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THE GRaRAM LEADER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939.
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The Graham Leader
PaMLhed tmy Thursday at Ora-
ham, T»*as, and antarad at tha PM
Office u second-class mail matter,
wader act of Congress of Muck
«. 1879
Qm. T. Smui. '
Owner
■. L Trent ' ’ Editor and Managf
Babecriptloa Rataa
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R0T1CE: Any erroneous reflection
apon the character, standing or
aapatation of any person, Arm or
sery oration which may appear in tha
columns of The Leader, will be gladly
eerracted upon ita being brought to
tee attention of the publishers.
■EMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL'
ASSOCIATION.
Critical Times
BIBLE THOUGHT ■
Blessed be tlW God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, . . . in
whom, though now we See him not,
yet believing, we rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory.—
I Pet. i. 8.
Go, speed the stars of thought
On to-their shining goals:— I
The sower scatters broad*- his seed, j
The wheat thou strew’st be souls, r
—Emmerson.
very talkative and he quizzed i Temperatures got so low that
me about everything between1 tha moisture : emu filing on the
try
heaveh and earth.
| “When we reached the part-
ing of our ways he handed me
| the biggest fifty cents 1 ever
saw in my life and ever hope
to see again, which I used in
accepting the position offered
me.
“I know that job was the re-
sult of prayer, and I have had
many such answers since I
am convinced that a life found-
ed on prayer in the spirit of
the lowly Nazarene is the most
comforting life one can live.”
GETTING WARMER
__________ ... Ht
trees froze and burst the tree-
trunk- with a noise like mus-
ket fire all over the woodlands.
It is not likely that there will
ever be another Winter so se-
vere as that. And it is not
likely that anyone now living
will pick strawberries in Jan-
uary on the shores of Hudson
Bay.
But there is evidence that
before the last Ice Age, out of
which the earth is still slowly
emerging, tropical vegetation
grew in Greenland, and we may
be coming back to that,
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Y
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Den One Hat
Fifth Meeting
Friday Afternoon
More
2S
tz
AAA
ef
to shook
to latest
s:
lervstiun
Sought
tho MW
not diffe
of 1968,
Texas am
•roas by
Just now, while all of Eu-
rope is experiencing the cold-
est Winter in 80 years, it is
cheerful news which scientists
bring us that the world is act-
ually getting warmer
Many of us
that for a long time. Who has seated the Den flag to the Dsn
not heard his grandfather or Mother.
some other elderly person re- A moving picture show was «n-
mark that “Winters ain’t like joyed by the boys. At the close
they used to be when I was a of the meeting Mrs. E. R. Riggs,
sn sere I
With
Den One of the Cub Scouts had
their fifth meeting Friday. Jan. 18.
The t ubs reviewed the bobcat test,
havfe suspected! *tter which the P»* m»*cot Pr»-
spreadar
from 40
ear feet.
For coi
boy.'
It was the fashion for a long
time to dismiss such remini-
scences with the philosophical
comment.
But now that research into
r
Den mother,
fudge.
served popcorn and
Today’s bit of philosophy: Mark
Twain once said, “A certain amount
IX? S? prevenbT^hlra ft
SOME CHEERING
STATISTICS
come more scientific, the men1 ,7"
'who study'such things are be- brood,n over the faet that "•
■ginning to agree that in the
northern hemisphere
We’re getting richer. That is
the gist of the report just is-
sued by the department of
Commerce on the incomes of
the American people. We have-
n’t got back to where we were
in 1929, when the average in-
come of every American, man,
woman and child, vtei
but for the year 1937 the aver-
WHEN THE
FIREMEN CALL
If two firemen come to your
door, writes Paul W. Kearney
In This Week Magazine, “by all
means let them in. They are
visiting you simply because
they want to avoid a later call
in rubber coats and boots.”
<T
Mr. Kearney describes the
“I Was At the End
at least,
the climate is getting warmer.
