The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1940 Page: 1 of 20
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ESTABLISHED AUGUST 16. 1876.
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GRAHAM. TEXAS.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 1*. 194#.
NUMBER NINE.
rdia
iwel Bobo
rdis of Mine Bead
as secretary to
them High SchooL
Jewel Bobo, who
ihonift.
?ht In the Mint
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■Jfrirst National Bank Observes Golden Anniversary
Registration Of 3000
Young County Men Oct. 16
HOME OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BROTHER MBS
wired • teletriha
it his brother, R.
irtanbnrt. Sooth
rday ni*bV
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Scores To Aid
In Making Record
Of Registrants
Supplies have arrived and plane
are bi the making for registering
more then 3,Mf> men in Young comity
next Wednesday, October 16, for the
Selective Service Draft for thg U. S.
Government’s national defense pro-
gram.
County Clerk Ben Johnson has
been working hard all this week in
getting details worked out for the
big job next Wednesday. According
Draft Board
Is Announced
For This County
John J. Galiaher of Graham, G.
Dillard Hinson of Graham, and T. C.
Butler of Red Top compose the
Selective Service Draft Board for
Young county.
This hoard was announced by Gov-
ernor W. Lee O’Danlei Tuesday night,
along with the names of boards for
every county in Texas.
The board members are to serve |
without pay, out of patriotic duty to |
| their country in the national defense I
tq instructions from the President
and from the Governor, all election! emergency, and under the new law re
Judges of the county will arrange i Passed by the Congress, The
for holding the registration at the' ™"rd* werp recommended to the
respective regular election boxes. A1 "esident of the United States ami
meeting of these judges has been
called at the Court House for Satur-
day morning, Oct. 12, U) o’clock, for
instructions. ’ ■ ■ ■>
Registration will be conducted at
all the twenty-three boxes in the
county, except Iudfaf Mound and
at arrmn
the appointments come'from the Fed-
eral government to which the mem-
bers are responsible.
Young county’s board is composed
of well known, outstanding citizens,
j Galiaher is SO years old, served in
^______ ___I the tT. S. Navy prior to the last
Henry Chapel, but arrlngTments have I War and during the last war
been made for ail men who live in ‘““gh‘ 1m‘l,t!r* I*"1-* “ t C Gra'
those precincts to register in the lh*ra Hl*h Scho°'- He was Mayor
West Graham box, in the Court
Graham School* 50
Year* Ago Enrolled
1800 Here Now
Graham schools show outstand-
ing comparative growth of Gra-
ham during the jjpst fifty years,
simp* the (First National Bank
today celebrating its Golden Anni-
versary, had its beginning
A report of the Graham Public
Schools October 1. 1830. published
in the Graham Leader of that
date, showed a total enrollment of
167, 23 absent. 18 tardy and the
average percentage, attendance of
97- Of these there were fifteen
in the first grade. 24 in second
grade, 23 in third grade, 28 in
fourth grade, 38 in fifth grade, 33
in seventh grade and six in the
eighth grade, the highest the stu-
dents could go in the schools here
in those days. A. P. Vaughn was
superintendent here then.
Superintendent t. T Gilmer
said today that the Graham
Schools now will have a total en-
rolment of more than 1800 this
school year with fifty-three teach-
ers. There are twelve grades now,
and with recently added courses
in High School for additional af
filiation credits a boy or girl can
find enough subjects in the High
School alone to study eleven years.
PRESIDENT
CASHIER
The election judges of the jrespec-
ttve boxes sre Instructed to arrange
All necessary tables, pens, chairs, etc.,
necessary Men and women who een
write or print well are volunteering
to assist hi the work. The weft PHf-'*1'
I storing reply to questions on the
card to be fitted out and the persons
serving as clerks in the election box
fill out the cards for them. The
name end addreae of each registrant
must be printed on the card. A re-
cent ruling says men within the draft
age may also help tn taking the reg-
— titrations of others at Hie peBs.
There will he an American flag
unfurled at each registration booth.
EL A severs penalty baa been peovid. ,
ed by law Tor any man between the
age ef >1 and 36 who does not rag
of Graham four years, former presi-
dent cf the Graham Chamber of Com-
merce and is a director of the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce. He
(Continued on page 2—Sec 1)
FISHING
AROUND
By Trout
It’s time (6 be planning for the
planting of more trees in Graham,
right soon. Graham needs more-trees
—plan to plant them.
see.
Many Join In
Celebration; Open
House On Friday
Fifty-Seventh Anniversary
As Banking institution;
Fiftieth Year As
' National Bank
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the
First National Bank in Graham as a
national bank, and its fifty-seventh
anniversary as a banking institution,
is lieing celebrated by the officers,
directors and employes of that bank
this week
Open house is beihg observed at the
bank Friday. Ot. It, from !> a. nr. to
3 pm with, friend?, patrons and vis-
itors cordially invited.
