The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1923 Page: 1 of 14
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▼OLUMB XLVIL
DEMPSEY RETAINS
BELT AS WORLDS
CHAMPION HGHTER
New Lights Add to
Beauty of Station
The big prize fight ie over and
Jade Dempsey remains the world’s
champion, however, Tommy Gib-
bons gave him a run for his money.
By previous agreement the fight
was to^ last fifteen rounds unless one
of the men was knocked out before
that time. Qempaey 1 was unable to
'even knock Tiibboni
After considerable bargaining be-
tween Secretary Walker of die
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Ben-
nett of the Rock Island and Mr.
Wood of the Graham Light and
Power Co., the depot grounds have
lower km., me aep0l grounus nave Jngleside Baptist Encampment doa-
at last been lighted, which adds ^ jas£ Sunday after a successful
greatly to the attractiveness of the
new station. Much credit is due the
civic organizations of the town^ for |^auU£ui Iiyfleftide R^h of Mr 8
R. Jeffery and family near Orth,
, m S at;
the splendid work that has been
done in beautifying the depot
grounds with trees and grass. The
stranger ^Who'-pasAeS’-AlilS Way * wilt1
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carry with him a more pleasant
memory of Graham than if he had
looked out on a vacant'lot bristling
‘down during
the fifteen rounds, but won more
points than Gibbons. Several Gra-
ham people listened to the report weeds and thistles, 'improve*
• ' TVI 1 many, T h of this kind don’t just hap-
. } ed Gibbon, to win they admit ed ^ thouRh_th uk<J time ^
' P*m**?y Beemingly had the odebp^ They ire con8tant
pver him and gave him considerable .
^.punishment during the-fight. One j
man who heard the fight over the
““w XXXrXXHALMACK INCREASES
meat ■« -
The financial side of the fight
was not ,# success. The large arena
covering six acres and with seats
for 40,000 people had only a few
thousand spectators. It looked Tues-
day as if the fight would be called
off. Dempsey would not enter the
FLOW TO NEARLY 200
BARRELS LAST WEEK
The Halmack Oil Company’s well
on the Hall land which came in last
fight without, a straight purse of .September has been a much better
$810,000.00. This amount was rais-1 well all the time than many thought,
ed for him. Gibbons was to get It came in at 700 barrels and soon
fifty per cent of all over $300,000.
His amount was probably small.
dropped down considerably in pro-
duction. In talking with Superintend-
The fight took place at Shelby*!?—A -Rosa we learb_ thgt _the
Montane--'jMteterdey afternoon at 4|well has flowed an average of about
o’clock Texas time. The following is j H>0 barrels daily since last Septem-
given as the headlights in the fight: ber. Last week the well increased
to nearly 200 barrels without any
apparent cause. .... ..
This was the discovery well in
this territory about four miles south-
east of Graham. The Gulf-Hockaday
came in the first of April in this
same territory and has been flow-
ing since. This well flowed more
than $32,000.00i worth of oi^ ,th#
first ten days, ft also dropped off jn
production but has been a good
Champion, Jack Dempsey, age 28;
weight, 185 pounds.
Challenger, Tommy Gibbons, age
29; weight, 178 pounds.
Limit of bout, 15 rounds to ref-
eree’s decision.
Referee, James Dougherty, Phil-
Richard T. Burke,
Timekeeper,
New Orleans.
Weight of Gloves, G^oUnccs.
The...fight arena covered six acres,
seats for 40,000 persons and built down in this section. The re-
at a cost of $85,000.00. j duction in the price of crude and
<* Price of tickets from $20 to $50 the f»ct thut the P‘Pe ,in«» »re t*k-
dollars. ling only a part of the production
The cost of prize fighting has has curtajled development in Young
' risen considerably during the past
thirty years as the following fig-
ures show:
County. Very t few new locations
are being made and there seems to
be a slackening of the efforts to
1889—Sullivan beat Kilrain; purse complete the wells now drilling.
$20,000. One completion was reported from
1892—Corbett beat Sullivan; purse the Hcrron City field this week;
$45,000.
BAPTIST ENCAMPMENT
CLOSES SUCCESSFUL
SESSION NEAR ORTH
NEWCASTLE SUFFERS
FROM STORM WHICH
SWEEPS LARGE AREA
The first annual meeting of the Two deaths, several injured ~and j)ear gjr.
