Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 15, 1936 Page: 2 of 4
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GRAHAM DAILY RKPORTKR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY If, 1936
The
Graham Daily
Reporter
fetwrad u tocowdclas* mail ma«-
Mr at the poatofflre In Graham
Texas, under Ml of Congreu ol
Marsh S. 1879. .' . :
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Every Ariwrnoon Except
Sunday By
GRAHAM PRINTING COMPANY
GEO T SPF.ARS, Jr.........Edltor|
casual concern. In almoet every city.
Government agent-lea have been so
expanded during the last few yeara
that Increased housing facilities are
repaired In St Loula, tor instance)
no sooner wai the Federal Building
at Eighth and Olive streets vacated
Governor Grants
Clemency To
837 Convicts
Austin—Executive clen
In fsvnr of the new customs house “** Pr,,on doors for 837 convicts In
at Twelfth ahd Market than tta var-1 tlle year ot °over“or Allred's
term.
small number
spared
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lous floors were appropriated by
Government employes, one of the ’ritl1 *>r*c®<**** years,
chief being the several thousand A e°“Pl*»tlon by the secratarv of
______I engaged In Indexing the census. j otn™ today M,t*d *§*» da-
Offtcs of Publleatiow •»* Oak St.. Secretary . lekes' announcement Is ,u,>ncy Proclamations Issued since
Graham. Teaas j evidence that one crop—federal em J,llu,ry »«• Governor Allrad revolt-
101 elements while other acts
ADVBRTISINO RATES WILL BE j pjpyes -ls not being plowed under,
GIVEN UPON APPLICATION, j nor will It he.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
•baraeter of ary, person or firm J0hn Selman, J. W.
appaarlng In these columns will ’ _ . , _ „ ----------
he gladly and promptly corrected I Hai’01T1 S Slayer LlVeCl 8 Sterling, who preceded
dpon being brought to the atten- ' A 4 ni J mtu.f- n««l«
Ion of the management. At Old PVt DaVIS
Rerguaon. granted 1489.
A comparison of clemeactes by
typdd showed a sharp difference.
Governors Allred and Sterling fav-
ored general parole while Mrs Fer-
guson issued more conditions! par
dons than any other type of clem-
ency.
A comparison resume for corres-
ponding periods In 1M4 and ,»UAconditional pardons. 1464;
. . _ ... . , paroles. 896; reprieves. II; Com
!'OW , °rhrn0:,. AJ,rr,/e,~1““tat.on.. 65; furlough. and axten-
786 of which 581 received general I , m ,nd revooat,OBa, M
paroles. 45 conditional pardons, 18, XIIred ^ ^on,. 21- condl-
full pardons, and Ilf furloughs In ttona, general
, * '^rcpohdlng period. Mr. jflj; ^(.rtevet. ^ commutation.. 4;
not mean freedom for convicts, guson freed of which 408 ,urloUKhi and eIt.nlk)nR. ud
Former Governor Miriam A. Fergu-' received genera* paroles. 592 eondl ^Tocatloni 102
son granted 5.142 elements In her ttonal pardona, 223 full pardons and
■•cond torn. Former Governor R. 622 furloughs ----- p
The comparative two year record
Political
ANNOUNCEMENTS
of Governors Sterling and Ferguaon
and the first year of Governor All-
red was:
Sterling—>Fttll P.rdooa, 12; con Th. 0rahara u.,,, Keportar u
dltional pardon.. 2; general P*role. authorla^ lo announca tha foUow.
2.279; reprieve.. 12; comutatk* of , ^ ^ aubJaot to
sentence. 4; furlough. Md «ton- the PrImary, Jdly M>
stuns, 2.695, and revocations. 79 1(w
Mrs Ferguson—Full pardons. 562;
general For Congressman—12th District:
W. D. McFARLANB
(Re-election)
ED L. GOSSETT
B. W. King is 111 at bis home.
Burner" Bower Is confined to his
home with illness.
John Edward Css burn was
Dallas Tuesday evening.
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ITae Reporter Ada For Results.
.BR-ECKENRimte. John Selman.
The Graham Daily Reporter la-I
rites commuricatlon for publication! __.
when subject Is of general Interest,! flayer of Ji hn Wi>aley Hardin, Tex-
sad if it ia not abusive or of a as' most notorious outlaw, fills ev-
personal nature. All such communl- „rv w,st(.rn book with a bloody
cations must carry the author's slg-
nature—not necessarily for publl- l>a* '
cation, but as indication of good] Hardin outwitted officers for years
kith. j and killed more men than Billy
The liability of The Graham Dolly' th* Kld' ,lnBlly P»*"e^ a ,"n*
Reporter and of Ha publishers for' stretch In the penitentiary, having
any error in any advertisement Is b«fn captured .In Florida, and was
IhnMed to the coat of such adver- pardonp,, by Governpr^Hoj^ He was
"******* j the son of a preacher, bore th.e
All Catds of Thanks. Obituaries. I name of a famous minister, and • |
and like notices are charged for all himself studied law in prison and
the regular rate,. | prartjc.d. after being relied.
