Local Notes DOO Telephone 20-3 Graham Texas
Graham Texas notes dated October 25 list local items in brief notes from the telephone column. The entry preserves a snapshot of small town postal and civic matters with concise details.
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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1906
Page
5
Graham Texas notes dated October 25 list local items in brief notes from the telephone column. The entry preserves a snapshot of small town postal and civic matters with concise details.
A string of short notices records visits by judges, ministers, and merchants to Dallas and Graham, along with property listings, goods ads, and local businesses. Names include J C Vaughan, R F Arnold, Rev Shrader, Claude McCarty, Maud Bell, Mrs J W McAlister, S B Street, Ben Hunt, Bob Tankersley, Will Benson, H M Joney, Judge Avrid, Harrison Norton, Finch & Stewart, and Dwinell Wright Co Coffee. Also mentions egg and produce buyers and traveling show.
The Ladies of the Home Mission Society of the Methodist church plan a day of cotton picking for farmers on Thursday November 1 at 7 a.m. All are invited with lunch for a picnic meal. If rain cancels the event it moves to Friday November 2. Transportation is requested. those without conveyance should report to the pastor. Rev R A Gay pastor. Also brief local notes mention Hoopers Tetter Cure and Dwinell Wright Co coffees sold by W I Tidwell & Son.
Wanted laborers to work on McCan Bridge. Apply to R L Puckett at the bridge site. The Graham school farms visited the fair and were belatedly returning by train. The senior editor is in Dallas for the fair. Some residents built a doll rack knife rack and striking machine to enhance the city’s metropolitan look.
County clerk Geo McLaren and family went to Dallas Monday to take in the fair. New California Clover Honey in quarts, 12 gallons and 60 lb. Tins, at W J Tidwell and Son. G Arnold of Miller Bend visited the city on business. S W Lane is painting and improving his North Oak Street home.
The text notes the ongoing wood proposition as a life problem in Gra ham. Mrs T H Scarborough visited the city yesterday and handed the editor a dollar for a subscription.
Col Faris has spent several days on the Clear Fork this week tending the irrigation project. The Albany News urges readers to watch the indicator and trust the paper’s word as Shackelford county aims to prove itself the garden spot of West Texas with hard work and perseverance. A drug store visit promotes Hopper's Tetter Cure from B S Doty & Co. Rising living costs are noted with boarding house wage demands, while Finch and Stewart advertise groceries and confections.
Tekonsha resident G. J. Welch endorses Bucklen's Arnica Salve for cuts sores and all skin injuries noting perfect results. Quickest pile cure and best healing salve claim accompany the product from B.S. Doty & Co. drug store with local official County Surveyor R. Hollingsworth described as sick in the past week.
A vintage advertisement touts Hunt's Cure as a universal itch remedy. It promises instant relief from eczema ringworm and related rashes with one box, guaranteed to work on any itch labeled itec. The copy emphasizes total cure and broad applicability, appealing to sufferers seeking rapid results.
Texie Cheves of Stephens Roach and Co invites readers to call about ready-made clothing. The note from Olney Texas highlights Young County’s need for a system of good roads and several new bridges, including a Brazos crossing at South Bend.
Notice to Breeders announces a stock market event Monday November 5th featuring colts from Stock Market. The mare producing the best colt will win a 1907 season free. Presented by 2t. D. H. Frencu.
Edison phonographs offered by Rob McLaren in Graham Texas on easy monthly payments. Suitable for customers seeking affordable options and flexible terms. Contact Rob McLaren in Graham Texas for details and availability.
The Sunday excursion venture suffered a setback after participants from Graham experienced problems on the trip last Sunday.
An interesting children's day service was held at the Methodist church last Sunday night. All the children on the program acquitted themselves admirably and all who attended enjoyed the occasion. The season of possum and sweet taters is on hand and soon hog sausage and spare ribs will relieve us from the machinations of the meat trust.
Willis Ellis, fresh from a bookkeeping course at Dallas Commercial College, travels to Spring Creek to assist his brother in law N R Durham in the business there. New bridge material is hauled to the McCan bridge for repairs to improve its sturdiness.
Travelers are cautioned to use care with drinking water and advised to take a bottle of Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in hand luggage before leaving home. The notice claims the remedy can prevent distressing sickness and delays and notes it is for sale by all druggists.
Editor F H Bowron and family traveled to Dallas Monday to see the Dallas Fair, then visited relatives in Fort Worth during the trip.
Incoming trains at Graham are met by farmers offering cotton-picking inducements. Early season losses from workers leaving the county mean today they must lure pickers back with higher wages, as some men previously paying sixty five cents now pay a dollar per hundred.
Sick headache is caused by disturbance of the stomach and indigestion. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets correct these disorders and may ward off an attack when taken at first sign. For sale by all druggists.
McAllister J. T. Coal company states it will carry an abundance of McAllister coal in stock and can supply demand at any time and in any quantity, directed at Graham Milling Co.
The Republican nominee for Young county county judge Hon. C. W. Johnson will address voters at Farmer on Thursday Nov 1 at 7 p.m Olney on Friday Nov 2 at 7 p.m and Graham on Monday Nov 5 at 7 30 p.m He will share time with the Democratic candidate.
Grain prices from Graham show wheat No 2 and oats and corn in ear traded at modest levels. A quoted bale price for alfalfa or similar forage stands at 30 cents, while corn in ear moves around 40 cents per bushel.
Rob McLaren delivered a donation for a subscription from A. W. Coffman and W. W. Coffman of Goree Knox county. The Mineral Wells railway extension may start soon. Officials should visit Graham to assess freight and crop shipments to influence the decision to build.
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