A number of out of-town bankers
and prominent business men of this
section of Texas arc expected to be
in Graham Friday for the celebration.
There will be revieWed on this Oc-
casion the long history of this fi-
-j-nsnetal institution extending over s
period of mote than half a century,
j closely identified with the progress
| of the county and its many kinds of
business and industry.
i There will be in the front section
I of the bank building Friday an inter-
| eating display of old documents and
papers, old money and other relies
j of the past, revealing many facta
j pertaining to business practices and
customs of the earty day*
"A’ffiWe WUIIH RIKliry rtf the WT
orgAH3UNMh and its changes from
time to time and itS improvements
is found on the first page of section
two of this edition of the Graham
Leader.
Very few changes have been mado
r
Contract Let
To Close Dan
J The Brazos River Conservation and
| Reclamation Board in session in Tem-
j pic this week approved contract for
' closing of dam gates of the Possum
1 Kingdom dam, voted to consolidate the
Temple office with the Mineral Wells I jn tho present organization of dirse-
GRAHAM P. STEWART
■■ut MamlaM vnnit he registered. 1 was ca
JAMFB G. STAPLES
j .Staplw sms ham. .i 1 ’<>n .[Temple. -
he was reared, am
graduated from Pdhder High School
| office and agreed to put up $570,000
with the courts as guarantee of pay-
ment to landowners who recently
sought, and were refused an injunc-
tion against closing the gates of the
mm. ' ~—“—’—’——’—“
A. A. Morrison, of Graham, mem-
ber of the board, returned to Gra-
ham Wednesday night after meet-
ing with the board three days in
whan the British General Howe’s dog wher* h,» father, Willis T. Stewart,
.ad «..rvwh.re must be registered. '**! captured by sentinels, during “ former cashier, and director of the ! After graduation he was _
„ . . . . f _ i the Revolutionary wsr. General Hirst National Bank in Graham, was by the Ponder State Bank as book- The
Rule, end regulation, for '“Ting ^ to engsged In the livestock snd mer.1’ -
the dog back to the English ,~ntilp business.
Mr. Stewart is a grandson of Mai-
The $570,000 1* to be put up in ac-
cord with a recent Supreme Court
tors, official- and employes in a num-
ber of years. ti
Scores of visitors will be heartily
welcomed at the open house Friday
by the bank’s President, Graham
Stewart, one of the beet known beak-
ers in Texas. Also James G. Staples
Cashier, also prominent ip financial
affairs of this section will help greet
the friends and patrons who will call
to offer congratulations and beet
Wishes to this firogreiwive henk'oiC^"*'
ganization. Others of the bank's per-
sonnel include Blake Allison, Assist-
ant the provisions of the Selective
Service Act were provided in a proc-
lamation by President Franklin D.
(Continued on page 2—Sec. 1)
Camera Club’s
New Photo Contest
Plans for s photo contest for the
heart meeting on October 28 were an-
nounced at n meeting of the Graham
Camera Club Wednesday evening.
Members drew titles and will make
pictures to fit the titles. Instead of
the usual selecting of title* to fit the
The next meeting will be a
room demonstration of different types
of printing paper.
Commander under a flag of truce,
along with a nota to the owner.
e e e
To n talklesa barber goes great
distinction of having Stayed longer in
the White House perhaps than any
other man. He has heard the secrets
ef President, from Roosevelt I
Roosevelt IT, without ever talking to
them. So desirelees Is he of talking
that he refused to give hie name to
eolm G. Stewart, who settled in Jack
county in 1874, and he is also a grand-
son of G. A. Graham, one of the early
settlers of Graham. '
At the death of the father, the fam-
ily moved to Fort Worth, where Mr.
Stewart attended high school, becom-
ing connected with one at. the Fort
Worth banks in his late boyhood,
spending fifteen years in various po-
sitions in the banking business in
that city.
keeper snd Assistant Cashier, where
he remained for about three years.
He later became associated with the
Haslet State Bank as Cashier and
Director.
In the early part of 1920, Mr.
Staples left the employ of the Haslet
State Bank to become associated with
the late J. W. Spencer of Fort Worth
in the organization of the Jean State
Bank, Jean. Texas. Upon completion
of this organization, Mr. Staples was
Cashier ahd Director of the Jean
bank, for a period of twelve years,
until the Jean State Bank merged
employed ; decision as guarantee to-landowners. . .
'-i-vr
Lytcl and Johnson origin.! contra- Jafk Stewar£ bootteper.
tor, on the dam. to close the gates Q p hoMdepge> .Bd Un
when the court s order has been Mdo ^ Touch,tone. stenographer.
The board of directors includes
i Graham Stewart, P K. Peats, H. B.
