The Strawn Tribune (Strawn, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, June 27, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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STRAWN, PALO PINTO COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1913
Number 44
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Strawn Merchandise Company’s Trades Day Remarkable Offerings
in Addition to the Attractive Out-of-Door Sports Saturday, June 2 8
We will place on sale merchandise throughout every department of the store at PRICE INDUCEMENTS that will abso-
lutely surprise and please you. It will be a day of pleasure as well as most profitable trading. To both, our home
people and out-of-town customers, make our store your headquarters for this event Come and bring the children: we
will welcome you. We advertise only a few of the many “Special Features.” V
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40-inch half bleached
musliu, 12 yards for
10c w’hite India lawns
per yard
Fieu red and solid col
$1.00
5c
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ored lawns, per yd. ^2(J
15c to 20c batiste
lawns, per yard
10c
Standard calicoes, all
colors, per yard
5c
50c to 65c silks choice
line, per yard
Shainrock d tpss lin-
25c
ens, one yard wide,
all colors, 25c value,
15c
now, per yard.............
Parasols
25 per cent off of
original
price
2<Je brown dress lin-
ens, per yard "
Beautiful flaxon
lawns,, per yard
Best c ham h rays, all
colors, per yard
10c to12 l-2claces and
embroideries, per yd.
20c to 2pc cambric
and nainsook e m -
broideries, choice lot
only per yard
35e poplins and sois-,
ettes, light and dark
colors, only per yard
40-in. curtain scrims
per yard ... ...........
35c voiles and tissue
ginghams, per yard
Apron check ging-
hams, per yard
10c
Second Floor Bargains
A lot of corsets, odds
and ends, values to
$2.50; to clean up, ea.
Wash coat suit sT
slightly damaged, ea.
Lot children’s gloves
per pair
Women’s trimmed
hats, values to $3.50,
to goat
An assorted lot shirt
waists; to clean up,
25c
51.00
15c
51.00
20c
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Boys' Hats
The finer grade; sold at half
price
Double width figured
and sold colored per-
cales, per yard
Best bleached cotton
one yard wide, 12
yards for
45-in.oilcloths slight-
ly damaged, per yd.
Women's black cot-
ton hose, 10c value,
4 pair for
25c women’s and < lii 1
dreh’s lace hose,
black, tan and white,
per pair.......
Counterfull women’s
tine shoes—low cuts,
$3.50 values, all col-
ors, sold per pair
Corset covers, an ex-
tra lot; to clean up,ea.
10c
S1.95
15c
Bargain Counter Men’s
and boys' shirts, val-
ues to $1XX), price
Women’s, muslin
drawers, values to
50c,, price each
Black near silk petti-
coats, $1.00 val. price
Choice line jewelry
novelties, values to
50e, price
Women's choice
neckwear, 50c values
price.................
50c
25c
50c
Men's Pants
From $3.00 to $5.75, one dol-
lar off each
Largest Stock of Funeral Supplies in West Texas; Open Day and Night; Night Phone No. 24
Strawn Merchandise Company
THE HOUSE OF MERIT
ED. S. BRITTON, General Manager
Palo Plato County Cotton Crop Worth
$1,255,482.00
The Texas cotton crop for 1912
is the most valuable one in, the
history of the cotton industry,
according to preliminary esti
mates furnished the Commercial
Secretaries and Business Men’s
association by the federal census
bureau. The Texas yield in 1912
was 4,880,210 bales of 500 pounds,
or 624,000 bales more tlian the
1911 crop, while the 1912 yield in
the United States was approx-
imately 3,000,000 bales less than
in 1911. The excessive yield in
Texas was absorbed by floods,
drouths and unfavorable condi-
tions in other southern states.
The world’s consumption of cot-
ton in 1911 is reported by our
census bureau to be 20,402,000
bales of 500 pounds net, and the
1912 production will, according
to reliable estimates, fall slightly
under these figures. The 1911
world’s production amounted to
22,297,000, or an over-production
of approximately 2,000,000 bales.
The average price of cotton for
1911 was 9.9 cents per pound and
in 1912 the price was 12 05. The
1912 Texas crop, including seed,
sold for $338,538,822, which is
an advance of $90,658,000 over
the 1910 crop, its nearest com-
petitor.
The effect of over-produotion in
1911 made itself manifest in the
500 pound bales of cotton pro-
duced in Palo Pinto county from
the crop of 1912 and the lint and
seed sold for approximately $1,-
255,482. The lint sold for $1,-
090,103, and 9,047 tons of seed
produced in this county brought
$165,379.
ill.
Gourdneck Gossip
Mrs. Morris is reported very
Health of the community is
very good.
Everything looks well since the
rain. The farmers are all busy
with their crops.
Mrs. Boggus received a letter
from her son in California, stat-
ing he was some better and hoped
to be home soon.
