The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 30, 1939 Page: 11 of 12
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Tn GRAHAM LEADER. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER M. 1M».
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CONOCO GERM
PROCESSED OIL
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“ from Your Mileage MerchantGOOD EATS
BAKERY
H. WOOLLEY, Owner
Graham, Texas
The many important meal* that
you are going to prepare during
the holiday season are going tn*
tax your ingenuity to avoid drab-
ness. Add variety to your meal* by
serving different bakery item* at
every meal and for GOODNESS
SAKE serve our delicious fruit
cake with your holiday meal*—
90% fruit and nuts, etc., flavored
to your taste. We will also has*
a large variety of pie* and holiday
cake*. We invite you to visit o*«F
bakery. A welcome await* you.
For Rate* On
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Phone 466
Joe B. Friedel
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ATTORN 1YS-AT-LAW
Graham Land OHIe* Building
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GRAHAM. TKXAS
POSSUM KINGDOM STORY TOLD
Texans Now
By MARY DUNBAR
answer flows: “Look
| nimi, ui uic nu nvcr or nuppt*!,
chance the weird cry of the hoot their forefathers trod better than
Englishmen
ruddy
WASN’T WORTH
COOKING
mis-
MILLER DRUG CO.Professional Cards
statis-
men—
keep
was
what leads you to
lot of exercise is a
the
his
the
hia
and
OIL-PLATING lets the starter turn
easy, the engine turn fast, and
you’re safely away. The only wait
is a good long one before you’ll
ever need to add another quart of
Germ Processed oil. From Your
Mileage Merchant only. OIL-PLATE
today. Continental Oil Company
6 to 8 minutes isn’t "such a much”
unless your cold engine is straining
that long without prompt lubri-
cation. And how much worse when
you figure that lees than a dozen
cold starts a cb»” threaten all of an
"It was easy,” said the mission-
ary. "You see. I have a cork leg.
As soon as I landed, I pulled up
my trousers, cut off a slice and
»ccs«s®
,o sows
■ales climbed I
Commercial
most doubled
totaling DOH
October, 1938.
any longer, he set out to find >i
suitable snapping answer for his
aol'citous friends. This is what he
of the river are
where here and
red in color rise
larly from the stream's bed to the
prairie some 256 feet above. The
view from the edge of these ragged
Here one sees
panorama of gorgeous autumn col-
They forded the river and settled in
the present Pickwick Community
where they built • log eabin from
the surrounding postoaks They car-
ried water from the numerous
spring* along the river and time
went by prospered and were happy
in their frontier home. Their first
crop of calves was sold and more
land bought, some of it coating as
low as 10c per acre. Children were
The Carter Cemetery in Carter
Bend on the Brazos, several miles
from the dam, will be covered by
water when the lake is full. The
bodies that have rested there for
the past half century and more
cannibal isle
see the
A ship called at a
and was surprised to
sionary come out in a canoe.
“How on earth did you ever
them from eating you?” he
asked.
course of the Winter that could
exceed 90 hours of risky slow-
motion oiling . . ; that’s what—
90 hours!
Let’s be sensible and not just
hope blindly that 90 hours or even
half that won’t hurt. The way to
avoid the worst chance of harm is
to change today to OIL-PLATING.
Automatically your engine be-
comes OIL-PLATED as you drive
from Your Mileage Merchant’s
Conoco station with a fill of his
Conoco Germ Proco—ed oil—pat-
ented. The basic patents cover the
use of a rare man-made substance
that goes into thia Germ Processed
oil to effect the close union or
bond between the oil and the en-
gine parts. Like chrome-plating on
the bumpers, OIL-PLATING in the
engine can’t drain down every time
the car stands, and therefore OIL-
PLATING isn’t waiting to be re-
stored ’’from scratch” every time
you start up again. How different
from oils that can only flow fast!
Surely OIL-PLATING must beat
them to it. In advance of any flow,
it’s there! This drain-proof slippy
Th* old Comanche Trail
•long the river bluff above the
the years of 1850
1865. The banks
higher than else-
precipitous bluffs,
almost perpendicu-
t from 9 to 10; the
would *<Iu','re' from 10 to 12. the mouse
from 3 to 7.
are also de-
That middle-aged
spend more time drinking soda and
whisky than exercising. The whis-
key and soda, Mr. Nathan hastens
to explain, accounts for the
glow of health.
