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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1911
Page
1
A July sale offers markdowns on 3 dozen high grade Percale House Dresses at 1.40 each and 1 dozen Ladies Dressing Sacks at 0.56. Slippers for women and children drop to 1.75 and 0.60 respectively, plus gingham aprons at 0.25 and 9x12 rugs reduced from 25 to 20 dollars.
Judge J E Simpson his wife and two children and Mrs George Black nearly drowned when a sudden rise carried their wagon down Flint Creek near Newcastle last Sunday. They climbed a tree for hours until rescue. The team was recovered the next day and drowned near Flint and Mays' Stable.
Sam Brown and his sister Miss Estella of Curlew Texas visit the county to see friends. Mrs N J Timmons left Tuesday for Goree Texas to visit her son Wayne and may return to Graham to make it her home again.
Heavy showers fell across the county breaking a prolonged drought since 1887. Loving saw the heaviest rains while Graham logged over four inches last week. Eliasville reports good showers improving crops. Farmers hope for ample late feed and strong cotton. June corn and millet plantings increase. Sunday church attendance noted at Baptist 143, Methodist 140, Christians 121, Presbyterians 95 with sermons on gospel power, solidarity, and seeing Jesus. O. M. Thedford reports rain and better health in Pickwick, predicting a good cotton crop there.
Mr Robert Bower and Miss Nanie wed at the bride’s mother's residence in west Graham last Sunday with Judge E W Fry officiating. The groom, a Graham native, works for the Graham Electric Light Co. The Leader joins friends in offering congratulations.
A fierce hail storm with strong winds struck Eliasville on Monday evening, destroying crops and damaging buildings along a five mile by half mile belt from Peach Creek to Daws place on Clear Fork. One house shifted twenty feet off its foundation. debris and shattered shingles were reported across town. In Mr Souter’s yard, over a ton of unmelted hail stones remained. Also noted were the marriage of James Harvey Bills and Emma Johnson at Ed Johnson’s residence on North Oak Street at six this past Sunday morning, with plans to relocate to Paris Texas after the ceremony.
Miss Ethel Lamons and Ruby Andrews returned Friday night from Lawton Oklahoma where they had stayed two weeks. Ruby Andrews left Saturday for her home at Westfork.
Will Love, a Rock Island brakeman, was killed last Friday morning in Bowie when he fell beneath a car being switched at the station. His body was taken to Fort Worth for burial after a funeral held Sunday. He formerly worked Fort Worth to Graham and was well known locally. His widow is Miss Annie Cochran of this city and the community offers sympathy.
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