Graham Daily Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 62, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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UNDER BHCK
BUILDING MU
BE UT AT ONCE
A <C tjw>-»tory bHck building
will b« erected on the vacant lot
between the Lauck-Gallaher
building and the City Bakery on
North Elm street, it was ^moun-
ded this afternoon at the office
of the Kinnebrew Lumber Com-
pany. The Kiimebrew Lumber
Company today ordered materiel
for the new building which is t<o
be erected by Judge Bowles of
Breckenridge. Bridges A Sons
*l«e of that place ire the con-
tractors.
The upper story of the build-
ing will be used as a hotel and
the lower floor will be occupied
by stores. Work will begin im-
mediately. The building will cov- |
er a space of 26x150 feet and
will cost $25,000.
DENISON CITIZENS
APPRECIATE HONOR
SHOWN TO LOYELACE
IU TAKES FIRST
STEP IN NAVAL
MSARMAlRENT
W. F. & S. RUNS TWO
EX1WA TWAINS TODAY
v FROM WICHITA FALLS
The Wichita Falls A Southern is
running two extra freight trains from
Wichita Falls, today, according to P.
O. Cole, agent, who expects one of
(he trains to arrive about C p. m. with
nine cars of gasoline. This shipment
will be turned over to the Rock Island
here.
T^e Wichita Falls A Southern has a
70-mile short cut on shipments from
southern points to Graham. Mr. Cole
said. Shipments come over the San-
ta Fe to Weatherford, then the G{~T.
A W. to Olney where they will be
turned over to the Southern for de-
livery.
While business has been reason-
The esteem fa) which the citizens | Br United trm
of^nirtld J. C. Lovelace, pmi ^hin*ton’ D' May 20.-The
ident of the Guaranty State Bank,
who recently moved to Graham, is
contained in' a letter received by
Milton McConnell from W. N. King,
secretary of the Denison Chamber
of Commerce. The letters follows:
“We notice in the press that Mr.
J. C. Lovelace, formerly cashier of
the Denison Bank A Trust Company
bui now in the banking business at
Graham, was recently elected to
membership on the board of directors
of your Chamber of Commerce.
“We are glad you have gotten Mr.
United States is today expected to
take her first step toward naval dis-
armament. A vote is scheduled on'
Senator Borah's proposal, of empow-
ering President Harding to invite
Great Britain and Japan to .confer
with this government on a five-year
program of naval building, building
reduction. Indications are that the
Senate Will adopt the lAeasure and
favorable action will later be taken
by the House. Well informed observ-
ers have believed for some time that
Japan- would welcome a “naval holi-
day,'* providing it ii initiatd by the
dis-
place in harness because you wiU United states or Great Britain. A
find him to be a splendid civic work-! iimiUr .ttjtude from Great Britain
er. We were sorry to lose him as a ( ^
citizen
pleased that ^^kia -receiving proper
recognition by^me
city.” ~
-, is reported in United Press
of Denison but more than ] patches from London. *
people of your
500 MEMBERS OF
KU. KLUX KLAN
DICKINSON SCORES
PESSIMISTS IN AN
INTERVIEW TODAY
PRESIDENT HARDING
DELIVERS ADDRESS
IN NEW YORK CITY
Bjr Uniud Pi-mi
Washington, Dr. C., May 20.—Pres-
ident Harding has prepared “some
out-spoken advice” for the business
World which ag}l be delivered in a
speech ln^New York next Sunday.
A rough draft of this speech in-
dicates the President is growing im
patient at the failure of retail prices
to go down to the pre-war level. He
will also take occasion, it is sadi,
to discuss business and labor prob-
lems and likely serve notice to both
sides that they must cease to look
to the Federal Government for pan-
aceas.
The address will he delivered be-
fore publishers and business men.
POLISH PRESS
THREATENS TO
FIGHT WORLD
*,Wsraaw^*Kusais,' May 20.—Yield-
ing, to the pressure of the Allies and
others involved in the Upper Silesian
situation, Prince Sapieha, the foreign
minister, has resigned. His resigna-
tion and other events have aroused
the Polish press to frensied anger,
wherein they 'threatened an “Army
of Polish Heroes” will be mobilized
to light “Great Britain, Germany, or
anybody or everybody.”
