Wise County Messenger (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1929 Page: 4 of 8
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Thursday, July 11, 1929
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WISE COUNIT MESSENGER
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TEE MOST WIELY CIRCULATED NEWSPAPER IN WISE COUNTY
-THERE Is No SUBSTITUTE row CIRCULATON"
Its Time To
Call 4 Halt!
DICK COLLINS. Editor Ow ner
Subseription Kate— $1.50 per Year
be ia the right; but our country, right or wrong."
—Stephen Decatur.
25,650,00
Thursday Morning, July 11, 1929
18,6:39.33
796.25
631.49
your promises.
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17,500.00 3
331.30
President.
PARR GROCERY;
JIM PARR, Prop.
30,563.56
225.09
$43,376.10
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taken in hand by the law, and she is
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29x4.40 U. S. Pearless fully guaranteed Cord
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Duco and Enamel Polish (Lightening Polish)
24 lbs.
75c
12 Price, 2 bottles $1.00 size, for only 12 price
$1.00
12c
No. 2 can
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1 Price, 2 bottles $1.50 size, for only 12 price
$1.50
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No. 2 can
CORN
$52,527.20
TOTAL
14c
Carton
$2.45
Kool Kushions, $2.95 value, now
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Window Shades, $6.00 values, now
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3 Cans high grade best quality Patch for only
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Undivided profits, net
Individual deposits subject
check, including time- tie
posits due in 30 days
Cashier’s Checks Outstand-
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10,000.00
1,300.00
1.287.45
interest in Depositors’
Guaranty Fund __________
Assessment Depositor s’
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BRING US YOUR POULTRY AND EGGS
WE PAY TOP PRICES
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any
firm, person or corporation which may appear at any time in the colums of
the Messenger will !»• gladly corrected upon its being brought to the attention
of the publisher—DICK COLLINS. Publisher.
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Member of National Editorial Association, World Press Congress, and The
Texas Press Association
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Office of Publication—Messenger Building, 206 West Walnut Street,
TELEPHONE 45
I Have Treated You Right
as your merchant; and I have done everything to merit your con-
fidence and friendship—and now I ask you to reciprocate by set- •
tling your account. Let’s be fair and square with each other. So,
meet my collector with the PAY—Not PROMISES. „ja. -uan
at a game in Arkapsaw the other day,
and the negro immediately passed out.
It is suggested that a thoro investiga-
tion be made; the baseball was not
of the regulation make, or the Arkan-
saw negros are degenerating.
Balloon Tire and Tube, only..........
($7.90 for Tire: $1.98 for Tube)
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$58,387.73
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LIABILITIES
Capital' Stock -------------
Surplus Fund -----------------
Undivided profits, net ------
Individual Deposits subject
to check, including time
deposits due in 30 days...
Time Certificates of Deposit
Customers’ Bonds deposited
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30x31 Guaranteed Cord Tire and Tube, only
($5.75 for Tine; $1.35 for Tube)
TOTAL
State of Texas,
County of Wise,
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Capital Stock $10,000.00
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E. I.. BERRY. President,
S. B POWELL. Cashier.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE -
FINANCIAL CONDITION’ OF THE 3
Continental State Bank ‘
at Boyd, State of Texas, at the elose
<f business on the "9th day of June.
1929.
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Miss Amanda Montgomery of Big IK
Springs, visited relatives' in Decatur ©
last week. @
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PUBLISHED IN THE DAIRY CENTER OF THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
Batered at the Post Office at Decatur, Texan. as Second Ciass Mail Matter.
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Messenger goes into every home in
and R. E. Petty, as Cashier of said
batik, each of us, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to
the best of our knowledge and belief.
W. M. KOONCE, President.
R. E. PETTY. Cashier.
< orrect—Attest:
Mt. R. BOYD,
M. D. LEWIS,
E. R. WRIGHT, Directors.
Below, Remi Counts and Anna Eloyse
Cook attended services at Trinity
Methodist church in Fort Worth last
Sunday night.
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niture and
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A baseball hit a negro on the head Surplus Fund
young ladies out. They were bruised
up some but not badly injured. A -
sand bed preven' casualties •
A Ml passed thru i- ■ .
esterday morning about iiirt,* o'check J
carrying two men Later in the day 2
local officers were notified from Dal- •
las t look out for a car that talli si •
in description with the one that had ♦
just zone thru, which had been stol n ♦
in Dalia- officers up the Den ri"
were notified.
subscribed and sworn to before
me this 3rd day of July, A. D., 1929.!
