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The Petrolia Enterprise
VOL. XXI
PETROLIA, CLAY COUNTY, TEXAS, JAN. 28, 1926
Number 4
TO THE CITIZENS AND AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH
VOTERS OF CLAY COUNTY
In announcing my candidacy
for re-election for the office of
County Judge, I do so with a lull
realization of the responsibilities
that will be imposed upon me as
such. The County Judge is the
Chairman of the Commissioners
Court and along with the Commis-
sioners Court h#s the supervision
of the County finance, which
makes it one of the most impor-
tant offices in the County’s gov-
ernment. The County Judge is
also the Judge of the Probate
Court, which makes it important
that he be a lawyer qualified to
pass on questions of the law which
always arise to a greater or lesser
extent on the trial of these cases.
I have been studying law for
the p&st fifteen years and have
had six years of actual practice,
therefore I believe that I am quali
fied to render the public an ef-
ficient service along this line.
During the time I have served
as County Judge, Clay County has
inaugrated one of the greatest
road building programs in North
Texas and the Commissioners
Court has under its direct super-:
vision the expenditure of more
than a-half million dollars, which
I feel like has been wise and ju-
diciously spent and that when the
Court has had an opportunity to
finish up the program that it has
started that the people will be
well satisfied with the work.
And it is my earnest desire and
hope that before this year has
closed that the people will be able
to cross the County on a concrete
road and I sincerely believe that
this will, with ordinary care and
good fortune be accomplished.
In addition to all the other
duties of the Commissioners Court
it has been necessary for us to in-
terest ourselves in the affairs of
the defunct M & P bank. The
County being the largest depositor
at the time that the bank went
broke; at the time I took the of-
fice of County Judge, there had
been very little done toward the
settling up of the affairs of the
above bank. Hut I am happy to
announce that will be w'ound up
some time during this year.
I wish to say that I know that
there have been mistakes made
during my administration and I
would not be human if I did not
make my share of them, but tak-
ing all of the circumstances in
consideration and the extra res-
ponsibilities that have been im-
posed on the County Judge dur-
ing my administration, 1 feel proud
of my success and this is the rea-
son I am seeking the office for
re-election. And if the people do
not think that I am entitled to it
because of merit 1 do not want it
because I think it one of the poor-
est policies of government that
this country has ever indulged in.
simply to elect a man because it is
a second term proposition. I be-
lieve that men ought to be elected
to office on merit and merit only,
and not because of some custom
that may have existed in the for-
gotten past.
I want to thank the people of
this country for their hearty co-
operation that they have given me
during my tenure of office, and
also I want to thank you for the
large majority that you gave me in
ihe primary two years ago and if
my servjces have been, satisfactory
to you, then I will thank you to
support me at the coming primary
Respectfully,
J. P. Williams
Regular worship at both morn-
ing and evening hours, directed
by the pastor, every member urged
to be present at these services as
there is business of importance to
be attended to.
The last Sunday services were
good owing to the weather. The
Sunday school was good, our at-
tendance was fine for a snowy
white day. We had twelve teach-
ers present we want to commend
.opr teachers to the school. 11
the scholars come they will have
a teacher there waiting for them,
one that can teach, ('onto next
BYERS SCHOOL NOTES
I JUST
FOLKS
•"Our annual school fair "ill be. No man is mearly
Friday of this week and we arc;some are good;
born.
Sunday and bring a new scholar
with. you. Visitors arc always
welcome to all our services.
E. W. Hidings, Supt.
CHARLIE ITEMS
Cemetery Working
The people of this . community
met at the cemetery Tuesday, for
an all day working. The entire
yard was cleared of all grass and
weeds. At one o’clock Mrs. C. E.
Gunnels, the president of the ce-
metery assocation called a meet-
ing of the association, and a com-
mittee consisting of O. B. Heath,
Fred Barger, and Allen Gopher
were appointed to obtain the posts
and other materials necessary for
the erecting of the* fence bought
some time ago for this purpose.