Lloyd George was attacked per-
sonally- for his denunciation of Si-
lesian invasion.
SUPERINTENDENT OF
SOUTHWESTERN WELL
—ENDS FISHING JOB
WARN BRENHAM
Brenham, May ^.-Approximately kno"n 88 a" optinii8t' writer* ‘oil,
500 members of the Ku Klux KJan, fr°?“ce[’ \ 'n8iu™nce ™an* wh°4 4,5M3-foot Hole.
What is thought to have been a
record fishing job was completed to*
day by M. S. Elder, superintendent of
the Southwestern Miami Company’s
No. 1 McCain, who today at noon
landed on top of the floor a string
of tools, casing and packer from a
garbed in white and wearing white ^lllelLth? ***?* WeU at,™“ ! Soi”e tim® a*° and within two
than twenty years ago. This is what j hours of the completion of the' well,
Mr. Dickinson predicts for Graham a mishap was met with when the
and vicinity : ! crew started to set the tubing and
“Within sixty days Graham will be; packer, the tubing being dropped in
coaches, said to have originated hole. They were able to fish out
Houston.
Preceded by a leader on horseback,
masks,, paraded the principal streets
of Brenham at 9:30 o'c^ck tonight.
The Klansmen arrived aboard a
special train, consisting of eight
of 25,000 population, and I would not]d{)Wn to the pack;.r( according to Mr.
be surprised to see 60,000 her* before j EfdeP, but beyond this they couldn’t
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ably good on the Southern yet it is ex- :then <5*rte the members of the Klan,
the Klansmen silently «lnd.«m>»th n||„ of-^ „onld ,he,r l“b'1"1 10 ^
jhe principal downtown streets, then prediction come true. ^ ^
marched to Firemens paA, where rich within . flhort diaUllce
crowds were attending the annual of town and a dri„ win £ind it one ^
Maifest ceremonies. Behind the leader these days v
marched two color bearers, carrying | ..j haVe no ^tience with those who
a large American flag. The flaming, continually
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cross of the K. K. K. was next and;tijtht mon^y etc
pected to increase as soon as agents
of the railroads throughout the coun-
try have been notified that the line
has been extended from Newcastle.
Railroad tariffs have not yet been
changed to show the fact that the
line has been extended- from Newcas-
tle to Graham and an af/ent would‘hot
therefore route a shipment for Gra-
ham via Newcastle.
The freight depot bss been com-
pleted and fixtures and other office
supplies installed.
It is thought that a uniats, depot
will be built ,here as soon as mon^y
matters become better. It is known
that Mr. Kell favojrs-the building of
the station and that Rock Island of-
ficials have practically agreed to the
proposition. Just at this time, how-
ever, when business conditions are
unsettled and money tight, the mat-
ter will be allowed to rest. ——
COMMISSION GIVES
FRANCHISE TO GAS '
COMPANY LAST NIGHT
. The City Commission at the regu-
lar meeting last night granted ,a gas
franchise to the Ranger Gas Company
of Ranger. The„company has thirty
days in which to accept the pro-
'visions lof the franckiae.
The Commission also adopted an
amendment to Article 4 in Ord-
inance 49 covering the.- present
water rata charged *in the city.
The water rates were changed some
timp ago by an order, and the amend-
ment last night was to make the
rates permanent. The amendment
adopted, says:
“An ordinance amending Article
4 in Ordinance 49, being an ordinance
establishing the rates and rules of
the Graham City Waterworks. ' The
said Article 4 shall read aa follows:
“The following shall be the rates
charged for water furnished by the
Graham city waterworks: Domestic
consumers using 2,000 gallons or leas
per month! $1; and 80c per 1,000 gal-
lons up to and Including 80,000 gal
lonit for each 1,000 gallons con-
sumed above 30,000 gallons, to and
Including 60,000, 26c; all over 60,000
gallons, 20c. 1
marching in single file.
