The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 1, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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Missionary Speaks
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“What George Did”—Masonic Quar-
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PARIS, March 7.—A new program
of naval construction providing for
sufficient cruisers and submarines
to bring Frances’ maritime strength
up to the needs of her colonial pro-
tection, will be introduced by par-
liament before the end of the month.
In making this known today, Min-
ister of Marine Leygues said the
measure would also include reor-
ganization of the naval air forces.
He gave no indication of the extent
of the new units planned.
FRENCH SEEK BILL
TO INCERSE
ELECTRA ATTENDING
STATE UNIVERSITY
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PREACHERS’ HAT STOLEN
AS HE PRAYS IN CHURCH
DAUGHERTY MILLER
CASE WITH JURY
FATHER ILL. DAN OPENS
JAIL DOORS TO CONVICT
“AL” IS SORRY THAT HE
CAN’T COME TO TEXAS
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DR. J. D. SANDEFER PRINCIPAL
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NEW YORK, March 1.—For the
second time in five months the fate
of Harry M. Daugherty, cabinet
member of the Harding administra-
tion, and Thomas A. Miller, alien pro-
perty custodian under the same re-
gime, were in the hands of a jury.
The 12 men that have been hear-
ing evidence in the trial of Daugh-
erty and Miller for conspiracy to de-
fraud the United States of their
honest and unbiased services in con-
nection with the allowance of claims
for seven
of seized American Metal
shares, retired for deliberations
1:10 this afternoon.
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A joint baptismal service for the
First Church of Christ, and the
Church of Christ at Electra will be
held at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday ev-
ening at the church in Wichita
Falls.
The Rev, T. E. Millholland, pastor
of the Electra church, will bring sev-
eral candidates for baptism to the
service, it was announced Tuesday
by the Rev. L S. White, minis-
ter of the Wichita Falls church.
Twenty Years of Service
Has Built Circulation
TWENTIETH YEAR
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Union Telegraph company, for
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Because of the failure to deliver
-e telegram, the petition alleges,
Mrs. Stewart was unable to reach
the bedside before her daughter
died last .March 9'following an. opCr-
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ACTION SEEN IN
FORTIETH SESSION
Baptist church of Burkburnett, dis-
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Gulf Production Company No. 1,
Charles Ancell, section 1, block’ 7,
H. & T. C. survey, wildcat, one and
one-half miles northwest of the Grif-
fin ranch-Panhandle pool, is drilling
below 1750 feet.
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Dr. L. E. Smith of the Presbyter-
■dn Churc.h medical missionary to
the West Coast of Africa, will speak
at the First Presbyterian Church in
Klectra Wednesday at 8:00 p- m.
He will illustrate his lecture with
'tereoptican views made by himhelf
while in Africa as a missionary.
Dr Smith is home on a furlough
and is making a tour of some of
the Texas churches. He is reputed
to be one ^>f the most interesting
<‘f speakers, his talks holding the
interest of children as well as their
elders A cordial invitation is extend-
ed to all.
John O’Neill No. 1, F. H. Hamil-
ton abstract 53, Durain survey, wild-
one and one-half mile north-
of the Griffin Ranch-Panhandle
on Wichita River, fifteen miles
pronoun-
AUSTIN, March 1—The regrets of
Governor Al Smith of New York
were read today to the Texas house
of representatives which
concurred with the senate
vitation to him to address the for-1 we ui e going io give tneni a
come that will send them back home
cherishing a warm place in their
hearts for the University of Tex-
as.”
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More than iiireat^iund^d, people
Atte^^ed the . WashrtV^toh^l^iemorial.
services held .Monday ;..night atf the
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' The. Honorable ^W^hhrn^KeVh cf
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4MIIVE TH EDREF
, “bld. Glory”—Masonic quartet>¥“-
*^olumbia,. the Gem of the Ocean”
High Scho61' Girls Choral Club.
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Wolford*
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Plano solo, *In An Orange ’Gtove”
‘George Washington’—High School
Girl’s Choral Club.
Address—Wilboprn Keith.
