YOAKUM WEEKLY HERALD June 29

YOAKUM WEEKLY HERALD June 29, 1911

 

News Of The Day

Miss Nannie Rae Baker left this afternoon for a visit to Denison, Gainesville and Okla­homa City.

Prof. F.G. Schmidt has pur­chased the Tom Keepers place in Yoakum but will still reside at the Morris School cottage for the ensuing year.

J.L. Wilson is erecting a store room on the alley at the rear of the Tatum furniture store. The building wi11 be of corrugated iron and is on the Shropshire Drug Company land.

Another Yoakum real estate deal has been made. In this one, J .K. Elkins, proprietor of the Elkins Racket Store, be­comes owner of the E.T. Walker residence property on Hugo street near the new school house and across the street from the R.C. Roos resi­dence for $2,400.

The P .A. O'Connor property on East Gonzales Street, formerly the T.A. Hunter place, has had nice concrete walks put around it.

Dr. Earl Vollentine, who graduated from the State Den­tal College at Dallas this year will open Dental Parlor here.

Contracts have been signed for a concrete walk to extend along the South side of South St. from the little grocery store at the Gonzales St. crossing to the passenger depot.

After buying the 25 feet fronting Lott St. in front of the Lane Hotel, Mr. A.E. Beck decided that was not enough for his purpose so he made a deal by which he bought 15 feet more, making a total of 40x75 feet for $2,250 spot cash. Mr. Beck has started the preliminaries looking to a two story business home and the work will begin on same within the next twenty or thirty days. And thus the building boom goes on in Yoakum.                               .

  A meeting of those interested in the organization was held and a local division of the Knights of Columbus was organized. The order starts with 65 members. The officers are:

D.1. Shall, Grand Knight; J.M., Haller, Deputy Grand Knight; Rev. J. Sheehan, Chaplain; A.V. Dullye, Recorder; J.H. Quota, Financial Secretary; J.R. Hagan, Treasurer; C.A. Peter, Lecturer; J.L. Hough, Advo­cate; J.P. Jamieson, Warden;J.P. Boyle, Inside Guard; Joe­McBreathy, Outside Guard and J.J. Jaresh, J.J. Hough and T.P. Sullivan, Trustees.

Mr. J. Henry Yentzen bought four vacant lots at the rear of her home and fronting on Price Avenue, near the Methodist Church from Mrs. Rosa Dodd for $1,700.

Mr. C.A. Jones has just con­cluded a deal through Dr. Stahl and A.V. Dullye by which he becomes owner of a 100 acre tract of the W.H. Rice farm, 2 1/2 miles South of town for $3,000.

A deal has been made re­cently by which Horace Wim­berly becomes owner of the lot on which the Criswell cotton platform has been located. The $1,200 purchase was made from J.P. Morris.

The brick work on the Lowrance building is com­pleted and the carpenters are hustling like beavers to finish up the wood work.

 

J.D. Webb has received his 4 cylinder, 22 Horse Power, 5 passenger Ford auto purchased from the Yoakum Garage and Machine Shop.

Conductor A.T. Moffett and wife of the Terryville com­munity were in the city today, having come to sign the deed conveying their home on Ross and Whitfield Streets to Mr. Henry Quota for a considera­tion of $2,000 spot cash. The deal was effected through Hamil & Chambers.

  W.E. Pound has moved his offices from the building corner May and Front Streets to the second story of the Yoakum State Bank.

M.H. Glass was in the city' today from his ranch near Hochheim. He reports that the corn is already made, the crop will be good, but that young corn is already cut at least a third short.

Deaths

The Herald joins their many friends in sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Guttlieb of Hochheim in the death of their little daughter, Hellinne Sun­day. She was buried at the cemetery near Dryer Sunday.

H. Leonardt, 76, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Englemann.