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ST'
ONICLE
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VOLUME XVII.
DENTON. TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 19, 1317.
Ask To See Our
Dress Up Times Now
Elastic Girdles
ADAMSON LAW
styles.
$1.00 and up.
Investigate these.
THE WILLIAMS STORE
Let
us serve you.
ican ships by German submarines.
NEW SUITS, NEW SKIRTS. NEW DRESSES.
SPRING
PHOTOGRAPHS
THE SHAW STUDIO
SHOE ELEGANCE
ball;
for Good Dressers
f
and
t he
Our $7.50, $8.00 and $8.50
f
beauties to
look at and luxuries to the foot.
MUSTERING OUT OF
Denton County National Bank
<:
can
the ne'Y lasts from theWatch Your Livestock
best of kid and calf leathers, and
founded in oak tanned solek.
custom bouse, if was said tit re today.
ALTHO GERMAN RETIRE MEN! ON WEST FRONT
A WIDTH AND SIZE FOR EVERY FOOT.
• r with uh. We may be able to SA1
rnatbr
INCLUDES ONE-FIFTH OF LINE, ENTENTE VIEW
FARM
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19— The
French
SATISFACTION
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $150,000.00
r
Fashion Hints from the
STYLE SHOW
ED. V. PRICE & CO.
Milady’s Spring Garments
SPECTACLES
First
I
That Satisfy.
National
Bank
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Total
8282,144.67
LIABILITIES
Let’s get acquainted.
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If we can help we will be glad
to do so.
Committee Thanks Railroad
Managers for Consideration
SUCCESSFUL GERMAN
RAID ON RAMSGATE
Capital and Surplus $100,000.00.
Denton, Texas.
VIGILANCIA SUNK
WITHOUT WARNING
RETIRING ON AISNE
TEUTONS AT VERDON
VIGOROUSLY ATTACK
Make your selections while
stocks are complete.
An Easy
Problem
I
All of Fashion’s decrees—all that is best in the
many new notes and features—all that is calculated
to appeal most to the American Lady, is embodied
in the new assortment of Spring styles we have on
display.
The big variety and wide scope of style and
the galaxy of color will charm you.
A visit to our store and an inspection of these
charming models will delight you.
mdorict v
bv ’ b ■ ‘
front on
MANAGERS SI BRENDER.
Ihe decision today is regarod
complete surrender l>
7 oMeck____
9 o'clock
11 o’rloek
1 o'clock *
o’clock __
Duggan Abstract Co.
Always ready to do your work oi| short notice
at lowest rates.
8156,060.03
497.15
121.15
7.120.00
2,250.00
1,916.10
114.180.24
W. B. McClurkan & Co
.-rm? cfmteR OF SHOPPING ACTIVITIES.”
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'DENTON TRUST CO1*
ALVIN HILL. President. T.M.RUC1
Capital and Surplus
Dividends unpaid r _.
Cashier Checks outstanding...
Undivided Profits
DEPOSITS
* RESOURCES
Loans, personal and collateral...
Overdrafts „
Acceptances ;
Real Estate and Banking House.
Furniture and Fixtures
Interest in Guaranty Fund
Cash on hand and with banks „
NEW YORK. March 19.—Inasmuch
as the agreement closed today is ef-
fective from Jan. 1, when the Adam-
son law was to have gone into effect,
it is unofficially estimated that the
men have now coming to them be-
tween $12,000,000 and $13,000,000 back
wages.
y not taka them
oney is plentiful and interest rates 1c
rs that interest rates will be much hl
LOANS
It requires no brains to solve
it. but it requires will power
t<> make the start. Take our 3
advice and come Id our bank
today with whatever money
you have on your person. Get
one of our books, start saving I
and you’re on the way to suo- I
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ZEES DROP BOMBS ON
LONDON ANO RETURN
SAFELY, SAYS BERLIN
Officers and Directors:
A J. NANCE, Pres.
J. R. CHRISTAL. Vice-Pres.
J. C. COIT, Cashier.
E. D. CURTIS, Asst. Cashier.
J. H. PAINE
A C. OYVSLEY.
