The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 1924 Page: 1 of 12
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ESTABLISHED AUGUST 16th, 1876.
VOLUME XLVIH.
fc DETAIL MERCHANTS
I ELECT DIRECTORS
FOR ENSUING YEAR
Mrs. Scott Honors
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Mrs. J. D. Dawson
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The ReUil Merchants Association
cl Graham held He regular meeting
Monday night for the purpoae ol
electing director* for the coming
Mr*. Leslie B. Scott, assisted by
Misses Bettie Scott and Betty Daw-
son, entertained with a reception
tea at her home Wednesday after-
noon, from 4 to 6 o’clock to meet
Mrs. J. D. Dawson, formerly Miss
Nell White of Dallas, and whose
marriage to Mr. Dawson occurred
March 17.
WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE; WITH CHARITY FOR ALL
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GRAHAM, TBXA8, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1M4.
INTHtSCHOLASTK LEAGUE HOLDS .
SUCCESSFUL MEET IN GRAHAM
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year. In addition to the regular In the receiving line were Mrs.
Scott, Mrs. Dawson. Mrs, S.' H.
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business of electing directors many
subjects of importance to Young
County were discussed, such as sweet
potato curing plant, creamery, more
chickens and better chickens, more
cotton on fewer seres and other
“uguricuttural subjects. The <511 men
present spoke in an optimistic vein
about the oil industry. Many testa
•i* that will be drilled in the near
future were spoken of and It seemed
to be the opinion of those informed
that the Murray district will get a
big play during the spring and sum-
mer.
Bateman, of Mart, Mrs. Lisle Skin-
ner, of Waco, Misses Bettie Scott
and Betty Dawson. Mrs. H. E.
Griffin and Mrs. M. S. Jordan ush-
ered the guests into the dining room
where the dining table was laid
with Irish lace and silver tea ser-
vice, Mrs. F. C. Fay and Mrs. Frank
Forbes pouring tea. Mrs. Joe L.
MattheWs, Mrs. J. J. Aldn and Miss
Marietta Jordan assisted iii serving
tea with sandwiches, cakes in shape
On account of inclement weather,
the Intaracholaatic League meet was
not finished ae scheduled on March
21-22. Most of the track and Aeld
events were held on March 29th.
Thi* was one of the beet meets held
to date in the county in spite of
the bad weather. The winners in
all divisions, except essay writing
and music memory contests, are
tabulated below:
mation: Junior
. Hunt, first,
Blanche
Howard, Bitter Creek, third. Junior
boys? Cecil Lowe, Bitter CmmA, first;
not other contestants.- Senior Girls:
Ruby Pringle, Hunt, first; no other
contestants; Senior Boys: Glfnn
Howard, Bitter Creek; no other con-
testants.
&S&'S2?£L"£S: Suy
color scheme of yellow and white
Girls: Katherine Duncan, Shawnee
Mr. Batchier ot the Cr.h.m '"L “ .«*
and decorations. Victrola mtftic was
given throughout the afternoon.
One hundred guests left cards.
HARLAN F. STONE
ATTORNEY GENERAL
ing plant was called pn and gave
an interesting talk about the pack-
' Ing plant and told hovCMhat.it. serves
the people by furnishing a market
for the live stock grown in the
county as well as furnishing the
OF NEW YORK FOR
that nearly "all the hogs Used are
shipped into the county and urged
the association to encourage the
.^growing of .hogs in the county._
The meeting Was enthusiastic and
' the members feel that the associa-
tion is worth while. Secretary Mc-
Farlane read his annual report
showing the work of the association
since its organization last spring.
Every phase of the report was sat-
isfactory to the membership.
Sandwiches, pies, coffee, cigars
and cigarettes were served to nearly
forty members of the association.
The following directors were
elected to serve the ensuing year:
Graham Stewart, R. V. TidweH, G.
B. Johnson, C. I. Kuykendall, E. H.
Moody, J. P. McKinley, S. B. Street*-
A. T. Barrett, J. T. Harness, E. C.
Reed, Lrby Rhodes, W. H. Batchier,
L. D. Lovett, E. S. Graham and
W. C. Bell.
Native Born Negro
Returns to County
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Charlie Davis, a negro born at
Fort Belknap In 18M, was on the
streets of Graham en route to
Vick’s Ranch, where he said he was
employed. He was felling many In-
teresting incidents about his early
days In the county. He was stolen
by the Indians when he was five
years old and kept staked out by
them for three weeks. He said it
seemed like three years to him. He
waa bought back from the Indians
by his parents. With his brothers
and sisters he was playing some
distance from the house when stolen.
