Graham Daily News Items of Local Interest
Community notes describe crowded conditions at the colored school in Graham with three rooms housing 80 to 100 students and a mass meeting set for next Thursday. Also announced are Thanksgiving services by Metropolitan Lodge No. 165, Red Rock Ginger Ale production by Clinch Valley Fruit and Produce, Eric Harman collecting property tickets, A. L. Saunders & Sons manufacturing cement blocks for Tabernacle Baptist Church, rising business activity in town, a Republican mass meeting at Tazewell, the new West Graham Christian church dedication, Princeton finals attended by locals, and assorted personal notices including travels and local housing improvements.
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Odd Fellows Hall
Metropolitan Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Rethel M. EB
J. H. Bruce
Clinch Valley Fruit and Produce and Manufacturing Company
Froe
J. H. Tree
Board of Directors
A. M. Mitchell
Farge
A. L. Saunders & Sons
Tabernacle Baptist Church
S. P. Trigg
Ruffles month and local notes circle May events
May reports mention a bumper blackberry crop planned after freezes hit fruit yields. Vance Neese plans a water system for his Buick and a tub on the car, while Billy Sunday visits attract distant listeners. Theatre work advances in Graham with plans for a two story building and possible city hall use. Miss Clark and Miss Spangler miss a rat drive but will substitute locally. Potatoes in Csosso Michigan slated for fertilizer use due to low prices and weak demand.
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Vance Neese
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Neese
Graham Property For Sale In East Graham awaits buyers
Several homes and farms are listed for sale in Graham including a five room cottage priced at 3200 a four room cottage at 3000 and a seven room house near a school at 4500 Modern conveniences are noted for many properties with prices ranging from 4800 to 9500 A fifty acre farm near Falls Millis priced 3500 and a sixty six acre West Graham farm at 120 per acre Also available are vacant lots and a statement that Graham is expanding with new streetcar lines sewer work and sidewalks encouraging purchases
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East Graham
Highland Avenue
Winci Street
Franklin Street
Vincil Street
Walnut Street
West Graham
Falls Millis
Graham
Bluestone Insurance Agency Office at Graham VA
Insurance and real estate office located over First National Bank in Graham Virginia trades as Bluestone Insurance and Real Estate Agency. Local listing notes services offered and proximity to central Graham financial district.
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Bluestone Insurance & Real Estate Ag’ey
First National Bank
Graham, VA
April fines set Graham police court record
During April the fines in the Graham police court totaled about 300 dollars, perhaps the highest monthly levy Graham had seen, signaling a spike in enforcement and penalties.
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Graham
Johnson family law effort returns to public eye
William E Pussyfoot Johnson, a dry leader, vows to carry the law with him at all times. Mrs John son begins studying law at her home in Westerville Ohio amid ongoing Prohibition era debates.
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William E
Pussyfoot" Johnson
Wes Barrys Love For SCRA Satisitic
Wesley Barry the boy actor is described as impulsive and lucky after a temper flare leads to film discovery by director Marshall Neilan in Los Angeles. He stars in Dinty at the Colonial Theatre Monday as a fighting San Francisco newsboy displaying his best scrap in the young actor role.
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Wesley Barry
Marshall Neilan
Wesley
Los Angeles
Tarry
Dinty
Colonial Theatre
Wes
San Francisco
Shortest Will Recorded in White Plains Surrogate’s Office
The will of Aletta Steeer is noted as the shortest on record with the White Plains Surrogate. It consists of two typewritten lines and grants all money in the Bowery Savings Bank to her cousin Nettle M. Cowan.
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White Plains
Aletta Steeer
Nettle M. Cowan
Bowery Saviaga Bank
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Matttress
Tazewell Court House
Norfolk
Taxewell County
Tazewell
New West Graham Christian Church
Mr. Cross Big Gun
Christian Church
Buena Vista
Pacific Coast
Rey
RE. A. Rich
Gray Gables
Sallie Litz
Miss Miller
Billy
James Sheffey
Marion
Bob Sheffey
Will Neel
Minnie Clark
Bertha Spangler
Peterstown
Cwosso
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Graham Property
Billy Sunday
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Franklyn
Farnum
New West
Wes Barry
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