The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 14, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 9, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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On Sale F, and Saturday
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FIFTY PIECES
Bookfold Printad
UNON LAWNS
In beautiful sheer patterns, white
grounds and self colored grounds.
It la the ideal fabric for hot weath-
er wear, Values froan'15c up to
25c. On sale at
10c Yard
Maddens
Oae-Price Cash.
The Place to Buy Shoes
Water Gaolers, Ice Cream Freezers, Ice Picks
let Skmrs, Filters, Rifrlprators
Geo. A. Jones Hardware Go.
Successors to F. E. Shaffer,
321 W. MAIN ST,
The Store that Sells Fishing Tackle.
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If you are going to build it will be to your ad-
vantage to see us. We have everything in the
hardware lin|». We are the pioneers of the busi-
ness in Denison. Contractors are always liber-
ally treated and can save money by consulting us.
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DoMide & Jtois
311 W. Main Street
Bargains Velvet Pumps
19 Pairs Ladies* Black Velvet Pumps, N
Regular $3.50 Values,
17 Pairs Ladies* Brown Velvet Pumps,
Regular $3.50 Valoes,
29 Pairs Ladies* Black Velvet 2-Strop Pomps,
Regular $3.50 Values,
an long as they
la*t for.
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ST BRAY, The Shoe Man
Onr Country’s Aehlmnmts
•turn Fran aH
In New York City manufactur-
ers are fined severely if they fail to
put in automatic sparkers.
Cobail, Ontario, is producing at
the rate of 30,000,000 ounces of
silver per year.
50,000 people in New Jeaey who
ride daily into New York are
lowling at the railroads against
exorbitant rates.
Ths government cannot get men
» enlist if they have to go to
Texas.
All the big merchant trade asso-
ciations of St. Louis have com-
bined into one. There are 15 ot
them.
The other day a 200-horse power
auto made a mile in 51 seconds at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A miner at Kingston, Pa., 1,510
feet below the surface, was struck
dead by lightning which followed
the shaft.
Ice formed on small bodies of
water recently in Wisconsin.
ed at Grand Junction, Colo,
the bursting of a dam.
No railroad company is
ing more money in equi
than the Baltimore and
Ten double track tunnels are
built over the Allegheny m
tains. A new line is being
in West Virginia to carry coal to
the great lakes, and will have in
all, a 4-track road to the lakes.
J. P. Morgan has presented to
the Kaiser a letter written by Mar-
ches. R. Crenshaw, ot Sher-
man, announces for the Legisla-
ture for place one, to fill the un- jog <of prayers for rain, as be had
expired term of Hon. J. R. Elliott,
on the following platform
1st. He favdrs Canadian Recip-
rocity.
2nd. He favors direct election of
United States Senators.
' 3rd. The Initiative, Referendum
and Recall.
4th. Favors extending the pow*
tin Luther to Charles V., which I of direct legislation to reason-
the carrier was afraid to deliver.
He paid $26,000 for it.
-The price of diamonds, except
for small ones, is going to advance
owing to the limitation of pur-
chasers. ~ ■&*
150 heavy steel freighters »».
operated in the great lakee and|0,j™ Anti-Trust law
able limits so as to bring the ma-
chinery of the government closer
to the people.
Stb. Favors a state law making
all campaign contributions public
all elections.
6th. Favors strict enforce:
Gov. Croce of
others. He took the position that
those desiring to offer supplica-
tions for moisture could do so
without solicitation from the gov-
ernor.
Geu. William H. Bixby, Chief
of Engineers, U. 8. Army, says
the destruction of the battleship
Maine was caused-by the explo-
sion of her three magazines. He
says that no such effect as exists
could have bean caused by an ex-
plosion from without.
are not insured.
The largest mail order house in
Chicago pays an annual insurance
of $600,000.
One of the great engineering
feats on the American continent
is the Horseshoe dam on Bow
River in Alberta, B. C, It will
discharge 3,000 cubic feet of water
per second.
Hie eight destroyers to be built
by the U. S. government will be
7tb. Favors an appropriation
by the Legislature of money suffi-
cient to recover every acre of
Texas land now held in violation
of our State laws.
8th. Favors better, roads.
9tb. Favors all laws to improve
or extend our splendid public
'" Ififfrr
According to the Dallas Nywa
the general offices of the M. K. A
T. Ry will remain Dallas. It
says :
To bouse the general offices of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway of Texas, a contract be-
tween this company and John N.
