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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
4
Local notes record Sunday School attendance, visits from Rev Cook and Miss Birdie, and various residents in the county such as Mrs Nettie Treue on the sick list. Fishermen enjoyed luck on the Brazos while telephones arrive. several families were seen at church and visiting neighbors over the weekend.
A crowded update from Tonk Valley and nearby towns records visits, church attendance, kitchen gatherings, baptist meetings, and family travels. Many neighbors like Lewis Tipton and Mrs Baugh, the Knight family, and the McBee clan are noted at church, dinners, or visiting relatives in Loving, Throckmorton, and Mineral Wells while talks turn to cotton picking and cooling weather.
Last Friday evening Frank Beard and Corine Armstrong were quietly married at the parsonage with Rev. Nobles officiating. Beard, head bookkeeper for John E. Morrison Co., is praised for his businesslike conduct and choir leadership. The note also covers news of drownings, visits, shipments, and local church revival activities amid August 26 observations by A Citizen.
Residents say rain is scarce and chores like drawing water for stock grow harder. A social note recalls an ice cream supper at Dan Burk's Friday night. Mr. Smith's family visited Graford relatives. Math Dinnings and wife called at Dan Burk's. A big Bryson meeting is planned with cotton picking expected next. Tom and Harry.
Ivan Mr Hugh Robertson visits from California to see his parents. Beulah Stringer arrives from Lubbock. A crowd attends the Necessity reunion last week. Mrs Weatherford returns from Hunt county visit. Mrs Robertson recovers from illness. Wood family visits Kennedy. Peck travels to Breckenridge. Lizzie Wright visits Seymour. Corbett couple at Putman.
Farmers welcomed a brief rain while hoping for more. The Methodist meeting closed with six additions and several professions, with one revival convert and ongoing revival led by Elder Humphrey. Visitors from Goree Knox County and true area join singing and church gatherings as locals praise the weeklong events.
Music pupils will start lessons Sept 1 at Mrs J W Jackson's residence Siraetl across from the High school. Location is ideal for school hour lessons and those who arrange early will have choice of hours.
Thunder and rain bring moisture for cotton while Orth sees steady gin activity and good corn yields. Local residents report travel to Newcastle and Oklahoma, visits from Gainesville and Corsicana relatives, and a box supper fundraiser for the W. O. W. Band next Saturday night.
Forest Hal sey presents The Bowler-out in three reels at the opera house next Saturday night. Carl Widmayer traveled to Fort Worth to meet his sister-in-law Miss Ida Cropp of Fayette Missouri who returned home with him Tuesday night and will visit here for some time.
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