The Graham Leader. (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, March 27, 1903 Page: 3 of 4
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1 wbkt they all say must certainly be true,'“That we have the moat beantifa]
friends; we know our goods are bought right; the style is right; the prices are right, and the stook complete. If you h
no. effort in selecting tl$s season's stock, and as far as quality, prices and large assortment is concerned we have no oom
tooIteth taq«'~.M,',tokW .„
and the stook complete. If yoo have not seen our goods-this season you have missed a treat sure. We have ’
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' :f»,M> eele selling agents in Graham for Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. Shoes—the best on earth; Lion Hats; 20th Century"Boys’ dothinE R. & G. Conti* the celebrated J. ’Bail?^rgfiiwgy
” wfSM ffdhy othff T^^aown ifad leading brands rfjnerefrfcdtre. We»l*> wish to wll special attenUoh te our MILLINERY DEPARTHEN f. This season, as osoal, we -are in the
HP ■“ tblB de|'artn?*nta. StJWInerjkpheapei Ilian ever. Mr8. C. E. PINKARD had charge of this department and would lie pleased to have the ladies come in. AH are eordially'inrited.
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Judgi J. W. Colston.
8inco our laat issue we have
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recieved the aad intelligence of
the death of or? old friend, J. W.
goj. Colston at Fort Worth. He wee
m*ny ye4r- f oItiz*n of this
■SKE'T*5’ °°unty *nd WM briovedandre*^
paoted by‘all who knew him.. |f|
waa the privilege of the editor of
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Sad e Uvaly Chase hy
* On last Saturday Sheriff H. O,
Williams received a oard from the
Sheriff Of Tarrant county, giving
a description of Some stolen
horses, alleged to havebesn talk |
en by ona ElzieHshara, who once, ent
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bi»oDgr«uUpg MiSr^icrte
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to share his friendship end we county.
|e|tn truthfully say whoever knew
IM e more polished gentleman j, ,a
5 00 truer friend,j a more lovable 6fcar-
Mr. Williat
neighbor!
day night
ri^ maniter meThtheft wee iPg found
'f* Colston, and we feel a per* denoo of I
ie went up to the
of True nlT-Satur-
on.Sunday morn*
is death.
k
eonal loss in hi
He was prominent in our couik
ty politics and served as oouoty
commissioner of this county when
tekteg him t
made him a
treue apd Oscar
with the
8. B.
the resi-
He wlak capture they placed Isham in the not
of each month
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. Mrs. Ada
day to join'her husband in El
Pmo. ' . h'"^
M. A. Steward Jo. McDaniel
S r ’i aad Ed 8tiffler,of Markley were
■•••f 4 in the oltye few hours on busi-
ness last Monday.
Rev.L. W. UaWten preached
school house
ernoon.
nd family, <^f
siting Mrs. John*
W. West of this
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our bridges were bujft.
a valuable member of the board
in those days. For many years
he was the boaoffi frledd and
secretary Of the lets J, O. liv-
ing and when the latUir mevsd to
Fort Worth to establish there
the headquarters of the Cattle
Association Mr Colston become
the book-keeper of the associa-
tion and as such his work con*
tributed largely to the euooess of_______________
the association and he will be ^rjiftstm downTTSthe ieiSHa^
sadly missed by all of its mem*'
bars. We extend our deepest
buggy and Williams and Choate,
started with him to Qraham.
Clark’s
pasture gate Choate got out of
the buggy to open th^ gate' end
the prisoner ■*eing>chance to es*
cepe, jumped from the buggy
and took to his heels, with the
sheriff and Choate in hot,pursuit.
They ran him over a miledn the
Salt Creek bottoms and at lait
The Good Holds
Texas, have the people been so
thoroughly awakened to the ne*
ceeeity of road building. 8cores
of Texas counties have had spec-
ial road billa passer by the pree* ,
ire authorizing the
issue pf bonds for the purpose of
>vem«7it. Good roads
meetings have been held in a
number of counties end the ques-
tion has been ooneidered in all its,
details. Young county1, we nrs^:
to say, is badly behind the
The Dry Goods Bargain House.
fill i h ■■■ "nr1 -iffr. iswriwnw nimomu
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___In thlsTeepect and aa
a copeequence, we are going to
be told by prospectors and home-
seekers that they dont want to
utdpinu-ofciltigr wtthey can-
V GOODS
New store.
