The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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Texas, as second-class mail mallet.
FRANK FT BoWItON, Kottoh
Hunt county commissioner*
court H«a ordered an ejection to
’Hetarran* the Tssutf ~oY $400,000
of bo'Va from which tp construct
^.eighty miles of piked roads hi
tl\e county.
One Would scarcely think ifcKifiney, Texas, Jan. I4-»
X •buHetiu just issued by the Fed.
eral Department of Agriculture
shows that the re were 416,000
bushels of old t orn in the Tex-
as gVanarh'? When the 1913 crop
was gathered, liad the harvest^
ing of the new ceraal been de-
layed another week, the Texas
A promising coal field has been
discovered near Brownwood, abou
midway between tbe Santa Fe
and Rk> Grande tracks. The deej
pkrt of thevetn lawn feet thick.
One thousand acres are unde*
lease.
here were any blank, nr uuex-
ilored spots on the map of the
’nited Staten, and espe$iaHy-i*
he Eas!, but down in the state
f Georgia, there is a vast area,
early seven hundred square
-tiles of it, which has not been
ffieinlly explored, or explored
y any except perhaps sornr^sf
he few half-hreeds who inhabit
f. uni, . --F htj m» n { ■ - •- _______
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Tbis is the great swamp of Gk-
finckee. • On the government
tap of OkefinOkee there are ma-
ty parts marked “Impenetrable
Trd 1? ^explored.Tt
Mi
The citizens pf Littlefield, Lamb
county Texas, had the unusual
experience of witnessing a mirage
on Thursday of last week. It is
‘tuil. s away and is hidden by' a
hill, Could be plainly seen; also
the town atf Olton, which is twen-
ty-five miles distant and is be-
yond the sandhills from Ijittlefiel
was plainly visible.—Garham L***
*"der. ’ "
* They pfobably got their ship-
ment in before the new law
“tTexas).
eff
in the
leplha of this swamp* live white
>eople, colored people and a few fl*“^iB P1Tl|hlent.
ndianb. Nearly all qt the In-
lians and colored people have so
eixed rae** as to make it ai-
med impossible to locate many
i'ull blooded Indians.
Slaves used to hide in this
treat swamp. Later many de-
icrters from the Confederate ar-
my, and men who escaped enlist-
*ng, went into the swamp and
their descendants are living there
today. They ball the swamp
ground trembling earlhT" aw<Tit
veritably tumbles when one puts
his foot upon it. Only, the ex-
perienced„native» can go abqut in
L It Would be death' for a stran-
ger to attempt to get about in
his- swamp, for misstep into’ a
(tfagmift* would mean being swal-
ipwed pp in thcblack mud.
WITH OUR EXCHANGES
Olney Enterprise.
McMillan-Ritchie.
Dave McMillan, of this city,
was married to M*s Alpha
Cramer would have had to turn Metliodut parsonage m rBreeken
Albert Kay, Horace MorHaun
and S.’K. Murdock, ^11 of Gra-
ham, were in the city Tuesday
on business. ? . *•
Mrs. Rhea Cox fpent this week
with tier parents, Mr, and Mrs*'
G. W. McCombs, at Indian Mound
Mias Ida Watson, of True, pass-
ed through Newcastle yesterday
enroute to Froffit, where she is
teaching school. '
id» livestock fnin t3i<> pasture, ns | ridge Tuesday, December 30. They W. P. Stinson, -of Eliasville
this amount of corn would feed j returned to Olney Monday, and .candidate for county judge, was
the domestic animalsTexas arc at home at the Lamar plaee in our city Wednesday, shaking
onty three times. in W»st Olney. '* .hands with his mariy friends..
