The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1920 Page: 2 of 8
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.IA(’KfW>RO GAZETTE
Thursday, September 23, 1920
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Ma/or of Dallas Invites All Texas
Children and Teackers to State Fair
General News From Bean Prairie, for the young people. The spell DECREASE IN FOOD
PRICES REPORTED FROM
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bean Prairie, Sept. 20.—Mr.
Prank Porter has the distinction
was broken Saturday night when,
like a storm the neighbors surpris-
m
ed Mr. and Mrs. Andy Lowe by
of having a larger bunch of pick-'gathering at their home in reraera-
ers in his cotton than any of the brance of the former’s birthday,
rest of us for the fact that he has an(l also the fact that they will
turned all of his cattle right into'move away s00n- Every°ne was
the field and reports are that they
;are “onto their job.
(thoroughly bent upon pleasure
seeking that even the regular
singing was dispensed with.
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MUNlClOAk •UILDINO
CITY OF DALLAS
FRANK W.WOZENCRAFT.Mavo*
?• tfc* Children of Ttxu September ®t 1920
u< Their Teecherei
Hi a fits believer in, and frtend of, education, Z
tMt ovary pupil and ovary taacheir in Texas to visit tae State
Fair. X want the* to leaf* tKS lessons It teaches and to have
the fun o visit will afford. X have asked Honorable E. J. Kioet,
President of the State Fair, to let ee invite all the children
of Texas and their teachere to vieit tha Fair ae ay gueete and
Hr< Kieet, with hie ever-preeont desire to help accomplish worth-
while projects, has granted my request. X tuks t is means of
extending you an invitation and X am .going to bo disappointed
aniens all sf you ecespt.
Tha day sat aslds is Friday, October 15. If you
will writs to Ur. W. H. Stratton, So ere Wry of the Fair, Dal-
las, Texas, and tall him how many tickets your school can uas,
he will send tickets admitting you to the grounds and to the
afternoon performances at the Colisom and the grand stand.
ill you have to do is to writs to Ur. Stratton for the tick-
ets. Of course, the tickets will not bo good any day except
Friday, October It, and 1 am going to look forward to meeting
.ell of you personally sit the Fair that day*
j Mr. J. P. Klum who has gone in-!, Gordon and Henry Robison of
(to the garage business in Jacks- Oklahoma have been visiting in
jboro was out at the old homestead the home of their uncle, Mr.. Ben
: yesterday.. Stephens, for some time. They ra-
Quite an interesting houseelean- turned home yesterday,
ing bee took place at our little, ’ * 1 “
school building last Saturday at For skin eruPtions’ rash- ohafed
ternoon. Counting old and young skin- Prickly heat- chl8«er
there were twenty eight persons
and stings of
bites
poisonous inseets,
Ballard’s Snow Liniment is an ef-
present. This included two ban-
selves useful by pumping water. J ’ *
Together with the scrub broom, |Por b°‘tle- Sold by a11 dea,ers-
buckets, pans, pails, soap, gold (^vt.)_t m S * '
dust, and plenty of willing hands new law in Louisiana has clos-
time passed all too quickly and1^ ^he gamt>iing houses. This la\V
the occasion was a merry one also. prohibits any game with cards
Miss Bessie Graves, the teacher, I w]jere the stakes result to the ben
from Jacksboro, entered upon heHefit of ^ny 0ne other than the play-
work this morning. "When she
learned about the preparations
which had beea made for the open
Washington, Sept. 19.—Twenty-
seven of the standard articles go-
ing into the American family mar-
ket basket decreased in price be-
ween July 15 and Aug. 15.
In making this announcement
oday, the Department of Labor’s
bureau of labor statistics made
public figures showing that during
he thirty-day period ending with
the middle of August the retail
price of potatoes fell 44 per cent
and the price of cabbage went
down 41 per cent.
The drop in sugar prices was
placed at 14 per cent.
ers.
