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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1913
Page
8
The Priscilla Club enjoyed a social gathering hosted by Mrs. Evans Mabry with eleven members present. Visitors from Austin Cleburne San Angelo Cisco and others shared needlework music a salad course and tea. New members will be elected at the next meeting with Mrs. C W Johnson resigning.
Two prisoners confined in the Baylor county jail at Seymour escaped on Friday June 13 by sawing the bars. Mont Hounshell alias J H Wilson faces a statutory offense charge and Harvey Sayard is charged with bootlegging. Graves & Ward's reports Queen of the Pantry flour arrival nearby.
The government reports 7,272 banks use postal savings funds at 2 1 2 percent. Col R L Z McPhail offers loans at 8 percent and provides wheat insurance hail and auto coverage. The M K and T Railroad wins Sugarland line to Freeport with Katy extending 23 miles from Brookshire to Harlem Sugar Farm for a 90 mile branch. Revival plans mark Briar Branch Graham Mission meetings through August. Nearly 200 Missouri laws take effect Monday, including the Orr anti trust fire insurance act, prompting insurer suspensions and court challenges.
Travis Hagler, son of Jeff D Hagler, accidentally shot W Colville during a fight with David Zimmerman on the White Settlement road near Fort Worth after a hotel elevator dispute. Also, three whiskey trunks from Dallas to Muskogee, containing 25 gallons, were seized at Denison by U S Marshal McDonald under interstate shipment laws. An arrest has been made.
Julian Foster reports that Colonel Milner did not resign as president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College. He says Milner was well liked by the students and that suspensions in January came from the faculty, not Milner. He notes opinion favors Clarence Ousley as next president.
Advertisement notes two gasoline engines, a three horsepower and a four horsepower, available at a bargain as office machinery replaces gas engines. Inquiries invited by call or mail with pricing. Also mentions a photography studio promotion and a Supreme Court upholding a 1912 newspaper law requiring semi annual post office filings of editors owners stockholders and bondholders.
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