The Indians became so dangerous
that the family moved away while
he was a boy, but has been back in
the county a few times.
His father was named Lo*v and
his mother, Caroline. They were
brought to Young County as slaves
by Mr. Matthews from Tennessee.
Mr. Matthews was working for the
government, building forts and look-
ing after government land, accord-
ing to the negro. He said he was
an old time negro and never got
“foxy” with the white folks. He
said he always got along all right
with them.
CHRISTY BROS. SHOWS
Christy’s long show train arrived
early this morning and by daylight
the boys and grown-ups as well were
at the track to see the big shows.
Circus day is a great time in the
life of the children. Of course, they
have to go to the show and the
parents have a good excuse to go
themselves as they have to take the
children.
The first performance is «* being
given as we go to press and the
night performance will be given at
8 o’clock this evening when it is
expected that Graham people .will
attend in large numbers. Christy
Brothers have a good show.
Mr. G. B. Underwood of Loving
returned Saturday from Corpus
Christ!, where he was called ten
days ago on acount of the serious
illness of his mother. She died and
was buried in the old family bury-
ing ground at Auburn, Texas. She
was eighty-two years old at the
time of her death.
Harlan Fisk? Stone of New York,
dean of, Columbia University Law
School, and one of the most widely
known legal authorities in the East,
was named Attorney General by
President Coolidge yesterday to suc-
ceed Harry M. Daugherty, who re
signed last Friday.
Dean Stone came to Washington
Tuesday and was the Praaident’s
guest at a White -House breakfast.
After a conference with the Presi-
dent be was offered the post and
accepted it. The nomination was
sent to the Senate yesterday.
Stone will immediately resign from
his various legal connections in
New York and take over the Depart-
ment of Justice as soon as he is
confirmed by the Senate. He has
already resigned his desnship of the
law school, though he was to have
continued serving until next J une.
He has been a member of the law
firm of Satterlee, Canfield A Stone
for some years, with an office at
49 Wall Street, New York.
Clay County Will
Sell Road Bonds
Henrietta, April 1.—With all ele-
ments of the citizenship united fol-
lowing Saturday’s conference agree-
ment terminating the year-old con-
test through all the state courts,
preparations are being made to ad-
vertise and sell the $575,000 issue
of road improvement bonds and the
work of building the 34 miles of
concrete highway across Clay County
east and west along the Fort Worth
& Denver railroad is expected to
proceed without further interruption.
In an addition to the concrete
road, gravel roads north and south
from Henrietta will be built and in
each direction will connect with other
improved roads. Federal and state
aid to supplement funds raised by
the sale of the bonds has been as-
sured, according to county commis-
sioners.
By the terms of Saturday’s agree-
ment, it was learned today, the com-
missioners’ court will pay a part of
the witness costs in the first trial
in district court here. All other
costs and the fees of attorneys for
the plaintiffs will be paid by the
plaintiffs in the suits against the
bonds. .....
Action which was pending irt Fed-
eral court at Wichita Flills and
which wa» to have been passed on
by Federal District Judge William
H. Atwell, of Dallas, this week has
been withdrawn, it is understood
here.
Loving, third. Senior Girls: Avis
Calvin, Graham, first; Avis Neal,
Newcastle, and Floy Birdwell, Liv-
ing, tied fbr second place; Louise
Rainey, Efliasville/- third. Junior
Boys: Robert Lee Price, Graham,
Glenn Q. Street, Shawnee Park, tied
for second place. Senior Bbys: Jack
McGowan, Graham, first; William
Corse, Eliasville, second; J. W’.
Chase, Newcastle, third
- Results- tn Spelling: Sub-Junior:
Estelle Camp and Mina Taylor,
Shawnee Park, first; Ila Davis and
Zenobia Wooldridge, Proffitt, second;
Malcolm Taylor and Ruth Donnell,
Graham East Ward, third. Junior
Division: Floyce Orr and Margaret
Lovelace, first; Joe Hunt and Fran-
ces Farmer, Olney, second; Floyce
Cole tnd Alma Heard, Proffitt, third.
Senior Division: Roy Johnson and
Effie Clifton, Proffitt, first; Inn
Buntin and Lee Choote, Tonk Vol-
ley, second;' Laurence Hutchings
and Henderson Shuffler, Olney,
third.
Jnnior Boys Track and Field
50-yard dash: Rogers, Shawnee
Park, first; Ivy, ’EHatrville, second;
K. Bentley, Newcastle, third.
100-yard dash: Ivy, Eliasville,
first; Gowens, Tonk Valley, second;
Hill, Eliasville, third; Montgomery,
Graham East Ward, fourth.
