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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
8
The column reports cold rainy weather with long spells and forecasts of more, a Baptist quilting for orphans, Rev Bell moving in as Methodist pastor, and a Christmas program at the Baptist church. It notes Sunday school attendance of about forty and school progress with 111 pupils and plans for two more teachers after holidays.
In Rock Creek area bad weather drags on with no cotton picked. Miss Fannie Stoffers started her school after arriving Saturday for Monday opening. Local visits reveal Mrs. Olree, Mrs. Annie Johnson and families stopping by J. D. Burk and others.
A compilation of local updates on health, church activities, and schooling. People like Lamar Smith, Miss Corinne, and Miss Minnie appear with frequent Sunday gatherings, visits, and dresses, while road conditions hinder attendance and the mail carrier battles muddy roads.
Clyde H. Bennett of Benjamin and M. K. Graham of Graham visited the Cattle Raisers' Association headquarters in Fort Worth. Bennett plans to hunt bears and deer in Mexico and will be joined by relatives at Lardo.
The County Board of Health offers Diptheria antitoxin through B 8S Doty Co or the County Health Officer at cash prices 1000 units 55 cents and 5000 units $2.05, with no credit. Physicians or druggists can arrange at these prices via Dr J Williamsolf County Health Officers who ensure the saving. The county funds the cost so residents may obtain it. Sincerely W P Stinson County Judge Young County Texas J L Williamson County Health Officer Young County Texas
Property offered for lease includes 320 acres with 60 cultivated, one set of improvements and a one mile north location near Stalyford Texas. Contact E H Morrison for details on a good dairy proposition.
Members of Free and Accepted Masons Lodge 917 express deep sympathy to the widow and children of Brother A P Maples who died November 11 1914. The resolutions are spread on minutes and copies sent to the widow, children The Graham Leader and The West Texas Reporter. Frank Beard H G Millican D F Ford.
The notice urges all parishioners to attend services next Sunday and to post the announcement on home doors. It also invites participation in an Orphans' Home shower at the church on Wednesday evening December 16 with a program emphasizing the welfare of orphans.
The notice catalogs film attractions for the coming week with titles from BCLAIR UNIVERSAL IKE GOLDSEAL JOKER WEDNESDAY REX STERLING FRONTIER NESTOR IMP and POWERS including two reel and three reel features such as The Sob Sister A Frontier Romance A Mexican Spy in America and The Million Dollar Mystery. It also promotes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE as a tonic and laxative, urging readers to remember the full name for the signature of R W Grove.
An editorial urges Southern farmers to resist liquor sales at Christmas and to give money to wives and children. A railroad official warns liquor destroys poverty and literacy across the South and calls on editors to use press influence to curb it. The piece emphasizes a liquor free Christmas in honor of Christ's birth.
An unsigned editorial warns the Democratic Party must resist liquor interests and defend its moral and economic stance. It argues party loyalty, leadership, and a high standard of integrity are vital to avoid being dragged toward pro liquor positions. It also notes a bank stockholders meeting and various local notices.
A prose piece extols women's love as constant and supreme praising their virtue and beauty. It argues men cause faults but women deserve reverence, portraying love as humanity’s motive force and art’s inspiration across light and shadow.
R. M. Todd has leased the Belmont Hotel and will assume charge Monday. The building has been overhauled with repapered rooms, new electric lights, and up-to-date improvements. A first-class cook has been employed and services promise value equal to any $1.50 a day hotel.
Notice is hereby given that a stockholders meeting of the Farmers' Cotton Warehouse Co. will be held at Lovi y December 19th. Stock certificates will be issued to subscribers upon receipt for same. All stockholders are urged to be present.
D. L. Gilstrap has bought the Star Restaurant and plans an up-to-date renovation. He will offer regular meals and short orders with an experienced Dallas cook arriving Friday or Saturday night. The new eatery aims to open either Saturday or Monday.
The old standard Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is promoted as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build the whole system priced at 50 cents.
The writer states the Young County Association minutes are ready for distribution but no funds exist for postage or printing. They will be sent by hand from the court house tax collector’s office and request each church to send sixty cents via money order or by a brother or friend at the next conference.
Advertisement touts Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil as curing old sores and offer relief from pain. Claims it heals quickly while working on long standing cases. Also notes new stock of men’s Christmas items at Street & Co.
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