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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
5
Local items report illness and visits including Wallace Sloan and Mrs J B Norris in Fort Worth. Notes on travelers, room offers, and church services. agricultural updates mention crops near Graham and Clear Fork. Social events include Christian Endeavor program and camping at Clear Fork. An announced socialist speaker tours Graham. Cough remedies and medical advice marketed locally.
One acre and 45 acres in cultivation with grass timber a three room house cribs and other lots offered for 2000 dollars. The notice invites immediate contact via J H Fisher. John B Wood travels to Paris Texas to join his wife for a East Texas trip. Mrs W M Fore of Memphis Texas and Mrs J M Blevins of Throckmorton visit Graham.
Local notices include a lost watch charm locket and initials F F P. Prof. Singleton moves to Greham and will teach at Orth next winter. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson arrive from Rolfe Oklahoma. Dawson becomes depot cashier. Advertisements tout White's Cream Vermifuge for children and Bald Balsam Snow Liniment for itching. Several residents travel, sale offers appear for a McCormick self binder, and Judge Ruddy assists M B Harris for Attorney General. Also mentions rheumatism and farming yields near Graham with roasting ears coming soon.
Mrs J W Jackson hosted the Priscilla Club on Tuesday afternoon May 11 with many ladies attending. They shared sewing projects, enjoyed ice cream and cakes served by Mrs BB Garrett, and listened to vocal numbers by Mesdames Duncan and Langford alongside two readings. Visitors included Mesdames Isaacs, B B Garrett, Alma Martin, J D Langford of New Orleans, C B Jones, R A Duncan and Miss Bladen Garrett.
A grocer advertisement extols Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a quick healer for burns cuts bruises and boils with a 25-cent price at druggists. The item also notes social happenings in Graham including a visit by N Gegg and his daughter Josephine from Cleburne and a upcoming speech by United States Senator Morris Sheppard in Graham and Young County. The report mentions farm listings and local entertainments at a lodge event with speakers and attendees.
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