440-yard relay: Tonk Valley, first;
Shawnee Park, second; third and
fourth places not reported.
High jump: Ivy, Eliasville, first;
Hill, Eliasville, second; Widmayer,
Shawnee Park, third; Montgomery,
Graham East Ward, fourth.
Broad jump: Ivy, Eliasville, first;
Van Arsdale, Shawnee, second;
Montgomery, Graham East Ward,
third; Hill, Eliasvilie, fourth.
Chinning the bar: Shawnee Park,
first; Eliasville, second.
Score: Eliasville, 27; Shawnee
Park, 18; Tonk Valley, 7; Graham
East Ward, 4; Newcastle, 2.
.. Senior Boys Track and Field
120-yard hurdles: Glover, Elias-
ville, first; Suite, Olney, eecond;
Hutchings, Olney, third; Ward,
Newcastle, fourth.
l$0-yard dash: Thomas, Proffitt,
first; Webb, Olney, second; Starr,
Olnby, third; Hutchings, Olney,
fourth.
1 mile run: Glover, Eliasville,
first? Johnson, Proffitt, second; third
and fourth places not reported.
- 50-yard dash: Suite, Olney, first;
Bentley, Newcastle, second; Han-
kins, Ingleside, third; Ward, New-
castle, fourth. •
440-yard dash: Redman, FJias-
ville, first; Lunn, Olney, second;
Zimmerman, Proffitt, third; , Corse,
Eliasville, fourth.
230-yard -dash : Glovor, Elias -
ville, first; Webb, Olney, eecond;
Redman, Eliasville, third: Carter,
Proffitt, fourth.
880-yard run: Thomas, Proffitt,
fiirst; Bryan, Olney,. second; Red-
man, Eliasville, third; fourth place
not reported.
1 mile relay: Proffitt, first; Ql-
ney, second; Eliasville, third; fourth
place not reported. ——
Running broad jump: Redman,
Eliasville, first; Hankins, Ingleside,
second; Glover, Eliasville, third;
Suite, Olney, fourth.
12-pound shot put: Starr, Olney,
ffntf; Thomas, Proffitt, second; Red
man, Eliasville, third; Haynes, Elias-
ville, fourth.
Discus throw: Starr, Olney, first;
Haynes, Eliasville, second; Ray, Ol-
ney, third; Redman, Eliasville, fourth.
Pole vault: Lewis, Proffitt, firs!;
Corse, Eliasville, second; Thomas
Proffitt, third; Hankins, Ingleside,
fourth.
Running high jump: Hankins.
Ingleside, first; Lewis, Proffitt, sec
ond; Suite, Olney, third; Luqn, Ol-
ney, fourth.
•Jfcnnisi Doubles*- Olney first;
names not given; Haynfts and Corse,
Eliasville, second. Singles: Haynes,
Eliasville, first; Olney, second; name
not given.
Score: Eliasville, 52; Olney, 52;
Proffitt, 34; Ingleside, 11; Newcas-
tle, 6.
The combined scores for junior
and senior boys are: Eliasville, 79;
Newcastle, 7; Proffitt, 34; Ingleside,
11; Olney, 52; Tonk Valley, 7; Shaw-
nee Park, 18; East Ward, 4.
The correspondent has- not re-
ceived the results of the junior and
senior girls track and field events.
Probably the results in these con-
tsta will be tabulated and published
later. Since writing the first para-
graph of this report, we, have
learned the results in the music
memory i contests. Graham East
Ward, first; Shawnee Park, second;
Eliasville, third.
Stunt Program At
High School April 4
On account of the inclement
weather last Friday night, the stunt
program was postponed until to-
morrow (Friday) night. A good
program under the direction of Miss
Wilsoh and other teachers will Be
given in the High School auditorium
beginning at 8 o’clock tomorrow
night, April 4.
The High School Boys’ Glee Club
will make ts first appeaarence on
“Stunt Night.” It Will be worth the
price of admission. Each class in
the high school will take part in
the program. The Seniors are call-
ing themselves “The Sandwich Fol-
lies.” The Juniors think they know
“Why Some Girls Don’t Marry.w
The Sophomores say they can “Imi-
tate a Pipe Organ.” The Freshman
doubt all this so they are going to
“Operate” to see if they can im-
prove things. The judges
Mr. J. R. Maynard, father of our
townsman, J. S. Maynard of East
Graham, died suddenly at his home
three miles east of Mineral Wells
mnaa?; WiWh 'Xr,- an3'>"TKe~T)<Mlyv
was taken to Wolfe City, Texas, for
burial on Wednesday following. He
was unloading hay when he died.
