The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1938 Page: 4 of 12
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M
UTCRARY EVENTS
GONCLUDEO HERE
FRIDAY EVENING
literary eveota of the county
■rare concluded here Friday
with the declamation con.
High school and ward school
contests were held in
the Graham Memorial Auditorium
amd the rural declamation wan held
In the high school auditorium Re-
units were as follows:
High School
Senior higji school boys: Robert
LaPrade. Graham, first; Jack OU-
wur, Newcastle, second; Alien Stow.
Qtnay. third.
Senior high school girls: Donna
Sue Kerbow JJlney, first; Annette
Ayers, Graham, second; Charlotte
Jones. Newcastle, third.
Junior high school boys: Charts
Walker, Graham, first; Buddie Die,
Newcastle, second.
Junior high school girls: Eliza-
beth Ann Graham, Olney, first)
Betty Jo Fiiedel, Graham, second;
Raythene Baker, Loving, third.
Ward School
Ward School girls: Pearl Faye
Corley, Graham East Ward, first;
Gwendolyn Barrow, Shawnee, sec-
end; Pattie Gilbert, Birney School
of Olney, third.
Ward School boys: James Mal-
kina, Graham East Ward,
Top, flrat;
for second
True and Marktey, Mad
High School DIMMon:
firmt; Olney, mini;
third.
Ward School Gradm Four and
M«i: Loving, first; Jean and Gra-
ham East Ward tied for aooond
place.
Ward School Grades Six had
Seven: Shawnee, first; Birney
School of Olney, second; Newcastle,
third. )
Rural High School: Bunger, first;
lngiesidc, second; True, third.
Rural Grades (Four and Five:
True first; Bunger. second; Prof-
fitt. third. t r
Rural Grades Six and Seven: Red
Top, first; Proffitt, second; Bunger,
third.
In Shorthand Graham High
Schbol was the only entry, so au-
tomatically took first place. Olney
High School took first place in
typewriting and Graham High
School was second.
Finb
, Working Tuesday
A. c Anderson announces an nil-
day cemetery working at Pinis,
Tuesday. April A
‘'Come prepared to spend the en-
tire day and bring year lunch,’- Mr
Andersen urges. ‘Much needed
work will ho done. The entire fence
la to be rebuilt.'’ __
INVITATION TO
MEN'S BIBLE CLA88
The Mena Bible Class of the
^**^1 Christian Church extends an
invitation to all men who do not
attend a Bible class elsewhere to
meet and study with them each
Sunday morning at »:4fi o'clock.
Dr. L. H. Reeves of Fort Worth
was the guest of Mrs. Eva Knight
Sunday.
CONTRACT SOON TO
FINISH HIGHWAY
IN THROCKMORTON
Qraham, Young county, and this
territory will be greatly benefited
by pert of the road construction
work coating $3,000,000 to be
prove
she has sent troops to Spain.
MATES MISTING WELL ROME.--Italy Friday
1 an god bar aoeusers to
The laat reports from the bedside
of Mrs Bobbie Mays* is the hos-
pital at Grand Saline, stated that
she was resting as well as could be
expected.
WASHINGTON. — Vie# President
Garner said Tuesday that Congress
might be able to speed up the work
ed under contract In April, accord- ff ~it could hoar a'college' chib con-
ing to an announcement from the cert
State Highway Department at AuS-
every day.
Misses Lillian Bullock, Ruth Vlr-
gile Tidwell, and Ramona Trout re-
turned to Waco Monday to resume
their studies in Baylor VniveniW.
By ion Bun noil ha# returnaS to
Waco, where ht b I student tar
Baylor University, after a week-end
visit here.
Former Graham Man
Helps Celebrate
Founding Legion
Mirny in Graham will remember
burner E. Campe, who was secre-
tary of the Graham Chamber of
Commerce in 11*28 and 11128.
The following newspaper story
dated March 20, comes from Kerr-
first; L.j||e concoraing Mr. Campe:
Harold West, Shawnee, second; Zack j K~FT,.. nonl? Tcxtt. March 20—
Bettis, Roosevelt School of Olney,J Wlth ..f-ervunce of the nineteenth
***,<*- {anniversary of the organization of
—-Rorgt School the American Legion, in Paris,
girls: Juanita \N ilborn.| m, veteran nad better cause
Bitter Cieek,. first; Louise Joplin,). fol. w.kt)HfMotion thnh Turner E.
Bungi .^second; Eleanor Woolfo’lk, p Cai»i|n., pa’ient m .the infirmary at
Proffitt,, thiid. • j*ie il niled States Veterans Hos-
Senior beys: James Robbins, Bit-1 njtal
ter Creek, firs,; Kenneth Hankins. VV|,,, ;:,o llnllkrh, ,,v. «nd officer s,
Ingles,de. second; C. R. Wooldridge, | not y„t muatev0ll out of service,
Proffitt, third. , KBt|lerwj the Theatre Des ( ireus
Junior girls: Elliise Rogers. True,I, March 15< ,yi«j to start
first, Mai> Holbert, Proffitt, sec- ju ,unnamed organization for
ond; Wileth Boyce. Bunger, thud Woi)d War veterans, (amfe was
, Junior boys: Will McMillan, h
Senior
About fifty projects will be con-
tracted for AprS 1*.
