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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
3
A severe rain and wind storm struck Dallas for three hours at seven p.m. damaging Red Cross and General Supply tents at Camp West Dallas. Refugees suffered, tents and supplies were ruined, and guardsmen aided rescue and cleanup efforts as damage scattered across the camp.
The Maccabees ladies schedule a meeting in their hall this Saturday at 3 o clock. All members are urged to attend for kept business. Mrs M Donovan notes the importance of the gathering.
Muskogee Oklahoma June 11. George Woodruff announces a policy to clear up titles to land allotments in old Indian Territory treating Indian grafters and white grafters on the same basis. Washington accepts both groups commercially, with two days of conferences between local and Washington officials to set the approach. The notice signals nationwide satisfaction over a unified standard and ongoing investigations. We will begin a June Reduction Sale with low prices on seasonable goods and a 10 percent cash discount on other items.
C. Edwards, a friend of the Fa VORITE'S, visited town on business and told this office that the corn crop near Route No. 2 suffered slight damage from a very heavy rain Wednesday morning.
Sherman, Texas reports a wave of cotton sales with around a hundred bales brought in yesterday and several loads today despite poor roads. In the surrounding area at least 2000 bales are held at 15 cents as farmers rush to market before weather may lower prices.
Fine peaches available at 50 cents per bushel at orchard four miles northwest of Bonham. Pope Lawrence advertises abundant Mamy Boas peaches for sale to customers in the area.
A newspaper ad offers a free ten cent package of Conkey's Lice Powder and a valuable twenty six cent poultry book to readers who bring this notice to J. W. Peeler. The promotion emphasizes affordable poultry care and appears as a merchant promotion in the period.
In Wilburton Oklahoma two citizens Walter Roberts and Robert Mounds were killed by R H Johnson a Black fugitive who shot Deputy Marshal Oliver Swan in 1907 and fled into Mexico. Pursuit by armed volunteers followed the man was seen near the Rock Island depot and later killed while escaping on a fishing trip after firing on pursuing parties.
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