The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 72, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 24, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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DAY MONDAY, MAY 30
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Mrs. Walter Reeves, member of
the North Electra Home Demon-
stration Club was recently awarded
first place in the Better Kitchens
Contest conducted by the home dem-
onstration clubs of Wichita county.
i a free trip to Col-
me come again.
With assurance
Electrons Leave
For Dayton, Ohio
James Totten Granted
License To Practice
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FUNERAL SERVICES
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Twenty Tears of Service
Has Built Circulation
Perry Crayton,
Mitchell zHoxie,
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LIONS MINSTREL
TO BE PRESENTED
HERE THURSDAY
was granted license to practice em-
balming in the state of Texas.
Mrs. Totten, who has been visit-
ing in Houston and Dallas while
Mr. Totten was attending school,
returned with him.
The Totten Brothers establishment
in Electra is one of the outstanding
businesses in the city and with the
The line of the
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and the } engineering
in Vernon during
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Wednesday
Championship to be Decided
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J. M. Hemby, Electra oil operator,
and Dr. R. D. Chunn, prominent
physician, of this city, closed a
deal last week in which they sold
a lease of 160 acres of Winkler
County land to -the Humble Oil
Company for $40,000, half cash and
half to be paid in oil.
" The lease is two miles northeast
of the discovery pool which was
brought in recently by the strik-
ing of a rich* sand at 3030 feet,
by the Westbrook Oil and Southern
Crude Purchasing Corporation. The
around
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harmony of color and material, 15'
per cent; accuracy in cutting, sym-
27, at the regular monthly meeting
of the Wichita County Council of
Home Demonstration Clubs at Wich-
ita Falls.
Those present at the meeting
last Saturday were: Mrs- N. D.
Cooper, chairman, Mrs. C. E. Tay-
lor, Mrs. E. M. Gillespie, Mrs. R.
J- Bradley, Mrs. J. M. Denton, Mrs.
The engineering party conducting
the preliminary survey of the Pease
and Red River Valleys Irrigation
The
eighth point, of the score card,
will determine the winners. At
least fbur prizes will be awarded
in cash or merchandise to the ones
winning first to fourth places.
Final arangements as to program
to be given in connection with the
contest will be made Saturday, May
4. L. S. Walker, Quanah, p de-
feated R. V. West, Memphis, scor€"
L. S. Walker and S- West,' both
of Memphis, will meet in the finals
Wednesday at the Electra Country
Club, playing eighteen holes in the
morning and eighteen in the after-
noon for the championship of the
second annual Green Belt Golf As-
sociation Tournament, being held
at Electra, this week. Tuesday af-
ternoon the affair seemed to have
dwindled down to a Quanah-Mem-
phis affair with • Memphis/leading
opt in the last scores' turned in
the semi-finals played late Tuesday
afternoon.
Frank Foxhall, medalist, was de-
feated by L. S. Walker, holder of
His father diving about three hours.
Reynolds’ mother was notified and
went to her son’s bedside at once, I
remaining with him until the end
came. His wife was visiting in
Kansas at the,time of the accident.
She has been notified.
Funeral arrangements are incom-
plete but the services will probably
be held at the Assembly of God
Church, Wednesday afternoon.
Myrl Douglas, age 5, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Chester McCarty who re-
side in the K. M. A. oil fields, re-
ceived a bruised head and badly
skinned ankle when he fell in front
of an automobile while crossing the
road in* front of his grandfather’s
hom§ on East Bryan Avenue, Satur-
day afternoon.
His grandfather, T. H. McCarty,
rushed him to the “office of Dr. R.
D. Chunn who pronounced his in-
juries to be of trivial nature.
The child, - watching a car which
had just passed, ran in front of
another car, and fell, bruising his
head from striking the pavement,
the wheels of the car grazing his
left ankle. The driver’ stopping at
once. f
The accident occurred near the
scene of a similar accident last
year, in which Truman Leffingwell
age eight, lost his life.
