
der construction at cost of $45,000.
BOBBED HAIR
Correctly bobbed hair ac- ji^g
centuatea the attractive lines .iss
of the head. We bob the jgSa
hair in becoming fashion in jg
keeping with the mode. Our;
charges are reasonable.
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rows. We also carry the Hummer cultivator |
for less money. |
i Second Hand Ford and Chevrolet Cars in Stock For Sale |j
We have in stock 25 or more Chevrolet and
cars at most any time at attractive prices,
wanted.
Ford Second-hand ~
Terms made if
—Make more cotton and corn per acre by
using our Fidelity Fertilizer. Put it out with
our G. A. Kelly Fertilizer Distributor,
LOCAL AGENTS FOR CHEVROLET CARS
Drop in and look them over.
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A complete line of other hardware and |
harness at right prices.
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The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, July 31, 1925, newspaper, July 31, 1925; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292478/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.