“Our fathers were here
a chronic pessimist predict N4tfg"dis-
I aster and all sorts of ruinywhen the
in ’61. trouble is located in his head, or per-
Their boys are here in *21” “Law- hapa ^ liver> The country is seta;
abiding negroes qeed not fear.” “The business is rather slow but there it
purity of our women Is the boast of D|enty of money in the* country. The
American manhood” and “Speak Eng- ppblic is simply resting and getting
lish on the streets of Br|nham,” were | ready for a general revival of buaU
some of the banners carried by the negs. Don’t imagine w«- are going
hold of the packer. Then they start-
ed 1«. pull the casing, but they also
were unable to do this and had to re-
sort to a casing spear:
Several attempts were made and
then the spaar failed Jo trip or set
harp about Imrd times, end down and they were un-
like /tv heart*
marchers.
following the demonstration, which
was viewed by several thousand peo-
ple, the Klansmen marched back to
to the dimminition bow-wows, for it
Will not happen.
“Graham is made up of hard-head-
ed, safe and sane business men who
their special train, waiting with have faith in her future, and that
steam and departed. ; means success. The pessimist might
Word that the Klansmen would pa-1 just as well move away or else join
rade here tonight was contained in' the ranks of a large army of opti-
an anonymous long distance tale- (mists in Graham,
hone message received several days “The oil business wHl improve very
ago. As far as known, authorities' soon. Certain big interests are aim-
say, no outrages have occurred in ply making plans for future opera- f|||IM|U WII I lAUQ
j tions and it is necessary,-occasionally, mlUlI all -f? iLLI/llflU
— ■ ' tft tltfP afnrlc Oil nrirnu will aA. 1
then loosed that it might be removed
fr^m the hole. A total of 3,608 feet
6 ^8 inch casing was pulled and
ripped over a 7-8 inch drilling line,
making in all a total of over 800,000
feet oi cable handled. In order to get
everything separated the whole mass
will have ta be sent to a machine
shop and split, Mr. Eider said.
The Miami well ^ras started about
a year and a hVlf ago. It has been
flowing at the rate of 15 barrels
daily for over six months and is pro-
ducing from the Ranger black lime.
There are only about three wells
north of Ranger producing from the
black lime, Mr. Elder said.
MURDER CHARGE
• AGAINST YOUNG
. BRIDE WITHDRAWN
By Unltad Pr*>*
Farmington, Mo., May 20.—The
charge of murder in the first degree
against Letta Parsons, the thirteen
year old bride who shot and killed
her six year old stepdaughter, was
dismissed today and a new indictment
charging fourth degree manslaughter
was returned. No definite date for
the trial has been set.
KU KLUX KLAN
LEADER DIES IN
MARLIN, TEXAS
•y Ualt*4 Press v
Waco, Texas, May 20.—E. ITll—_
a resident of Texas for Nvtaty^b
years and the leader of the Ku Kim
Klan of Limestone county during tha
post-war reconstruction period, sad
s Confederate soldier, died in a mi-
tariura at Marlin this morning.
MORGAN PROCLAIMS
MARTIAL LAW IN
WEST VIRGINIA
By United Press .
Charleston, W. Vs., May 20.—Gov-
ernor Morgan of West Virginia has
proclaimed marital taw in Mingo
county, the scene of recent fighting
in “the mine war struggle.
State troops will enforce the taw,
but the civil courts and the author!-
ROWAN GETS 50
YEAR SENTENCE
IN P. 0. ROBBERY
lr United Praia
Abilene, Texas, May 20.—Albert L.
Rowan, son of a prominent retired
Dallas merchant, who was triad here
on a charge of murder in connection
with the death of W. G. Street in the
Jackson Street post office T'fcbbery
last January, was found guilty by the
jury this morning and sentenced to
fifty years in the State Penitentiary.
The verdict was returned at 10
o’clock and Rowan heard it without
emotion. “That’s all right, mother,”
he told his mother, Mrs. T. C. Rowan,
who met him weeping as he left the
courthouse, “tell thd^folks everything
will come out all right." Jed C.
AdamS,''the defense counsel, announc-
de that a motion for a new trial had
been filed.
,ve%r ~ - «•— w
i
this vicinity.
