The Pecos Enterprise and Pecos Times (Pecos, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, August 10, 1923 Page: 6 of 8
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Pecos Valley has been agitated to
about the discovery of oil that any
h now received with more or less
on the part of the ciissen* of
valley. We have all been made rich
night in our dreams, time after time,
only to awaken and find our illusions van*
f|| tshed in hoi air—a nightmare as it were.
skeptical the citizens of the vab
be, any news even now is re
with more or less enthusiasm, and
we again say “I told you so,* and take
off our hats and give vent to our en-
thusiasm, no doubt because there are so
many who place confidence in the pre-
dictions of learned geologists who have
mid us for thirty years that some day
the Pecos Valley would produce oil like
the famous California oil fields, which
are now putting so much crude oil on
the market that the balance of the west
Is flooded and oil refineries are compell-
ed to close down and wait until the
California supply can be used.
TKte above comment is called forth by
rumor which reached Carlsbad, Thurs-
on a
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that drillers who were working -
well situated in section 31, Townshij
south range 28 east, had struck a big
flow of gas and some oil the day before,
a depth of about 1800 feet, and at-
tempts to clear the well of o£L with
backets had proven useless, and that the
drillers had dosed down the work and
telegraphed the particulars to the head-
quarters of the Illinois Producers com-
J paay, which are putting down the well.
The scene -of the new bonanza is about
ten miles east and two miles south of
Dayton, across the Pecos river, and is in
what is known as the Dayton oil field,
about halfway between Carlsbad and Ar-
ttou*. The Illinois Producers company has
drilled two wells in the Lakewood dis-
trict and went to a considerable depth on
the DaytOn townsite, but development on
all three properties has been abandoned
for sverai months. The well on the Lake-
weed tewnske is said to have produced
111 quantities than the company
become public, but develop-
not great enough to prove
is commercial quantity,
the new discovery
| well is closed very
Mb if any auihenic news was obtained.
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ADVERSE ADVERTISING
The McKinney Courier-Gazette puts its
finger on one prime reason why Texas
is so badly misunderstood in some of the
elder sections of the country when it says:
e don’t want to be* critical, but we
some day, and that very soon, when
delegations go up north, they will
dressing somebody up in cowImw
and turn than loose with sixshooters.
*s too much belief in some sections
when folk come down here they meet
rough dement; that men and women
as cowboys, eariv sixshooters. knock
down if you don't look straight, etc.
Southland of ours is the greatest
country under God’s Holy Sun. The peo-
ple in, the South are fust as refined as
the people of the North or any other
section of the earth,, and we just naturally
don’t like for people to even think we
ever wore six shoters down here.”
A hotel in Texas sends out post cards
this stgff, which is inexcusable:
down hero in old Texas,
you never have the blues,
the bandits steal the jitneys
the Marshals steal the booze,
buildings horn the skyline,
the populace is boost
they shoot men just for pastime
the chickens never roost,
the stickup men are wary
the bullets fall like hail;
each pocket ha* a pistol
A»d each pistol's godd for jail;
Wbeife they always hang the jury,
where they never hang a man
you call a man a liar, you
the best you can;
Where you get up in the morning
a world of snow and sleet
you come home in the evening
ag in the heat;
the jitneys whiz about you
the streetcars barely creep;
tj»e burglars pick your pockets
you “i.y me down to sleep ”
the bulldogs all have rabies
the rabbits, they have fleas
the big girls, like the wee ones,
their dresses to their knees,
you whist out in the morning
to give your health a
Howdy” to some fellow
holes in your pasts;
wise owls are afraid to
don't dare to sing,
9 hell down here in Texas,
they^aH ahoot on the wing.
iY, AUGUST 10,
BUSTEB CALIFORNIANS
HIM-
STAMPED ON THE PACKAGE
: ^Td like for you to take a
a* 9*? ^2y* figh? at the
of a hat.”
Editor: “Well, he will never make
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igor: “Why won’t he?”
1 Ed: “He fights too cheap.”
OH, THAT KIND!
