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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1913
Page
4
Cotton picking dominates local life as harvest nears. many residents travel to Jermyn Graham and Hawkins Chapel for gatherings and court. Frequent visits span families including the Ramseys Slaters Workmans and Grahams with reports of illness and community events plus business ads for Shears and loans.
The fine weather since the rains offers farmers a good window to gather cotton and plant the fall crop. Local updates include McAnes of Pickwick building a stone chimney for Upham, Grandma Parsons visiting from Megargel with Mrs. Stringer and children, and Hood county resident Jim Lawrence visiting. A few locals attend the Graham Fair, H. J. Cretsinger improves after illness, and fruit trees show bloom after recent rains. Rye and oats planted earlier emerge as healthy seedlings. Cedarite.
Local notices recount routine visits and movements: Frank Moren injured while aiding a cistern project at the schoolhouse. crowds attend the fair. multiple family visits among the community. residents trade, ship cattle to Fort Worth, and attend Sunday School. An advertisement seeks agents for a promotional outfit offering substantial commissions and holiday books.
Spring Creek reports strong community health with busy harvest of crops and sowing wheat. Sunday services at church were well attended with plans for a Baptist Sunday School enrollment increasing toward one hundred. various locals marketed cotton in Olney and Megargel while church and school events entertained residents.
E S Graham trustee urges Graham citizens to donate to Oak Grove Cemetery funds to finish the year 1913. He warns that without timely subscriptions the sexton may be discharged and cemetery upkeep may lapse, risking neglected graves and overgrowth.
The Bryson community reports many attending the Young County Fair this week. Local residents visit relatives, travel to nearby towns, and school principal Hogue is named for Bryson High. Various families visit, recoveries are noted, and Eastern Star members plan Dallas travel for the Grand Chapter meeting.
The Texas Retail Merchants Secretaries Association will hold its annual session in Fort Worth next November alongside the National Feeders and Breeders Show. In Bay City Colonel S J Cleveland bought 1400 acres from an irrigation company at 40 dollars per acre totaling 56000, one of Matagorda county’s largest realty deals this year.
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