Young County, TX - History - Hot Well Musicals Attract Many Visitors ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* There are "hot times" a the Hot Well on Saturday nights out in the western part of Young County. The last Saturday night in each month Stovall Hot Well has an old time musical band contest. Bands from all parts of West Texas come out to play, sing and out talk all visitors in 1964. We in Graham should be proud of Stovall Hot Wells. They come to take baths in the healing waters, fish in our local lakes, hunt, shop in Graham and are entertained by local talent. C.M. Creager, better known as "Clyde" in Graham, has cut as many cedar posts as Carter has pills and played the fiddle for about as man dances. Clyde has been sawing on his fiddle since 1898. He used to cut cedar posts all day, have a fat o'possum for supper, mount his horse with his fiddle strapped across the saddle horn and ride for miles to play for a square dance. His largest dance was at the old Jim Stone house, south of Graham in 1914. They had 44 sets of dancers, and each set had four men and four ladies - 352 dancers! They would still be dancing but a big fight started, and they had to stop to see the fun. There were two grounds of young men called "The Bunger Boys" and "The Cedar Boys." It seemed they were alway feuding over the girls and who they would dance with. Clyde said he had always been lucky about getting in a fight at a dance... the more they would fight, the louder he would play!