The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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Come to us, or phone us .your orders for groceries, we’ll not only assure you satisfaction in every respect
we’ll save you a few dollars—We still have flour under the market.
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George B. Roberts’ Grocery Store
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/ w. M. Turpin has returned her^
i from Beni)rook.
/ Mrs. Warner PameU is
( week.
||rs. Charles Blakeney has re-
covered from her recent iliness. j
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Edward Marrs, who has been
visiting at Terrell and Dallas for
several weeks, has returned to his
home here, where he lives with
his grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.
M. Mari's.
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iere will be ’lasses for all.
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Flour at greatly reduced Prt°«*
at Livingston’s Racket store. Ev-
ery sack guaranteed. Adv,
Mrs. Edgar Wickline and son are
/ in Moody, visiting Mrs. Wickline’s
v \ father.
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Mrs. J. W. Campbell of Fori
/ Wqjrth is visiting with Mr. ai
( Mli& Xharley Long.
\ m. Fagan is near Stephenville
holding a protracted meeting.—Co-
^manche Chief.
Miss Ruby Roberts of Ft. WorthT^ °- Whitfield is one of the lead-
is visiting her uncle, C. H. CoJ in* 9P,r,l« m .the building of the
grove and family here. U causeway over Green creek hear
B the Baptist ehuroh
Wallace Lyle built and sold the
past weak three 450 gallon syrup
barrels, and fiyw evaporators, which
is evidence that much sorghum ayjy
up is goint to be made this year. /
Mrs. P. B. Randolph and baby
have returned from Stephenville,
where she spent several weeks
at the bedside of her father, who
died June 30. Her brother, Carl
Stigler, accompanied hfcr home.—
Thorp Spring Cor. in Granbury Nev
\ Byrd Henson sold all his ripe
melons Thursday, and will not have
kny more until next week. How-
ever, there are a number of Green
creek farmers who have not yet
shipped because (their crops were
late. These are* now about ready
for market.
On the Cockrell farm, lower Bos-
que, about fifty melops were stol-
en Sunday nightJ~AtJteyagrSgfiooTf Dr- J- A. Copeland of Lingleville
g singing was in progress,^^hereS«tprday on busin
and it is supposed there must have
been a few thieves among those
gathered there.
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Whit Lenox of Corpus Christi
was in the city this week shaking
hands with old friends.
Wm. C. Johnson of Hico Route
Five was hero Monday, He is one
of the best citizens of Erath county*
SDublin roadrThe causeway work
will be 14 feet wide and spans '•a
25 foot creek. Work has already
been begun.
says Tb«~corn crop In His section
is unusually good, and that oats av-
eraged 40 bushels and v^heat 17
bushels per acre. One farmer
there made a wheat yield of 35
ibushelg per acre, and another one
'made 32 bushels per acre, which
was unusually good, but the condi-
tions for growing these two crops
were ideal. The soil was there, the
management was perfect, and the
season favorable.
Will Crawford is cultivating his
cotton with a weevil catcher atUgb
ment to his cultivator, and catches
a five gallon can full of squares and
weevils each day he runs his plow.
Ho will cultivate four times and
give the machine a fair trial
Columbus Jarrott; son of Arthur
Jarrott of this city, who was taken
to Fort Worth recently., suffering
from an inflamed knee joint, had
Hie limb removed a few days ago
just above the injured portion of
the limb.
When V. M. Cox was at Palacioua
he went fishing, and did npt catoh
any good fish, but caught one stin-
garee and a shark weighing about
150 pounds, and this compensated
him very well as he got lots of
fun out of the capture of the lat-
ter.
, FOR SALE.
Home canning machine outfit,
cheap, See W. 8. Watson at Gage
& Crow bank. Adv.
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P, B. Chandler of the Bluff Dale
firm of Holt and Chandler, was in
f town Monday.
Miss Ola Long, who has been
visiting here with her brother, C.
8. Long and family, returned tof
Fort Worth Tuesday, *
Henry Sims, E. E. Davis, Gus
Davis, Jiin and Harvey Winters are
fishing on the Uano river this
peek,
Frank Henson and Lewis Davis
lire at Winchell Sunday and spent
the day with the Fb. Jones fishing
party.
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/‘ Higginbotham Cp. shipped len car
loads of oats from here, this week
to Galveston and New Port News
destined for European war zones.
V Miss Louise Burke, who is at- \
tending the summer normal in Ste-
phenville, came home Wednesday
for a visit—Dulin Telephone. y1
Mrs. Evan Jones and grand dau-
ghter, Annie May Ashenhurst, are
visiting this week in Stephenville.
-Dublin Telephone, -J
f B. P. Barrett’s Elberta orchard
west of Stephenville yielded him
150 bushels of peaches this season.
He began marketing Saturday. ^
r Mrs. E. Wiltz and daughter, Miss
[ Emma Jean, of Dallas, are visiting
| with Mr. and Mrs. John Crottty this
Iweek* . ')
Miss Marie Jordan of Lubbock
is a guest of Miss Rowena Reil.
A theatre party Tuesday evening
in her honor wag one of the so-
cial events giving much pleasure,
# The E|) Jones Colorado fishing
party returned home yesterday.
They had a fine time in fishing,
swimming, and fighting mosquitoes
chigers.
