County Spent 165 536 Maintaining Roads In Past Year
Grayson County and the State spent 178 153 77 maintaining the county 1 507 miles of dirt and gravel roads through the county commissioners court in the year ending July 31 1925 averaging 117 22 per mile. County funds 165 536 05. state funds 12 617 72. 101 miles of graveled designated highways funded by state. Maintenance costs by precincts detailed for 99 259 miles graveled and dirt in precinct 1 2 3 4 totaling 166 702 06. Permanent improvements 26 147 08. road gangs 41 380 52. dragging 49 687 95. Auto license funds 45 000 and taxes 72 753 54. Balances Aug 1 1925: highway fund 142 44. precinct funds 34 648 18.
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Grayson County
County Commissioners’ Court
State Highway Commission
N.ow
Precinct No. 2
Precinct No. 3
Precinct No. 4
Grayson County Ginned 63 584 Bales To December 13
Grayson County shows 63 584 bales ginned by December 13 to match season estimates. Compared with 1924, when 74 262 bales were ginned, reports note some growers had cotton ginned in adjoining counties. Fannin County reports similar output to last season near 75 000 bales.
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Grayson County
Ralph Johnson
Federal
Fannin County
Cure a Cold in One Day With Laxative Brom Quinine
An advertisement promotes Laxative Brom Quinine tablets as a quick cure for cold symptoms. It claims to relieve headache and stop the cold in one day and bears E W Grove’s signature on each box.
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Soc
Osage Indians Receive Record Oil Royalties 1925
Interior Department reports Osage Indians earned a record 29,422,800 in royalties and gas bonuses for the fiscal year ending last June. Each of the 2,229 members received 13,200, with total Osage oil and gas receipts over ten years reaching 177,359,644. The Osage Reservation spans about 1,500,000 acres.
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Interior Department
Osage
County Woman Agent Resigns County Woman Agent Resigns
Women of the Grayson County Council of Home Demonstration Clubs met Miss Reky Saunders at a Sherman meeting to discuss her appointment as county home demonstration agent for Grayson. She succeeds Miss Gladys Franks who resigned while visiting her Lockhart home for the holidays. Saunders, from Blanco Texas, is Roy Saunders sister and has prior agent experience.
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Grayson County
Kote Ends Life After Second Attempt in Sherman
Five months after a first suicide attempt in Dallas by 72 year old Frank Kote, a second attempt in Sherman succeeded. Kote was a pioneer Sherman business figure and the notice reports his death.
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Kote
Self
Frank Kote
Dallas
Sherman
Sherman Suicide and Murder At Dallas Undertaking Parlor
Man named Kate, long settled in Sherman, shot himself in Dallas after earlier financial reverses. His body appeared in the yard near the Daniel and Talley undertaking shop where a note asked for quick, quiet handling of the body. Kate moved to Sherman fifty years ago and built wealth. his wife died four years ago. he survived by a son, Buster Kote in Dallas.
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Dallas
Sherman
John C. Daniel
S. L. Talley
Daniel
Kate
Talley
Grayson County
Buster Kote
Ferguson Reacquires Bosque County Ranch in Notes Deal
Ex governor James E. Ferguson regains the 8,900 acre Bosque County ranch he lost in 1924 to Dan A. Japhet. No cash exchanged hands. Ferguson issued seven notes totaling 325,000 dollars with 6 percent interest, due over seven years, starting Jan 2, 1927.
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James E. Ferguson
Bosque County
Dan A. Japhet
Japhet
Ferguson
Preparedness at Rally as Drunk Man Warned by Rattler
An intoxicated old scofflaw leaving a political rally encounters a rattlesnake in a field. The man, a longtime Volstead foe, proclaims he is never better prepared despite the danger.