GAY WALKS OFF WITH
HIGH SCORE IN GUN
1 to tike stock. Oil prices will ad-
1 vance before they go Idtaw.- Boost,
{don't knock.”
RECOVER RADIUM
SHOOT YESTERDAYr SWALLOWED WHEN
PATIENT GULPS
The first registered shoot of the
Graham Gun Club was held Thursday
afternoon a{. . the club grounds and
CANDIDATE FOR
Ui S. CONGRESS
■ '■ ■'»
Hon. Guinn Williams of Decatur
was in the city yesterday meeting
the voters here. He is State Senator
from the thhtykflrst district which
is composed of the following counties:
Denton, Montague, and Wue.s He
Six thousand states that he will enter the mce for
. Quincy, 111., May-18._________...____________________________
Chari— *,'DC** away ,Wjtk tke d6llars worth of radjunu, which was Congressman from this d ^Gict to
high score. A strong east wind accidentally swallowed by a patient succeed Hon. Lucian W. Parrish, who
tie targets hard to hit. Morris and in a loca] hospital yesterday was re 'will be a candidate for the U. S-
Shaffer tried to get the final win a* covered by surgeons in the record Senate.
the Pace'Golden cup but Gay was a tljne o£ two hou„ by a Btomach j yTt Wllliam, i8 a buslne89 mn
little too fast for them The race be |ncj8ion who h*, iived in Wise county forty-
longs to anyone yet. Secretary Mil-j The patient was an eld<rrly man three y«rs and for twenty-five years
has been active in politics in this
ton Withers, who has been in Fort being treated for throat trouble and
Worth, was here for the shoot. Mr. ^ the radium contailler waa
Connolly from Ranger was a visiting j ing applied he involuntarily gulped
members and he made a very good awanowed the precious metal.
section of the country.
sc roe. The score follows:
Nemo
Shot at
Broke
Gey ......
48
Gallagher ----
47
Frantz .v5-..vi
46
Shaffer ......
..\.....50
44
Gallaher .....
44
Withers......
43
Morris ......
........50
41
89
Douglass .....
•«••••••5v
The radium was the property of
Broke ] the Quincy Physicians’ Radium as-
sociation. v
Cause of Fire of
Yesterday Unknown
In an article in the Daily Leader
yesterday written while the Graves
residence on Oak street was burning,
John Hughes, Jr.,
Improving Today
■ “Consumers shall, pay 26c per 14 war sUt#d ** ^ flr* »•
month for water meters, payable jto its origin from an oil
.monthly." .stove. *
__ An examination later showed that
J. R Ramsey, of fhf Graharh miner J the fare was not caused by the etove.
A Paint Co., has gone to Oklahoma Mr. McCloud 11 unable to place the
City to 'purchase new designs in wall ' cause of the lire unless It was caused
ggper. by defective wiring.
•John Hughes, Jrn the yoyng son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, who
underwent ah operation for apnen-
dicitis Monday night is improvim
At first there was only alight hope
tar hie recovery but his condition Is
much lmprortid and It U' thought hef^
will gain rapidly.,____ ,
STANLEY SAYS "tE”
. SUSPEND SLACKER LIST
Washington, D. C., May 20.—A bill
ordering the War Deparment to sus-
pend publication of the so-called
slacker lists without complete Infor-
mation as to correctness waa Intro-
duced by Senator Stanley today.
ROTARY CLUB WILL .
BE ORGANIZED HERE
IN THE NEAR FUTURE
R. D. Lincoln, propritor of the
City Garage, has been informed that
a'man will soon be here to investigate
conditions in Graham with a view to
organising a Rotary Club,
The populstiprt of Graham, together
with jta business enterprises, will
now -justify the organization of a
KEMP APPEALS FOR
AID TO SOLDIERS
IN SECURING JOBS
«n
“The Texas A. A M. College is
graduating between May *25 and June
1, something in the neighborhood of
2,000 ex-soldiers whe} have completed
a two years course in general farm-
ing, stock raising and dairying,” Ed-
gar Kemp, cdunty agent, said today.