There will be a call meeting of the
cemetery association in the near
future, for the purpose of making
plans for father improvements.
C hurch Services
Rev. J. M. Childers, of Howie,
preached at fhe Christian church.
Sunday evening.
New Store
The stock of merchandise bou-
ght last week at auction, by L. J.
Curtis, of Byers, was later pur-
chased from him by H. C. (furring
ton and is now being Operated by
them. They will be in the same
building in whic h they did a sue-
••esful business ten years ago.
Personals
Mrs. Ilex Kemper returned
homo Sunday from a visit with re-
latives it Tolbert, she was accom-
panied by her cousin, Miss Jewei
Huggins who " ill spend several
days with her.
O. B. Heath and son Clarence,
made a business trip to Henrietta
Friday.
Mrs. C. C. Billingsley who has
been seriously ill at the home ot
her daughter, Mrs, Johnie Greer
is reported slightly improved.
Miss Lena Billingsley who is at-
tending Junior High school in
Wichita Falls, came home Wednes-
day for a two-days vacation after
finishing Mid-Term examina-
tions.
Mrs. Sum Heath and Xora White
were in Byers on business Tues-
day.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs'. W. B.
McBrayer who has been seriously
ill, in a sanitarium at Elk City,
Okla, for several weeks will be
glad to know that she is greatly
improved and has returned to hpr
home in White Deer, Texas.
Mrs. J. L. Block, spent several
days last week with her sister.
Mrs. Frank Beveling in Henriet-
ta.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Meadow
ved to Wichita Falls Saturday
expecting that you come out to it.
I“am sure that you will enjoy this
very much and you owe this much
to your children that are working
to get this fair up. We will have
some very noted persons to make
addresses.
The state fire commission at
Austin will have display here and
this is something that you should
not miss. I am sure that the dis-
play will bo here for mail is. com-
ing to the young lady, however we
have not been notified anything
about the date.
We are well on the second term
and this will pass before you can
hardly have time to think. Some
of you parents should not be sat-
isfied with the credit sheet that is
being made by your child. Hot
me tell you this that this sheet will
go with them, to any school that
they enter and is largely the thing
that causes that school to form an
opinion of the kind of work that
your child can and will do. A
person that has a C card may be
making all that they can but it is
more than likely that person is
merely just trying to get by, You
should see to this. Do not offer
sympathy to the child go and have
a friendly talk with the teacher or
the superintendent. You do not
have any idea just what this
might mean to the child. These
records are often used in courts
for various matters. You let a
person that has had College train-
ing get one of these cards and he
or she is always right up to see
and you can tell the world that we
appreciate it. Unless yo.u have
.some time and do devote some*
time to the attention of the work
of the child, you cannot expect it
<o do work, good work, but if you
do not have it to work at home
you need not expect much of i!
here. Some are of the opinion
that their child cannot do any
wrong, that every thing they tell
is correct. Did you know that we
s teachers can tell you more about
your child than you yourself can
tell? We are making a closer
study of it than you are making.
But
some are bad.
There is no reason, some are rich
others lire poor, no man is good
simply because he is poor, neither
is a man good because he is rich
in this worlds goods. The rich-
est man may be good; or the poor-
est man bad.
Some are good-looking: some
arc not. "Beauty is that Beauty
does".
Behind the plow, in the shop or
store, in the school room or kith-
ehon. every day, all the time, old
or young, all mav be good, who
will?
"Fife is real! Fife is earnest!
Then why should we be like dum
driven cattle?
Why not be a heroin the strife?
We live today; tomorrow, we die.
Good people go to heaven when
they die; wicked people go to the
bad place. Where am I going?
Which* road amH on? On the
Kings Highway. If not. why not?
Now is a good time to start.
Friends will help; Jesus will
help.
"If you want to be rich, Give!"
"If you want to be poor. Graft!”
