Preparing for Frost Comforts With Warm Winter Stock
Frost foretells early winter and a local shop boasts ample warm clothing blankets and winter merchandise. Ad promotes Hamilton-Brown Shoes as long lasting.
21 Nov 1907
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1907
Page
1
Frost foretells early winter and a local shop boasts ample warm clothing blankets and winter merchandise. Ad promotes Hamilton-Brown Shoes as long lasting.
Readable text shows a sale listing with various cotton and wool blankets by size and price plus women and misses jackets. Items include 11-4 heavy cotton blankets, extra weight weave blankets, half wool, all wool blankets, lambs wool blue bordered blanket, and a range of jackets for misses and ladies with velvet trim, cuffs, collars, and prices from 2.50 to 6.00.
Headline sales copy lists Ladies' Two-thread Good Black Hose at 66 to 12 1 2 cents per pair, Misses Black Topsy Hose sizes 5 to 9 1 2 at 10 cents, Ladies Grey Hose 12 1 2 cents, Men's stainless fast black Hose two for 2 1/2 cents, Men's all wool extra long top Hose 35 cents, Ladies Wool Hose 25 cents to 5 dollars.
Mrs. W. L. Grubbs died at her Indian Mound home after a year and a half illness. A Missionary Baptist Church member for 49 years, she was 69. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. W. Black in Oak Grove Cemetery, with her husband and 11 children surviving.
The program for Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Presbyterian church includes a devotional by Rev. C. E. Paxson, a Teachers Training Course by D. K. Lyon, a discussion on home study of the lesson by Mrs. R. G. Hallam, and a talk on methods to increase Sunday school attendance by R. F. Short. Sunday school workers are urged to attend. John B. Wood and family recently moved to Memphis, Hall county, where he will work in a clothing store after being in the local grocery trade.
We the undersigned agree to close our places of business on Thursday November 28 1907. Participating firms include Tidwell & Sons Kidwell & Cooper Street Co Mabry Shory Norris Hardware Morrison Co Bowman Lumber Burns Morrison Smith Lumber Young County Lumber Rubenkoenig Bower Vaughan Kay Pettey Hallam Widmayer Graham Baynes Cardwell Rob McLaren Price Matthews Dowdle Cook Garrisson McJimsey Fuller Logan Pohlman McPhails Norman County Clerk Hudnall and others signatories.
The Olney First National Bank won the county depository bid at 3 percent interest on daily balances after no other bids were made. Funds will transfer to Olney once bonds are filed and court approval is secured, and county warrants will be paid via checks drawn on Olney Bank instead of Graham banks. The move follows a new state law requiring counties to seek best deposit rates, though Graham banks reportedly did not bid. The change is expected to bolster the Olney bank and not affect public operations.
Hawkins Chapel reports a new school session with thirty five pupils and a splendid teacher. Bro Bowman will serve as pastor for another year. Grandpa Montgomery and Grandma Montgomery plan to move next week. Rev Whittaker has been holding a meeting at Markley. Cotton picking nears completion in this part of the county. GuLavucus Cox notes this update.
Multiple acreage offers around Graham Texas priced from eight to twelve fifty per acre. Listings include 160 to 320 acre tracts with tillable and grass land, proximity to school and stores, and options with cash or 1 to 5 year balance terms. Properties feature varied land types, improvements, and water facilities where noted.
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