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COLEMAN DEMOCRAT-VOICE
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FOR COLEMAN AND COLEMAN COUNTY
16 Pages
IN TWO SECTION?
VOL. NO. 47.
COLEMAN, COLEMAN COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928.
NO. 5.
Named in Suit
“Coleman” to the Front—Page.
“Coleman has become too cosmo-
politan for ‘Heprd on the Square’
and court house news on the front
'pagtoj' So says Editor J. T. Wil-
liatBpn of the Coleman Democrat-
Voi^ in relegating these two old
starifl-by columns to the “hinter
land” of the D.-V., while a brant’
new column headed “COLEMAN,”
takes their place on front page. In
the new column is contained the
weekly observations and comments
of the editor. We compliment the
Democrat-Voice on the change. It
wasn’t so many moons ago that
Editor Williamson accused editors
who had adopted a front-page edi-
torial column of attempting to imi-
tate Arthur Brisbane, and, he in-
timated, with poor success. But,
good, bad or indifferent, the front-
page editorial column in the county
newspaper has come to stay—at
least for a while.
Thu* Editor Schwenker of the
Brady Standard compliments and
rebukes the Democrat-Voice in the
same breath to comfort his ewn
soul and justify “SAUCE," which
appears in the same position in his
excellent paper as “COLEMAN”
does in this. His memory is good
but there is a marked difference
between “SAUCE” and “COLE
MAN.” Sauce is a synonym for
hash, Noah Webster to the con-
trary notwithstanding, and hash is
a mysterious combination, unless
flapnerishly named by society
Colemhn has but one ingredient and
V4*'jrV_________.... ill /.nntnm!
iKbmK* progress. We still contend
it wfnld take a Brisbane or a Mefo
to spread sauce properly. Any-
body can write about Coleman and
regardless of what is said it’s
right.
♦ * * •
There is a gulley on the west
side of the unnamed street west of
Rockwell’s lumber yard that has
been filled with water for several
months. It could be easily drain,
ed, but has not been. In the winter
time it can cause nothing more se-
rious than an epidemic of typhou
fever, but in 30 or 60 days it’s go-
ing to be the best mosquito incuba
Mrs. Billy Sunday, Jr., former
wife of the evangelist’s son, was
named by Mrs. Olive. Day as being
too friendly with her husband,
George Day, Los Angeles police-
man, in Mrs. Day’s suit for divorce.
Mrs. Sunday denied the charges.
down again, continuing the act
with the helpless and harmless old
fellow screaming for assistance. If
the one reporting this inciden'
knew the old negro or the boys
fear has caused him not to divulge
their names. Like one of the ne-
groes hijacked Sunday night. He
told officers he could name his as-
sailants but would not because, he
said, “They will carry them to the
court house, try them, turn them
loose and then I will have to leav,
town.” Thus we are afraid to live
in a country with crime and afraid
to try to drive crime out.
♦ * * *
Strangers here arid elsewhere
should be rigidly investigated wby
tor in town. It’s well protected 1 peace officers. If they have no vis
and early hatches are guaranteed i jt,]e means of support and cannot
And besides it is unsightly—be-1 furnish a plausible reason why they
comes monotonous Wren passed are here instead of somewhere else
three times daily. * j a cordial invitation should be ex-
•IT * to/ * • f tended them to move on. It is the
More than 185 copies of last, ___s_t_____
week’s Democrat-Voice were sold
path of least resistance to let crim-
inals get the upper hand. To keep
the upper hand it is necessary to
be on the alert 24 hours a day. To
stay on the job 24 hours is work.
« * .» # •
on the streets of Coleman last
Thursday \ afternoon before the
presses stopped running. As many
more were sold before night. Near-
ly as many more were sold Friday.
It’s a good indication that society
as well as religious people are
reading this great weekly.
» • * »
1 isfted with this column’s name,
thinks it limits the field of com
An old bachelor who has lived 50
years without being satisfied with
any of the teeming thousands of
j charming young ladies he has met
This column two weeks Jo sue-! »?uld hardlybe e.xpected to b(iSat'
gested an increase in the city po-
lice force. One was ample when
Coleman was a village and a
strange face was something
strange. But not so now. One
cannot cover the extended area
even if he so desired. While he is
Watching this part of town devil-
ment is in full swing in some other
part. Mrs. J. L. Strother has re-
pqgtaJ that vandals are digging
Kitnfhf and shrubs from the
graves of the dead and carrying
them from the city cemetery. An-
other report says that young men
driving an automobile last Friday
on Elm street knocked an old ne-
gro man down, backed up, let him
arise to his feet and knocked him
ment. He is now trying to sug-
gest something better. When he
does the name may be changed.
