The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1924 Page: 1 of 10
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$1.50 THE YEAR—
ALWAYS in Advance
Cbc <3>lnev Enterprise.
With a MISSION—
WITHOUT a Muzzle
VOLUME XV.
PUBLISHED BY R. SHUFFLER AT OLNEY, YOUHG COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1924.
NUMBER SIXTEEN
FERGUSON CLUB IS
ORGANIZED HERE
At noon Wednesday the list \ve
print below was started to circulating
on the streets of Olney, and at five
oclock the same day it was handed
into this office for publication. It
shows pretty well how the wind in
the run-off* on the Governor’s race
blows in this immediate section. We
predict that Mrs. Ferguson will carry
the Olney box by a three to one vote
over her opponent, Felix Robertson.
We the undersigned voters of
Olney and surrounding territory,
believing that the best interests of
the state will be served by the elec-
tion of Mrs. Miriam Ferguson as
Governor in the coming election, do
hereby form ourselves into a “Fer-
guson for Governor Club,’’ for the
purpose of furthering her interests.
Harlan Deets, Geo. Rice, Randolph
Sloan, Edwin Hill, H. A. Lawson,
Geo. B. Hamilton, B. R. White, J.
E. Pringle, W. P. Terrell, H. C.
Smith, W. W. Benson, F. L. Kelly,
J. T. Temple, J. W. McAdams, H.
L. Leberman, D. H. Hunter, H. C.
Carpenter, W. S. Davis, W. M. Scag-
in, J. E. Patterson, W. J. Davis, J.
E. Brown, Edwin Hill, Chas. S.
Richardson, W. T. Daniel, A. A.
Bernhardt, Dr. Fred Harrell, H. A.
Kunkel, Ernest Gilbert, A. L.
Brown, H. R. Butler, L. L. Gibbs,
J. M. Collier, B. S. Long, Geo. J.
Stinnett, W. J. Gatlin, C.*M. Ballard,
R. P. Griffith, Albert* Lemmons, Lee
Atchley, J. S. Veazey, John S. Beak,
C. H. Wallace, Adney Stowe, Rolland
Russell, Mrs. Cleve -Dilbeck, M. P.
kKington, W. P. Reynolds, W. H.
idams, H. C. Hodge, J. F. McLaugh-
Ai, M. A. Sutherlin, G. G. Glenn,
^Ared McClure, J. C. Jones, E. R.
Perkins, G. G. Stephens, W. P. Mc-
Laughlin, Joe C. Benson, R. A. Shaw,
Gibbs Brown, Bryce Parker J. C.
Anderson, F. M. Miller, W. S. Mead-
ers, E. A. Hausler, S. L. Gray, H. S.
Brown, W. F. Parsley, H. M. Reed,
Jesse Hennig, EX G. Hill, C. Leath,
G. A. Massey, P. A. Turner, Carl
Wainwright, W. L. White, W. H.
Prescott, N. D. Holdreman, J. E.
Neeley, Marvin L. Smith, H. G. Prin-
gle_.IL C. Smith, C. H. Thomas, J.
A. Parker, T. W. Harvey, G. W.
Garrison, S. V. Calhoun, Ed Barnett,
W. E. Skidmore, J. E. Clark, M. E.
Barnhill, J. H. Hunt, P. C. Coleman,
Will O'Connell, W. S. Gray, B. D.
Downey, W. H. Sloan, J. C. Mead-
ers, Marvin W. Burris, W. E. Col-
lins, J. R. Zugur, Ralph Shuffler,
S. J. Marcell, A. J. Lowe, J. T.
Richardson, A. S. Howard, J. S.
Johnston, Rhea Anderson, J. K.
Thomas, W. L. Johnston, Henry
Groves,. J. D. Carpenter, D. W. Whitt
J. B. Daniel, W. L. Mahan, J. C.
Summerville, Jack Wilborn, M. W.
Gaither, C. T. Harrington, J. J.
Walker, J. D. McBroom, C. E. Litch-
field, L. H. Green, G. C. Powell, D.
R. Maxwell, J. T. Richardson, Jr.,
J. R. Lemons, W. L. Groves, Mrs.
W. L. Groves, W. C. Rutherford, A.
E. Leathey, J. B. Meaders, T. L.
Richardson, Anna L. Mumles, Mrs.