Simpaon has been approved for
school system.
10th. Favors a more humanita-1 the erection of a aix-stonr build
rian treatment of prisoners. ing at the corner of Commerce
11th. Favors simplifying our •*** Market streets. The five up-
, . _ _______ _____, laws so as to dispense with such ™ oceupaed by
Th*1 U;i8Q7g7OVernmen; ba" pu.r* |ab,e 10 «° 4.°°° at a 10-knot | technicalities that make unreason- |ower fl^i/wifl probably boused
““““ “ ' able delays in court trials. for storerooms.
12th. Favors an amendment to The announcement of the con-
the constitution allowing home j tJ'ac* means, among other things,
rul, in taxation which .oold per- ’^TSTaSlSt
mit any municipality by majority that tbe Katy general officea
to exempt factories and other in- might be moved from Dallas to
Cedar Rapid, on the 8t. Uwranc. JjXlLlor .luonce'r^*' eV I. Con*rea.innn Randell.m Tex..,
chased 31,377 acres of land in
Northern Georgia at $6.62 an acre.
speed.
Wireless
transmitting stations i
90,000 000 acres in Tennessee are are to ^ erectad in Uie Congo re.
Arforon o i sx I a I an om>a m t ha m* I . . .
offered at $3.00 an acre, in the re'
gion known as "barren lands.”
At Beloit, Kan., recently, some
wheat was harvested, threshed,
milled and baked inside of 30
minutes.
The British Lords have finally
agreed to not veto any money bills
presented by the Commons.
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The govenment is now after the
wall paper trust.
The bodies of 6 tourists who
perished on a glacier in Switzer-
land in 1870 will soon be recovered
by its natural movement.
Tbe extension of railroad build-
ing in Oregon is stimulating wheat
raising.
Tbe Interstate Commerce Com-
gion, Africa, to cover a distance of |
1,860 miles.
Another great electrical develop-1
river, where 500,000-horse power |
will be developed.
British Columbia railwav men
propose to use oil-burning engines |
to prevent the possibilty of fires.
The longest locomotive run
13th.
_ , . , . is the author of an anti-graft bill
Favora closing saloons bv | that farmers should help
state law from 7 p. m. till 6 a. m. I "As long as the law permits ^>uf>-
with adequate penalties of not less lie service corporations and others
than two years nor more than rn*fr?f®^ .1? legislation to give
seven years lor isolation. Also Snplgymjl'to senators
favors a license ol $2,500 a year aDj representatives,” as Mr. Ran-
without a stop in England is 226 divided as follows: $1,250 to go to dell says, “we can never hope for
miles; in Germany, 178 miles be-
tween Berlin and Hamburg; in
France, 163 miles.
Excavating machinery is now
up to a high state of efficiency.
One machine with 1% cubic yards
the public school fund, $625 to the I remedial legislation.” His lull
| city and $625 to the state. I demaDd« ^at senator? and repre-
14th. Favors carrying out all
Our Big Red Tag Sale
Wednesdays July 20
aid Closes
Saturday, July 29
sentatives and other'public ser-
vants should not be permitted,
platform demands ol the demo- during their terms of office, to re-
| ceive from public service co
mission estimates that 20,000,000 bQcke,18 work,n* ““
era tic party.
15th. Opposed to graft in any
shape or form.
gallons of whisky are annually
shipped by mail order houses into
prohibition states.
Two hundred railroads in the
United States have entered into
arrangements to make summer
vacation traveling cheap and in-
viting to all parts of the States.
A strike of seaman and dock
hands is in progress in Great
Britain which has so paralyzed
shipping that a food famine is
threatened. Ten thousand men
are now idle in Liverpool. The
Atlantic lines are now tied op
completely.
The Erie railroad is ordering
3,300 gondola cars. The Canadian
Pacific has ordered 30,000 tons
steel rails.
2,500 tons of steel will be used
to build piers at Norfolk.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad placed an order last
week with the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works at Philadelphia for 80
locomotives.
3,000 tone structural steel will
| go into a building in New JYork
| City for the Adams Express Co.
The New York Bellvieu hos-
| pital is to be enlarged by an addi-
tion, taking 2,200 tons steel.
Australia shipped 1,072,000
| bushels of wheat during June.