Sunday
and inspiring session of ten days.
The Encampment is located on the
Texas. It is an ideal place to hold
an estimated property “ loss of more
than $250,000.00 was reported from
the storms that swept large sections
of Texas last Saturday. The deaths
were reported from Brady and
Bangs. The greatest damage was
reported from that section.
1lli *-n«- rfffmsgd m- Ymm^-cuunty waif -*186
school buildings. It is one of the
prettiest towns we have passed
through.
Thanking you again we are
. , Yours truly,
Mr. and Mrs, Claud Coop and
son, Moray, Storm Lake, Iowa.
beheld Wh year to year. heaviest at Newcastle, where a hail
» ^"be program included three class- amj windstorm damaged the First
es taking the B. Y. P. U. study jg^ate bank building by knocking out
course directed 'bjrJIiss Mary Terry, the plato Jflas8( wrecked the west
our special summer worker for „ of one o£ the dry gooda Btores>
Young county. destroyed the roofs of four houses
-Mrs. E. M. Frances taught a Mis- and tore up a number 'of smaller
sion study 4 class, of thirty-five outbuildings besides doing damage
ladies, in “Making America Christ- to crops in all directions from the
i®^ * town.
Evangelistic services morning and F()'r a while it looked as if the
evening were led by Evangelist J. town would be de8troyed. The
G. Winsett of Abilene. damage in the country north and
Tile music was directed in a most Newcastle was also 'heavy,
pleasing manner By Bfo. Hugh L. The damage in Young county is
IGett. t estimated to be more than $10,000.
Special lectures were given each *rbe rajn£aii jn Graham and over a
day by some of our greatest Bap- large part of the county was small.
tist leaders of Texas, such as Presi- Corn and otheT feed3tu££fl are in ~ , . 4. _
dent Sandefer, Simmons College. necd of rain Cotton is looking flne j Court of Civil Appeals the Su-
Bro. Hal Buckner, R. E. Bell, J. R. and i£ the (rra9shoppers and boU preme Court held Saturday in the
Balch,- J. N. Hunt, O. L. ToWdrs we€vils <Jo not destroy the crop a "*8e m , t^ n i I r r **
- -- - - ~ " 1 the Mid-Kansas Oil and Gas Com-
pany, that oil and gas leases-are
subject to taxation separate from
land taxes. The question certified
was whether such oil and gas leases
were subject to separates taxation,
and the higher court answered in
the affirmative.
This case was in the nature of a
test case to determine whether oil
and gus leases were subject to tax-
ation by the owners of such leases,
there being many cases pending
Mr. C. Y. McDonald, keeper of
Shawnee Park and the tourist park,
received the following letter from
one of the tourists this week:
Mr. C. Y. MacDonald,
We wish to express our thanks
to you for malting our stay in Gra-
ham so comfortable and pleasant
The tourists park surpasses any
we have seen in Texas and would
be a credit to a large city. The civic-
pride of Graham is evident iri its
OWNERS OF LEASES
SUBJECT TO TAXES
SAYS HIGH COURT
- Austin, June 80.—Answering cer-
tified question from the Fort Worth
and Mrs. Boon a native of Brazil. good yield is expected.
i TOURIST PARK IS
AGAINST WICHITA
COUNTY SHERIFF;
—
Wrongful arrest and incarcera-j
tion, imprisonment with hardened
VISITED BY MANY
PEOPLE fACH WEEK
Graham’s Tourist Park continues
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merctfufly beaten, whipped and BOP. are passing this way agiln and, termination of the Stephens County
abused while a prisoner, are the al- continue loud in their praise of our £asc-
legations set up in a damage suit cool park with its heavy shades,
for $15,000, brought by B. R. John- free gas, water and lights and its
"YU,......Several, other . Wnlla. ane -go-{«<*,, through hie father W. W. John- gwual-Keeper.----- ---------------
son, against" Sheriff Pat Murphy of TV following registered this
Wichita county. week:
The boy contends that he was en- «L C. Worley .Bromide,^ Oklahoma,
gaged in the pursuit of his usual Lee Wheeler, Bromide,' Oklahoma;
The Supreme Court held, in an
opinion written by Associate Jus-
tice Greenwood, that the leasing
company acquires interests and es-
tates in lands and that oil and gas
are objects of distinct ownership
and sale of part of the land.
