The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1910 Page: 4 of 18
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Remember, there will be auction
every afternoon until the
entire stock is sold.
Auctioneer
Qne yearat the Liberty Theat*a*| Ne'W York.
A play that will live forever. A re ill
cir.eus on the stage.
PRICES: 50c, 7% $1, $1.50. Seals o» SaK Saturip
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TEE S-ULPHUR SPRINGS GAZETTE. DECEMBER 16. 1910.
The Big Auction Sale at the Hub Dry Goods Store
Continues every afternoon from 1 to 6 p. m. Large crowds are in daily attendance. . Dortft
miss it. It’s a crime in price slaughtering, but go they must, shall and will. Your price is
the auctioneer’s price, no matter how great the sacrifice. Go before .the stock gets broken.
Next Saturday Will Be Mostly Shoes and Clothing Sales!
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Go and see the Iowa Hustler sell
goods faster than the clerks
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can wrap them.
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LOCAL NEWS.
Mbs. E. H. Coffey, Ass’t City Editor
Prank Weaver, of Duncan, Okla.,
is visiting in the city.
Bargains! Bargains! yet at Tramel’s
Holiday sale.
Mrs. J. L. Whitworth, of Waco, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. P. H.
Foscue.
5 or 6 doses “666” will cure any case
of ChiUs and Fever. Price 25c.
<3spt. 8. B. Turbervilie, of Cooper,
was in the city Wednesday shaking
hands with friends.
You are specially invited to attend
Tramel’s great Holiday sale now go-
ing on.
Frank Markham and wife, of Saltil-
lo, were guests of L. A. Boucher and
wife the first of the week.
Mrs. T. B. Moody of Commerce, was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Clyde A.
Sweeton, last week.
Columbus Bird and wife of Pickton,
were guests of Mrs. A. A. Bird this
week.
The Methodist, Baptist and Presby-
terian Sunday 8chools will have old
time Christmas trees for the children
at their respective churches Christ-
mas Eve night.
We Have Xmas Goods
for Everybody
WE CAttY ABSOLUTELY
Everything in Santa
Claus
Miss lira Bradley, now of Monnt
Vernon, was here last week.
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Bags! Bags! at 25 per cent off at
the Holiday sale at Tramel’s.
T. E. Posey and wife of Mt. Vernon,
are guests of Frank Bell and lady this
week.
5 or 6 doses “666” will core any case
of Chills and Fever. Price 26c.
Mrs. Oordon Barrett and children,
of Cordell, Okla., were gueets of Mrs.
Levi Bird Tuesday and Wednesday.
Homer Peck is watering more than
200 beef cattle from one well. This
is the same well he irrigated his cab-
bage and turnips from.
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Buy an “Owensboro” wagon from
W. E. Stephens and get one that you
know is good.
Miss Myrtle Wilkes has sold her
household goods and will return to
Bryan to make that place her home.
Johnnie Crisp, of Rockwall county,
was a visitor here Wednesday for the
first time in twenty years. He was
born and reared in this connty.
Why is it that Thomas’ Racket
Store is crowded with people every
day buying toys? Because they can
find there everything mind can wish
or heart desire.
Mrs. James Carroll, of Oklahoma
City, and Miss Jessie Carroll of Como,
were the gnests of Mrs. R. W. Fan-
ning Toesday and Wednesday.
Renew yonr subscription to the Ga-
zette now while yon can get a good
pair of ahears, guaranteed for two
years free.
Grover Leach and wife, of Fort
Worth, are gnests this week of his
father, Judge W. P. Leach. Grover
recently married Miss Margaret Rea-
gan, of Fort Worti\.
I want to sell one of the best sandy
land farms in Hopkins connty before
Jan. 1st. 75 acres, well improved.
See me. O. M. Pate.
Fnrs! Pars! Furs! The finest col-
lection in the city. Special Holiday
price is 25 per cent off at Tramel’s
Store.
Miss Glady Chaney, of the Inde-
pendence community, has been the
gaest of her father, T. R Chaney,
this week.
If all the merchants in Sulphur
Springs could put their Xmas goods
in one honse it wonld not begin to
equal the mammoth display of Santa
Clans on display at Thomas’ Racket
Store.
Have not time to tell all about the
pretty, nsefnl Xmas presents. A
visit to Tramel’s Store will be worth
yonr time, and a saving, as we have
a special Holiday sale on. We want
to show yon. Cotae and see.
