Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1936 Page: 1 of 4
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Titus County—Center of the Best Dairy and Poultry Section of Texas
VOLUME SEVENTEEN
MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH *20, 1936.
NUMBER 5
F. F. A. Father and
Son Banquet Held
Thursday Night
The annual bannuct of the local
chapter of the Future Farmers of
America in honor of their dads
was held at the basement of the
Baptist Church Thursday night,
Raycotuck Well
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The jinx which has followed the
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cil test on the Staggers tract just
over the line in Morris County,
north of Cason, is still following
the operations of the Raycotuck
ith an attendance of about eighty , well
resent.
It was a well planned affair,
nd was directed by the officers
After having gone down to
about 4,100 feet, it was found that
the hole was out of line to the ex-
of the chapter, who conducted the tent of about two hundred feet,
meeting like veterans in public, and that the crook will not permit
life. Every detail of the program j the setting of casing,
was handled with exceptional • Preparations were being made
nicety, reflecting the training j Friday to back up in the hole to
uontmuea bams
Surface Casing Mrs. Mittie Taylor
Is Set For O’Neil- Dies Suddenly on
Rotondi New Well Friday Morning
hich they have received.
The menu for the dinner oon-
,sU‘d of creamed chicken, mash-
1,500 feet, and drilling will be re- !
sumed from that point in an ef- |
fort to run the drill straight to !
ed potatoes, cabbage salad, stuffed I the sand so that no trouble will
eggs, string beans, pickles, rolls, j be anticipated when the sand is!
peaches and cream, cake and cof- j reached. If this can be done j
fee. j there is every hope of a producer, j
Harold Rhea, president of the | as good showings have been made
chapter, acted us master of cere- j on the two previous tests made in
monies, and the following pro-
gram was rendered.
Opening ceremony of the chap-
t r—By officers.
Songs—F. F. A. Boys.
Welcome to the Dads—Athold
Dickson.
Response—Roy Pweslcy. j
Introduction by each member ofj
himself and his father or guest. i
Vocal quartette—Leroy Chism, I
Harold Rhea. James Newman, j
Tx-uett Ousley. Miss Ruth Dillard
j that immediate vicinity during the
past three years.
There has been so much trouble
experienced on the three tests lo-
cated only a short distance apart,
that everybody hopes that, the
drillers will be rewarded for their
persistent efforts.
EXPECT TO DRILL
PLUG TONIGHT IN
HUMBLE-AVINDSOR
Although no definite an- j
ncuncement has been made, it ]
is expected that work of drill- j
ing through the cement plug of I
the Humble Windsor well, a *
mile southwest of Talco. will
start sometime tonight
Bateman, driller in
made announcement that he ex-
pected to bring in the well be-
fore midnight Saturday, indi-
cating that drilling will begin
tonight.
Flow is Heavier Friday
Morning as Pressure
Gradually Rises
Earl about
charge,
Friday morning, the surface I
casing for the O’Neil-Rolondi test;
well, located on the O. C. Lilion- 1
stern land, near Smith Prairie,;
had been set, ready for drilling j
operations, r id preparations were |
being made !o begin actual work ;
j at 4 o’clock in the afternoon,
j The surface casing of this well
j was set at 400 feet, and since the j
j well war. spudded in on Tuesday
j the crew has been operating slow- j
| ly so that the hole can be proper- j
| ly ali
| gent later
It is expected that rapid pro- j
gress will be made for several!
days v. -.til the hard formations are i
hen they will necessar- ,
i 'ey slow down. This test is quite
| a distance from the Peveto dis-
| covcry well, and if it proves to be j
; a producer will enlarge the field j
i extensively. j
Mrs. Mittie Taylor passed away"
suddenly at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. B. E. Kennedy, four miles
north of Mt. Pleasant at 8:40 Fri-
day morning from the effects of »
heart ailment. She appeai<f?fck'*t<Sr
be in her usual good hearth early
in the morning, and ate a hearty
breakfast, but was stricken later
in the morning, passing away in
a few minutes.
Deceased was about 76 years of
age, and Had been a resident of
Mt. Sylvia H. D. Club
The Mt. Sylvia Home Demon-
stration Club met at the home of
! Mrs. Tommie Brown Wednesday,
New Drug Store
Holds Open House
All Day Thursday
The Mt. Pleasant Drug Com-
The flow from the Peveto tlis- j
covcry well, a mile east of Talco, j
which began Thursday afternoon!
3:30 o’clock was reported ;
Friday to be increasing in volume
siovvly, will) better prospects than
over.