"If you want abundance, Scatter!”
"Ff you want to he needy, Hoard!"
FOR COUNTY CLERK
C. II. WYNN
FOR DISTRICT CLERK
DuHey B. Davis of Henrietta, is
announced as a candidate for
county clerk subject to the De-
mocratic primary. Mr. Davis is
well known to the people of
Hi is rit i/.en of
>ince al\says” has
our country
proven clerk
of our district court where he is
at” a) 1 of the time. And now he is
before the country's suffrogans
Clay county, having served themj ,or re-election to that same office,
as tax assesor. retiring voluntarily With Charlie on the job there is
at the end of his term in 1921. He
states that he enters the race
with splendid promises of support
from many parts of the county,
and feels absolutely confident ol
election. Mr. Davis’ service as
tax assessor "its of the very high-
est order, and no doubt he will
give the same character of ser-
vice in thhe county clerk’s oil ice
which is one of the most impor-
tant stations in the public service j sn1u \
of the county. He i-s already ac-
tive in the race and will endeavor
to see the voters iu person and
present his c laims, and will appre-
ciate any support given him.—
Henrietta Independent.
nothing goes astray in all that
maze of papers, records and docu-
ments. as those lawyers who, sing-
ly and by the bunch have assailed
him lor this, that and thu other
will testify. Having worked for
a period under competent instruc-
tion,Charlie took the office with
full confidence and has not disap-
pointed either himself or anyone
else. Has a bad habit. Smokes
dd pipe, but is a district
clerk all right.— People's Review
Jno. Dunn was in Petrolia Fri-
day night attending to social.fun-
ct ions.
VALENTINE ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. F. 0. Pratt of
Charlie spent the week end with
her mother Mrs. Nat Flemming.
Mi*.and Mrs. W. E. Townsend
have moved from the Warne farm
to the farm adjoining W. J. D.
Snodgrass. Wo are glad these
good people are not leaving our
community.
FOR C OUNTY C LERK
II. W. Carpenter transacted bu-
siness in Henrietta Monday.
J. A. Looney of the Shannon Barney Reeves transacted busi-
country was in the city Monday, ness in Henrietta Monday,
and advised us that he is candi- j
date in this 192f> campaign tor M. E. Rowe transacted business
the office of county Clerk, subject, in Henrietta Monday,
to your choice in the .July Demo-
cratic primary election. And as
you meet him you are sure to no-
tice that Mr. Looney “looks the
part” all right having been one
of us in the Shannon country ’for
the past ;’!» years and been "hail
fellow, well met” all of thhe time
to everybody naturally "Jim”
is his everyday appellation.
Mr. Ismney is a graduate in
books and accounting, and will
People’s Review.
I
ore Mr. Meadow has accepted a
BEN VENUE ITEMS
All in our community are surely
rejoicing over the good snow that
has been on the ground since last
Thursday. The teachers in our
school were snow bound and spent
Thursday night and Friday in the
J. M. W. Reed home. We are hav-
ing school this week the teachers
are staying with Mrs. A. M.
Boutwell.
We are sorry to report Mrs. T.
11. Fields on the sick list this
week.
A. A. Gainous is in Wichita on
business this week.
We hear quite a few complaints
with colds this week.
A good crowd gathered at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Berch last
Tuesday night and enjoyed some
fine music,
Mr. and Mrs. Green and son ot
Byers spent last week with her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Berch.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Rush spent
fuesday night wjth her parents
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Gainous.
rtuqshine
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gates "erej,akr to this office and its govern-
1,1 -ri >n,J>,, I ritl;»y. | ing law s and rules just easily he
u> “Bowing letter came to the i jhg }l|jvo and seeing all the time.
Editor this week from a distant
Texas City,
Dear Editor:
1 saw an add in your paper from
Mr. Bailey Snodgrass, for a wile.