• Benediction—Rev. Anderson.
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0TH ERWLLSWLETEDj
One of theMmost remarkable com-
pletions reported over the weekTeiyd
in Electra field is the Texas Com-
pany Ito. 87, Stringer estate, one
and one-half miles' northwest of
Electra, which is said to be making
170 barrels a day; from sand found
at 1180 feet. This is the second
new producer recently completed on
this valuable leab'e,' which had not
had a new weft “drilled during the
past five years.
The lease was the scene of exten-
sive drilling operations in 1910 to
1914 and has only had a few wells
drilled since that time. The bring-
ing in of a good new well'-at the
depth of the Stringer 87, in old - n * re-
producing area, shows that the sands ?n(* bridge
of the Electra oil field are not near] fnn,1a nf the
-exhausted, even after years of steady
production. The rig has been skid-
ded 50 feet south and drilling wil
begin at once on Texas Company No.
88 on the same lease.
Frank Baldwin, Sunshine . Hill
erator, completed his No. 2, W. T
Gibson
According to information given out
by the Registrar of the State Uni-
versity there are now eight students
from Electra attending school this
term. Nine students registered but
the records show that one with-,
drew in December.
Those attending the University week. Speculation on the
are classified as follows: ’ _
Norma. F. Andrews, a freshman. 0Vei
in the College- of Arts and Scienc-
es.
Barker D. Chunn, a sophomore in
the College of Arts and Sciences.
George F. Hawley, a freshman in
the College of Arts and Sciences.
Texas Kettle, a j’unior in the Col-
lege of Arts and Sciences,
hopes to receive the degree
Bachelor of Science in the Home
Economics department in June, 1928.
She is a member of the Alpha Chi
Omega sorority.
Lucile B. Klingman, a freshman
in the College of Arts and Sciences.
George Ryder Lake, a sophomore
in the College of Arts and Sciences-
Elmer E. Langston, a sophomore
in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Murray W. Moore is registered in
the School of Business Administra-
tion. Mr. Moore was line captain of
the 1926 fotball team. He is a
“T” man, having made his letter
three times in football and once in
basketball. Unfortunately, he is un-
able to participate in either win-
ter or spring sports because of in-
juries received in the fall term.
tieth legislature.
In a letter. Governor Smith said
he would be unable to come and
make the address.
AUSTIN, March 1.—Furlough of
five days was granted today by
Gov. Dan Moody to S. H. Lewis, of
Bell and Williason counties, con-
victed of burglary and sentenced to
15 years, in order that he may vis-
it his father, J. H. Lewis, of Cam-
eron, who is critically ill.
The proclamation specified Lewis
must pay the expenses of a guard.
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Electra Mother ,S
Swbs- Company
' Alleged- failure to' deliver aStele-;
g.ram^ advising of her daughter’s
serious illness was made the1 basis
for a’ suit filed in the 78th' district
court Friday by Mrs. Cynthia Ste-
wart, of Electra, against the West-
ern Union Telegraph company, for
damages of $2500.
of th.
i tad his address was'djn^pyed by^fhose t
• Following.-.is the program;*
AUSTIN, March 1.—Appropria-
tion of $10,000 to buy and install in
the Texas Memorial Stadium in Aus-
tin a memorial tablet bearing names
of Texas world war dead is carried
in a house bill by Representative
Smyth, finally passed today.
The attorney general is author-
ized to procure from the war of-
fice at Washington an official list
of Texans losing their lives in
world war service.
Pois, Schultz and Weaver, No. 1,
Waggoner, section 5, block 7, H. & T.
C. survey, sixteen miles south of
Electra, wildcat, west of the Charles
Ancell Ranch, north of Diversion
lake, is drilling around 2200 feet.