Smythe: ‘’Here comes Harry Lipp.
human dynamo.”
is that so?”
everything he has
1 regular human
Wythe: “Gee, i,
fe“Yep’
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tazz annihilation
vent ion at Atlanta, Georgia, which closed
June 12. Delegates from 40,000 clubs
with a membership of 2,000,000 joined in
movement.- -Etude.
selling, it’s worth advertising
Several years ago, Fresno, California,
was a dead little village. The farms in
the country around about were plastered
with mortgages, file farmers were dis-
couraged with low prices. Many of them
could not make ends meet, so they mov-
ed away, leaving their hopes dead and
their dreams in ashes.
Then a genius came along and spoke
the simple gospel of co-operative market-
ing. The movement |xew and grew until
today Fresno is the richest town of its
population in the country. Good roads
everywhere run to fine farms where there
are trees, good automobiles, plenty of
implements and substantial barns. Far-
mers own the farms itnd they are out of
debt, with money in the bank. The vil-
lage of Fresno his grown into a good-
sized town'. Business is good and every-
body is prosperous, contented and happy.
The point is that business men are
partners with the farmers in bad times
as well as in good! times. The prosperity
of business men in as agricultural com-
munity depends oia the buying power of
the farmers. For ibis simple reason, busi-
ness men of Texas can not raise a hand
to hinder the onward march of the co-
operative marketing movement.
The farmer, at i rule, has been forced
to sell bis crop in a hurry, and at a time
when the market was glutted. Within a
few months his entile production has
passed out of his hands, although a year
is needed to consume it. His crop has
been little more .than an offset to debts
contracted to make it
The farmer’s bills come due in the fall.
The merchant who supplied him also
finds his hills coming; due at the same
time. There is a call to pay up all down
the line, from the manufacturer and the
city banks to tbs funner. No matter
what condition the market is in, the far-
mer has to sell and p*y up.
This system forces the farmer to take
leas for his crop than it is really worth.
His buying power is cat that much. Then
the merchant sells km goods, for the
farmer has less money to boy them with.
The country banks lute both ways, be-
cause the farmer and the merchant de-
posit leas.
This systme of bad marketing makes
the farmer a weak buyer, a weak borrower
and a weak depositor.
The system of cooperative marketing it
changing this situation. The farmer’s non-
perishable products, like cotton and wheat,
are assembled in quantity, graded, ware-
housed and insure 1, pledged as collateral
for loans and marketed in an orderly man-
ner through the' year. His perishable
crops, like melons, are graded and sent
into the markets where there is a de-
mand for them.
As a result, the price is stabilized at
a profit level, tbi growers receive more
money to deposit ha the banks and to
spend with the merchants. The farmers
are more prosperous arid'the business men
are also more pjosperous. The oppor-
tunity of business men to increase their
own prosperity knocks at their door.—Big
Spring Herald.
TO THE CITIZENS OF WEST TEXAS
Sul Ross State Teachers’ College be-'
longs to you, and you can make of it
what ypu will. And yet I find all over
the territory boys and girl* who ire going
to othef schools fair the first two years of
their college work. You and I cannot
justify this school if we refuse to patron-
ize it. The quality of work dose in Sul
Ross for the first two years of college
work is equal to the. best in any other
school m Texas. Students who complete
our sophomore yesr tire admitted to the
junior year of tb» University of Texas
with full credit for the work done. Be-
sides, our student numbers are yet such
as to permit that p<»rsotta1 contact between
teacher and student^ which means so much
m the life of younn people,
Not only this, but -a first class college
i nthis territory will attract investors to
this section. We wouild not have you
sacrifice any interest of your boys and
girls, but wtr belie re you owe it to West
Texas to investigate thoroughly every ad-
vantage which this institution has to of-
fer before sending your children to any
other school.
Every member of our academic faculty
Hf ** .*east A, degree from snch
institutions as Harvard, Chicago, Washing
ton University, University of Texas, and
other standard universities. „They are men
and women of ripe experience and expert
taebiag ability. Besides, our equipment
in laboratories and library it firm
Is it not good business to build
groat school in this section?
Verf truly yours,
W. MORELOCK, President.
MAKING WATER ITf TO DRINK
Every year many of our boys and girls
contract disease by drinking impure wa-
ter,*’ *ays the Farm Journal.
“For quick sterilization, obtain pure
chloride of lime. Jin a gallon of water,
dissolve as much an can be heaped on a
five cent piece, 'Tiis makes the stock
solution, which can be carried on outings
or excursions.