In answer will say what kind of a
man 1 want, and hope he fills the
bill, if he does he is mine dead or
alive. I want a husband with
black hair, blue eyes and dimples
in his cheeks. I will want him to
do the family washing, the sweep-
ing, dish washing, the mopping,
and the milking etc.
Now Mr. Baily if you are will-
ing to do all this please have the
Editor publish same next week ami
1 will come at once,
A blue eyed Beauty
Baily Snodgrass attended servi-
ces at the Byers Baptist church
Sunday evening.
Valentine Sunday School
On account of the snow drifts it
was impossible to have services
last Sunday. We hope to have a
good attendance next Sunday.
Your sperentendant L S. Vineyard
is always on the job. Hold up
his hands with your prayers and
ittendanec.
Mr. Allen was in Henrietta Sun
day. .
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. (lunt have
THE PEOPLE SAY
If we print jokes, people say we
are silly.
If we don’t print them, they say we
are too serious.
If We print only original matter
they say we lack variety.
If we publish things from other
papers, we are too lazy to write.
If we stay on the job. we ought to
be out hustling for news,
If we are hustling for news, we
are not attending to business in
the office.
If we don’t print all Contributions,
we don’t show the pin per up
pieciation.
If we do print all contribution.',
the paper is filled with junk
Like as not some fellow will a.
we swiped this. SO WE DID.
Jack Grunday left Sunday night
for Dallas to accept a position
with the Dallas News.
Mr. and Mrs. .1. F. Thornton
were in Henrietta Monday.
A. F. Ligeti transacted business
in Henrietta Monday,
Fdd Batch transacted business
in Henrietta Monday.
Tierce Porter tran acted busi
ness in \\ ichila Falls Mouda.v ■ •
\V. 11. Smith was in Oklahoma
last week on business.
Mr .Leslie Christian was in
Henrietta Tuesday on business.
Walter Murray was a business
v isitor in Henrietta Tuesdav.
Rev. T. II. Browning is in
la’s t h i;week,
Mr
Dal-
ian nary
lion. ,1. IV Willianv
<’ounty Judge,
llenrii U;i, L'X.i .
Kith. LV.
\\ illio MetFuita and rhil
dren o| Dallas are here visiting
her moth* r Mrs. L. A. < ilisson.
Dear Sir:
The State jlighwnv Commission,
and myself «.i aciing Hi.'hva
, Engineer, hav ing taken np 'the
moved back from Waurika to their proposition of getting early and
laim. 1 he bov • aie hoarding in , satisfactory action on your road
W ani ika going to si hied. . construction ’ program deem it
11 uman Hunt ot \Naurika spent advisable, in order to have din-el
the week end with his parent* Mr. | connection wiUl the work, to ap
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ter.
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Blue Eyes
BERMUDA ONION PLANTS
Just received our first ship-
ment of onion plants and garden
seeds we will have onion plants
B. Y. P. IT. PROGRAM
Subject Personal Service
Scripture reading Ruth Mitchell
Introduction , Maude Steph
Our. scripture selection Char-
lie Shields
Story showing personal service
Miss Hazel Parker
Christmas, the saving salt Miss
Martha Shields
The personal appeal w’ins Miss
Bessie Walling
Plan for personal service Miss
Viola Tomlin
Reading Lucile Hundley
Vocal Solo Mrs. Jno. Grundy.
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. McCowkey
spent Sunday in Wichita Falls
with the ladles parents Mr. and
Mre. Donaldson.
W, L. Graves was a business
Visitor in MvuiUy-
position with the fire department jand hulk garden seed at all times
station number one. .at Ihe best prices obtainable.
Mrs. Alt’ Beck of Wichita Falls
spent Tuesday with relatives and
friends here.
S. T. While has accepted a posi-
tion as clerk with II. ( . ( uiviug-
imi and son.
J. L. Block leturned Friday from
a business trip to Dallas.
Howard Gunnel: of M Kbits
F alls apent Thursday "ith hr
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
('. F.. (Funnels, here.