(The new city tractor'and grader
are here and doing good work. It
was used Tuesday in plowing the
alley to be paved to connect Pe-
can street and College Avenue
and today is taking the corruga-
tions from that part of Live Oak
street that has not been paved.
The work is a big improvement
over that which was done by crude
implements that have been in use
Gem clips—both sizes—for sale
at D.-V. office. 52-tf.
Our Service To You I
We have never allowed our growth In custo-
mers to interfere -with our ideas of service.
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^Though you may be but one of many customers,
we endeavor always to serve you as though you
were, pur only customer—as though our entire sue-
I
ess depended on pleasing you. Perhaps that is
why we are constantly getting new customers.
First National Bank
COLEMAN MANHELD
IN, BROWN JAIL ON
HIJACKING CHARGE
ARRESTED IN BANGS BY CITY
MARSHAL1.. CONFESSES
Hr.OWN CO. SHERIFF.
Clyde Allcorn has been arrested
and is 1 cing held in the Brown
county jail and John Buford is the
object < f an extended search by of-
ficers working on the series of hi-
i-cliing Sunday night extending
fiom this city to Brownwood. Ac-
cording to a telephone message re
ceived by Sheriff Hamilton from
Sheriff White of Brown county
Tuesday morning Allcorn has made
a confession, implicating himself
and companion ir. the crimes here
at Santa Anna and Brownwood.
Two Coleman negroes were held
up Sunday evening shortly after
dark by two white ihen and relieved
of their surplus change. One ne-
gro escaped frdm the scene of thf
holdup and notified the sheriff’s
department.yWhen officers ar-
rived to investigate the hijackers
had fled in a Ford automobile that
had been statioped behind box cars
near the Santa Fe depot. From
here they went to Santa Anna and
held up other negroes. They then
went to Browpwood, committed
similar crimes and continued their
journey to the Fry oil field.
They were returning from the
Fry field in an open Ford when
halted at Bangs by the city mar-
shall. Allcorn, who was driving,
surrendered but Buford escaped from
the car and to date has successful-
ly evaded officers.
Following the taking of Allcorn’s
statement Tuesday morning, Dis
trict Attorney Walter U. Earl}
conducted Allcorn’s examining trial
in Judge Parkinson’s court. After
the trial he was officially charged
with robbery with firearms, a fel-
ony.
Following the taking of testi-
mony given by Tom Carr, the local
negro, who was robbed, Allcorq was
remanded tp tfie custody of Sher
iff White, the amount of his bond
not- being fixed. District Attor-
ney Early desired to wait until All-
teorn’s father arrives from Cole-
man, also to wait for further de-
velopments and the possible ar-
rest of Buford.
The two men will face similar
charges in this county when releas-
ed by Brown county officials.
COTTON CROP IN CO.
13,280 BALES LESS
THAN 1927 YIELD
CHIEF COTTON GROWING
STATES SHOW SHORTAGE
OVER 1926 AND 1927.
Coleman county’s cotton crop, to
January 16th was short 13,280
bales short of 1927. T5~ January
16th,’ 1927, gins .in the county had
turned out 42,300 bales. To the
same date this year the govern-
ment reports show total ginnings
of 29,020. -—-'x
The total yield of cotton in ,1926
amounted to 15,499,893. In 1927
the yield was 16,616,075. This year"
to January 16th the yield is 12,501,-
845.
The yield by states for 1928 is
uc fftllftWR*
United States: 12,501,845.
Alabama, 1,169,2337; Arizona,
81,201; Arkansas, 940,717; Califor-
nia, 80,096; Florida, 17,278; Georg-
ia, 1,103,583; Louisiana, 540,799;
Mississippi, 1,328,162; Missouri,
105,042; New Mexico, 64,195; N.
Carolina, 857,697; Oklahoma, 979,-
279; South Carolina 730,036; Ten-
nessee, 339,962; Texas, 4,130,660;
Virginia, 28,445; All others, 5,456.