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however, the team got frighten-
ul a decent load of produce
countyseat. We are go*
be told that *e aU want-
ing in public spirit and' that we
dont know a good thiipg eriien we
it; we sre^mossbacks
antediluvians, who would
ride a mule to market than
travel In a rubber tired black
an tutomobile.
by our people dont wake up
the situation ahd do something
e have alwaye considered a
e took a drive
ifTs irrigated
unday after*
proof of
d. Among
ff intends
the' whole
cabbage and toma*
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lay night about 8 o'clock
and was buried at the Gooseneck
oemetery yenterdey evening late.
Quite a number of Grahatn peo-
ple attended the funeral. We
s8hall say something later of the
lit# and character of the deceas-
ed, which lack of space prevents
us from saji ig new. jThe be-
reaved family have our sympathy
Miss Maggis Carlton, who has
been visiting relatives In Hood
county for sometime past, re*
r / turned boms on last Monday’s
trafc >l ! I"* ■/ j
Losey
sympathy to the bereaved fami-
ly apd in doing ao we feel that
we voice the sentiment of " the
many old friends and neighbors
of .the deceased in Young oouoty.
; Furniture, Btovss, Tinware,
Ouoeaawaro. .
New and Second-hand Goods
bought, sold and exchanged. All
kinds of Repairing done and all
work guaranteed.; Call and see
us end get our prices before pur-
chasing/ Washburn A Faris.
» Qbi,<£ourt House.
ptfiewF^Mj -W.; M^ii: •
8unday March 29.1903.
Topic: Our heritage amonjg
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.Lesson: Fealm 68 29 31. Isa'.
Comments: W. <j?.* Brown, J.
H. CloUse, Jas. M. Wood. 1
Selections :■ Lizzie LeGrand,
Mary Finch, Maud Carmack,
Mary - Short, iBpenoer Mayen,
Isora Ford, Sallie Porter, Steph-
en Ford.
Q. F .Meece. Vice Pres.
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county says he is th4j,who“do not use ,4he\
mount to anything.^ V
notaolelfaot' that precini
distant /from the county I s
MaryS^aTes .Bee.
Presbytery.
Mrs. Goo. T
returned
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Tuesday from a week’s visit to
Fort Worth and Bridgeport*
-Mr* G. Q. Pries, of OrssnviUft,
Tsxss, paid this office a-pleasant
call Wednesday. He is a cousin
of T. J, Price of Fish Creek aqd
has been visiting him for the past
farwtf!ts. .1 jL
“Uncle Parker*1 Johnson and J.
Allison, of Millsr Bond added
their names to the Leader's sub-
scription list Tuesday.
OhM. Auburg.
^ The Lradkr has just received
tbs news of the death of Chad
Adburg an old citizen of Gra-
bam, who died at Estellne, Hall
oounty.onthe 21st inatof Bright's
~disease. Mr Auburg AD old
friend of ffie Lrader arid all of
our old time citizens will rement
berhimand be greived to hear
of bisxieath. ppi
Charley Auburg was a man
, of the moat sterling integrity
add honor and one who believed
in the atflot enforcement of iavr
and"order even in tboHe days
**When such was not rhy rule
_ For Sals,
its red Durham bulls
and several high grads Durham
and Hereford yearling bulla for
tale. Bee w address
‘ John E. Norman.
*y; Graham Tex.
Publio Sobool Announoemo&ts.
We are requested to announce
that the library entertainment
which was to have been given to
night has been ceiled dff and
will aot occur.
It M »turther staled that the
publA school will dose on Fri-
day May 22. The publio exer-
cises will be ennounoed in these
columns later oq. -
The Presbytery to* Ft Worth
will meet ih the Presbyterian
church of Graham on April 10th
to 14th. Everyone is oordiSlly
ed and ran away, demolishing
the buggy, so the party had to
walk down to Indian Mound,
whore Mr. Williams prdcured a
wagon and team and brought his
man on to Graham and lodged
him aafely in the oouiity jail.
On* Monday the sheriff of Hood
county and a deputy sheriff of
Tarrant county came up and took
laham to Fort Worth. The eher*-
iff of H
same min who took a buggy and
team a why from one of his depu-
ties on the publio square at Gran
bury last Wednesday at the voted
point ofl-s aixahooter ahd success-
fully -made his escape from .the
ofltosrsrol^ that codnty;—_|not k
laham is wanted in Hood coun
ty lor thid offense and in Tarrant
fhr robbery and^for the theft of
several head of horses, ' He’ has
served one term in the pen (or
horse theft, it -is said, and the
officers claim.that he has made a
regular business of 4fDver since
he regained his liberty.
