The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. [29], No. [40], Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1939 Page: 1 of 2
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IRANSAS PASS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY ft 193(|
every 15 days j^until th(H
ment is,^ p-completed. ]
were 2rM drilling perm*
drillingJF districts secure™
Losoysm Oil Company ffl
City fipf Aransas Pass. 1
CorgSby & Grote and ttl
interests thereby official!
fidfmed a trade revealed!
■ijfccember 15th issue of T*
Keen Gompetitfoi
For Mayor Offic^
As Three Declare
Und ’w(
udence
J. F. NEWBURY: Art
Pass is on the way. We’vl
the best prospects of any i
section in South Texas.
C. S. Bolton, Lea Al-
len, M. W. Clayborn
Ar^ Candidates. "
! One &f the most, hotly contested
city elections in many years was
being predicted by political observ-
ers witm the announcement that
three min had already announced
-for the office of mayor. The can-
didates vlere Lea (Red) Allen, M.
W. Clayborn and (?. S. Bolton.
Issues of the Campaign have not
been drawn this early in the race,
r -Clayborn 'mm ±h^L oply candidate
to make jEennite declaration of
colicy up t* .he p.-fernt -time. From
.vis staten:'C, some of the import-
;; vt, issues Jay-he: street improve*
^k|i^aMnextenfsion, a count*
seawall improv'--
■
®for other citr
J5‘. Crumly, •
tion of __ ...
pn«d for re-election,
tome forward. It
Ithat J. F. Newb.ury
la; candidate for re-
Ipt commissioner.
little of Good we 11,
rrding the winter in
P nephew, Port Lh>
Dr. and Mrs. H. A. T<(M
to be the guests of The ProM
at the picture, “The Dawn ^
trol” at the Rialto Sunday arl
Monday. This notice clipped
from The Progress will be yorj
admission ticket. } • ,
front.
xt
HARRY MILLER: I feel tired
already after retiring on the
first. Bu.t there’s lots of little
things that are going to keep me
mighty busy.
\N. D. SANIFORD: There does
not seem to • be any less work
Jor me just because I no longer
l^ave the justice office. I’m just
pdain Sanford from now on !
panther Cagers Win
Ope Game, Lose One
San Patricio county court will
open for its regular January session
of two wreeks on Monday morning.
Presiding will be A. D. Aikin, ntew
county judge, who succeeded Judge
W. B. Moss on January 1st. A
light docket is reported.
The commissioners of San Patri-
cio county met Monday at the
court house and approved the bonds
of old and new county officers. the No. 1 Hoffman
They also qualified incoming offi-1 Moeller between lots
cers.
to
ra
Sin
Sea|^* we^ under\way in ..this
sectioii, .. \
Against Robstown Erwin stood
out as high scorer with a total of
9 points, followed by Mostella
with four, Crawford and Yoder
-with two each and Mathisen with
one for a total of IS points against
Robs town's 36.
iMorton Rites Are
[nther cagers dropped a garni
-■bstqwn^Frid^ night and camtf
Tuesday nigyitVto jdeteat theitfjfc ■ ■ i j n ■
Pirates as tht' basketball lOQSy
Funeral services will be held at
Childress, Texas, today for John
'Wash-burn Morton; 75, a retired
railroad' worker, wrho died Wednes-
day at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. H. S. Shanks at Ingleside.
Among
------a his survivors are a son,
Yoder and Mostella were tied fori T' M?rton of McAllen, who
gh scofe honors aeainst Sin inn !accomPanied the body overland.
and five
heightened
ransas Pass
this sec-
he oil spot-
Devel-
[is-hed ,on three
the possibil-
few weeks
will be re-
ad Hill g con-
up for the
at’the; crossroads on
end of lot 16 in block 72,
‘ isF2'2
the highway to Ingleside. Th^
j rig was expected to spud over the\-
week-end.
Corgey & Grote skidded fig from
the No. 1 Young-Gustafson to make
location for the No. 1 Usher on the
line between! lots 3 and 4 in block
1, on the north end. Surface cas-
ing was being run and cemented.
Corgey & Grote skidded from
the No. 1 Dinsmore and made lo-
cation for the No. 1 Scrivner on
the north end of combined lots 6
and 7 in block 2. Surface casing1
was being run and cemented.
Tom Granam was skidding from
the No. 1 Hoffman to the No. 1
10 and 11 in
block 2 for P. W. Stemp;
Shasta No. 1 Duphorne-Ander-
son, on tracts 20
and 21 in lock, 21$ of the '.'Burfcan..
& Danforlfv Is a location.
Richardson Petroleum C E vfe;
rigging up today1 Cot-,
ter on the south end of cpnrai^L^
lots 16 and 17 in block 75, almost
directly across the Ingleside high-
way from their southwest discovc
the No. 1 Mills.
Tom Graham skidded rig, from
the No. 2 Young and. set up for the
Waierbury Tom Graham . lio
r ; r* Y
1
ft
mi
ke/x
Moore on the north end of1 com
bined lots .11 and 13 ini block 73
high scofe honors against Sinton j accompanied the body overland, bined lots 11 and 13 ini block 73.
Erwin and , Crawford^ scoring twolFuner.aI arranoem«nit5 were under j Surface casing was run and cement-
__T -t-v- the direction of the Cage Funeral jed to 1200 feet and work /is, wait-
points each and Mathisen one. The
Panthers emerged victors by the
close score of 13 to 11.