-Mayor of Dallas
DRILLING IN CLAY
COUNTY SUSPENDED
VARIOUS REASONS
J contract to go to deptl^§ varying
| from 2.50Q to 3,500 feet but they
have gone a short distance and
stopped, because, it is said, the
........ banks have shut down on them
H. C. Withers, staff correspond-; ^ addjtional funds are not
ent of the Dallas News writes to available.
paper from Henrietta, in re- The opinion is expressed by
to the cessation of oil opera- some people who are believed to
in Clay County. The same ; he on the inside that in some see-
will, perhaps, apply to j tions of oil development, not nee-
ing of school she expressed her-
self as pleased and stated that she
did not always get so much con-
sideration. On account of the cot-
Owners of horses and bloodec
stock are large users of Liquid Bo
rozone. It heals wounds, festering
sores, barbed wire cuts by a mile
power that leaves no dislguring
ton failure schools are opening up scars. Price, 30c, 60c and $1.20
reasons
the situation in
Mr. Withers says: ,
Oil operations in Clay
have practically ceased. Cessa-
on of operations is said to be
Jack County, (essarily in Clay County, the wells
due principally to* the fact that
Maks no longer are
wildcat operations and the pros-
' " 5r has to dig up for himself
dollar that he spends in
a well.
selling is a thing of the
Everyone who has any
months ago became too
put his money in stock of
have been drilled to actual pro-
County duction and then closed up, be-
cause the operators have plenty of
money and don’t want to bring
the well in, dispose of the oil, in-
financing J crease their incomes and make
themselves liable to the Govern-
ment for a much larger slice of ex-
cess profits tax.
The excess profits tax is the
bugaboo of the successful oil op-
erator.
early this fall.
Miss Willie Porter had her first
experience in teaching at theCuop-
er school house last week.
Miss Frankie Porter will teach
at Burton Springs.
Mr. Tom Berry’s force is mak-
ing hay while the sun shines; they
are baling johnson grass.
Mrs. J. C. Riggs had the pleas-
ure yesterday of entertaining Will
Riggs and family of Cooper com-
munity, Joe Nipper and family
of Jacksboro, Sam Riggs and fam-
ily and Linnie Newkirk and fam-
ily of this community.
Mrs. Karney of Decatur who had
been visiting her brother, Mr. J.
H. King, and other relatives in the
county for some weeks left this
morning to visit friends at Bridge-
port, after which, she will return
home.
The Misses Gaylor of
visited Miss Maud Crismore last
Sunday.
Mr. Andy Lowe and family and
Mr. J. H. King will move west to
the Wellington country in a short
time.
Works Porter and family, Chas.
Porter and family, Ervin Black
and family, Mrs. Wm. Shaw and
in the home of
Sold by all dealers-(Advt.) (9-30)
So oil men are easting about for
some method of relieving them- \ two sons visited
companies, and really selves of this heavy tax on their Mr. and Mrs. Frank Porter yester
are no promoters left in this (profits. It is understood that a day.
who actually have the new income tax bill which will
to offer stock for sale. |make a drastic cut in the excess
it means that when a pro-j profits feature of the present act is
goes out to drill a well he being drafted by representatives
have about $100,000 loose
of the leading oil operators and
ah, for it takes the* cash to do will he pushed vigorously at the
e work, and there is no other j next session of Congress. Confer-)
The last two weeks have been
one continued round of pleasure
BBillHfiTlM
TL* powerful. bMfelittg warmth
fit lima* Mat bluing (Hi g:v»*a /fc&ji
laee for him to find the cash. Tf iences to discuss the terms of this
e has n’t that sum or something bill are scheduled for Wichita Falls (
like it he doesn’t complete the (and Tulsa within the next few
(days, between a committee of the
many wells under!Midcontinent Association.
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There are
J. H. WALTERS,
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Druggist
Tl^e tax rate in Omaha, Neb
which was $10.16 on the thousan.
when the State was wet, has been
reduced to $9.28 with prohibit'd,
ii effect. The reduction in crime
has permitted a reduction of the
police force of 183 to 165?
of meat decreased in price.
