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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1926
Page
10
In the Andes 12 000 to 16 000 feet high, Chevrolet light trucks replace burros and llamas for moving 2000 pound loads between mining sites and sea level corridors. Trucks halve transport costs despite thin air, boosting efficiency at inaccessible Bolivian mines once served only by pack animals.
C Runyon weds Iva Long, CG Bunnell weds Lois McBerayer, G C Gachter weds Allie Studer, M C Jones weds Flodel Helvy. W C Hale returned from College Station where his club boys attended the Short Course. Hale’s team ranked thirteenth in a 26 class. Leonard Dennis was among the top twenty. Franch paid 10 million dollars in cash to the US to settle war supplies debt.
Mr. Perry Forrest undertakes remodeling of his Padgett addition residence, moving ahead with updates to the home structure and interiors.
National Theatre manager M W Larmour gains praise in August Moving Picture World for ads displayed with strong cooperation from his printer. Leader ad comments highlight the eye catching display and effective layout, aided by Ed Cox’s assistance.
Graham Shoe Hospital announces it is back in operation after a sickness closure. Former customers and new patrons are invited to call for shoe repair services.
Despite heat and vacation season the Ladies Missionary Society of the First Christian Church met last Monday with Mrs W C Trewe presiding and Mrs C A Russell as Circle Leader A social hour followed with Mrs H W Schlittler as hostess.
Fifty years ago coffee boiled and settled with an egg while ladies rode side saddles and children wore brass toe boots. Preachers spoke true and neighbors asked about families. Simple foods and old customs showed rural life and values of the era.
Alfred Charles W. Brachfield of Rusk County endorses James V. Allred for Attorney General in the Texas second primary. He notes no private endorsement of Claude Pollard and thanks supporters while urging voters to choose the best-qualified candidate for the office.
Poultry culling is a paying project. hens laying under 80 eggs yearly do not justify board. Learn to cull quickly. keep late molters, discard broodys, prefer Rocks Leghorns Reds Wyandottes with pale shanks. Strong birds with good plumage and vigor lay best. early hatched pullets from culled flocks insure eggs in peak pricing months.
Dry hot weather prevails with scarce stock water in some pastures. Boll weevils at work but not extensive. Mrs J H Wesley and family of Anson visit with Mrs Henry Wesley and baby from South Bend. Roy Wesley and his bride, formerly Miss Mary Jones, also join. I W Steele attends Union meeting of Predestinarian Baptists in Senate Jack County.
By order of the District Court of Tarrant County a sale is ordered to satisfy a judgment against Archer Drilling Company for 618.18 plus costs and 8 percent interest. On August 23 at the J B Blancett farm near Newcastle in Young County Texas the constable will auction machinery tools draw works engine drill pipe pump and related property to the highest bidder for cash.
J D Dawson administrator of R E Bradfield deceased will sell the stock of drugs and fixtures from City Drug Store Gra ham Texas August 24 1926 between 10 am and 4 pm cash to highest bidder an itemized stock list is on file with the county clerk and Fred T Arnold's office inspection prior to sale Witness dated August 10 1926
Public notice commands the sheriff to summon Bert Lemons Cleve Mosely Roy Miller E L Flood A A Potter J J Worm R M Davis J M Wilson C W Whitehead J H Stolz C Adams J B Whalen Tom Bradford E E Buchanan H W Murphy Frank Crawford M M Potter and B E Johnson by weekly publication for four weeks prior to September 6 1926 to answer a petition in the 30th District Court at Graham Texas.
In Young County Texas Blane Johnson and C W Johnson Jr sue to cancel an oil and gas lease executed August 30 1922 covering 285 acres of Silas Ferguson survey block B and block D within Whitehead subdivision. The petition claims poor drilling abandonment and failure to develop blocks B and D, with surrender of undivided interests totaling 9 10, seeks cancellation or partition with 9 10 to plaintiffs and 1 10 to defendants plus costs.
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