Gatesville High School - Crescent Yearbook (Gatesville, TX)

Page 10 text:

THE NEW Exchange Hotel (Only One-Half Block From Union Depot) OUR RECORD: Beginning business 1908 with 28 rooms; 1909,52 rooms; 1910,110 rooms; 1912, 145 rooms; 1913, 249 rooms-a gain of 221 rooms in less than 4 years. Are We Growing? We have made this record by close attention, good treatment, and we want none but the kind you would have in your family to stop with us. If you are one, come—if you are not, please don’t. A. D. ADAMS, Proprietor THE NEW EXCHANGE HOTEL THE EXCHANGE ANNEX THE ADAMS HOTEL WACO, TEXAS

Page 9 text:

UMAN development comes by cycles. First the individual idea becomes the community, then the state or nation, and finally a world idea,—all growing out of the necessity of time and place. Not since that great genius—Julius Caesar—vaccinated the world with his enthusiasm, has there been so much talk of progiession. ard never has the microbe of good roads had its v. oild play as it has now, since Henry Ford, the modern Julius Caesar, put it into the hands of the “common people. That “Honest Abe said “God loved the instrument that demanded roads like Caesar Augustus—a nephew of Julius—builded.” While Caesar builded for military purposes. we aie to build for peace. And w'hile he planted a statue to the god Terminus, at the end of his roads, we want to erect a monument at each county line to the Unknown God. for we know no limit, having tapped the Divine Reservoir. The City Drug Store has the Building microbe. We are setting up no god Terminus. We hear a voice. “Get thee hence! This is not thy rest.” We are constantly Improving and fighting the Goths and Vandals of inaction. We are trying to put the spirit of the Balkans in the fight. EVERY HONEST EFFORT TO WIN. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE. We hope you will help prove the dictum of the sage that. “The world at work is happy.” and thereby keep the wear on our shoes so that we will not gravitate to the wrong We await your command. H CITY DRUG STORE GATESVILLE, TEXAS

Page 11 text:

THE HOME OF Styleplus $17 Clothes - AND WALKOVER SHOES - We guarantee every STLYEPLUS SUIT to give thorough satisfaction. If it should fail, bring it back and we v ill replace the Suit or else give you your money back. We run no risk in making this guarantee. For the STYLEPLUS SUIT is the BEST SUIT ON EARTH FOR THE MONEY, and is guaranteed to us by the largest clothing manufacturers in the world. WALK OVER SHOES for men have more style in them this year than ever before, and there isn’t a man hereabouts who won’t welcome the chance to buy such a well known shoe as the WALK OVER. All of the late styles are shown here. Watch our show windows. Come to see us. THE RACKET STORE BYRON LEAIRD, Proprietor WHEN IN WACO --STOP AT THE- Hotel Bristol EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN Right at Union Station THIRD AND MARY STREETS L. H. SMITH, Proprietor