PROPERTY OWNERS
WILL WITHDRAW
OFFER SATURDAY
UNLESS OFFER OF FREE SITE
IS ACCEPTED BY THEN
DEAL WILL BE OFF.
P’CHESNEY NO. 1 R. Breneke Well Flows
, 46 Barrels in 24 Hours
SUR. NO. 748, DRY
INTEREST HAS SWITCHED TO
OPERATIONS CLOSER TO
COLEMAN.
Store and Postoffice
A ulr™:yRoK N. STORY, SPRAGUE
Sheriff W. R. Hamilton was call-
ed to Glen Cove last Saturday
morning to investigate the robbery
Friday night of the J. B. Allen
store and postoffice. No clues have
been discovered, and the time of the
robbery is not known. Entrance to
the building was gained through a
rear window after the glass was
broken, and when the desired loot
was gathered the get-away was
made through the front door.
Missing articles included four
24x4.40 automobile casings, twelve
S0x3% inner tubes, 4,000 cigar-
ettes, 1 dozen cans of tomatoes, 3
dozen eggs, $25 in nickles, dimes
and quarters taken from the cash
register and $2 worth of govern-
ment postage stamps.
Efforts to blow the safe were
futile. The knob was knocked but
the pin could not be pushed out.
Had they gained entrance their
loot, according to Sheriff Hamilton,
would have been increased $150 in
cash and $40 in stamps.
E. G-IENThTWELL
ON BABINGTON NOW
MAKING 15BARRELS
PAY COMING FROM DF.PTH OF
1016. ANOTHER WELL
TO BE SHOT.
Her Ad Wins
The E. G. Senfr well on the
Babington farm 3 miles south of
Coleman is holding up on pump for
a daily production of from 15 to 17
barrels from a depth of 1046.
The pay was reached sever-
al weeks ago and oil stood in the
hole some >60 feet. It was later
shot with the result above. Plans
are being made now to shoot an-
other well on the lease. '
Mr. Firestone
Although major interest this
week has centered around the Har-1
ry Gwinnup and L. G. Bradstreet j
No. 1 Morris, many operators were j
disappointed when the Miss Nancy!
McChesney No. 1 R. N. Story in the
S. Sprague survey No. 748 failed
to extend the Fry sand from Brown
into Coleman county, after drilling
to a total depth of 1,525 feet.
The Fry sand was expected
around 1,455 feet in the McChesney
test one mile west of the wester-
most Fry production and located
150 feet from the south line and 2,-
380 feet from the west line in the
304 acre R. N. Story tract in the
northwest part of the Samuel!
Sprague survey No. 748. One
mile south of the dry hole, B. L.
Mollenkorf is drilling a test on the
Fannie Lowe ranch in the J. B.
Wright survey No. 747.
Prespects for extending produc-
tion one location in this county
seems bright this week for the
Roth & Faurot No. 1 J. E. Stev-
ens offsetting the No. 1 Jerry
Lewis producer, 4 miles southeast
of here is drilling below 800 feet
expecting to reach the Lewis sand
at 1,085 feet. When the No. 1
Stevens is completed at least one
other well will be drilled by Roth
& Faurot of Independence, Kansas,
on acreage in that vicinity. If
the drilling well is brought in for
a producer as many as six wells
may be started for the same com-
pany. Other Roth & Faurot Cole-
man operations include drilling
two gassers north of Valera deeper
in an effort to bring them in for
oil production. Both wells are lo-
cated on the Sealy & Smith ranch
in section 19, GH&H survey the No.
1 being 2,410 feet and the No. 2j
is 2,916 feet deep.
Oklahoma Lady Buys
1280 Acres Overall
Land From McCord
ACTIVE DRILLING WILL FOL-
LOW. IS TWO MILES FROM
OTHER PRODUCTION.
J. P. McCord, aaminstrator of
the Overall esjaje, this morning
announced the"sale of 1280 acres
of the ranch land south of Cole-
man to Mrs. Lillie Small of Okla-
homa for a consideration of $39,-
000.00. The land is situated in G
H .& H. R. R. Co. Section No. 69
and J. W. and E. B. Herndon sec-
tion No. 92. The estate reserved
an undivided one-half
minerals.
GWINNUP WELL IN
THIS AFTERNOON
Members of the advertising class
at the University of Oregon argued
so heatedly over the place of wo-
man in the advertising field that
instructors, to prevent a war, sug-
gested that both boys and girls
write a full-page ad for a local
store. The store was to accept the
ad it liked be3t, without knowing
who wrote it. The winning ad was
written by Miss Florence Grebe
(above), so the boys have quit
arguing.
