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In the Heart of
America’s Greatest
Oil Field.
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Graham Daily leader
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. " Weekly Leader Established Augu st 16, 1076. f I —
VOL I No 17 CRAH^M^qXAS, TUESPAY, MARCfH 29, 1921. : [ ^ PRIORI CENTO.
GOVERNOR NEFF VETOES BINKLEY MEASURE
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PRT&f * CE NTS.
BLAST RESULTS U
DEATH OF AT LEAST
SIX PERSONS TODAY
Nevada To Use Gas \
. To Kill Prisoners
By Untt«d Pret*
ghs for executions. Heretofore
doomed men have hud no choice
j chnftjfl foetweqn hanging and hving
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Carson- Cit?, Key:. March 29.—
-X-Governor Boyle today signed the
f bill providing for the use of lethal New York, March 29.—Dr. Gary
JOHN BURROUGHS,
FAMOUS NATURALIST i NOW BEING TAKEN IN i isaa maaiv rnnDTC Nniu
1 DIES ON PASSENGER T GRAHAM DISTRICT! lW WAN I lUUKTd NUW
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The law designates . the month of By United Preas
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k-- -- - «*- The census enumerator for the
By United Pre«»
Chicago, 111.. March 29.—‘‘Little
Italy” was rocked by -an explosion
this orning wherein prob.uldy sox
were killed and scores wore wounded, f gbot
Officials of’.the Jbseph Wiell Paper ; • --- ----------- ------- . . , .....
Company, wherein the explosion oc-........i"*.............~~ UeePtft,u. from Pasaderm. California, j "«t •' ^ss.on. It .s N-ery ner^sar,
!POOR MANAGEMENT ' A- mT-7
jhad-^ed on a tram, near.Huftaio,,Twa„„on(,.,nf .^i ai.trVe district composed bf Young, .Clay And- Archer deunties.. :
j to ^WMmr^rlvetoinir tne'DIll GbVbttlOP Salff IfcttFfr 1VBPB UlU rrikTlO Pmirt.ff^
M I ^ i !>. _ ... nnvi . nnaaintl ^ If lo VOBV AliWOCCQ Ptf
meet him - at Poughskeepsie; but
ceived a telegram informing him of,
GOST, HE BEIURESferC:^ —»
front American life its most beloved
naturalist- and writer. He waa born
_____ ____r---T- -T. -............... . ttt Ruxbury. New-Yorkr w-horu-rfthL
Hughes, which confirms the -police in |Cient management is costing the rail- ] father was a farmer. Ho worked i
factory, however, is located ift the
~wHlba0y Wllitwnlh11 ■ ward and that
police are working on the theory that j
the explosion may’ have been caused
by a\ bomb' as a part in( a political
feud that has existed for yejflk ?n
the ward A tol^edo^ap was found
......tiefir the
Austin, March 29.—Governor Neff.today vetoed three more
bills passed at the last session of the legislating,, including
the Binkley bill proposing the creation of A new .judicial
vetoing the bill the Oflvernnr' gaftT there; were too many rmirts
in Texas now and that softie of the old ones should be anolished.
dian is urgqd to see tltfit the chil-
dren under their -care are enrolled.
bus ffll failed to hn^—
enrolled the parent of guawdi&ru..
shoxrfd telephone J. T. Hickman, pres-
jdnt of-Ahe school board, or H. B.
Cogdcll, Superintendent ■*- tke
schools. > ■-
GRAHAM SYNDICATE
their -belief..
By l?Wted Preaa ■
-lU^-March. 29-‘‘Irteffi
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On account of the. fact that there ,
roads of the nation a billion dollars ^ • jhe farm. received a coriimon- j are so many new people in Graham
education, and
FIELD ATHLETICS
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The T^idimn shattered the yrir-1 annually,’^ Jet,, La lick, consulting | ^,hu(j) paction, and when oovanUam it »-going to be difficult to get ^
■nJows in buildings for a distance of ; labor economist, told the 'dnlted , yea„ old removed to OHuuJs[.Ulster all the childrern enrolled unless .th^! acrordin to information rearh-
one mile, and the police reserves were j States Labor Board here^ today when ! county> ^re^he taught sduSd for parentj and"“guardians co-operato' j^^ham today The well
vvith the census enumerator. All ^ bcen gradually picking
children^ between the ages of seven-, in pro(lucti0n for some
Uma. anA now mw\*V tp be-
en. The first day of September ST ----llPst wells in the
JELL INCREASES ITS WE EVE A GOOD
FLOW TO 2,000 DDLS. BOOST THIS SEASON
The Graham T)H Syndicate’s;:
jKelLlun_lhfi.^Mo..lL Graham han..
