The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1920 Page: 8 of 8
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>EMEMBER to ask
your grocer for Cal-
umet faking Powder arid be
sure that you get it—the In-
dianhead on theorangelabeL
Then forget about bake
day failures. For you will
never have any. Calumet
always produces the sweet-
est and most palatable foods.
And now remember, you
always use less than of most
other brands because it pos-
sesses greater leavening strength.
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Now Remember
A ways Use
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There is no waste.
recioecrlls for one errc
cuds cf Hour
vnat s all ycu -use.
You never have to re-bake.
Contains only such ingre-
dients r.s have been officially
approved by II. S. Food Authorities,
is the product of ths largest, rooct
modem ar.d sanitary Baking Pow-
der Factories in existence.
Found can of Calumet contains full
16 oz. Some bakingpowders come in
12 oz. instead of ISoz. cans. Bo su^e
you get a pound when you want it.
CnUimet
Co'v.mbia
Muffin
Recipe
-4 cups sifted
; flour, 4 level tea-
-•i ppooii? Ca'umet
Bakl ,7 Powder,
i' 1 tablespoon su-
1 (I gar, 1 teaspoon
jjj salt, 2 egg:=, 2
ig cups of sweet
i "j milk. Then mix
~ in the regular
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Several Wells to
Be Drilled Soon
In a conversation with John
B. Mteans, general manager for
the Humphreys Mexia Company
Thursday morning, we learn
that considerable quantity of
material, timbers, rigs and tools
have been ordered with which
to drill at least five more wells
on the company's holdings here.
Geologists have not made the
locations for these additional
wells, however, and the exact
locations are not yet known.
Work will be resumed in the
drilling line at an early day, and
we look forward to increased ac-
tivities in the field west of town.
Crews of workmen are still
going ahead with the construc-
tion of tankage to care for well
No. 1 when it is brought in, and
progress of the work is satisfac-
tory. The pretty weather the
past few days has added much
to the progress of developments,
and business is teeming with in-
terest in the field adjacent to
Mexia. Visitors continue to
come in, many from a long dis-
tance, several prominent oil men
being on the ground from the
states of Washington, Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylva-
nia, California and elsewhere.
Large Diesel Engine Ar-
rives for Light Company'
A 250-horse power Bush-Sul-
zier Diesel oil engine, :>ne of
two very large ones to be instal-
led by the Central Texas Ice,
Light, Power & Water Co., in
their plant here, has arrived and
engineers are placing the engine
in place for immediate use.
Manager Tom Phillips states
that another .engine, twin to the
one just received, is in transit
and will be installed just as soon
as it arrives. The smaller en-
gines now in use at the plant
will be sold and replaced with
the new and larger ones, thus
affording a double power unit
for their plant here equal to any
emergency and able to care for
increased demands upon the
plant.
Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Kirkpat-
rick of Whitewright, are guests
this week in the homes of Mes-
dames Rush Hickman and D.
Leon Ilarp.
Get rid of that jESfi
Woodbine Sand Gets
Deeper Towards East
According to geologists who
have studied the formations for
many years, and very closely for
several months past, the Wood-
bine sand in which the Humph-
reys well struck oil, extends ov-
er into the Louisiana field, and
two of the producing pools in
that section are located on the
same kind of sand which under-
lays the Mexia field at a depth
of approximately 3,000 feet.
The Woodbine sand is the
best producer in both the Bull
Bayou and the Caddo fields of
Louisiana. It is composed of an
alternating series of sands and
shales and crops out on the
surface along a line directly be-
tween Waco and Arlington, or
approximately forty miles west
of Mexia. This, therefore,
would seem to offset any idea
that might exist as to the Ran-
ger and Desdemona fields being
related, even in a remote de-
gree, to the Mexia field.
In speaking to a geologist
Sunday of the possibilities here,
he stated that for a number of
miles eastward the Woodbine
•sand would be found at a grad-
ually lower depth, and when onel
came to Tyler the sand would i
probably be found at a depth of |
5.000 feet. Westward the Wood-
bine sand is discovered at shal-
lower depths until it finally
crops out on top of the ground
about forty miles to the west.
Two Big Leases
Sold Near Wei!
For Sal#—176 acres, 3 miles north-
east Mexia, on Mexia-Kirven road, im-
proved, 2 good houses, 150 acres in
cultivation, $60.00 per acre. See me
for terms.—J. B. Manning, Teague,
Route 4. Place making 60 bales cot-
ton this year, also plenty of feed.
