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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
4
County correspondence lists social events and family travels as residents plan school start by February. People visit relatives in Collin and Seymour while Christmas activities and musicals draw crowds in Olney. A 320 acre Salt Creek farm changes hands as locals move property and families relocate.
Local institute events scheduled with Banger High School on January 19 1918. Includes music, invocations, addresses by Rev Strickland and supt Lyon, a noon long institute, reading by Miss Cora Wiley, round table led by J W Robbins, primary games, a basketball game, and a general discussion. Committee members E V Gordon and A H Harrison invite patrons and trustees to attend. Fine Seeds dats by the Feed Store.
Gee Sims suffered a serious accident while roping a post last Sunday his pony bolted the rope broke four fingers and teveled necessitating amputation in Graham Mrs Etta Barnes has been ill recently but improving A number of people report colds Church attendance was light due to a norther Rain is hoped. R M Williams and family visited with son J S Williams and wife Bill Sims and Gladys Cherryholmes dined with Mr and Mrs J L Williams Robert Askew of Mountain Home attended church. May Bell signs off noting scarce news.
Jean News Charlie Huffman and wife of Tort Worth left Thursday for home after a week with his sister Mrs Sarah Price and other relatives at Marksey and Farmer. Miss Lois McBrayer left Sunday for Denton to enter State Normal with her brother H T McBrayer. Prof W A Robbins returned from Camp Travis San Antonio. Mrs W T Kilpatrick visits her daughter in South Texas. Annie Bell Robinson accompanied her mother from Belton last Saturday week. D Bailey and family moved to a farm near Orth. We regret to this good family from our.
Mrs Minnie Philpot of Gonzales Texas describes five years of severe left side pain spreading to her shoulder back and head. After taking Cardui she began to improve by the second bottle and is now well for two years, praising the remedy.
The weekly school column notes Verda Martin reading a humorous piece in negro dialect and Josephine Cornish playing The Battle of Waterloo. Several students return from absences, others miss days due to illness, and Rev. Reynolds speaks on God and Nature in chapel.
Social notices recount marriages Roy Windham wed Mrs Lizzie Kirkland at the bride’s parents home Rev A Wil son officiating. Alf Scott and Miss Pearl Hill married in Steadham Oklahoma and arrived here. Numerous returning travelers and visitors from Camp Travis Culver Indiana Wichita Falls and Graham with notes on cattle and business ventures.
Silas Jeffery returned from San Marcos to Ingleside to spend Christmas with his parents. Mrs. Geo. B. Hamilton celebrated Christmas with her parents in Wichita Falls. Fourteen joined the Red Cross during the drive and 106 children aided. Sergeant Ralph Yarmon of Camp Bowie is home on a Christmas furlough.
A composite legal notice commands the sheriff to summon G T Welch Elizabeth Welch and various heirs in a land dispute in Young County Texas. It covers publication for four weeks then a March 1918 district court term to settle quiet title and partition of G T Welch survey Abstract No 1584 totaling 115 acres. It also includes a tax election notice and probate of a will for F P Bureh with Nannie Bureh as petitioner. The notices are issued from Graham Texas by Clerk Willie Riggs and County Court Clerk C W Tilson.
A notice states an election will be held on February 2, 1918, at the School House in Common School District No. 45 to decide if a majority of legally qualified property taxpaying voters favor taxing themselves to supplement the State School Fund apportioned to the district and to determine the Commissioners.
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