Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 26, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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Williams Store
proof.
During April we will give with every
shirt length a collar band.
SOLICITS YOUR
BUSINESS
MADS ONLY BY HIGH
CLASS TAILORS ,
<
Why not let us show you
some stylish fabrics, corractly
< ut and skilfully tailored
You can affqud to buy good
clothes if you buy of
Get a Sult Fashioned
For Yourself
Tailored to fit and thorough-
ly well made throughout. One
that will wear well and look
stylish until worn opt. Such
clothes are
Visit Our Shoe
Department
is a pppular trading place just now. The freshness
and newness of the Spring Goods we are showing
enthuse all vt ho see them.
for boys and girls. Shoes that satisfy. We show
them in oxfords and pumps, in the correct lasts
and leathers. Make this your Shoe Store.
You can buy shoes any place, hut it is our highest
aim to excell in values of correct styles. We believe
we do this, and invite your inspection and judge-
ment. and arc willing to take the consequences of
your investigation.
Fashionable white canvas oxfords and
pumps—prices$2.00, $2.50 to $3:00
Gun metal button oxfords in welts and
pumps; prices .....________ $2.50 to$3.50
Pretty patent leather pumps and oxfords
price------------------------$3.00 and $3.50
Stock of Staple Shoes and Oxfords, prices
$1.50 to ...... .$3.00
S. A. Gibson
Try a fresh mackerel
for breakfast
Phones 25
♦
Sellers of Folgers
• Coffees and l eas
1 RECORD AND CHRONICLE.!
DENTON TEXAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26. 1913.
VOLUME XIII
NUMBER 193
NEW SLIPPERS
AND OXFORDS AT
BEVF'rTS SHOE STORE ,
ft* It MIMUm©—■—MM
, WHI1E, TAN AN© |
BLACK SLIPPERS J
BEYETT S SHOE STORE |NewShirtings
That Are Different
Exchange
National Bank
Denton, Texas.MAYOR OF DAYTON ASKS AID-500 DROWN
We have
left
BILL.
that
Scioto
11 picture w as- made
1 a <11 n
Uv to
each case.
As a result of competitive exami-
« OF
people home
W B McClurkan & Co
PLEASE PHONE YOUR 0RDERQFOR
Old Phone 574
New Phone 385
B. H. Deavenport & Co
Insurance of All Kinds
(Continued on Page Three.)
ALLIANCE MILLING COMPANY
Office over Long & King
Your Money h
Is Absolutely
Gibson'sIn This Bank
The Best
Deposit With UsCount the Children
on the card in the window at
Shaw’s Studio
j Scott Tailoring Co
’! Both Phones 40 Tailors to Men Who
Know
Col -
to the
J. H. Paine
Ed. F. Bate*
Dr. J. M. Inge
A. C. Owsley
of
to
join
our
our
< an
your
for the Sons of Herman prize .for
German compositions, etc., the prixe
was distributed as follows;
Senior class—Miss Edna Duncan,
Bartlett. 1st; Miss Lucille Cowdin,
Remember the
Quality we sell
HAIL STORM AT WHITESBORO
DID CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.
The correct number, and the names of the win
ners will be published April 1.
Associated Press Dispatch.
MVSTAPHA PASHA. March 26.-Always something
good to eat at
MAY NOT ESTABLISH RESER-
VATION FOR PROSWUTE8.
Jhn A Pat-a
the National
to the Factory early in the morning
and afternoon, and if possible stop
the wagon as it passes your house.
By so doing you will greatly oblige us
DISTRIBUTION OF SONS OF
HERMAN PRIZE AT O. L A*
Associated' Press Disoatch.
DAYTON. March 26—This
I ternoon it is practically certain
AUSTIN; March 26—Gov.
quitt today sent a message
House asking it to correct the Alli-
son bill prohibiting intra-state ship-
ments of liquor into local option ter-
ritory by providing a punishment
for persons shipping such liquor.
HDW flllS;
BULGARIANS VIMS
FORTffiSS IN FLAMES
INDIANAPOLIS CABIHG
fllll 10,000 REfiiCEB
60 DROWNED AF PERU
Asso. iated Press
DAYTON. O,
crest of the flood
midnight and the
rapidly today. The dead here are es-
timated around 500. but it will be
impossible to know exactly the num-
ber for 4ays Rescuers began this
morning going with boats into the
edges of the flooded districts to res-
cue marooned persons. The inun-
dated district < overs fifteen square
miles, under six to fifteen feet of
water Most of the fatalities oc-
curred on the north and .west side of
the river when a wall
rushed in suddenly with a the break-
ing of the levee,
business district
happened before the clerks
to work. About 70.000 persons last
night were either marooned or were
unable to reach their homes.
enthusiastic j ■’* . ■
DAYTON IS “MARINE HELL”
WATERS MAKE HIDEOUS ROAR
FLOOD PAST WAT-
ERS FALLING RAPIDLY,
boat f rom
While the estimate of Day-
average 500. observers
it can just as easily be
of waterAssociated Press Dispatch.
