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The Graham Leader
WITH-MALICE TOWARD NONE; WITH CHAVUTT FO* AIA
GRAHAM. TEXAS. THUKBOAfY OCTOBER 21. 1911.
OLDEST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN NORTHWEST TEXAS,
NUMBER TEN.
iUCCESSFUL CONVENTION HELD HERE WEDNESDAY DY ROYAL NEIGHBORS
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H.W. STANLEY 1
OF DALLAS TO
GIVE LECTURES
An tf interest to
every business men of Graham was
made following the luncheon meet-
11 the Chamber of Commerce Tues-
day. plena having bom discusaed for
i m tlimao day Retail Tied# Institute
to be held hero early next month.
The institute will he conducted by
Henry W. Stanley, manager »he
Trade Extension Division of the
Dallas Chamber of Commerce, on
November 4, 5, end •, under the
auspices of the local Chamber of
Commerce.
Mr. Stanley has had many years
of experience in dialing with retail
problems, and-la recognized as an
authority in retail merchandising. Be-
fore going to Dallas he was manager
of the retail service bureau of the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce.
For several years before he came
to. Texas he conducted a' retail trade
service in the oast, giving expert
G. H. 5. Steers Go to Jacfysboro Tomorrow For Tilt With Old Rivals THREE PROGRAMS
GIVEN DURING
COUNTY CHAIRMAN fans to honor team at luncheon
ATTENDS DISTRICT..........'
RED CROSS MEET
CHRISTIAN CHURCH TOMORROW NOON
W. N. Varble, Red Cross chairman
for Youpg county, Mrs. Varble and
Jack Williams, secretary of the
Olney Chamber of Commerce, attend-
ed the district Rad Cross confer-
ence held at Wichita Fails Tiff day.
They reported an exceptionally good
meeting, with 81 persons in atten-
dance. Henry M. Baker, Red Cross
field representative, was the prin-
cipal speaker during the day, his
subject being “Practical Methods of
Family Relief Work."
Very optimistic reports were heard
from all of the counties represented
practically all being prepared to
Hanfir their own reliif work during
the coming months. Nowhere in
his district dp the Red Croes chap-
ters expect to face situation exist-
ing last, year. -
In speaking of
“On po JackabcTo" is the slogan
of football fans this week, and m
big crowd of Graham boosters is
expected to accompany the Steers
to the Jack county capital for the
annual- contest which will taka
place here at 3.30 tomorrow after-
noon.
At noon t morrow a Booster Lun-
cheon will be held in Hie basement
of the First Christufi Church,
with members of the first and second
Steer ttairfs as honor guests. About
forty fans had signed up for the af-
fair yesterday. The purpose of
the luncheon ia to give the Steers
an enthusiastic send-off as they leave
for the fray with their oldest, foot-
ball rival. - - of the pU>"" ar“ ‘R
While not expecting an easy gama^hAHAM POS. WT. NO.
by any means, the Steers wilt have Walker........... L. E.........161............ fi
an advantage in both weight and Jarnagin ----------L. T._______160........... 1
experience In the game with Jacks- Kimbrel...............L. G.........151......... 6
The Jackaboro team haa played
'our games thjr aeason^'Wit!) hilly
one victory to thiir credit, though
they have been up against some stiff
opposition. 'Rieir record includes:
Megargil 13-Jackaboro 26; ...Weath-
erford College Reserves 30—Jacks-
boiv 0; Polytechnic High 32—Jacks-
boro 0; Nocona 6—Jackaboro 0. The
Steers have played five game's, as
follows: Graham 19—Seymour 0;
Graham 0—Mineral Wells 29; Gra-
ham' 13—Throckmorton 0; Graham
31—Newcastle 6; Graham 0--Weath.
erford 6.
The probable startin jfjhe-ups for
the two teams, with weight and num-
boro. Graham’s starting line will Hamer
average 161 pounds, while Jacks- Elliott.....
.. .140..
aaaistence to merchants throughout — - boro line averages slightly more than Bingham.,
the eastern state. > J" 146. In the backfl.ld the Steers Bigham ...
The institute will be repkrtmenti- “** FWr *»r- v*rblc “‘A- Fate
xed, with apecial lectures for various ! ^ted- lta tn*te infliction of
typea of business. - It will be of!bll»t*nn* drouth on twenty two
practical benefit to both managers I ln th« »ummer of IMP, that
and salesmen of sny retail business
—filling stations, garages, dry goods,
grocery and qther line Of - business
in which one or more commodities
are sold. —- -. •*—y I
Arrangements for the institute
are in charge of a committee com-
posed of Irby Rhodes, chairman; S.
