Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 59, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 12, 1935 Page: 1 of 4
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GRAHAM, TEAAb
11 tell)AY, NOVEMBER 12, 1935
liRABAM CAIN IN BANK DEPOSITS
CLOSE TO TOP IN COMPARISON
WITH OTHER WEST TEXAS CITIES
XCBBOCK HAS GREATEST
TOTAL IN CITY’S
HISTORY
Combined baqk deposits of the
F>st National Bank and Graham
Natioasl Bank showed a greater
increase this year than any city
In the north And wait Tevaa art*
with the exception of Lubbock,
Abilene, B'g Spring, Seymour and
Ban Angelo, n survey ot Novem-
ber 1 statements shows.
Lubbock, Abilene end Seymour
increases were, far in excess of
the $259396 reported here, Lub-
bock’s deposits being the great-
est la the city's hstory with an
increase of $426,000.
Brown wood total deposits in-
creased $185,000 over October 17
water reached a new high since
1982 but only reported e gain of
$28300 s'nee last October.
Coleman increases were sever-
al thousand under the Graham
gain, and Brady, in the heart of
the ranching country, only re-
ported a $207,481 increase to a
total of $1316,088.
San Angelo, one of the .most
prosperous cities b*t’.voen Abilene
and south Taxis, Lai a ntt'ga'n
pf $291,146 since early spring
and nearly $500,000 since Oct. 17
of last year
Of more immediate interest
wane the reports from IJalllnger,
showing a net ga n of $8,46” to
<1420.118 since Inst year. Qttnn-
ah a gain of. $282,412 at the First
National and 88.000 at. the Secur-
ity National, Chill cotheja gain pf
862304, Seymour a ffdHi. from
$657,110 to $1.025304,** and Ver-
non a gain of $200,006 2to 82,764,-
606i T r'
Graham increases, rfhen, show
arregter gains than -Brownwood,
Vernon. ChilVcothe. Bsliincer.
w—fv, Quanah. and several other
of the cities of similar else,-and
In proportion to total deposits out-
stripped several of the much lar-
Mt*.
Methodist Pastor
Returned To Graham
Graham welcomes the return
Of the Rev. R. 3. LaPrade, Meth-
odist panto*,..to the Graham pas-
torate. The Rev. LaPrade was
returned to the Graham church on
action of the Brown wood confer-
ence last weak
The Method**. pastor also re-
ported on his return that the
.Rev. A. W. Hall of Weatherford
will again be pres ding elder of
the Weatherford district. The
Rev. B. E. Kimbro was also re-
turned to the Graham circuit.
The Rev. B. C. Edwards, for-
mer pastor of the Graham church
was transferred from the West
Texas conference to the^ pastorate
at the Meadowbrook church, Fort
Wbrth.
Armistice Day
Norther Drops
Mercury To 27
Echoes of snow end freeling
weather n the Panhandle sent
Graham temperatures scurrying
for coveT late Monday and early
today.
Miss Leta Black reports a min-
imum of 27 degrees early today,
4 degrees under the minimum for
the month set last Tuesday.
The maximum for Monday was
48, Miss Black says.
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Foreign Mission
Program Subject
Of Men’s Meeting
Men-of-the-Church' of the First
Presbyterian iChurch will hear the
Rev. S. C. Guthrie discuss Fore-
ign Mission work ton’ght when
that organization meets for its
regular dinner-program
The pastor hr'- vs«
subject, "What You Men Should
Know About The Foroim Mis-
sion Wqrk Of Your Church."
Guest speaker of the evening
w'H be S. H. Peavy, high school
Comanche Indians
Booked For Game
Here On Nov. 22
The Athletic Council announces
that the Comanche Indians will
come to Graham for a 'battle with
Steers on November 22, a week
after the Bobcat game.
Comanche is a Class B team
at present but has been in the
Class A d vision, Coach Knieff
says.
No game has been scheduled
for Thanksgiving as yet.
Friday’s conference battle with
NcwcastTewITI “be played on tKe
Bobcat field at 3 o’clock
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Crude Movement
Shows 99-Barrel
Gain Last Week
The movement of crude from
north and south Young county
laat week showed a gain of 99
barrels daily over the report of
the week ending November 2..
^Yhe-north Youngs da ly total
last week was 5,918 as compared
with 5,858 for the previous week.
