The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 14, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 14, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XXVI. I subscription Mj«AK1oR,,Kir j DENISON, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 14, 1907.
WSSSS^ISSSST-X NUMBER 14
For painless sad up-to-date dental work
Dr. GILMER
Crowes, $5.00; illnys, $t.oo ted »p. s'l
other work In proportion. No Phone ij}
Office, 411! Main Street, up stairs.
The following letter signed by A.
J. Kincaid, pastor ot the First Bap-
tist church, of this city, appeared in
a recent issue of the Staunton. (Vs)
Leader. It was called out bvj that
paper republishing the following
article which appeared in the Gaz-
etteer soon atter the sdoptibn of
prohibition in Grayson county j
When Prohibition carried In this coun-
ty last spring, we were assured bv the
Pros, that the houses vacated by saloons
would rapidly fill up with other 1 ines ot
business and that the city would be more
prosperous than ever. Experience; so far
does not sustain the roseate expressions
ot the Pros. Instead of new business
coming, a number of commercial houses
have moved away. J. Lari man, who has
conducted a restaurant and rooming
house tor years, says his business played
out, and he will leave the city for good;
Lanta, one of the largest and most suc-
cessful furniture dealers in the city has
told out his stock, and it will be moved
to Sherman; Pyle, the shoe mau, la clos-
ing out his stock to quit business; the
Herald Shoe Company’s stock has been
disposed of to Knight; the Pollock
Trunk Company it going back to Dallas;
Braaelle, dealer in confectionery, i fruits,
tobacco and cigars, has quit: Paul's sec-
ond hand store is closed out, anti Paul
has gone to New York; the Tjip-Top
clothing and furnishing stock was dosed
out at cost and the proprietor has left the
city. We hear of two or three merchants
who contemplate winding up their affairs.
Now will the Pros please tell what’s on
the way to take the place of these! enter-
prises ’
Denison, Texas, July i, 11907.
Mr. J. H. Ciafton, Staunton, Yaj,
Dear Sir and Brother:
Yours just to hand. The clipping it
brings has come to me several timet since
it first went out from that dirljy little
sheet, The Denison Gazette, from which
it sprung. Let me say in a few words,
there is no truth in it. Some of the firms
referred to did leave this city, but: not be-
cause of Drohibitlon. Some ot them have
come back and opened business on a
larger scale than ever, since they pee .the
marvelous improvement which prohibi-
tion has brought to our town. Mr.;Knight
tor instance, has come back and opened
a large double house dry goods store.
There Is not now an empty store room in
Denison that 1 know of.
This clipping was put out some years
ago lust after the first prohibition elec-
tion. Since that time the antics brought
in another election in due time afid were
worse beat than betore.
Our city is most wonder'iilly improved
by prohibition. It has befp a great ben-
efit to us in more ways tt %i one. The
city is now on an upgrade of prosperity
such as ha! never been kno* p in : its h 1s-
tory before.
lieves in fair and just treatment of
all men. To be plain, I don’t be-
lieve Rek. Kincaid knows anything
about th: character ot this paper.
His name was never on its subscrip-
tion list, (it isn’t deadheaded to
preachers) and if he ever saw it he
must have bo trowed it from some of
its patrons. He doesn’t seem to
know tljie name of the paper, it
seems.
Now a few words in reference
to the first article quoted above:
Rev. Kijncaid says “there is no truth
in it,” and tn the next breath admits
he falsifies by saying “some of the
firms djid leave the city.” Every
one ot t lose firms quit business or
left the :ity just as the article says
they didj. But says this Rev. critic,
“Some of them have come back and
opened business on a larger scale
than ever.” None of them came
back, afid of cours<* did not open
business on a larger scale. Knight
has opened a branch store here
within tjhe last few weeks, but he
was not included in the list of those
who had moved away. He lett
liter. The statement that “our
city is most wonderfully improved
bv prohibition,” is a question every
citizen jean decide for himself. I
don’t believe it; but a man who will
assert that “the city is now on an
up-grac,e of prosperity, such as has
never been known in its history be-
fore,” is either a very reckless
writer, or has a very poor memory.