El) F. BATES
COl HI DIVIDED 5 TO 4.
The decision makes eight hours the |
standard day for railroad trainmen and
legalize-, the wage increase provided for;
III I I H > I ’1 I I I 1 k X k 1 . ■ . . ■ « ■ - ■ . V A /. I
H. F. SCHWEE1
A. D. TUP
JACK
L. H.
Speaking” Likeness
by Photography
NUMBER 187
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--- lering out
I home
i .lack
When you invest in that new
Spring finery which you have al-
ready picked out, don't forget that
your friends have long been wait-
ing for a photograph of you and
your neu spring suit would make
a most appropriate costume.
HELD VALID BY
SUPREMECOURT
Total >
Officers aad Directors
■ O. M. CURTIS.
P. E. MCDONALD.
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OLIN P. HAYES, j
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DENTON RECORD-CH
S$ u •
Come in and test your own I
eyes the ‘Common Sense Way’.]
Then pidk out the glasses that
fit.
j Our business in spectacles
| has grown by leaps and bounds
because we have the goods and
the price is right.
You fit yourself.
They are fine for the growing Miss who does
not need forming so much as the prevention of
misforming. Splendid for the slender woyian who
would be naturally graceful if her rigid corset did
not make her look stiff.
For athletics, dancing and the prevailing
Made in lengths 7 to 16 inches.
PARIS. March 19.—The French fore -s.
ilosclv following t tie retreating Ger-
mans. have rooreiinied Guiscard last
night and at several points reached the
reilrond lines from Ham to Nesle. it is
officially announced. Tire troop pushed
flong the national roads leading toward
St. Ouenlin.
canny ability to guess the intentions of
his opponents, is follouing up the re-
treat with great rapidity.
PARIS. March
■ the last-named an- missing, as are some i
of the Illinois was landed safely.
WASHINGTON, March 19.—Announce-[
! ment of the destruction of three Amer-;
ican ships by German submarines l
! brought the belief in all circles hero [
! that there is virtually a state of war be-
: tween Germany and tiie United States,
las there is no question hut that this is
I the overt act. International lawyers and
constitutional experts agreed that the
i President has full authority to interpret
| this act as an act of war and announce,
that this country considers an
slate of war exists by reason of Ger- '
many’s flagrant assault on American
shipping.
I he Illinois, a tifnk steamer en route I
to Port Arthur, Texas, c.,,,—i.xn-vn
Americans. The Memphis carried forty-! ...
'eight Americans and the Yigilancia ' her crew << forty-five
twenty-one.
Condensed statement of
The First Cuaranty State Bank
as rendered to the Commissioner of Banking for close of business March
5th, 1917.
DENTON AND VKE
Tonight cloudy, w«nm<r;
sc tiled, cooler.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 19.—THE
EIGHT-HOUR STANDARD FOR
RAILROAD AAAGES PROAIDED FOR
IX THE ADAMSOX LAAV AAAS TO-
DAA HELD COXSTITl TIOXAL BA
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME
COURT.
M. L. MARTIN, President.
W. C. ORR Vice-President.
J. M. EVANS, Vice-President.
W. E. SMOOT, Cashier.
H. SMOOT. . ♦ . '
— I 52,500.00
----— - 584.00
‘ 731.46
1.599.22
-------- 226,729,99 ,
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WASHINGTON. MARCH 19.—THE
OPINION PREVAILED IN OFFICIAL
WASHINGTON TODAY THAT A
STATE OF W AR RETWTEN THE
UNITED STATES AND GERMANY
NOW REALLY EXISTS.
1 he early buyer will be the
fortunate customers this sea-
son.
A.few weeks will make telling
inroads on our present large
and varied assortments of
merchandise of all kinds.
Owing to present conditions
we predict that filling orders
will not only be higher hut
in many instances really hard
to get.
Cheap Honey---
If notes are outstanding against your land, wb
and extend them now, while
It is the cqdnion <>f inve*
er within the m xt
Call and talk th*
YOU MONEY.