16wmo
Kodak Finishing—Quick service.
High class work. Leave Alms with
us. Cox & Forrest. 26dwlm
High Class Seedling Peach trees—
from finest selected seeds. They will
produce crops of fine fruit when all
others fail and trees cost less than
any that are generally sold. Address
Stubenrauch Fruit Farm, Route 3, Me-
xia, Texas. # 12wlm
For Sale—Small Shetland pony,
mare, about 6 years of age. Very
gentle. Price $60.00. Steve Womack.
Phone No. 127. 24d6wl
Moving Day—Every day Is moving
day with me. Give me your hauling
—anywhere. W. H. Hensley, Mexia,
Texas, headquarters at Farrar Lum-
ber Co. 22dwlm
Mexia-Teague mail and transfer ser-
vice. Car leaves Mexia at 6:30 every
morning. Car leaves Teague at 5:00
every afternoon. Passenger transfer
$1.50. Phone No. 227.—J. H. McAd-
ams. dwlm
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Atkjco
Tractor Drill
No. V How
An Oliver Plow for
every farming need
also hna Leon do-
t*igned tor tho
Ford son
Accurately sow a wheat
oat9. rye, barley, rice, peas,
Loans, ctc. Furnished m
plain (frain or combined
grain vnd fertilizer sty tea,
til wood or at vol
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Electric Contract Work—X do gen-
eral electric repairing, installing, wir-
ing, etc. See or phone me for all
kinds of electric work. Also Delco
Light dealer. I handle all kinds elec-
tric fixtures and supplies. O. D. Wil-
liams. 22dwlm
I have a 7-passenger Chalmers auto-
mobile, in good condition, also a one-
ton Republic truck in good condition
at Drain & McKee's garage, Corsica-
na, will sell or trade for oil leases. T.
L. Swink, Dawson, Rt. 3, Texas.
26dwlm
I have put on a general delivery car
for the public and want your patron-
age. It will be appreciated. My head-
quarters wlil be at Buckner & Wright
Lumber Yard. Phone No. 42. I de-
liver anywhere in the city. Prices
reasonable. White Davis.
2dwm
For Sale—Good 3-room house at
Cotton Gin. See L. N. Riddle. 3w2t
Wanted—Salesman with Ford car
to sell and deliver candy around Me-
xia. Must be hustler and able to
make bond. Chas. C. Hogan, Ennis,
Texas. 30d2wl
Cold I
For colds, grippe, "flu", fevrr,
ctc., take tliat reliable old remedy,
SWAMP Cliill Tonic. Safe and
sure for children or adults. Taste-
less—free from calomel.
The Doctors' Prescription
60c nt All !">'■ ilers.
Swamp
CHILL A
Twenty acres of the Ben Speer
land adjoining the L. W. Rogers
lease on the east, have changed'
hands during the last two days
for a consideration of $40,000,
or $2,000.00 an acre.
Ten acres of this tract were
leased Wednesday by a party
who contracts to drill a well,
and another 10 acres were leas-
ed Friday for $20,000 by a prom-
inent oil man.
Both transactions were handl-
ed through the offices of Smith
& Co., and spot cash was paid
for the leases.
Miss Elaine Oppen, who has
charge of the X'ommercial Club
offices, has turned a consider-
able portion of her time toward
information bureau for ten-
ants and landlords who want to
rent residential property and
rooms for house-keeping. While
the work ft rather tedious and
necessitates a lot of telephoning
and bookkeeping, the service is
of a valuable kind and is appre-
ciated by many.
F. H. Pittman and son Roy, of
Fairfield, is here the guest of
his brother W. D. Pittman and
family.
Miss Effie Higginbotham has
accepted a position with the
Schulz & Bennett drug store.
Commercial Club to
Employ Secretary
A motion was made and unan-
imous action taken thereon, ad-
vising the president of the Com-
mercial Club to employ a cap-
able man at once to devote all of
his time to the work in the sec-
retary's office.
Mr. McGee asked for this as-
sistance in order to care for the
large volume of work now accu-
mulating in the offices of the
club which demands immediate
attention. It is also desired
that a man be employed who is
familiar with the duties of
commercial organization and
who can put things over bj^ co-
operative effort. The vote
which resulted on a motion sus-
taining Mr. McGee's request
was unanimous and steps will
be taken immediately to secure
a man for the place.
