West Texas Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 5, 1912 Page: 8 of 8
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TNE SOUTW’S GNEATEST NEWSPAPER
The Greatest Woman.
LOOK, LISTEN, READ
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ber of her little friends.
In addition to subscribing for your other pleasant games for little
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for the wife, the boys and the giris.
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Weekly Record together
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The Question of the Hour
APPROPRIATE
What About Christmas?
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OUR DISSOLVING COUNTRY.
Presents for Mother
Presents for Brother
Presents for Sister
DILATORY TACTICS.
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JUST ONE.
Presents for Small Giris
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NO FEAR.
THE PINCH.
NO KICK COMING.
The John E. Morrison Company
disappoint UN.
SOON ARRANGED.
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many liappy birth-Tney.
In addition to printing all the news of
the day in concise form, The Record
It gives the latest market reports
and publishes more special crop re-
160 acres 5 miles southwest of
Loving and 5 miles southeast of
Jean, in the Red Top community;.
513,000,000 tons of matter in a state
of suspension.—Harper’ll Weekly.
Furs and Muffs
Umbrellas
Manicure Sets
Lavalieres
Bracelets
Hat Pins
Silk Hose
Cut Glass
Toilet Sets
First Autoist—Aren’t these speed-
way policemen a nuisance?
Second Ditto—Yes; they get on
my motor nerves.
Rocking Chair
Sewing Table
Work Baskets
Box Hose
Hat Pins
Pictures
Baking Dishes
Carving Sets
Percolaters
Neckties
Silk Sox
Mufflers
Military Sets
Silk Handkerchiefs
Books—all kinds
Hose Supporters
Kid Gloves
Stick Pins, Tie Holders
paper.
For $1.75 cash in advance we will
send The Semi-Weekly Farm News
Is the Sti
Manage
Wk
penings he will find that
THE SEMI-WEEKLY FARM NEWS
Toy Pianos
Dolls—beautiful
Doll Furniture
Cook Stoves
Tea Sets, Books
, .Games—all sorts
Fur Sets
Music Rolls
Rings and Bracelets
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Young County Abstract Co.,
GRAHAM, TEXAS.
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THE Wmt TKXAS REPORTKR,
• Graham, Texan.
“Do you dye whiskers?"
“Yen,” answered the barber.
“Do you fool anbody ?"
“Seem to fool the man that wean
’em.”—Kansas City Journal.
all history? One hundred and THE SEMI WEEKLY RECORD I brated her fifth birthday on Mon-
fifty school teachers recently an-1 .......... ..... day by giving a party to a num-
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Birthday Party.
Little Miss Alice Graham cele-
Dictating a Letter to Hia Sweetheart
Was Too Much for the Negro's
Mentality.
Presents for Small Boys
Bicycles
Tricycles
Air Guns
Hand Cars
Books
Game Boards
Pocket Knives
Toy Pistols
Fire Works
Wife (about to prepare meal)—
The question of what to eat is never
settled.
Husband—Well, why don’t you
settle it, then, instead of laying it
on the table every time?—Judge.
Presents for Father
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Gloves
Suspenders
Cuff Buttons
Shaving Mirrors
Carpet Slippers
Mufflers
Box Hose
Watch Fobs
Smoking Sets
“I fear pa will put his foot down
when you ask to marry me.”
“I don’t mind that, dear, as long
as he doesn’t put it up.” -
Miss Luc
recital at
day night,
efit of the
High Scho
program w
farce cntitl
Cent,” by 1
program wi
issue.
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W. H. Co
took in You
carried aw:
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ber- of the family. The remarkable
and The West Texas Reporter each for
—or- one year. This means you will get a
i total of 1X6 copies. It's a combination
with Thk Vaughan,. Ethel and Cora Mc- that can't be beat, and you will secure
th nanera n-- 1, ti , - —> r var: your money’s worth many times over.
RTAATpGEWe have the biggest
DUUMIKstock of the most up-
to-date buggies that was ever
shown in Graham, all 1913 mod-
els. Come in and let us show you.
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severed' the question, and with
hostess would Close to school and church in Ol-
SPECIAL CLUBBING OFFER
Every intelligent man wants to keep
up with the news of his own commun-
ity and county. Therefore he needs a
that the little
rison, Dorothy Hudson, Maurine
Norman and Eugenia Carlton, j
Robert Fowler and Charles Ed-
win Hutchison were guests also.
