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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
5
A Tuesday shower aided cotton. health mostly good though Mrs. Baugh remains hurt from a fall. Numerous visits and church attendance noted including Briar Branch and Tonk Valley. A Methodist meeting closed with one conversion and three additions. revival attendance strong. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ally, a girl.
Errs L D Réger and M Jones of Crystal Falls visited. Mr. and Mrs. W M Matthews and daughter Pearl visit Farmer this week. Tom Beach buys lumber to build a house east of town. A W Fonts asks to send Leader to Carnegie Oklahoma. Wright McClatchey vacationing in Waco. Bruce Street returns from Winslow Arkansas. W S McJimsey and daughter Pauline return from Mineral Wells. Mrs Fletcher and Katherine Ragsdale visit relatives near Eliasville. Economical Tailoring Co local agent Sherman Steam Laundry guaranteed. Mrs Will Plemmons visits Jer myn grandmother Mrs J C Short. John and Lewis Bower go to Rochester Minnesota for operation. Joe Wright buys lumber to build a new barn after a recent fire. K T Ray and wife leave for Ellis county after two weeks with H P Young at Henry Chapel. Miss Aytchie Chism recovering from appendicitis and able to visit.
The Bryson Baptist gathering closed last Monday with seven conversions and nine accessions. Several local figures are noted for visits, marriages, and travel including Lee Christesson and Ethel Swink wed at 10 o'clock last Sunday, and Floyd Rhodes and Mrs. Barker married Saturday night. The Baptist association convenes in Jermyn this week as others travel for meetings and visits.
The music pupils of Miss Ruth Isaacs start September 1 at Mrs J W Jackson residence opposite the high school. Instruction and practice spaces are available for those who wish to take lessons during school hours. Early arrangements grant preferred choice of hours.
A bicycle for sale is offered by the Lassies organization with inquiries directed to the office for particulars.
Report of the condition of Beckham National Bank at Graham Texas as of August 9 1915. Lists resources such as loans and discounts notes of other national banks and cash items and mentions lawful money reserve and liabilities including capital stock surplus profits and deposits with details of due to other banks and deposits. Signed by cashier R E Lynch and notary public Houan E Weaver with dates and affixed officials.
Carl Widmayer visited Fort Worth to see his sister-in-law Miss Ida Cropp. many local townsfolk feature in classes, travels, and notices. The column records a missing dog, subscription notes, farming yields, town movements, and social visits with names such as W. A. Morris, W. C. Bell, J. T. Vaughan, and Mrs. E. McLendon.
H. L. Morrison with W. C. Harrell of Newcastle departed Tuesday for St. Louis and Chicago to do the fall buying for the John E. Morrison Co. stores. Friends report Mr and Mrs C B Wynns have moved from Chicago to Rochester Minnesota where Mr Wynns may undergo a forthcoming operation.
The Graham Leader promotes newspapers as essential to public schooling and general intelligence for children. A subscription offer details the paper at one year for $1.75, with instructions to order at the office and provide payment and receipt.
A brief notice states an offer to exchange wind mills tanks and any related items for stock. No parties or values are named, and no location or deadline is specified. The message reads as a barter proposition seeking inventory in return for equity or shares.
A lone bandit held up the Meteor train inside Kansas City city limits last Saturday night stealing about 240 in cash from several passengers and escaping unharmed.
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