LARGE AUDIENCE’
HEARS REV. FRANCIS
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ACCIDENT VICTIM EWLE BEND SCHOOL
GETS GOOD WILL MEET
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Tentative arrangementspare being
made by the Mercantile Bureau of
the Electra Chamber for a cofti"
munity good will meeting at Eagle
Bend School in the irrigated valley
south of Electra. The date of this
meeting has not been set but will
£ong, of Burkburnett/ received fatal probably be announced Friday. Ac-
COUNTY CLUBS TO
HOLD STYLE SHOW
IN ELECTRA JUNE 15
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The Voile Dress contest arid Style
Show to be held by .'/the Women’s
Home Demonstration ; Clubs of
Wichita County, will take place at
the auditorium of the Waggoner
Ward school, June 15, according to
plans made Saturday afternoon by
the committees bn arrangements,
who met at the Chamber of Com-
merce hall at 3 o’clock. Plans for
the affair were informally discussed,
then the women went in a car to
both the Waggoner Ward and the
Thompson Ward buildings, where
‘facilities offered for the occasion
had been placed at -the disposal of
the committee by Superintendent B.
M. Dinsmore and members of the
school board.
Waggoner Ward school auditorium
was Judged best to be used for the
contest in which voile dresses made
and worn by the members of the
eleven clubs in the county will be
(shown, individually and collectively
, on the stage.
Ccmpetent judges will be .had to
judge the dresses, scoring them pn
the following, points: suitability of
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ciapl of the Eagle Bend school,
when he started as teacher of this
school three years ago, in a small
one room frame building, he had a
total enrollment of fifteen pupils.
The Eagle Bend school is now
housed in a large modernly equip-
ped building and the total enroll-
ment during the term ending June,
was 106. Two teachers- were em-
ployed in this school during the.
current term and three teachers will
be employed during the coming
year. According to these school
enrollment statistics, the popula-
tion of the Eagle Bend community
has after two years of jrrigaticn
and farming increased to more than
seven times the original population,
which is a striking illustration of
the value of irrigation in making
possible the intensive development
of our agricultural resources.
” Bell, Voncill Braeswell,, Opal Schate,
Mary. Cummings, Ruth Fisher, Viv-
ian Rhinehart, and Natalie Shaw.
Those- in the class are: Roy Lee
Robb, B? J. Seale, Dean Smith,
•Gordon Brancuml Albert Wood, G.
P. Clements, Georgia -Camp, Fran-
cis Carhohan, Etolia Curry, Lola
Garner, Eva Mae Hallmark, Gladys
Johnson, Marguerite Knox, Beulah
Morris, Willie Lee McClure, Dora
Novitt, Evelyn Patton, Martha
Bhaddix, Clarice Thompson, J. W-
Alexander, James Ball, William
Brown, Claude Burnham, Wilburn
Green, Grady Jarmon, Farris Jeffer-
ies, Lee Parnell, J. C. Reed, Ray-
mond Russell, Paul Scott, Shirley
Shanafelt, Arthur Torvie, Joseph
Turner, Pauline Adams, Ruth An-
drews, Berta’ Mae Brazzon, Gladys
Bell, Vanille Braewell, Opal Schoate,
Oneta Culpepper, Mary Cummings,
Ruth Fisher, Pearl Grady, Marguer-
ite Hughes, Maxine Hughes, Loys
Kent, Vivian Rinehart, Natalie
Shaw, Madine Smith, Oleta Wilson,
Kinnebrew Bishop, Thea Cheaney,
Charles Cohyers,
Edward FranciSrf
Stewart Jones, Clarence
Ashley Little, Cooper Melton,
den Mitchell and Ben Rippy.
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North Electra Club
Member Wins Contest
3-2.
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J. H. Marriott, Jr., Electra,
6-5.
6. S. J. Bailey, Quanah, defeat-
ed G. D. Ezell,' Electra, score 3-2.
7. R. C, Holt, Altus, Oklahoma,
defeated by Peter Glowers, Mem-
phis, 2-1.
8. S. West, * Memphis, defeated
G. R. Davidson, Electra, score 2-1.
■Flight two, Round one.
1. L. Pelley, Altus, Oklahoma*
C. Harrison, Memphis,
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Georgia' Camp, Beu-J the city.
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The Rev. E. M. Francis, pastor
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*’ ’ e enin£ 0 . ed fthe baccalaureate sermon to a
sports wear, 15 per cent; beauty packed auditorium Sunday morn-
and quality of design, 15 per cent; ing at th.e high school building.