I Miss Eula Mitchell spent the
last week end with relatives at
j Bluegrove.
G. P. Edwards went to Henriet-
ta on business Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hooper ol
Wichita Falls were visitors in
Charlie Tuesdav,
BYERS WAREHOUSE CO.
BYERS. TEXAS
SHIi’EI) CAR CATTLE
L. ('., Snivels and It. F. Mann-
ing, Monday shipped a ear of fat
eattle to Fi-rf Worth market, l
(" Liro n -. |• * ,’Tc Unit
the; got there *11 0. K.
II NICK B. Y. P. U. PROGRAM
Why we should believe in Missions
Introduction Bessie Mac (Bun-
dy
God beli-• ' ii Missions Ches-
ter Bennett
di an I Mr <iInn Riding
daughter Mary .Yl.iij ant a lid i
fie-. Mias Melon Gropan were in
Henrietta Mouda.v vi iting Mrs.
Haul (iro'ati and little daughter
Mary Margaret.
SUNBEAMS
Duo t<
went her
have a
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Falls spent Tuesday in Charlie.
Mr. and Mrs. Milan Grover an-
nounces the arrival of a son Yin
stmi Engine Jan. Kb
Louis. Helen and Claude Dowdy
went to Wichita Falls Saturday.
Frank and Rhea Huggins of
a visitor in
point a resident engineer subjei t
to Instruction from this Depart
meat on the contemplated constr<
tion work in your County.
Mr. W. A. Obciichaiii has been
approved and appointed for this
positioji by the Department, and
we trust this action meets with
vour approval.
V’e belicv.c by this arrange-
God's book is a Missionary book t ment we will be better aide to ob-
Lucile Hastings lain qulv«h and satisfactory action
(csuh believes in Mission* Oran j Mr. Obem hain will report on Feb- meet every
Ligett ! niary 1st. to take charge of all ! Sunday. W
l.iluli i work •under plans as stale and fed | Lgypt, Jo < pb a daw. Joseph toll-
; »-rul aid projects in your County, j the meaning of dreams. Be <o
Asking your full co-operation time \ on wont mi anyofthesi
in this and all matters conrrrn- Mi|di<
i ing the road.program, vv«. in re 1 • ____
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IijJI full,J rtj« 1 mn JM'W'.Mn to tg III
I nletinn as soon as puakibk
Yours very truly.
W, P. Kemper,
leniency of tie
been . unable t<>
earn meeting for two
rnoons. \Yo hope to
U’llhnum at t hl'ee i)c\l
■ will study Josepli in
Jesus was a mission.»i>
Kin a Hundley
: Millions are.stilt lost J. 1*. Neal
i The lost cannot. In:‘saved without
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fesu.> ic depending '.mi ua I'i hh
Force
Poem Gertrude Payne 1
How can Juniors ta? missionaries •
now Dewitt Hundley.........
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hatch in an incubator some eggs
laid by a giant tortoise at the zoo
Acting State Hwy. Kngr. |,.t(.|v failed.
Tolbert, wa
Sam Household#!* of Byers was J Sunday,
a business visitor in town Tues-' Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Phegb
,jJty. I were shopping in ’'M* F M
Firs, p. L. lisUUwvk wi NyichiU .
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Guest of j Miss Lillie Graves of Henrietta
Long Beach. Cal. were here last is here vi-iting her brother W. H
Charlie | visiting Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Hard-j Graves and family.
ing.
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Mr. apd Mrj. .1. F. ^ Tk
ere ir! H!orL^u Maria..
Carl Thornton came home Mon*
d^v jjfoni oqt Y *A v/feciM he ha..
6e«n ..cri.in* for »e.eral months.
wile.
Fils OWJ
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1 elite A.
nfec.t,inner in a Long island
to lace a jury of 12 women
l':.rgc preferred F»v his own
A man that can not foo|
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