The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1932 Page: 1 of 10
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Graham Leader
DRAMA SCHOOL TO BE CONDUCTED HERE NEXT MONTH
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Boy Scouts To Hold Re-Dedication Service Sunday Evening
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Nine Counties
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Is Postponed
Became of Flu
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At .#tdemie of In-
it ha* boon foatul necessary
the annual boy scout
Mol
♦toning More than 100
children were reported Ul with
fh» this week, including many
* Of the aoout troop*.*
On Sunday evening a re-dedication
will be held at the First
Church ai the concluding
event of the local obeervance of the
anniversary of the
of America. • A short
ty-aecond
Boy Semite o
will be given by Rev. R. ,_C..
and an interesting moving
“The Scout Trail'’, will be
shown. Frank Creighton, scoot
executive of Wichita Falla, will “he
preoent and will
MYSTERY DEEPENS
WITH FINDING
OF STILL
pros’**". ,......
No definite tttte bas yet been ‘aq*
I—L1 SIS*-IT to be
County officials now. havt a new
mystery on their hands. A few,
days ago they weye trying to-find
an answer to the pnule, “Who stole
the sheriffs'still?" Now the still
has been Jound, but the mystery
is were mysterious than ewes.-In
fact the plot, If any, has thickened
perceptibly. V
After‘a recent raid on a “white
mule” manufacturing plant near the
western county . line, Sheriff Foster
brought in a huge still. It was left
in the jail yard overnight, and the
next morning the prise had vanished.
Early this week a prominent local
citisen received a phone call ap-
prising him of the fact that the miss-
ing still had been discovered in a
tank on hie farm,. ..Of course no
one would think of suspect: ag B. W.
King aM^O’boring ambitions' for a
cursor as s bootlegger, bu< as an
eminent---—■*--*—
a a \ boo
mitn^er
assist with the realises the
limitations |0f circumstantial evi-
dence. ' At; any rate. It might.Jut
of the local bar he
power as wwll as the
Development of County Depicted
In Panels On Courthouse Walls
Rapid profdtt: is now being made
m the new Young county eourthouse.
The walls were finished up' to the
second story this week, end S pier,
intendent Jess WUtiams stated that
*J1 exterior J^. ^raplsud
by March 1. Interior finishing will
go mors slowly, but is expected to
be completed in time for the build-
ing to be used by nrtd-eumnter.
Much interest has been manifested
by local citixens in the construction
work and there is usually to be found
cair
rise and fall of the derrick lifting
the heavy limestone blocks, the
maiiust of which weigh about 150
KKinds. --
1 Even more interest has been
bown in the beautiful decorative
bleta, three of which have been
’l*«ed in the walla during the past
the right, as*' one approaches the
building, is a panel depicting the
agricultural interests, of Young
county, and at the left is a similar
panel devoted to the livestock and
•ill industries. ' Over the west , en-
iranee is a panel showing a pioneer
f cene, reminiscent of the develop-
ment of this section. A similar
panel wil be placed over the eaat
entrance, and over the south entrance
will be a panel commomocsting the
OUTLINE PROGRAM
LEAGUE MEET
IN MARCH
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frontier wilderness found by the
i group of spectators watching the irst spttlers tn Young county. These
The atceetern of the Interaeheles-
tic League have announced the pro-
gram for the Young county meet to
be - held here in March. Tennis
competition, »H-- divisions, has bpeif
scheduled for Friday, March/ 18.
Drawing for places wtH lakc'piacv
at the Dliawnee Country <’4ub at i*
o'clock. On Saturday, March 19,
competition,, in all. divisions of play-
ground ball will take place, begin-
ning at 9 o'clock.
All literary and field events'will
take place on March 25 and 2d, the
program having been announced as
follows-!—-»'
Friday, March 25: 10:00 A. M-, st
Memorial Auditorium—Debate, both
panels were carved by the Texas
-fuarry Company at Austin, from
tone" for tS^rp^TsLred^* *»»■»nd girl, and essay writing.
- * , ^ . . . .11 divisions: 1
, of
bout HO feet below -the surface
^ At^thsjjresent time about 30 men Memory. Arithmetic. Extimpo^m,
all divisions; 1:00 P. M.—-Spelling,
all divisions; 290 P. Ms * Picture
Speaking, Three-It Contest; 2;.30,P.
M,—Music .Memory; 3:80 -P. M.-
are employed on the strueturs,
few days. On the north side dteo-j yhom about one-third, are expert j r'hor,f'ainrin#j ah divisions; 7:00
rative panels have been placed on j tone nlasons end brick layers, and | p M Sbhool and Ward De
tti aetior-.lt' nominate him aa a oonv-
for the banq
participated in by the three local mittee of one to provide an answer
the Newoastle and for the perplexing question: How,
sr
South Bend troops, and the mothers
^and tether* ot lho boys.