“To sterilize any drinking water, take
two teaspoonfuls of the stock solution and
mix it in the ordinary size glass of water.
This will give a pure, tasteless water that
may be taken with a feeling of security.
“Save this suggestion and it may save
your life.”# \
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ED PUHDY SAYS
“Christopher Columbus was not only
an explorer a fid discoverer—but a prophet
as well. The minute he saw America he
laid ‘Dry Land.’ ”
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You can tell ENTERPRISE printing
It’* just a little better than :be rest
MAGNUS AND FARHLY
TALK IT AU. OVER
(Written especially for the Enterprise by
ALEDA CHAMBERLAIN)
Kimball, Minn., Aug. lO.—Mrs. Mag-
nus Johnson » human. The mother of
six and farmer-wife of MinnestoU’s new
U. S. Senator-elect has changed her mind.
She is not going to stay on the farm and
milk cows while her husband goes to
Washington. She is going with him.
The family has talked it over. Six un-
selfish children wanted mother to enjoy
some of the fruits of victory after 30
years of hard work on the fat as.- and
they finally won. Mother decided to go
—and with bar will go at least two of
her children—her babies, Agnes, ten, and
Florence, nine. They will attend school
in Washington this winter—quite an un-
expected change from the district school
not fgr from the Johnson farm here in
Meeker county.
Mrs. Johnson and the six children did
a good job of running the fairra while
Mr. Johnson was campaigning during the
early summer weeks. It was as a result
of this that the report became current
that Mrs. Johnson was not going to Wash-
ington if her husband was elected.
Senator Magnus Johnson is happy that
his wife is going with him. He quite
frankly admits that she is his boss.
Whether he remains in public life after
serving this short term depends altogether,
he says, upon what she decides.
The 140-aere Johnson farm is a typical
Minnesota <home, equipped with modern
machinery; forty head of cattle, twenty-
four of which are milk cows; forty D«-
roc and Chester White hogs; 300 chickens
and right horses. Every member of the
family is kept busy running the (dace,
Mra Johnson milking seven cow* at least
once a day.
Magnus Johnson was born in Sweden
and came to America- an immigrant in
1891. Mrs. Johnson, however, is a typi-
cal gray-haired, pleasant-faced and ideal
American mother, who traces her descent
back to General Isr.se) Putnam on her
nde.
Magnus has own
ideals”—Mrs. Johnson.
Mrs. Johnson is very positive that the
nation is going to be surprised if H
thinks that Senators Broolchart and La-
Follette are going to lead her fighting
husband around in their lngialtive ranks.
“He has a mind and ideals of his own,”
she says. '
The Johnson home loves books. Every
member of the family is a great reader.
JiIlian, the oldest girl of the family,
will keep the house going when her
mother and father go to Washington. Vic-
tor, 21; Francis, 19, and Magnus, Jr., 14,
will run the farm.
“No doubt I will iiave a very pleasant
time in Washington,” said Mrs. Johnson,
"that is, as pleasant a time, as any mother
could be expected to have when Her fam-
ily is divided, as ours will be, for the
first time. Yes, 1 am in favor %i women
in politics, but I have never had Time for
it. Six children and a busy life on the
farm, was all I was able to handle in the
last thirty years.” I ,
Mrs. Johnson votes yes
on Hubby*s Platform
These are the things Magnus Johnson
says he will favor and oppose at Wash-
ington :
Favor fixed prices of grain, making pos-
sible fixed profit to growers.
Favor diversified farming. ‘y
Favor government ownership of public
utilities.
Favor soldiers’ bonus; favor recognition
of Russia; favor wage increase of all
railroad men; favor woman suffrage; fa-
vor retention of politic!! parties; favor
national budget; favor brotherly love
amongst nations, classes and individuals;
favor any educational measure which gives
good books to citizens; favor unanimous
derision in the United States Supreme
Court.
Oppose the League of Nation^ World
Court, military training in schools and
war.
Mrs. Johnson smiles and says she votes
YES with her husband on every issue.