COLUMBUS. O . March 2.6.—Day-
to reports the 'Russell apartments
burning and the people are jumping
fnto the water.
PERSONS DROWNED.
Press Dispatch.
Ind., March 26.—About
drowned here
overflow.
In-
is caring tor 10.000 re-
roaring sucking undertone
I inWALLS OF WATER RUSH DOWN PRfNKIPAL R|VERS—OHIO AND
INDIANA SUFFER MOST; ALL COMMt M< ATI»»N ( UT OFF FROM
MANY INUNDATED CITIES—NATIONAL GUARDSMEN CALLED
UPON FOR AID TO RESCUE MA1KOONED IXHABITANTS—MO-
TOR BOATS CARRIED .» MI LES OVERLAND »O AUX—LUFE
TOIL MOKE THAN i.OOO
Officers and Directors:
A. J. Nance, President
J. R. Chnstal, V.-President
J. C. Cott, Cashier
E. D. Curtis, Assistant Cashier.
Associated Press Dispauh
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., March 26.
—West Indianapolis was cut off last
night when the big bridge went out.
It is reported that it is feared 200
were drowned in the darkness when
the Moore's street levee broker
dianapoli®
fugees.
Asaociatd
PERU,
sixty persons -were
from the Wabash river
Arthur Moor*, a telephone
on top ot a downtown building, said
at nightfall he saw hundreds on the
tojie of bouses in the freezing cold,
and some of these slid off to drown
when they became benumbed. At
daylight ten to twenty-five feet ot
water was racing through the main
streets licking at the eaves on which
refugees dung The water was too
swift for row boats Motor boats
were brought overland fifty miles
to , attempt rescues Peru has 16.-
000 population
a bad road
hauled to
good road
hi”- about
said could
roads than
'hr extra hauling where no one w»s'
the better for It. He urged thp peo-
You should §ee our new Ready -
to-Wear Dresses. Stylish and ^in-
expensive. Get those new shoes
here.
COLQl ITT ASKS HOUSE TO
CORRECT ALLISON
We have made unusual preparations in our Mil-
linery Section for this week, and we promise you
a display of new and authentic Millinery. Every
correct shape, every fashionable shade and every
material that is in*vogue is here.
lay night, and some drivers consid-
ered giving up the trip and returning
But that bld slogan "Schtay mit 'em '
prevailed and the proceggion pro-
ceeded. A few did drop but and
return, but when all were counted at
Stony, there were twenty-two cars.
About 150 Stony people assembled
to give their welcome and to help tn
•h«. cause of bobsting Dentnn county
The s bool had turned out to assist
in the greeting, and before the vis-
itors left they had begun to feel
that they were going to-have lots of
pleasure and fun from.the excursion,
besid.s getting better acquainted
with the peopje over the county
F. F Hill was introduced by Sec-
retary George Roark Mr. Hill ex-
plained the purpose of the trip in a
short speech, which »»s well receiv-
ed. He said in part: "This is a
peaceful mission, but the object »s
on* of conquest, in the fact that, we
want to become better acquainted
with the people Of this community.
It is not a conquest, however,
dollars and" cents, but simply
know you better that we may
in a united effort to assist in
industrial development, for by-
working together much more
be accomplished Denton is
town, your capital, and weTp glad to
welcome you; even at tax paying
time when -we can get a little of your
money.” He spokp about good roads
in the county, telling of his own
experience in having lost money in
not being tn a county of good roads,
lie TugtriVed this by showing how
he hd naid 2c per bushel more to
have wheat hauled over
than it could have been
another market over a
This bad road had cost
6100. This amount, he
be better paid for good
22 FAIRS COMPLETED
KOI’ND TRIP—2» LEFT
TON.
compas the
Dayton are
automobiles'
or rescuers,
is under wa-
. .A phone message from W. C. Dew-
dell a' Whitesboro to S. A. Dowdell
here Wednesday morning stated that
the worst hail ever recalled fell
there at 4:30 Wednesday morning,
and that a- the time of phoning tho
hail was six inches deep in many
places where it had drifted, and ot
formidable size. Every exposed win-
dow and glass door in th? town had
been broken out. he said, and besides
the injury to the fruit blooms, many
trees were stripped ot limbs and
killed by the beating hail
Dispatch.
March 26.—The
passed here about
waters are falling
Middle class—Miss Susan Cobb,
Denton, 1st- Miss 'Clara Bouiand,
Teneha. 2nd; Miss Lilia Pearce,
Ri.hland, 3rd.