The year preceding the adoption of
prohibition in this county was the
year o: phenomenal prosperity in
Denisop. More substantial business
houses
volumr
Most Respectfully,
A. J. Kincaid, Fa
Fi
as, ■ "
irst Baptist Chuiv,
Denison, T<p.
I have never formed the acquain-
tance of Rev. Kincaid ; nppr 'nave
x given cause for his per- iihal enmity
as I am aware ot, and what; act of
mine has stired up his Reverence’s
enmity, which takes the form of a
, base slander, it beyond my compre-
were erected, and a greater
of business was done than
any previous year in Denison’s his-
tory. jHow many business houses
have been erected since?
B.
U. Murray, Proprietor
Sunday Gazetteer.
The
7ote on the Waterworks Bonds.
The
taxpayers of Derison showed
their cc
infidesPce in the judgment of
the :
ila; and Commissioners
Tl irsi
oy giving a majority of
imf ven to one in favor of issu-
« *5,000 in bonds to be used in
squiring by purchase or otherwise a
municipal waterworks plant. The
follow ng is the vote by wards :
Firslt Ward, 71 for, 8 against;
• last, aiaiiuvi y is uv y wuu easy bvuiuiv , *
hension; and I here denounce his fSecona, 110 for, 23 against; Third,
scurrilous charge the the Gazei - >33 *°r, »4 against; Fourth, 66 for.
Majority for the bonds,
10 against.
, 325-
Public School Hatters.
If half what the Gazetteer
hears is true, there is a tempest
blowing in the Fourth Ward over
the removal and unjust treatment ot
Miss Ollie Bird, Principal at the
Fourth Ward school building. Miss
Bird decided to enforce discipline in
the school, and not let the rooms be
run by a gang of hoodlums. It
seems that her patience and for-
bearance and a desire to have mat-
ters run smoothly only made matters
worse. There was oniv one alter-
native—to make a surrender to ai
element that meant a complete sub
version of discipline, or, on the other
band, let the mandate of the Princi-
pal prevail.
The School Board, it seems did
not sustaian Miss Bird as it should
have done, and it set a very bad ex-
ample when it removed her to an-
other building, and yielded to a. con-
dition of affairs, that if encouraged,
must result in dire disaster to the
welfare of the Public school.
Nine people out of ten of the pat-
rons of the Public school in the
Fourth Ward are opposed to the ac
tion of the School Board, and are in-
sisting that Miss Bird be put back.
She is one ot the best teachers that
our Public schools have ever had.
Her ability as a principal is conce-
ded, and her treatment at the hands
ot the School Board is a humiliation
which they had no rig)at to put upon
her. If the School Board will put
their ears to the ground they will
hear a noise which portends a storm
that sooner or later will break." It
will be a storm of indignation and
will certainly result in no good to the
moral of the Public schools.
Since the above was written a
member of the School Board informs
the Gazetteer tl. t over 93 per
cent ot the patrons of the Peabody j
school building have petitioned that j
Miss Bird be retained. No self- j
constituted committee will hardly 1
dare to defy a sentimant that is so ]
unanimous.
teer, of which I atr, proprietor, is a
“dirty little sheet, as a malicious
falsehood. To resort to a paper in
a distant gtate to traduce a citizen of
his own town is cowardly. No
brave man will stab even an enemy
in the back. No one despises dirty-
ness in a newspaper more than the
proprietor of the Gazetteer, and
it is his standing order that jits col-
umns be kept clean. None ot the
numerous questionable advertise-
ments to be found in every daily
newspaper and, sorry to say, jin many
otherwise respectable weeklies, are
allowed a place in its columns. And
right here I demand that Rev. Kin-
caid prove his charge that the Gaz-
etteer is a “dirty little sheet,” or
stand branded as a falsifier and
slanderer in the estimation of every
citizen in this community (where I
have edited and published news-
papers thirty-five years) who bt- I meanjs to carry out their pledge.