■ .......... ——- —-f Wr are nWrtunattfy hoT ic:l JflA PiH>frttT, who Ms Beflrm
Waco News bold. quaint«d with the bride, but we California for the past few
Waco, Jan. 7.—The Waco Morn know that Dave is a worthy and months, came in Monday evening
ing News has been nurchased by respected young man, of exollent and will spend a few days herb
the Southern puhlishing Company character and exemplary habits looking after his business. Jno.
of which R. B. Spencer of this and W€ are certain that his judg- has a full net of whiskers an 1
y is president. ment did not go astray when he had lotr' of fun fooling his
The" announcement from the ^ho^ a life partnefT" friends. He look* very much like
Dave is back at his oUjl job as some artic explorer.
new owners says that while the
p»p,r will „p,>^th„li,,uor Santa Fa Complete, Subway,
fie, it will not make that a single ,rinruwarp vompaay. rn^ Enter i r
issue .but it will advocate pro- j Prise extends conrgatulations, and Brownwood, Jan. 13.—The sub-
gress and uplift Ih all directions.!wkhefi fo1* 'the happy young way being built here by the Santa
l... ■»■ ■ !.!l» * j a happy“TnuTTictl ^ ** Railroad is about coinpicteiL
Upkeep of riaiin^ More Than lif. e, Thi* ^arojeot was-built by 4h6
Any Other Texas City.
Dallas, Jan. 13.—The cost of
maintaining the city government
FAY MARSHALL
Attorney-at-Law
Graham, Texas. ~mP
Office In Oburt House.
KAiAX A AKIN, ..
L>AWYBR8
, |>ex|||
qJj. Drummond Hunt
Attorney at Law ________
Comromm«nwealth Bank Building. *
r Dallas, - Texas.
qrBR. B. D. CARTWRIGHT
v=t/t.e„TNdAeRYt,1VROEON
TMjfW DISEASES Df ALL ANIMALS
Offica at
ucurcNDER SON’S MOON YARD
(VU.4*11* an.w«re«i 4tf pr night I
Reelder
Idence Phone 150 Ind.
GRAHAM. TEXAS
Qnj^iiuuH Acetylene Gu Ct.
Fire in Norti Olney.
road without the assistance of the | ptl®
city at a cost of $50,000. yhe Ind. Pbc™™'
Thi. morning M 8 M o Vlook ^ plinning taJro "** W ,'
the home of J.m IUI, wh^ work. „„ ,hM wjn t0 ,.cili.
only Perfect White Light, with an
of l>ailas during the calendar ;«t the Gluey^egage, was pwr~
yrar of 1912, exc ede<T that of ered to be on,, fire. Mrs. Ilili 1
The Silo Scores.
Amarillo, Jan. 13—The silo has
arty Texas city,.according to data L had gone to a neighbors for a
furnished the local Chamber bucket of water,, and on returning
of Commerce by the United (fOTTUd tT.e hmise filled With > ‘^^1^ AteJtt
State* ( en«us Bureau. The ( smoke, She had left the two chil ; by government experts
operating expense for.dren in the house, one a baby »f r f thiK ^ [or Uw purpow <)f
this city for thq, year is aix piontlns and the otbpr about determining the' value of ensilage
three years old. She made her H £ee<j cr(>p £op pro\-ed
way into the room and. found The experts ^ the,r
baby, the- bed- on
total
for
$3,320,0()0. Fort Worth is second
with $3,016,000 .and Houston thirc
wi^h-$2tU1,000^--TW bn
ficW, about seven people to tnj>
^iuarj mile, are a sturdy race.
A mayor of Philadelphia said Thi.y hunt an<1 trap and fish an(1
tw ()* also gp outside and work for-the
ve coull rid the
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-—thirds^of -- ttm" brtyn*f^mATs Tn
the next yeas Jf be .could banish
bad fJays from the, b©»rt!s of
the variety theaters and pht bad
boohs out of print. *An dffieer of
the Hritish government declares
■ that nearly all the hoys*brought
before the criminal courts owe
♦heir downfall to impure reading.
