The Electra Leader (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1918 Page: 4 of 7
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To Our Customers:
field No. 3, Benbrook, had . ar-
rived there on their way to Om-‘
aha balloon school. The flight
from Texas to Kansas City was-
made in five hours and thirty
minutes, flying.time. ’ “
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LOST—Near, the City Drug;
We have made every effort within our power to get an ■
adequate supply of Gas for the City of Electra for next '
- winter, however frpm the-present outlook, we wiil-be-un^—
_ able’ to increase our present supply and we take this
means to notify you to make provision for some other
fuel. f
of course with np bad luck and
good care they will soon .be well.
We then traveled about five hun
dred miles. No it wasn’t that
. far either, but it is the roughest
country we have seen for many
years and why they took' it away
from- the Indians we cant tell,
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all the farmers in County Line
tin Gabriel toots his horn.
‘spent the night with Mrs. F. W.
JITNEY BILL’S
SUNSHINE SPECIAL
Leaves Elect ra For Sunshine Hill
North Texas Gas Co.
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er, Now of course sometimes
we all get taken in. We took
the cork, under about six years
back, but v^e got a pair of specs
and two or three papers which
we have never sen, but we are
older now than we were then.-
We think the Judge’s experience
only cost him 98c while it cost
us one big buck, but we all have
Offi-
fever” strikes theH pupils,
generally speaking the interest
is good. ’
The scholastic census has
been taken and the enrollment,
is 112 and we have the promise
of a dozen transfers.
Miss Vaughn visited home-
folks in Wichita Falls from Fri-
Creel^haye said about the Beaver
Creek country applies to the peo
pie too for everyone*in that com-
munity treated us like we were
a prince. Of course we are go-
ing back for we have seen such a
pair of bewitchingly blue eyes.
But that is anothei* story and
we will tell it to you later* but
we do think the proper way to
assess the- taxes of Beaver
Creek is by the aeroplane route
for you know it- is not laid off in
with the Liberty Measles, but sections like County Line, Enter
prise and Barwise and you hav£ subscription to some farm pap-
to travel sometimes five or six
miles to get one but when you
do find anyone they are awfully
glad to see you and want you to
stay a week and fish and hunt
and of course we are going back.
We want to say to that En-
but we saw "enough wood to last terprise reporter that they are
” ’ j doing fine and writing some in-
Wo- teresting articles. Now just
keep it up for you. are learning! to learn,even our County
day until Sunday. We are al-
most tempted to say that sita
visited her “brother” at—welK
we dont know his address but
will say Ft. Worth.
To our surprise recently a di-
minutive specimen of the mas-
culine gender walked into our
peaceful abode: From that
clean shave, fresh hair cut dude
hat, and collar and tie no one:
would have ever guessed that it
was our By Jo. While trying to
fathom why -this great change*
By Jo says, “I am now a deputy
tax collector”. Of course this;
yvas explanation enough.
.'Last'week kBy Jo YorgOt i to
mention that Prof. Robertson of
Wichita Falls was one of the
judges in the declamation con-
test of March 15. He also fail-
ed to mention that Jack Austin
won first place as Junior boy
and Ben Haynes second.. We
suggest that'By Jo come out oc-
jcassionally to our “doins” and!
News Dealers, Cigais and Con-
fectionary. All standard pub-
lications in stock at all times.
Subscriptions taken on all peri-
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WH. JACKSON,
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mighty fast and the editor ap-
preciates every bit of news from
the country he can get.
We are informed that John
Beat has sold the west' side' of
'his farm, including the old home
place to A. A. Honnaker,,of Elec-
tra. Mr. Beat is undecided at
present, but thinks of moving to,
California. „Uhcle Guss, we hope
will move out in the country so
he can get some ha;
hair and moss pn his back.. ' ,
Dont forgt the school trus-
tees eletion to be held Saturday
at the County Line Enterprise1
and Barwise School Jlouses^
' Many of the County Line far-
mers are very busy hauling wa-
ter for the Sunshine „ Hill Oil
Field while theyFare waiting for
it to rain in County Line,
H. H. Haynes has sold eighty
acres of his County Line farm
to Charlie Ceftic of the Elliott
community. Charlie moved in
the first'of the week and will be
a County Line citizen once more.
If you see Judge J. G. Corder
ask him to see that new autonfa-
tic souveneir .pencil he got on
Friday of last week! We think
.the Judge also^ got a ten year
cials.
A nice small rajn fell in Coun-
ty 'Line on Friday of last week
which was greatly appreciated.
It looks as though we are going
to get our rains this year like
we are • getting our flour, in
small quantities with a good big
sand storm now and then for a
substitute. We are all hoping
to see that big rain ery week
that will fillup our tanks, and put
a good season in the ground.
Corn is coming up nicely and.
all the early^feed that has been
planted is right at the top’of the
m ground. Several farmers have
J ’ tween planting cotton this week,
so you see the farmers are doing
their <-best to make a crop even
if the weather clerk is taking a
.vacation in France.
Mr. and Mrs. Brandon Smith
and family of Electra were visi-
tors in County Line last Sunday.
The prohibition election was
pulled off in Mt Carihel last
Saturday and this box rolled up ' uul uu“‘°
a vote of 15 to 25 in the dry lle 7°et more news for -th&
with ten to fifteen voters wjio ea *ei*
didn't cast any ballot at all. It
has beenrestimated by some who ’ FLY FROM FT. WORTH .
know that the full strength
the- Mt. Carmel box will be
between 65 and 75 voters but - Word has been received from
wc think the Commissioners ’ Kansas City stating that Brig-
Courtx will be petitioned to ex-!adier General Kinley, chief of
tend the district one mile fur-1 the air division at Washington^
ther south and one mile east of company with Major Rhine-
the present line which will make1 hart, commander of Talliaferro*
it more convenient for a number
of other voters.
9* J- Flucche, one of the elec- .
tion judges went to Wichita
I alls carry the Mt. Carmel
election returns last Monday.
School Notes
Our school is progressing nice- _
ly. Occassionally a bit of “hay Store, a sum of money, constst-
_ _ , but ing of two tens and a twenty
lar bill. Please return to E- AL
Phillips for a liberal rewards
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WANTED—A second hand
Colts or- Smith and Weston Re-
volver, must be cheap for cash.
Address, “Night Watchman” fo
care of the Leader.
__We learned over the phone Hamilton and family. Mrs.
that Edd Huff and H. H. Haynes' Hamilton has one of the oldest
had discovered something won-1 and finest farms On th'e creek
derftil on Beaver Creekand went [and one of the most interesting
down in company with several (families it has ever been our
others last Monday to develop it t pleasure to meet. We guess we
though we never learned whet- * were working under our lucky
‘ her it was an oil well, that new1 star that day for several young
bridge or a big fish, but rather people dropped in and the evCn-
think it was the latter. | ing Was spent in music and sing-
Brother Morgan has always ing which we greatly enjoyed,
’ told us that there was a jumping ‘ especially the old time melodies
off place and we found it ' last t Now please dont think what we
• week over on Beaver
when we were over there assess-
ing taxes. Why Wichita^Coun-
ty wanted to put a bridge across
tfe river there we cant tell, for|
. there will be no one to cross it
unless he gets lost 'and is trying
to get to Electra. We took din-
ner with ourf friend, Mart Banty
while there. Mart has a nice
valley farm and raises lots of
stuff when it rains. Right now
his family'is having some fun
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