The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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Get the Girl First!
__ Then Come to Us for the Needed Home Furnishings
to start life aright. We make special effort'to help young people who are just starting
out to fight life’s battle for themselves. With each purchase of furniture amounting to |
$15.00 we give FREE one handsome Parlor Rocker. Rockers on display in our windows. |
Sanitary Iron
Bed
Finished in Green,
Blue and White—
$6.00
Handsome Oak Chiffonier
as above,
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SANITARY
Iron Bed
2-inch continuous
post, Vernis Mar-
tin or white as above
$7.50
Genuine Quarter-Sawed
Oak Rocker
Free with each purchase of
furniture amounting- to $25
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Sanitary Iron
Bed
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or bluefinish; price—
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C. J. Gerlach & Bro.
“THE PEOPLES’ STORE FOR EVERYTHING’^1
No. 38-A
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Texas Industrial Notes.
Longview—An unusually large
acreage will be put out in toma-
toes here this year. A great
many truckers and farmers have
already completed the task of
setting ont plants.
Victoria—M'a n y % prominent
capitalists and road builders
from all over south Texa sattend-
ed the Alamo-Victoria-San Jacin-
to Highway Association, which
was held in Victoria this week.
The association reported prog-
ress on the move to construct an
improved highway between San
Antonio and Houston via Victo-
ria Seguin and Gonzales. Nine
counties were represented at the
meeting.
Victoria—A truck farmer near
the city has been selling straw-
berries on the local market since
Thanksgiving day. and his sup-
ply continues to bring him in a
goodly source of revenue.
Pilot Point—A new mattress
factory is the latest industry to
be added to the already large
number of small factories here.
Beaumont—G r e a t prepara-
tions are being made for the en-
tertainment of the Texas Lum-
bermen’s Association, which
meets in this city April 8, 9 and
10. The Kirby Lumber company
announces that the lumbermen
will be invited to be their guests
during a whole day.
Pittsburg—The officers of the
Northeast Texas Fair, have just
announced a dividend of per
cent, a total of $6,000. The asso-
ciation has $15,000 invested and
expects to spend $10,000 more in
improvements this yeaf. A mod-
el race’ track will be a feature of
the fair.
Big Springs—Farmers in this
section are greatly interested in
the cultivation of peanuts as a
money crop, and it is understood
a number of acres will be planted
in the nuts this year.
Sugarland—A train laad of fat
cattle left here recently for the
Fort Worth stock yards. This
consignment is a part of eight
thousand head which have been
fattened at the feed mixing plant
of the sugar refinery.
Houston—For the purpose of
irrigating and raising rice on
6,000 acres of land lying in Har-
ris and Galveston counties, the
State Land Company, with a cap-
ital stock of $500,000, was grant-
ed a charter recently.
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Feagin, A. T. The Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1913, newspaper, January 30, 1913; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth657490/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.