increased its flow to 2,000. bar-
rels' per day after being-drilled
onp deeprr iti the sdrtd
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WH 1(1 uunuwia,o •• /......----- , n il. j V VOl n UlU i CHIU * tv* w Va-JiJO'—v'*
e mile, and the police reserves were States Labor Board here^ today when C0XLn(y9 «vvhere/he taught schdtl for
shed* in find -were forced to battle he appeared to show why the Nation- several years. JH* was appointed to
with women who were^ seeking to
learn if tlieif
rus
tims. The first three bodtek recover-
ed were horrflily mangiod. Many of
the Italian homes around the plant
were smashed to atoms, forcing the
occupants bleeding and bruiadd Into
ai Shop Agreements should not be -posi'tiJn in the y. $. Treasury :De-
. -fry- thg. exe- | [nmmcnt-at -Washington l^t2Ir *rwl
cutives. lauck declared ff the rail- j gU^BeqUentty became chj^f of the
the streets.
TWO MEN WOUNDED IN
PITCHED BATTLE AT
^RING BII.TDN, OKLA.
costs Would have Shown a radical de-
cline ' under natipnal agreements.
Charges were made that the railroads gmall ,fruit:9 and th# writmg 0f his
were taking advantage of the tempo-
rary fndustrial depression to destroy
the human standards of industry. ■»'
By Fnited Pr»M
gun battle between a vigilance com^
mittee and bootleggers at Ring Bil-
ton, Okla., atjdusk last night resulted
in the fatal wounding of Roy Rey-
nolds, a bystander, and H. E. Fox,
a member of the clean-up squad-The
battle was staged on Main street
after—the—citimns-eommitteu hnd
started to enforce ah order thaL all
The bootleggers
of "the Gusher Hotel and the Vigilcry
cerS opened fire upon them, which
was returned hut discontinued after
Reynolds was shot. More clashes arc
expected^----—-—7- -
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road management Was characterized 1 vr,,anizat^n division in the burMU^R^me'TTOIE which the enumerator ty fleld
l..« ./..ii Anflhla Tnnrl hnrl . . « 1 ‘ ruid.Ai. L__— v.*i;___ c_____ I * '
by .reasonable efficiency >nd had
available for its^ use the“ pfuper
> I ah
of national banks In 1872 he, left^ counts. Children born before Sefv
Washington, and two years later os-. tember 1, .1903, or after September
tubtiaheq himself on a farm >t West1. 19LL mu5t NOT be counted, hut
ai ‘ 1 .1 t* 1 . 1 ’ 1 _ t •TT^Xil/Tfon Lnrn tiiFfU'fif'h 'fVlMO fTlaf
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Petrolia Supply Co,
Park dn the Hudson, where he de-j®" children Borirt bOtWeeh_ these dates
,voted himself to the cultivation of ^hokild be enumerated.
There is no doubt a'large number
essays on nature. His ,first artiele lof boys and girls in Graham be-
GRAHAM CONSIDERED
BEST TOWN IN THE
. By Henry L. Farrel.
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
~ New York, March ^ 28.^Jrack
and field atblOtles will have tho ■
greatest season iri Wutory tiffs sum- -
rhef. ' . \v "< "■ '
ate The Penn rolayg. thfr”mter- -
collegiates” and the “natJonals,” the ~
the three class,Vs of American track,
will.be cpfidupted Oh 1he most j#l§b-
orate lines.
The Penn relays will be almost a
mmature Olympics, with a strpng in- -
ternational flavor lent tfJT tlte pres-
French college
teams. The games wITT "Be much
more representnt.Ve nationally, also,
as many institutions,.espegutty—tha^.
COUNTRY JUST NOW
was published in The Atlantic | tween the ages of 14 and 18 who are
Monthly in 1886. In his books he
showed himself a keen and Accurate
observer aa well as the master tjfl
peculiarly direct and graceful 1*1
^The Petrolia Supply Company
vVichitar-Falls is now installing. 5|uniud‘sta^‘Naval srtf
stock of oil well supplies . fn thejr , . ________r. . .j__
not in school or who are temporarily rieW building on North Elm street,
away irom home. All these-should
be taken in.the census, All Between
the ages of seven and 18 are to be
ary style-
fi?. Burroughs was a close pe^Mn-
fourjtea. -——~
The district will receive* $14.50
front ,the state for all chtWren of
scholastic age, and, for this reason,
a vary person interested in our schools
| velt. fiurinff ib« 'last few years he
spent the sumniyr* camping with
-— . —i.Thomas A. Edison tth4 H«Pry Ford.jahould take an interest in seeing
There is nothing wrong with Gra- He would have been
hnm. . - 7 years old next month.
be 1 epresented for the first-time.
