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THE CAJSADIAJV RECORD
VOLUME 27, NUMBER 39.
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920.
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 THE YEAR
Fort Worth-Canadian
Slialler Well is Now
Down to 3,000 fFeet
Fort Worth-Canadian Oil
test well on the Shaller land
reached the contract depth of
3,000 feet Tuesday, and thus com-
pleted the drilling contract with-
out finding oil.
Reports are that the drill stop-
ped in a very favorable forma-
tion, the most encouraging yet
encountered. The log of the well
shows a formation almost ident-
ical ! lth the Ranger field, and
majjy think that oil in paying
quantities may be found at a
depth between 3,200 and 3,500
feet.
As to what arrangements are
contemplated for going deeper
with the well, the Record has no
information. It is to be hoped that
with such a favorable showing
that a real test may be made of
the well to a depth of 4,000 feet,
or at least until the present 3,000
foot formations have been fully
tested out.
Hennington-Johnson Wedding
The Misses Edna and Blanche
Johnson and Walter A. Henning-
ton came to town Wednesday
from their homes in the Gageby
community. Mr. Hennington ob-
tained a marriage license for
himself and Miss Edna M. John-
son, and on their way out of
town stopped at the Baptist par"
sonage and were united in the
holy bonds of matrimony. This
young couple is well known in the
county and have many friends
who join the Record in wishing
them a happy wedded life.
Henry Jatc^on Died
on Street from Hem-
orrhage of the Lungs
Henry Jacobson suffered a hem-
orrhage of the lungs while walk-
ing near the Wilson building now
under construction at the corner
of Second Street Thursday last
week, and he called to the car-
penters for help. He was given
assistance at once but died from
Cowboy Who Roped
Mountain Lion Here
1885 Visits City
in
R. E. Mayfield and his son,
Harry, of Arapahoe, Okla., were
in Canadian the first of the week
visiting Mr. May field's cousin,
John Bryan, and meeting Mr.
Mayfleld's old friends here. "Bob"
Mayfield was one of the pioneer
cowboys of this section, and he
Khiva Shrine ,CjuJ^Jof
Amarillo Wins Temple
at Portland Cditcl^i
the hemorrhage before a doctor!gained considerable notoriety
could reach him. Undertaker C. [thirty-five years ago by roping a
F. V. Studer and C. W. Allen to
%end Vacation at Great Lakes
0 W. Allen will leave this city
Saturday for Kansas City where
he will be joined the next day by
F. V. Studer and they will then
go to Indianapolis, Indiana. At j
that place they will become the
guests of the American Central I
Life Insurance Company for aj
vacation trip of one month to be {
spent at the Great Lakes as mem-j
hers of the company's $100,0001
club of life insurance salesmen..
From Indianapolis they will be j
"'taken to Chicago where a steamer i
will convey them to Cedarville,
Mich., on Macinac IsJ/ind, a noted j
summer resort, where they will J
remain,for a month. The company j
pays the entire expense of their
trip.
A Fine Tribute to Canadian
The Security News, the official
organ of the Security Benefit As-
sociation, successors to the
Knights and Ladies of Security,
has the following splendid report
^ of the recent security booster
'meeting in Canadian:
Brother Cromwell, Brother and
Sister Dykeman, Sister Lindsay
and the writer accompanied Mrs.
Gates to Canadian where another
(.■lass of 101 was initiated. Ama-
rillo Council thot she had been
going some but we take our hats
off to Canadian. With 15,000 pop-
lation Amarillo has a member-
ship of about 1,225. With 2,500
population Canadian has a mem-
bership of about 250, and has a
visit from a national officer with
the moving picture degree work
two years in succession. If Cana-
dian can do that there are hun-
dreds of towns thruout the Unit-
ed States that can do the same
thing if they will only show the
spirit of co-operation and the
"pep" that was shown by these
inhabitants of one of the livest
towns in the Panhandle on our
recent visit there. They are busy
a9 they can be putting down block
after block of new paved streets
and in erecting substantial bus-
iness buildings, besides the im-
provements in the residence sec-
tions,yet they have time to look
ahead for the welfare of the fu-
ture widows and orphans and to
develop the social side of their
lives.