Mayor Eugene Schmitz, convicted
o£ extorting $1175 from a French
restaurant keeper, was sentenced by j
Judge Dunne to serve five years in]
the San Quentin penitentiary. The |
telegraphic report says the last j
words ot the sentence had hardly
passed from the judge’s lips when a i
thunderous cheer was sent up from j
the great crowd m attendance.
There are four other extortion cases j
pending against the mayor.
Not! once did the Herald say one
word j in favor of the municipal
ownership ot waterworks, or the
importance ot securing an adequate
water [supply, during the three weeks
that ttj carried the advertisement call|
ing fojr a vote of the taxpayers on the
proposition to issue bonds for this
purpojse. On the contrary, in every
issue Appeared one or more edito-
rials designed, evidently, to defeat
the proposition. The result of
Thursday’s vote showed how little
influence it has when it comes to an
attempt to create prejudice against
the Mayor and Commissioners.
They were elected on the issue of
more! water for Denison, and the
voters were too sensible to block the
wav jbv refusing to provide the
a“ihye Blue Front Racket Store
500 Pieces Just Arrived from the Factory
in
Denison
Owned by Davis & Kote at 220 Main Street.
300 pieces granite ware we will sell 30 per cent cheaper than others
are getting for same goods. Watch o|ur windows for Saturday.
Our special sales each dav bring the croiwds. Fall in line it you
want to save money. water cooler, $2.43. 6 qt. cream
freezer, $2 49. Get your r ts and come and see us.
DAVIS & KOTE
“"■JULY CASH SALE
Prof. T. V. Munson now occu
pies the pulpit of the Christian
church at the Cotton Mill. He al
ternates with the pastor, occupying
the sacred desk every other Sunday
night. This is not to be interpreted
to mean the Professor hBs been
converted.” The pastor talks
theology one night and Professor
Munson discusses scientific problems
the next. Tonight, the 14th, his
subject will be, “The Creation of
the World.”
The weavers in the Sherman
Cotton Mill are out on a strike for
better pay, consequently the looms
are idle. Manager Fairbanks of-
fered to concede half they asked
for, but this the weavers retused.
Since the above was written the
differences have been amicably ad-
justed and the men are again at
work.
“According to Hon. Theodore
Harris, ot San Antonio, in an ad-
dress delivered early this year at the
first annual session of the conference
for education in Texas, there are
thirty-five States in the Union with
a smaller percentage of illiteracy of
native white men that Texas.”
Work is always satisfactory at the
Lone Star Laundry.
Shoeman's
On All Summer Oxfords
BARGAINS FOR MEN
The Stetson oxfords, regular
$5 and
price
The
$6 values, Bray’s cash
$4.00
11st Wright” oxfords,
regular $4 values, Bray’s cash
price. .!.................$3.50
Weber
#3-50
price.
Bros, oxfords, regular 1
values, Bray’s cash
................ .$2.65
Look at Our Sltov Windows tor Got Pricos
The
Big
Shoe
Store
1
BRAY, The Shoo Man !L
DENISO
Sidney Elkin
Closes 6 o’clock.
Belore Wash Jackets
in embroidered or linen, all
white, soiled, so we close
them at half price,
73c to $1.25
Suit Silks
in a variety af patterns for
summer auita, 39c
Special in Lace Hose
White and black tor ladies,
beautiful lace patterns,
Your Money Returned
If not Suited.
Phones 1.
Our Motto: “FAIR PLAY1
GREEN TAGS “BEAT THE BUNCH
And you have Seen waiting for the Green Sag Sale. So has your
neighbor. In fact, people living for hundreds of miles look forward to
these sales the same as youngsters look for Christmas, because they
know this sale means more to them than jany other sale given by any
house. We always try to outdo ourselves in these sales. Besides be-
ing house-cleaning time with us we try to make these sales the strong-
est proof that your money-will buy more of the same quality of goods
here than you can possibly get elsewhere. We don’t rant and tear and
talk about other merchants and their goods, but we talk prices—self
interest—to you, We could tell you that our goods were better than
the same goods in other stores, but as the same mills make the major-
ity of goods in all stores, you would say, Baity’s fibbing, and once you
let the public get onto the fact that their merchant fibs and their confi-
dence begins to get weak: The merchant that deliberately fibs, or lets
his clerks tib about some other merchant, hurts only himself, and as
proof of this we have only to call your attention to what others said
about our Stetson hats being only seconds, or not as good quality as
the ones they were selling from 50c to $1.05 more than our price. We
wrote Stetson about this and published his reply, in which he said, the
hats were identically the same quality, and we will j(rive any merchant
fifty dollars in gold to say in public print and prove that our Stetson
hats are inferior to his. A good chance to pull down fifty dollars.