>mrvil r | Iff linil^n a HI
still driving forward and on a 45-milc
f out have penetrated to a depth of ten
hiiles at some points, occupying Pc-
ronne. Nesle and Chaulnes, al linfportant
towns.
BERLIN. March 19.-—An official state-
ment says the German submarine war-
fare accounted for 368 entente and neu- I
.............! MUSTERING out of
there is wiije disparity between the |
•riirin and British figures, the latter j
>rting i'.Hi.ooo tens destroyed during j
ru n y by submarines, exclusive <>t i
fi; sunk by iniiies.
OFFICERS
—IR, President.
RNElk Firs^Vice-President.
CHRISTAL, Active Vice-President
SCHWEER, Cashier.
W. F. WOODWARD, Asst. Cashier*
BERLIN, March 19.—Evacuation of
over a wide sector on the
French front, extending from Arras to
the Hiier Aisne, is officially announced
by the (ierman War office today.
. (.ERM AN ATTACKS AT VERDUN.
Several lines of French trenches oxer
500 meters in length tn one section and
i 100 meters on another section of the
Aerdiin front, were stormed by the Ger-
prisoners taken, the statement adds.
■ TWO UF GOVERNOR'S
UNIVERSITY REGENTS
CONFIRMED BY SENATE
M iroh 19. R.' |ib'st-
dli- s i-ndh-atc th
■ > ji'in them in i
f the war.
WILL COST»,000,000 U. S. NAVY NAY BE USED f
VEAREITO AVERTSTRIKE TO CLEAR SNIPS’EANES
NEW YORK, Man h 19.—The threaten-
ed railroad strike, involving the roads
of Ihe entire nation, has lieen averted.
Yielding to President W ilson’s appeal
and facing the probability of the entry
' of the United States into the world war,
I the railroad managers early today'
granted the demands of the brother-
hoods for the eight-hour law, and the
[ strike, postponed for its inauguration
from Saturday night until tonight, lias
' lieen called off.
?: ; T - '
E WEATHER RECORD
Oxfords, for men, are
LONDON, March
American owned, American manned and ;
I American built—the City of Memphis, j rt,nlajr) .(n()
j the Illinois and the Vigilancia—have I introduced.
been sunk by German submarines with- j bills and resolutions so far introduced
- * -------’ - - -■ - have been passed, and many of the [••■-
the last-named are missing, as are some i *''-j'hV? .<.■ vYi't?- w i m ■ 't 't' t
I ?! tiv;Br,n! isi.™ in '.'.7
jioixernop's appointments, with the re-
suit uncertain.
It costs money at the present
prices to buy live stock and es-[
pecially hogs. Reports of chol-
era are rife in the country and i
we warn our customers and'
friends to be careful with their I
herds.
This bank is interested in I
seeing all its friends prosper;
and a little care may save you
many dollars when
strikes your animals.
J. A. Minnis.
Prescription Druggist
Plw*-***8’ TeM* ThK Bank is I
as a
the railroads to
| the brotherhoods brought about, how-
I ver, only after Ihe patriotism of the
| managers had been put to the test.
$6fl.(MM).(MMt W AGE INCREASE.
By t!.e terms of five settelment, the
II omhined ‘.alary lists of the American
railroads are Increased $6I),(MN),(MM) an-
I niially, it is conservatively estimated.
Ihe agreement signed by both the
1 managers and t lie men provides for the
freight men working overtime shall be
|iaid at the rate of not less than one-
eighth of the daily rate jmt hour. Ihe
passkuiger service rules on roads now
having a Hat ten-hour rule have been
; amended to road “one-eighth” within
, ten hours for overtime.
disease
| few men of prominence killed in the
• J If you can care for more ani-1 was G.'‘neral Stokeiburg, who
~mals on your farm talk with us.1 i e‘<>w m —
* ' . u : I'.e.r .limn OI a cow to .gum front and while insisting the re-
.... >n a special irain to supply tit*ement is forced, refrain from claiming
t .md amily wiifi milk at a time [that the Germans “are on the run.”
army was starving. The same view is said to be taken by
the British commanders at the front.