Each departing guest hoped
pond. Many and various were j
The refreshments were espec- ports during the year than any other
Several of our teachers attend-
the State Teachers Association
at Ft. Worth the past week.
Even less ardent in overcoming
the difficulties of composition was
the negro who asked his "boss,"
Colonel Yerger, to write a letter for
him to his sweetheart.
“All right, Sam; I’ll do it,”
agreed the colonel.
“Has yer got de paper and de
ink and de pen ready, sah?"
“Yes. Sam. go ahead.”
class general newspaper. As a trust-
FURNITURE want something
in this line before Christmas. We
want an opportunity to show you
our line of high grade Furniture.
" havemany,
„ days.
good local newspaper. He also needs
Among a paper of GENERAL NEWS and for
has special • features for each mem- tally fine and each little guest
WESTTEXASREPORTEK, both papers Donald, Heleh and Lillian Wid-,
walt'mLp wm mayer, Louise Hell, Gladys Fow- Call or mail your subscription to
extra. Accept this offer today. ' ler, Annie Lucille Morrison, Mil-
THKWKsrTEX AS REPORTER. dred Gardner, Elizabeth Mor-
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that pisto
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even have
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other man
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BELMONT HOTEL
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RATES $1.25 PER DAY
Clean Rooms - Good Service
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fa, it is sub-irrigated. This is
Write or call on F. L.
notjthe space to tell you all that
, „ we have, but below you will find
York- Thompson street. New a feweplaces that we have to sell
“Ml right” * and they are worth the money.
Has yer got hit writ?” Don't ask us for a lower price
«Yes.» (for you* will not get it, this is the
“All ob hit?”’ bottom price. If you do not find
“Certainly.” what you want here, come and
“What has yer got writ? Read it see us; we have got it. And say,
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“Doctor, I am afraid I am losing
my mind." '
"Well, don’t mention it, and no-
body will notice the difference.”
For Sale or Trade.
Five-room frame house with
hall and two porches, cistern,
well and barn on an acre lot.
Bronson—What kind of coal do public road, has two acres in al-
you use in your house? falfa that has been growing on
f Woodson— Pea coal. You know, place.for IM years and has Ken
we are all vegetarians. cut for hay every year. I here
---------------- is 100jacres that will grow alfal-
NO DOUBT this same question is on the lips of most everyone in Gra-
ham and Young County, and we will admit it is quite a task to select suit-
able presents for everyone. But listen—we would like to make it known
to everybody, that with our complete stocks in every department we can
make for you the selection of Christmas presents an easy task. We can
help you and will help you if you will only come to our store and give us
an opportunity. It is unnecessary to go out of Graham to get your pres-
ents for we are better prepared than ever before to supply your needs.
Fort Worth Record has no superior. . . e ,, ... ,
; interesting of all childish pleas- i
It isn't for any limited set of people; ■ .. ,
ures. In the new game "‘Feed-
it’s for every member of every family. . m1 ,« , Nr 1
‘ ing the Turkey, Maureen Nor-1
if you don't find Homething of inter- t e , . . cultural features it has special pages
• man was most successful in get- r
ent in a particular issue -well, the ed- .. .. . . 1
.. . ,1 . . ... • ting it to eat, so was given a
itor looks on that issue as a failure. B 5
dainty little doll cap.
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aches like hit was gwineter split.”
Atlanta Constitution.
“I want drop ceilings all over the
houme,"
) ou"T - ion have them, ma’am,
when i be roof begins to leak.”
B. Y. P. U. Program.
Subject The Miracle of Jesus.
Leader Miss Edna Long.
Songs. Prayer.
Scripture Lesson, John 2116714.
Talks on Miracle of Jesus.
Feeding the five thousand
Mr. Joe Wooten.
Praising of Lazarus— Mr. O.
C. Knight.
Healing of ten lepers Mr.
Wright McClatchey.
