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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
5
A reader asks about proper conduct for a gentleman with a lady's umbrella and seating roles with mother and wife. Other queries cover hostess duties, paying meals in dining cars, leaving a table, gloves at formal dinners, mourning attendance, and first-call etiquette with timing guidance.
A 1915 editorial sparked a project to carve a Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain Georgia. Widow of a Confederate officer funded efforts to consult sculptor Gutzon Borglum who proposed a 1350 foot panorama with sixty five generals and a 165 foot Robert E Lee figure. Funds were raised in Atlanta starting April 1923 and Southern governors approved the campaign on April 20 1923. Work began June 18 1928. The plan includes a memorial hall and an amphitheater with a total estimated cost of 3.5 million dollars, largely funded by Atlantans and other Southern supporters.
Public notice from Young County Texas informs all interested in the estate of W H Ardis that administrator W P Stinson has filed for an order to sell 30 acres in Stephens County known as S S F 12411. The sale is set for the next term beginning the first Monday in July 1925 at Graham Court House, with interested parties required to appear and show cause why the sale should not be made. Read aloud by the sheriff or constable and published weekly for twenty days.
A Lindale man developed thornless blackberries and plans commercial rollout, citing harvesting advantages. The piece notes plant breeding advances over 25 years and imagines future yields, comparing progress in crops to animal stock improvements.
Floyd Russell, 43, allegedly became violently insane and shot eight relatives in Hamilton Ohio, killing his mother Rose Russell and seven others including five children of John Russell. He wounded himself in the left lung and fired about fifty shots after turning a gun on several children.
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