South Young movement was 3,-
911 against 3,872 for the previous
Week.
The total crude movements from
the pools in the Wichita Falls dis-
tr'ct wns 60,258 barrels daily,
gain of 1,143 over the previous
week.
The North Texas divis'nn that
includes south Young totaled 4,-
oom pared
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NUMBER FIETY-NINW
principal, who will discuss "The W4 d#Uy 1(Mt wwk
Ital an-Ethionian Situat on. Yes-1 4 939 for t),e prev'ous week,
terdav and Today.” i _.___
The banquet w!l be served at
7:15 o’clock and all members are
urged by Benton Hockaday, pro-
gram chairman, to be present.
ius
Cornelius
'WaaHMl YVRest
Sunday Afternoon
^tjie Rev. J. D Thorn, Baptist
pastor, conducted services at 3
o’clock Sunday afternoon for Mrs.
T.* Re Cornelius, 77-year-old Young
courts in who follwed*her hus-
band and two sons to the Great
Beyond Saturday.
—Assisting, the Rev. Thorn was
the Rev Wray. Service* were
held at the residence north of
Graham and bur'al in Oak Grove
Cemetery.
Mr* Cornelius was bom Feb-
ruary 15, 1858, in Missouri and
moved to .lack county when quite
young. iF.fty-six year* ago Dec.
ember 23 she married F. R. Cor-
nelius and lived most of her de-
voted life in Young county
Surviving Mrs. Cornelius are
three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Fra-
Garner Lays Rough
Seas Tq a Lack
of WPA Funds
ABOARD THE PRESIDENT
GRANT AT SEA—Vice Presi-
dent John N. Gamer offered tda
day ah explanation of the rough
seas that have shaken the United
State* Congress anal and newspa-
per delegation to the inaugura-
tion of Manuel Quezon is ’ first
President of the Philippine Com-
monwealth throughout the first
two days of their journey.
“You sure have got rough roads
out this way,” he declared to the
purser as he swayed to the Xhip’s
rolling. “I guess you haven’t got
your share of WPA funds.” '
Mr. Garner, although he has
been a landlubber throughput his
life, is one of the f*W,i|0f>earing
regularly on the deck an«l' in the
din ng salon. , V--
ST AT L uw>
NATIOinaL
NEYvS
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At a Oiurice
Man penetrated the stratosphere
Sunday to the h ghest that he has
ever been. Ballonists Captain
Albert Stevens and Capt. Orval
Anderson brought their giant bal-
loon to earth, near Mitchell, South
Dakota, after ascending fourteen
miles or 74,187 feet. Temper,
attire at that altitude wm« record-
ed at 68 degrees below zefo. The
mercury w'thin the gondola was
19 above. The balloon and gon-
dola were undamaged —»---
Capt. Tom Hickman, Ranger,
was given until December 1 to re-
sign his post at the request of the
State Department of Public Safe-
ty. “I .have no intent on of re-
signing,” Hickman said. Dis-
cussing the actrorrAct ng Director
PKares said he had suspended
the captain in lino with th- cim-
miss'on’s p.lioy cf 'building up
the efficiency of the state law
enforcement agency.
Famous Educators
Will Preach Here
Sunday, Nov. 24
Graham Presbyterians will hear
two outstanding religious leaders
and educators on November 24,
when Dr. Thoma* Slone Clyce
and Dr. Tucker of Austin
College bring the morning and
evs n ng sermons.
Dr. Clyce is President Emer-
itus and professor of Bible and
Philosophy of that Presbyterian
school and Dr. Tucker is presi-
. jdenl of the -Collage.. -------------
The Rev S. C. Guthr e, pastor,
Is anxious that as many Graham
people hear the visitors as can
attend either or both of the ser-
vices a week from Sunday.
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NEW BLEACHERS AT GRAHAM FED
SIDEWALKS, OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
TO BE COMMENCED HERE NEXT WEB
Legion Observes
Armistice Day
With Banquet
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Lcenses to wed were issued
Saturday to Homer Hiram A-
dams and Alma Lynch, to Lloyd
Holder and Jewell Ingram, and to
zier of Graham, Mrs. Ben Gun- J Estil Helton and Ila Riggins. A
Marconi to Give
Italy a Secret
* Radio Phone
ROME. —4 Msrchese Guglielmo
tor of wireless eom-
wfll sail toon for
to give his eoun'ry
new and virtually untried sys
> tom of eeeret radiophone com-
* * ‘mm the war front
ter of Jacksboro and Mrs. Ben
Steadham of IMoAdoo; one son,
Hugh Cornelius of Graham, and
two grandchildren, Norma Fra-
zied and Benny Paxion' Steadham.