The action must not be con-
strued as reflecting on the splen-
did record of Mr. Karner, the
present secretary, who natural-
ly stands ready to favor this ac-
tion because of his heavy busi-
ness responsibilities since the oil
boom. Mr. Karner is with the
club, always in matters favored
by a majority.
An Agreeable Surprise
"About three years ago when I was
suffering from a severe cold on my
lungs and coughed most of the time
night and day, I tried a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
was surprised at. the promptness with
which it gave me relief," writes Mrs.
James Drown, Clark Mills, N. Y. Many
another has been surprised and pleas-
ed with the prompt relief afforded by
this remedy.
The Roderick Lean Automatic Dicc Ilar-
ow, built purposely to work with the
Fordsoa, is now considered a most neces-
sary implement by thousands of Amer-
ican farmers.
Discing with the Fordson ar.d« Ro 'enck
Lear. Automatic Dicc Harrow, just after
ths harvest, enables thfe 5?lov/ ' tufn &U
trash wc-ii under where icx. A i...
the soil. It sbo prevent, t'
moisture by evaporate"! • ar.d • .• •• & :
laud fit for plowing at r xy
Then after plowing ths IV;.'. L':_a
Automatic !Cisc Ha;i
sible the sort of secdr-.i i! ..t i a
better ,: op. Ths Rcdtri-i: Lea.i Auto-
matic Disc Harrow was built to work
with the Fordson to the end of growing
better crops.
It provides fa.,':, thorough and deep r.ced*
bed preparation. That is why you will
v £ t one with your Fordson. Then, too,
there arcRcder! chLe msplh't joth,spring
toe..-.
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socially
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j fecdcrick Lean A;
, arc c ntroll;
i the tractor .'..at,
Izr in ycur town.
-nib.
?" ordjon,
utiwn tic Disc
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See t'.ie Ford-
.imestone Motor Company
F. W. WELCH, Manager
MEXIA, TEXAS
Woodbine Sand
Does Not Com-
pare With Ranger
Since reports from some un-
authentic source have been pub-
lished in the larger papers, de-
claring that the oil pool discov-
ered at Mexia is probably an ex-
tension of the Ranger pool, oil
men and geologists have put out
an emphatic denial of this the-
ory.
Insofar as a comparison is
concerned there can be no pos-
sible resemblance in the two
discoveries. The Ranger and
Eastland sand is a lime forma-
Humphreys Mexia
Company Organized
Organization of the Humph-
reys Mexia Company, capitaliz-
ed at $2,500,000, and which org-
anization has absorbed the Me-
xia Oil & Gas Company, taking
over the interests of both the
Humphreys Petroleum Co., and
the latter company, has been
perfected. A meeting of the
directors of the new company
was held Monday morning. Fol-
lowing is a list of officers and
directors in the Humphreys Me-
xia Company: President, Col. A.
E. Humphreys; Vice President,
F. Julius Fohs; Secretary-Treas-
urer, A. E. Humphreys, Jr.;
General Manager and Counsel, jsts here. The oil here was dis
John B. Means; Assistant Sec- covered in the well-known wood-
retary, Thos. T. Hill. Directors:, |jjnc Sand, and a permanent pro-
Col. A. E. Humphreys, I. B. jduction is practically assured.
Humphreys, A. E. Humphreys,! oil men declare the lime at
Jr., John B. Means, John H. | Ranger is just as liable to quit
Sweatt, Frank
and W. M. White, Sr
The Humphreys Mexia Com-
pany has leased four office rooms
in the Kemp building upstairs
over the Cox-Forrest Drug Store
and are equipping the rooms for
use in their office work. This
suite will represent the com-
pany's headquarters, and as
soon as workmen can finish the
repairs and equipment is ad-
ded, there will be someone on| the state.
hand at all times to transact bu-!
siness for the company.
WEAK; RUN-DOWN.
Carolina Lady Got So She Coiild
Just Drag.—"Cardui Built Me
Up," She Declares.
Kernersville, N. C.—In an Interest-
ing statement regarding Cardui, the
Woman's Tonic, Mrs. Wesley Mabe, of #
near here, recently said: "I have
known Cardui for years, but never
knew its worth until a year or so ago.