The banquet will be served In the
boys’ recreation room in the base-
ment of the Auditorium at 7 $0
o'clock, and a program will be given
' In the »ain auditorium following the
dinner. Hf. 0. Wood has charge
tf the baKq**t arrangements, with
the assists see of mothers of boys
from each troop who will
M. Harbor* la eeeutmaster, - will
the food.
---* • - „ luncheon Tuesday plans were dis-
Troep One,, of which * |ens»#d f6r sponsoring improvements
have change of an informal program
*-**- *-----* Rev. Oscar T.
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during tbs banquet
Moline, pastor of*. First Christian
Church and x member of tee troop
committee, will preside as -toastmas-
ter.
v Following the banquet a program
arranged .by Troop Three and their
M —ill k.
tor. o. C. Payne, will be
Stunts will he staged
of the- asset troops,. tho
nature of these to b4 kept secret
Until tke time of presentation. A
general “get-together” for the boys
and their parents will also be held
TO ADDRB88 STL'DENTS
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H. B. Hackleman, prominent in-
sura nee man of Dallas, will speak
to the high school students tomor-
at 2:46 o’clock tn
_____ with the essay contest
sponsored by Raymond C. Riggs.
why, and by whom Waa the sheriffs
still removed to his farm?
C. Of C. Sponsors
Work At Cemetery
each ride of tho main entrance At
Tri-County Lay
Meeting To Be
r‘ Held H»e Mon.
Pioneer Resident
Claimed By Death
Tuesday Afternoon
Are Expected
• To Participate
4j,
On the first four days of neXS
month Graham will be host to repre-
sentatives from nine counties for a
Rural Drama School to be xMdwted
at Che Memorial Auditorium. Tha
school will BS'conducted by an . oat-
standing director of -drama from tho
extension headquarters at Washing-
ton.
A course of instruction will be
given in general dramatic study,
make-up,' setoctigtV of plays, simple
t
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•The First Christian Church here
I will be host Monde/ evening, Febru-
j tone nlasons and brick layers^ and ■ p M _Hi(fh school and Ward
(—he others ordinary laborers. cl.-niation at the Memorial Auditor-
ium,-smd Rurbl Declamation »t the
Shawnee Auditorium.
-Saturday. March 26: 9::t0 A. M.
—Ctstoi A and Class B Senior Track
preliminaries at Fair Park and Jun-
ior .-Track and Field, all classes, at
the high school football field; 1:30 P.
M.—Class A and B High School
Senior Track and Field j|hsi*.
and inexpensive Stage
and other features of amateur thea-
trical -work. Tentative .plans ho*W
also been made to stage the one-art
play., contest to decide the tie left at
the close of the competition at the
Young County Fair last fall. . At
that time it’was impossible to In-
clude the. Tonk Valley production
the program, as only six play*
be presented on the two evenings
allotted to this feature. 5 Red T«W
end Tsrridg- tied for firtf plane of
the. six plays corneting, leaving the
final honors to be decided between
the three communties.
i
dt n[hu
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ion en
could
the school include: Jones, Shackel-
A targe crowd attended the funer-
al service Held-for K. L. Weed Wed-
--T *’ iary. 16 to the Tri-County Layman’s.Jiesday morning st 10 o’clock at the
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At the Chamber of
to be made at Oak Grove Cemetery.
A. committee composed of Fred T.
Arnold, E. g. Graham, and X. T.
Qllasac has charge aBBa work, and | invat^tfan.
stod by committees to
Meeting, -fay workefs ** from the
Commerce various Christian churches of Young,
Stephens, and Jack counties will be
in attendance.
A banquet will be given as the'
opening feature ti the program. *11.
L. Leberman ob Olney will give the
family'
District Head To
will to assisted by committees to be
appointed by the Rotary abd Lions
clubs.
It is the purpose of the organi-
sation to provide adequate improve-
ment of the space which was addsd
to the eeipetery come time ago. This
arts'wiB > be leveled and the‘ditches
eliminated. -*r
Fred T- Arnold, chairman, ef the
‘reports that. "
Moline, pastor of the First Christian
Church, conducted the service, using
as his text, First ' Shmuel 20:3.
“Truly as- the Lord liveth, and my
sour ltveth, there ts but one stop
between me and death.”
Visit Lions Club
Knox, Baylor, Hall and Young. Each
county may. send four delegatee, aa
well as the eounty and home demon-
stration agents. The four Me-'
gates are to include one man, asm
woman, one hoy, and one girt
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"(vilophane" wa*" the subject of
an interesting talk given by Mac
(Had at l-ptctueh'Tuesday
ing'Ted by Clint Burris of Newcastle, wftereiem*. lie had been in (D health
Williams at the Lions’ Club luncheon
'W^tr^mdr......Mr. Wiihamv told of
time the local club will hold open
house. An invitation will also' bn
■extended to Julien. C. Hyer of Fort
Worth, international governor of the
Liens’ Club, fed be present.