We were met at the train by a
reception committee and taken to
^ur hotel by auto. At the lodge
room we found a bevy of young
ladies assisted by a few of the
men, who had laid by their work
for a few hours in preparation
for this special, occasion. All
were busy as bees and as system-
atic in their work of decorating
the hall with varigated colors,
prominent among which was the
red, white and blue. By evening
all was ready and an audience
of some 200 people, and perhaps
including 80 per cent of their
resident membership was present
to witness the moving picture de-
^ tree work. Two phonographs were
fled one at either end of the hallr
and these with the excellent pic-
tures and the clear delivery of
the charges by Brother Cromwell,
nmi
Amarillo, June 30.—Panhandle
citizens, especially members of
the Masonic fraternity, have won
s victory that will prove in fu-
ture years to be one of the great-
est in the history of the country.)
Khiva Shrine Club, has been >
granted a dispensation for a tem-
ple. After Saturday of this week
the Shrine Club will cease to
function and members wtyl ac-
tually have the benefits and hon-
or of having a temple. A large
amount of money has been col-
lected for the purpose of building
a temple and actual work will be-
gin it is thot, in the near future.
The Khiva Drum Corps will re-
turn Saturday from Portland and
Panhandle Masons and Shriners
are planning for a great recep-
tion. Every Mason in the Panhan-
dle is asked to be present for the
great parade. Later in the eve-
ning a banquet will be given in
honor of the returned delegates.
Plans for a ceremonial in July
are now under consideration, and
local Shriners feel sure that the
first class will have at least 300
novices.
K. & L. of S. Banquet
On Tuesday evening the Secur-
ity Benefit Association spent a
| profitable and enjoyable time
when several carloads of Cana-
I dian people came down to put on
the initiatory work for a class of
sixteen. The Canadian Council
had a fine degree staff and put on
the work in a very impressive
way which was greatly aided by
their own fine musician.
At the close of the meeting the
Home Council served a two-course
luncheon at the Survant Hotel
consisting of ftied chicken, cream
gravy, deviled eggs, pickles, bread
and coffee and ice cream and wa-
fers. The crowd left Miami on
their return trip about 12 o'clock
—apparently in jolly spirits-
Miami Chief.
Studer's Lake has been enjoy-
ing a good season this year, and
large crowds have been fiockin; |
to this popular place for picnic?
and bathing.
made a pleasing effect that satis
fied all who had contributed o''
their .means and their time to
make this occasion possible that
it was worth the money.
At the beginning of the eve-
ning's program the visitors were
lined up in front of the audience
and introduced, one after the
other, with a few friendly gibes
that broke the ice, if indeed
it had not already been broken,
and made us -all feel that we
were among friends who would
neglect nothing to make our eve-
ning pleasant.
After the degree work and an
instructive talk by Brother Crom-
well we went across the street
to their beautiful and commodious
W. C. T. U. building where re-
freshments of ice cretin, cake and
punch were served to about 180
people. Almost the entire audi-
ence remained till after the ban-
quet, then many returned to the
hall and enjoyed themselves in a
social way until a late hour. We
are sorry that for a lack of flash-
light powder we were unable to
get a picture of the crowd in the
hall and at the banquet table.
Here's hoping that next year we
may get to enjoy another such
pleasant evening with the live
bunch at Canadian,
C. Stickley took charge of the
body and notified the secretary
of the Yeoman lodge at Ponca
City, Okla., where Jacobson seem?
ed to hold membership. The sec-
retary instructed Mr. Stickley to
notify Mrs. M. M. Jacobson at
Edmond, Okla., and she then in-
structed that the body be sent to
Seward, Okla., for burial. The
body was shipped Saturday.
Jacobson worked in Canadian
about two years ago for J. Hi
Stillwell. He only recently return-
ed to this city in his travels, ad
he was going over the country ii)
hopes to get relief. He supposed
that he was suffering from as-
thma.
