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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
1
Work continues on the Farmers Union warehouse in Graham located north of the cotton yard near Morrison's gin close to the Rock Island railway station. The facility will serve producers by storing cotton until market prices meet their expectations. Judge Arnold's daughter Katie is ill with pneumonia.
Mr E M Eichelberger grants six acres from his pasture southeast corner for a cotton gin. Mr Moore has started a four stand gin and expects to be ready for the next season. The project promises the nucleus of a Lamar town.
The piece urges restraint on fireworks in public streets and near cotton yards after an incident where a horse driver Ted Johnson was thrown from a wrecked buggy. It defends harmless boyish fun but calls for parental and officer enforcement to prevent nuisances and danger during Christmas festivities.
Hon R P Dimmitt representative of the 104th district died last Friday in Fort Worth from Brights disease at a sanitarium. His remains were shipped to Sherman for burial beside family. He served in the last legislature and was reelected in November without opposition. A special election will be held to choose his successor for the district spanning Young Archer Baylor Knox Haskell Stonewall and Throckmorton counties.
Ama rilla resident Hon Jnc W Veale writes to the Leader and county chairman asking how the people view Senator Joe Bailey after the latest disclosures. He notes little division in opinion and urges a mass meeting or other means to express the public stance.
The county clerk reports marriages granted last week including W S Childers and Miss TM Jones on December 5, A C Henry and Miss Bertha Key on December 7, Poems Poet J F Williams and Miss Dessie Weaver on December 8, G E Burgess and Miss Bessie Harris on December 8, and J K Guinn and Miss Eva Robertson on December 8.
Invitation to Baptist members to attend at 3 p m on Sunday December 16 at The First Baptist Church Graham Texas to assist in the ordination of three deacons T E CANNEDY Pastor The notice also reports engagements of Elmer Smith and Miss Bessie Newby and Miss Emma Lee Crowder plus a forthcoming Old Folks Concert and a property sale tip from J C Vaughan The piece ends with a statement of alliance with President Roosevelt on matrimony responsibilities and a promotion for listing property with Vaughan.
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