The port of Baenos Ayres is to
gravel can average 660 cubic yards
in a 10-hour day under favorable
conditions; in fairly stiff shale 450
cobic yards.
$1,000,000 has already been de-
posited in the U. S. postal banks.
$68,000,000 was offered to the
U. S. government when it asked
for $50,000,000 Panama bonds.
During April 222,000,000 people
were carried on the railroads and
subways of New York City and
Brooklyn.
Santa Clara Valley, California,
will ship 60,000,000 pounds of
prunes this year.
During the past 17 years the
government of Chile has had 322
of her bright young men educated
in the best universities of Europe j
ia order to utilize their knowledge
in the various walks of life in that
country.
Public schools are being multi-
plied in South American ooun-
tries.
Tbe high price of cotton abroad
has caused the shutting down of
one-third of tbe mills in Belfast,
Belgium and Russia.
Bear in mind
on the Statewide prohibition
amendment takes place on the
22d of this month, and also that a
representative to the legislature
from this county is also to be
voted for at the same time. All
bolding poll tax receipts or age
exemption papers are entitled to
vote.
corpora-
tions or others interested in legis-
lation gifts, fees, employment, or
compensation. Our readers should
demand that their congressman go
that tbe election | on record on this important and
necessary reform.—The Progress-
ive Farmer, Raleigh. N. C.
Ta Water
Water bills are now due. Call
at the water office and settle and
save trouble. 144
■•tics.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned will apply to the
special session of the Legislature
to be convened at the city of Aus-
In another column is published
the platform of Charles R. Cren-
The order of the council regard-18haw, candidate for State repre-
ing fireworks resembles the prohi- sentative. Mr. Crenshaw is an
bition law, only reversed. The °M citizen of this county and has
citv ordinance permits the selling a large number of acquaintances
of fireworks but prohibits the and friends in this city. There
burning of them. The prohibition Iare two other candidates in the
law permits the drinking of intox- 6®ld, but tbeGazetteer has no hesi-
icating liquors but prohibits tancy in saying that Mr. Cren-
their sale. | shew ia their superior in ability and
general fitness for tbe place. It is
Far Sale Cheap. I time Grayson county sent men to
Several thoroughbred young Austin possessing qualifications
Black Minorca cocks. R. P. Bur- commensurate with the import-
bans, Gazetteer office. lance of this section of the State.
Grayson is one of the most popu-
Wednesday when the drill at | loos counties m Texas, and should
the Shawnee well reached a depth wield an influence in legislation
of 398 feet salt water was struck second to none. II she has not of
and the work was stopped. The late years the blame rests with
drill bad been working in shale her citizenship. Mr. Crenshaw
and red clay for most of the time possesses the qualifications; mo're-
when the salt water was detected, over, be is cosmopolitan, a man
Tbe well will be plugged at the with no local prejudices, and the
bottom to cut off the salt water people of Denison are assumed
and the well cased. While the | that in him they have a friend who
water last Sunday, when the well will be found ready at all times to
------------------------ , „ . _ . . had reached adepthof 360 feet, rose serve them so far as be is able.
he made one of the great ports of ^amend Section*! of Article 5of witbin fi,ty 1661 of tbe t00* M vefy Deni«on and vicinity should* give
H - 1 -* ” ‘little sand or gravel had been en-|him a hearty support.
ntered, the prospect for a very
liberal supply is not flattering, but I $—IlM Ceatsstaats at
a pump has been ordered, and the | At the Fourth of July celebre
If You Don’t Fin<t
What you Want at the other groceries, give
Our stock |s always fresh and np to date.
! have tbe choicest of
us a call.
We always
“Wide Auake” Grocery and ffteat Market
ELTON THOMPSON, Prop’r
1030 W. Main Street
Both Phoaes
X, p*
| the world at a cost of many mil
liorfdollars. Tbe government of
that country is looking far ahead.
Tbe Missouri Pacific wants 50
I big freight engines and the North-
ern Pacific wants 1,000 steel
| freight cars.
The wealth of Mrs. Hetty Green
| is estimated at $100,000,000.
Something is brewing in this
I country besides beer. Tbe auto-
matic aggregation of wealth will
reach dangerous limits.
The Sontbern has received 50
I ol 196 mountain climbing engines
1 ordered a year ago and will now
shorten its schedule to the coast.
The stock yard fire at
Worth caused a loss of $100,000.