Hatch and see who tries for it. When Baity, or any other merchant,
tells you his goods are better than other’s goods you can bet he is
talking to get more profit. We say our ioc socks are as good as any-
body’s, and our 50c socks are as good as anybody’s, and that’s reas-
onable, and we believe it, and others believe it, because we are selling
more goods than any other house in Denison, and 4 years ago we had
only a shirt tail full of goods. Sales the first year $48,000. Our sales
the second ygar $79,000. Our sales the third year $183,000. Our sales
the fourth y€ar nearly a quarter million dollars. And the first two
months on our fifth year spells an increase of $84,000 for the year, and
our first week s sales in July more than doubled our first week's sales
last July. This all means something, and it will pay you to learn the
meaning. And you can learn it well by coming to our Great Green
Tag Cut Price sale, where you'll find the lowest prices you ever saw
on first-class merchandise. Hip, Hip, Hurrah ! Baity beats the bunch.
6,000 Handkerchiefs
White lawn hemstitched ones tor
ladies, five for__________5c
Three paper* iron pins tor a copper
cent.
Three papers wire hairpins for a
copper cent.
Twenty pieces 10c dress duck, in
blue, black and white grounds,
•with figures, sold by us at 7 l-2c
and ioc, Green Tag Sale
piice —---- 6 i*2C
Red Seal, A. FVC. Toile Du Nord
and 3,000 yards Bates’ seersucker
styles in gingham, sold wholesale
today at 9c to nc and retail at ioc
to 12 i-2c : the last time you’ll get
these standard ginghams for along
time; at the Green Tag
price of_______________8 i-2c
Twenty yards good yard wide do-
mestic for_______________________$1.00
Twenty yards good cotton checks
for............ $1,00
Baity Bucking the
Thread Trust
We believe just like our cousin.
Billy Bryan, that if some of the trust
magnates were put behind the bars
it would do the country some good.
The thread trust is the latest to bob
up and say that free American citi-
zens shall sell thread at 6c per spool,
The Difference
in a Green Tag Sale and other sales
is a big one. Most other sale* just
reduce a few articles and get regular
prices lor the most things. The
Green Tag Sale lower* the price ot
everything unles* it’s five or six ar-
ticles that we always sell for mean-
ness, just because some of the big
houses were going to run us out ot
Denison when we commenced in the
hole in the wall.
Val trees at, per yard i-2c, ic
and u;>.
Big lot of wide silk lace* at half
price.
Long silk gloves—we have too many
of these in sizes 512 and 6 and
you can pick at cost.
A Big Embroidery Sale
We have a lot of real fine em-
broidery flouncings, some of them
wide enough for skirts, and all wide
enough for corset covers—
The 35c ones________________23c
Tne 30c ones_________39c
The 65c one*........ 49c
The 89c ones_________69c
The $5.00 and $6.25 skirt
patterns, choice.-:_________$3 93
A big one—Choice of all $7.95,
$9 93 and $12.95 handsome white
suit patterns, trimmed in lace* and
embroideries, green tagged
at-------------------------$4 95
and merchants without nerve danced dress goods, sold
to their music, but we always did
love to say no when somebody said
we must do a thing, and we are go-
ing to keep on selling thread at 5c
per spool.
Ladies’ Tailored Suits
One-Half Price
in silk and wool—iu.st a few left, so
you may take your choice at ju-t
naif price.