The records of the United
| opened at a certain chapter in grates Weather Bureau run
ne XI,:___I p____St Matthew and read: ‘ What- on]y to 1871( but ]ocai
Ut I lungs—1 rrayed j soever ye shall ask in prayer. records have ]**„ kept for
' - believing, ye shafll receive.’ Aft- more than a hundred years in
One of the most interesting' ®r, r®ading thl8’ ] prayed as .numerous cities. Recent stud-
pieces of reading we have seen I ■* **ad never prayed before, and ^ ;e8 0f 8Utb records show that
in a long time was under the!?"'y ab on? caP P*!ay who J8 in Boston now has the kind of
ahovn title—«« article wMrh,"1* very slough of despond. |winters that Baltimore had a
“That night I spent in a century ago.
QUICK RELIEF FROM
STOMACH ULCERS
due to EXCESS ACID
Free Reek Tells •» Mervslewe
Him Treetment that Mute Me*
er It Will Ceet Yeu
onroos million bottim tek
thkatmknt i»w r
above title—an article which
appeared in Liberty Magazine
recently, being the personal ex-j barn.- I was too weak and tired) The Winter of 1837-38 used
perience of R. H. Holliday, I to pray, but my thoughts were to be spoken of by old New
Rocky Mount, N. C. Here it is: I sincere. I was up and on the Englanders as “eighteen-hun-
but for the year 1837^tne avei> voluntary tome inspection cam- , “Yes* \ "as &r0ke—#"e of highway early. I had not gone dred and - froze - to - death.”
age income was *540, which • j which an increasingibrokest persons in the.very far when I saw a maga-
£ a better than the number of communities in var- world. For, at the age of 37,!zine on the side of the road,
** oi •• 4 i j ious population brackets are!1 hRcl net only lost a life’s sav-1 which I picked up. It carried
Statistics ane wiring, ana joinjng The atati9tics tel| the mg but my wijl to carry on as several pages of school adver-
ofteh nusleading. but it is in- s When, for instance, wel1- 1 had tost the little ce-; tiaing. I wrote one of the
terestrig to learn that the total r ’-----—7i
The
■ £JsF^'%
from another. In the d first chance I had never taken be- not know how I would reach
Providence, R. I„ campaign,: fore- • I am a school teacher, this town, but I di^ in about
1.680 tons of similar dangerous by training and experience. I i five days. I called for my mail.
record of over
low the 1929
81 billions.
A billion is such a big fig-
ure that it doesrit mean much w’HsU, an averaJfe of 43 pounds [had taught for about 18 years.* and was handed a letter sent
ks. it is easier to per home Wag carted to the My financial ventures were,by air mail, offering me a job
to most folks.
TSk’SSS two
people in each town ana every ,-K.n om
thousand oed at once ^rom 201.
a Many can show similar rec-
billion chickens. ords. And such vital safety
One of the heartening things • worka? this shouttf notbecon-
one of them haviim ,a thousai
chickens. That w<jhWvrnalye'
suit irf the total loss of all that
I had earned, and inherited
from my father’s estate.
“Somewhere in the Cumber-
land fountains, after having
“Well, I had a job, and not
a penny for a telegram or
transportation. Now I had
something definite , in view
which not only gav& me TiopS
but courage and physical stam
about the Department of Com- fined to large communities, j tramped”theliighwVy^forlhree, uul
nv-rce report on incomes is with established full-time fire days with littUs 8Ucceaa of 8e.|jna So j walked through the
PT' Curing. ridea «nd after having; little town with my head up.