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A' Constructive Newspaper for g ConstructiveJ^ebple
ELECTRA, WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY
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i % WAXAHACHIE, ’Feb;. 2».—ihe
world’s .boldest man has ■ -been
found in Waxahachie. Not onjy:
found, but arrested,) although with.:
.more or? Jess) difficulty and lotig-
ec| ,inythpYEllis"’County .jail,
‘.ae charg'e of forgery and passift'gb
Jfprged**’ instruments; 4 ' .<
■ k' ?wo ,• . alje;ge<i».. to • ,haj.e ’ ’
II *1.7^” passed by;the, man, a negro,- :
Uvr <bbre," the fac^iniite; of - the 0gW- j
‘ 0ur^/. of " Joe Loe, sheriff Yof; tw ;
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GIRLS DESERTED
Three girls from Electra culmi-
nated a joy ride which had lasted
two days suddenly early Sunday
pected before 1920, it was explained, night when the car in which they
were riding with three boys left the
pavement eight miles west of the
city and slightly injured the three
lasses.
The girls stated that their boy
companions drove away and
them to get to town the best
they could which they did by hail-
ing a passing motorist.
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him in framing his bill.
Various delays, including the Dale-
Moore bribery hearings, will show-
up when the session ends with
of bills dieing on the calendar,
far 1,164 measures including
posed constitutional amendments,
have been introduced. Bany have
been killed in committees, only a
small percentage passed, and the
majority will never get ■ considera-
tion.
Wildcats and Senii-Proven
River Area.
The derrick is up and machinery
in place to spud in on Barnes and
Alexander No. 1, Ephraim Griffin
(Griffin Estate Land), secton 8,
block 7, southeast of the Apple and’’
Brandeberry-Ancell ranch pool.
GREENXILLE. Texas.—A val-
uation aggregating $10 and 14 days
in jail was placed- on a preacher’s
hat in County Court here.
Two Mexicans, charged w-ith steal-
ing a local pastor’s hat while he was
praying in his church, w-ere sentenc-
ed to seven days in jail and fined
$5.
F. W. "Weaver, Electra operator,
who with a group of Wichita Falls
oil men, recently purchased a lease
in the L. F. Wilson tract, nine
miles north of Archer city in Archer
County, Lave completed their No. 2
well from sand found at 1518 feet
--------j a day.
About one hundred ^people were
present at the First Methodist church
basement Friday evening when the
Lions Club gaVe their first annual
banquet honoring the Senior Class
of Electra- high school.
Of the fifty-nine seniors, fifty-
five were present for the affair,
and the decorations of red and white
the school colors' were used in the
color scheme, with tall red candles,
shaded lights, red and white car-
nations with fern in prtrfusion, the
place cards also earned out the color
scheme. x
The following program was ren-
dered: Toastmaster, Lions, H. C.
Hill; America, by all; Invocation by
Lions, Rev. H. E. Anderson; dinner,
which was an elaborate three course
affair; welcome address by Presi-
dent Frank Baker of the Lions
Club; response, by Johnnie LeBus,
president of the Senior class, and the
entire Senior class sang, “What’s
the Matter With the Lions—They’re
all right.” Attorney Ben W. Tipton
made a very interesting talk on
Lionism, tracing the clubs activities
from '1914, when there were forty-
five members up to the present
membership of more than 1100 in
Texas. Jet Hughes gave his mono-
logue of a light nature in a pleas-
ing manner. The Lio.ns Club next
gave a stunt, followed by the prin-
cipal address of the evening by Dr.
Sandiferfi president of the
Simmons College in Abilene. Dr.
Sandefer brought out some very
fine points for young people to ob-
serve and told also of the benefit
of the civic organizations.
The Lions Club voted on the most
popular boy and the most popular
girl of the class, with three of
each being nominated, while the
winners were Miss Brunetta Clonin-
ger and Clayton Avens for the
boys.
_ Rev. Estes, pastor of the First
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for Veterans and their families and
for others $48-89. This will be a
fine trip for anyone that can take
a vacation at that time. The pull-’"
man sleepers and chair cars wfll be
attached to the train, also the din-
er.
The lower berth price will be
S8.25 and the upper $6.50. Stopover
priyiledge to May 5th. The identifi-
cation certificates can be had at any
time after the 20th day of March
from Col. Ed. C. Wilson, room 4,
Cross building. You can enroll your
name at any time for reservation.