Because there was no room in
the storage tanks, the oil was al-
lowed to flow info the slush pit ___
in the hope that it would soon; . _ - _
cleAn itself out, but as it was wast- ! ilttSullYQfl r lOO(l
ing too much good oil, the well; Recedes,* 30 Dead•
was shut down, awaiting the ar-| ;yr nfin
rival of Cecil Housh for further! lo,UUU KlOniVlVoo
instructions. • i
Various estimates have been j Pittsburgh, Pa., March 19.- In
made as to the well's capactiy, i darkness for the second night,
but there is yet no definite way of flood-stricken Pittsburgh took de-
testing the amount of oil that ■ termined steps Thursday toward
comes from the pipe, and it will rehabilitation as army engineers
be some lime before
d and not go off on a tan- this county for practically all of
I her life. She had a large ac-
j quaint; nee throughout this sec-
! tion, and was held in the highest
! respect by all who knew her. She
i is survived by a brother, George
MePeters. of Maple Springs, and a
sister, Mrs. John Bivens, also of
| this county.
At press time funeral services
had not been made, but burial
will take place some time Satur-
day.
Notorious Gunman
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Of 24-Year Record
Saws Bars, Flees
Ardmore, Okla., March 19.—Asa
(Ace) Pendleton, notorious South-
a gauge is and other agencies sought to check j western desperado whose name
F F I with sVven" members and'"three | P»ny, located one door north of! the j p^TonThe welT As^oon as a'metropolitan death “toll which | was first written
■"1 visitors present. Before noon the ; Guaranty^ ®ont* ^an.c* Held j this is done, it will probably be mn'r 1 ',nrHc tu/ontv.fnnr
C. Johnson, Howard f LUL. , , \ f>1aborate soda fountain served 1 oiougnmo me wen
Mo-xm and A L I mal that was very interesting and | ^ b | Thursday afternoon for installa-
work—Leroy Chism.
Dinner.
Introduction cf visiters—Billy
Presley. One minute talks were
made by E.
Dalton, J. L
Crossland.
Initiation of “Green Hands,
Renford Austin and James New- j
man, by the chapter. j
Song, “Silver Haired Daddy ofi
Mine”—Harold Rhea.
Talk—P. E. Wallace. '
Talk—R. A. Rix of the Teachers’j ed the Thursday Bridge Club,
College at Commerce. j composed of the wives of men en-
Harmonica duet—Truett Ousley ! gaged in soil conservation, and ad-
members had an interesting dis- '^s officii opening Thursday and
cussion on quilts. j received a cordial welcome from
During the afternoon Mrs. Ellis | Pleasant people. During the ^_____^ _____,____ ____0
made a talk on the Texas Ccnten- j f1a-v *our Sh'ls behind the store s! ment bad been brought *to the well
decided whether or not let it con-
tinue to flow itself or put it on
* pump. Modern pumping equip-
may exceed thirty. (cords twenty-four years ago, w
Maj. William D. Styer, United • loose again Thursday. 7**
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• educational. After delicious re-| ^rce *ce cream tb more than two
! freshments were served, the club i thousand people.
I adjourned to meet with Mrs. Will I ^t. Pleasant Drug Store is
: Counts on April 15th.—Reporter. 1 ono the most attractive and up-
Soil Conservation Grpup
to-date establishments of its kind
in Northeast Texas, and its man- j
ager, C. E. McDaniel, is a licensed I
Mrs. Ernest Johnson entertain- ! pharmacist and an tA(jcucm.cu i js
Thursday Bridge Club, j drug man, as well as a firm be-
liever in advertising. This paper
carried a quarter-page ad last
ditional guests at her home on Wednesday announcing the date
i tion, but this has not yet been in-
j stalled.
Arrangements are now being
I made to handle the output of the
I well so that regular production
can be handled, and the public is
is <.t iiccuftt-u | anjousjy awaiting these develop-
experienced 1
States district engineer, said his
engineers reported twenty persons
probably died in the suburban
Etna district. Rescue workers
there found the bodies of six chil-
dren and an adult in the ruins of
eleven dwellings swept by flames
Deputy Coroner H. Allen ,
one is known dead and twenty are i of the desperado.
With a WPA worker, Dell
;'»ert
the
the
Davis, 19, Pendleton saw
bars of an east window
Carter County jail and fled.
Carter County officers captured
Davis without a struggle a /<
blocks away as he crossed a-i
said | way track, but there was no tra
Davis was hell
missing at Sharpsburg. A pre- i in the fatal clubbing of an
;,nd Renford Austin.
Talk—H. H. J. Fling of the! Johnson Ave., Thursday afternoon of the official opening.