W. P. Terrell, Mrs. Chas. S. Rich-
ardson, M. B. Parker, S. B. Kemp,
E. T. Jeske, E. F. Brown, G. M.
Boren and several others whose sig-
natures were written in pencil and
from continued handling of the pa-
per were illegible.
and Huckleberry, Mark Twain con-
cluded that, next to a good five
ceht* cigar, the world most needed
buttonless collars and suspenderless
trousers. It' is a conclusion most
anyone of us would have reached.
millerBedy
WEDDING SUNDAY
The Rites of Matrimony were
solemnized between Mr. James M.
Miller, Jr., of Wichita Falls and Miss
Faye Kennedy of Graham, on last
Sunday morning at eight o’clock, at
the home of the brides parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Kennedy in East
Graham. Rev. J. W. W. Shuler,
pastor of the First Methodist Church
officiating in a very beautiful and
impressive ceremony.
The wedding was a quite home
affair witnessed only by the immedi-
ate family of the bride and the
brother of the groom, Mr. Wm.
Miller, also of Wichita Falls.
The bride looked her best in a
Powder Blue Georgette while the
Groom wore the conventional black.
She is the only daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Kennedy; for many
Shears a resident of Olney, but the
past several years living in Graham,
where her father is our courteous
and efficient County Clerk. She is
a charming young lady of many
graces and agreeable personality.
The groom was connected with the
Guaranty State Bank of Graham
until recently when he accepted a
position with the First State Bank
and Trust Company of Wichita Falls.
He is a competent young business
man and has a host of friends.
Immediately after the ceremony
the couple left by auto for a brief
honeymoon to Oklahoma, going by
way of Fort Worth, Dennison and
other points.
They will be at home at Wichita
Falls, Texas after September first.
Charles Dickens old home, Gads-
hill Place, is being transformed into
a young ladies’ boarding school.
GAUGES NINETYTWO BARRELS
With four new tests drilling in the
Ragle pool and three wells on the
pump, this field although only re-
cently discovered, is making rapid
strides in development and promises
to be an important addition to the
petroleum resources of this section.
The discovery well continues to
make fifty barrels a day while its
western offset, the No. 3, is reported
making 92 barrels a day on a three
day guage. The No. 1 Knight-Hines-
Hays is making 55 barrels daily on
the guage.
Of the drilling wells the Knight-
Hines-Hays No. 2 is drilling at 250
feet, the Knight-Hines-Panhandle No.
4 which is an eastern offset to the
Knight-Hines-Hays No. 1 is drilling a
little below 225 feet while the No.
5 located in the southwest corner of
the north half of the R. Newman
survey, Ragle land, is drilling around
185 feet. After being delayed wait-
ing the completion of a water line
the test of Jeffers and Newby has
spudded and is drilling. This latter
test is on the Hausler land. The
four inch water line from the Olney
lake to the field should be completed
within the next few days and will
supply an abundance for future
supply an abundance of water for
future operations, At present the
Olney Refining Company is taking
care of the production from the
field.
Swastika
In the Swastika field Lowry and
Cavin have skidded rig west to their
No. 2 location in block 2, Harbison
land. This will be an offset to
Clark and Magee’s No. 5.
In block 4 on the Scruggs land
Bart Magee has drilled in a well
estimated at 100 barrels. The sand
was found at 1339 feet.
Shamrock Oil Company’s Bridewell
-Mayfield-Richardson No. 9 on the
north end of the lease has been dril-
led in and in the first twenty-four
hours on the pump it produced 192
barrels.
The Swastika Syndicate has skid-
ded rig to drill their No. i "on the
J. T. Richardson lease, block 7.
Shamrock’s Goldsmith No. 8 and
No. 9 are on the sand at 1323 and
1332, respectively.
Other Tests
The Union Oil Company on the
Keathley tract has finished under-
reaming and is running eight-inch
casing at 2,510 feet.
In survey 294, Baldwin land, near
Jean, Litchfield is drilling at 635
feet. This test has been delayed by
pump trouble, which caused a shut-
down with a resultant cave of near
300 feet. This has been cleaned out
and the test should reach the shallow
sand found in that area by the end
of the present week.
The *tes£ on the G. P Robertson
land, five miles west of Olney, is
reported dry around 1260 feet
McLean and Davis on the Durham
land, survey 90, near Padgitt, is
drilling at 1,000 feet
Some interesting figures have been
compiled by the Department of the
Interior showing estimated produc-
tion for the entire nation for 1923
of 732,407,000 barrels compared to
557,531,000 barrels in 1922. The
report also shows that the average
daily output per well in Texas for
1923 was 19.3, barrels with 18,250
producing wells in the state. Of
this number 2,270 were in the coast-
al fields and averaged 32.1 barrels
per well The 15,980 other wells
which the state contained produced
an average of 17.4 barrels of oil
per day.