Mrs. Cornelius eras a faithful’
member of the Baptist church
aince childhood. 1'"
license was issued today to J. E
Butcher and Mrs. Nina McIntyre.
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Mrs. Eden, Mrs. Davis Baker,
and Mbs Edna Pear! Dowdle
took Joel Eden to Fort Worth
Monday to resume hie studies in
a business college.
FORMER PRESBYTERIAN PASTOR HERE
TO ADDRESS BI-DOTCT MEETING
OF LEGIONNAIRES SUNDAY MORNING
UNION SERVICE TO BB
HBLD AT METHODIST
CHURCH
* <* *
Dr. Bryan Kaathley, former
pastor of the First Preebrterian
now elate chaplain
inventor dodged the ques-
who greeted him
to Genoa from Bra-
declinmg to dis-
qf his new short-
chuTch and
Jtt' tha American Legion, will de-
Uv»r the hi-district convention
sermon to Legidnnaires next Sun-
day morning. ,
The former pastor ’a . now
nastor-et-Urge~ of the entire
Fort Worth Presbytery. ,
Banquet arrangements for the
hundred* of Legronnairee will
make necessary the use of the
hpae*
ionnaires In this district^ will de-
liver the convento n sermon Ban-
day for tha third consecutive
meeting, having addreeatd the
service men twice before moving
from Graham to Fort Worth.
S nee becoming paator-at-large he
has also received the honored
position at itate chaplain.
' Discussing arrangements for
the two-day bi-district meeting,
Mr. Edward* outlined plans for
registration at the Driver Hotel
Saturday, stag meeting Saturday
night, offi-*ra’ breakfast 8unday
mom ng and union service at 11
o’clock Sunday. | e
The banquet will h» served at
noon, followed by the business
aeaaionl of tho Legionnaire* and
el«'“*'on of officer*.
A Chinese demonstration Mon-
dny demanded war against Japan.
Bricks were thrown through shop
windows. The 3amage~wii Tam'
ed on Ch nese terror'sts A new
investigation of the slaying of
the Japanese marine Salurdn;
night will be launched.'
_ Dr. W:Ji am M. Anderson of
Dallas,'' Jr.( ; First Presbyterian
Church pastot, died suddenly
■Monday. Th$ famous pastor had
been ill for *some time Jfcut nq
fear had bSen expressed for Ms
life. Dr. Anderson. was the
th'rd generation minister of his
family. iTis grandfather had
been a minister in Tennessee. His
father twice served as pastor of
the First Presbyter an Church.
Two Mexican tenant farmers
were shot from ambush Monday
near San Benito. Policf charge
the double slaying to a feud. Two
sons of one of the men, riding in
the rear of the wagon, were un-
njuretf The slayers are believ-
ed to have crossed into Old Mex-
ico.
Four persons were killed Mon-
i day near Duncan, Oklahoma,
when a truck was dr vets i"to
the rear of a car as the driver
of the car pulled to the side of
the road to stop. The dead are
Mrs. W. V. Griff n, 50; Mrs. Geo
Coward, 22; Juanita Griffin, 4;
and Joyce Griffin, 2. Five others
were injured, two sar'ously. Three
boys were standing along side the
car and were uninjured. The
Griffin and Cowart families were
en route tethe r home at Chick-
as ha after visiting relatives in
Wilson
tuiq>"> • >.j '!*V .
The body of Lieut. Mathais M.
Marple, nary p lot, was recovered
Monday from the bottom Of Ches-
apeake bay three miles from An-
napolis, The body and wreck-
age were found fey searching par-
ties grappling for the 'body.
Expression Pupils
Entertain During
Shawnee Assembly
— T \, ■* * Wtftk at a new^pection of atis—
Four pupils from the classes *tetic f eld bleachers, sidewalka at
of Mrs. Pat Knieff entertained
with clever readings during the
BKawnee' assembly ' "period thi s
morning.