‘'Under the taw if these men are
released without being placed at work
in their respective occupations, the
government cannot pay them. On the
other hand, if they are placed on
farms' ranebeft-or dairies according to
their qualifications, the government
will pay them one hundred dollars
per month each for three months, for
single men, and proportionately more
for married men, etc. ---.......
“As will be seen, these men must
be placed, fn the event that one has
work for only ninety days I want to
urge that they Use them jus! the
same for that time, as that will give
them three months salary with which
to locate elsewhere Or at the efid of
the time if one desires to retain his
men he may make his own trade
with them.
^'Though these men have been
wounded they are not disabled to an
extent that will interfere ■ with the
work for which they have been train-
ed. These men will work directly un-
der orders of the men taking
them ’t as though they were re-
ceivingV*'ir money from that source
instead of tile government, and in the
event that their service ^unsatisfac-
tory, they can be released whereupon
their pay will be stopped. All the
expense those taking them will be
put to will be for their board and
lodging. All desiring to take these
men are urgett to communicate the
fact to me at the*barlist possible mo-
ment.”
Rotary Club, It is thought. Outside
the fraternal organizations fat -the
city, there ei now no club in which
business men of the town can meet1
her once a week for luncheon. A
toirtthe
Rotary Club,
• lone felt
PRESBYTERIANS IN
CONVENTION MAKE
' MANY NEW PLANS
Winona Laks, Ind., May 20.—The
Presbyterian church hopes to wipe
out its $1,660,000 portion of the
Interchurch World Movement debt
by June 1.
A recommendation made by the
executive commission to the general
assembly of the church in se^piosi
here would authorize payment of a
banlance of more than n $500,000 of
the debt on that date- *
A message of greeting from Vice
President CooUdge was read to the
general assembly today. It said:
“It is a consolation to realize that
every day in the year, every night,
every Shbbath, there «ye organiza-
tions, especially of rligious nature,
meeting all over our land, of men '
apd women dedicating themselves to t
a life of obedience to righteous an
thority. Against that holy movement
,no power can prevail.”
Ahother recommendation by the
executive commissiorY asks' that a.
maximum limit be fixed by the gen-
eral assembly for the budget to be
raised for benevolence for 1922 and
1923. The commission reported that
the $12,000,000 budget for 1921-22
apportioned as follows:
Foreign missions, $2,560.000; edu-
cation, $1,760,000; home missions in-
cluding self-supporting synods, $3,-
381,000; publication and Sunday
School work, $430,000; church erec-
tion, $250,000; relief, $470,000; Freed-
men, $171,000;.temperance and moral
welfare work, $60,000; evangelism,
$66,000; men’s work, $50,000; Sab
bath observance, $25,000; American
Bible society, $5^,000; Woman’s board
of foreign missions, $1,400*000; Wo-
man’s 1 department of Freedmen,
$198,000.
A review of the New Era move-
ment of the Presbyterians in the
United States, now in its fifth yee*
read to the general assembly gave
as one of its outstanding achieve-
ments the providing of fraternal as-
sistance to stricken Protests**
churches in the war zones.
A fund of $254,188.54 was collected
and sent to the churches in distress.
Jj
1. Al,
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l
Struck by Automobile;
Two Ribs Are Broken
Sheriff John
*:‘ght from Fort
Henry Mekrig of The Garage suf-
fered two broken’ ribs this afternoon
when he Was struck by ai\.automobile
-'riven by Miss Mabel Bryson, who Is
SUl stopping at the Robown Hotel. The
accident occurred in 'front of The
___ Oarage ew Besth Osh attest Medical
Skye returned fleet isld was rendered Mr. Makeig se soon
Worth. 'se the *edd«£ *M0red.
, it ta thought,, would
w*nt Lin the city.
To Build Jail On
Courthouse Lawn
The contractor; in charge of the
construction of the new county
jail building were this afternoon,
busy surveying the site on the
south end of the courthouse tawifc;
According to present plans the
front of the building will fees east.
It wee not generally known until
this afternoon that the jail build-
in would be erected on the eosfi*
$>ouse lawn. Work on the structure
Is expected to start right *Way
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