Many people a*‘em to think
that if their acts are pnre and
clean, so far as the public is con-
cerned. it does not matter much
what they do privately. The
privacy of the deed has ru»+v»»*<*
to do with the results to ourselvei
number and fed them separately
property tax, although, public util guished by the neighbors before [{m thirty day8 Qnp hprd was
.ty corporations bore KFpCr cent tlic Fire Company arrivLed. Thv^d 5b.grass and cottonseed cake
of the outlay. Houston leads thef damage wan slight, only ttrc bcd ^ othep on^ftftgilag wUh^a
Tho nnlt v winirb I
wbo>w I
Y Yours for best of service,
J. h. H WASHBURN, Mgr. ]
C. W. JOHNSON,
Attcttorney - at - Law
- GRAHAM, TEXAS.
t)l practice in the Courts of Yount
• j11'Padioining counties. r.
™ WestSideS«fuai<ew, -—: -
‘ffa"-*-- ——B^gf
ak^RN()LD * ARNOLD
Attcttorncys-at-Law
7ypVcss luinbormpn. jfinll
Willp
ill practice in all Bute and Federal
bi 4bu-xwanip ,that jbq lumber conj prise taxes collected during tbe having ’been on fire. The ImhyJ^^ thcepdofthe scheduled tinie
c*rui CHllUOl #et mto tH'e~swamp y^sr,7he totai^amotmting to $27(1 tvs? badly suffocated btr-fhe "Suff scored an
to seepre - the, lnmb<‘r, and only 060-
take it from the edges where
temporury plank patlia and board
bridges are built to allow men
to get out to chop down the trees
vben they arC hauled in by *
lei
Drink Plenty of Water.
PerhapS. no means of lessening
fatigue is of more importance tha
a proper supply of-drinking wa-
mcarA 6* steam cables and sta- 'ler. The products of waste, car-
tionary engine^.
smoke, being—unconscHtus for
some' time, but it is not thCught
to bain ^ sefjoug condiion_________
Bond-Adrews.
- hT cmd!5?srcHTr.rtt»um;^ ''■WWn
and sell .“n vendor’s lien notes, etc. Hays
oomplet^1®4® ahstracte of titles and oen
lsh same on short notloe.
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The Sar Angelo Standard says
One of the things most needed
in the Concho country today if
silos. The Standard warts to
keep harping on this until ev-
ery farm and ranch in Concho
land baa one or more silos {>n it
The silo is the true saL-atinn of
the Concho country. There is. nr
argument aginnst it and the sooT'-
P stocknmn r°alize this fact,
that noon will they b^vin tn
c money that is rightfully
In many a field in West
today there is rotting ma-
bns of maizeand fodder. This
ranton twste. Silos can be
jit"a small cost, or the’man
rw’ishcs can even make one
HimscV. It has been clearly dem-
onstrated that ensilage can be
fed throughout the winter, do-
ing the stock as much good and
• aiding in fattening them as if it
were the green feed. The sUo
in what West "?• xas needs and
Vie booner everyone realize* this
fact, the better for all concerned.
,. Institute Train Touring Texas.
The annual tour of the “Better
Farming Special,” the institute
train of the Cotton Belt is now or
in East Texas, and for thirty
days iarmttyin that seetiob of
the state w|ll have an opporuriity
- ef attendihg the “school on
arhcels.” Tl^Cefforts of the rail-
roads to^assist the farmer in im-
proving ami increasing, as well
as marketing his products, are
an indication of a friendly spirit
Bow existing among indusiri
and of the feeling of .co-6p«r
tion of one line of industry for
tnather. After all, the farther ;»■
W« source of all prosperity, ar?rt
trying to* assist him in im-
*ving his condition, the rail-
^ *'V'-ar# making a wise inv(*«*
Now Weil
"Thcdford’s Black-Draught
is the best all-round medicine
lever used," writes J. A
Steelman, of Pattonrille, Texas.
y\ suffered terribly with Hver
troubles, and could get no relief.