Eggs went up -11 per eent dur-
ing the period. With this excep-
tion and pork chops, which in-
creased 5 per cent, the increase in
other foodstuffs were 2 per eent or
less.
Indications that the decline in
food price levels was general is.
seen in statistics showing that
each of the 51 cities covered by
the bureau’s survey reported de-
creases.
%
According to the Lincoln Corri
er-Herald, the number of arrests
for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct in Illinois is only one-
sixth of what it was during
Most kinds' days of the saloon.
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A cross, sickly baby suffering
from digestive roubles needs Me- T
Gee’s Baby Elixir. It cheeks the j
bowels, eases the stomach and re-
stores healthy conditions. Pdifee,
35.c and 60c. Sold by all dealers.
—(Advt.) 19-30)
GEORGE SPILLER
Surveyor, Notary Public, General
Land and Collceting Agent.
s Only Abstract of Jack County
Land Titles.
licies in any of twenty of th*
Beat Companies,
icksboro, Jack County, Texaf
W. ISBELL,
ABSTRACTER
LAND LOANS
INSURANCE
Office in Tax Collector’s Office
/JACKSBORO. TEXAS
Jno.P.Simpson Jno.D.McComb
Simpson & McComb
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
GENERAL PRACTIC
Office over Walters’ Drug St<
JACKSBORO TEXAS
I am the only
Licensed
Funeral Director and
Embalmer
IN JACK COUNTY.
C. O. HESS
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The Successful
Cake
Cclc’s Sanitary Dotfn
Draft Renge vvith its
C'OLE’C
HCT ELAST
FUEL SAVING
SYSTEM
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cf Cc~6usticn insures c?cn Baling onfall sic!
Everything comes out cf Ins c'vC.n perfectly take
No disappointments fer the housewife, i
husband is interested because cf its one-tkird to
one-hal
bustion
f fuel saving r
t bums all c
rceults. Co!e*s Hat Elect Ccn-
thc combustible fuel gases
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(wasting nothing.) With fuel and food efc its
present high price these ere things that every?
' husband and wife will find cf interest in
Cole’s Dotfn Drcfi R:n^
This range is furnished in blue or grr? enamel or j
plain black finish. Come in and let us tell you r r
its man^ valuable features and sho^ ybu :*
beautiful and sanitary construction. »
Gwaltney Mercantile Company
Jacksboro, Texas
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WATCH OUR CITY GROW
H. R. Reeves’ Firm has added to our city of Jacksboro, a nice
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% . a nice music store which is one
among the best cultured features in our city; also, introduces more of the new musical c
features to the people of-Jaeksboro trade territory and indeed makes a new and very at- £
tractive addition to our town. For over twenty years the great factories have kept us
posted of the new improvements, styles, models, new features, daily, that are due to first class
vtsam^. instruments. From over 20 years’ experience we have used our best effort to place on the
floor the best high grade Pianos. Player Pianos, and Organs, and the world’s best Talking Machines which we now have
on our floor, for sale. Our talking machines have the harness motor, every piece of them is guaranteed by the factories. They
have the Universal Tone Arm, and play every make of records that are made without changing the head piece or needles if you
use the Diamond Needle. We can furnish your home with a Piano Player, Piano, Organ, Talking Machine, Violin, Guitar, Mando-
lin, Sheet^ Music, Roll Music. Should you purchase an instrument from us we exchange businesss with you. We will save you money
in the price of any instrument you purchase from us. We will buy your cattle, hogs, and mules. We will demonstrate any in-
strument on our floor to you with pleasure upon your demand. You are especially invited to call and see us before buying an
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instrument. We pay no rents. No expense added to the cost of instruments
We are next door to Yours for business,
Sewell Lumber Co.
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?rom the factory to your home.
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H. R. REEVES, Manager
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The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1920, newspaper, September 23, 1920; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729996/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.