I was in a weakened, run-down cont.
dition. I bccame draggy—didn't eat or
sleep to do any good; couldn't do any-
thing without a great effort. I tried
different remedies and medicines, yet
I continued to drag.
"I decided to give Cardui a trial,
and found it was just what I really
needed. It made mo feel much strong-
er toon after I began to use it. 1 be-
gan to e;it. more, and tho nervous.
ion and nothing of the kind ex-j weak fecial,; began to leave. Soon I
•was sleeping good.
"Cardui built me up as no other
to:1 i"; ever did.
"j vf Cr.rdu« v;M) one daughter
vii.i v sb i'iay i >lt l-.-ai and tired out
ail the time. It brought her right out,
and soon she was as well as a girl
could be. We tbiuli there is nothing
Cox, B. S. Smith j producing oil as suddenly as it like
;
Cardui."
began to do so, and for this rea-
son. based on history of the oil
producing sands, there can be i
no comparison of the two fields.
All the geologists with whom we
have conversed, as well as prom-
inent oil men, claim the Mexia
discovery promises two out-
standing features which are
bound to make this one of, if I
not the very best discoveries in
These two features
Do not allow yourself to become
w-;'k and run-down from womanly
troubles. 'iuk:t Cardui. You may find,
ir. Just v.h: o you really need. For
inore Hrm 10 yeam it. has boen used Dy
t 'on and;; and thdu:;ands, and found
;ju:it as ?frj. I.Inbe describes.
At your driigglrt's. NC-142
How's This?
GOOD ROAD TO MEXIA
A new company, dealing, we
believe, principally in leather
goods, has secured a lease on
one of the store rooms in the
Pittman building on Railroad
street and will open for business
as soon as their stock of goods
and fixtures arrive. A repre-
sentative of the Factory Outlet
Co., of Dallas, closed the lease
and it is more than likely that
this concern is planning to open
a branch house here. They are
large distributors of harness
and all kinds of leather goods. ,
It is forty miles on an air line
from Mexia to Waco.
The big oil well, recently
brought in, is three miles this
side of Mexia.
If the new oil field is of the
magnitude indicated by this re-
cent find, it behooves us good
people of McLennan County to
get busy on a good road—a first
class road—in that direction.
The rt>ad will be serviceable
even though the field should not
live up to this early promise.
But if the field does prove to
be one of great value, the forty
miles between Waco and Mexia
ought to be in such shape as to
require only an hour for those
who travel by auto.
Let's have a first-class high-
way between Waco and Mexia.
—Waco Times-Herald.
Miss Billie Bridges has re-
turned Jiome from Dallas, where
she has been for some time, to
accept a position as private
stenographer for the Humph-
reys Mexia Company.
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo
cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine,
are based on geological data, the : Hall's Catarrh Medi< Ine has been taken
... , _7 .. „ 1 ,ii „/> by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty-
Woodbine sand and trie lleptn 01 jjve yearai and Jlas become known as the
the well. The quality of the oil j most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall's
io ,|on r, Ki„ f,,pfn1, I Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on
IS H1SO ct Ulfc lcUAUi. , muc0u8 surfaces, expelling the Poi-
, , , mi son from the Blood and healing the dis-
John Corley Jr., Fred Bennett ease(1 portion3.
from : After you have taken Hall's Catarrh
Jr., and Everett Jackson
, „ /t..ii r}.,„i,„„„ I Medicine ror a snort lime you win see a
A. Ol M. College, Willie jjUCKnei, great Improvement in your general
ivlor health. Start taking TTmII's Catarrh Medi-
J cine at once and Ret rid of catarrh. Send
Willi for testimonials, free.
I F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, OhlOw
Sold by all Drutf&lsts, 75c.
Miss Ora Phillips from
spent the week end here
their parents.
Life Is Mot Dull
$1® Lives*
■s
Blue—life doesn't seem worth the living—
your bt t friends annoy you—everything goes
wrong? Chances are, your liver is out of order.
Unless you fix it up, things are likely to be
worse to-morrow. You can't lrnl ;.nylhing that
will relieve you more ciuicMy and effectively than
los1* Uver SPills
Just take a couple when you go to bed to-
night. You'll feel a lot better in the morning.
For chronic constipation, and as an occasional laxative, these little
pills work like magic.
Get a Box of Your Druggist.
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The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1920, newspaper, December 3, 1920; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292391/m1/8/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.