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Newspaper

Graham Leader

Location

Graham, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jul 06, 1922

Page

5

Sunday School League Closes In On Fourth Crowd Eyes Double Header

Christians lead the Sunday School league after three wins as Baptists Methodists and Presbyterians each have one victory. A Fourth of July crowd watched a high scoring Baptists Christians double header with nine runs in one inning for the Christians and a celebratory spirit among players. The Presbyterians beat the Methodists 13 to 10 in a rougher game earlier, while three double plays and multiple bases on balls marked the day.

Methodists Miller The Baptists Teres Eeneenres Abrhae Wallace Bloodworth, If Padgett, Cf Taylor Hutchings Staples Matthews Rickman Moreland aMtthews Kennedy Christians Presbytrians Secpecallion

Primitive Baptist Annual Meeting Reports and Notices

The notice lists several Baptist gatherings including Median Chapel near Newcastle and True Church, with dates in August 1922 and prior Sundays. Mentions speakers J W White from Megragel and W S Bourland from Vernon. Also notes Plains Old School Baptist in Crosbyton in July and a Kirkpatrick Church meeting near Elbert. Ends with a blunt jab about members who join for no support from J H Fisher.

Median Chapel J. W. White Megragel True Newcastle W. S. Bourland Vernon Plains Old School Baptist Crosbyton Crosby County Texas Great Staked Plains Rocky Mound Jean Kirkpatric Church Elbert J. H. Fisher

Oil field activity reports show multiple rigs in Texas area

Foster-Mahaney leads with a 3000 barrel shot. Gulf Company and Cesden & Company drill locations near Dyer Foster and Casey Survey. Numerous companies including Simms, New Domain, Union, Texas Company, Collette & O Keefe, Elk Basin, Monroe Production, Madden, Penn Cities, Whitehead, Williams, Southland, S L Ribble, Reed, Pitzer & West, Sinclair, Tuloma and Detroit Mexia expand operations across the Oil City and Herron districts with depths from hundreds to thousands of feet and varying production expectations.

Gulf Company Dyer Mahaney Foster Well Cesden & Company Driver Land Casey Jullian Brothrs Barnes Well Oil City Simms Oil Company Lynn New Domain Oil Company Lynn No. 1 Union Oil Company Texas Company Jake Jones C. W. Brooks S. L. Ribble Collette & O'Keefe Greenwade Elk Basin Oil Company J. A. Driver MacKenzie Oil Co T. C. Greenwade Monroe J. B. Ross G. F. Parsons Mahlstedt-Mook Oil Company Owen No Williams C. R. Tyrrell S. Wiliams R. M. Williams Southland Oil Company T. M. Bunger Herron Ths Wells & Spelling F. Herron Young County Drilling Company A. E. Foster Bertrand Et al Werges Reed Et al Mahlstedt-Mook Sinclair Oil Company Kisinger Tuloma Oil Company Addie M. Graham Colcord Et al Crawford & Harrison Kisnger Halmack Oil Co J. F. Hall Monroe Production Co Bridwell & Mayfield Detroit Mexia Oil Company Eliasville

Guaranty State Bank No 1244 Official Statement

Official bank statement from Graham Texas dated July 6 1922 shows resources totaling 39302371 with loans deposits and other assets. Liabilities list capital stock profits and large deposits. signed by President J C Lovelace and Cashier Jno R Roach before Notary F W Hinson.

Graham State of Texas Graham Leader WE Ho Ae Sagascal Guaranty Fund Young We J. C. Lovelace Jno R. Roach A. D F. W. Hinson Young County Texas J. J. Gallaher H. E. Griffin J. ©. Lovelace

Grief at the curb as boy loses grandfather

A small boy sits on a curbstone before a grocery store, despondent over his grandfather's death. The sympathetic grocer asks the cause and the boy replies that his grandfather died of heart failure with no insurance.

Granfather

Longtime New York locomotive engineer marks 50 years on rails

A seasoned railroad engineer in New York State celebrates fifty years in the profession and sixty five years in the locomotive cab. He has completed about eighteen thousand trips between Jersey City and Nyack, reflecting a career spanning generations of rail travel.

New York State Jersey City Nyack

I C C Orders Lower Freight Rates on Texas and Oklahoma Lines

The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a rate cut forTexas and Oklahoma railroads reducing 1920 advances from 35 percent to 21 12 percent.

Interstate Commerce Commission Texas Oklahoma

Interstate freight rates cut by ICC order nationwide

The Inter-State Commerce Commission ordered an average ten percent reduction in freight rates across the country. A separate rate board followed with a reduction on certain classes of railroad labor.

Inter- State Commerce Commission Rate Board

Sewanee Degree Rule Requires Constitution Course

In the University of the South at Sewanee Tennessee no student shall receive a degree unless he has completed at least one year’s course in the Constitution of the United States with special reference to the founders’ spirit.

University of the South Sewanee, Tenn United Staes

Remembering Friends or Savior, Bunyan Said

A brief quotation attributed to Bunyan contrasts gratitude to friends with gratitude to the Savior, warning that forgetting the Savior is unmerciful to oneself. The line highlights piety and personal duty in a devotional tone.

Bunyan

Town votes to raise taxes for Monument district

In Monument district last Saturday voters approved raising the local tax rate from fifty to seventy five cents. Bitter Creek and Orth districts vote on July 15 to set the dollar rate. Tonk Valley Consolidated district petitions for tax and bond elections to be held July 24 at Tonk Valley Baptist Church with a $6,000 bond to build a modern stone building. Flat Rock district plans an increase vote on July 29 after two years of financial trouble. Loving school considers adding eleventh grade next year. Two two teacher schools become three teaching positions: Hunt, Proffitt, and Tonk Valley Consolidated. Trustees meeting formed county wide association. J E Brown president, J G Hawkins VP, Edwin Hill secretary-treasurer. Executive committee named. Further details on another page.

Monument District Bitter Creek Orth Tonk Valley Consolidated Tonk Valley Baptist Church Flat Rock Hunt and Proffitt Tank Valley Consolidated School J. E. Brown Hunt J. G. Hawkins Lone Oak Edwin Hill Ingleside C. Slaughter Newcastle Tom Guimaron Olney R. N. Hammond Walter Counts Farmer A. C. Wells

Norma Talmadge Stars in The Wonderful Thing at National

Norma Talmadge headlines The Wonderful Thing distributed by Associated First National Pictures. Herbert Brenon and Clara Beranger adapt from Lilian Trimble Bradley and Forrest Halsey stage play. Versatile performances by Talmadge include Jacqueline Boggs and Mrs Donald Mannerby. Harrison Ford co stars. supporting cast features Mrs Lydig Hoyt and others. The National Theatre engagement begins Monday.

Norma Talmadge Associated First National Pictures, Inc National Theatre Herbert Brenon Clara Beranger Lilian Trimble Bradley Forrest Halsey Miss Talmadge Jaqueline Boggs Donald Mannerby Harrison Ford Howard Truesdale Robert Agnew Ethel Flemming Mariel Bert Fanny Burke Walter McEwen Charles Craig

Van Alstyne Editor on Squash Madness

The piece laments a craze over squashes as men lose reason over minor matters. It declares the vegetable a pariah that deceives by shape mortifies by taste and offends by smell, sneaking into life unnoticed and causing social rifts.

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