B. Street, Will iDeeb, and R.-L. Mor
the greatest ■ peace time disaster
in American history should bring its
peak- of human distress during the
winter of- 1981, the year of the
fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of the Red Cross. This great cat-
astrophe gave a tremendous demon-
stration of the feet that the people
are the Red Cross. 80.000 to 100,-
.MB. . volunteers of local- chapters
l Presbyterians Pay
Tribute To Edison
tribute ' was
to the memory of Thomas A Edison
daring the morning service at the
First Presbyterian Church Sunday
morning When the congregation for
m silence to do
honor to the great inventory During
this period Miu Mattie Queen Price,
organist, played a well known se-
lection and at the ckea the pastor,
Bev. Bryan ' H. Keatbley, offered
a prayer of thanksgiving fir Mr.
Edison’s life and services to* man-
kind.
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Mrs. J. (a Hicks was a business
visitor in Ranger Tuesday.
. R-.....G. .....156.:
-R. T. ......186...
R. E, 115/..
will have an advantage of about 3 Wlgnall................ Q. _______140...
pounds to the man. Only four letter Wheeler.............L. H.........130 -
men are included in the strating Starbuck .....'.... R. H...-—155.
eleven for Jackaboro, while the Steers Parsley.............-F. B.
will have eight letter men—Gene ’ JACKSBORO ' POS.
WigneU, Jack Wheeler, Dempsey |Turpin------_...'...L. E.
Parsley,'Cotton Starbuck, Vernon Big- Lester L T-
dots not include thousands of vol-
unteers who helped <n raising $10,-
500,000 when only $10,000,000 was
the goglitow-.-r—j' ■_____
ham, Edgar Bingham, James Kim-
brel,-and Clark Jarnagin. _...
Fane will be delighted to see
W-ignall back at his old position at
quartortkek, this .being the first game
for which ha has bean eligible since
his return from
entered school at the beginning of
the term.
Berry Flowers
Badly Injured
collar bone and painful lacerations
about the face whin he was buried
from the roof of the local fire stat-
ion after coming Jn contact with a
live wire Monday afternoon, He fell
about 12 feet .striking the concrete
Williams......;:;.L. 6...
Worthington C. .
Lowrie.---— R. G...
Stark.........a -R.- T. .
Barnett------------R. E...
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RAPID PROGRESS
NOW BEING MAW ONE DAY SESSION
] In spite of * threatening wentjhar
and rain which preventid the stten-
I dance; of a large number of repre-
i kentatives, fifty-five oilt of /town
t ________ ■ .> women were registered for th* dis-
s huge concrete #f the M NeifhborB
*. of America Which was held at the
250 cubic vsrds - per day, the work ^ Memorial Auditorium here yesterday,
on the new courthouse is going for-, Til nee programs were given during
ward frith gratifying progress. The; the day. and luncheon was served
foundation footing was completed i for the' visitors in the basement of
yesterday and work began on the‘the First Presbyterian Church at the
basiihent Walls. Both the contractor noon hour.
With a large force of man
work and
pouring rut concrete at the rate of:
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James „ T. Taylor, and architect
Withers have been on the ground
this week, conferring with the sup-
erintendent Of construction,
Williams. Mr. Taylor stated that
construction would be pushed with
all the speed consistent with good
work, "2_
_ The number of men employed varies
2 -from day to /day,. On Tuesday 85
men were usqd and yesterday 40
During the business session beld
in the afternoon Breckenridge was
selected as the next meeting place.
Jess TIhe banner for the best drill team
was awarded to. the Graham"chapter
at the close of the competition held
Wednesday afternoon.
The convention opened Wednesday
morning at 11 o’clock with the sing-
ing of “The Star Spangled Banner”.
After an invocation by Rev. Bryan
were at work. Considerable night H. Keathley, -the visitors were wel-
work has been done this week, a | corned in a short address given by
force having worked all. Mlondav j Mayor A. B. Eddleman, who assured
night and for a short time Tuesday ! the ladies that Graham was theirs
night. - ■ {-- < for the day. A gracious response
Construction material for the *297.-. to the welcome wait, given by Mrs.
77Z3K) building is arriving daily, *! Martha White of Breckenridge, state
quantity of steel, cement, lumber, oracle. ,
gravet, sand, and crushed rock al-t The principal speaker of the morn,
ready having been received! | was Ed ‘C. Burris, secretary-
Practically ay of the labor on the manager of the Chamber of Com-
buitding is beiulflPdane by Youjng merce, who gave an interesting and
county men, according to Superin-1 thought provoking talk on “The
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Pet> Squad Stages
.Mounting Cost of Gove reinvent”.
J After stating that the par “pH*
.cost of national, state, and local gov.
I eminent had ipereased from 30.67
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Cist Complete
For Next Little -
Theatre Play
The cast is now complete for “Ten
Nights in a Bar Room” ,- which ia
to be presented by the . Graham
Litila Theatre the latter part of
hext month. Rehearsals are now
proceeding meet satisfactorily under
sa ss. sr.