He took quite a bunch of
horses from this county ,
Re^ River country some’ time
ago and it is now thought that
mystery, A road tax would fall
just as hard upon one as another,
and itrie a strange fact, that the
very'lftoople who need the road^
most and uajt them most nave
been the people Who have bareto
fore most strongly opposed a road
tax! Why this is so we have ut-
terly failed to understand. 'Whan
the county Voted on a road tax a-
few ye^rs ago about th
port it received was
;he only sup
from people
lie . roads to
ost strongly agaipet it.
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this suibject in the p
it we do
Iject in tne past m
Saa^morej
A j f aw of i ouroiti^e na (are
B,ate
Ner Stock.
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Best Goods at the Lowest Price
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Your trade respectfully aoliciteil
S. B. STREET & CO.
One Door West of Old Stand..
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Shooting in
Yesterday afternoon at about
one o’clock there was a shooting
bee with horsewhip trimmings at
the Graham Hotel in this o'tjr.
The w^iip was wielded by Mrs.
Geo. Curtis, wife of . one of the
Rock. Island railway engineering
corps and'the pistol was used by [
Mr. Stafford, proprietor .of-thu -
hotel, ipy* - i (
Mrs Curtis1 olaimed that Mr.
Staffora. had Insulted her a few
days ago at the hotel, where she
was staying, whim, her husband
was oikt on theriQ^way tror'R. cine
care
add eg
awake lo the necessities) Of
add. ’ seem to appreqi
our efforts to awaken an interest,
but the majority j do not seem to
fig about ihe matter.
Wfdo not like Jkfv^‘rfi!habtt‘'syid
re thrush” o^d . ^traw, but if ye
felt that our pnortsivfou^d do lany
good we afi alWays more than
grtotepd
Leader to the t
infOVmed tier husband of the al
leged'insult and he demaxided_
eaisfaotion of Mr. Stafford, who
denied the charge and refused to
sign a written apojogy presented ,
to him by Curtis. Curtis then
went[ and bought a quirt and,
Wade of this
. Smith
Creek Sunday.’
Lum Hinson Spent Saturday
night with Mlr. Dillard Hindoo of
L.ee Anderson and wife have
been visiting in this community
this week, i -X- -_T
We are glad to^ hear that Ina
Creager is improving, En. x
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.'J Hardy
ie corn
this wee
fas in
1 Most o
I be fihiaheu UIII wees.' mr. vjegg
I planted eight acres l^st week be-
wentj and bought a quirt Snd,:fore the rain.
'pllfethg~tt InHhe hands of his wife J5. M. Keen has ordered a lot
told her to evenge herself, whichiof fish t&^put into four of his
rooeeded to do. Misses Ella largest tanks. 1
* Prof. Duncan has moved to
hie farm three miles from town
and is going to farm this year.
He olosed his school near Bowie
last year.
invited to attend any or all of
the sessions of Presbytery. The. , . , . . .
following program will tatwW ’rwgs Hy luok' PluckJ or «ood
Bomv of them were stolen.
He made one very serious mis
take and that was in nojt giving
Young epunty and belt little
sheriff a wide berth in hjis wand-
puolfo roads.
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out: Organization, Friday night.
Qjiening sermon preached by last
Moderator present, and election
of offioert. Saturday and Mon
day business session morning
and afternoon. Preaching H
o’clock, each day. Saturday
and Monday nights, popular
meetings in interest of' Home
and Foreign Miesiohs.
Rev. 9. R. Gtmmon, Presby
terian missionary to Brasil will
deliver an address oh Foreign
Missions. Sunday Preaching
in the various ohurchee by.visit-
ing ministers. Sunday after-
oontains, in addition tj
quota of interesting dj
for;women,. SeUrpl a
cles and goj^d , eh____
Among the lattyr is one b
Judgment Henry Williams al —r
ways manages to get such fel*
lows when they invade Young,
bounty, snd the thief who comes
manbe” is the title o
ial by Helen Clark
splendid artiollfi dor
afid Janie Stafford became mixed
up in an effort^) defend their
father and each of them gbt a lick
With the quirt. - Curtis and Miss
Ella got to struggling over the
possession of the quirt and fell
Mr;
Stafford then drew a 32 cali
berjgun and at point blank range
fired three shots.at Curti9, one of
which would have doubtless been
ffttfL if it had been a larger gun,
it was the bullet bung in
|b.is[suspender and just buried it^
self yn<ier the akin and ekpie ohfc
wijk the tyspender when, it wae
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wombn with
< Frrd Clarida:—Jncle Tons
(Norman’Argo) the negro hero
in Mrs. Stowe's book, is dead, at
the age of 1111 yeaas. He lived.
