The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1914 Page: 3 of 4
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INSURANCE
I write all kinds. With
Hartford, Fireman's Fund,
Queen, and Austin Fire.
My profession is Insurance
and I need your patronage,
as I am not in the hanking,
hardware, dry good or gin
business.
I will appreciate vour
patronage.
F. C. RUGEL
Mesquite, Texas
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Local and Personal
Miss Jewell Daugherty visited
in Forney Tuesday.
Tnos. J. Lawson of Lawson,
was here Wednesday.
J. B. Woody of Kleburg, was
here on business Tuesday.
Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Overton, on the 15th, a boy.
Miss Winnie McGaughey visi-
ted friends in Forney Saturday
and Sunday.
Olin Gross and wife of Dallas,
spent Sunday with relatives in
Mesquite.
Joe Rugel attended the Chris-
tian Endeavor Union in Dallas
Monday night.
J. K. Range went to Athens,
Henderson county, Monday, on
a prospecting trip.
George M. Gross of Dallas,
spent Sunday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gross.
Mrs. Jack Kimbell visited her
mother, Mrs. A. F. Slater, in
Dallas several days this week.
Ollie McKenzie, who is attend
ing Trinity University at Waxa-
hachie, is home for the holidays
J.C. Smith and wife visited
at the home of R. B. Shankles,
in Dallas Sunday niyht and Mon-
day.
Dr. J. II. Florence ot Houston,
spent Wednesday night at the
home of his father, D. W.
Florence.
Ned Wallace, once << resident
of this section, but now of Bris-
tol, Tenn., is visiting at the home
of J. L. Han by.
Hugh Rugil. of Springdale,
Ark., who had been visiting rela-
tives here for the past ten days,
returned home Wednesday.
Red Cross Christmas Seals,
the proceeds of which are used
in the crusade against tuberculo-
sis, lc each, on sale at Palace
Drug Store.
J. S. McCullough of Dallas,
visited his nephew, J. F. Mc-
Cullough here yesterday and also
paid the Mepquiter office a very
pleasant visit.
G. W. Green, who was iu busi
ness here until his stockwas
destroyed by tire, abcut two
months ago, moved to Dallas the
latter part of last week.
Miss Bertha Bird, employed
at J. F. McCullough'a during the
milliuery season, returned Mon-
day to her home at Elmo, but is
expected uack to spend the holi-
days with friends here.
Mrs. Ollie Lester, who recent
ly underwent a second surgical
operation at a sanitarium in Dal
las, is reported as getting along
nicely, and it is expected that
she will be able to be brought
home the latter part of this week
A new Methodist minister ai-
med in town on Dec, 12, or to
make in plainer, a son was bora
on that date to Rev. and Mrs. T
L. Huffstutler. As this is their
first child, Rev. Huffstutler is
acting like lie had been promoted
to be a Bishop in the church.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lindsev
were in Kingston from Saturday
until Monday, visiting at the
home of their daughter, Mrs. Ii
B. Smitherman, Mr. Smither-
man, who was once superinten
dent of the Mesquite High School,
and later proprietor of the local
telephone system, is now in the
grocery business at Kingston.
Card of Thanks
We desire to thus express our
grateful appreciation for the
many acts of kindness shown
him and us during the illness
and at the death of our beloved
father and grandfather, Solomon
II. Bean, and to wish for all God's
richest blessings.
W. S. Jobson and Family.
L. J. Berrys Entertain
Last Thursday evening the
members of the Maids and
Matrons Club and their friends
were entertained at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Berry. Pro-
gressive forty-two was enjoyed
throghout the evening. A salad
course was served to about
thirty guests.
Club Reporter.
Stewart Says
We are headquarters
for Candies, Fruits,
Nuts, Fireworks Etc.
for Christmas, a s
well as many articles
in wearing apparel
and groceries. We
want your trade.
L. C. Stewart
Everybody
Wants
Something a little extra for
Christmas, and we beg to
remind you that this is the
store to supply your needs,
as we have everything in
Staple Groceries, including,
Canned Fruits,
Vegetables and Meats,
Choice Ham and Breakfast
Bacon,
Fruits, Nuts, Candies,
and Extracts
In fact, everything you ex-
pect to find in an up to date
Grocery Store.
i
J. R. SCOTT
East Side Square Telephone 73 Mesquite, Tex.