I&gjtff of Harrowing
^mobile Through Desert
(Jungles of British Africa
home.
some fiction
Suggestion of daev-
rt, is; Bill Snyder’s
F500 mile desert and
Africa,- as told in a
|o Mrs. Snyder here.
In from Capetown,
Africa, as Snyder
lave Africa by boat on
^Australia and around
San Francisco or Los
Jr has traveled some-
fix to eight thousand
itomobile through the
polling veldt country of
■he’s just about willing
lie. He has hunted and
*d and compressed into
ihs the thrills and ex-
la lifetime,
his latest letter
Ers. Snyder.
Igton to Gobabis
tell you about an/ auto
1st made. It was along
loneliest, less traveled,
hest and most danger-
this country. It was
ton to Gobabis in
frica, a distance of
les travel by auto.
Jpington with extra
>d supply of
first day
We
any assistance should we have en-
gine trouble.
The bed of the river forms a good
road._ They say that the last time
the river flowed was in 1&34. Be-
fore that, nearly 70 years ago. For
the first few miles we came across
a few deserted houses left by a
tribe of Bushmen, who, long years
ago, were moved by the . Union
government, owing to their great
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Mrs. R. G. Speer who was taken)
to Temple Sunday by Mr. Spej;r
and Mrs. Port Little, underwent a!n
operation there at 8:00 this morn- .
ing. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Couch
_and Mrs. Houston Speer left last
j night to be with her, ar<l another
daughter, Mrs. Ray Harbour, of
{Goosecreek, is with her. No report
i of her condition has been received
jas this is written.
Bigelow, Norris
Purchase Cafe
jing on cement.
COMPLETIONS
P. W. Slemp and Tom Graham
No. 1 Hoffman, on the line between,
lpj|.^.an4-l-3'hn- block 2,‘ 'was com-
pleted through casing perforations
at 7130 to 7-135-am* was' flowing to*
storage ufTgauged. Produ&iao-iol-:--
1 owed -a ••siqTr^eJol^ after 7134 to
7143. perforations gave some salt
water.'
Atlantic No. 1 Frank flowed 500
(barrels in 24 hours through aV3-i6th
jinch choke with 1,400 pound,L on % e
-casing and 750 pounds on the tub-
ing to make one -of the beit wells
made in recent months. It is said
to be the eleventh produce!1 from
(Continued on page 8)
as re-
Ted Bigelow and Nick Norris an-
nounced this week the purchase of
from Harry ,K: j
even thesp sio-nc t L ,, . J’Miller. Tne new owners revealed
Tnn v, ne- Clt b'ehindl I that the name of the cafe would be
As we nroc^L^T j unchanged and that its policy of
and more difficult'‘ ^f°°l ^ aUraClive
track. The river wound back and
forth and often the road left the
-bed to cut off long curves,, plough-
ing through the red sand and
climbing steep sand dunes. In
jome^ places other dry river beds
joined the main river. To take
the wrong course would have meant
disaster, as it would lead into the
waterless desert. But as my part- Dallas!
ner knew the road in this country,
we were safe as far as the right
road was concerned.
Game Plentiful
About the game. There is plenty
of wild game in great herds, from
-the largest antelope to the smallest.
-Ofter we were forced to dow up
to permit a snorting herd l;o cross
our path. Lions, leopards a’nd other
cats are plentiful. Every bnce in
while we would get a glibipse of
me streaking through the | brush,
e went sometimes in the! river,
tfnetimes in between grea\ trees,
etimes hanging up for ajwhile
.some rock. Where the big trees
it is very pretty and pari like,
we went on, farther and^ far-
into the wilderness. Ti
monkeys and baboons ip
Jork, hollering like hell.
Heard
'Miller has been in the cafe bu/i-
ness here for approximately (lo
years. Ted Bigelow has been man-
ager of Harry’s Cafe for seyejal
years an dis a native of
[Continued on page ek
Sunday is the 124th anniversary
of the Battle of New Orleans........
there were so many new arrivals in
prices \vould be continued. the hospital at Corpus Christ! on
Bigelow and Norris have secured New Year’s that the attendants
a five-year lease on the cafe piiildA didn’t have time to weigh all of
ing from Mrs. H. K. Miller. TheyPhem........-before Bill Snyder, who
purchased both the fixtures and thesis on the last lap of a rouud-the-
cafe business. }/ ! I world trip, finished a letter to Mrs.
Miller announced that he wouldj Snyder here, he ran out of dots for
continue to make Aransas Pass hisyhis “ifs”........a visitor to our city
home, dividing his time betweenVemarking of the nice stores in
real estate holdings here and in RAransas Pass, after visiting Haiike’s
He indicated that he would jfn-d DuBose’s.
now have more time for civic work<f 'O. C. McLeod saying that even
towards the advancement of thjf with his rent paid in advance, his
city both in a commercial and k ’office was torn down from over
civic way. / j his head, but that he didn’t mind if
it made the town grow............since
the first of the year local men’s
thoughts have seriously turned to
the idea of being mayor or city
commissioner........the frankness of
youth illustrated to a lo-cal clerk
who addressed a customer as “lady”
land w'as told by the “lady’s”- young
'companion: “That’s no lady, that’s
my sister!”
Although H.)E. Dixon couldn’t
spell or prmmiince the name of the
to.vn '.r^rfH%hence it came, he
card from Bill Sny-
....Mfs. W„ D.
Buick on
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The Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. [29], No. [40], Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1939, newspaper, January 5, 1939; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1060164/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.