Cows in This County Died
From Eating Green Sorghum
State Veterinarian Williams of
Austin spent a few days in
Hemphill County last week to
learn what was killing the milk
cows in the south part of the
county. He diagnosed the death'
of the cows as being due to their
eating green sorghum.
Mr. Williams also spent several
days among the herds of the
county to learn whether they are
free from tuberculosis.
Boosting for the Consolidated
School at Gem ,
There is a Chinese proverb at-
tributed to Yueng Ming whicfy
says. "The impossible can never
happen to anyone." We gather
from that that what happens to
one person or in one community
must be possible for oithers.
It is the determination to be
succesful; that is one of the chief;
factors in producing success. The
determination to "keep on" and
not to "give in" nearly always
results in success.
Let us as a neighborhood de-
termine that there will be a
Consolidated School District in
this community; that "Come what
will" we will overthrow every ob-
stacle and come out in 1921 with
r. splendid school building fully
equipt to give our children thef
educational advantages that are
large mountain lion and dragging
it to death.
Mayfield was then a lad of six-
teen years and he was working
for the Bar C ranch. He weighed
ninety-eight pounds then. While
riding up Sour Dough Canyon
thirty-five miles west of Canadian
he came in between the walls of
a narrow ravine, beyond whieh
was a pool of water. He dismount-
ed to investigate and saw a
mountain lion lying close to him.
He jumped on his horse and rode
out, not knowing what the ani-
mal was. The habits of the
mountain lions are to lie quietly
on high bluffs or up in trees and
jump on their prey as it passes
below them. The animals are so
stealthy that very few Plainsmen
have ever seen them.
When Mayfield next saw the
mountain lion it was on a bluff
ready to jump, and as it rose for
the jump he lassoed it around
the neck and dragged it off with
his bronco. After being dragged
about one hundred yards the lion
was strangled and Mayfield jump-
ed off his horse and cut its
throat. Nobody but a boy would
have lassoed that lion. A man
Security Class Initiated at Miami
On Tuesday evening June 22d
Canadian Council No. 172'.) Se-j
curity Benefit Association was
invited to Miami to attend a
council meeting and initiate a
class of ten. The Canadian Coun-
cil took its degree team, of which
it is proud, to put on the ritual-)
istic work. The Council's team ia
working fine and has worked
overtime to perfect the drill.
We want all members to com'J
out and enjoy the meetings. We
were served to a delicious ban-
quet at the Cottage Inn Hotel at
Miami after the business meet-
ing.—Reported.
ffknieer Cow Camp
Fiddler Visited Record
| Office Last Saturday
The Record force suspended
operations Saturday afternoon
and entertained L. 15. and Mollie
Shaw the publishers of the Hig-
gins News. It was a summer day
after a strenuous week, and we
were just wondering whether to
chuck the whole business and gq
swimming or whether to obey the
promptings of duty and try to
satisfy the demands of several
customers by making an on-
slaught on the job tickets.
Shaw had the same notion at
Higgins, and he had more nerve
than we did, for he walked out.
locked the door and headed his
car for Canadian. His and MolJ
lie's invasion of the shop gave
us an excuse to quit work, so we
talked shop for two hours, and
enjoyed the two hours immensely.
Mollie Shaw began her newspa-
per career in Western Kansas in
a neighboring" town to the one
America Peopled Orig-
inally by the Oriental
Race, Says Hewett
where the Record editor began to
would have known that the slight-J set type at the age of eight years,
est miscue in the affair would] L. D. Shaw is one of the pio-
have meant his death. | neers of the Panhandle. He fid
"Jfob" put the animal on his
horse back of the saddle, and it
nearly touched the ground on
died and sang in the cow camps
in the early years and knows the
Plains and the Plains pioneers;
El Paso, June 27.—America was
peopled originally by people from
the Orient, is the opinion of Dr.