OF PRIZES TUESDAY
The climax of the trade campaign
launched by the Retail Merchants
Association of Graham was reached
yesterday when approximately 10,-
000 people were in the eity to see
wher would be the winners of the
valuable prizes given away by the
'hBUbflifld'h. r >• -f '™"*‘
People began to arrive early in
the morning from all sections of
the county ' and adjoining counties,
each one hoping to< win the Botek
automobile or some other valuable
prize. The directors with the as-
sistance of the large crowd of peo-
ple "selected the following commit-
tee to take charge of the distribu-
tion of the prizes: J. B. Downey,
Jean; J. C. Akers, South Bend; T.
R. Billingsley, Eliasville; W. R.
Sheppard, Loving and W. W. Storm, '7
Bunger. The committee emptied all
the tickets in a wagon sheet and
after thoroughly stirring them se-
lected, the following little girl* fnun _
the vast crowd, who drew the tick-
ets; Gladys Turner, Herron City}
Gladys McGaughey, Herron City;
Mary Louise Mayes, Graham and
Maybelle Mayes, Graham.
The following with the lucky num-
bers were the winners: Mary Pearl
Russell, 59341, Buick car; J, A.
Thompson, 106071, victrola; Mrs. C.
L. Brackeen, 120379, radio; Mary
Stewart, 126989, kitchen cabinet.
The car was won on a ticket
from the Alexander Company; the
victrola, from Binnion’s Up Stairs
Shop; the radio, from the John E.
Morrison Company and the kitchen
cabinet, from the Cash Market and
Grocery on the east side of the
square.--__-__________
It was a good natured crowd that
had assembled for the big occasion
and everything was carried out in
due form.
The Retail Merchants Association
Will give away early in August a
Red Bird Overland car under the
same cohditions the valuable prizes
were given away yesterday. The
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gagru Snd ,uaude CooD “He who owns mines and minerals were >esreraay. ine
>" *■ lo«a A Y Beverly tanS. .ad enjoy, the benefit, „f' *™*l*«»» P'*™ to give .ome v.l-
- “ ‘h-" i™ "• I^wi,: Normnogee: i ownership i. jn.tly ch.rge.ble with f«e ench month. People from
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the defendant, Sheriff Morphy, eaua-'Crowellj J, N Uwi., Jonnongeei | own er,n,p r. ™ v „aj„ininE
ed him .0 be .rresfed by C. E. Mor- F/ A. Ir.ton, El.rtrpi J. C. ' X Ju.X oXwl Xi, deX ^ ne« Monday. July 9. and .11
ri.on, . deputy aherlft of Archer J n,Z- ct.ion affect, the holder, of oil and «* "»"■'»"> «' the ...oci.tion will
county.
1897—Fitzsimmons beat Corbett;
purse $25,000.
1902—Jeffries beat Fitzsimmons;
Ipurse, $22,260; toUl receipts, $31,-
800.
1910—Johnson beat Jeffries;
purse, $101,000; total receipts, $270r
775.
1915—Willard beat Johnson;
purse, $40,000; total receipts, $68,-
000.
1919—Dempsey beat Willard;
purse, $127,500; total receipts, $432,-
522.
1921—Dempsey bent Carpentier;
purse, $500,000; total receipts, $1,-
600,000.
1923—Dempsey beat Gibbons.
also one in the South Bend field
since our last report. Many of our
oil men are off on vacations and it
-is difficult to get definite reports
from the fields, however, the great-
est activity in this section is in the
Olney country, where several wells
have been brought in from the
'shallow sands during the past few
weeks.
