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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1908
Page
17
Local notes report community updates from Graham including visits from D G Vick and family, Mrs Lee Gowdy of Jacksboro spending time with Mrs J W Fulps, new candy shipments at Vaughans, and ongoing building on East Fourth Street. Cotton buying remains brisk with Union Cotton Yard weighing stock, plus new hires at Mabry Short & Co and Graham Hardware Co.
For sale cheap a new modern residence in the best part of town. Four large rooms a vestibule and bath room two lots good well and barn. Easy terms. Roy Golston.
The Graham Cotton Oil Company seeks teams and wagons for immediate use. Local farmers and handlers are urged to respond promptly to supply transport for oil operations.
A local seller advertises several choice sows for sale owned by C. C. Mayes. The notice highlights select brood sows and invites inquiries for breeding stock. Details on prices and availability are limited in the readable text.
In New Quarters W C Burns relocates his stock of groceries from the west side to the Finch building on the north west corner of the square. The building has been fitted up for the stock and Burns will offer one of the town's best business corners. He invites customers and the public to visit his new quarters.
Ready for Your Cotton. The Farmers Union Gin Company is ready to gin your cotton. Patronage last year appreciated and hoped for continuance this year. Finis Burnett hobbling on crutches from a horse kick at his home west of town last Sunday. See J B Norris Hardware for Electric Weld fencing and telephone wire.
Rev W M Goode has been seriously ill at his South Bend home. Dr Newell, his physician, says the crisis is past and recovery is near. The Leader joins many friends in wishing him a speedy return to health.
Geo. C. Clarke, a prominent Fort Worth real estate man, spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks in Graham. Mrs. Clarke has been in town to attend upon her mother, Mrs. W. O. Clark, who has been critically ill.
North Fort Worth pastor S J Murray assumed the Graham Presbyterian church pastorate last Sunday. He preached to a large morning and evening congregation and plans to move his family to Graham to become a permanent resident and clergyman.
Notice that Union Warehouse Company now runs a cotton yard in connection with the warehouse. They weigh cotton for the public and offer storage in the yard or house. Patronage solicited by H. D. Criswell, Manager.
Chapped skin on hands or face may be cured in one night by applying Chamberlain's Salve. It is also advertised as effective for sore nipples, burns, and scalds. Sold by all druggists.
Sheriff Wallace recovered a six-shooter last Monday near Proffitt that once belonged to his uncle, killed while serving as sheriff in 1898. The gun, highly prized for its family connection, was reportedly lost near Proffitt in June last year.
C F Huntington of Eufala Alabama extols Hunt's Lightning Oil as the most useful household remedy. He claims it effectively treats cuts burns sprains and insect bites based on his personal experience.
Judge Geo H McLaren manager of The Young County Abstract and Title Company travels to the North to recruit buyers and investors for Young county lands. He will be joined in Oskaloosa Iowa by W S Moore immigration head for Iowa who has several men at work. McLaren plans a ten day stay then return with buyers. Also listed for sale second hand organ cooking stove two coal heaters center table bedstead and springs 60 gal oil tank with pump cash only contact C W Rasure.
The speaker states a personal conviction that Hunt's Cure will heal a larger share of skin troubles, especially itching, than any other remedy. He urges anyone with itching skin to try it, citing his own and friends' experience. J. O. Monroe from Atchison, Kansas endorses the claim.
J. H. Fisner offers two 160 acre farms in Young County Texas. The first parcel priced at 35 dollars per acre includes a house barn cistern with 125 acres cultivable and 55 acres under cultivation with tank and fences. The second 160 acre parcel features a good house well wind mill and cistern at 22.50 dollars per acre. See at once.
Good new five room house with full well water in a desirable town area. Two corner lots totaling 100 by 200 feet. Big bargain at 300 dollars with balance to suit purchaser. See F. H. Stafford.
A fragmentary notice highlights a long held signature amid a local legal or personal matter. The readable text hints at a cherished mark associated with an individual or family, underscoring a claim or assertion tied to identity and authenticity.
The Graham Sunday School Union gathered at four p.m. Sunday September 27 at the Presbyterian church. Rev. CG Williams led devotion with roll showing Methodist officers and teachers in the majority. Z A Hudson led the study on The Model Sunday School.
A health note states that adults need only enough food to repair tissue and provide energy and heat. Excess eating is blamed for stomach troubles rheumatism and kidney disorders. For indigestion revise diet and take Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. sold by all druggists.
A wagon yard on the west side of Elm Street offers a bargain sale for cash or trade for a good farm. For further particulars see the notice.
Local bakery and restaurant offers daily fresh bread cakes and pies with a square meal dinner and short orders and lunches served all day at the shop.
The letter reports cold weather and a chilly Sunday with a fire felt to be comforting. Farmers expect cotton yields from one third to one half bale per acre. Reed M Daniel and wife visit his uncle R. L. McDaniel in Wise county, and Sunday School attendance is blamed on cold, rain. A growing network of phone boxes appears in Huffstuttle with listed subscribers. Various locals visit, work on houses, and plan trips to Graham to market cotton. Jim Mooreland welcomes a new girl. former residents from Oklahoma seek rental.
W. E. Baker, sexton of Oak Grove Cemetery offers tombstones and grave digging services with adults at seven dollars and children at five dollars. Call for prompt, satisfactory orders from Cisco Marble Works.
For sale at the Gilt Edge Poultry yards on South Elm Street a few choice S C R I Reds Columbian and White Wyandottes from the county’s best strains. See a few specimens on the street next Monday. Let us book orders for eggs. Fall is a good time for hatching.
Room to rent for one or two persons. Apply to Mrs. M. D. Wallace on North Oak Street.
Kidwell and Cooper advertise a limited sale offering Indiana Grand Drills at factory cost for cash and a large lot of Milburn Wagons at reduced prices.
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