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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1912
Page
5
Local notes show numerous visits and trades in Graham Texas. Residents like Jno Morrison and Miss Gradie Mizzell are mentioned, with others from Bryson, Ivan, Jermyn, and Colfax visiting or sending money loans. Business promotions include household goods, foods, and a Baker & Son trade plan. Attend the picture show tomorrow. a good show is on.
Local note announces the Graham School will close tomorrow to allow pupils to visit the Dallas Fair. The item includes assorted local notices about trades, loans, and business services, with references to residents and merchants such as Mrs. J. T. Miller, Baker & Son, Rev Gaines B. Hall, C. W. Hinson, J. G. Eliott, and EB. C. Stovall. It mentions pecan gathering, stock for sale, and money lending offers in Graham Texas.
A bay horse about 14 1-2 hands tall branded S with bay beneath on left shoulders and a cut on the left eyelid, about 15 years old, wearing a collar and saddle marks, is missing with liberal reward for its recovery. Mrs. L. Lindsey in Loving Texas offers the reward. Lige Spain visited from Ivan last Saturday to market cotton and buy goods for merchants. B. A. Snoddy received a selection of oils tablets erasers and dinner buckets. J Owens and son Fred traveled to Dallas to attend the Fair but missed the train and later returned to West Side Square to repair shoes at L Adair's Shoe Shop. About 400 pairs of Miss Louise Henderson of Bryson and sister Mrs. A N Lewis of Lubbock visited Graham recently.
Postcard and Stamp Pictures offered by J. Driver. Mr and Mrs Walter Douglas and child visited Mrs Douglas’s parents Mr and Mrs W T Finch in Jean. Sibed Adair available for boot repairs on West Side of the Square. Horace Ribble and Herbert Bigham delivered four bales of high grade cotton from Henry Chapel community Friday.
John Palmer, Gra ham oil well manager, came back Monday night from Wichita Falls after buying a new boiler. Mabryn & Sons Henry DeArmon, formerly of Hamilton, now at Murray, was in Graham Monday. C. F. Newman of Loving attended County Court this week and reports crops reasonably good locally.
Horace Ribble arrived Friday to buy a lantern for night cotton picking. He plans to harvest his crop while others search for help.
Co W Junker from Olney and Jules Ardis from Eliasville stopped in Graham early week while Mabry Sons advertised crisp Potatops. Mrs Mack Rickles of Ivan shopped Tuesday with Baldwin and family from Jean. A son was born to Mr and Mrs John Hughes last Saturday October 12. Beulah Howard of Jean bought goods Tuesday and Aunt Polly Reeves of Miller Bend stayed Monday night en route to Sherman to visit son Ice Reeves.
Mrs. Gentry Williamson of Indian Mound and Miss Alice Williamson of Red Top were seen shopping in Graham. Mrs. A. B. Kuyendall and daughter Liola visited from Bryson. Uncle Jack Washburn and Mrs. J. N. Adair were in from their farms for weekend visits. Also mentions a gin and ginner company and Mabry & Sons Monogram Dates goods.
Advertising bluntly promotes wood cutting and sawing services. Contact D. L. Higgings via phone numbers Ind 107-2 or S.W 113 cing 13s for work.
A. C. Daws of Throckmorton says conditions are better than in four years with fat cattle cotton and feedstuff plentiful and people in good spirits after shaking hands with friends Monday.
The Farmers Union gins at Graham and Loving are now ready to gin your cotton ring it and we will do the rest They will also grind your corn Past favors appreciated A H Jones Manager
Mrs. Alice Smith of the Connor Creek community left on Saturday’s train for Henrietta Oklahoma where she will make her home. Mr and Mrs Ed Schlittler have returned to Graham from their Arkansas home and will spend their time here during the cotton oil season.
J W Akin with twenty years experience can furnish a correct abstract on short notice. Wid Akers and wife from near Eliasville visited Graham Friday. Akers marketed cotton while Mrs Akers shopped with Ben Coyle and C C Adcock. Fran Mobley and A A Burrows from Murray came to Graham, rode the train to Dallas Fair.
Mrs J E Norris and children with Miss Pearl Matthews spent from Saturday to Wednesday in Wichita visiting relatives and seeing Barnum Bailey's show. Rev W H Johnson of Handley Texas preached at the Baptist church last night. Mrs J A Mundell and sister in law Mrs Molly Veach left yesterday for Bowie where Mrs Mundell will spend several days.
Multiple farms vary from 145 to 328 acres with cultivation, good houses, and river access. Prices range 25 to 30 per acre with cash down payments and eight year balance, interest seven percent. Names mentioned include R. C. McPhails and M. M. Maupin with local officials W. J. Jennings and a county constable.
The Graham GY Co is ready for ginning and solicits patronage. O M Jones sold his Tailor Shop to Joe Mabry who will run it at the same site. Jones moves to Cleburne Texas to manage two similar shops. The cotton patch study showed about fifty boys picking with a census totaling near four bales. Joe Cagle produced the top weights.
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