The doctors said I had con-
sumption. I could not work at
all. Finally I tried
THEDFORO’S
BLACK-
DRAUGHT
and to my surprise,! got better,
and em to-day as well as any
man." Thedtord's Bl act -
Draught is a general, cathartic,
vegetable liver medicine, that
has been regulating irregulari-
ties of the liver, stomach and
bowels, for over 70 years. Get
a package today. Insist on the
genuine—Thedford’s. -E-70
At the Baptist parsonage on
I New Year’s day in the presence
i. •, , , ., I of a few chosen friends, Mr. C, S.
bon dioxide and lactic acid are „ .. .
‘ . .. Bonds and Miss Kathryn M. An-
laken up by the fluids of the . . ..
, , ' . , ^ ' , , idrew’s were married. These fine
! body and earned to the lungs , ~ . ,
, . . , , . . ,. m. tyoung people were reared at or
and kidneys for elimination, rhe _ , ^ . . ,
, • ; , . A .near True and have many friends ---------r-----r — —-------
accutuu a ion o W1,stp ^rt>t lu s, who wish for them a long and us* owner, the laborer and tihe invest-
.. .H« du, to rn.16.CTt u»o!fu| ^ ha[>liy h.fe Tll(.y ara t0 or. _......Jt
make their future home in Dallas.
J. M. Haygood.
age gain in weight of 22 pounds,, furnish
while the ensilage kept stock
mwrnfested an increase of
J06|.....DrD«- W. AJ10FRIS,
pou ntls.
I DE.NTIST,
Planks From Radford’s Platform.
Marketing of farm produce
should receive the dilligent at-
tention of the next legis'ature.. -
New arc«8 of opportunity
should be opened up for the home
Office oi
e over Graham National Bank
GRAHAM, TEXAS. ’
j Dr. M. H.CHISM. „
Denti.ntistao<1 PhotographeF,
GRAHAM, TEXAS.
of s9«»c®i two door* south
WeatHU Qf py^i*n Hall.
of drinking water. It has been no
ticed in the army that the man
who falls from heat stroke is
the one whose canteen is empty.
- Legislative-facilities should b
provide a for eo-aperativevowner-
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ellis and ship ,of cotton gins; the eafab-
Mastej- Felix Ellis, of Henrietta* liahing of a warehoime Rystem
Mr. and Mre. Harry Douglas securing funds on storage cotton.
fed-
There should be breathed into
$13,000 for K&r&kule Sheep
For tv-five head d£ full-blood Rrr<1 littk daughter, Nancy, ofj
K.rak,d. .hjp were „H by the WSHfe TiTB,
Middlewater CtUe <■<»,.|»ny of land Hli. .nd d«»Khter. of New-, builder, and hope and cneourage-
Hartley county to a breeder of j'“O'. “d M'« ^ *“>. «u«oura*e™e„t for
fine ah -ep in Charlottetown, P. ot 0r'fk- «*»“• ho1'- ^ •"<! •»!»**»»•
consideration of $13 days with the families of No*man should abide m our laws.
Fjcisher
ratATES $1.00 PER D4Y
w«stofs<u^r«
Mrs rs. J. H. Fisher, Prb|
E. I., for a
000. This is the largest price ev-
Wi Wm. Johnsoa & Co.
ColpUcctin
G] GRAH
Durham, Willis iBlis and Tom
We need to install legislative
machinery adapted to permitting
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Tiayson County Hog Men Meet.
Sherman. Jan. 13.—The Gray-
n County Hog Association
M a big hanqbct here last week
i the' tilmihber of Ctmim^ree
oqms and about 150 people* were
■sent. Several interesting talks
re mad** on the pprker. D. R.
urea/. or-Fort Worth, was the
.•ineipal sfwaki’r ami nsefl the I
er paid for Karakule _aheep in ®owe^’ '
Ilartb’v county, and probably in J. C. Owen and Oil Brown, of ark ontouraKing co-operaive us
the state Graham, two of our promising :,nww «>^trn and facil.tat.ng co-
candidatea, spent a part of th^e”'at,0It between different lies
week looking after their political ° ‘^dn^tfy-
Peanuts Pay Well
IT. CT.’ Hudson, who farms-on fences here,
the R. L. Pcnuinter pluee SJgtg Mnt y, |, Htwnr. «f
wot of thi. city, mod» «l,100 grahan|| ^ ,- il[ng {heir
♦ \*’unt v.oiirh f uiiM ti nf noil. _ _ . ‘r-‘
Jack, of this place.