DISREGARDING THE GAME LAWS
A member of Farat and Ranch staff
recently drove from Del Rio to San A*-
i$elo, a distance of approximately £00
miles, and most of it through a wild, hilly
and mountainous country, a part hi which
is seventy miles from a railroad. One
would natqrally expect to see wild life
in abundance in thin section of Texas,
but on this 200-mile journey only two
deer and three blue quail were iteen. It
may be that the flivver bouncing over
the rocks gave birds and animals warning
and that they sought cover before the
observer got within seeing distance, but
upon remarking to his .companion who Is
a prominent citizen of that section, con-
earning the scarcity of game, he was in-
formed that hunting had become vsry poor
sport during the past few years ' “Dis-
regard for the game laws on the pan of
our citizens as well its the promiscuous
shooting on the part of tourists, has just
about killed off and driven our game out
of the country,” said the citizen. “Thefce
is too much shooting for the sport of
killing something. Our own people sortie
of them, do not hesitate to kill, re^ardl^ss
of the game laws whether or not they
need the meat or even .want it. What
we want is a rigid enforcement of the
game laws. We must have it if we arc
to have any wild life except snakes left
in this country”-—Farpi ahd Ranch.
CJOMMON SENSE
Cop; “Have you got a state license m
drive a car?”
Motorist: “Certainly,
see it?”
Cop: “Don’t talk back to me. If you
jave one, whai do I want to see it for?
If you didn’t have one, then I’d vrant to
see it” /
AN ESSAY ON MEN
Hen are what , women marry. They
have two feet, two hands and some times
two wives, but never more than one col-
lar or one idea at a time.
Like Turkish cigarettes, men are all
made of the same material; the only
difference is that some are better dis-
guised than others.
Generally speaking they may fee divid-
ed into three classes: Husbands, bach-
elors and widowers. An eligible bachelor
is a mass of obstinacy entirely surrounded
by suspicion. Husbands are of three va-
rieties: Prizes, surprises and consolation
^Making a husband out of a man is one
of the highest plastic arts known to civi-
lisation. It requirea science, sculpturing
common sense, faith, hope and charity—
especially charity.
It is the psychological marvel that a
•oft, fluffy, tender, violet-scented sweet
little thing like a woman should enjoy
kissing a big awkward, stubby-chinned
tobacco—and bay rum scented thing like
a man.
If you flatter a man it frightens him
to death, and if you don’t you bore him
to death. If you permit him to make
love to you be gets tired of you in the
e»4, and if you don’t he gets
you in the beginning.
M you believe in him in everything you
soon cease to charm him- If you believe
all he tells you he thinks you are a fool,
and if you don’t he thinks you a cynk.
H you wear gay clothes arid rouge, and
a startling hat, he hesitate# to take you
out, and if you wear a brown toque ami
a sailor made, he takes you out and stare*
all evening at a woman in gay colors.
If you join him in his gayeties and ap-
prove him m hk smoking, he swears you
are driving him to the devil and if you
don’t approve of hit smoking and urge
him to give op his gayeties he vows you
art driving him to the devil. If you are
the ding-vine type he doubts whether you
have a brain and if you are a modern,
advanced and independent woman be
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silly lie
you are
for a playmate,
the other men he is
are not he hesitates to marry a wi
Cosh-ding men. anyhow!
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jealous.
HOLMES IN IrfOTORTOWN
Sherlock: “That mpsi in the black
blue *.n eeen y 3? d£L
automobile tires.”
f Watson: “How do yoa know,
Sheilock: “A simple deduction,
He drives around wilh only a t
00 the back of his cai and tb* tire
worry themselves to d
h going to make
IF TTS WOJ
WORTH ADVER1
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AUSTIN, TEXAS
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Wm. H. Antorn SapL of the
Hew York Anti-Saloon League, ^rho
facet Grand Jury indictment* charg-
ing forgery, extortion and grand
larceny Until recently, the league
was generously subscribed to by
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
You don’t advertise so that you may see your
name in the paper but that others may s<se it An
advertisement in the Enterprise will :be read be-
cause it has the circulation. Watch the
see the sacks going out-all
erpnses.
Horses For Salt
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Thirty head, ages irom three to six, all geldings, and will
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weigth from 800 to 1200 pounds, and all recently brok
to ride.
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They will be sold at from $40.00 up; or will sell whole
bunch at a better bargain.
The horses cmi be seen at Screw Bean Springs, 45 mibs
from Pecos on the old Carlsbad road.
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Call at ranch and see the horses.
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