600 dozen pairs of hose will be
I turned out daily at theqjew Marys-
[ villa, Tfnn., hosiery mills.
The Japanese have just com-
| pie ted a railroad 225 miles long
I with 96 tunnels aggravating v 20
j miles, and 351 bridges aggregat-
j mg nearly five miles at a cost ef
| $85 per foot.
; 6,000 head of cattle were drown-
the Charter of the City of Denison |
to hereafter /ead as follows s
The Mayor shall have power to I
appoint, subject to confirmation of |
the city council, such heads of de-
partments in the administrative
service of the city as may be
created by ordinance, and shall
water.which is of good quality buta ti0D at Woodlake the contests were
b*ve power to appoint and remove well in the same vicinity, though anj Spoon R^» lor men Wallace
ever in his judgment the public 01 the *>re“nt wel1 IB carelul,v ran Acree, pri» $2.00; Egg and
interests demand or will be better! tested. , ------------------- 8poon Race lor women,
subserved thereby, and no officer | _ ... w ^ | Pool, prize $8.00; Three
.. A i Race, G. B. Butler and H. A. Tur-
Keep the flies out of dwellings. |prite ^ w. Xhraad
Ethe
whose office is created bv ordin-
ance shall bold the same lor any
fixed term, but shall always be
subject to removal by the Mayor
or may be removed bv the city
council. In case ol such removal
if the officer or employe so re-
Fort I quests it, the Mayor or city coun
Get screens lor doors and win- “r* , „ . „
dows. Be on guard all the time IWaadle Race, L F. Shaver and
against them.
1 Keep screens over articles ol
food. Don’t let flies get near the
pantry, kitchen or dining room.
Be doubly careful about keeping
cil, as the case may be, shall file
in the public archives of the city a I flies out of the sick room,
written statement ol the reason are likely not only to bring com-} Mr. an
for which removal was made. plications of new diseases, nut to #4.00;
waiting far.
Beririna Broa
C O M PANYM
Expert Watchmaker
Educated to
the profession.
The most
complicated
work done.
S24 ». Mas M.
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Everything Electrical
we sell. Tbe dungs that we don’t,
vour supply list to os i
best goods for tbe I H[
We can furnish you with a large
dynamo or a small drv battery.
We have the
wire ol ail kinds lor :
and every known
ance lor daily osa.
Smith Electric Co.
117 8. Burnett Asa.
Old Phone 286
(Signed,)
J. 8. Kone,
W. 8. Pearson,
W. J. Mathis.
> to many
The front ol the new building
lately occupied by Scott & Jen-
nings. See J. E. Howard, Rnsk
avenue.
carry the invalid’s dii
others. -
"Health is wealth,” and "an
ounce ol prevention is worth a
pound ol cure.”
There is more health in a house
than in many a
Miss L. Dalton, prize $4.00; Run-
ning Breed Jump, J. F. Lyall,
prize $2.00; Old Men’s Rece, W
M. Hannan, prize $2.00; Cigar-
ette Race, lor men and worn
and Mr. O. C. Pariah, pi
Boxing on the Spar, lor
boys, John Stone, prize $2.00;
Boxing on the Spar lor men. R.
B. Morrison, prise $8.00.
Califenii Striiwd Horsy
A natural bee product. So different you know from
tbe compounds pat up in a laboratory and nicknamed
hooey. We just received a carload of tbe geouine
kind. It's ail ready lor delivery.
DENISON GROCER CO.
THE
Denison Bank and Trust Co,
•f Denison
A GOOD
BANK
in a Good Town
Open an account with us to-day.
We pay 4% compound it
Our Ming
At Cut Prices
One-Fourth Off nn
, Salts, Boys* Salts 1
Odd Troascrs. Me
thlag
There is a difference u
ular prices have been $2.50 to $6.00 per
other stores' prices, and with oar eat prieei
off means that oar pricee are still cheaper
926.00 Suits sold by ue at 920.00, now.................916.
922,60 Baits, sold by as el 917 JO, now: ..............$13.
918.00 Suits, sold by os at 916-00. now................911-
916.00 8uiL sold by os an 91U0, now............*.....99.
11.96 Suits, eold by us at 99.96 ow""..............97.
All Drees Pants, 91-00 to 95.00, now jT6c to.........
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The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 14, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 9, 1911, newspaper, July 9, 1911; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth571138/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.