W. B. Fultz, A. B. Eddle-
R. J. Kirtley of EliasvtDe was
Graham on business Wednesday.
in the
every
day—76,000 each year, and 8,500 peo-
ple are burned to death in rural com-
munities each year. One third of
the national fire loss, or $100,000,000
occurs on farms. Examine your
(Continued from page 1, Section 1)
High School Homecoming and First
Conference Game With Vernon To Draw
Hundreds To Graham Friday - r-,—-
” ..! j
^Hueham Friday will be best to hun-
dreds «f ex-students from over a
wide aaaa who will return far the sec-
ond annual homecoming of the Gra-
ham High School and the first con-
ference game of the season with the
Y—on Uoaa hern (Friday night.
Ths Mene^emtog wffl^ really^gei
giant pep rally and demonstration to
ha held an tho
Director, with the First National Bonk in Grs-
*-|ham on January. 18, 1982.
n-j Through this merger, Mr. Staples
nection with the institution began !>ecame employed with the First Na-
in January, 1928. as Cashier, being'tionsl Bank as Assistant Cashier, and
elected to the presidency in 1927, on June SO, 1982, was elected Cashier
which position he has held since that of this bank. At the stockholders
time. meeting the following January, hr
Mr. Stewart served three years as was elected Director of the First Na-
President of ths local’Chamber of tional Bank.
Commerce, and for many years was Upon coming to Graham. Mr.
one of Its Directors, and also served Staples identified himself with var-
as a Director of the Younr County ioua civic organizations and immedi-
final. The order is expected to be (
made fipal sometime this month by j
the Supreme Court, probably by Oct. street w g. Fultz,
20. I | man and James G. Staples.
In'a strttf economy program voted j„ a double page ad, in section two
by the board, the technical personnel of this nnper is carried comparative
at Mineral Wells will be reduced, sd financial statements of October 6,
ihtntutrattve 'salaries wffl be reducer 1990. And oT Timber 9; ty rtew-
(Continued on back page. Section 1) (Continued on back page. Section 1)
school and t
Probable starting lineup far the
Graham team, as announced by Coach
Rom, will be:
One Pioacer Coigratilates flaatbar
{An Editorial)
We are proud of Graham’s two good, substantial banks, indis-
pensible, both of them. The First National Bank in Grahaun and
the Graham National Bank, which have served commendaNy
in sustaining business, agricultural and industrial activity
through many years. Both of these banks are managed by gen-
tlemen-cititens of the highest type.
And it is an occasion for special recognition, an unusual
epoch in the history of this section, when one of these. The First
National Bank in Graham passes its half century milestone. Good
_. „ banks and good newspapers are indispensible for community
F»ir Association and waa one of the atoly became a member of the Lion* progress "
Pair Association’, organizer.. He Club, and has served a. a director v The Graham Leader has special pride in extending congratu
lations on this occasion. The Graham leader, oldest business in-
stitution in Young county, and oldest newspaper in Nortifcmst
. r . ... —. member of Tex**> now to iu Hxty-flfth yoar of publication, has been a coa-
! temporary of the First National, which has been a banking inati-
Commerce ^Ting MrT^ a. Dteector tution f#p years, and the Leader was fifteen years old
♦»... » and in |on8 when thlB institution was organised as a nation-
al bank.
_ _ * When a bank has had sustained service half a otBftfy ft
■z L'anW ia n ac means two things—first that high ideals and genuine integrity
live director «f «k* North Central »»* *>und business practices have been maintained by its man-
i men to insure growth and ataMl ky and safety far inveetmeeAs in
ha, alao aorved a. Chairman of the and hap been active on various com
Young County Democratic Commit- mitteea during the put several years,
toe and at present he is a Trustee of He likewise immediately . became n
the Graham Maaaarial Auditorium.
Mr. Stewart is also engaged hi the
livestock burincM. s
AUNT OP GRAHAM WOMAN
RHCEIVMB INJURIES
Left end, Hunter; left tackle, Dav-
ie; left guard, R. Butler; center,
Vaughn; right guard, Lhrtngood;
right tackle, Cochran; right end,
OHseu; tetft half. Price; right half.
ConkHu; fullback, Haberthur; quar- paurn in semen nanuanum in aaar-i
torbAek. B. U Caldwell. Un following a tell in which oho re-!
will rsgjstor at solved a brehan kip. Mias Welsh has
» Graham several Oases and
of that organisation a number of
years, and is immediate past presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce,
haring served as president fer the
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Word has been received here by
Mm Milton gaoddy that her auat.
Mis* lallte Welsh of Oroeebock. is a ’Traaearer rt that
q«ar* paUent in Tolbart Sanitarium in Mar- the past three years.
HOSPITAL NEWS
A. P.
Hat* off.
bask m>
is honor to
ante rpriaaa of that community,
those sturdy raw who maaa—d this
wall through the stormy years of long ag* aad to thasa
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Trout, H. I. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1940, newspaper, October 10, 1940; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1064007/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.