In the matter of total production
for 1923 by states, California ranked
first with 262,876,000 barrels, Ok-
lahoma was second with 160,929,000
barrels, while Texas ranked third
with 131,025,000 barrels.
IT ISNT YOUR HOME
TOWN, IT IS YOU
Summer vacations should bring
folks back home with a broader
vision, greater health, and a firmer
appreciation of the old home town.
Every man and woman secretly
nurses in the mind the vision of a
town that would, be most desirable.
They work through the winter
months and then when holiday times
come around they make a dash for
what they hope will prove their
ideal surrounding, only to find as a
rule that they have found nothing
particularly new. Right then they
should realize that the kind of a
town they want can be had right
where they have their real estate in-
vestment if they only set to work to
make it so. As the good verse says,
“It’s a knock at yourself when you
knock your town; it isn’t your town,
it’s you.”
Real towns are not made by apa-
thetic existence in them. They are
not built by jealousies nor by ruin-
ous competition. Prosperity and
happiness are the fruits of a con-
structive spirit, the result of every
one working for the same end, no
one dodging a fitting responsibility.
The persistent activity of half a doz-
en unselfish men, backed by ideas,
can raise a town from the dead.
Snap and life in any community
simply reflect the character of its
•residents. Indifference is the beset-
ing sin of American community life.
You and your neighbor can make
this town the best little town on
earth if you put yourselves into it.
Remember it isn’t your town, it’s
you.
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The canine population of France
is 3,313;116.
FERGUSON RALLY
number of Oliigy citizens are
expecte<L to attend .the Miriam Fer-
guson rally at WiMiita I^alls Friday
night, and hear Ganeral M. M. Crane
of Dallas discus/ the/personalities
and issues of thetprp^ent campaign.
The speaking wul be held on the
Moore and Richolt Lot, and the
Ferguson for Governor club at Wich-
ita Falls is arranging seats and ac-
comodations for a big crowd. Gen-
eral Crane’s reputation as a speak-
er is expected to bring a great num-
ber of people from outside the city.
Although he prosecuted the im-
peachment charges that resulted in
Ferguson being put out of office,
General Crane is actively supporting
Mrs. Ferguson in the run-off cam-
paign. He will be introduced by C.
C. McDonald, an attorney of the
City of Wichita Falls.
It is estimated that eighty per cent
of the narcotics entereing the United
StaCes come in illicitly.
MODERNIZING GINS
FOR THE B|G CROP
Few people'~~Fealize the large
amount of time and money that is
being spent on modernizing and en-
larging two of Olney’s three gins.
Both the O. T. Anderson Gin Com-
pany and the Olney Gin Company
have had a force of men employed
for several weeks shaping things up
for the ginning of this season’s cot-
ton prop and it is a fact worthy of
note that the improvements and new
machinery installed is of the most
modern type and able to do the
very highest class of work.
The Anderson Gin Company has
installed a mammoth two hundred
horse power boiler, the like of which
is seldom found in towns many times
the size o'f Olney. The gin build-
ing, which is 116 feet by 36 feet
has been reconstructed glong modern
lines and houses twelve gin stands,
each of which is equipped with the
latest improved Alsup burr extract-
ors which were selected by Mr.
Anderson after a careful study of
this class of machinery in various
gin machinery centers, including
Memphis, Tenessee. The gin when
completed will be able to gin normal-
ly one hundred bales per day with a
capacity under emergency conditions
of possibly one hundred and twenty-
five bales per day. The improve-
ments will cost approximately $20,-
000.
The Olney Gin Company has a
force of men installing new and
modern machinery and making ex-
tensive repairs and improvements.
Five eight-saw gin stands will be
in operation and one six cylinder
Hart burr cleaning machine is be-
ing installed. A Lokey burr machine
is also being added to the equipment.
This machine takes out the burrs be-
fore the cotton reaches the stands
and is said by those in charge of the
work to make pulled cotton show up
as well as though it had been picked.
The gin will be able to gin a bale
in fourteen minutes time. B. B.