H. H. Frayard Buys
Out T. A. Goodman
H. H. Frayard has purchased
the interest of his partner, T. A.
Goodman, in the barber shop
heretofore conducted under the
firm name of Goodman & Fray
ard. The latter will continue
the business. Mr. Goodman, it
is understood, has not made
ditinite plans for the future.
ii H. H. Frayard
Mesquite, Texas
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' Barber and Laundry
Agent
Hot and Gold Baths
<> We will appreciate your
patronage and we strive
to please.
The Honor Roll
The following persons have our
thanks for recent payments of
subscription:
R L. Coats, Mesquite; E. D.
Paschall, Mpsquite, for self and
for Eugene Paschall, New Haven,
Conn.; Dr. A. F. Jones, Mes
quite, for J. Merton Jones,
Houston; W. S. Jobson, Mes-
quite; A. W. Lindsey, Mesquite,
for R. B. Smitherman, Kingston;
S. B. Jacobs, Mesquite; Col.
Chas. Woodson, Seagoville; Dr
E. T. Hardy, Elmo; A. Rockhold,
Dallas; Mrs. J. L. McLendon,
Groesbeck; M. D. Parnell, Law-
sou; P. B. Terry, Lockhart;E. B.
Heftiington, Mesquite; J. S. Mc-
Cullough, Dallas.
GIFTS WORTH
HAYING
$1.00 to $3.50
Gold Cuff Buttons
Stone Set Rings
Gold Collar Buttons
Gold Filled Bracelets
Gold Neck Chains
Cameo Brooch Pins
Gold Tie Clasps
Coat Chains
Lockets
Cut Glass Bowls
Berry Spoons
Tea Spoons
Silver Knives and Forks
Fountain Pens
Scarf Pins
I
G. F. CHAPMAN,
DRUGGIST
Next D or to Post Office.
Card of Thanks
We want to thank our many
friends for their kindness to us
at the unexpected death and
burial of our dear wife and
mother, and we trust that God's
greatest blessings may ever be
with all of you, and that we shall
meet in that better world, where
there will be no more sorrow.
A. M. Jones and Children.
Arrangements
for Christmas
It is understood that arrange
ment are being made by the
Baptist, Christian, Methodist,
and Presbyterian churches of
Mesquite for Christmas trees,
probably on Thursday night of
next week, which is Christmas
Eve night. However, final and
definite arrangement will be
made at the various Sunday
Schools next Sunday morning.
The Mesquite High School
will be dismissed for the holi-
day on the afternoon sf Wednes-
day, December 28 and start up
again on the first Monday in
January.
Various people in the com-
munity are making individual
arrangements for the holidays;
some of them will make holiday-
visits, while others will have as
their guests relatives or friends
from elsewhere. This is the
time of the year that people like
to visit their former homes in
the eastern states, but on ac-
count of the low price of cotton,
travel of that sort will perhaps
be lighter thin in many years.
Among the different airange-
ments to be made, it is to be
loped that the number who ex-
pect to get on a "spree" is not
very large, and tint nothing un-
pleasant may mar the week cele-
brated in honor of the Savior of
Mankind.
Recital Given by
Miss Stella Girdley
Miss Stella Girdley gave a very
pleasing recital at the home of
her teacher, Mrs. J. B. Bryant,
Tuesday evening December 15,
in the presence of a number of
invited guests.
Miss Girdley is a very talented
pianist and the manner in which
she acquitted herself reflected
great credit on herself and her
teacher.
Assisting in the rendition of
the program were Misses Ger-
trude Paschall, vocalist; Edith
Lewis, reader; and Bessie
Bryant, violinist.
Miss Girdley has completed
the teachers' course, and was
awarded a diploma, the presen-
tation being made by Prof. L. J.
Berry.
Tramps are Numerous;
Better Watch Out
There has been an unusual
number of tramps in Mesquite
during the past week. Two of
them, though not together, called
at the home of the writer on one
afternoon this week.