Physicians pronounced his death due
to heart, failure.
will tell you. Come and see if the
judges are wise.
Those in charge of the entertain-
ment are anxious for everybody in
Graham to have an opportunity of
seeing the fun Friday night and
have placed the price of admission
at 10 cents for children and 15
rerrts-for- adul tr.**——"■"*“'*'
The > schools need a multigraph
and will give the entertainment to
raise funds with which to buy it.
The children are seeing the ele-
phants, camels and ether animals
pt Christy Brothers Shows today.
Mr. Horace Tidwell is a new radio
fan The John E. Morrison Co. has
instilled a radio in his home this
week and he is now listening to the
world every night.
Large Vote Polled
In City Election
Beginning early Tuesday morning
and continuing until 7 o’clock in the
evening, the people voted for city
officers. A large vote was cast,
however, there was no excitement
and there seemed to be no special
issues involved. Two good men were
running for each place and their
friends quietly made their way to
the City Hall to cast their vote.
Unofficial returns give the fol-
lowing results:
For Mayor: A. B. Eddleman, 331;
J. E. Binkley, 175.
For Alderman, Place No. 1: T. O.
Calvin, 373; C.,J. Coo£,lM.
Fot Alderman, Place No. 2: C. B.
Hockaday, 345; M. H. Chism, 159
CITY CAR MARKET
Mr. Hugh Millican has opened a
car market on the west side of the
square and has a large line of used
cars for sale, some of them prac-
tically new. Among the cars now
in stock are Cadillacs, Nashes, Chev-
roleta, Buicks, Fords, Maxwells,
Hupmobiles, Mitchells, etc.
Mr. Millican has fglt that there
waa aw opemng for-jnei eeeh
market as he has opened in Graham.
His* new place of business is two
door south of The Leader office and
he asks anyone needing a good used
car to i call to see him.
Mr. Sam Copelagd was hurt this
morning when a horse fell with him
and broke two of hie riba.
Rev. Norman Begins
Pastorate Sunday
Rev. McKinley Norman of Fort
Worth formally accepted the pastor-
ate of the Graham Baptist Church
last Sunday and will begin his reg-
ular pastorate next Sunday. (He is
anxious for a full attendance to hear
his first sermon as pastor.
He attended the Fifth Sunday
meeting from Thursday until Sun-
day, which met ’ with the ^Graham
church. He tpreached both hours
Sunday and brought good messages.
He ig a strong preacher and the
local congregation ia delighted io
have him accept the church. He
will not be able to move to Graham
until the 15th of <May as he is in
the graduating class in the Baptist
Seminary in Fort Worth. He re-
ceived his literary degree from Bay-
lor last •summer and will gel his
theological degree next month.
“The Forward Movement” will be
his subject Sunday morning.
ROOSTERS MOTHER -
LARGE BROODS OF
INCUBATOR CHICKS
To see a rooster taking care of a
brood of chickens, is an unusual
sight, but two of our chicken fan-
ciers in Graham will be glad to
! show you caponized roosters “moth-
ering” large broods of incubator
.chickens. The little chickens, are
placed in the coops with the capons
and they soon begin to cluck and
call them just as a mother hen
would. At night they hover them
with the mother instinct.
Our chicken men who have this
unusual sight are Raymond - Reed
and W. W. Martin. Raymond has
a Rhode Island capon about nine
months old ’ mothering” a brood of
little chickens and “BUI” has a
Partridge Plymouth Rock about the
same age looking after his chickens
The boys are bptimistic about their
capons. Raymond’s chickens are in
his poultry yards adjacent to his
filling station at the corner of
Fourth and Tennessee Streets and
he will be glad to ahow anyone in-
terested.
Mr. Reed haa specialized in Rhode
Island Reds several years and has
somte fine pens of chickens. Only
recently he was offered $1.00 each
for some baby chicks, but felt that
if they were worth that much to the
other man they would be worth it
to him also. He has a new pen of
especially fine chickens that he ord-
ered this year. He is getting ready
for Young County Fair. He bought
one of the prize chickens last fall,
and with his new pen of imported
Reds, he feels that the man that
has better chickens this fall will
have some good ones.
Mr. Martin is specializing in Part-
ridge Plymouth Rocks. He had his
chickens on display at the Young
County Fair and won first places.
He recently shipped a coop of his
chickens for which he received a
good price. The Partridge Rocks
are a new breed of chickens but are
very popular. They are very pretty
chicks, grow to a large size and are
good egg producers. He plans to
have his capon as well as a pen of
other chickens at the Young County
Fair this fall.