Qniet In Graham
W. O. Nelson Gets
30 Months In Pen
The plamtiff comp'ain? that, al- C. G. Harrington, Ardmore, Okla-
thoiigh only t<* years of age, he was homa; L. G. Gatewood, Clayton,
incarcerated in the n.me cell with New Mexico; Robert Laidlow, Aus-
hardened and confirmed criminals t'n; S. C. Tippie, Llectra; Chas., |i Olirtll OI Jllly
and that Tils imprisonment and ar- Cremyon, St. Louis, Missouri and
rest were without authority or war- J- B- Julian, Dallas. Rome of our
rant of law. citizens in tin county are taking Fourtb 0f juiy was very
While imprisoned with the older advantage of our park y . Graham. Tkert> waa no
men, the boy alleges that he was come o the city. Thu week Ur., pro^nm fls the climax of
cruelly and unmercifully whipped, and Mrs. T A I arson. g traJe campaign on the preced-
hruised, beaten and abused and that and Mr. and Mrs 0. S. . I. d> wa8 ono of Graham’s really
he suffered great physical Paln- mg registered for the noort hour. j days. Scvera, hundred of our
After his release on June 29, he Thr'"u^ an 0VerSlg **hera' ^ people attended the picnic and rodeo
states, it required several more days to get the names and ‘|.at Kliasville and in addition there
W. O. Nelson, who was a banker
for a short time in Graham during
the boom days, was found guilty of
embezzling bank funds and sentenc-
ed to 30 months confinement in the
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we™'light"1 compared with t"e| ^deraL penitentiary. He accepted his
fight two years ago and Gibbons
will likely get nothing ns the re-
ceipts will not pay Dempsey.
Boys Want Scout
Organization Here
Several of the boys of Graham
have been interested in the organi-
» zation of a boy scouts camp here,
but it seems that they can get no
man interested enough in them to
assist in perfecting the organiza-
tion. The Leader received the fol-
lowing letter this week, which it
is publishing with the hope of help-
ing the boys find a leader:
Dear Editor—There is a great en-
thusiasm among the boys, for a
“Boy Scout” organWFlion. ♦ Our only
trouble is that no one, that is, no
grown person cares enough about
„ us to act as Scoutmaster. We would
like a good, sensible, active man to
i » fill the place. Could yoAi please help
us by putting a piece in your next
edition about it asking for a good
Scoutmaster for us. We believe we
could be of much help in keeping
the city clean, and assist in keeping
back the crowd at fires, etc. Besides
having lots of fun, and
exercise from it.
We thank you.
sentence and left immediately for
Fort Worth where he joined other
prisoners for LeavenWftrth.
Nelson was charged jointly in the
indictment, which Contained eleven
counts, with Frank McDowell, who
was serving as president of the bank
at the time of the alleged misap-
propriation of the funds. McDowell,
who also owned a woman’s ready-to-
wear store in Wichita Falls, failed
to make his appearance at this
special term of court and his bond
of $7,500 was orderod forfeited.
Judgment nisi was entered and
Judge Atwell set a bond of $16,000.
City; Raymond Will, Oklahoma City;
gas leases throughout the State and
will require taxation of such leases.
be glad to explain in detail the
plans of the future campaigns.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Graham enter-
tained at their home at 1116 East
Third street on July 3 in honor of
their son, Johnnie’s seventh birth-
day, from 5:30 to 6:30 o’clock.
Many games were enjoyed on the
lawn and after the nice presents re-
ceived were displayed, ice cream and
the birthday cake were served to
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before he had recovered from the *'«<•!> k,nd ,,f car rp?n frcd ar were SPVerui private fishing and Aresdale, Roy Ratcliff, Gene, Wayne
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injuries sustained. report this week.
He asks $10,000 as actual damages
and $5,000 as punitive damages. BIG CROWD COMING
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NEW BUSINESS HOUSE
IN GRAHAM THIS MONTH
picnic parties.
The business houses wore practic-
ally all closed. The drug stores were
MONDAY, JUL\ j open a part of the day and a few
-- other places were open a part of
Next Monday is Big Monday injthe day. It was really a holiday in
A new business firm will oi en in Graham and a large crowd is ex- Graham. The large number who
, ‘ , . nected Threshing is finished in went to Eliasville report n groat
Graham soon under the name of picrtu. lnrcsnniK \ , _* knilW
*7** *"d TK7r»- “ z rvxnxr «< x
"irXXTXX LZ Z wo. „ hew bY .hehun The *c“th" *“
nronrietors of the new business dreds. The big trade campaign'^fccd ideal for a summer picnic. All t
E will oL as Zt as the here last Tuesday and the iSfet children wanted everything in all
goods arrive from the markets. Both Merchants Association has staged the stands.
of the gentlemen have lived in another campaign in which a Red kept busy looking after the
Young county many years and have B’rd Overland car will e given
many friends who wish for the sue- away early in August,
cess in thin new business. i The general plan of the giving
W. A. Stewart left this morning away of the valuable prize is the
for Chicago and other markets to
and Gale W ignall, Charles and
Howard Hamer, John Daily, Tom
Claud Douglas and Johnnie Graham
and little Misses Ruth Homer and
Thalia Claire Faulkner.