Subscription Rates | But h* became embroiled again
1 $5.00 (jown about Bastrop and left for
A New Year ..... A New Beginning
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To . . .
• Months .................. |2 75
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WASHINGTON TOO SMALL
GOVERNMENT
an ex-constable In
El Paso, and was himself soon af-
ter slaughtered, and his killer wen
free. _ — _.....i.-——--
But it Is not generally known
that Selman was a Stephens Cour-
ty Tiad man.' He grew up around
Crystal Falls and old Fort Davis
later lived at Albany, where lie
was sought by an angry mob with
a good rope—but he escaped.
Selman. says J. C. Irwin, pio-
neer, killed a Doc Sullivan at old
Fort Davis, In Stephens county,
and got away with It. "There was
little done about a murder those
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West Texas, ending his career In
_El Paso In that city he was killed
POP in a saloon by John Selman. Al-
l though he shot Hardin in the baclt
_ j of the head, giving the ex-outlaw
St. Louis Glohe-Democratp When 1,0 <*»"<•*• he wa» not Prosecuted.
Washington. D. C. was chartered P'*rhaP8 due ,0 Hardin's generally
In 1803 It was not believed possible *>ad standing,
that with sixty square miles avail- Selman was
able oil which to build the time
would ever come when a housing
_ congestion- won hi form tr to toolr
to other borders. But that time has
arrived. The Jiew (deal, despite its
promises of aholitfrm or hureaus and
commissions and rediictions in Gov-
ernmeni exirendttnrea, now finds it-
self HP"the position of not having
enough room in Washingtoir to take
- care (d the roamiolfl alfrhabet -agen-
cies that are of Its making. Eyes
are now being cast toward near-by
Baltimore, which may be called on
to serve as a,^ administration annex. day..- add, Mr Irwin,
a new deal subdivision —j John Salm>n nPIt became the
Secretary of Interior lekes, one deputy of Sheriff John Larne of
- *'f iwhose duties Is to look after Albany, and participated In the kill-
“itH* Iffusiux Of all Government Hewing of a man there. When Lame
partmems. says tlie expansion is' and a few soldlertr“lllftUd the
contemplated. A bit weary of trying group, under some pretext. Selmar
to-* crowd the carious agencies into was also one of the gunmen. The
such quatters as the Government vigilantes, or a similar group, fin-
possesses and with new alphabet any guied Larne on the charge of
groups springing into life with cow stealing and were after Sel-
mnnotonous regularity, he says it man. but he took to the tall grass
may be necessary to look to Balti- and later turned up as an officer
more for help llii decision was In El Paso His bloody passage with
prompted by the demand of the Hardin, and his own violent death
8oclal Security Boards the, followed
most recent acquisitipns. for more' Stephens county belonged to the
floor space, with indications that I buffalo, the Indian and the tough
hy the end of 1937 It slone will re- hombre long before the present type
quire probably 100.000 square feet ; of man won it for his oil wells
10 whtrit Tn work out tts problems t and cattle
This is but an example
The Federal pay roll coutlnuea to
mount, the latest report of the Civ-;
11 8ervice Commission showing that
79*4*7 persons, exclusive of sol-
diers and sailors, are on the tt*t.
This is an increase of 1.830 over the
month previous Federal workers In
the District of Columbia now num-
Take Inventory -
Open New Set of Books
Refurnish the Office
Replenish Stationery Supplies
Modernize Equipment
♦*fl til tb^s, SERVICES are at your command.
% a1
ber 110.009. which Is only a few
thousand less than the war-time
peak, when the area was literally
jammed with employes. Secretary
Icke*_dtsrloaed that the Govpm-
ment owns 101 bulldipg*. in the Dis-
trict of C dumhla and rents 103. de-
spite which few departments func-
tion under one roof His own Inter-
ior Department ia spread over four-
teen building*, the War Department
over sixteen, resettlement fifjeen |
and WPA ten.
But It Is not alone In Washington
that Government employe» have so
increased in number* that finding
quarter* for them hi more than a
Sunworshlplng pagans used the
Christmas tree In festivitlee to cele-
brate the winter solstice long be-
fore Christians used It.
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TIRED, WORN OUT, \
NO AMBITION
UO W many
women are
rust dragging them-
tclves around, all
tired out with peri-
odic weakness and
pain? They should
know that Lydia
E. Piokham’s Tab-
lets relieve ' peri-
i . _ odic pains ancldis-
comfcrt. Small size only 24 cents.
Dorsie Williams of I hovviUe,
Illinois, says “I had no ambition
and was terribly nervous, Your Tab-
my periodf and built me
up. Try them next monc:,.
Look.,
give y<
Head®
need ;r
We can supply your needs in l-edgers, Day
xumnar Pads and Loose l*eaf Supplies. We will be pleased to
uick service and modern type and arrangement on your Letter
1 all printed stationery, and can furnish you with every desired
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Spears, George T., Jr. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 111, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 15, 1936, newspaper, January 15, 1936; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1064891/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.