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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1918
Page
5
Pay your poll tax today six days left to settle. Mrs B Kramer and Mrs F Herron are sick. Local notes report births, illnesses, and visits across Graham including seeds from Hallam, family traffic from Pickwick, and multiple residents with tonsillitis and other ailments.
Twenty good mares for sale bred to jacks. W E Moore lists price 41p. Burkett and Beaty families returned from Mineral Wells trip. J E Daily of Guyman Oklahoma visits relatives in Loving with son Edwin. Lasater sisters visited by Corp. Thomas E Suttle Fort Sam Houston. County Demonstration Agent J W Seddon reports farmers in Newcastle show interest in his work.
A Christmas message from Mrs Griffith to Graham readers honors soldiers and mothers, urging faith and purity in pay and duty. Ada Lee Girand, once a local resident, is named as near the giver of the message and remembered amid the reverent tone.
The John E. Morrison Co. Miss Maggie McClarty of Vernon has been a week’s guest with cousins J. J. and H. C. Criswell and other relatives in the Salem community. Pay your poll tax. J. T. Rickman, though still in critical condition, shows improvement with a fair chance of recovery if no complications arise soon. Fine Seed Ogts-oe at the Feed Store. Lewis and Levi Blevins came from Loving today. They belong to the Loving band, the county’s only such group with regular practice.
Seed Spanish peas offered 200 bushels and 200 bushels of oats for sale. 300 bales of green peanut hay and 250 bales of oat and wheat straw salted and bright. Apply to The John E. Morrison Co.
In a letter to a friend, Mrs. Ada Griffith says her cousin Arthur Crozier son of Dunlap Crozier a former county resident long known to locals has been captured by German forces.
W J Jennings of Jean renews with The Leader amid concerns that recent snow and sleet will hardly aid the wheat crop. Lieut C W Johnson Jr leaves for Columbus NM to resume duties after visiting parents. Various local moves include bank staff changes, a new operator for Independent Telephone, and workers joining Shamburger Lumber and Beckham National Bank.
J O Jones called Tuesday and ordered his Leader sent to Preschott Arkansas. He has been living at team and recently decided to make the change, but we predict he will be back in old Young county after he has tied that country one year. Notice There will be a few plays and a box supper at Fish Creek school house Friday night February 1. Proceeds go to benefit the school. everyone invited.
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