That insurance companies,
tics show that college honor
the scholars—are expected at grad-
uation to have a longer life span
than the athletes.
Mr. Nathan doesn't think he'll go
in for exercise.from CtUl?
Exercise Is The
Bunk; Says Critic
Thrice weekly friends of George '
Jean Nathan, eminent critic, glance |
at him sorrowfully and ask why he 1
doesn’t go in for exercise. Twice a
week circulars reach his mailbox
asking the same thing.
Mr. Nathan, who is known far
and wide for his caustic pen, looks
pleasantly at these friends, and asks
amiably: "Just
imagine that a
good thing?”
Invariably the
at animals; they all take a pile of
ly end’s’in the’misty” h«*e of dis-1 and they learned to love their Tex- exercise! Look at Englishmen; they
tance | as home. Now their descendants, *11 take a pile of exercise a'hd they
Few white men entered this wild- and their families are naturally sad- »re wonderfully fit! Look at mAn Illinois jury is upset by a
suggestion in the court’s charge that
it use some horse sense and would
like to get in touch with a horse.—
H. V. Wade, Detroit News.
T county,
ran alo
What'* that? You haven’t been dam site during
to Possum Kingdom Dam! My, my, to approximately
you don’t know what you’ve missed.
Right hare at your back door, too.
Some day Breckenridge is going to
wake np and have an enormous and
beautiful lake within forty-five min-
utes run—and the scenie beauty of
the place will thrill every visitor, cliffs is beautiful.
The big dam is going up so rapidly
that it will all be done before we ored hills and rich valleys threaded
realize it. Then the rain will come by the winding red stream of the
(we hope) and fill the lake. Some- river bed. Farm houses appear - -
times these big lakes are filled soon-J miniature in size and the view final-1 born to them as the years went, by
er than we tyiink, so let’s hope that
the Possum Kingdom Lake will be
like this. As yet it is hard to vision
Then the miracle was wrought.
Juat a* the noble friar and his
amall band of followers climbed the
opposite bank of the river, • surg-
ing wall of foam-crested water as
red as the blood of the human heart,
fell upon the Yndios bravos in the
middle ef the stream and swept them
to destruction. Moses experienced
no greater miracle when the Red
Sea opened for the passage of ul-
people and closed upon Pharaoh
his host.
The friar, after witnessing
miraculous occurrence fell upon
knees and gave thanks. And
4 river which was the Toekonhono,
became from that day Los Brazos de
Dio*, which is to say, "The Arms of
God.”
Possum Kingdom Dam is located
in an isolated bend of the winding
Brazos which twists like a lone red
serpent 165 miles through Palo Pinto
Buying More
Expensive Cars
Reflecting easier money, Texans
bought more expensive cars during
October than during the like month
a year ago, the University of Texas I
business research bureau reports.
Sales of the four makes of egrs
comprising the highest price bracket
jumped 151.8 per cent. The lowest j For
price bracket showed an increase of re,'ef from
61.1 per cent, compared to 116.8 per eold symptoms
cent and 28j>er cent in the middle take 666
brackets. Total new passenger car Liquid - Tablet* - Salve • Noee Drop*
Constipated?
• MFor 30 years I had ccnstipation, awfd
■as bloating, headaches and back pains.
Adlerika helped right away. Now. I eat
sausage, bananas, pie, anything 1 want.
Never felt better ” Mrs. Mabel Schott.