MORE AUTOMOBILES
REGISTERED THAN
TO JAN. 31, 1927
TAX COLLECTOR’S OFFICE
OPEN MIDNIGHT TUES-
DAY FOR TARDY.
Drilling one foot deeper into
what was formerly a fifteen barrel
pumper, the Levi Smith-Jim Mc-
Manmon No. 1 J. Breneke in the
southwest corner of the Samuel
Sprague survey No. 664, just 4
miles southeast of Coleman, start-
ed flowing practically steady for
an estimated production of 46 bar-
rels daily from a total depth of
1,856 feet.
In 24 hours, it flowed 46 barrels
before a bottom hole cave’retarded
production after the well had been
increased by Levi Smith & Jim Mc-
Manrtion when deepened one foot
Monday.
Likely a liner will be set when
the well is cleaned out shutting off
the bad shale bottom hole cave.
The well is located more than 2
miles from other Coleman county
production in the Roth & Faurot
No. 1 Jerry Lewis in the Coleman
county School Lands survey No!
57. Originally the well was drill:
ed into the pay by Earl Duffield &
Jack Schaffer who shut the pro-
duction in, until _ recently, selling
to Smith & McManmon who placed
the well on the pump. Heavy g&s
pressure hampered pumping and
after a test showed the tanks gaug-
ing less than 20 barrels daily the
decision to drill deeper was reach-
ed. ,
Semi-successful efforts have been
made to correlate the sand with
that producing in the Fry pool in
Brown county. Also the Gwinnup
& Bradstreet No. 1 Morris several
miles north of the latest sensa-
tion on the Breneke farm is tenta-
tively associated with the Fry sand,
indicating that the fertile produc-
ing formation in that' heretofore
limited area is only partially de-
veloped.
As reports of the astounding re-
sults of djjinening circulated, ef-
forts to obtain acreage in that area
were spurred anew, with amounts
ranging both ways from $150 of-
fered for available pieces which
were pretty well cleaned up from
the play when the well first topped
the sand.
^Simultaneously with The am
liouncement of the increased .pro-
duction in the No. 1 Breneke,
Broderick & Calvert of Ft. Worth,
" an offset location to the
To accommodate last minute poll
and property tax payers office of
County Tax Collector J. C. Lewis
remained open Tuesday night un-
til 12 o’clock. The two last poll
taxes were paid by Mr. and Mrs.
12 E. Cook, withers. Cook getting
the last one at 11 o’clock. The last f announci
property tax receipt was issued at ' Harry dKinnup & L. G. Bradstreet
10 o’clock to John Ann Washing-, No. 1 Morris. The location is 200
ton, colored. To the time of clos- 4'eet from the north line and 150
ing 4,860 poll tax receipts had been feet from the west line of the N.
issued and by the time ail the let- j Buck 100 acre tract in the south-
interest in ters are opened the total, will near: east corner of the E. Cochran sur-
6,000, according to Mr. Lewis. In vey No. 269, a direct south offset
pvnr/} m " m/\ hn.| . ! 1025 the total was <6,697 and in j to the Vpotential producer which
uXi £LT Tu DKILL 026 dn °df yeai(poiiticaiiy'4,515 9w.innup <&^*dstreet nkeiy
To the close of business Tuesday
night, 3,929 autos and 311 trucks
had teen registered and the figures
will increase. In 1927 to January
31, 3,582 automobiles and 528
trucks had been Registered.
.Property owners,on East Pecan
St., who subscribed to a $3,000.00
fund to enable Mrs. Leila M. John-
ston to present the City with a iot
for’City Hall and Fire Station,
have notified her that unless she
can persuade the City Commission
to accept her gift by Saturday
night that they will withdraw their
funds now in escrow and leave her
and the City to settle the matter
among themselves. Rut Mrs. John-
ston does not seem to relish the
idea, of goihg the whole hog and
has served the following notice on
the city:
Coleman, Tex., Feb. 1st, 1928.
To the-Honorable Board of Com-
missioners of the City of Cole^
man, Coleman, Texas.
Gentlemen: .