The J 150 was divided between the
two classes, $35 going to the winner
of th« first award. $25 to the second
and $15 to the third.
OFFICERS & DIRECTOR
Dr. J. P. Blount, President
Dr. M L. Martin. V. Pres.
J. A Rhoads V President
W. S. ’ Smoot. Cashier.
J. S. Carlisle, A«s’t Cashier
Prof. W. D. Butler s
R. L Leach
Joe M. Evans .
C. C. Yeatts • . •
Associated Press Dispatch.
CHICAGO Mar h 26—Flood sum-
marized: Ohio. 1194 to 1569
drowned; Indiana. 200 to 300 dorwn-
today
were
N. Side Square
Dejaton, Texas# WEATHER FC RECAST.
♦ . Denton and Vicinity.
* Tonight fair, collier, freez-
* ing: Thursday fair, not go cold.
ed. No word was received
from Piqua. O„ where 500
drowned.
At Hamilton. O., it is reported
that l,0ou have been drowned ih the
floods, with more than 1.000 homes ;
inundated
ICoumbus, O.. was partly inundat-
ed. with many killed and hundred®
homeless, Wires were washed out
and bridges demolished.
At Dayton 1,000 are believed dead,
and the. mayor issued a call for help
and food
Lima, o , reported ten miles or
trains held up by washout at Mid- j
tleton. and the city flooded by the
Ottawa river.
At Springfield, Mad river and Buck
creek out of banks and hundreds
homeless.
Larue. O,. inundated and hun-
dreds homeless.
At West Liberty. O.. Mad river ov-
erflowing banks.
At Fort Wayne. Ind . th? St. Jos-
eph. Maumee and St. Mary rivers on
a rampage; town without lights and
highest water in twenty years
At Marion 500 people forced to
fie? for their lives.
At Elwood. Ind.. 300
less.
At Youngstown. O.,
idle on account of the
At St. Ix>uis one dead and many-
families forced to leave homes.
Middletown ad Delaware. O., in
front of wall of water rushing down
the Miami river. Companies of the
National •Guardsmen appealed to for
aid in rescuing the inhabitants from
death in the flood. At Middleton
the great bridge over the Miami is
down, and town < ut off from com-
munication
Cleveland. O., paralyzed by flood
that inundated miles of streets and
nade hundreds homeless. Railroad
traffic suspended.
At Indianapolis the Morris levee
on White river broke, forcing 1.500
people to flee for their lives. Por-
tion of town inundated.
Cities in Pennsylvania partly in-
undated. and hundreds homeless,
with great property damage.
The Charming, New
Easter Clothes
2.500 men
floods.
.....---1----------.....
Garden Planters Notice!
Fresh, dependable garden seed; also corn,
cane, millet, maise and Kaffir seed. All
select stock.
TALIAFERRO BROS.
Old Phone 125. New Phone 292
This was in the
and fortimatelv
' k8 had dot
Fir$t
National
Bank
Denton, Taxas.
With vast walls'of water roaring;
down their principal rivers and deal-1
ing death and destruction to thous-
ands of cities and little towns in
the path of the floods. Ohio, In-
diana and parts of Illinois and
Missouri are in the midst ot one ot
the most horrible floods in the his
tory of the country. .
Thousands ar« reported dead to-
day and hundreds of thousands
are homeless- All communication
by railway or telegraph with many
of the inundated, cities has been cut
off, and calls for help even can not
be met promptly with railways un-
der water and bridges demolished
and washed away.
In Dayton, 116,500 population,
and Hamilton. O , it is reported that
a thousand people have been irown- :
ed and <oniirmation of the report.-- ,
pour in from nearby towns and those
w ho fled before the rush of waters
inundated the cities Companies ot
the National Guards have been ap-
pealed to for help by several citie®
in rescuing the imperiled citUehs
and bodies .are floating on the crest
of the floods in the dark horror of
trapped humanity. Calls for help
are being responded to nobly, and
cars of provisions and food are being
rushed wherever entrance can be
made into the suffering towns. whtie
' the rescue work is going on.
We have just received a large shipment
of woven madras shirtings that are differ-
ent from those you generally see for sale.
We buy these goods from shirt manufac-
turers and get patterns that are for shirts
only, they are not dress styles and they
are thirty-six inches wide which will
make them cut to advantage
these goods in all white with self stripes
and colored stripes that are laundry
First Guaranty Stall Bank
(The Guaranty Fund Bank)
ICE
k«n by gfvrm by the Bulgarian® thi»
morri.n: alter fighting of the mo«t
tetriblc charact r ®in » Monday
Flam*-,- are now devaatating Adrian ,
ople.