Some are made entirely with washable, por-
ous-woven, carefully covered surgioal elastic web,
boned with rust-proof steel. Some are coutil
front and back with the elastic at the sides.
PEKING. March t?- Chinese troops!
copied without opposition
■ .ncessions a! Tientsin
The Hutch government
Al STIN, March 19.-The Senate today
in executive session continued the Gov
ernor's appointment of Wilbur P. Ah.-n
of Austin ami .1 \V. Butler of Clifton to
be members of the Roar.? of Reg nls of
the University of Texas, 'the Senate
had previously rejected the nomination
of Hr. H. II Lawrence ofEl Paso.
NEW YiiRK. March 19 The Cilv of
>1-mp)ii- left t.ardiff. Wah-sjast Friday
actual ! in t.'illa-t for New York. She encoun-i
|..i Ihe German submarine Saturday
ning. Her crew was given fifteen
minutes to t.ak" Io fne boats
, The \ igilanci < was torpedoed wittmiif
carried sixteen warning, according to her survivors,!
land the submarine did rot appear. * if
twenty-one were '
I Americans Thirty-one of these were :
[landed at the Scitly islands
j There are still no details regarding
I Hm sinkimr <>f the Illinois, the third!
• AnnTiean ship sunk bv German subma-I
GUARDS SUSPENDED
_ ' eluded sixteen Americans
WASHINGTON. March 19 The mil.s-1
f national guards at various
camps has been su-p.-nded. ae-
rding to messages from Memphis. ■
•nville, Rid m.imt, (Jieyenne and j
■Columbia. S C, where the command- ’
inc officers have lie. n order.-d to Sils-
t pend muster-outs until further notice.
, ~ < hiciujo March 19.—Orders were is-
.11 AREZ, March r.*.— Alberto Iliaz, sued today bv Major General Barre, i
; collector of customs here, was arrested commander of the Central department
by Carranza officials this afternoon and of the I niteff Slates armv. suspending
[will b“ taken to Chihuahua City for an all mustering out of troops in the t'.cn-i
i investigation of the affairs of the border teal department, “subject to further no- !
; custom bouse, it was said here today. tice.”
EXCHANGE NATIONAL
. BANK
{Established 1881)
SINKING OF THREE
AMERICAN SHIPS BY
GERMANS OVERT ACT; M ,IX M ,
Al si IX. March 19—Fortv House'!
— riiemhers met yester,|av and decided to1
19.—Three ships, | try to push thru the SteXealus resolu-I
i lion for a constitutional convention i
But. three more days of Hie session
no more new bills can be!
Less than half of the 1.400
Solutions
- m id • tn j
:at China
the phy>- |
TOI
Undeniably there is satisfaction in know *
ing that you are well dressed in the pre-
vailing fashion, and the feeling will grow
week by v.^ek, when you find
They represent all the goodness that
money, pains and skill can put into
shoes made on
PABIS. March 19.—The German lines
I at last accounts were in full retirement
I oyer a 'section representing almost one-
i fifth of the vast frontage stretching
|ftom Switzerland to the sea. closely
| pressed by the vanguard of the British
i LONDON, March 19.—One British de- ; an.,d1 French forces.
I slroycr and one "merchant vessel weve ■ "e Freiu‘b forces are advancing with
’sunk and another destroyer damaged in precision of a machine on a forty-
a German naval raid at Ramsgate, the ?UI’P tyont and ha\e recaptured many
1 Admiralty announced today. important towns and a large area of ter-
' ritory at small cost to themselves, so
[Mall Bags on Saxonia Riflgd been worked out."
« General Neville, the French command-
N*EW YORK, March 19.—Twenty-six 1 er, who is credited with an almost un-
I bags <>f mail, addressed to Washington •
> and to the British embassy at Washing-!
I ton, were rifled on board the Cunard.
liner Saxonia, it was learned on her ar-
rival here today.
clothes giving you service and keeping
their original shape and appearance.
The careful, expert tailoring that goes in-
to these clothes makes them cost really
less and wear longer.