Nick Vaughan opened the pro-
gram with the Negro sermon,
"Brother Rastus’ Sermon”, fol-
lowed by the reading “So Was 1”
,by Margaret Jean Brazelton.
Charles Walker grave "Second
Hand Clothes” and Betty Jo
Friedel read “Simons Wife’s
Mother.”
P. HUTCHISON N
WPA SUPERVISOR
OF PROJECT
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r . *,<.
The observance of Armistice
Day in Graham was llnoiteg to
the usual successful Amer'can
Legion banquet and dance given
under the auspice* of the Ligon-
Daniel post.
The banquet was served th'p
year in the new high school cafe-
ter'n and featured brief addresses
by Congressman W. D McFar-
lane, Post Commander T. J. Ed-
wards and Auxiliary President
Mr*. O E. Dewey, dances by Red
Black and Annette Ayres and months' period,
songs by Vera Mae Babb, Dorothy
Dan Carter and Mar? Louise
Maye*. S H. Peavy was toast-
master for the evening.
The banquet menu was healed
by the greatest of all Apier'can
holiday delicacies, cranberry sauce
and .all the trimmings.
The annual American Legion
dance in the Memor al Auditor-
ium followed the banquet pro-
gram.
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Flier Drops In At
Filling Station
CONNKAUT, O.—With hig fuel
pearly exhausted, a pilot landed
hi* plane on the highway near
here recently, and taxied up to
a gasoline station. He refueled,
took off on the roadway and con-
titre^d his journey before his
name coutd be learned.'--
both Shawnee and east ward
schools, and other ground mpfWVW-
mentis wfn be started on Nov. IL
Chas Martin, district WPA 4X
rector, notif ed Graham officials
this noon.
C. P. Hutchison will be project
supervisor of the school project
to furnish jobe for approxiaactoto
thirty men, twenty-five of eba
will be common laborers, Mfc.
Martin said.
The total cost of the project vriB
be $8,078.85. only $680.7* af
which must be furnished bg
school district.
Construction plan* specify a
Assistants’ Hire ,ection °{ bleacher* on the eact
side of Graham Field similar to
tHat bu It last year under toe
sponsorship of the Junior Chauw-
ber of Commerce.
S dewalks will be laid Iroawd
both Shawn e and east ward end
high sch ols, and other ground
lyeautif-ieat on made possible
through the Works Progress Ad-
j ministration fund.
-P'ty Engineer J. P. T.vkett al»
I quotes the distr et, director aa
i predicting that the. work order
j will soon he forthcoming on ton
Library Ass’n.
Gets Money For
Allotments received."by the dis-
trict WPA office n Wichita Falls
Monday* ^included fund* for the
hire of two. assistant ltbharians
for the Young County L'brary
Association.
The notificatipn stated that
!he fund will be payable over a
The money, the county euperio-
tendent's office reports, w-'ll be
use to employ assistants for the
circulating library, headfluarters
for which are on tKe-fhirJ-froqr j fair ;mprovem»t^
of the evwvtheuse.—— —-----1— ------s—-
Book* for the library* have al- Staple Lengths
Up; Grades Down
In Cross Timbers'
ready been assembled from the I
member rural schools and are be-
ng cataloged this week
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Seven Locations
Staked Last Week
NEW ARRIVAL
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Martin
of South Bend announce the ar-
LEGISLATURE’S
RIGHT TO REMIT
TAX QUESTIONED
Seven drilling permits were is-
sued from the CHney office of
Geo. W. Tilley last week as
compared with e ght the week
before.
The applications to drill are as
fellows: 6
, P J. AlbrlUin, W. W. Gregg
estate No. 4, block 17, Young
county school land, -ahefruet No,
1284, location 150 feet each way
from southwest corner of block.
The Texas company, E. C.
Keith No. 3, T E. & L. Co. sur-
No 267, location 705 feet
Contort of a radio antenpt srith
• high tension wire at Worces-
ter, Mass , Monday cauaed the
death of three men. They had
been working to string the an-
tenna between two houses.
Effective next Monday Italy
will ee«*e trade with all eountr oa
rival oi a daughter,' 'bam Ih'it "from east and 1729 feet from
morning at the Graham hospital, south lines of survey.