W. E. MUNN, Notary Public.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE
First State Bank
at Sldell, State of Texas, at the
close of busfness on the 29th day of
June, 1929.
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$1000.00
Cash in hank
Due from approved reserve
agents
Interest in Depositors'
Guaranty Fund
Assessment Depositors
Guaranty Fund
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RESOURCES
Loans and discounts, in per-
sonal or collateral secur-
ity ----------
Overdrafts ____________
Banking House $750.00, Fur-
niture and Fixtures
$935.00 ___________________________
Cash in bank ____________________
Alvin Askey and Misses Estelle
We. E. I.. Berry, as President, and
Undivided profits, net________
Individual Deposits subject
to check, including time
deposits due in 30 days...
Time Certificates of De-
posit ___________________________
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State of Texas,
County of Wise:
We, Jno. B. Hunt. as President, and
Artie Brown, as Cashier of said bank,
each of us, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the
best of our knowldge and belief. i
JNO. B. HI NT, President,
ARTIE BROWN Cashier.
Correct—Attest :
JAMES M. JAMES,
C. E. BROWN,
J M HUCKABEE. Directors. ;
Sub-cribed and sworn to before me
this st), day of July. A D., 1929. X
J. L CHANDLER Notary Public, ❖
(Seal) Montague County, Texas. $
"Our Country! in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always
ed Judge and Mrs. Chas. F. Spencer |©
in Fort Worth first of the week. « i ©
Kev. John Rice of Fort Worth, was ©
visiting in the home of his father. @
< orrect—Attest :
J. W. BRYANT.
J. H HUGHES.
E. B. BROWN. Directors.
subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3rd day of July. A. D., 1929.
E. B. BROWN, Notary Public, Den
North Side Square 3
TOTAL................. $43,376.16
LIABILITIES
ness with the land office, and draw- 2
ing on state funds t liquidate doctor A
l ills. etc. are not worthy of a busy $
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Loans and discounts, on per-
sonal or collateral secur-
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Loans secured by real estate
< •v erdrafts
Other bonds and stocks
owned
Customers" bonds held for
Some half d gen "statesmen" have
announced theft" yearnings for the
place now held by Guinn Williams in
the national congress. A majority of
the aspirants, an investigation dis-
doses, have just recently come into
the statesmen sphere through one-
term service in the Texas legislature.
safekeeping ------------------
Banking House $1,285.00,
Furniture and Fixtures
$1,100.00 _____________—--—
Cash in Bank --------------
Due from approved reserve
agents
Interest in Depositor’s
Guaranty Fund -------
Assessment Depositors’
Guaranty Fund ------------
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Misses Sue and Janet Hambright
and Demi Lester were week-end guests
of Mrs. K. G. Nobles.
Commissioner Robisi n. who has I
been holding down the land office job
at Austin since lewhiskered men
were in swaddling clothes; long
enough to claim undisputed claim to
the office, was voted not guilty of
misdeeds in office by a majority of
the Texas legislature. It appears that
Mr. Robison has held the reins so
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Mrs. Yints Kao. wife of the Chinese State of Texas,
vice-c nsul in San Francisco. has been i County of Wise.
Due from approved reserve
agents ___________________ 11,245.56
saying some very unladylike things N B. Powell, as Cashier of said
abont all members of the white race, | bank. «nh of us, do .solemnly swear
and the ’Frisco arresting officers in that the above statement is true
particular. Mrs. Ying Koa was caught I toysthe best of our knowledge ami
with some million d liars worth of i
for safekeeping -------- 25,650.00
I am feeling like I suppose the horse felt that was being ridden to
a standstill, without feed and water—and it’s time a change was
made in the order of things. For months, probably in some cases
for years. I have been carrying customers on promises to pay, and
on each month these promises are renewed, sometimes with other
promises added. And, as time goes by I find that these promises
will not assist me one whit in looking about the debts I owe So,
good friends, I am asking you to be fair with me, as I have been
fair with you, and settle your accounts for Groceries you purchas-
ed from me on the understanding that you would settle on the first
of the month. Time is up; and I earnestly ask you to make good
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE ?
First State Bank :j:
At Park Springs. State of Texas, at
the close of business on the 29th day v
of June, 1929. IA
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overdrafts 19.023 X LARD, Jewel or Vegetol
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