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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1907
Page
5
Local notes from Graham Texas list births and moves, restaurant ads, shop promotions, and upcoming events. Items mention births to Dobbs and Mayes families, moves of R. Lively, Blakeney, and Birklin to new homes, several restaurant and grocery promotions, a lost ring, a pool of local personalities such as J. W. Groves and Capt. Woolfolk, and notices about fruit cakes, flour brands, and dry goods specials.
A Chicago bargain store advertises a ten day stock sale with goods offered at half price on a cash basis with small profits. Customers are invited to visit and save, as the ad promises low prices and direct cash purchases.
Edgar Matthews and family have returned from Loving and now occupy the Hatfield place on South Pecan Street. Misses Bess and Dot Graham came back Monday night from Georgetown to spend the holidays with home folks.
The program for the Fifth Sunday gathering at First Baptist Church in Graham Texas runs from Thursday night before the fifth Sunday in December with sermons by Warren Cunningham and others. The schedule includes devotional services, prayer topics, soul winning talks, Bible teaching on John 3 5, eleemosynary work, Christian education, building association meeting, evangelism and auxiliaries with multiple speakers and alternates. A cordial invitation to all is extended by the committee.
The page advertises flours and grocer brands at W. I. Tidwell & Sons and promotes De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for back and kidney pain. It reports Charlie House, 20, badly injured canvassing his father J. H. House’s home with a broken arm and many teeth lost. Mrs Williams, recently from Montague County, died near Grandma Gholston and was buried at Center Ridge.
J. D. Sparks announces the sale of his old shop and the completion of a new smithy just north of the former site. He pledges to serve long-time patrons with superior country blacksmithing.
One new Munger gun with three 70-saw stands a 60 hp engine and 80 hp boiler plus a double box press and steam packer on Camp Creek in Young County Also a Murray system 80 saw stand single box press One Case Thresher 28 inch cylinder 50 inch separator with portable engine H C Williams
J H Wood called last Saturday and ordered the Leader sent to his son Tom in Los Angeles California. Tom has just undergone an surgical operation for appendicitis and the physicians report he is getting along very well and will likely be up again in about ten days. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is advertised as a remedy that frees the bowels to expel the cold and heals throat and lung irritation without opiates or narcotics and is sold by Graham Drug Co.
An advertisement from Cisco Marble Works offering tombstones and prompt filling of orders. Grave digging rates listed by age category Adults seven dollars and children five dollars with a call to Sexton Oak Grove Cemetery for service.
Hawkins Chapel reports Wright Holt returning from Olney Saturday and Dora Holt still away after visiting an injured sister in Ft Worth. Hiram Drum brings home his daughter whose health improves. Susie Waddell and brother visit Graham. Brother Whitaker of Chico preaches at Bethel. Annie Holt and Miss Carr Ogletree visit. Miss Earsel Hawkins stays with Cary Ogletree. W N Barrett returns from Vernon. Enla Lindsey visits the school. F P McPerren, the teacher, consents to continue teaching.
Examination of the school register shows last year’s first month enrollment at thirteen pupils with daily attendance averaging 61.20. This year after restructuring and one teacher, the latest month records 48 pupils and daily attendance averaging 301.4. GLANCUS.
Arnold and Arnold, Attorneys advertise loans on land and purchase vendor lien notes regardless of panics, offering access to money through secured real estate lending strategies.
An 1890s style advertisement promotes KODOL as a natural digestive aid for dyspepsia and stomach upset. It claims to relieve headaches and belching by aiding digestion with vegetable acids and digestive juices. The copy notes availability at Graham Drug and mentions a Masonic Grand Lodge meeting in which Harry Kindley recently attended.
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