City Hall hurried to the injured-iaanls
assistance, and he was token im
mediately to the hospital for medical
attention. t
Lions To Battle Albany Club On
Gridiron Next Saturday Afternoon
On Saturday, October 24, the Gra- of that first game with Albany.
ham Lions will again invada the
Albany Liim’s dsn and attempt to
hold the position of supremacy es-
tablished in the first cnocamter be-
tween these two dubs. This dash
will take place at 8 o’clock Saturday
ini' promissa to
be tha outstanding gams to ba
played in this section during the
entire season as the Albany club
reports a groat increase in strength
despite tha lota of the Mighty Nslf
and Bull W|ebb. _ A charge of 60
cents will ba made for admission to
the gafiw, pro needs at which wilt pa
Bob Fowler, left halfback from
Texas School at Mifsea.
Tubby Bullock, 190 pound tackle
from the same school and ‘unanimous
choice for all-conference.
greatest utility player at all time
far Graham Hi.
Charles Hutchison, former star skid
of Weatherford. Collage.
Lola G. Grok, famous coach, offi-
cial, and player from N. T. S. T. C.
much is expected from Cook at end
in this game.
H. Crump. Lottg to ba remembered
divided equally between the two stabs ns one of the star hacks from that H*JL.Brennan of -Laredo and the pres-
to assist them In their community
welfare programs.
ilb# Graham club boasts sudh pig-
skin luminaries as tha following:
Johnny Matthews, Who will long
, be remain be red pi Albany as the
man who made the touchdown a-
gpinst them, in the first game. Jcha
will act as captain and quarterback
Hi this encounter.
Buddy Stewart, former all-state
high school cantor of the Graham
Blears, playing his first gams of
outlaw football.
Puffy Btoffsro, 225 pound tackle
from the Texas Aggies.
■ Albert Mayes, diminutive baek,
*._ weighing only 116 pounds but, coa-
, tidered the greatest kicker Graham
championship T. C. U. team.
Zeerl WUHamson, greatest star ft
all time from J«an Collage, After
playing pro football for two years
Williamson has returned to Jean
as coach.
Suss Madison, 810 pound guard
and iiormar team mate at Ray
i ever turned out
Price, another
star back
Morrison at Vanderbilt
Sal Wallace and Jim Wsllman, for-
mer stl-atate hi school elan of Gra-
ham’s famous team ct 1925.
Fred Wellman, who earned the
name “Scrap-iron” while playing with
MariUta College. „ „
V. Anderson, former Haskell
Indian star, who gained additicmal
fame by his stellar interference run-
ning in the formJr Lion’s battle.
Goober West that brainy end from
~ ;t£<m«rasd on Met page.)
performance of unusual , merit is
predicted. •
Included in the csjt for the pro-
duction sre: Morgan—Earl Morris;
Mrs. Morgan—Mrs. W. B. Fultz;
Swiohel—Houston Oump; Mehitabel
Louise Scott; Siads -g)r. Kr A-
Morris; Mrs. 81ade—>Lovi« Lewis;
Frank iSBade—Ewell (Red) Black;
GreenRaymond Riggs; Mary—
Helen Kinox; Hammond -S. B. Har-
bison; Romains Stanley H. Peavy.
Tax Payments
Are Now Being
. Made "Rapidly
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the Pep Squad between halves
were “doing
sidelines.
District Legion
Convention Soon
A number of members of the
local American Legion post and Aux-
iliary are planning to attend the
Thirteenth District Convention to be
held at Noeona October 81 aad No-
mber 1. Advices have been re-
ceived that Past State Commander
_ Up to Tuesday afternoon 58 poll
tax receipts had been issued from
the office of County Tsx Collector
Dan Ciaaenbary. J. L. Barron had
the distinction of bring the first
to psy his poll tax this year. mascots
Mr-. Cuaanbary reports that tax11™ ”
payments are being made mqre^ap*
jdly , than tast year. On October
15 a little more than $7000 ‘Had been
paid on taxes, while at the asme
time last year only $2184.97 had been
paid. " ~ v-e- --
The new automobile license plans
for 1932 have been received, the
allottment for this county being 6000.
The numbers range from N6-4601 to
N 7-0600. This year the plates are
grein and white, having a white
background and green numerals.
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B~ pantomime football game was
staged. Between the two teams was
a wagon shaped like a football which
concealed Bobby aijd Billy Bolin.
One team retreated while the other
victoriously pushed ahead until the
ball was directly in front of the goal
post represented by two girls with
arms outstretched. Then the two
were lifted aeriiss the
j ures, Mr. Burris briefly touched on
the cause for this alarming increase.
