The Decatur News (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, November 14, 1924 Page: 5 of 8
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or, Texas
Friday, November 14, 1924
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City National Bank
DECATUR, TEXAS
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A Wonderful Furniture Buying’ Opportunity
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C. L. CHRISTIAN’S
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Fire Stock of Fakes & Co, Ft. Worth
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Sale Opens Saturday, November 15
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This is the opportune time to select and buy your CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS—No more approprate and desirable gifts than some
thing for the Home
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dees not affect the simple idea of custodianship
of funds, which gave it birth and made it a nec-
essary part of hte progress of the community.
Every bank, regardless of its size or influence,
is an institution dedicated to the advancement
of the community, fully appreciating its respon-
sibility and offering safety and security through
the laws under which it operates.
EXPERT WATCH AND JEWELRY
REPAIRING
Satisfaction guaranteed
Rutherford
Grove
of prevention is worth a pound of
cure.
Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. GORDON
GRINER, Denton, Mr. and Mrs. W.
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WE HAVE JUST MADE A FORTUNATE PURCHASE OB1 THE BETTER PART OB5
THE WAREHOUSE
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LOOK FOR THE BIG TWO-PA GE CIRCULAR At Your Door.
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A. W. Roberts, Route 6, dropped in has riKht °J "“y> accidents frequently
e News office and paid his ; ub-1occu^ ln th,s manner. He urges the
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conunittee
community
W. Jones
Baldridge
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North Bound
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Ar, Dec. Ar.W.Falls
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the greater part of which was only slightly soiled by water and smoke, which has all
been cleaned and polished and is now in first-class condition. . This merchandise was
bought at a price which will enable us to offer it to you at half original cost and less.
To make this the greatest furniture selling event in the history of Decatur we have de-
cided to include our entire stock of high-class furniture and house furnishings at most
unusual reductions, and you will serve your best interest by taking advantage of this
the first furniture Sale ever held in Decatur.
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Decatur Jewelry Co. |
Now opened for business with a complete line of
JEWELRY. We are receiving New Stock daily, and
are prepared to serve you with anything in the jew-
elry line.
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relatives in Whitesboro Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Warren Lillard
spent last week in Oklahoma.
Mrs. D. M. Turner spei
Day in Fort Worth witn her husband. ■
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Reeves were
Armistice Day visitors in Denton.
J. P. Carson and wife from Wichita
Falls are visiting J. M. Lambert
and family.
Mrs. Jarrett and daughter Miss
Furniture Sale!
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A NUMBER OF HANDSOME
PRESENTS
Given away During This Sale
There are no strings to this prop-
osition. You do not have jx) buy
one cent’s worth unless you want
to. These presents are
ABSOLUTELY FREE
You must be here at the opening
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SATURDAY MORNING, NOV-
EMBER 15, at 9 O’CLOCK
If you would participate in this
Distribution
Tell all your friends, and bring
them with you
wteffigW
Kntarad at the poatoffice at Deca-
tur, Texas as aecond class mail matter
NEW FORT WORTH A DENVER
TRAIN SCHEDULE
Texas
messenger was I _
new equipment that ”had been
structed especiallyfor him.
“That is a little safe that we!
chain around your waist,’’ c~
Suppose robbers blew up the safe!”
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scription. ' I Pe°PIe to take every precaution.
„ , „ _ .1. j j says Kreater effort is
, • an.d Mr~, Rutherford and days to prevent fires, than the fight-
children from Blue Grove visited
J. W. Maley and wife here Sunday.!
Hugh Breedlove and Mr. Muldoon |
left Saturday on a hunting trip to
Kerville, Tex., to be gone a week, i
Misses Madge and Blanche Scott
spent Sunday in Decatur with their
father and mother.
Mrs. S. S. Boyd and Mrs. Jack
Reid of Boyd were in Decatur
shopping Monday.
Our home agent iMiss Caroline
Chambers is ill at Mrs. W. L. Dallas
where she is making her home.
R. R. Reppert, etymologist from
LOST—GENERAL BALOON FIRE-
{stone Casing with rim for Ford Car.
Leave at City National Bank and
receive reward. JACK LILLARD,
j the beautiful floral offerings, pleoe I Decatur- Texas- (U-14wlpd)
1 our thanks. May God re-j *
ward each of you for your goodness. Could Happen.
Mr. and Mrs. CARL GRINER,! L-------
5:26 a m
(Corected May 16, 1924)
Bed Room Suits, Fine RocWers, Chiffoniers, Couches, Tables and
Stands,Vanities, Rugs, Kitchen Cabinets, Ranges, Dining Room
Sets; Hundreds of useful and attractive gifts may be secured
from this great stock.
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H. R. Donaldson, a farmer living
near Boyd submits the following
figures resulting from his experiment
with fertilizer under cotton this year.