Teague has charge of the overhaul-
ing and installation of the'new. eqt'
ment. •
The improvements being made by
these two progressive concerns re-
flect much credit, not only on them,
■but also on the town, and assures
their customers of the very best
ginning facilities obtainable any-
where.
MARK TWAIN—INVENTOR
Mark Twain- would rather have
been a successful inventor than a
successful writer. This information
by way of Germany, where
writer who numbered Mark
among his associates recalls
with which the great Amer-
ican humorist cited his activities in
the fact that Mark Twain once in-
Still there is nothing strange in
the fac tthat Mark Twain once in-
vented a collar that needed no col-
lar buttton and a vest which enabled
the wearer to do away with suspen-
ders. Huckleberry Finn (or Tom
Sawyer) probably gave the writer
the inspiration of what, had it been
assidiously pushed, might have com-
pletely revolutionized our system of
clothing. It is logical to suppose
that, after years of picturing Tom
On last Saturday we opened our Clearing Sale
with a rush. Those who attended will testify
to the real reductions we offered. This sale will
continue to'be the talk of the town. The many
bargains offered speak in no uncertain terms.
All that is necessary for you to be convinced is
to pay us a visit and see for yourself.
Many Articles at Less Than Half Price!
We cannot tell you just all about the many good
things you will find here, it is only necessary to
give us a chance to show you. The goods are all
piled out on counters and tables and easy to get
to, with courteous sales people that are anxious
to wrap them up. Every transaction is backed
by our reputation of many years of merchandis-
ing in your county. Everything must be just as
advertised; and every claim made by our sales
force must be correct.
This sale will strengthen the confidence of dur
old customers and add many new ones to our list.
When we say SALE you can depend on it being
just what the word sale in this instance stands for.
The early shoppers get first choice, so come early.
THINK WHAT THIS SALE MEANS TO YOU—
Study these Prices! /Remember the tremendous
buying power of this great chain store organi-
zation. And now comes the crowning event of
our most successful campaign of Honest Value
Giving, to smash all records of Value Giving in
many years.
The John E. Morrison Co.
Great Stacks Ginghams
for only 16c yard
Good Domestic, yd.. .13c
12 Yards of Percale for
Hundreds of Pairs of
Ladies Slippers $2.95
Men's Palm Beach Suits
for only *..........$10.00
Pants.............$3.45
SANITARIUM NOTES
Mary Casey of Jean was operated
on for appendicitis Thursday.
Hamilton Belle, Olney had his ton-
sils removed Thursday.
Mrs. Berthard Clark, Olney, was
operated on Saturday.
Mr. Cal McCaghren, Jean, was op-
erated on Saturday.
Mr. M. J. Kunkel, Olney, was oper-
ated on for appendicitis Sunday.
Mrs. Ina Gibbs, Olney had her ton-
sils removed Monday.
Fred Green, Olney, was operated
on and had his tonsils removed
also Monday.
Mrs. Walter Terrell, Orth, , was
operated on Monday.
G. G. Forester, Olney, had his
tonsils removed Wednesday.
Morris McCaghren was operated
on for appendicitis Tuesday.
Mrs. Melton of Jean who has been
seriously sick is improving some.
Oris Wilborn who has been in the
Sanitarium for several days with a
broken leg and other injuries receiv-
ed in an accident recently is doing
nicely.
NEW MEAT MARKET
S. B. Hilliard of Jermyn has in-
stalled an attractive meat market in
the Stephens, Roach building ad-
joining that firm’s grocery depart-
ment on the north. Mr. Hilliard has
had eighteen years experience in
the market and butcher business,
and has been a resident of Jermyn
for a number of years. In pros-
pecting for a new location Mr. Hill-
iard was attracted by the possibil-
ities that Olney h.eld for rapid fu-
ture development and is a firm be-
liever in the townys ability to grow.
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MISSIONARY SOCIETY
OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH
The Women’s Missionary Society
of the Christian church met with
Mi’s. H. L. Leberman August 4 with
nine members present.
After the lesson and prayer some
very delicious refreshments of angel
food cake and cream were served.
The meeting adjourned to meet
with Mrs. Hoyt Brown September
the 8th.
Reporter.
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This coming December two hun-
dred camels will travel with the 1925
Asiatic Expedition. The camels, in
thick, winter coats, will start in the
dead of winter at forty degrees be-
low zero. The fact is surprising to
many people who believe the camel
to be a hot desert animal unused to
severe low temperatures.
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1924, newspaper, August 15, 1924; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113671/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.