from twenty-eight acres of pea
nuts this year and further proof
that the peanut is a most profit--Newcastle Register.
able crop should not !m* necessa-
sp-
' Whi1^ not advising our farm-
ed to rlTfebhtinue raising cotton,
we would suggest the turning of
a portio * of their cotton field *ft-
t» ft peanut pate^i. .Peanuts will
afford a mon°y- crop and at the
Born, yesterday, to Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Gay, a hoy.
Born, Tuesday, to Mr. and Mrs.
lluglj Foster, ,a boy.
Shirley White, t*f Tru<‘, was in
the city Wednesday,.
Hugh Jones wan a visitor t)
Miss Nora Sloan, Sec’v.
Tu -u»« .hererpertatiuu, «u4 (•». m 5£52SS-«^t F.
necessitieg of the farmer w’e
must provide a co-operative sys-
tem of rural credits that will mak
money, at reasonable rate# of in-
terests, constantly and easily a-
vailahle to maintain and expan
th^ir business.
nmttkANiT
ENTS.
arne time a f****d crop and the Hraham Monday,
price will not fluctuate as is th^ • A. S. Wilson was in Grahum
Tuesflay on busine^ ■■ J
13,. B, Ward v ns a business 1
ase with potton; but should the
nrlce decline it is not necossur^
acriffee the crop as livestock
will take care of thi* and give
the farmer a bigger return than
f he sold his crop, even at top
:>rif*’« “ ■ , ",
visitor to Graham Tuestiiay.
Rob Cash urn, of Graham, spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in our|
city.
Many Renters Buying Homes tn
Fannin County.
Bonham, Texa*—Records on fite
in tlio County Cork's office show
that a large number of tenant far
niera in this sweti</u have purchas-
ed farms during 1913, making ,
small down payments. Banker? I repi^fn‘s<i5t ht*amford Mar-
im report that § ■v.-rnl farm moSrhle.“'W<i ^ °irkM* alld Cft11 fHl yTcrur
rrages have been taken np Jatehy. ninlers Ith tor I ornlwtones and Iron
The fawners around here, ns a nil Fencing*10* Promptly and aatisfac-
are prosperous, owing to bounti- torily.
Misses Sallie Willianffe and Virl
fill crops last year and the pass-
ing «£ t*‘nant* to libe ownership
„r „Mw and
, , ' , I counted as one of the dependable ,, .. , ..... * , J •1
*livered by other speaker* on j J 1 VV . C. Harrell and little and eensiw reports *h»w onu dirt
Wlu*y GraysoU County Doesn’t ^. „ , , ' Mctl0n“-JJ)«
’ sI»nngs Herald.
.■use More Ilogk and How to^ -
'sine More Hog*.’’ menn] Unless you have a poll tnx.re-
•on*i*ting of six hog* and twelv* ->jpf yvl] will not be counted in!.w -re business Visitors to Graham 4,300
irkeya vas served. , jtlit* game this year.
DEVELrEL0PMENT 0F TffiB
£H, SHALLOW WATER BELT
A pro >rrouP wealthy capitalists
have hej h'^ome interested ift^O.OOO^
daughter, Adele, returned Mon- of every'-four mortgaged. There *>!* <>f land in the Plai
W. E. BAKER,
Graham, Texas.
« tx farm. i„ the county „,J try .„d prop(Me t0 d^Tfop
Dan Keith and Jim Hubbard 2,099 are operated by owners, y
by tenants and 25
iTuwinjr. - .. 1 managers.
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Bowron, Frank H. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1914, newspaper, January 15, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884188/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Library of Graham.