Edgar L. Hewitt of Santa Fej
N. M., noted archaeologist and au-
thority on Indian lore. Dr. Hewitt
in a lecture before the El Paso
Chamber of Commerce said he
was led to this belief thru exca-
vations by himself and other
archaeologists. He declared the
results of this work showed mark-
ed similarity in racial and tribal
characteristics between the Mon-
gol and the American Indian.
Dr. Hewett, who has made ex-
tensive study of Indians, declares
that the American Indian had a
civilization 5,000 years ago that
enabled them to build cities and
beautiful buildings while the Cau-
casian races were savages wan-
dering over Europe.
The American Indian is esthet-
ic, industrial, institutional, liter-
ary, and religious, Dr. Hewett de-
clared. He said the native Indian
was building houses of stone
with tools made of rock long be-
fore the Caucasians discovered
metal. It was thru the finding of
metal, he declared, and the con-
sequent making of tools and
weapons that enabled the Cauca-
sians to conquer the wojjpd.
The difference between the In-
dian civilization and that of the
modern day races was explained
by the archaeologist. He said the
Indian civilization was cultural,
whereas modern civilization is
mechanical and industrial. The
Caucasians, he said, have never
produced religions, but depend*
on ancients and particularly the
Orients for what they have.
Ruins of Ancient Peoples Found
In Panhandle of Oklahoma
both sides. He received a reward He has a splendid printing plant,
from Hutchinson County for kill-j
ing it, also a reward from the
cattlemen. The hide was preserv-
ed and was in some home in
Woodward the last time Bob saw
it. Jack Meade, the sheriff of
Hutchinson County, had it for
at Higgins, and his paper is one
of the favorite publications of
the Panhandle. He is a mechanic-
al genius and has invented art
arrangement for taking static
electricity out of paper as it gen-
erates while the press is in ope-
ration. This should revolutionize
j that feature of the printing busi-
several years, - ■ ■■■■■ ■ ^ MRU _
Mayfield knows early day his-' ness, a feature that has always
tory in Canadian, and he is al- been a trouble maker for print*
ways pleased to swap reminis-
cences with another old timer.
Two stories in particular he en-
joys telling. One is about a negro.
ing presses, and Shaw should
realize handsomely sfrom the in*,
vention that is solely his.
We trust that L. D. and Mollif
George Washington, who rode, will come to Canadian oftener if
bucking broncos on the streets of the future.
Canadian. The negro would strip
his horse clean without a rope
their right. With trucks or othe / or sitrap left and then turn him
conveyances to take them to and
Sheriff
Sherfr
Gets Keg
Trammell
of "Choc"
.rade a trip
from school in comfort and safe-
ly, and with teachers who will
consider employment in such en-
vironment, don't spend too muc!|
' ime figuring the cost.
What does it cost in actual
caih tp send your boy and girl
away to school? Then what doerj
it cost morally? Having them
away from the home influence,
away from Father's advise and
Mother's soothing care in illness,
away from sister's companionship
and brother's comradeship?
Think of the cost along these
lines, then figure the money cost
and I'm sure the latter will ap-
pear very insignificant indeed.
Do you remember the famous
dispatch Foch sent to Joffre at
the first battle of the Marne when
defeat stared the French armies
in the face? Foch wired: "My
right is defeated; my left is re-
treating; my center threatens to
give way; I am attacking.''
This is the spirit that wins
battles, whether on the field or
elsewhere. All battles are fought
in one's own mind FIRST.
When you conquer your own
fears in your own mind, you caif
then surmount all difficulties. So,
let's think only, "A School is Pos-
sible. A school is practical. We
want a school. We are going to
have a school/' And behold this
community will have a school for
the 1921 term, of which we Will
all be proud. And risfrig genera-
tions shall call us Blessed.
-A BOOSTER.
■
Texas **- * i.
