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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1884
Page
3
The statement announces F A MAYS as a candidate for the office of County and District Clerk at the upcoming November election. The notice is authorized by the County and District Clerk election filing procedures and specifies candidacy for the next term.
Sheriff Bunger and family visited Spring Creek last Saturday. Mails run regular despite rough roads. L. J. Bowers offers fresh vegetables and canned goods. Jon Rubenkeenig the barber hires a new assistant. Dwellings rise, no vacant houses. Overheard anecdotes: horse accident, bottle cut, doctors and lawyers named. Harvesting underway, hail damaged Duff Prairie crops. doctor Watt arrives. Local merchants, schools, and taxation discussed. Baylor county news includes sheriff and rangers bringing Tyson for habeas corpus. Graham May 25 1854.
An 19th century advertisement offers Crazy Patchwork assortments of remnants in silks satins and velvets. Package No 1 includes varied fabrics postpaid for 59 cents and Package No 2 is larger postpaid for 1.00. Also promotes Mauusi pattern book with 400 illustrations postpaid, Rochester NY.
J A Lafferty, proprietor, announces taking charge of Woods House and offers to accommodate travelers with dining tables furnished from the market.
An old advertisement touts Swyatt's Powerful Vegetable Compound of sarsaparilla as a universal cure for rheumatism and blood impurities. It claims relief for skin diseases, liver and kidney issues, chest complaints, syphilis, and debility. Various Hyatt remedies and balsams are offered with prices.
Belknap hosts a large crowd from Young County for a Saturday picnic despite morning rain. Speakers A Don Brown and Prof Dowell urge unity, leading to the election of Brown as president and Dowell as secretary of a planned county Sunday school convention. A committee is named to draft articles of organization.
The Democratic County Convention met at the courthouse in May, electing John Taylor and H. Hill to the Fort Worth Convention, A. R. Crazier and W. C. Blakey to Houston, and naming representatives to federal and state gatherings. A proxy clause was adopted to cover absences, and John Taylor was elected chairman of the Young county Democratic Executive Committee. An attempted robbery of a central train was noted in the closing lines.
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