'
the discovery of cellophane by a
European scientist and its introduc-
„—____________________—.-----------___tion into the United States in 1926.
will be given by Judge J. P. Simpson, Robert ^Lee Reed was bom near jje trqced various improvements in
the manufacture of cellophane, which
Judge S. A. Penix will deliver the
address of welcome, end the response
for a long tijn* »”d critically ill for
about two weeks.
secretary of the Tri-County Layman's
Board, of Jacksboro. "Our needs
in the District and Our Supply”
wjj) M the subject of an address to
Pulaski, Tennessee, on July 4,. 1865.
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Walton League rians s ~
For Opening Of Late
At a meeting of th« Isaak Waltan
be given br J- M, Rieger of Breek-
Texas.
Kinney,
united in
making his home at Mc-
At the age if ci M Wf
did not assume a place 1 of very, Monday night plana foe tim
ijrreat rommerclM Importance until: y^’s program were di--
enridge, president of the Tri-County Florence Martin.
Layman’s Board.
marriage to Miss Jesse 8n[d
*931- when 25 billion^ pounds of “it ' V*-------
> . i planned.
wrarra
the WfflinJIlfBK
tentative' .plans for
____ To thia union
three sons and four daughters were
manta have been made with the local following the banquet there will born: L. Raymond Reed of Lubbock:
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Mi's. H. W. Luce of Orxfordj. Mm-
S. *L. Richardson of Megargle, and
be a ten minute intermission, and at
8:40 another program, will )» given
with . Lee CJark of Randolph College,
commissioner for use df county equip-
ment in leveling this surface. It
will be necessary to pay all expenses ,
end to furnish the, necessary labor. Cisco, as the principal speaker. Round Misses Lucille and Roberta Redd
The estimated' coat will be about
mob.”, , j
Mr. Arnold Stated that it will be
nresident £ t>TcilTtorVCom-'Ed'"''"*" were outlitwd. Deflnlto
"-TTtr. 2, In- (- w. -«•• —*
=tBfc77tia Ufged tils active support «»*-*•***►,
of all Lion members In carrying on
the’ 1932 program Of the commence!
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Judges For November Election Are
Selected By Commissioners' Court
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- At the tegular meeting of the
Young County Commissioners’ Court
Monday election judges and clerks
to serve at the November election
were selected at follows:
West Graham (Precinct 1)—W. M.
Matthews, presiding judge; G. D.
ftntnmTT. W. Seddon, T. R, Wallace.
Bunger (Precinct 1)—G., W. Ma-
haney, presiding judge; T.* M. Bun-
ger.
South Bend (Precinct 8)—Lnvrton
Llt»a-
Burtiett, presiding judge; W. F. Lind
ley, W. M. Goode, Jr., and F. T.
Kennedy.
Ella*vilie (Precinct «)-Wlll Dart*,
presiding judge; A. A. Donnell, Lois
- .Newell, and L. I. Lajme.
Murray (Precinct M—O. C. Robin-
son, preolding judge; P. T. Walsh,
E. B. Brock, and Sam Wootten.
MUler Bend (Pt seine t 6)—Edd
Reeves, presiding judge; W. Cl’^le-
Canister. 7 l ■
, Newcastle (precinct 7)—R. K.
f Halm, presiding }»%•; J» W. Bul-
5K
lock, Clint
C. WU-
llama, 8r.
8)—J. 0. Lewis,
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table discussions of “Our Latent
Forees; Applying Our Resource* to
Our Needs” will be held as follows:
“Preparing Our Men for Such Need-
ed'Work”, led by Floyd^Jones ai
Breckenridge; “Preparing the' Com-
munities for the Men*’, led by^M. W.
Sarsfield of Graham; “Examples ol
Such Work”, led by M. C. Jackson
of Jacksboro. Musical numbers will
he given by Geqrge Cherryhomes of
jacksboro and a Breckenridge quartet.
Those planning jo s’tend the ban-
quet are asked to no’lfy Rev. Oscar
T. Moline. A oharge of 50 cents
South Olney (Precinct 11)'— Rhea
Anderson, presiding judge; DeWitt
McClalchcy, J. H. Brown, and Cath-
erine Manton. ‘
Markley (Precipet 12)_F. M. «M-|pse nlate will be made,
more, presiding Judge; J. Claude Cul-
ts*. ._ . -
OrW (Precinct 13)—Bob Snudley,
presiding judge; J. T. Lowe.
Bitter Greek (Precinct 14)-*J. L
Cattleman, presiding judge; A Wil-
kqrn., “ ~.