And here we come to a commercial
truism—"Quality is remembered long after
price is forgotten.”
And then, too, you have the satisfaction
of knowing that you are well dressed.-
in the law. The decision was 5 to 4. j
Justices Day, Pitney, A andeve'iter and
AfcBcynolds dissenting. Eederai Judge I
Hook’s decision at Kansas City last (all, |
holding the law uiicoii-liiuliomil. was i
reversed.
In aniioum yig the decision the t hief ;
Justice reviewed the negotiations lead-’
ing up Io Hie ease. The Justice did not . , .
n ail from a prepared opinion, but told out warning. Fourteen of the crew of |
how (lie President averted the threat- ” ' '
♦•nod strike last Seprcmbcr. “He sug-
gested arbitration. The employers'ac-
cepted the suggestion, out Ihe employes
refused. Then he suggested a basic
i eight-hour day stanfeiril. I he employ-
I ers rejected and the employes aecept-
f firn rail - • ’_2__
has [ - ----------------•-------------------------
. SUBS SANK 781,000
TONS IN FEBRUARY,
IS GERMAN CLAIM!
Visit our Millinery Department
New Hats arriving daily.
NEW YORK. March 19-The commit-
the Council of National Defense
in a statement issued this morning sums
up th<* mediation negotiations. The
! stab nient says:
We desire to express our apprecia-1 cd.1
tion of the patriotic action
road manavrers' committee, which
put beyond peradvenfure the possibility!
of a nation-wide strike.
“The railroads have met, the full de-1
mauds of the Adamson eight-hour law [
The concessions war-' figured as the'
culmination of two days and nights of |
negotiations."
WASHINGTON, March 19.—New and
aggressive action for the protection of territory
American shipping against ttie German
I submarine war appeared imminent to-I
j day as the re-ult of the sinking of throe
I American steamships witli a possible
loss of lives.
The calling of an extra session of Con- '
gross before the meeting now called for
[ April 17 loomed up as- a strong possibii- I
ily, allho it is understood that the: mans hist night and nearly .vOO* French
President has other courses also under ! prisoners taken, the statement adds,
consideration.
Naval action to clear the ship lanes of
| German submarines is regarded as
probable step to lie taken immediati-lv.
President Wilson made another per-
In other words, the court upheld the so,na^ visit this afternoon to the Stale.
constitutionality ’of the Adamson law, ''X »>"il<ii<>gs and
... ’ , , . . , ’ outward indications were that some new
winch was held unconstitutional last and definite act is impending as the re-
tail tiv District Judge Hooks at Kansas stilt of the_ latest destruction of Amer-
City, who announced that he so acted
chiellj to get jiie matter before the Su-
preme court at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
THE EXCLUSIVE SHOE. STORE
CHINA HAS OCCUPIED
GERMAN CONCESSIONS [
AT TIENTSIN-HANKOW
| have occupied without iqipusition th>*|
Germ in <--mevssions a! Tientsin and ;
Hankow. The Hutch government has;
taken ox• r the wvrk T the German con- [
Sill.lie.
PEKIN
■ ■n'.
prep;(rim-r
ie.it prosecution
PARIS. March 19— The Erench ad-
vanced further Sunday along a front- of
about thirty-seven miles and to a depth
of about twelve and a half miles, the
Germans retiring before them.
• JrP'pnV March 19.-grhe British
I on a
BERLIN. March 19.—An attack on
London by Zeppelins lasting an hour and
i a half was made last night, the AA ar
i office announces.
1 Bombs were dropped successfully and [
the airships returned safely.
Russian General Who Attained
Unenviable Notoriety in Jap
War Killed by Revolutionists OF RETREAT IS NOT THATGERMANS ARE '*0N RUN”
; I’ETRi iGRAH, March 19.—One of the |
ni.-n of prominence killed in thei LONImK. March 19.—The newspapers
"’ hero generally take a solver view of the
l11^" „ al'Tn<T£ f'.ern,an retirement on the Franco-Bel-
* ro-
tlie front on a special
I i '- If Tui r ■mil’.- wi>
| when hi- army was starving.
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