country earned more than they siblc through cooperative ac-|s-one for more than two days) bl,t in the meantime muttering
spent. Not the govei nment, tion for every small town to wjthout a bite to eat and a place ‘God, help me. Please, God,
but the people themselves. work with state and county to sleep_with back aRainst help me.’ I took my stand on
We accumulated a surplus in fire authorities in inaugurat- therv.ail. so to «ne»lr I «t I. I
we accumuiaceu a surplus ure auuioru.es .n .naugu.at- the^wall, so to speak. I sat a concerete bridge on ,the west-
the shape of savings hank de- mg and < a- ; v.ng on thejie vo - down on the gjde of th road ern ,uburb of fhis town
pc«ts and bus ness r^rve^ untery campaigns. In fact. to rest. It so happened that and the very first man I
- Awokhw interesting fart ____
ilk irtio long string of figures is rural areas, where thousands ment jn
that more than two-thirds of1 of farm homes and barns con- ______
all the money spent by every- tain useless, dangerous junk,
body in the whole nation ih jn some cities where this
1937 went for salaries, and plan has been tried there has
wa'fees, which is an increase heen a 50 per cent drop in
ovr*r previous years. dwelling fires. As Mr. Kearney
There is so much talk on all savs, "This is no small result
sides about the trouble so many ln a nation which has 1,000
folks have in making both ends dwelling fires a day—which
m,3et that army of us seem to has burned more than a billion
hnve been bitten -by the “pov- dollars’ worth of homes in the
erty bug.’ Such figures as last deesde—which has pseen
*h~se cited should make us all residential blazes increase 40
f«?e! more cheerful. America per cent since 1925. And it is
is far from broke. in residential blazfes that 75
ner cent of our fird deaths
my pocket, which 11176 miles.
very
-for- -
My benefactor was
Ctiri-.n Odell Denton visired ihalf of them children) occur?’
friends here Sunday. —— — , ■
- \ According to Dr. Margaret(
Mi-t Bennie Lee Smith, who has Schlaueh, assistant professor of Eng-1
been ill for several days at the lish at New York University, the
teart-rs* dormitory, la uuidt. ira= .-present womart’3 movement i« a
prove,1. ' | modern version of Icelandic condi-
Miss -Edna Wilkins spent Sunday tions ir. the tenth and eleventh cen-
in Burkburnett. 1 turies.
Bronchial Coughs
Need Creomulsion
Jmt a common cough, a cheat cold,
or a bronchial irritation of today may
lead to eertoua trouble tomorrow. They
may be relieved now with ( n’uinteslon,
an emulsified Creosote that la pleasant
te take. Creotmilalon la a medicinal
deatensd to eld nature In
1^ healln^mf ectedhmuocuw
and bv aiding ln looacn-
d expelling rerm lade
Medical Protea
ledical Prof radon haa for gen-
recognlaed the beneAdal effect
hwnod Creoeou In (tie treat
now ln Creomulteon you get a good
Beech wood Creoaote
doee of genuine ____
which le palatable and may be taken
frequently by both adulte and children.
Creomulsion la one |
IT’S THE BIG CHIEF LUMBER COMPANY
WHO MAKES THE LOWEST CASH PRICES ON
BUILDERS MATERIAL IN TEXAS.
(Steam Kiln Dried)
Per 100 Bd. Ft.
2x4 Ne. 2, 8 to 14 feet ..................................... $i.80
2x6 No. 2. 8 to 14 feet ............. 1........................ 2.75
1x4 No 2 ...............................................2 40
1x6 No. 2 Rough ............................................. 2.75
1x8 NO. 2 Shlplap ................................«.,....... 2.90
1x6 No. 2 Siding .....................................j.70
13-11!x;! 14 inches no. 2 ..."............7................7.....14.71
13-16x214 Inches No. 1......................................... g.oo
Windows
24x24—2 Lt. Check rail ......*................................11.40
24x26—2 Lt. Check rail ...................................... 142
96x26—2 Lt Check rail ..........................■............ 166
8x10—8 Lt: ~Plate*"R«H—r.-.-TTrwrnirrxrrmi 1 ..................-1.04
8x12—6 Lt. Plain Hall ............................... 11«
10x12—« Lt. Plain Rail .........]............................ t.j7
Doors
WHy gdY* 8 Paasl ■ ...................................
YTrl-r-IH” S Panel ....................... $i.89
S Panel ......................... $1.79
5 Panel ...................................... 2 03
5 Panel .........:............................. 2.16
Texea—1 Lt. .'................................ 8.12
Texae—-1 Lt.---1------------, , ..... , |R
6 Panel Col................................A 2 52
6 Basel Cot -----—------.J..282
6 Panel Col.............................!,... 2.9h
CRM UN T, per aack net ...................................... 55
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Red Cedar Sblngles
BIG CHIEF LUMBER COMPANY
(WHOLESALE)
New Highway SO MINERAL WELLS. TEXAS
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Trout, H. I. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1939, newspaper, January 19, 1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1064479/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.