$20.00 suits at-------------$10.00
$15.00 suits at----------------$7-5°
$10.00 suits at-------------$5.00
Wash suits, values $1.00 to $7.50,
at 69c to---------------------------$3-95
Ladies’ and Misses’ skirts will ail
wear a big green tag and printed on
each tag will be these words: “U
Can Beat It at Baity’s Green Tag
Cut Price Sale,” and you can, too.
Misses’ skirt* 69c to-----------------$3-95
Ladies’ skirts 69c to----------------$9.95
Three cases light colored lawns,
sold by most houses at 5c, by us at
2 i-2c; will go into the Green Cut
Price Sale at ten yards for__________15c
4,000 yards calicoes, ginghams and
beiges, values today 6c, 10
yards for..................... 48c
Two cases, 1,440 pairs, Ladies’ ioc
black hose, 3 1-3C, or three
pairs for__________________ ioc
Topsy 50c fancy tan hose at_____25c
25c Buster Brown hose at-------------15c
25c Cadet linen spliced hose at.....wjC
25c quality red table damask-------15c
50c quality hemmed napkins,
per dozen----------------------------45c
Hemmed buck towels, per pair
8c, per dozen_____________ 48c
28 inch bath towels, three for------ioc
300 new silk belts tor Ladies in
blacks and colors, standard
50c ones, your choice________ ioc
us at 45c, at
73c plaid dress
ches, sold by
at .................
goods,
us at
Quit Scratching
Bar the mosquitoes—A whole
bolt S yards mosquito bar____39c
Real Macnhester ioc bonnet
chambray________7 I-2C
Carpet work, per box___________$1.20
Madame Lloyd’s or Cotno embroi
dery cotton, Green Tag Price
three spools for_____
6-yard pieces finished braid, in
colors, four bunches for---5c
Green Tag Prices on
Clothing
On all new this season’s clothing
ing of the latest style and cloth that
COSt $12.65, $13.75, Bnd $16.50,
value at retail $16.50 to $20.00, be-
cause no other Louse sells same
goods regularly for less, but just to
“beat the bunch” good, hard and
strong, you can pick any suit in the
house at only--------$11.95
All suits that are new, this
spring’s goods and cost $8.25, and
no house but Baity sells suits that
cost $S.25 regularly below $10.00
and $12.50, but we mark the green
tag on this line.....-____$6.95
About 100 black serge coats for
boys 15 to ig years old, worth $1.00
green tag price_____________________ioc
Last year's suits, not quite as
long coats a* this season, in cassi-
meres, worsteds and homespuns,
just to have a tug of war we are go-
ing to sell the thread and buttons
and give you the clothes. Good,
honest suits at.......$1.49, $1.95 $--Q5
All pants for men will be cut to
the-quick_______39c to $2.95
Green Tag Prices on
Men’s Hats.
John B. Stetson hats, the same as
others charge you $3.50 to $6.00
for, green tag price____$3.95 to $4.50
The XX Beaver hat usually *old
at $2.50, by Baity at $2.25, green
tag price----------$1.95
Men’s light colored fur hats worth
$1.00, and we say $1.00 because
some ot them cost us 02c, one big
table full, choice______________39c
Men’s light colored fur hats, in-
cluding the Oriental $2 25 hats and
the Roena $3.00 hats; about too to
go at your cnoice____89c
Men’s and boys’ straw hats that
you’ve been paying ioc to $2.00 for
at other places_______________5c to 69c
Our ioc Mexican hats, green tag
price______________Sc
Our 20c Mexican hat*, sold by-
other* at 25c, green tag price___15c
Miilnery Almost Given
Away
The story is short. We have about
100 hats, have told over 4,000, and
4,000 at 20 cents each profit, would
give us $Soo profit on millinery
Guess we could give the balance
away and not get hurt, but we are
not going to do it; but you can
choose any hat in the house at___95c
And then we allow you choice of
another lot at___________________ —49^
Anri all street hats at___5c
Big lot of 25c flowers will be
tagged at__________ioc
Wish we had said 9c.
During this Green Tag Sale we
are going to clip great chunks off
others’ prices and we ought to sell
nine-tenths of the shoes sold in Den-
ison.