Mrs. Alice Cline and daughter,Mis'*
phine, left Sunday to visit with
a few weeks.—Duffau Progress.
. A. Piekett and wife visited atf
f Dale the past week, Mrs. T.
Pickett returning with the par-
to Stephenville Monday, to vis-
several weeks with her
Henson hit a fifty pound
Watson melon at the home
ibune man this week, as
of his first work in melon
If Mr. Henson is able to
a fifty pounder the first year
varitably believed that next
he will be able to produce
■ equal to his own corpo-
H, weighs 150 pounds and
melon he grows will be of,
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UNHEARD
PRICES
Pap Shelton i$ one of the proud-^
eat as well as one of the most ap-
preciative men in town today be-
cause of the action of the Chapter^
of Royal Arch Masons in making
him a life member without pay-
ment of dews. He will soon be 80'
years'old.
W. N. Wallace wont to Fort
Worth Sunday to spend a few days
with his daughter, Mrs. Kathleen
Sandidge. Mr. and Mrs. Wallaoe
always make separate visits there
because they do not like to leave
their home with no one to care
for it.
Mrs. Barneey Cage, Miss Euna-
Cage, Messrs. John Cage, Johnson,
and H. McCleskey, were down from
Stephenville Monday. They were-
joined here by Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Darnall and Miss Marguerite Mor-
gan and spent the day on Honey
creek picnicing and swimming in
Blue- Hole.;—Hico Review.
Luther McAlister run a subsoil
plow before planting his melon
seed, which accounts for the very
large size of the melons he grew.
His rows were 14 feet wide with
three rows of cotton between, and
the cotton plants afforded some ben
cficial shade. The melon plants
were 10 feet in the drill.
Dink Fulcher shipped one load
of melons which averaged forty-
seven pounds, and Luther McAlister
had a load, gathered without' ref-
erence to size, which averaged for-
ty two pounds. Of the eighteen
leads which he shipped the total
average was High, many of the
melons wegihing sixty pounds each.
Judge John McCarty and Squire
J. S. Watson of the McCarty goat
ranch wore here on business Sat-
urday. Mr. McCarty shipped three
fine bucks to New York and Utah
the past week, receiving $85
for them. Mr. McCarty says the
goats on his ranch have increased
the yield of grass over a thousand
fold.
50 pairsof ladies Slippres, worth regular
$1.50 to ^3.50, on sale all sizes per
50 pairs of Slippers for Ladies, Misses
and Children, high grade sacrificed to
close out, per pair... .........-........75c
Black Silk Taffeta Skirts, shired at hips
dandy for ^5.00, on sale........$3.75
Black Silk Taffeta, new, plain style, on
sale extraordinary price........- $2.75
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All other Skirts exactly Half Price
Fancy Parasols exactly Half Price
Tamo Shanters—Two big shipments
for.............- ..................50c to .50
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Big lot new Collars, new Ties, lot of
new novelties
50 Hats in Millinery Department, to
close quick. .........................................50C
Palm Beach Suits for Men
Extra Pants, each —-------
25 Straw Hals for Men
$4.00
$2.25
50c
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50 Straw Hats for Men, $3.00and $4.00
grade........................—.....-.............$ 1.50
Every article in our store on sale—Making low summer prices
to close out summer goods.
Call on us.
We can save you money. Low prices in every
Department.
“The Safest Place to Trade'
Crintta Bennett is here this week
visiting with his father, Hon. J. J.
Bennett. For several years past
Mr. Bennett has lived at Austin,
where he was employed in one of
the departments. With the change
of administration he went out, and
has accepted the principalship of
Seabrook public school, near Hous-
ton. He goes to Seabrook today.
The Tribune is indebted to Wil-
burne Crawford, the eleven year
Old son of Will Crawford, for a
nice lot of Moore’s Early and Dele-
ware grapes, and the Tribune los-
es no time in saying that it appro-
bates such favors, and more espec-
ially ia the appreciation great be-
cause the favor is from this little
man. He hag seventy-five bush-
els in his vineyard.
Bennett-Keith lodge 372 U.B.A.,
met Friday night and elected the
fololwing officers: John Cameron,
president; L. C. Sellers, past pres-
ident; 8. J. Payne, Vice president;
John Purvis, secretary; J. J. Ben-
nett, treasurer; R. M. Ballentine, 1
chaplin; Mrs. John Cameron Con-
ductor, J. C. Barnes, Sentinel; T.
E. Collier, Jo© Roberts, and R. M.
Ballentine, trustees. W. W. An-
drews of Fort Worth, supreme sec-
retary, was with the lodge and 14
■new members were initiated into
the order,
CoUrtty Judge A. P. Young, Com-
missioner W. T. Lowe, Fin&s Li-
dia and G. W. Jenks, in Will Shel-
ton’s car, with Mr. Shelton as con-
ductor and engineer, wept out on
Wednesday afternoon to inspect the
causeway over Green oreek being
built by Commissioner Pope. These
gentlemen had all saved up ideas
left over after the completion of
the Galveston oaugeway and they
were bundled Up "and left with Mr.
Pope, with permission to use them
if he found any of them bettor than
his own.
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The Tribune. (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, July 30, 1915, newspaper, July 30, 1915; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth881310/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stephenville Public Library.