Tfre appearance of the French
team promisca to croata as much
interest-end-real competition as the
This company is another big a^dL
tion to the oil well supply houses'in
Graham, and the company* is *pre-
pared to - car. fox all The needs of,E^'sh team that came oyer last
Young county’s .field,,.. .. . ! 9Pr^ broke a worlds relay
team record.
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QUICK NEWS
1 Andre, a hurdler, higli jumper arid
1 runner, perhaps will be the most
noted member of the French teem.-
y
This is the. opinion expressed by4<
numbers of people who-have had an
opportunity id observe cpndlikins In
other Sections of the country re-
EXHIBITION EME TO
Bro-wnsville. March ' 28.—George , -
Sighty-four |that all children/within scholastic [Bishop, manager of the Brownsville I71*^r-ctripated; at thc^^ Olympic; games
„ec arc cnrcHcd. . municipal li,ht and po«er pl»p,. *.,!•«• !**«? h‘n'”lf .«» «f “T ,™°*t
. - electrocuted this monttng when the|vorsat,le P^^ormcrs in the field,
mil | p||/r ononil ra'n 8oaked hrini of his hat touch- Intercollegiate ebmpctiiion will be
—ytAulljl -^-'■ d 11 .live V.iie which hnd luu-w eharg.^niigmnitcd—this-, year hy the—first
iflRMIIl ■
TTBYLOCAL I TICKET TO ONE WHO
TEAM IN FEW DAYS NAMES GRAHAM CLUB
IIDnTU TCVAQ LDIIIT # 1°^ the COUI try has had put little of- j purchased' equipment fof tho Gra- i Graham baseball club, then think °f thp l^nTtntde-- Trost -Com- ibr—ft -hr pb»mnxl to have represeh-
' I ft I lAAi) I 1\UI f .] feet ..'here. This is ThdieafM By the ham duh. dT-1 TTup £ rianu- and send it to J.tl'«ny *-f Npw V/.^V^Mjis^uifniuelL.^ eastern colleges, the Southern
CROP ISEMAliF.II BY
^Graham right now ft? the livest
town- in the state of Texas, if not
'a the United States, for buainess
here is moving ahead without anjr^g;
apparent check.
The financial, lull in other sections from DaHasr last night, where he I and- have the honor of nnrritng the
JUAtiager._Ca.rl. Van 2,art___returned -- If ymi w/mt to win n <.cnsnn ticket
______ natfcnal intercollegiate mget which
I inspecting the plant which hud' been A^to Be bold after the eastern inter-
! interrupted by a storm. \ ' _ “jeoHe^iate and western conference
‘ _ - ' ;-v- [ar.d the various oilier sectional
^Denver, March !ifi. -Sale of the meets.. ■*,.
Denver & , Rio Grande railroad U> the-. The ^*natfonat‘ Tfitercottegiates” is
Wjusturn I'acitae railroad for $5,000,- the idea cf the University of Chicago
000/last NoVel'iilt*!' ’<■ ~*mtisfy a judg- which will stage the event; on Tune,"
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- ntiTounf of business transacted -and
There* have- been a. number of .play- ,.1. Gallaher, president of the club. | Federal court here today by District Conference, the Missouri Valley,
SEVERE WEATPFR
By United Pre»«- . .
Dallas, Mir. 29.—The North Texas
fruit, berry and tender garden crops
were heavily (Uunaged by last night’s^
heavy f rtnrt-and freeze, fruit men de-
clare. The^damage in Dallas county
alone is esthhated at over $100,000.
Graliain Refinery Is
Now About Completed
The Graham Rexnery Company,
.which is now being buili at South
- ^end, will be making gasoline with'in
the next tne days, President Kilgore
said today. " ■; '
1 The Grahnm Refinery’ Company
—: will he ahh* V» aupply th| needs of
all filling-stations in Young county,
Mr. Kilgore, said, adding thul-Ahe
company may build a refinery at
Graham just as soon ns conditions
justify it. The refinery will be a
great boost to the roupty.