in Kentucky- •
> Ollie Casey :—The first term
of the Denton GiH’s Industrial
School opens. Sept. 23. You'dr!
county is entitled to one student
^by appointment of the. Count]
Judge and must be named bj
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ensoN:—Gen. I J. if
Mn rtu ,t Anderson, Tflus., HSE ..
He o*m. toi Te*»» in
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here shows remarkably bad judg- pkcbllent illuetrations
by Ethel M ,Colson. A J (charm-
IfBMti' ( I
In this case Williams did not
Mgs. really.how bad a man he
had until the sheriff of Hood
county came and told him of the
experience hie deputy had with
him last week.
When the officers left with Is-
ham .Monday they had him ee-
securely handcuffed to a car'
Afiftt-______Ll
“Beautiful Window Gi
is on
ens,1'
Casey, Supt; Miss Vida Pitman,
Sec; and Pearl Gegg organist.
• Bro. Wagoner filled his ap-
pointment last Sunday and Sun-
day-I night at the Methodist
church- He ie very popular
both as a preacher and a citizen.
_ ________ ■. j- -r- We, at lease Regdor, want the
pulled oht. ~ li Christ rah people, If no more,
"one of the wounds inflicted on this representative * district,
either side are of a serious nature prayerfully peruse what tne
we are glad to say. Mr. Stafford 1 Christian writers for our church
has two ugly cuts made with the papers have to Say* on “The
biftt end of the quirt in the side Villaoy Local OptiolYBilP’ arjd
ofhishead. Mrs. Cunis is a large, then accordingly write to
is by
noon ”The Sabbath Sobool"
question will Be discussed by the
members of Presbyter}. This
meeting 6f Presbytery is the
first ever held In Graham.
Rev. Frank Wright will begin
his meeting here just after PrSe-
bytery adjourns.
John H. Green.
iog two step for the pian
Frances Robertson.
Toatlu’ Southern Flag.
Dear Leader: Will you let us
correct you f little about lour pa-
per treating religious matflift. No,
our paper is not a re%fitys paper
at all, it is simply a secular pa
paper, for the young, and devot
to NaoKs,.Education,.♦ iui Mox
t ^Two'rfgSSr
% . and aavaral hig
E-----------re.nd Hereford 1
For Sale.
4 cows, good milkers, with
young calves; 2, 3 year old
heifers; 2 yearling heifers all in
good"odfidltioff7"~On ths old Hal
sell plaoe five miles northwest -of
Graham. -R. R. Robinson.
The plans and specifications of
Jno. E. Morrison A Co. new
building have been made and
provide for an iron front brick
187 X 87 1-2 feet with 18 ft ceil-
ing. This will make a most mag-
niffioent store.
In the meantime, the brick but that is not the lin
•table is to be extended 40 feet it is started, and w
further baok toward the alley.
It is understood that work on;
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our de-
Mx^ Smith’a joew building west aj^and^alao Con
of ths Graham National Bank Journal for~50 cents.
will begin in about sfrty days.
- We understand that Q» R.
Thomas, of Proffitt, is going to
bring his pressdd brick ^ machin-
ery to Graham^ and go into the
Ftw Buildings. *
ontractor John H. Wood has
ol$s*d a oontraot with Eddlsman
Bro's. for ths sreotlon of thslr PW
new business houss just east of brick-making busihsss hers,
the brick stable on the north
side of the publio square. It
will be of briok with iron front,
75X 25 feet. -
Geo. Bain is preparing to bp ltd
The Presbyterian people ars
having the interior of their
churoh hers niedy repainted.
W. J. Rehder end son ars doing
ality-
We do ndt intend to
nomination&l religious (views in
it whatever, but devote it to the
interest of the Youtti< strictly.