After the Red numerous upon their acres, as yei
their land has not been sold, as it is
by the occasional hard to estimate its actual value, found, as he relates in the December
shot of the hunter or trapper, per-| But the Costellos Jove the soil where Cosrntfpotiian:
- . - — . • . .. -■ j That animals do not spend most
its liquid gold. of their time exercising. The tor
must all be removed. The oldest toise, which happens to be the laz-
gravestone bears this inscription; i lost animal on earth, lives the long-
S. P. Carter, bom Aug. 2, 1847, est life, from 20; to 300 years. The
died May 18, 1869. Killed by Indians, elephant, another fellow who doesn’t
i Incidently S. P. Carter was the move if he doesn’t have to, lives
... |son of C. L. (Col. Kit) Carter who close to 200 years. The dog, on the
During" high'water’thZ; co”uld I founded the Texas Cattle Raiser’s other hand, a “devotee of exercise,”
' • ■ ----. as Mr. Nathan so charmingly puts
It was here in the horseshoe
bend of th* river, where the woods
and underbrush was dense and al-
most tropical in growth, that the '
o’possums gathered in great num- I
her. 1 „ ----- —. —----- I
not leave the ben because it be-I Association in 1877. , -
tame an island. So they grew and | Thus civilization marches forward i lt' has a span °* fro™ 10i/°
multiplied. So prevalent did they and the old must give way to the
become that- some imaginative old- > new. The Franciscan friars
timer named the place “Possum I probably be astounded today should ,to 4: the hare
Kingdom" which name it has kept they stand once again upon the ’ ese - ltl*e e* ows
to this day. I banks of their miraculous river anil v°lee8-
Thg. people who live in this section i see how the arms of men are har-
i of the country whose land is destin- j nessing "The Arms of God.’’
ed to be covered some day by the | <Pa>t of this story was taken from
huge lake, are the descendants of Epic-Century, February 1939, writ?
those venerable pioneers who settled | ten by Mary Whatley Dunbar, then
the country before the passing of «n associate editor of this maga-
the Red Man, who braved hardships' «>ne.)
and visisitudes of an early day so.
that civilization might be planted.
upon the western frontier of the I
largest state in the union. It is not j
surprising to know that some of
them do not look with happiness and |
enthusiasm upon the building of the j
dam that will eventually back-wash
the waters of the Brazos and flood 1
their homes, fields and ranch lands.
Sentiment ties them to this soil
which their fathers settled.
Over fifty years ago, Mathias
Costello, a young Irishman and his
bride crept into this virgin wilder- > handed it to the chief. He decided I
nesa of mesquite, cedar and long- ‘ wasn't worth cooking.”
w such a huge lake. The water will be ly beautiful section in pioneer days, dened at the thought of losing this Don t I look the picture of health ?
140 feet deep at the dam and there The Red Man found it a paradise ! land which is so sentimentally dear Mr. Nathan is only human; the
will be a reservoir 67 miles in length as the river furnished an abundance The land is also commercially dear day came when he couldn’t take it
when the project is finished. The of fish, and the surrounding woods as natural gas and oil wells are
shore line will be 310 miles long and plenty “ of game. After t!._ As vet
the dam 3000 feet long. The lake Man's passing the stillness was sel-
which the dam will create will cover j dom broken save L„
28.800 acres of land. From the bot-,
tom-most concrete to the top of the |
bluff is a height of 220 feet. The ( owl, the failing of a Ibnely wolf, or
foundation for the dam extends 75 the scream of a panther,
feet below the level of the water.
The Franciscan friars gave the
name “Los Brazos de Dios” to the
winding Brazos River which mean-
ders from the western plains of Tex-
as some eight hundred and forty
miles to the sea When trans-
lated from the Spanish the name
means, "The Arms of God.”
y •r Legend tells us that some two
hundred years ago a courageous
group of barefoot Franciscan friars
prayed and fought their way from
Mexico and founded the Presidio of
St. Jago on the banks of the Tock-
onhono River. Within its boundar-
ies they corralled and Christianized
• small flock of Yndios reducidos,
but the majority of the Yndios hated
the cassocked, fighting monks and
their Christianized ideas.
At last thejrreme in great num-
ber “like the leaves of the live oak,”
■nd hurled themselves against the
Presidio. Many days of fighting en-
sued and *11 of the friars were killed
but one. With heartbreak and de-
spair in hi* eyes, thia defeated man
of God cast a farewell glance at the
demolished church. Then under cov-
•- -*r of smoke from the burning block-
house he quickly led the remnant
Yndios redueidos who preferred
prayer to battle, out of the enclos-
J ure through a small postern gate
They hurried down the steep bank
1 to the dry bed of the stream below.
* They were midway the river when
their enemies discovered their re-
treat.
Fiendishly the enraged Yndios
r rushed a thousand strong in hot
pursuit. Fearing that the end had
come the Yndios opened their lip*
■nd began to chant the depth-song
of the Nainis, «nd the friar lifting
hi* hand commended their souls and
his own to God. _ —-
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