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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1915
Page
3
The column logs persistent rain and cold across the county, notes heavy sickness, and reports on Sunday school attendance. It highlights community moves, social visits, and weddings while naming local residents and families affected by weather and illness.
Members of the C. L. S. C. met with Mrs. Jean McKinney last week. Roll call cited Tennyson quotes. Mrs. Parrish presented a paper on the Isle of Wight and Mrs. Hall spoke on Among the Surrey Hills. Mrs. Garrett read Higher Pantheism verses. Mrs. Burns led the lesson questions. Next meeting with Mrs. B. W. King.
Trade offer for 160 acres of Palo Pinto County grass land near Finis. Asking price six dollars and fifty cents per acre. Contact G. C. Jones at Graford Texas for details and possible exchange of young males.
Jean A J Catwell and family and Miss Annie Price visited relatives at Markley Saturday. Mrs Cage and children of Jacksboro visited her brother Bob Wright, our new depot agent, Saturday night. Misses Ethel and Mabel Nash shopped in Graham last Monday.
Long community letter recounts church services and attendance, school progress, and local movements in Palo Pinto and nearby counties. Mentions gins in transit, teachers and students, visitors, and neighbors relocating. Notes windy days, upcoming preaching, and Grandpa Choate improving slowly as readers are urged to attend Sunday services.
The community notes a milder spell improving roads for farm work. Uncle Josh West returns from a two week visit to near Newcastle and Graham enjoying the trip. Cedar School progresses well under Miss Pearl Frazier's direction.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 13 Thirty eight per cent, or 160,538 of the farmers of Texas employ hired help and their annual expenditure for this item is approximately $25,785,000, according to a report by the Bureau of Census. Ten years ago the yearly expenditure for labor by farmers of this state amounted to $12,332,000, an increase of 109 per cent. Eighty eight per cent of the amount paid for labor by Texas farmers is cash. For the continental United States the yearly labor expenditure is more than $651,000,000 and 46 per cent of the farmers hire labor. There are nearly 3,000,000 farmers in the country that employ hired hands.
The Fifth Sunday meeting will be held with Newcastle Baptist Church starting Thursday evening before the Fifth Sunday in January. Sessions begin 7:00 p.m. with Rev. J. L. McCord delivering a sermon and 10:00 p.m. devotional led by P. G. Cunningham followed by talks on the local field by O. E. Dixson at 10:15, the denomination by A. L. Wilson at 10:35, and World Wide Evangelism with R. L. English at 10:55, ending with a sermon by B. A. Roark at 11:00.
Classified note from Louis Bower offering sawn wood year round. Contact Wood Yard, Ind. 1524 for details and pricing.
Hauling wood from or hunting in either of my pastures is strictly forbidden. S. R. Jeffery. COMING SOON The Trey of Hearts.
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