HH mT-tr mVsioners’Court, , Judge ReeVes suid
' As Young county <h«s no jail at the
present time the matter is of vital
,r«pr.>ir.n/t/. jA strong pefitibn Urg-
a newspaper, serve as an rndex to
the business of a city?
It is true. For in the classified
olumns you will find a list #CSbe
real estate for sale, the nl
of ‘houses 7or renf. 'halp w
positions wanted ^nd other
cellaneous information.^, That
^jihy people read the classified col
limns ^
v tin- numbers of buildings going' ers signed Mr. Van 2ant said this. *js*Me Graham baseball dub,' which I’Tudge -Robert. K. Lewis.
UC,___ morn'ng, adding that (everything js „ member of the Tejtas-Oklahoniu!
would- he in
Faith in the—Tulill‘1 f bt-‘. in readiness for an exhi- League, has-got to be named and | St- L-uis, March' 28.—Seveh per-
and Young,cpun$ is expressed with-' bilWirirame, probably with Mineral everybody in the city ia-urged t.* s,,ns wfere injured, none believed se-
//v/.-^pi VT. hy yha larptt-ntimbers Wells, within—th^ r.ext ten days. join jn the coptest. , All name? jnust! rioWfty. when a '’Southern railroad jjnt9
Western and other couierer.ces.
The national championship LVcwise
wW he conducted on more extensive
L6St Angeles will stage tho
.of people who are attracted here* by FxlHidUon gaptesalso be played !jk> _yi by April .o,-Mr Gallaher an- passenger train Trom LoUlsvlllft, Ky.,tmeet early in July. The date is a
the oil boom. They see in,the steady* B'ith South fiend and other places," it nounccd 'today. Mr. -sGallahi^-r, the side-swiped a St. Loi|is^^San Iran- departure from the, usual custom of
and substantial .grow-th of Graham I* Wl,'d r-. swretary ■ of the Chnrlibcr of Com- <,'sc0 suburban passenger, train -as holding the meet late in the summer.
;«rea4 possibilities fe'r the future. Work is progressing oh the base-j mercc nrfd the sporting editor oYi‘hey. mere^ullity into Union Station ! Robert S-.' Weaver, presMent' of'the
■- ■ I a---■ V>«ll P®^. Which is expected to be1"th^ Graham Daily Leader Will aetj^day. All the injured were fromj ^ -A, ,U., was instrumentat M. huv-
J completed withJn the next_ few days, j a?T judges.' ' J"SL Luuls subuibr: —L—1 -| iUg'aft' early summer time set In order ’
to permit college athletes to cem-
Chamber IMrectorS^Or^j The dub reeeired literal fman-1 sealed bids wffl also be accepted
Meet On Friday Nlgnt cita support from the business, men ; for concessions in the baseball park.
*_—•.----- .. jt: ar>d othora of Graham. It was said The Concessions will be let
The directors of the Chamber of, this moring that the_ sum “
Commerce will have h meeting next j had already been raised.
Friday night, Secretary Milton Mc-
Connell saJd today. The directors
will discuss maijy problems^pertain- j
ing to the cviic welfare .of the city, j
It "ft also understood" llml §/l/ins forJ_ \\ ork- on the new Spur which
St. Lo,uts, Mkrcli 1^.—Carl Zork
v»«a naiu t-v. __, , . . and Ben Franklin,^ St. Uouisahs, in
of' $^0C.r-rinal* exclusively, Mr. OallalSTJald d'V.f Chleago Sat unlay in con
, 4 . " npctmn with tni' hAsudiAll srnnnn
I today. , ... --■ -■
WnrKStnrts On New Brown Motor Company
Rock Island Track | Opens for Business
, ,/ .. | ------ - | 1 he Drown Motor Cdkupafiy, ltJ-
dealing wtih various problems m the bt>if)U t.xtendcd to tlje power i .aU((J on North Elm str(>ct( j8 now
c?ty will be. formulated at the meet- f6r the purp0se of serving the Good- n fo busjntig9 j,, the slte of ^
__ -Tm. _ 1 ' _ t — — W TT ntlff 1 . . . _ _ _
Commissioners Will-
Young county will probably I* taken, ((J the two biR ^ocer ware-
up'at then eXt meeing of the.Com-1 bougt,s —■
go tp Chicago this week and furnish
.... . » , __. . -r —......— -- —- —7 — — $48KHl0 bond for1 their appearance
ner Wholesale Groper "Company ana, 0jd C!ar]ton barn. Paul L..Brown andlfor trial
*U„ __WbnI.iD.il,. , , , .r . , ,, t-mmA
C. I. Kuykendall, owneraroTi the com-
pany, are from EastlandT' r
Tha, company, has the Studebnker
agency and ;wi!l carry a complete
stock of truck tires, tubes and ac-
cessories.