Loving (PrecinH 1A)—G. A. Bills;
presiding judge; Q. E^Burdick, W.'H,
Baker, H. O. Mlllican. f*
Red Top (Precinct lt\r~Tom *G.
He is also survived by one brother,
A. C. Reed if' Pulaski, Tennessee;
and three siajers, Mrs. Ida Walker
of Oklahoma City, Mrs, W.,D. Scott
of Frederick, Oklahoma, and Mrs.
Mary Loo Douglass;..«nd ton-grand-
children. _•
Mr. Ried. had been a resident of
Graham for the past 34 years, dur-
ing which , time he was connected
with several business firms. Aa a
young man he became a member Of
the Presbyterian Church, but, in the
summer of 1907 united with the
First Christiah Church here.
Active pallbearers for the service
Wednesday morning were: l’lay
organization.
Plans were discussed far efiter-'
raining the district governor 'Of the
Miss l«i* Babb has as* her house
guests Mrs. P. K. Giffln and'lit*,
daughter, Mrs. Fred Blais, and Miss
Bernice Smith, all ®f Dallas. Mis*
Lions’ Club, Horace ("ondley off Bash Smith will he an attendant ia the
and. Mr. Condley will visit .here 1 wedding of Miss Bebb, to Vaugtva
sliiMH1 March 8 or March 10, St wHteh 1 Young on February 14.
Murray To Play Olney Quintet For
Basketball Championship Of County
The Murray quintet won the has-1 the last half Eliasville was held te
ke»ball championship of the south | a single counter, while Murray aa-
half of the county in a decisivre vk- j neaed S aatgta during the third quar-
tory over Elihsvillc TuestiayJnight. j er and 5 during the, fourth, ’.to;—
’his ■ eiititlcs—the Murray team. to+ The game was fast and was feS-
Gamble Quail To
Be Brought Here
' er. T. E- Matthews, R. V. Tidwell,
F'loyd M»im, Jack Wsshbum. and
Bill Stewart. . Honorary paHl^arers
inokided: A. C. Andefson, I. B. Pad-
gett, W. D. Spivey, E. H. Corley,
plaJT'Ghtoy, winner of the DPtlh. half , turn) by the close guarding of Gold-
9Mft-
The Focal Izaak Walton I>»gue has
been "notified by the State , Game
Department that 50 Gamble quail
Sffr. to be sent to this county. These
quail, which were obtained through
Bdtler, presiding judge; H. M. Bur- the efforts of Senator Beti G. Oneal
W. M. Matthews, R. M. Williams. W.
C. MeCrew, A. D. Stiwart.
—v°-*p»toin>.ip The first of the: lejt of the Murray five was high
championship gam?* wed be jilayed • point man, with 8 points, while
tonight at Eliasville and the second j Hjsmiljoa was second with.4 points,
tomorrow night at Olney. .Jlj. three | oWer, with 4 points, *u high for
games are necessary to decide the j the losers. ' Coach Ivan Oliver 44
Huftetuttie (Precinct 18)—A. M.
Jones, presiding judge; O. R. Jones.
Jean (precinct 20)—James G. (Bta-
ples, presiding judge; A. J. Cantwell,
R H. Gray, and H. J. Marita.
Padgett (Precinct 19)—Will Rohin-
R. L. Herd.
_____ L.
Ribble,
East _
Judge; & Boyd
of Wichita Falls, will bo brought
from Sierra Blanca. They are to
be placed in four different portions
Miss Ruby Ksy of Vernon waa the
guest of Miss Marguerite Campbell
here last week-end. Miss Key, who
waa a- classmate of Mise Campbell
at T. W. C., la now teaching In the
Vernon high school.
county honor*, the time and place Jacksboro refereed the game. The
for the.game will be agreed upon line-ups were:
later. ' | Murray: Shifflett and Taylor, foe-
«——a — v:_ wards;" Hamilton, center; Golden and
Moreland, guards.
Eliasville; Dunnam and Akers, ter-
party In order that they
molested. ’
The Gamble quail are said to be
larger than blue quail, andrtt*jnaW lnF furiously
several days.
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ter of Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Edwards,
is reported to be improved after be-
lli with tnfluensa for
bird la distinguished by a top-knot
The last game of the .'round robin
for the sodth half of the county wap
1 played here Tuesday night on. the
court at the Memorial Auditorium,
Murray defeating Eliasville by a
score Of - 2® to 8. Both qomtets
showed great, speed and power,
though the strength of the Muring Buys I It terect III
lads was a surprise to many tena
the teat Elieeville
favorites.
wards; Glover, center;
ti*i Hi am*, guards; _
Roberta, sobatTtutea. “
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Spears, George T. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1932, newspaper, February 11, 1932; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884347/m1/1/: accessed May 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.