Teachers' College at Commerce, j with three tables arranged for the -----------------------------------
Talk—R. A. Manicre of the; games. Beautiful bowls of red- ing: Mmes. Homer Hays, Paul
Teachers’ College at Commerce. ! bud were used in profusion for Browning, Joel Allsup, Ned Mar-
Song to the Dads—F. F. A. Boys. J decorations. Mrs. Ned Martin tin, Byron Reeves, O. B. Gools-
Urs. A. L. Crossland accompanied j scored high for club members and by, Rhodney Stephenson, W. M.
wt the piano. j Mrs. Oscar Billimek high for the Parks. Oscar Billimek, Ethel Mi-
Business. Closing ceremony. (guests.. The hostess served an at- lam, Dewey Chapman, J. P. Sarn-
--I tractive salad plate to the follow- mens, and Scott.
Within forty minutes after we
received the rumor that the well
was flowing on Thursday, the
vious Red Cross report to the
morgue said there were six bodies
in the suburb.
A check of all available sources
placed the dead in the motropoli-
Daily Times had completed verifi- 1 h'n area at twenty-four, half of
cation of the reports, and had an ;
extra edition on the press, giving ,
the details of the ell coming in,
and several hundred copies were
j sold on the streets. Our regular
I delivery subscribers received a
them unidentified. Rescue work-
school teacher.
Only Wednesday Pendleton told
County Attorney Robert W. Rich-
ards he would’ plead guilty to an
armed robbery charge if he would-
n't get more than ten years.
Pendleton had been held in jaiL
sir, reported the deaths of seven here since Deputy Sheriff Bill 'y
persons in suburban McKees
Rocks.
The startling reports of heavy
death toll shocked Pittsburgh’s
Ratliff halted the swaggering gun-
man and a companion at Healdton
Jan. 25, the day after Pendleton
and two other armed men held up
j complimentary copy of this extra 1 700,000 residents, and the 15,000 an Ardmore drugstore and escaped
Fun Party Sponsored By P. T. A.j
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Tiie Parent-Teacher Association i
'..ill sponsor a fun party Tuesday ;
afternoon from 3:15 to 4 p. m. at j
the East Ward School and Wed-
nesday afternoon at the West Ward !
at the same hour. Miss Mary'
Wemple of Shreveport, La., willj
render a program of stunts, gam-:
es and stories. Plan to attend ■
one of these pat ties and support j
■ our local P. T. A. j
Truce Seen in Building Strike
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prospector., .ini! she
took their minds off
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jdilion later in the evening, and
j we have had many unsaliHtpd
j calls of appreciation for gelling
i out this issue.One of our friends,
j when asked if he thought the an-
i nouncement that the well was j
I flowing was true, remarked that j
| if it appeared in The Times or,
I Times Review there was no doubt i
I about it. We have received many
j compliments about the way we,
j have handled the oil news since '
! February 7th, and our subscrip- ;
tion lists, both daily and weekly,!
have increased enormously be-'
cause our subscribers have been '
convinced that they will receive j
accurate information regarding i
the oil situation, and have confi-
rence in our news articles.
{ Mt. Pleasant merchants now
I have the best advertising field
! they have ever had by placing
j their advertising in these two pa-
pers, as they reach the substan-
tial buying power of the entire
county, and as there is more news
1 than ever before, these papers are j £
j anxiously awaited by our subserib- j ’{•
! ers. Remember this when you j &
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homeless spurred relief efforts to
the utmost, but there was a pre-
ceptible brightening in the air of
despair about the city. The wat-
ers were back to thirty-five feet,
only ten feet above flood stage,
from a high of 45.9.
The Golden Triangle, the bil-
lion-dollur district, will be almost
clear of water by morning. Dam-
age in Pittsburgh alone was esti-
mated at $25,000,000.
with $65.00.
E. B. Carwile of Cincinnati, O.,
is visiting his mother, Mrs. Ola
Carwyle.
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J. T. Leftwich accompanied his
son, Howard, to Dallas Thursday.
feared the loss might go beyond"
$100,000,000. It was believed be-
With a dozen or more populous tween 30,000 and 50,000 persons in
communities still cut off from
telephone communication it
I the western end of the State had
was to leave their homes.
invest in any kind of advertising.
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BURPS
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HOLD SALESMAN SCHOOL
Settlement,of the prolonged New Yo.k building service strike was
seen near following a conference attended to right, George
Scalise, intAr.national vice president of the un
ternationul Aresidcnt, and James Bambrick, N
owners agreed to arbitrate w«]
of strikers.
which bulk
i; Jerry Horan, in-
York president, at
aad hour demands
A salesman school for refriger-
ator products was held at the
East Texas Electric Company
salesroom Thursday. M r .
Whimpsh, Kelvinntor distributor
of Shreveport, conducted the
ing and made an hrteresting talk.
Others from out eft town were 12.
S. Ameen and MrJjHall of Gilmer
and Mr. Stephens Talco.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1936, newspaper, March 20, 1936; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth822347/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.