Rev. H. G. York wes called on to
perform an early morning nuptial
service Monday morning at 8:30 in
the Clerk’s office. The contracting
parties bring R. B. Seales and Miss
Ruby Lawson. The Gazette extends
best wishes and trusts that their union
may be blessed with much happiness.
Rev. J. M. P. Morrow, field sec-
retary of the Southwestern Baptist
Theological 8eminary, located at Ft.
Worth, preached a splendid sermon
Wednesday evening at the - First Bap-
tist Oborch. Among the good things
he said was that the seminary had
opened with more than ninety stu-
dent*, and the Yonng Women!* Train-
ing School organized with twelve. He
thanked God they were having a hard
working heroically. The ad*
be to
G. A. SCHLEY & SON
THE LAND MEN
Watch this Space Every Week. Yen Will Flatf
It to Veer laterest te Do So.
163-acre farm well improved, 12.
miles northeast; 100 acre^ in-cultiva-
tion, 20 acres timber, 33 acres prairie
grass. $18 per acre. Terms.
60 acres, all good land, convenient-
ly located, nearly 40 acres in cultiva-
tion; improvements fair. $1500.00;
terms. _
50 acre« miles ont, near school
and churches, 3-room Loose, good
barn, well and spring, 4 acres vonng
orchard; half in cultivation. $1500.00;
terms. _
80 acres, 12 miles south, fair im-
provements, 66 acres in cultivation;
well located. $12.50 per acre.
40 acres 1 mile city limits, 3-room
house, 14 acres orchard, 20 acres cul-
tivated. This is a great bargain at
$1400.00; terms.
30 acres, 6 miles ont, over 20 acres
cultivated. A nice little borne at $26
per acre. _
G. A. Schley k Son, The Land Men.
John Allen Thornton has been quite
sick this week, bat is convalescent.
Mrs, Geo. T. Nichols, of Terrell, is
in the city for a week’s visit with
W. M. Connor and family.
Some fine Rhode Island cockrells
for sale. App^y at Gazette office. c
Mrs. Sue McLemore, of Winnsboro,
is the guest of her brother, B. F.
Ashcroft.
Thousand and one things for nice
Xmas presents at Tramel’s. Attend
the big sale.
Mrs. Etta Stephenson of McOanley,
Fisher county, left Saturday for her
home after a visit to her sister, Mrs.
F. W. Patterson.
Reed Irwin, of Terre Hante, Ind., is
the gaest of his grandparents,- Hugh
Sherwood and wife, and hisannt, Mrs.
Will Fortune.
J. W. Finney and family, of Green-
ville, have become citizens of oar
town. Mr. and Mrs. Finney joined the
Baptist chnrcb, Sunday, at the even-
ing hour.
W. M. Nealy and family left us last
week for Shreveport, La., where they
will make their home for a time. Mr
Nealy will work in the railroad shops.
There were three applicants before
the Board of Directors for Librarian of
the Carnegie Library. Miss Effie
Brinker was unanimously elected.
She has been studying with a view of
applying for the positioq for aome
time. Miss Effie is a bright, energet-
ic, bnsineas- like yonng lady, and we
are snre she will “make good.”
Harry Staddan, of Minneapolis, was
the guest of his sister, Mrs. Claud
Wilton, and mother, Mrs. Staddan,
this week. Mrs. Wilson had not seen
her brother for five years before this
visit.
The Rebeckah Lodge elected the
following officers to serve the incom-
ing term: Mrs. Lonis Rector, Noble
Grand; Miss Maud Jackson, Vice-
Grand; Miss Hilda Johnuson,Secretary;
Champ Ponder, Trees.; Mrs. Champ
Ponder, Representative; Mrs. E. H.
Coffey, Alternate.
G. R. Reynolds has returned from
Wichita Falls. He says he likes the
city and country, bnt he regards it
quite sickly, and it don’t salt him. He
is now near Saltillo, and will locate for
Mss Sheppard Entertains.
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Miss Olga 8heppard|was bosteys for
the Waverly Club, at the home of iSfc*
sister, Mrs. W. F. Skill man, Friday
afternoon.