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Scofflaw
Honor roll and A club monks across elementary grades
First Grade sections list names on honor roll and A club including Wanda Neall Iva Reeves Margaret Lilley Gladys Gosnell Vivian Echols Robbie Russell Henry Phillips Joe Thomas May Jack Yeager. Second and higher grades show extensive honor roll and A club rosters with numerous students across grades including Dorothy Tate Jack Lay Wilma Janway Ila May Dormotha Wood Vondalee England Dwight Coley Elizabeth Keeling W. T. Sears Billie White Norma Joe Mangrum and many more.
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Wanda Neall
Iva Reeves
Margaret Lilley
Gladys Gosnell
Vivian Echols
Robbie Russell
Henry Phillips
Joe Thomas May
Jack Yeager
Ben Childress
Isabel Craig
Wade Weatherby
Earl Phillips
J. C. Hannah
Carver Hoyle
Joe Glenn Bailey
Pauline Coley
Anna Lee Vowell
Velma May Nicely
Shirley Greenberg
Dorothy Tate
Jack Lay
Wilma Janway
Ila May
Dorotha Wood
Vondalee England
Dwight Coley
Dorothy Juan Gillett
Margy Smith
Billy Jean Cox
Ona Bell Long
Elizabeth Keeling
W. T. Sears
Billie White
Norma Joe Mangrum
Billie C. Russell
Frank Hollingsworth
Fitz Bryant
Pearl England
Nora Bryant
Billie Earl Montgomery
Woodrow Belew
Grady Fae Coley
Una Mae Mangrum
Johnnie V. Dossey
Margaret Pierce
Beatrice Maynard
Eva Jane Skaggs
Charlie Clyde McLean
Margaret Sears
Mary Gee Woods
S. T. Montgomery
Onida Nell Harris
Velma Bennett
Laura Jeanne Fleming
Raymond Cates
Jack Bane
Virginia McNeilly
He Had 'Em All Short Story Lesson Ends With Risque Punchline
The professor urges students to craft a reverent royal themed tale with a hint of the risque. A pupil’s tale delivers a punchline where a princess protests to a suitor. Sun office lists 25 sheets typewriter paper at 25c.
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Sun Office
Herbine advertised for working people health boost
An advertisement urges workers to use Herbine when liver function falters causing languor and blue mood. It claims the remedy purifies the system and restores health and ambition, priced at 60 cents and sold by Bow-Wright Drug Co.
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Bow-Wright Drug CO
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chesley Rutledge
Bosque County Ranch
J. P. Groves
Whitewright
Mangrum Bros
Genevieve McNeilly
Thomas Sears
Ruth Jopling
Elizabeth Davidson
Jim Henry Andrews
David Woodrow Smith
Wayne Martin
Murl Ryan
Bonnie Ruth Whitworth
Edna Merle McMurry
Leora Short
J. Lee Smith
Ruth Gosnell
J. P. Haliburton
Stella England
Thomas McMillin
Oleta Chambers
Van
Anna Bess Carter
Lucile Craig
Louise Beasley
Frances Gillespie
Z. G. Neal
Mary Lee Andrews
Dorothy Hamilton
Mary Elizabeth McKenna
Janice McIver
Babe Nell Penn
Lucile Williams
Eugene Hall
Aubrey Cook
Jack Everheart
Franklin Harris
Alwilda Ryan
Patty Pritchett
Earl Blanton
Tom Everheart
Vernon Gordon
Dorothy Key
Millard Mangrum
Mordell Pumphrey
Lucy Thornton
Ford Scott Vestal
Margaret Barbee
Geraldine Cole
Hazel Garner
Dorothy Gordon
Ruby Harmon
Kermit Hollingsworth
Durelle Mangrum
Clyde Montgomery
Mary Pumphrey
Martha Jo Sears
Caroline Simmons
Maxie Williams
Coy Wrenn
Clemmer Coggins
Marjorie Holland
Talmadge Lawrence
Hester Martin
Gladys Smith
Cora D
DOORN
Beasley & Mangrum
R. S. Morehead
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