I The senior class, the largest in
i the history of the school, occupied I
metry, 20 per cent, perfection stitch-[
es, 10 per cent, neatness of finish,'
the Per cent, laundering possibilities,1 trum. J—------------- —
Is per cent, appearance of dress on„ MW® was .master of ceremonies and
, J. G. B. Totten, of the firm
Totten Brothers, who has been
student of the Dallas School
Embalming for the past six weeks,
has been granted a diploma and
returned home Monday. Mr. Tot-
ten attended a meeting of the state
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“ ~ ELECTRA, .TEXAS^rTyESDAY, MAY’24, 1927_________ '
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burns, early Monday morning when
an automobile in which they were
priding ran over a broken gas line,
om the Daniels . lease south of
Burkburnett. The escaping gas was
ignited supposedly by a spark from
the exhaust of the car. They ran
£rom the car •with their clothes
blazing,, and were so badly burned
before passing motorists helped to
put out the flames, that both' died
within a few hours, Chrysong only
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defeated
score, 5-4.
2. H. C. Gilley, Quanah, defeat-
ed R. F. Watson, Electra, score 5-4.
3^_ R. B. Gibson, Vernon, de-
feated H. A. Decker, Electra, score
4-3.
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score 4-3.
5. Spurgeon Jennings,
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Announcement has been made that
‘all things are in readiness for the
big Lions Club Minstrel slated to
be presented at the Grand Theatre
Thursday night. Those in charge
of the arrangements and those whs
are taking part in the show say
that this is the biggest and best
minstrel that has ever meen given
here.
An experienced director has been
working with the actors and all
new songs, dances and jokes will
be given. -
Tickets, were placed on sale last
Saturday and according to those
in charge of the tickets say they are
going good.
. Everyone is urged to get their
tickets as soon as /possible in order
to assure them of a seat as it is
expected that a packed house will
be on hand early to witness this
performance.
The body of William Neal Rey-
nolds, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. C. Reynolds of this city was
brought to Electra by Totten Broth-
ers, local undertakers, Tuesday morn-
ing shortly after his death which
occurred at the Wichita General
Hospital this morning. .
Mr. Reynolds and Marvin Chry-
Mr. Hemby and Dr. Chunn pur-
chased the lease, which
southwest quarter of section 29,
block 26, public school lands
Texas, less than one year ago, pay-
ing J. D. Collet of Fort Worth $5
per acre for it, after discounting
transfer fees, etc., they cleared
„ . i .. - . • , - , more than $18,000 cash on an in-
a special section of seats and the | v ’
teachers of the different schools
of Electra were seated upon tne ros-
Superintendent B. M. Dins-
Another Ancell .Well
Now Nearing Sand
Apple-Brandeberry and Consoli-
dated Oil Company No. 2 B, George
B. Ancell, Sr., forteen miles south
of Electra, is coring and testing for
the expected sand below 1700 feet-
Derrick is up and slush pit being
made for No. 3 B, approvimately
one-fourth mile northeast of No.
2B now drilling .Machinery to be
moved from the present location
as soon as the well is completed.
J. E. _Stanton,/Altus, was de-
. . C. Holt, of Altus,
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Mrs. G. Fowler of 422 W.
Bryan Avenue, left Monday . morn-
ing for Dayton, Ohio, to join her
husband and son, Arthur Fowler,
who are empldyed in that city., Ar-
thur has been working in the Chry-
sler assembly plant at Dayton for
the past two years.
going to Dayton one monh ago.
The family expect to spend the
summer there, having rented out
their home here for .that length of
time.
Mrs. Ethel Talley and family of
504 West Franklin, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fowler, expect to spend
« the summer in Dayton also. They
Reeves expects to will leave by automobile about the
middle of June.
etc.,
more than $18,000 cash
vestment of less than $1,000.
They still own 40* acres in that
area, in section 14, block 26, three
miles north of the present produc-
tion in the pool.
Stidham, Thrasher, B. M. Dickey
and other Electrans also own val-
uable acreage there, and deals are
pending for thb sale of some por-
tions, of their leases.