Whereas on the i8th day of Jan-
uary, 1928, I did execute a Meed tci
The City of Coleman, for twenty-
five feet of land lying immediately
This picture doesn’t look quite
right- because Henry Ford and
Thomas Edison aren’t along, but
when it was taken Harvey Fire-
stone was just leaving the White
House after an important confer-
ence with President Coolidge on the
rubber situation. Firestone has a
huge rubber plantation in Liberia.
Prominent Divine and
Confederate Soldier
Dies at Talpa Home
Rev. D. W. White, prominent di-
vine and confederate soldier with a
long service record as each, died
at his home in Talpa Monday and
the mortal remains were ^tenderly
laid to rest Tuesday in the Spring
Creek cemetery by loving friends
Rev. White liad carried the weight
of 80 summers and had been a citi-
zen of Coleman county for 25
years. He was a faithful worker
for the Baptist church and helped
to bring the gospel to west Texai
in the e»rly days. He was proud
of his services for God and the Con-
federate cause. The deceased wa*
pastor of the Talpa Baptist church
for a number of years and was lov-
ed and highly bsteemed by people
of all denominations. He is sur-
vived by hiB wife, who lives in Tal-
pa, and two sons in Lampasas coun
ty. \
Cecil Gray was
visitor Wednesday.
a Brownwood
BELIEF IS IT WILL BE AS
GOOD PRODUCER AS EAST-
LAND-CHESTNUT SMITH.
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With underreffming nearly com-
pleted Harry Gwinnup and L. G.
Bradstreet expect to drill in their
No. 1 Morris before night. A good
showing was encountered in the
top of the Morris sand 1986-87
feet. This will extend the sand
originally discovered in the East-
land Oil Company-Chestnut Smith
No. 2, three quarters of a mile.
As the five inch pipe was raised
Tuesday morning, water rushing
into the hole from behind the five
inch pipe caused the well totflow a
15 minute head of 44 gravity oil
spraying the derrick and country-
side.
Pipe is being carried ^deeper in
the hole to shut off a small wlfeer
sand encountered several feet above
the oil stratum. However, the wa-
ter amounted to less than 8 bailers
each 12 hours, it is said.
As developments at the No. 1
Morris extension by Gwinnup and
Bradstreet neared completion, oil
men are exptecting two of the East-
land Oil Company-Chestnut &
Smith offsets to the discovery well
to come in duriqg the latter part
of the week. Pay is expected
around 1,900-2,000 feet.
The discovery well is in the
southeast corner of section 15, Wil-
liam Weber survey No. 722 and the
extension is located 200 feet from
the south and west lines in the
south 95 acres of the J. P. Mor-
ris 201 acre tract in the northwest
corner of the R. Cochran survey
No. 269.
Hamilton to Abilene
For Two Local Boy®
Charged Tire Theft
Sheriff W. R. Hamilton left ear-
ly this morning to return two
young Coleman boys being held in
the Taylor county jail charged with
tire theft The tires, 4 of them,
were taken from automobiles park-
ed in front of the Cottage Hotel
Tuesday night Besides the tires
a case of sample shoes were taken
from one of the cars. All of the
merchandise and tires have been
Terracing Dem
lin«.School.
Beginning Saturday morning, N.
H. GottwakL teheher of vocational
agriculture in the Santa Anna high
school, will give-u terracing demon-
stration to all interested. The dem-
onstration will be on the W. F.
Barnes farm southu/est of Santa
Anna.
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drill into The pay sand
than Thursday morning.
not later
Roxana Corp. Enters
Burkett Shallow
Field. Well Started
The Roxana Petroleum Corpora-
tion, one of the major companies
operating in the Coleman territory,
today spudded G. M. Gray No. 1
for a shallow test in the northeast
section of Coleman county near
Burkett. The location is 650 feet
from the north and 650 feet
the easi. line of D. D. Young sur-
vey NoFl79.
m*'L A\VW\V\v^
Fine Dairy Cattle Will Increase
The Farmer’s Income.
Soon we will have a modern creamery and ice cream
factory here in Coleman. The plant is now being rushed
to completion. As soon as it is finished, there will be an
increase in the demand for Cream and Milk, also the popu-
lation of the city is growing daily, more demand for Dairy
Products.
Keep two or three good milk cows—Feed and care for
derived from the sak of milk and
them and the money
cream will pay your running expenses.
—Think This Over—
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Coleman Natl Bank
Founded 1892
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