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loose and slap him with his old,40 Hauin«.n last Wednesday an I
hat and invite him incowboy j seized a fifteen ^alhn keg of
language to do his worst. He ' hoctaw leer and placed John
Hiatt uiultri' arrest. Hi; bond was
fixed at $500, which was promptly
never saw the negro thrown. An-
other was a big fellow who was (
crazy drunk and wanted to ride fi'ven.
his horse into a saloon. He rode1 When Mr. Trammell made the
up and down the old wooden side-1 arrest it is said that there was a
walk and started In a few times. Various crowd in the Hiatt mar-
Finally the proprietor told him>et and grocery whicfh indicated
not to come in, and he replied; that they had been imbibing free-
witfc' an oath that he was a riian jly of the brew that was on tap. It
from the Territory and a bad one) was unfiltered and resembled a
and he was on his way in. The)keg of slop suitable for the ani-
ender took his gun away from mal that grunts most of the time.
and beat him up so bad that
rgot all about his desire to
into the saloon.
Mayfield is in the real es
and oil lease business at
hoe.
, Lipscomb Garage Burns
On Wednesday the garage of,
Grover Bussard took fire, it is
said from a barrel of batteries,
and the building was completely
destroyed, with a loss of $14,000
covered by insurance tp the
amount of $10,000.
Seven cars of various makes,
two of them good ones, were de-
streg^d in the fire.
It is n<9$ known at this time
whst Mr. Bussard will do in the
mat^r, as-lit has not decided as
ither he will rebuild or not|
fire is a misfortune to the
b people, as the Bussard
was «ne otl!he best build-
in the town.—-Higgins News.
w
lfa bay ior sale. See Tom
. r.
This case will be watched with
much interest as it is reported
that Choc is being made for pri-
vate use in this section, which has
recently been held not to be in
flotation of the prohibition law
hown as the Volstead act.
It would be much better to al-
low the sale of beer than to allow
this stuff to be made for so-called
private use. It has the kick.—
Cheyenne Star. i
High Grade Decorations
An observant young lady from
Boston on her first trip west saw
when crossing the Plains, a herd
of branded cattle.
"Oh, see the engraved cows!"
she remarked enthusiastically.—
Pull Together.
Where will you spend the
Fourth, on the 6th. Many people
will- go to Davison's Ranch for
the big Wild West celebration.
Other's will go to* Studer's lake
for a quieter and perhies ihore
ible
I
Discovery of ruins of irriga-
tion canals and foundations of
buildings made by, pre-historic
civilization of unknown identity
iii Texas and Beaver Counties has
been made by J. B. Thoburn, sec-
retary of the Oklahoma Historic-
al society.
Thoburn has returned from a
month's field trip spent in the
Ok'/Tioma and Texas Panhandles
and in Southwestern Kansas with
Warren I. Moorehead, a Boston
archaeologist, and his assistant,
Eldridge J. F. Johnson, of the
faculty of the University of Penn-
sylvania.
Texas and Beaver Counties
have at least one irrigation canal
each, according to Thoburn. The
canals extend into Texas and
Kansas, resemble ravines and
show evidence of a high degree
of engineering skill. They were
old before the coming of the
white man, but as yet no one will
hazard an opinion as to precisely
when or who built them. Presum-
ably the builders were early In-
dians who had attained a civiliz-
ation on the order of the Pueblos i
In the same territory with the
canals are the ruins of stone
foundations of buildings. It is
probable that the buildings were
earth walled houses.
Flat stones laid on edge were
ustfd, and little skill in masonry
is indicated, tho the ruins indicate
buildings of a new cultural de-
velopment. Numerous graves!
shallow and fenced in by rock
were found, Sometimes what ap-
peared to be a grave was found
to be either fireplace or an al-
tar, presumably of c</emonial
significance.
Moorehead's party found buried
a piece of woven fabric, rotted,
but unmistakable, made from fi-
ber^ of some plant, possibly
Yucca.
Texas ruins were found along
Wolf Creek in Ochiltree County,
Cottonwood and Tarbox Creeks
in Hutchinson County, Moore
Creek in Roberts County, Dixon
and Antelope Creeks in Hutchin*
son County, and Alibates Creek
in Potter County*
Moorehead and JofchsOQ will
continue the investigation. Speci-
mens found in the process Of
cavation will go to the
society of the tfi
ith* %
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