The above price may be lower for
veterans and their families.
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Pois, Schultz, Weaver et al No.
8 Miller ^Southeast of Holliday, is
drilling at 14050.
Rollin Bennett, of Electra, is top
diillei for Apple and Brandeberry
semi-wildcat on the Griffin Ranch
on the south side of Wichita River
west of the Panhandle-Griffin Ranch
pool They are now drilling below
500 feet
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 28.—Prizes
will be awarded to both the parent
having the most children enrolled
in the University of Texas and to
the parent travelling the greatest
distance to attend the celebration
on Dads and Mothers Day to be
held on the campus of that institution
on Monday, March 28. Concerning
the plans which are being made for . ____________........
Dads and Mothers Day, Burt Dyke, pleted and location will be made
member of the Campus Advisory Com No. 2.
mitteee, says, “We hope to have I ______
recently [ more Dads and Mothers on the cam-
in an in-1 pus this year than ever before, and
are going to give them a wel-
Special train will leave Fort
Worth over the Cotton Belt via
, _ A more ’ijr less routine court ac- Birmingham, Atlanta,
tioi{ xto ;'-'!a^tisfy legal technicalities Uamptoii^yto Tampa at 12 noonj
probably 1vill be necessary, he said. < Pril 2, arriving at Tampa at 8:15
mr. Walsh is now making an in- a* m* the 4th. The fare for
vestig^tio along that line, for a la- the round tr*P (as near as is known
ter report to the court- the present time), will be $36.92
The more han $36,000 involved in
the- 'Monday's proceedings represents
accumulatons over a period from
1910 to 1922 in the unclaimed fee
i’urtd of the Dlctrict Clerk’s office.
s law requires that such un-
claimed fees shall be turned over
to the commissioners court for dis-
tribute namong road and bridge
funds at the end of four years.
However, the law also makes
more rigid requirements as to book-
keeping in offices of counties hav-
ing more than 25,000 population than
in counties having fewer than that
number. Wichita county’s popula-
tion increased from about 17,000 to
70,000 in the few years following
1919, so that many record-breaking
requirements were made after 1920
that were not necessary before.
Because the keeping of certain
books was neither required nor ex-
Wanda Lou Riddle, three-year-old
child of Mr. and Mrs. H. Y. Riddle
of East Wabash avenue, died after
a brief illness, Saturday afternoon
and was buried Sunday afternoon
at the local cemetery.
Rev. E. M. Francis, pastor of the
First Baptist Church conducted the
funeral services.*
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AUSTIN.—Tactical moves to force
final action on several important
measures before the end of the reg-
ular session less than two weeks
hence are expected to see the through
the Fortieth Legislature this week.
To fill out the legal 60-day period
the session must continue four days
after the eighth week before adjourn-
ment.
The inevitable special session prob-
ably will be called for about the
middle of April, giving legislators
time to spend a month at their own
affairs. All important regular ap-
propriation measures and the pro-
gram of highway reform legislation
have been deferred to the special
session.
Interest on Anti-Amnesty.
House consideration of the Love
Senate bill to repeal the law grant-
ing amnesty to James E. Ferguson,
former governor, apparently holds
the highest general interest for this,
i measure
has been bandied about noticeably
’ ,. The measure is ex-
pected td‘ be on the Wednesday or
Thursday House calendar, with pros-
pects that anything in the way will
be sidetracked is possible, to dis-
pose of it. Predictions are that
the bill will pass the House, ti-
though a stiff contest seems inevi-
table.
All the makings of a bitter fight
and contained in the scheduled con-
sideration of the Sheats House bill
to legalize Sunday operation of thea-
ters. Ministers have denounced it,
as they were ’expected to do and
various alliances have taken stands
against it. On the other hand, the
big city delegations will go solid-
ly for the bill. Sheats says he
has enough other support, he be-
lieves, to put the bill over, so that
smaller towns can open their Sunday
shows like the big cities do now.
Three Bills Up Tuesday.