We have never had much
sympathy of the brand of religion
or charity of the person who
would turn a hungry tramp
away without anything to eat,
because, forsooth, it might be
the tramp's fault and not his
misfortune, that he did not have
ulenty to eat and wear.
But at the same time, it is well
to be careful, when they get to
coming too thick, especially at
this time. During the past few
weeks holdup men, theieves and
thugs have carried on a very
carnival of crime of this sort in
Dallas and the police force and
sheriff's office have joined hands
in a crusade against the vagrants
of that city. All unemployed
men found loafing there must of
fer a satisfactory explanation of
their presence there. The result
of this crusade may result in
driving a loo of these thieves out
of the city and they may pause
in hear by towns like Mesquite,
to continue their occupation,
hence it is well to be careful,
especially at night
In other words, give the hun-
gry fellow a bite to eat, and send
him on his way, but lock up at
night. The first nine may be
honest unfortunates, but the
tenth may be a burglar.
State Legislature
Neets on January 12
So many people have asked j
the editor of this paper recently
when he had to go to Austin, to I
attend the regular session of the (
Legislature, that we here state,
more as a matter of news of the i
date of the opening of the Legis-
lature than the movement of the
writer, that the session will open I
on the second "Tuesday in Jan-
uary, which is the 12th of the |
month.
On the following Tuesday, or|
on January 19, James E. Fergu-
son will be inaugurated Gover-
nor of Texas to succeed O. B.
Colquitt.
If the usual custom is follow-
ed, the writer will probably have
at his disposal a few invitations
to the inaugural ball. If any of |
our readers want to attend that
bad enough to spend the present I
price of a bale of cotton or more|
for railroad fare and other ex-
penses, we'll see if we can got I
your name on the list of the I
"elect."
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UNTIL JANUARY FIRST
20 pounds Best Granulated Sugar,
$1.00, with every $5.00 purchase.
A Christmas Offer
If you want to send the
Mcsquiter to some friend
or loved one as a Christ-'
mas or New Year's Gift,
we will make you a
special price of 75e for an
annual subscription, pre
vided the paper is to be
sent to someone outside of
Dallas county, and we
will notify them that the
paper will come to them
for a year as a gift from
you.
THE TEXAS MESQUITER
Mesquite, Texas
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old RUndnri) gcn-ml utrfngthniliiif tonic,
GROVK 8 TASTKI.K&S chill TONIC, drl*« out
MiiUrU.eorlcb*ilhc blood,indbullda up thtirt-
, ten. A trut Umuo. rot kUIU iMMtm. m •
A Sluggish Liver Needs Care.
Someone hag said that people with
Chronic Liver Complaint nhould be
shut up and away from humanity, for
they are pessimists and see through
a "glass darkly." Why? Heeause
mental state depends upon physical
state. Biliousness, Headaches, Dizzi-
ness and Constipation disappear after
using Dr. King's New Life I'llls. -6c
at your Dru««i*t>
Town Council Holds
an Important Meeting
The regular monthly meeting
of the town council of Mesquite
scheduled to be held on the first
Thursday night of each month,
was held on Inst Friday, night,
nstead.
The committee, composed of
11. S. Kimbrough and John 8.
Lawrence, appointed at a previ-
ous meeting to see the property,
owners of the block, east of the
public square, on the north side
of the alley, and also Walker
Bros., whose property is at the
northeast corner of the public
square, to find out en what terms
they would agree to deed part of
their property necessary to make
the alley into a street, with the
line of same running paralled
with the businsss houses on the
north side of the square, reported
that prices were quoted them as
follows:
Walker Bros., 2 lots, $1,000.
S. T. Vanston, 1 lot, $100.
S. D. Lawrence, 2 lots, $100.
J. L. Cooper, 1 lot, $250.
John S. Lawrence, J. A. Gird-
ley and R K. Kimbrough wero
appointed a committee to confer
with the Inter urban right-of-way
committee, to find out what ar-
rangements could be made about
the finances to pay for the prop-
erty to be acquired.
It is stated that after the fin-
ances are arranged, the original
committee will make the prop-
erty owners an offer for the
property, together with a tender
of the price offered, after which
condemnation proceedings will
be instituted against the proper-
ty on which no agreement can be
reached.