Kleiner & Spear?. J. M. Kirk-
land No. 6, T. E & L. Co. sur'
vey No. 2249, location 300 feet
west of No. 4. j——--
Luther Hedrick, L. D Box No
1, T. E. & L. Co. survey No. 1811.
location 450 fna* 'mm north and
750 feet front c*si lines of sur-
vey
McDaniel & Page, O.1 S.' Per-
k ns No. 1, T. E. & L. Co survey
No. 206, location 783 feet from
east hnd 783 feet from north
lines of survey.
Underwood Drilling company,
Underwood A Campbell No C-7,
TEAL. Co. mrvey No. 3401,
location 800 feet east of No. 5
J, W. Culbertson et al, E. C.
Stovall No. S. T E. A L. Co.
survey No. 2949, five miles south-
west of Newcastle, location 450
feet from south and 150 feet
from west 1'nes of survey.
TEST CASE TO SETTLE
ISSUE, SURVEYOR
.' SAYS
Delay has been caused in the
purchase of land for the Shep-
pard Dam because of a suit in-
volving the right of too legisla-
ture to sat aside taxes from the
valley .counties for a period oe
long as twenty years, T. P. Mob-
ley, Jr., county surveyor, reported
after conversation with Mineral
Wells officiate
Hr. tMobley quoted a Mineral
Wells Chamber off cial as saying
that a .teat case between one of
the land owners in the Possum
Kingdom area—and—the—Broeoe
River Reclamation and f'onserva
tion District will determ ne the
vahdity of the action.
The legislature is powerless to
take sueh act on except in emer-
gencies, it ha* b»en charged, and
then only for a pfrrd of one
■year.
Ito apply league sanctions, Mues- Mr. Mobley was told that fund*
olinl ordered PerWt* mart be art available for the survey and
secured from the government be- j that that phase of the prellnvn-
fere nnv of 12* commoditiee may i ary work will be commenced ro-
be 4>urohoeed, he eaVI. „ - - j gentles* ff.the test Oeoe.
—...... | No grtM fear of
t. E. Mabry went from purchase of
SUFFERS INJURIES
Miss Haxel Talley of Tferoek-
morton sea* brought to tho Gro-
ham hospital this morning fey
her brother, Felix Robert. M'es
Telley was reported to have been
injured in an accident at Throck-
morton Monday night hut the ex-
tent of her injuries hod not been
determined early this morning.
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TAYLOR OPENED
The D M. Knox No. 8 Tayljr
is ro*orted to be worth a m ni-
mum of thirty-'lve barrel* after
.
The report of ginning* in
Crosk Timbers Area of si
) Young county is a part sh*
last week that the staple la
of the ginning* increased m
what last week over the sa
average to date
The percentage of staples s
ter than seven-eigths
from 19.7 to 31.1, and shorter
than seven-eights and twentynato*
thirty-seeondthji.AAii.. ta.5L4n.JRto _
fifteen sixteenth and th'rty-aaa
thirty seoondth* lengths likesMaa
increased from 15.5 to 29.5- *
Grades, strict middi ng aod
white dropped from a season
average of 21.2 and 26 5 to 8LX
-and- Ht.F per -cent; - -the report
shows _
■ The -area ginnings follow too
state-wide report given bilsu;
The recent weekly report* allow
mg the grads and staple of aoaw- /
pies classed from Texa* g'j
continue to show, as did
carter in the season, that*" too
average length of staple for iMt
season is considerably longer too
for last j season. In controal **
the improvement :n staple lei^tih
the grades reported this seoaan
are lower to a pronounced extort
than the grades for last saaasn.
The portions of tha
grade* as reported for this
son are vary much smaller
for last asaaon. To data i
18 per cent of the samples <
ed this ear is Strict M
and higher grades (White
Extra White) compared wll
bout 67 per cant far lost
The decrease in tha propee^^^g
of the highfT grades of
cotton this season is or com)
by increased proportions of
l/ow Middling and Lost
(White and Extra White) and at-
~T
so Spotted cotion nf the gradon
Strct Middling and Middlhv-
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Cotton Ginninjrs
Nearly DonMr
Nearly, twice tha amount how
hron grinned in Young county to
dot* this year, R. O.
•troaeal agent for the
of Coosa
Ott’-n winnings for
Ito
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