He discussed the effect of the eon-
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stantly increasing demand for ser- IBJ
vice from the government, aiid de-
M
cla red that tha tinrt has conu whan
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emsideration should be given to the
elimination of unnecessary service sod
(Continued On Last Page)
... 1-76 INCHES RAIN
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Yorktown Stamps
Are Now On Sale
The Yorktown seriaa
stamps commemorating
anniversary
of postage
the lBOth.
of the Battle of York-
sent State Commander, Earl Earp
of Swasiwatar will both be present,
and wilt address the convention,'
Speakers prominent in state affairs
of the Auxiliary will address that
body.
- This district embraaes all posts in
the Thirteenth Congress tonal Dis-
trict While not an official part
of the district -neighboring Legion
post* in Oklahoma have been in-
vited to the Convention and are ex-
pected to be well rspreemted.
Dr.' and Mrs. W A- Morris and
daughter, Miss Lucy, spent last
week end in tyrt Worth visiting
Mr; and Mrs, Rxyptond Wolfe, and
Miss Kathryn Morris. They also
attended the A. A M.—T. C. U. foot-
ball game while there, -
out the country Tuesday. The Gra-
ham postoffice received 6000 of the
new stamp# for sale here. The
Yorktown stamp ts'very attractive in
appearance, bging rectangular in
shape, 1.46 inches long, with a red
background white and red lettering,
and three oval portraits of Generals
Roehambeau, Washington, and De-
Grasse. Just above the portraits
is the inscription “1781-Yorktown-
1981”. The stamp is of two cent
denomination.
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LIGHTNING STARTS BLAZE
line
JWP
thejr stuff” on the
squid!f, rom^ose^ri^fh-e girls each:Jtial records kept by Miu Leta Black.
nraro 4eltalw.de' hkair . --- “ “ --- - - *
during the hard" downpour Wednes-
day after no- ‘n according to the offi-
r__
An additional .04 inch fell during the
night, bringing the total to 1.76.
Two Day Institute Brought To
Close Here Friday Afternoon
With 160 teachers in atten-, Commi’tees appointed during the
dance the Joint institute of institute included: Registration confe
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the teachers of Young and Jack
counties, held here last Thursday and
f/riday was conducted with gratify-
-mr suocrM. ” 'SeV6raT T«ispIring ad-
dr ease- were heard during the ses-
sion, and the section meetings conduc-
ted by G. B. Wilcox professor of rural
education at Texas A. A M. College,
sad Mias Edgar . Ellen WilscU, rural
school supervisor from . MlcLennan,
proved both extremely interesting and
mites 1 ft~0. Medlin and Misa Margin
Easterling; Seventh Grade Contact- ,
were placed on sale through-, instructive. Both Mr. Wilcox and
Mbs Wilson stressed the unit system
in all branches .of instruction.
On the last afternoon the apnual
interscholnstic league meeting/ was
“7 11 T THrMf
mon*. and R. W. Duncan; Rcsolutkae
Committee A. F. Tato aad Mrs. Etta
F. Staples of Young county and W.
F. Cannon and J. E. Terry at Jack
county; T. S. T. A. Membership eota-
mittee—J. T. Wilson, Mias Grace
Lowranoe, Mies Haxel WSlmeth, Ray-
no n Thompson, and J. B. Floyd; Nom-
inating coagaittoe for tha Iwtsrsdbsl-
astic League—W. E. Harty, Miss
Willian Jarnagin, J. B. Merrill, and
J, R. J
The following suggeetiane
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elected for Young county: J. B. Hill
of Newcastle, director general; G. T.
Dickenson ef Tbnk Valley, director
of drirnte; Miss Edith Walker of
Olnty, director of declamation; A.
M. Tate ft South Bend, director of
extemporaneous speech; Miss Mary
Choate of Padgett, director of spell-
ing; Miss Martha Bird of Graham,
director ef essay writing; Elbert
, Mathews Of Graham, director of
During the heavy downpqur ye»-( athletics; Miss Merle Guinn eg Lone
terday afternoon the fire depart-, Oak ttireetta of music memory; Miss
ment answered a call to the' hofhe Audra Rogers * "* -*
following directora made by the committee
grade examinations:
school <
give any standardised test Wat seems
to be the best adapted to its partieu-
tsr needs. V
t. That er pupH'x grades on hie re-
port card sod the score he makes
on the standardised tost shell ditar-
mine whether or not he peases.
3. That after giving end grad lag
such a test, the teacher of the seventh
grade immediately shall send to the
County Superintendent a list of the
of Mrs. Mery Harley, 710 Indiana
Street, where a blue had been start-
ed by a belt ef lightning. The fire
was extinguished without sny damage
to. the property.
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of Olney, director of
art memory; R. O. Medlin of Bitttr
Creek, director of Arithmetic; L. G.
Cflok, directoi of rural KhSliVi J- ~T, ____
Wilson of Ingles ids, director it rural eat averages
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