William Calvert, Electra realtor,
has acted as purchasing agent in a
number of lease projects in south-
west Texas acreage, in which he
and other Electra men*have invest-
ed capital. They have been sing-
ularly fortunate in their ventures;
especially in the Crane and Wink-
ler county areas.
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FIELD WORK TO RE
COMPLETED JUNE 1
to 12 o’clock noon,
Guinn Wil-
of 13th
Decatur and Washington,
and Judge B. D. Sartin,
at .
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woman, 10 per cent.
The dresses will be judged pri-
vately, with no mark of identifica-
tion on the individual exhibit, and
scoring on the first seven points
will be made in the morning of
the day of the style show. The final
award being made in the after-
noon, when owners of the dresses
will wear thehi on the stage.
score i
winners.
the following program was render-
ed:
Largo of Xerxes__________
Mary Ellen Scott
Invocation----Rev. H. E. Anderson
The Fullness of ,the Earth___Moore
Chorus
Holy, Holy, Holy,----Congregation
Hear Ye Israel, from Elijah____
----------------- Mendelssohn
Mrs. Bruce Frazier
My Creed ______Elizabeth Garrett
Chorus
Sermon--------Rev. E. M. Francis
Hymn ---------------------Chorus
Benediction__Rev. T. E. Milholland
Recessional ------Mary Ellen Scott
It has always been the custom
of the graduating class of the Elec-
tra school to have a local pastor
to deliver the sermon, in this Prof.
Dinsmore complimented the class in
following out the custom and the.
Rev. Francis thanked the class in
bestowing this honor upon him.
Taking for his Subject some 'out-
standing traits in the life of Saul,
he mentioned three points that
stood out as peaks^ in the character
of the man and admonished the
audience to acquire them. The
senior class consisting of sixty-two
members will receive their 'diplomas
tonight.
the 1926 championship.
In the. upper bracket with S. J.
Bailey of Quanah and Sam West
of Memphis clashing in the lower
half of the draw, the results of
Tuesday’s matches- follow:
The play on the second round of
the championship flight began at
8 a. m. Tuesday and was as follows:
First round first flight.
Frank Foxhall, Memphis, defeated
C. U. Beasley, Electra, Score 5-3.
2. -F. L. LeBus, defeated Jack
LeBus, both Electra, score 5-4.
3. Charles Wym^n, Quanah,
feated Roy LeBus, E^ctra, :
Project have had their headquar-
ters at Electra during the past
week and according to J. L. Loch-
ridge, in charge of the survey, the
field work will be completed by
about June first.
main canal has been .surveyed
Burkburnett
party will be i
the remainder of this week
ing. the proposed extension of the
main canal across Pease River near
Vernon into the Odell Community.
Sponsored by the Chambers of
Commerce of Electra, Vernon, Burk-
burnett, Crowell and Quanah, the
Pease and Red River Valleys Ir-
rigation Project will open to inten-
sive cultivation from 150,000 to
200,000 acres of productive farm
lands in the Pease and Red River
valleys. In addition to compensat-
ing the seasonal water shortage,
thus eliminating crop failures in this
section, this project will provide an
ample 'supply of water for the five
cities sponsoring the project.
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RETURN FROM. WILSON, OKLA.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Youree and
J. M. Ruark of Vernon returned
this week from Wilson, Oklahoma,
after attending the funeral of W.
F. Ruark, 55, a brother of Mrs.
Youree and J. M. Ruark. Mr. Ru-
ark died last Monday in Healdton,
Oklahoma, as the result of pneu-
monia and was buried from the
Methodist Church in Wilson, Okla-
homa. He is survived by his wife
•and five children, as well as the
brother and sister.
The deceased is well known in
Electra, having been one of the
first employees of the Magnolia
Petroleum Company in the Electra
oil fields, in which capacity he
served for approximately ten years
before moving to Healdton, Oklaho-
ma.
discovery well is making
400 barrels ri day, -and a
number of new wells have
j brought in in that area since March
A splendid program is being ar-
ranged by the Claude C. McDonald
Oneta I Post, 319, American Legion of Elec-
Culpepper, '^lary Cummings, Ruth for Memorial Day, Monday, May
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at the Grand Theatre,
liams, * member Congress
district,
D. C.,
Wichita Falls will speak
services,
An appropriate
gram is being
Dunn, member of executive commit-
tee of the post has charge of the
arrangements for the music.