Mrs. M. E. Boggus and daugh-
ter, Miss Clizzie, left on the 3rd
of,this month to visit her brother,
J. T. Ainsworth, at Bryson, and
also a brother in Oklahoma, re-
tu rning the 21st. They report a
nice country and lots of . fruit.
J. P. Ainsworth, a nephew of
Mrs. Boggus, came baek with
them to spend a few weeks.
Farmers’ Institnte Meeting
The farmers’ institute met last
Friday and elected the following
delegates to the stale institute,'
which meets at College Station,
July 28: E. E. Stages, T. P. Sim-
mons, J. W. Wheeler and Roy
•, June
School Bonds Carry
In the election last Saturday
for the issuance of school bonds
for a new school building, little
interest was manifested, as it
was almost an assured fact the
bonds would carry. Only 80 votes
were cast, 61 for and 19 against
the bonds. In trie location for
the neAv building, the present
site received 47 votes, Mt. Marion
15 and Woodlawn addition ,12, a
total of 73 votes fir Ihe location,
7 votes making no preference.
As this matter is now detin
iteiy settled, lets all go to ..work
to build up our school. We are
now, or will be when the bonds
are cashed, able to have a first
class building and equipment and
this will enable us to have a first
class school, if we only work in
harmony with the school board.
J. H. McLure Elected School Trustee
Ed. S. Britton, who was elected
by the school board to till the va
cancy made by the resignation of
Dr. John Simmons, could not
serve and the hoard elected J.H
McLure to fill the vacancy. While
it is regretted by the patrons
that Mr. Britton could not serve,
no better selection could have
been made than Mr. McLure." *
Weatherford Normal Progressing
Prof. L. T. Cook, who is one of
the faculty in the
session at Weatherford,
t Friday and I
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stated there an
Cheaney Items.
L. E. Robinson was a Ranger
visitor Wednesday.
We are glad to report that A.
P. Barton is improving.
Monroe Herrington was in Ran-
ger on business Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Tidwell
went to Howard Sunday.
A court of inquiry was held at
Cheaney Monday morning.
Buck Graham, of Kokoma, was
iu Cheaney Sunday afternoon.
Lon Quinn, of Desdemonia,
was a^Cheaney visitor Sunday.
Uncle George Berry, of Fir,
was in our community first of ihe
week.
/Miss Cleo Motes left Friday
Tor Gunsight to spend a few days
with relatives.
Miss Eula Cook, of Gorman,
visited friends in Cheaney Tues
day and Wednesday.
Misses Una and Unice and
Robert Davenport, of Hunter,
were in Cheaney Sunday.
“Dutch” Ervin and Miss Ethyl
Walker, of Ranger, were Cheaney
visitors Sunday afternoon.
G. D. Barton went to Desde-
monia on business Saturday, re-
turning Sunday afternoon.
Messrs. John and Calvin
Brown„of Grandview wpp** i"
vited to call again and help us
sing.
Earl Horton, of Ranger, was a
guest at the home of his sister,
Mrs. W. F. Barton, last Satur-
day.
Homer Danley, of Stephens
county, will teach a singing
school at Cheaney, beginning
July 23.
Homer Danley and wife, of
Stephens county, are here visit-
ing at the home of Mr. and M i s.
Bob Grimes.
The young folks spent a few
pleasant hours at the home if
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Robinson
Wednesday evening.
JJob Higgins, of Gorman, and
Miss Ruth Davidson, of Strawn;
Ben Patterson, of Fir, and Miss
Alta Brown, of Grandview; Wal-
ter Underwood and Miss Jim
Belle Watkins, Joe Wheat and
Miss Aquilla Patterson, Albert
Duffer and Miss Sallie Blackwell,
of Fir, attended singing here
Sunday afternoon.
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Home Node Broome Marketed ia Strawn
A. B. Crow was here last week
with a load of brooms of his own
make ttiat compare favorably
with any found on the market.
While here N|r. Crow made the
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New School Building Plans on Display at
the Drug Store
Plans for the new school build-
ing are on display in the show
window of the drug store, which
show it to be a splendid, well ven
tilated and well lighted building.
There are six rooms downstairs
for class work and two office
rooms. The upper story has
four large rooms, one -in each
corner, with an auditorium run-
ning through the center with a
seating capacity of 500* The
building, when completed t will
cost, it is estimated, $1,4000.00.
The board of trustees expect to
have the building ready for oc-
cupancy about November 1.
Farm House Burned Last Saturday
A tenant house on Tim Wood's
place, ten miles west of Strawn,
and occupied by Ed. Harris,
burned last Saturday. Origin
of the tire is unknown, as there
was no one at home. The house
and household goods were a total
loss with no insurance.
A Fishing Party
Robert Hinkson, Reed Lollin,
Jim and Buell Groseclose and E.
W. Berry went to Ironi last week
on a fishing trip and report a
splendid time, catciting all the
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