County Corn Show to Award 5100 in Prizes at Rockdale
Milam County offers prizes totaling 100 dollars for a Rockdale corn show held near the October State Fair of Texas. County Agent Banzhaf promotes the event with local citizens, offering awards for adult farmers and boys in organized clubs. Winners may exhibit at the State Fair and Cotton Palace in Waco. prizes total 60.09 for boys and 40 dollars for adults.
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Rockdale
Texas
W. E. Gaither
George Banzhaf
Dallas
Waco
Boys Carn Club
Milam County
White Dent
Banzhaf
Death of A J Urban of Thorn dale a community loss
A J Urban of Thorn dale died last Saturday afternoon around 2 oclock at his home from heart failure after a lunch and failed water pipe repair attempt with his son John Urban present earlier. Funeral held at St Paul Lutheran Church with interment in the church cemetery. Survived by wife and nine children, with brothers and sisters in law and friends across the region mourning this community benefactor. Urban built a modern planing mill and cabinet plant and supplied Texas Power and Light Company with a finished job. He was a charter member of St Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized in 1890.
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John Urban
John
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Thorndale
F. H. Stelzer
St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
Ternoon
Mr. Urban
Andrew J. Urban
Serbia
Lee County
Helen Lehman
A. J. Urban and Sons
Texas Power & Light Company
Taylor
Dallas
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
John Moerke
John Winters
Mathes Heintze
Henry
Otto
Walter Urban
August L. Lehman
Swayze
Fred Shukcraft
Max Ferrari
John J. Urban
McDade
Ernest Moerbe
Fedor
Champion
Thorndale Champion
Decade of Service Celebrated By Federal Land Bank
Houston Texas May 18 1927 the Federal Land Bank of this city marks its tenth anniversary in a statewide convention. It serves 350 local cooperative National Farm Loan Associations covering every agricultural county in Texas and has funded more than 50 000 long term first mortgage loans totaling over 156 million dollars. From an initial capital of 9.57 million the bank reports net loans of 133 million and only 87 foreclosures in ten years on over 50 000 farms. Delinquencies total 1 722 dollars or 0 05 percent of annual installments. President M H Gossett notes savings in interest to borrowers now about 4 million dollars annually. The article recalls a Grayson County loan of 10 000 at 5 percent and illustrates the long term benefits to tens of thousands of farmers through this cooperative system.
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Terest
National
Federal Land Bank
Houston
Texas
Cooperative National Farm Loan Associations
M. H. Gossett
Farmers and Ranchers of
Grayson County
National Farm Loan Association
Graham Brothers Truck Sales Hit Record April Global Volume
Graham Brothers delivered over 5600 trucks and commercial cars worldwide in April, the peak month this year. Overseas shipments jumped 188 percent from March to 1084 units, a monthly record second only to one prior. Canada also set monthly truck delivery records as US Dodge Brothers dealers anticipate higher sales.
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Graham Brothers
Canada
Dodge Brothers
United States
Miss Ethel Collins Spends Weekend in Austin
Miss Ethel Collins spent last week end with friends in Austin.
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Ethel Collins
Austin
Bartlett visitors and relatives fill week with gatherings
Mr and Mrs Arthur Ware Mrs W B Shirley and Miss Jennie Shirley of Bartlett visited relatives here. Misses Dorothy and Helen Blaylock spent the weekend with their aunt Mrs B F Gafford in Anesti. Mrs F E Flinn and her daughter Harriet Carolyn of Driscoll are guests in the homes of Mrs E A Flinn and S W Cheeves.
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Arthur Ware
W. B. Shirley
Jennie Shirley
Bartlett
Dorothy
Helen Blaylock
F. FE. Flinn
Harriet Carolyn of
Driscoll
E. A. Flinn
S. W. Cheeves
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Little River
Farm Boys
Gaither
A. J. Urban
W. G. Gillis
Federal Farm Loan Bank
Him
Federal Farm Bank
Graham Brothers Truck
B. F. Gafford
Anseti
Texas Power & Light Co
Hudson
Phaeton Brougham
Detroit
Horstmann Brothers
Cameron, Texas
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