Two-seventh acre plots of cotton were
used in the experiment, the land
being of identical qulaity of sand,
the seed being the same, the planting
date the same, the cultivation the!
same, everything being the same
except that one plot was fertilized
and the other was not. Cotton seed
meal and acid phosphate in equal accept
tiroa vxsaA In WM rd £
ahead of the seed at the rate of
six hundred pounds per acre. The
was able to begin
I picking from the fertilized tract
two full weeks before any on the
i other opened up and that from the
fertilized tract he gathered by weight!
148 pounds of seed cotton and from |
i the unfertilized tract 70 pi
j less than half the yield
LOCAL — PERSONAL tr“tol pl<>t
---------------— E. R. Miller, State Fire Inspector
MRS. L. W. TYLER, Local Editor was in Decatur Monday, on official
__ - i business. He warns the people as
Mrs. E. B. Melton and son visited winter approaches, to have their flues
- - ■ — - - cleaned, all rubbish and trash taken
j out of their building and off their
j premises. He emphatically condemns j
I the practice of burning trash on the
nt ArmUtion'out si^® without putting it in a
’i , I fire receptacle, so many fires result
from this habit, as does the burning
of grass, which should be carefuely
guarded, sparksflying frequently cause
great damage. He spoke of the
expense a false fire alarm means to
a city, not only from a financial
stand point but the danger of loss !
T . . -, , . , of life, when an alarm is given, |
Louise, from Fort Worth visited ’ people rush frantically, to see where
Capt. S. A. Lillard and wife Sunday. I the fire is and altho the fire wagon !
Decatur Tuesday for the afternoon.
Mrs. E. B. Melton and son E. B.
Jr. were Armistice vistors in Fort
Worth.
Mrs. W. P. Thurmond returned
Wednesday from Fort Worth where
she was under treatment for
ptomaine poisning.
Mrs. Sam Taggart and Fred -Free-
man left for Haskell Wednesday, to
be with their brother, John Freeman,
who is seriously ill.
Jessie McMurray spent Saturday
night in Decatur with her grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Me-j
Murray.
Miss Cora Boyd left Monday on
a visit to Burkburnett*, ILamesa
and Lubbock, she probobly will .
be gone untill Christmas.
Four hundred baby qhicks belong-
ing to Archie Hoyl were killed Mon-1
day when the brooder he had them
in, caught fire.
Mrs. Effie Price attended the
opening of the new School Building I
in Paradise Tuesday. The building (
burned some time last year, and is
just now ready for occupancy.
Dr. Cade Stanley and wife from
. Fredrick, Okla., stopped in Decatur
Sunday on a short visit to relatives
enroute to Dallas to attend Dental
Association.
Mrs. Lizzie Hay and daughter
Mrs. Winners of Austin spent week-
end with her brother H. C Breed-
love on their way to Denver to
spend the winter. x
Mrs. Glenn Russell and family of
Breckenridge spent Saturday night
in Decatur, with her mother and
sister, Mrs. Russell and Mrs. W. L.
Dallas.
Mrs. Annie Walker who has been
spending the past aix months with
her daughter, Mrs. C. T. Gettys
returned to her home in Beiton
Monday.
J. G. Province and Fred Spain,
both of Decatur, were P»y*nK
to the News office this week, re
newing their subscription for another
year.
Ttie Texas Power and Light Co.
have begun work on their new
distributing system, by tearing down
the old posts and enstalling large
posts and large single cables.
Mrs. Guy Hughes and son
Wichita Falk*, spent the first of
the week in Decatur with Mrs.
Hughes parents, E. L. Brandenburgh
and wife.
The beautiful large white
thanums. Miss *£
tributing among her friends is the
subject of much
They are perfect, the prettiest we
have seen this year.
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A. & M. Extension Department will ■
lecture in Decatur Nov., 22nd.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Reiger and
Miss Ezell of Sanger spent Armistice
Day in Decatur.
Mrs Lula Matthews and daughter, ■
Mrs. L. B. Randall from Ennis, Tex. !
are visiting friends in their old'
home Sycamore.
Sam Renshaw was able to bs!
on the square Tuesday after several
weeks confinement at home from
illness.
Kenneth Brice and Leonard .form
Bowie motored to Decatur Friday
to see the football game between .
D. B. C. and John Tarlton.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Nash of
Ryan, Okla, are here for a few days |
with their father, Mr. George Splawn
whose condition is little improved.
Mmes Reta Loveless, Pearl Perry,
Eula Beard and Mrs. Russell of
Dallas and Fort Worth mortored to
^Decatur, TexaM
being shown some plained the cashier,
been con- “Not me,” exclaimed
senger “I resign.”
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"Why?”
“Why? For the love o’ Mikel
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to our l
neighbors who were
good to us in our troubles, brought
about by the sudden death of our
beloved father. To those who sent
May God re-'|
ou for your
. CARL
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Ar. Ft.W | Pickin*.. from.
6.20 p m i oC|ier Opene<i up an<j ^hat frOm the
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