Mrs. Skillman and her eweet, dainty
little daughters assisted in doing the
honors of the evening. Mrs. Art^e
Williams, Miss Barbary "Rogers, and
Little Margaret Skillman'furnished a
number of beaotifnl instrumental and
voeal selections.
A “chanticleer” contest was the
feature of the afternoon. Each guest
was given a dainty little hand-painted
folder, decorated with wise old chan-
ticleers, waiting for the answers with-
in.
Many and sirange they were,-^-for
the mesdames who can discuss the
many arts in chicken-raising, could
oot find the questions that conid be
answered by Wyandotte, Bramah, and
Leghorn. This contest elicited much
fan and many amnsing incid^nts/
Mrs. Garrison carried away the
prize,—a pretty handkerchief in dain-
ty chanticleer lace.
Mrs. Will Jones and -Mrs. Holder-
ness drew for the consolation, the lat-
ter being the lncky one. 8he began
at oik* to “cfow over i be crowd,” for
she was presented with a tpy rooster.
The chanticleqy idea ya* tastefully
carried out in the decorations of‘the
dining room, where a delicious two-
coarse lancheon with coffee was serv-
ed to the members of this interesting
and progressive ladies’ club.
mystic Tribe of MoRteznm*.'*
The above Order, with C. J. Pile,
of Plano, Texas, as one of it*, general
agents, is noa organizing in SUlpbnr
Springs. It being a home Order, na-
tional in character, with headquarters
in Greenville, Texas, should certain-
ly appeal to the patriotic pride of all
lovers of Texas and Texas institu-
tions. ^
When we take into consideration
the ability of its promoters, the ex-
perience of its supreme officers and
the character and influence^ of the
men who are joining it in Sulphur
Springs, we bespeak for it unbound-
ed success from the start.
We are told that enough members
for a tribe have already beau secur-
ed and that the organization will be
perfected soon.
Mrs. Ashcroft Entertains.
Mrs. B. F, Ashcroft*entertained the
Joseph Wheelgr Chapter U. D. Os. at
her lovely home on Sooth Hill, in
honor of Mrs. Sue P. McLemore, who
has just returned from the U. D. O.
State Convention at Marlin.
The gnests were met and welcomed
at the door by the h os teas and Mrs
Jennie Brinker, the president of the
Chapter, and were served a refresh-
ing enp of delicious hot chocolate,
after which they, were comfortably
seated in the cozy parlors, where Mrs^
McLemore gave ftem a synopsis of
Ashcroftjgayis^t beaotifnl reading, wlf-
nf which>was highly enjoyed And'* ap-
preciated. . / * '>
* The, gnests weri giv4n pretty,
unique souvenier cards'" with the
hostess’ name and date of entartain-
ment. ’ * v f
Decorations were in carnations and 1
ferns.
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At the dose of the evening, a de-
lightful lancheon was served, Mrs.
B. F. King toastifcg the hostess in
beaotifal words of love and apprecia-
tion. Mrs. W. P. Harris played Dixie
as the evening shadows fell and this
pleasant gathering coffie to,an"end.
her trip and what the U. D. Cs. were
doing ail oyer the state. Among the
interesting thifigs were: The Sextette
of yonng rladies from Crockett who
furnished sach beautiful music, of the
soulful, old-time variety. Tbey#wore
gray skirts trim med with braes but-
tons, gray hats, white Shirt- waists and
red ties. Also, unentfon was made of
a chapter of young ladies at Belton
Feipale College that were doing a flue
work, and always have a: representa-
tive present at the state meetings. *
Mrs. Ina Rogers rendered several
musical nambers, and little Ina Mae
. .. Notice Stocl ^
The stock holders SGtte
Bank will bold th?ifrYB&mal meeting
at the oim&bf said
for the pofrposfe of electing eleven -
directors, and attending to other bBsi-
ness that may come jaefore the meet-
ing, W. E. Kennemur, Cashier.
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i Rev. B. H. Simms of Fitfahtirg
preached'wt Divide last Saturda^ and
Sunday, ThCchureb called hJ$k
their pastor. Rev. 8imms was
city Monday morning and sald he
would likely accept the church’s calf.
Land paper, vendors lein notes and person-
al notes. We make loans on any good col-
lateral on the most equitable terms. Tell
us your wants. . .
FIRST STATE BANK
WE BUY AND SEL
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, December 16, 1910, newspaper, December 16, 1910; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816314/m1/4/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.