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NEW REFINERY GETS
CHARTER FROM STATE
The Leader is not saying anything
about the ball game Tuesday be-
tween Breckenridge and Graham
The best thing about the game was
the home run by J. L. Wrarren. The
adding machine got out of ordet and
the runs made by Breckenridge
could not be tabulated. Some one
said Breckenridge made fifteen
runs. v
ouy goods ’’or t’.e new stj*e whii f-
will be located on the west side of
the square. Mr. Stewart will return
in about ten days and hopes to
have the business open by the fif-
teenth of July.
good, clean!
John E. Morrison, Jr. is in (Cleve-
land, Ohio to serve an ipfetpehip In
the Cleveland City Hospital. He
recently passed the State Medical
Board of Examiners in Austin.
I G. B. Morris of Fort WotM* to
| here for a few days visit
The threshers continue busy in
all sections of the country. The
rains last Saturday interfered for
a few h6urs, but everything was In
readiness Monday morning for the
work to continue. The yield is good
and the bulk of the grain >« thresh-
ed. On account of low price
many of the farnien^are holding
their grain.
merchants about tho Red Bird car.
Large crowds are here every Big
Monday but a record attendance is
expected Monday as tho people
generally are up with their work.
Join the crowds and telephone your
friends and relatives in adjoining
•counties to meet you here, Monday,
July 9.
of the little ones.
Business opened ns usual this
morning after the quiet Fourth.
same as in the prizes given away^ Mr. arid Mrs. S. R. Jeffery were
last Tuesday. Be sure to ask the Graham visitors yestri-day. Mrs.
Jeffery stated that the Baptist En-
campment just closed on their In-
gleside Ranch was a decided suc-
cess from every viewpoint. The
Leader has a brief report of the
Encampment in this issue and hopes
to have a fuller report next week.
This* "Was the first meeting and it
will be held annually hereafter.
The Century Oil and Refining Co.
succeeds tho Fay Petroleum and Re-
fining Co. which has been operating
on the McCluskey lease near South
Bend for the past two years. The
company has been reorganized and
was chartered last week with a
capital stock of $150,000.00. R. Q.
Pearson, L. Z. Grace and T. B.
W’eningham are the incorporate!*
of the new company.
The company has taken hold of
the new organization with enthus-
iasm and hopes to have the best
plant in this entrie section.
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Miss Bessie Mayes was at home
from Waco last Friday and Sat-
Henry ’ Forest suffered painful
bruises last Friday when he fell .
from the second story of the Rose- urday. Her mother and brother,
«lyn Hotel under construction on tho George, returned with her and will
northeast comer of the square. He *pend several weeks in Waco Miss
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is employed by the G. B. Johnson
___ Hardware Company artd was in-
Mr. and Mr*. Geo. W. Miller hadl"^"* “»• Plumbln* *n the b1uild‘
as week end guests, Mr. apd Mrs?ing. It to not known yet how serious-
J. K. Graves and deughfer, Missis hurt, but It to thought that
Irene of Mineral Well*. ' *»• wU1 •oon *» ri«ht*
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Mayes will receive her A. B. degree
from Baylor University at the close|tb*v'touI!ty
of the summer session, By attend-
ing the summer session she has been
able to complete ber four year
course in three
The tent meeting under the di-
rection of Dr. C. R. Taylor and Rev.
Joe R. Mayes began last Monday
and is moving along fine. The meet-
ing will continue all the week and
probably longer. Brother Mayes is
doing the preaching this week" and
the people are glad to have the Op-
portunity to hear “Joe" as they call
him. He was raised in this eounty
and has many friends throughout
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Jfcs. Belle Holcombe, mother of
Mrs. Geo. W. Miller to visiting rel-
atives in Austin.
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