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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1889
Page
5
Notices offer loans on Young County real estate at reasonable rates for long terms. Miss Margaret Cunningham has reportedly recovered from mental illness and returned home. Also a call to view Chism's Ghost picture and a push for road work and political reform before the next election.
The notice urges immediate action for photo work regardless of weather and promotes Sulky plows from R. L. Bickman & Co as the best on the market. It mentions a barbecue at Finis last Friday with Grahamites in attendance and encourages locals to visit the supplier to buy.
Notice reports sale of drug stock to R G Graham Co and transfer of accounts with continued service. It announces new management, retained staff, and invites continued patronage. The page lists local promotions, grocery and hardware ads, and real estate sale for the Creed house in Graham with milling wheat price notes.
The Fish Creek column notes corn crops are fine cotton fair where grasshoppers are absent and rains improved grass. Grasshoppers remain a worry, stock are fat, and a threshing accident injured Mr Curtis. Messages mention visitors from Albany and Clear Fork and a comical incident with a cat eating a skunk at John Porter’s home.
All quiet with heavy rain and grasshoppers. most crops undamaged except Kindley reports grasshoppers destroyed his entire crop including onion tops. Local notes mention visits by Miss Cunningham and Miss Lily Mayes, Sunday school at Indian Mound prospering though lacking a house, and two fine fillies killed by lightning on the range. Annie Mayes plans to visit Parker while C. C. Mayes attends presbytery there.
A business owner announces selling out and urges creditors to call promptly to settle debts. The note directs readers to R G Graham & Co. druggists in another column where M S Handy has joined the staff to ensure careful prescription compounding.
The copartnership Garrett & Matkin is dissolved by mutual consent. Debts to the firm should be paid to D R B Akin, authorized to collect. Graham, Texas, July 8, 1889. Mrs. N A Shumaker, wife of H T Shumaker, died Sunday night of paralysis, aged about 65. Tur Leaper extends sympathy to the bereaved family.
Austin, July 5 Aunt Matilda a colored woman with elephantiasis who reportedly had a small snake removed from her leg died last night. The snake or parasite was sent to the Smithsonian Institute for examination by Prof. True. She will be buried this afternoon in a coffin six feet long three feet deep and four feet wide. Medical men have been puzzled by her unusual case.
Veraturtrorp Texas July 1 1889 announces retirement of senior member A F Starr from A F Starr Co and succession by C D Hartnett Co with Hartnett taking management and all debts payable to Hartnett Co while Starr remains a member for future dealings.
A reporter overhears a humorous lawn tennis match exchange about girls joining, confusion with baseball, and audience laughter. The piece ends with a blurb about subscriptions by V. F. Gorrissen, a newspaper and magazine publisher.
Editorial urges prompt payment to printers as a driver of local prosperity. Notes how timely pay keeps printers well supplied, producing better reporting and a more enjoyable community paper. The notice also promotes new folding cats sold by V F Gorrisson, inviting readers to call and inspect.
The speaker urges doing good wherever possible and avoiding petty feuds. Maintain self-respect and avoid underhand means to injure an enemy. The world is large enough for both sides, so focus on your own business rather than bitter grudges.
V F Gorrisson advertises sewing machines needles and oil at low prices with on hand stock inviting customers to call and inspect offerings.
The Chicago Live Stock Commission Company issues corrected weekly market quotes for Union Stock Yards Curecano. Texas cattle grades list weights and price ranges for cattle sheep and veal with per head and cwt values. The county court met last Monday with a heavy docket and expects to stay in session through the week.
Farmers in Young County face a glut of corn wheat and oats with no easy local markets. Transportation to distant markets is impractical, leaving farmers to borrow or sell at ruinous prices. A railroad link is hoped to provide a steady market, while citizens should diversify crops and reduce debt. Also notice: Round Trip Excursion Tickets to summer resorts offered by M E and T Railway via G F Thomas, Nickel Agent, Henrietta Texas.
A playful fragment shows two speakers trading banter about tennis heat and Shakespeare criticism. One mentions reading a tough book while mockingly dodging lawn tennis and the G L. The exchange ends with a lighthearted burst of laughter.
A dense ad fragment bundle invites readers to seek loan services from McPhar and Akin, promising easy terms on land and stock purchases, then shifts to W F Gorrisson news stand operations, mail deliveries, and subscription offers. A travelogue style anecdote about a boy delivering a letter accompanies a sales pitch for cheap fruit jars and jelly glasses, ending with a call for 1000 customers at Gorrissen’s store.
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