Local Notes From The Community News
Monitor grain drills and family visits as Mrs Nellie Glidewell Mr Posie Bower and J L McLaren with Miss Emma travel in a new Ford to Gipson place. Paul learns to drive. J H Vick and son Arthur work on their cat. Fay Gilmore visits home folks. Attendance down at Sunday School and Quarterly meeting at Salem.
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Nellie Glidewell
Etta Akers
Posie Bower
J. JL. McLaren
Emma
Paul
L. P. Gipson
J. H. Vick
Arthur
Local Notes Reveal Weddings and Community Events
Lounty correspondence reports frosty nights and a church entertainment for soldiers at Gra ham. Lee Carter and Garnet Ramsey wed at Rev. Cook’s home on September 27. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Chambers visited True home. Several residents attended church, Sunday School, and local visits over the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soldier Boys
Christian Church
Graham
Bob Corley
Lee Carter
Garnet Ramsey
D. Cook
W. M. Chambers
Hazelton
J. E. Evans
Bill Shahan
Weather Woes and Farm News Slow Sunday to Monday
The article notes a harsh wind and light shower Monday morning after a disagreeable Sunday. Truett family ill except the father. second son still worse. Mrs. Wade improves and sits up. Cotton picking busy with better than expected yields. Ruel Young drives a new Ford. learning to operate it. Annie Creager and Clyde visit Grandma Anderson. Clyde improving. Edna Jarnagin stayed Thursday night and Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Truett
Wade
Ruel Young
Annie Creager
Clyde
Grandma Anderson
Fish Creek and Live Oak Letter From Free Thinker
A local missive from Free Thinker notes daily farm tasks and travel in Young County. Mentioned are wheat and cotton market activity, neighbors such as Aunt Mandy, Misses Carmack and Cunningham, families visiting Graham, and a plea for scribes to help improve The Leader newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. FE. Bruce
Woodson
Wyatt Reeves
Jim Walsh
G. W. Carmack
Graham
W. D. Bowling
A. L. Oder
Lacy Mayes
Mandy
Young County
How to Ease Your Taxes and Loan to Uncle Sam
A wartime appeal explains the cost of the conflict and urges readers to lend money to the government through Liberty Bonds. It argues taxation is heavy and that purchasing bonds is a safer, wiser way to fund the war while earning interest. It suggests consulting a banker who has bought Liberty Bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Uncle Sam
U. S
Let the Other Fellow Do It in National War Drive
The piece denounces the policy of relying on others to fund the Liberty Loan. It urges every citizen to subscribe and ensure neighbors also participate, warning that failure would invite German conquest, higher taxes, and national disgrace. It contrasts American resolve with German sacrifice. It ends by urging readers to consult bankers on the article’s truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
siGadams
Germany
Not Mutilated Belgian Children Cross to Belgian Settlement
A hundred Belgian children traveling across the United States toward a Belgian settlement in Washington state report all but one boy mutilated by Prussian soldiers. The injuries include amputations of hands ears noses and, for girls, breast removal to prevent nursing of future soldiers. The Olney Enterprise cites the Algoma Advance in Iowa as the source for these grim claims describing widespread war crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
Washington
Algoma Advance
Iowa
Land
Olney Enterprise
Residence For Sale Near City Center
Five room house close in with city water electric lights and conveniences. Bargain price if purchased soon call Leader office.
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Flat Rock News
Z. L. Ramsey
Red ‘Lop
Edgar Cantwell
S. L. Richardson
Salem
Henry Chapel News
Edna Jarnagin
Fish Creek
Live Oak
Aunt Mandy
Georgie Carmack
Murray
Lila Cunningham
Eliasville
Good
Gulf
J. W. Garlton
Wrigleys
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Ates
Graham Independent Telephone Company
J. P. Hamilton
Sedges
C. W. Johnson
West Side of
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Arnold & Arnold
Attorneys-at-Law
W. A. Morris
Graham National Bank
M. H. Chism
Souls of Pythian Hall
B. W
King
Kingert King
Seymour and
DR. R. D. Rutherford
Henderson's Wagon Yard
Singer
C. E. Turner
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