Three bills that were withdrawn
temporarily after squabbles Satur-
day are set for hearing Tuesday in
the House. One of tljem is Rep-
resentative Durham’s bill to insti-
tute the preferential primary system
in Texas, eliminating one of the
present primary elections. Voters
would be allowed to indicate their
first, second and third choices
Durham has stu-
died the election systems of nearly
every state in the Union to guide
WILL MILK BY ELECTRICITY
LOCKNEY. Feb. 28.—Lockney
•<•<< not boast of being the greatest
iirxing center of the state, but there
some good dairy herds here.
<>no man who has a number of high
rade dairx cow< is installing an
'lictnc milking machine This he
-a\s. will enable him to operate his
'i iiry under the most sanita^v con-
fl tmns an flat the ^nme time prove
* fman< nl saving
op-
Waggoner, block 14, Gibson sur- lccords.
vey, four and one-half miles south
of Electra, making * 25 barrels a
day from sand found at 1840 feet.
iR. H. Cook, Electra operator, anc
other associates, are drilling below
160 feet on Cook et al No. 4.
■ ’Throckmorton, section 1 Torrey
survey, five miles southeast of Elec-
tra.
Shamrock Oil Company No. 14,
W. T. Waggoner, section 33, block
5, H. & T. C. survey, five miles
south of Electra, is drilling belovy
J200 feet. John Brownlee, Electra,
operator-contractor, is drilling this’
well- Mr. Brownlee has a string
of tools busy on a wildcat well on
the Turner lease, 30 miles south-
west of Cisco, Texas. They were
drilling around 1200 feet according to
latest reports, Fred Berney, “Red”
Stonecipher, E. R. Call and J. S.
Smith, all well known to the oil
fraternity in Electra, are members
of the drilling crew.
Bryan Bilbrey, 817 North Elec-
tra street, is employed, as driller
for J. H. Johnson et al, contractors,
on a well in the Wilson pool, Archer
county, for W. B. Corlett, Wichita
Falls operator.
O. M. Stidham, Electra operator,
is in Crane county looking after
the completion of the Stidham &
Thrasher No. 1, University lands,
well being completed in the oil
field there.
Kall-Tex Oil Company. No. 1, Van
Horn outer edge well in the P- P.
Langford block, southeast of Sun-
shine Hill, is drilling and coring
for sand below 1600 feet.
R. R. Clark, Sunshine Hill opera-
tor, is moving a rig to the Honaker
< ^tate lease, west of the Clark deep
pool, Sunshine Hill, for a test well.
The boiler was fired up and wat-
< r and fuel linesc tested out on the
Sheldon Brothers wildcat on the W.
1 Sheldon land, block 308, Wag-
oner colony lands, eight and one-
half miles northeast of Electra.
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charge from a 'Srijp|-'
than stopped the flight of the nekl I
gro.
A shaggy sorrel mule, ridden ,
by a farmer who had seen thet
pursuit, proved to have the speed'
and endurance that it took to run
the fugitive down. His rider nan-
bed the negro and held him uritil
the officers arnved.
URGE SUM IS
ALLOTIEDfORGAD
AJlb DRiDGEEUNDS
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The county commissio^ets coi__
raoed'* at its weekly meeting Mpn^ -
'day afternoon ' to^ put??'t&^&cticaT*.
use the more-than $8j5;Qft^ figura-
tively founds Hidden in 'th^^punty’s''
sock by Auditor 'E. P. WaW , 1Tom a charge from a smit-T
All details in connection with the <gun? spurred greater- Speed' father, j
issuing of thje formal order direct- ----J
ing that the 'money be distributed
funds of the co^irt Wichita County
precincts required less than five
minuses.
The work of ascertaining that the
money belonged to the county road
and bridge funds required auditing
research of nearly four years, in-
volving scrutiny of many thousands
The work would not
have required that long, the audi-
tor explained, had it been possible
to give more than odd moments to
Jits compilation.
However, Mr. Walsh predicted, the
formal order of the commissioners
court will not be sufficient to put
the money into the road and bridge
funds.
A more/{Jr less routine court __
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