AUSTIN. March 26 —Court of
Criminal Appeals today decided that
The For reva of Adrianople wa® ta- no city may establish a reger'ation
for prostitutes
... D. Derr, charged with burg - j Flatonia. 2nd; Miss Mable_ Gilbert,
lary. appeared and entered plea -of j 3r4,-.
guilty, and the jury assessed his pun-
| ishment at two years in the peniten-
tiary. After assessing punishment
at two years a petition was Written
to Gov. Colquitt asking for execu-
I five clemency. The cage wag on old
lone and good behavior since the in-
dictment was partial cause for the
petition. The petition wag sigped by
the jury which imi>osed the punish-
ment. County Attorney. Sheriff and
District Judge. The petition follows;
To Hon O. B. Colquitt Governor
of Texas:
"We the undersigned who have
just tried W D. Derr for burglary
and assessed his punishment at con-
finement in- the penitentiary for two
years, are of the opinion that it is a
case for the exercise of executive
• •leniency and we respectfully recom-
mend and ask that a full or condi-
Honal pardon be granted him. Cage
No 470. District court, Denton Co
I "E. T. Seagraves, foreman; C N.
Price. W. R. Curtis. N. .H. Erwin, J.
■ I and several ladies, was formed on Today $0,000 persons are packed --
Withe north side of the square where the upper floors without "gas .heat.
Ilij i picture war made. The picture fuel pr fresh water or food
f | will appear in ttye Record and Chron- noon it ha® been impossible to reach
i-cie later. The cars were numbered the business district.
«nd tiled out in line according to terson. president of
number. | Cash Register company, who has put
.j Th,-, roads between here and Stony wll his carpenters to work making
8 were pretty bad after the rain Mon-J boat® has himself saved several lives
8 !*>’ night, and some drivers consid- From all points of the
roads leading toyard
dotted with crawling
mostly carrying rqjief
Miamisburg, near here,
ter. but is still safe and is receiving
food by boat from surrounding
farms
ton's dead
agree that
thousands.
EXCURSIONISTS MUCH
PLEASED WITH FIRST
AUTO TRIP TUESDAY
—■ ■ ■ » • 8 •
VISIT PAID STONY. PONDER. jCS-
T1N. ROANOKE AND ARGYLE—
THE
DEN-A most enthusiastic crowd
Tuesday morning at 9.30 o'clock on
the first of the trades extension trips
which the business men of Denton
have planned. The first was made
into the southwestern and southern
parts of the county, including stop®
at Stony. Ponder. Justin, Roanoke
and Argyle. Tuesday's excursion
was comprised of about 100 of Den-
ton's business and professional men
in fact, Pract i<ally every line or
business in Denton was represented I
on this trip. It wa® an c— '
crowd from the start and
Progressed the spirit of the trip
seemed to take hold and increase
the already great fund of happ;ne®s
which prevailed ameng the • c«cn-
sionists.' The fact is. ‘‘everybody
was happy." .
At the different stops the visitor®
were met by welcoming crowds, i
all pis es the public school closing
to meet and greet the visitors. Hann | those marooned in the business ser-
shak s end of greeting were ltion are gate.
given everybody, and the.®- who j Ail night was a marine hell, with
went felt that they were mere than itres lighting tht® sky as many build
si-vt they bad gone : ngs burned to the waters' 'edge and
The automobile line, consisting of | the w aters themselves made a hid
25 cars loaded with about 160 men eoug ' '
< oMvtUXIi ATION RESTORED.
Associated Press Dispat< h.
CCLI MBUS. O.. March 26-—This
morning telephone communication
was restored with the stricken west
side of Columbus, and it is reported
v ere drowned Stores o ————■SUMMARY OfJLOOD REPORTS |N 2
I T. Brown. R. H. Allen. G R. Foster,
I G. A Schoppaul. Jay Griffith, F. H.
------------------| Becker. W. J. Wagoner, C. S Buck-
[ingham. jurors. H R. Wilson, Coun-
l tv Attorney. W. C Orr, Sheriff. C F.
[Spencer. District Judge.
------- - —- — —---Many citizens would sign if nec-
; ' j eesary. Please wire sheriff at once
■ at our expense."
Two of • the sfive cases of forgery
against Alva Wilkerson were dispos- ;
ed of. the jury assessing two years tn !
Three other cases against |
Wilkerson are to be tried yet The
cases have been, set for next week. . ---------------
The jury in the Wilkerson case was | bations t^eld atthe C. I. A. Tuesday
as follows: H. H. I^ott, Ben Brooks. ‘ ~ '
F. H. Becker. W. J. Wagoner. Geo
Sheridan, J. A. Pruett,. Jay Griffith.
J L. Lawson, C. C. Yancey. J, M.
Evans, J. R. Terry and M. Burch,
w. r
—**
THIS STORE
OF THOUSANDS
MADE HOMELESS BY FLOOD
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Edwards, W. C. Record and Chronicle. (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 26, 1913, newspaper, March 26, 1913; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1209033/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.