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From Our Files "Quite a crowd of tax-payers were in town last Monday at the instance of the commissioners' court, which had notified them that their taxable property as thought to be valued a little too low, and that said court was disposed to raise the valuations a little." "An earnest movement is on foot to divide Texas into at least two states, and it will be done before a great while." "New Orleans had 28 new cases of yellow fever and 12 deaths, the 5th. ...The fever continues to spread, but it is of a mild type..." Aug .14, 1878 67 years ago "Ground is being broken for the Sunday School room annex to the Grove Hill Methodist Church...The annex will be a twostory structure....[and] is expected to cost approximately $3,000." "Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Payne are moving into their new home in the Wilson Sub- Division...Judge and Mrs. J. G. Cunninghame are now occupying their beautiful new residence [in the] Wilson Sub-Division." Grady Wilson brought the first cotton bloom of the season by The Democrat, on Aug. 6.
Aug. 15, 1940
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