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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
8
The Fifth Sunday Meeting hosted by Ohea and Mrs Fred Arnold with C L S C members held a regular session. Members gave current news items, discussed France Under the Republic, and outlined chapters on France’s early republics and reconstruction. Library committee reports praised new books and rising membership. next meeting with Mrs Griffin.
Local notes report shopping, travels and illness with a focus on Thanksgiving visits. Mrs S Mowry and daughter Addie visited Bryson for Thanksgiving. F L Portwood and family spent Thanksgiving with relatives at Boyd. Miss Maggie Taylor left for Bowie for a business course. Mrs H L Tidwell joined her husband in Fort Worth serving on a federal jury. Cris Lawrence injured by a fall at Olney Baptist Church. Miss Lovella ill in Dallas Baptist Sanitarium showing improvement. Notables include Portwood, Tidwell, Taylor, Lawrence and Burdick visiting Graham.
Readable text outlines a multi day church event at Jean Baptist church starting December 28 1916 with sermons prayers and discussions led by J T Strange J L McCord W D Boswell and others. Weekend features include Ladies Auxiliary program Sunday schools missionary sermon and a Parent Teachers Association meeting on December 15. notes departure of Mr and Mrs Crim to Dallas and auxiliary meeting December 29 at 2 pm.
Notice warns bunting is forbidden on the sender's property with prosecution promised. It notes Mrs. C. C. Mayes received White Leghorn Cockrels from Bowie and Plymouth Barred Rock from McKinney added to her flock, with one chicken winning second prize at the State Fair.
Unimproved 640 acres in Ward county near Barstow offered for $2,500. Will trade for land in Young county or old city property in Graham. Call at Leader office for particulars. time 6:30.
A reflection on earning a living vs living off others and the moral toll of secrecy. The piece questions whether people earn their income or merely receive it, and notes some ignore the hereafter until confronted with a graveyard at night.
The sheriff will sell on the first Tuesday in January 1917 at Graham Court House door a 3 5 interest in 320 acres of TE & L Co. Survey No. 185 Abstract No. 432 in Young County to satisfy a $133.54 judgment in favor of J P McKinley against J M Patterson and Pope Patterson. the notice is dated December 7 1916. A Deputy Sheriff signs the notice. Also included are unrelated prosaic quotes about husbands and prudery.
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