General discussion of other
miracles by members of the Un-
ion. i
It has been figured that if the one of,theeb st riv er.farm in i
work of erosion performed I,, water Texas, will sell for $5000, 81500
on the total surface of our country cash, the balance on easy ermm
were concentrated on the Isthmus of Don t pass this place up it !ou
Panama it would suffice to cut a j want a good farm.
canal from ocean to ocean, 85 feet 110 acres, 90 acres in 1 a rm. 16
deep, in about 73 days, acres tillable, miles east of
The average annual erosion pro- jean, has 5-room house, small
duced byy water in the United1 States barn and well of water,
correspondsto removal of * lay- This place cannot be duplicated
er about three and a quarter feet 1 . , en
thick in 3,400 years. It is calculated and can be bought for 831-50 Per
that our rivers transport every year acre, $1500 cash and the rest on
270,000,000 tons of solid matter and terms that you can meet.
We told ‘you some time ago
that land was going to go up.
and if you wanted to get a place
cheap. to buy. Some of you
havedone"so, but there are sev-
eral who have not. so we warn
youthat if you dont get you a
place soon you will lose money,
and if you do don’t blame us;
we have warned you. We have
— 50jacres 3 miles south of Lov-
ing. 28 acres in cultivation, all
tillable but about 5 acres, small
house and „tank, good mesquite
land, price $1375. $375 cash,
balance easy payments.
I 224 acres 6 miles south of Lov-
ing and 6, miles northeast of
Graham on Graham and Loving :
road;2125 acres in farm, 175 acres!
tillable, has two sets of improve-'
ments, two good wlls good or-i
chard, and is well located; a good ।
farm for the2price, $19,00 per
acre. $1200 cash. balance on
good-terms.
216 acres 1 mile north of Prof-
fitt. 130 acres in farm. naarly all1
tillable, good well of water,
three-room house, located on
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“May 14th.”
“Mah goodness, you has got hit 120 acres in farm, balance tilla-
down all right! Now. boss, read hit bleghas .three-room house with
all.overfromdeherrybeginning."—smaht barn,goodwet andgoe
“Thompson Street, New York, . . c . ,
Mav 14th ” tank, rural mail route. Van be
“Dat’s right. Whew! Sav. boss, bought for $25.00 per acre. $1500
Jet’s res’ a while; I‘s tired. My head cash, balance easy payments.
207 acres, 140 acres in farm.
170 acres tillable, 3 miles south-
east from Loving, has 5-room
house’with two galleries, good
chimney, ’other good out-build-
ings that make it a well improv-
ed place. Good orchard, close ।
to school. It is a dandy and can ,
be bought now for $26.50 per
acre, $2000 cash, balance easy,
on good terms.
66% acres infract, 50 acres in
farm,53}4 miles south of Loving,
on public road. 5-room house,
well painted and papered. in good
shape and is a well improved
place in every respect, good wat-
er, at $37.50 per acre. $1500
cash, balance easy.
And say, we are going to sell
the;R.;A Reynolds estate_land.
Can sel^vou^anyl aixe tract you
want, andf at |prices and terms
that will certainly appeal to you.
This”tract of land does not need
any advertising, and will sell no
if you’want some of it, better
come now and avoid the rush.
Will sell it for one-fourth cash
and the balance on 10 years time
if desired. If you have a little
money and want a good home
come now. Don’t pnt it off; we
will be looking for you and don’t
GROCERIES drawsristeaps the
housewives wonder about their
Christmas dinner. We have ev-
erything fresh and nice. Phone us.
did full justice to them. «
growth of The Record in the best evi- i rn, 12..1 • ,
, ., The little girls present were:
deuce of its merits. - , A ’ .
By subacribing through thin otice Martha May andKathrynP
you can get The Fort Worth Semi-ris, Marv Eddleman, Drothy
"Thompson street. New York” land, we can get 4hit for you,
"Dat’s right. Now write May de and abstracts we have them to
fourteen let. Please give us your order
al ’ , .. * . . now;‘we have plenty of time to
“Has ver got hit down, boss, al- ,
ready ?” make them so dont wart; come
IYes.» i in now.
“(•’way. boss, you’re jokin’! Read
it to me.”
home paper, you should have a high- folks to engage in was a fish- ;
enthusiasm and unanimity the
judges awarded the prize to the ,
one who made this reply: “The
wife of a farmer of moderate
means who does her own cook-
ing, washing, ironing, sewing,
brings up a family of boys and
girls to be useful members of so-
ciety and has time for intellectual
improvement."- Exchange.
worthy family paper the Semi-Weekly <r in this most has no superior. The secret of its
------ | -mr” securea in -- I great success is that it gives the farm-
er and his family just what they need
in the way of a family newspaper. In
addition to its general news and agri-
nsueo
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