Ws favor religion and yili show
•11 courtesy to any
we can,
far which
like
say Jo your readers, while we-ar
at it, that #e will send! our pape
• Horn
fbe^cefairl'
las News ajnd our paper for ST.
strong woman and fought like a
ti jer. - -
Drs, W. B. Pope, of Belknap
id W. M. Terrell, of Graham,
'eased the wounds of Mr. Staf-
rd and Dr. Gallaher those of
r. Curtis. •
Htary Chapel.—
Mr. Editor: Cur community
rejoicing over the beautiful
•ether that we are having this
^orn planting ir ths-order of
Ithe aay. ~ Wheat is looking fine
ftinoe the last rain.
Bro Fpflter of Goose Neck,
preaohed an interesting sermon
at the school house Saturday
ight.
Bro. Gore filled his regular ap
pointment at Connor Creek Sun*
day. A large orowd attended.
- Edgar Ghoat brought three
young ladies from Finis Sunday
to churoh. -v~
Pert Mouaw and Carros Logan
of Finis aticpdsd Sunday School
w. B.|M|W|
of the State
the first bar
pi
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Crawford, our representative sh-
treating him to use his influence..
We all know that some'of the
best thinkers of the world fur-
nish reading matter for our
church papers; and furthermore
they are.interested in the moral,
physical,'intellectual, and finan- .
oial welfare of everybody. Can &¥W k
half so much be said, or toldr of the North
all other classes of either any 4 bids fair to
Mardh 11. -7 .
He camp to Texas in 1851 from 1 ,
Nashville, Tenniiand was elected 1
District Attorney) to the Galves-
ton District tin lfeoo and served
thqse pecplo three terms. Qov,
Clarke apMn'niefl him Brigadier 7
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The Bibleyused \
General
VlDA Pi
in adminis
the oath o( of- H
balonge to
Horary, lit is
" in the v
ago
this inaofip^
the Repuplio
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the suprem^
a small book,
pf some . fift
bears on the nyj.
tion: “Properiy
of Texas." It is said that e
governor of Texas has
sworn in the Bible.
Nette Drum:—The Great Balt
Lake is disappearing. It will bo
only a fekr years before there
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sill, be qo lake
it continues
Willy Graham:—March?, Dr.
from a TexaafAo^
by Dr. Phillips near El
-if-
if irrigation fr
University, made
luvri
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Miner*! SuvSyor >
tin Osoair
-It waa
kik wn
Ah eri<
part or the entire
Xfyriat tairea— No.
world? A
The publio school children like
their new song this *mek “Merry
Spring Time."
The following aro some of “the
last Friday morning talks:
Edith Spxncer:—The Armour
add the Swift Packing Plante of
Fort Worth cost, four million dol
lars and the state of Texas is
moua mines of
We’ve been
fiehin* so bad
but the
yet.
has been eoqai
past few days
e
nd
bed of tib In
Can continent,
out riyal the fa#
Wales. I
B.vReodor.
m
wantin’ to go af
we could taste
wea|her wont
r
We learn thi t Ram P. Timmona
better flurii
or Atlanta Constituti
Youths’ Southern
Address us at j Gi
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Ws did not intend
that the Flag
>r b
and
for #
im Text
|. Fisher
inlima
denomink-
tional paper bfct ft wie religious-
ly inolioed. * We gathered our
Impression from a perusal of the.
r thePatfTGqtiday.
The younj
people enjoyed a
A. McCasland’t
• new barber shop on treat 4th 8t.4 ike work.
. '
Wf’
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tinging
Sunday night.
Mies Fannie Kielnger of Salem,
visited her aunt, Mrs Criswell of
this community Shnday.
Misses Edna Jarnagin and Del
la Ribhie went to Finis Saturday,
Miss Nellie Jarnagin spent a
few deys wit$ her sitter, Mrs
Campbell, last week.
~ Mire Mettle Wttttatneon spent
Saturday night aqd Sunday with
Mia* Vada Wade.
Toy the Light Running PlaM
It is the best, simplest*and most perfect
Bidder on the market.
^ Among its strong features are: *
v The Jonee Patent Lever, The Plano twine Tension, The *.
Peerless Pleno Knotter. --------JaRfcr**’ u
The Plaao hpidu the World’s Record fot accurate Tying**.,
We set ft up and give it one full dny’s trial in your field, and if
not eaUsfhctory to y
We alto handle
Dump Hay Rake.
See our aaehio
£-
is no trade _ •> v.J.lz......
Famous. Jonee Vertical Mowers and Ham
tore you buy.
ANDERSON A BURNS.
Nort Elm Street, Rock lalaud bcabia*
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