Immediately after the services at
the Grand Theatre, the post and all
who desire to do so will repair to
the Electra cemetery to do homage
to comrades and veterans departed.
Decoration Day was inaugurated
shortly after the Civil War, event-
ually a specified day was set aside
by Congress as Decoration Day in
order that due homage in memory
of departed veterans may be paid.
Tlje public is cordially invited to
attend these services.
•*‘-,Col. Alvin C., Owsley was invited
to attend the memorial services and
appear on program. His letter to
Ross D. Schleigh, Post Commander,
is as follows:
Mr. Ross D. Schleigh,
•Electra, Texas.
My dear Schleigh:
I have just returned from Wash-
ington and find that you have in-
vited me to speak in your good
town on May 29th.
For more than a month I have
promised to deliver the commence-1
ment address to the graduating
class of the' North Texas State
Teachers College at Denton on the
morning of May 30th, and on 'the
29th, the day previous, which is
Sunday. I am speaking at a District
Convention of the American Legicn
at San Angelo. You will see from
this that I am kept busy and for
this reason could not come to you
at this time*
Keep the letter in mind and let
of my warmest
personal esteem, I am
Cordially yours,
Alvin Owsley.
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^Irs. Reeves’ kitchen,
in the district contest will be
nounced about June 1.
This is the second time in
^ssion an Electra woman has
■first place in the Wichita county
contest in Better Kitchens. Mrs. E-
*T Groves of West Garrison Avenue,
Electra, member of County Line
. <luh, having won the prize in 1926.
Mrs. Groves, however, was unable
to attend the A. & M- short course
last year. Mrs. j
•attend if possible.
HflljPliRfflUATION
OSES SATURDAY
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exercises of the
Wrigdner>js^Ward School were held
t^^phpql at 8 o?clock Saturday
•evening^in, the presence of the larg-
6st;gT0jij>‘of parents and visitors of board .of examiners (at El Paso and
the^sprispn^'and the, mo st erithusias- ‘‘ 1 ’*
tic ^audipridei The program rendered
was pas / follows:
’ by Rev. Thomas E.
Milholland;. Class Sbng; Salutatorian
address;/by Marguerite Knox; Trio,
by' .Martha?- Shaddix, Ruth Fisher,
and •>^Maxine Hughes; Valedictorian
address>‘;Yby, Maxine. Hughes; Pres-
<entatlpnpof- Diplomas, by Professor return of Mr. Totten, the firm will
J. V. ’Bairison, and Benediction by continue
Rev.k E.rM. Francis.
Tire,folio wing were presented with
diplomas? /for perfect . 3
Dora Novittj Hershall Tally, Ed-Jai;e glad to welcome him back
ward. Francis,, Georgia' Camp, Beu- the city,
lah ^Morris, .Willie Lee McClure,! 1 1
Kirinebrbw ^Bishop, Theo Cheaney, I rCIAITM IIDFO Tf|
Oneta-Culpepper, Shirley Shanafelt, LEiUlullllnlnLu lU
Opal, Scholee, and Paul Evans.
Tjho^e.‘received writing diplomas:
Royt.Dee R6bb, B. J. Seale, Dean
Smith, Georgia Camp, Etolia Curry,
Eya‘ Mae - - Hallmark, Marguerite
Knox, Willie Lee McClure, Evelyn
Batton, J. W. Alexander, Wilburn
Green, J.’ E. Reed, Shirley Shana-
felt, Joseph Turner, Pauline Adams,
Gladys Bell,. Opal Schoate. <
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Fisher, Pearl Grady, Maxine Hughes, 30,
Vivian Rhinehart, Oleta Wilson.
The' following uppils made aver-
.. siges above ninety, with the valedic-
& torian, Miss Maxine Hughes, mak-
ing an average of 95.4; with Mar-
gderite Knox, the second honor stu-
dfen, making 95.6. Others are, Fran-
g- cis Carnohan, C. W. Sanderlin, Beu-
lah Morris, Dora Novitt, Evelyn
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ants from several north Texas coun-
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