These are only two of our many
chicken fanciers in the county. The
splendid chicken exhibit at the Fair
last fall is still talked of, but that
was small compared to what will be
seen this fall. They are anxious
for people to see their capons. Mr.
A. A. Johnson of the Graham Hide
and Produce Company also has two
of these vapons tn -his poultry yard
on West Fourth Street. He will
keep one of them for the Fair this
fall. He states that they are worth
more per pound than turkeys and
hopes the people in Young County
will get interested in this part of
the chicken industry as it will mean
so much to the people raising
chickens for the market.
As we go to press Mayor Stinson
informs us that a State Inspector of
gas meters is in the city, and some
fifteen meters have been inspected
m tile residential section, and tVie
meters were found to be running
from accurate to three and one-half
per cent slow to seven and one-half
fast. The meters of some of the
hotels and business houses will be
inspected next. The inspector says
that our meters are showing up'
better than some others that he haa
inspected recently. • *
BIG GASSER BLOWS
LINER AND TOOLS
THROUGH DERRICK
The Ralco Company’s No. I Hock-
aday on the Haynefc Survey, four
miles southeast of Graham, is mak-
ing fifteen million cubic feet of gas
and spraying -oil from the 4169
sandy time. In an effort to drill
into the pay the liner and a string
of tools were blown out through the
top of the derrick and considerable
damage done. Storage and pipe
line connections have been takn care
of and another effort will be made
to drill the well in soon.
Henry Dyer No. 1-Gilmore haa
reached a depth of 2100 feet. The
first pay is looked for In this test
around 2500 feet.
'A'Hrig, is~gdfhg up on the south
side of the McMillan land in B. B.
B. A C. Co. Survey No. 4. Henry
Chapel district, twelve miles south-
east of Graham.
The Hinson et al No. 1-Kiver Bed
well, north of the Sinclair-Moren,
is drilling at 1120 feet.
Bert Weekly gave his No. 3
Kisinger a small shot last week
and the production jumped from 10
barrels to 200 barrels.
Fultz and Albright are drilling at
1650 on their No. 1 L. O. McKee
in Carter Bend. *
’The Upham interests of Mineral
Wells are negotiating- for the Mc-
Guire and Hinson gasser in Carter
Bend. This well w*as drilled in over
a year ago and is making better
that ten million cubic feet of wet
gas
It is reported that Snyder et al,
on the M. G. Kng Survey, east of
Oil City, have a good well in the
2500 feet sand.
A location has been made on the
Hume land, two miles west of the
Ralco-Hockaday No. 1.
The M(d-Kansas No. 1 Gibson is
still waiting for a special string of
pipe.
The Whitehead-Qrpham No. 1,
just east of the city limits, con-
tinues to flow around 100 barrels
daily. «.
The Monroe Production Company’s
No. 1-J. C. Vaughan, east of Gra-
ham, is about ready to spud.
Work has been resumed on the
Rubenkoenig well, northeast of Gra-
ham, and it will drilled on down to
the 4200 .foot pay.
It is understood that a well is
to be drilled on the Timmons land
in Brier Bend. This is about half
way between South Bend and Oil
City.
Tom Casey has reached a depth
of 2700 feet on the No. 1 Bashara,
Marshall Morgan land, in the west
part of the county.
Heydrick and Bond are drilling at
800 feet on their No. 1 M. K. Gra-
ham.
Frank Vance No. 1-A. C. Daws
has been fighting a cave for the
past few days but is drilling again
at 675.
Whatley and McCann are rigging
up for a shallow test in the Masters
neighborhood west of the Ray gasser.
The Humble Co. is preparing for
a deep test southwest of the Frank
Vance No. 1-Daws.
Several men have been here dur-
ing the past few- days from Penn-
sylvania and other states looking
over their interests in this section.
It is believed that many new tests
will be drilled during the next few
months.
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KU KLl'X KLAN VISITS
MRS. F. L. HOGUE TUESDAY
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Mrs. F. L. Hogue desires to thank
the Ku Klux, Klan for its donation
of wood, groceries and .money to
the amount of $25.00 this week.
She states that her father was a
member during the reconstruction
days and that she has always felt
kindly toward the modern Klan.
Mrs. Hogue and a daughter live
alone on South Oak Street. Mrs.
Hogue is in poor health and is
getting up in years. She' felt as if
the good Samaritan had come her
way when tj& .^unuuiUmu-oailad- to-
See her Tuesday.
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It is reported that the Klan has
made donations during the past few
weeks to others who are unfortu-
nate. <
It is also reported from Took Val-
ley that members of th« EUa in
uniform visited the Literary Society . <
at the school house last week and
presented a flag to the school.
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