The work includes 13 miles of j
complete grading and placing of
flexible base course on Highway
1*0 from Throckmorton to the
Young county line.
This piece of work will help com-
plete the unpaved link oa the high-
way through Graham. Newcastle,
_____ Throckmorton and points west.
Guerre .with palm and the Medaille ^|,er' comPl«ted this highway will
MiliUire. He also holds the Aflierf-
carf Distinguished 9ervi<f> Cnosi^
awarded him for leading a raid'
against a machine-gun position.
He has served as vice-commander
of the Texas Department of the
American Legion. State commander
of Disabled Veterans is a member
also of the Veterans of (Foreign
Wars and of the United Spanish
American War Veterans.' - -
At 19 he enlisted with the Sixth
Volunteer Infantry for service in
the Spanish American War and was
bring thousands of peopile through
Graham from coufifies-To the west.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Doris Faye Rife had an appen-
dectomy at the Graham Hospital
Monday night.
A daughter was born to Mm.
J. D- Orr of Bryson at the Graham
Hospital Monday night.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W.‘ Chesnut re-
wour.ded in action at El Caney, and, turned to their home in Oklahoma
latfr honored by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Wednesday after a thre weeks visit"
Seventh Army Cor|iw. by being as-
signed to raise the Stars and Stripes
over Moi l 'Castle, Havana, Cuba.
His military service also has taken
him to British South - Africa, and to
China and the' Phlllppinea.
in the home of their daughter. Mrs.
W. B. Abernathy.
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Hickman of
Fort Worth spent Sunday here with
their daughter, Mrs. M. Boyd Street.
MR. FARMER: ;
We congratulate you on your good
prospects for a grain crop.
Conditions point to good prices.
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DO NOT GAMBLE ON A
HAIL LOSS!
SEF US FOR PROTECTION
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GRAHAM INSURANCE AGENCY
OBIE DODD, Owner.
GRAHAM
420 OAK STREET
TEXAS
Bung.-,, first; Floyd Golden, 5tur-j| js of the few Ivgionnaires,
ray. sec«na; John HcOury lngle; | tiu.,who al, now entitled to
side, third.
Three-R
apply for1’ a four-star membership
award denoting twenty full years
Results in the Three-R contest 'C membership,
yesterday were announced as fol-
low- Olene Carr, True, first; Ruth
Greer, lngiesidc seoond; Aveline !
Howard, Proffitt, and Billy June
Brigham, Red Top. tied for third
place
Extemporanjeous
Newcastle, first:
boys Olney, first
Recalling the stirring meeting it>
Paris, he said it was ,'Jol. Theodore
Roosevelt Jr., who suggested the
name American Legion.
Cnm|>e enlisted for the World War
May. 1817, from Beaumont and serv-
ed ill France with the seoond and
Thirty-Sixth Divisions. Intelligence
Sectiy:; G-.2. being at one time .chief
scout of the Thirty-Sixth. He took*
part in three major offensives, was
Speech: Girls—•
Graham, second;
Graham, second
Picture Memory: Newcastle, first;
Olney, second; Shawnee, third.
Ward School Music Memory: | wounded in ’hand-to-hand dnmbat
Newcastle, first; Burney School of’and later gk'ssed while swimming
Olney. second; Shawnee school of the Ai-hc River, ^ From the gassing
Graham, third. "he ha cover raedvered, and as a,
Rural School Music Memory: res lit. of it is a patient m the Vet-
j Bunger, first; Markley and Ming -erans Hospital at Legion, which he
Bend, tied for second place. 1 entered from his home Palestine.
Ward School Arithmetic: New- He received citations fioin both
castle, first, Birney school" of Ol- Marshal Petain and Generali Gouard
( ney. second; Shawnee, third. of the Fourth French Army, and
Rural School Arithmetic: Red vas awarded the French Croix de
NOTICE
KIDDIES
Save Your Movie Stamps, Wrapped
With Each Loaf Of
WOOLLEY’S
BUTTERNUT
BREAD
T hey mean FREE PASSES to
Picture Show.
Don t Say Bread—
Say—BUTTERNUT
Your Grocer Has It
GOOD EATS
BAKERY
H. WOOLLEY, Owner
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anSHSPECUus
ANNOUNCING
Our. Clean-Up of
19)4,1935 and 1936 Models
USED CARS
We are over stocked m these three models of cars,
sold during our special Clean-Up Sale.
:y wi
11 he
ALL THESE CARS HAVE BEEN THRU THE RECONDITIONING
PLANT, and are IN TIP TOP CONDITION - LICENSE PAID on the
. \ ' - , „ _ J.,f. - J*’*- . . • ■ nm I ", 1 f '7’TtWH
majority of them.'
"*"£ .....*—» —:— — 4 * ■'"*”'7' *«—»
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They are ready for the highway.
If you are going to buy a Used Car—get our prices and you will save
money when you do buy—If you fail to see us, we are both the looser.
1933 PLYMOUTH COACH *245°°
1934 CHEVROLET COACH *285°°
1935 FORD COACH *325 o°
1936 CHEVROLET COUPE *39500
SHAMROCK MOTOR COMPANY
CHEVROLET SALES AND SERVICE
414 North Elm Street S. S. BATES, Owner. Phone No 149
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Trout, H. I. The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1938, newspaper, March 31, 1938; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1116839/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.