Ramilton-Brown's H. D. B. $5
shoes____________$2.50
Hamilton-Brown's $3.50 and
$4.00 American Gentleman shoes
at.. $1.95
Hamilon-Brown’s American Lady
$3.00 and $3.50 shoes in high *nd
low cuts at__________$1.39to $t.S9
Hamilton-Brown's misses’ shoes,
sizes 12 to 2, regularly worth $1.25,
at---------- 69c
Green Tag Prices on
Men’s Fixins
Men’s rubber coliari. green ti
linen collars,
T
c La
o pairs Hamilton-Brown’s Pic-
make $2 00 and $2.50
low cuts, in size* 2 and 2 1-2, elastic
goring in some a little weak, go in
this merciless green tag slaughter at
per pair----------------25c
The Packard union-made $4.00
shoes at____________$3.25
The Patriot $4.00 shoes at____$3.25
The Sir Knight$4-oo shoes *{$3.25
Children’s white canvas 50c ox-
fords, 5 to 8, at_______________39c
Ladies' $1.00 canvas oxfords
at____________________79c
Oh my, we are sorry to fling so
many odd prices in together. Some
competitor might happen to see it
and have a 9c dream—but it help*
you.
Baity Beats the Bunch
Good, hard, quick and tast. Two
gross best 25c four-in-hand ties,
brand new, green tag price_______15c
ioc to 25c silk bows, green tag
price------------5c and toe
100 pairs youths’ long wool pants,
26 to 30, worth $1.00. sold Dy us at
95c, green tag price_______69c
price___
Men’s 15c
tag price--------------nc
Men’s 50c shirts, sold Oy us at 45c
green tag price----37 1-2o
Men’s $1.00 shirts, told by us at
90c. green tag price_____75c
Men’s $t 50 shirts, sold by us at
$1.25, green tag price______75c
2,400 Pairs.
2400 pairs men’s tan, black, blue
and red ioc socks wi’.l be sold dur-
ing this great green tag tale at
3 1-3C, tnree pairs for____10;
Trunks and Bags
Green Tagged
\V e must tell more trunks than
the whole ot North Texas, and
there’s a reason and it’s because we
sell trunks at an honest, square profit.
During this tale we are going to
make a small profit on more trunks,
but the finer ones you may select at
cost and pay 25c tor delivering and
you can get the trunk. Cost applies
to all trunks and bags costing $S.oo
and up. Don’t be ashamed to travel
with a trunk that cost you $11.50 it
it's a $15.00 trunk. Djd’i be I ke
the preacher and the straw hat.
Here’s a Killer.
Choice of all 75c and 95c pants
for boys, in fancy castimeres and
blue serges, no better made at our
regular prices, but just to make the
mothers laugh and their boys tear
th*-'- pants, we give you choice at 50c
We lose a big slice of the $2,500
on tnese pants.
All 50c underwear, sold by us at
45C, at----37 I-2C
All 25c underwear, sold by us at
19c, in blue and pink, green tag
price-.---------,5;
600 pairs bleached drill drawers
with stretchy seams, green tag
price------------25c
Boys’ Suits
In wash and wool materials, cut
so deep that your boy will hardly
miss the money tor a new suit; per
suit---------33c to $3.95
Men’s canvas gloves, 6 pairs for
25c.
Extra Special.
600 Men’s soft shirts with collars,
in soisette and silk mxtu'er, a well
known brand of $1 oo, $1 50, $2
and $2.50 shirts, tome sligh’ly
soiled, choice_________90c
Cool Yourself
3,000 5c tans, sold by us at 3c,
Green Tag Price three for____
Sale begins Saturday, July 13, and continues 2 or 3 weeks
Keep in touch with us, because we are going to have some great fun and will do
you good. We pay your railroad fare if you buy $1.00 for each mile you come.
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YOURS FOR FAIR PLAY,
89 CENT BAITY
The Man That’s Advertising Denison
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The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 14, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 14, 1907, newspaper, July 14, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth555544/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.