the Waples-Platter Wholesale Grocer
Company, has been started. The
Take Up Jail Matter * "»"*•»«
, , - i The spur will be finished within
The question of^a new jail for , ^ npxt dftyB and wiR bc n great
itig some action in the matter is ex-
pected to he presented by citizen*/
1 Committee To Probe
Washfdgton, D. CyMarch 29 —The
appointment of a committee to inves-
If you’ll'only take advantage of tigate the treatment of wounded cx-
the classiRpd column of The Gra- s«rvice men the War Bureau and
jmm Daily Leader ypu wlU be-kur- -nd War Board of Vocational ^min-
-*. ik. mbiiDi Aft Aflil. Amr uraa mAOUnCCd Ml tn6 iVnitf
MUNGER, HEAD OF J
' GIN COMPANY, DIES
Dnllas, March 28.—Rr I. Munger,
nection with the baseball scandal and
chatged wlth BeThg tfrgwnTzers '6r"aL;
leged plot to throw the 1919 series,
vral denial of the charges. Thay ex:
in a joint statement today made gen-
plained their part In mk\jing wagers
on the serl'es HTTd >iaid they wuuiil
wealthy Dallaa burinMjl- ^____ . r, ___
phllarithropist. died, suddenly at b»«- thF-"fffaintirr prays 7for cancellation
District Court Is
Busy With Cloud Case
Today’s session' of the D.^trict
Court hns beer taken up by the trial
nf Cloud vv, Wwtsab;~» suit 4n whleb-
, Chicago, March 2K.-*-^ears. Ro'e-
buck & Company through its board
Of. directors today passed -the u^ial
quarterly dividend on its. common
stock. The company attributed the
pete before/, they
trail.ing.
have- broken
AMERICAN LEGION • ;
HELD YESTERDAY IS
VOTED BIG SUCCESS
I
March.Y.g'to the .time of popular
melodies played By the Frisco Ex-
position Khpws. ban.d, members of lhft
local p^>st of the American Legion
yosti rday afternoon revived the spir-
it of the late war in a parade given i
i n Connect Yin with the Legion Car-
nival, f ~
The parade formed promptly at
5-o’clock at Plum?and Fourth streets,
with pupils from the high school ihd
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fidme here at an early hour today.
Heart trouble is said to be the cause
of the death. _
?- He was founder of the Mungef
Gfn Company, which later became the
Continental' Gin Company, a concern
of which he was president at the
time of his death. 's
He was 65 years old and it aur-
vhred by his widow, three sons and
two brothers. The funeral Bervicct
wBI he held Tuesday. ' '
of an oil and gas lease.
A judgment for tlfc plaintiff was
action to slack business.
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"IFo’dsteu, March 28'—Six derricks
and four standard rigs were destroy-
ed by fire in the Goose Creek p'J members of the fire department par-
field early today. The fire, which tieipaling. There toere also many
caused a loss estimated at $lW040(J'2.rattrAeUons front the Frisco shows.
After marching around the squars
was started Ey friction from with-
drawal of ‘pipe frjim the- Humble
Company’s new well op^the GattBard
d°wn
McGee vs. Rutherford.
MYSTERY* surrounds killing
St. Joseph, Mo., March J8.—Mys-
tery today ' surrounded the IfUling
of George Brundage, aged farm
hand, found shot to deatfc1 on the
State road yesterday afternoon by
passing motorists.
t 8^. Jo«eph,Tl(It).vMarch'2R Twelve
hundred union workers today wen*
under agreement to voluntarily ac-
cept a wage reduction. The build-
crafts union, in' open session,
voted a 10 per-rent redu tion. The]<rtil decorated automobiles
ft>te was tlmost u**** ■ inv”». parade.
tho parade came^ to a hfllt in front
'of the Confederate monument omthe
courthouke vjawn. Here tho band
playc 1 the Star Spangled Banner,
after whfch thie. colors were cased
and the p*rCde disbanded.
A large number of spectators lined
the streets during the parade and
even followed the litw of march
around the square. There were zefc__.
in the «■
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