It is understood that other
property owners in this block,
viz. N. A. Ilolley, R. D. Beaton,
C. D. Kimbell and Mrs. W. H.
Paschall, have given the amount
needed off their lots.
This proposed strett is part
of the route of the proposed Dal-
as-Terrell Interuaban, but it is
too narrow at present, being only
a twenty foot alley.
The council also transacted
some routine business of an un-
important character.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless 1
chill Tonic is equally vsluable as a I
General Tonic because It contsina the i
well known tonic properties of QUINrNB
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives '
out Mslaria, Enriches the Blood aad
Builds up Um Wfcoto §9 w 4 . i
Extra Special Sale of Furs for the
Holidays. All these goods will be
marked at about half price. Beautiful
Sets at $2.95 and $3.95; worth many
times more. Will be glad to put these
away for your friends to be delivered
during the Holidays.
Things to
delight the
little ones
Handkerchiefs in Christmas boxes, up
from 25c per box.
Counterpanes, Lace Curtains,
Table Linen and Napkins
Marked Especially Low for Christmas
Give him a nice Suit; get it from McCullough at about
half price.
Toys
Toys
With the best line of
Guaranteed Jewelry ev-
er brought to Mesquite,
we can supply all your
needs in High Grade
Jewelry; every piece is
fully guaranteed.
If it's a Toy, you can
find it here; If it's wear-
ing apparel, save money
by making your pur-
chases here. On apples
and oranges, nuts, and
candies, we lead.
Rugs make excellent gifts. McCullough will
one at hard time prices.
sell
you
J. F. MCCULLOUGH
Dealer in Merchandise of "the better kind
MESQUITE, TEXAS
Letters to Santa Claus
Dear Santa Claus:
Please bring me a pistol, some
caps, Roman candles, and tire-
crackers. I want some fruit and
candy too. Dear Santa, bring
my little brothers a red and blue
ball, and I want a tri cycle bad.
I am going to school and I am
one fourth of the way through
my Primer. I will bo a good boy.
Santa, if you will bring what I
asked for.
Johnie McCain.
Dear Santa Claus:
I am a little boy 7 years old
and go to school overy day. 1
have been a real good boy, so
please bring me a ball and bat,
a pair of gloves, a horn and a
whole lot of good things too.
Don't forget dad and mama, also
think of our good editor and the
Mesquiter force.
Yours for a fine Xinas,
Preston Dee Male.
Dear Santa Clans:
Peuso bring men horn, uicycle
and some candy and nuts and
don't forget my little sister, 3
years old on Christmas day.
With love from
Kermit Hale.
Dear Santa Claus:
My good old friend, bring me
a doll, some hair ribbon and some
other nice things, and be sure
and don't forget Gracy and Mrs.
A. O. Allen I am a little girl 2
years old.
With best regards,
Georgia Pauline Hale.
Dear Santa Claus-
I want you to please bring
me
THE
CHRISTMAS STORE I
We are headquar-
ters for Dolls, Toys I!
and other holiday ii
goods. We have
the only brand
new stock of these
j goods in town.
Come here before
you do your holi-
; day shopping.
J. H. McKINNEY
Mesquite, - Texas
a toy pistol, a little train, a bugle
and some chocolate candy. Iain
a little boy 17 years old.
Aaron Nelson.
Dear Santa Claus:
1 am a little girl five years old.
I want a little sewing machine
and great big doll that will go to
sleep. And don't forget my
sister and brother, Nona and
Ellis. Hring them something
nice, too. Your friend,
Little Winnie Belle Summers
Dear Editor:
Please have Santa Claus to
send me a Juice harp and a train
and a bugle. I am a little boy
about 14 years old.
please publish this so he can
see it.
this is all so good by
yours Irooley
Earl Lawson.
FARM LOANS
Vendor's Lien Notes Extended
Inspections made and loans closed promptly.
HUGH W. FERGUSON
214 lAnx Building DALLAS
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Davis, John E. The Texas Mesquiter. (Mesquite, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1914, newspaper, December 18, 1914; Mesquite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth400045/m1/3/?q=war: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mesquite Public Library.