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VOLUME 43.
TWENTIETH YEAR
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WELLS NOT DRILUBTHIS WEEK
west of Crowell, and approximately twenty-five miles southeast of Paducah^
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
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Published Twice 4 Week'
Tuesday and Friday
TRAIN WRECKS
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Mrs. C. F. Ancell
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Ben Meyer Married
To Baylor Teacher
To Live In Atlanta
SENIOR CLASS PLAY
GIVEN IN MARCH
was
said
of the largest
Aviators Make Railroad Trip.
AREQUIPA, Peru, Feb. 10.—The
W. J. Riggs, Electra contractor,
shipped out a string of rotary tools *
to Howard County this week, where
he has contract to-drill for the Rio
Oil Company in that io-
C. P. Sheldon, Electra oil opera-
tor. made a business trip to Wichita
Falls Tuesday.
A. (Doc) Fisher, field manager,
Patterson Oil Company, Fort- Worth,
returned home Sunday night after .
having spent two weeks in Randall
County looking aftef the company’s
wildcat southwest of Canyon.
R. B. Magee has spent several
days this week in the Panhandle
field.
Lee Scoggins is recuperating at his
home on East Summitt here and
thanking his lucky stars that he is
not the center of interest at a
mortician’s parlor, having occupied
a Ford coupe which was struck
and wrecked early Wednesday by a.
passenger .train.
An Xrray examination at the of-
fices of Drs. Parmley and Ogden,
failed to disclose any fractures or
other injuries more serious than a-
badly gashed forehead, a cut under
his ear, and seyerely bruised ribs.
The car is a complete wreck.
Scoggins is 35 years of age and
is employed as an oil well driller
by L. B. Stephenson of the Wichi-
ta-Electra Drilling Company
The accident occurred at 7:30 a-
m , when his car was hit bjr west j
bound passenger train No. 7, normal-
ly due at 6 a. m.
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SURE SHOT BEGINS TO LOOK
LIKE HARD LUCK
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test on Tuesday, produced at
rate of 35 barrels a day.
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critical that relatives from
places have been notified.
Miss Belle Ancell, sister-in-law,
of Dallas, arrived Thursday after-
noon. Her brothers. John Carter
of Alpine, and Tom Carter of Post
City, will probably arrive Thursday ... . _ _____________
~ ’ A sister, Mrs. Dave Melton, ,tend greetings to President1 Sifek?
is attending her bedside-
HAPPENINGS 1 ELECTRA
FIELD AND VICINITY
tract calls for a cable tool t test
3,500 feet deep if oil is not foun^at
lesser depth. The nearest tdsV drill-
ed in that locality is ‘ eight. miles
south, the Navarro Oil CompanJPgas
well on McAdams ranch.
Mr. Strawn has rented a ranch
house near the location and Mrs.
Strawn will move thdte where^ he
will establish headquarters while the
well is being drilled.
Gann, and Mrs- Twiggs, El’a
Jackson.
LOCAL OFFICERS
CAPTURE STILL
WAR ELECTRA
L. C. Tanner, of Iowa Park, sales-
man for the auto equipment company
of Wichita Falls, died m Pampa.
Texas. Wednesday night, following
a brief illness of pneumonia. His
wife and his brother, J. A. Tanner
of Iowa Park, were at his bed-
side.
Mr. Tanner was
Iowa Park and was
business circles in
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i A Twenty Years of Service
I &as Built Circulation
Officers T. F. Slusher and Ed
Pryor, assisted by an officer from
Wichita Falls, captured a large still
Wednesday afternoon eight miles
northeast of Electra. The officers
destroyed ten barrels of mash and
about forty empty barrels were also
destroyed. The owners or operators
of the still had just left, according
to the raiding party, as the boiler
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The many friends of Mr. and Mrs-
W. B Buchanan, managers of the
Western Union Telegraph office in
Electra, will learn with regret that
in a recent transfer of employe^,
Mr. and Mrs. “Buck” have been as-
signed to the office at Pampa, Tex ,
the change to occur early next week.
Mr. Jack Eddleman will assume
charge of the Electra office? with
Miss Juanita Hall occupying the
position of chief clerk.
Rollin Bennett, “top driller” for
the Apple-Brandeberry Company, will
'continue drilling with the rig -moved
from the Ancell ranch pool to Ar-
cher county.
R. Y. Smith and A. T. McDannald
Electra operator-contractors, are
drilling a pure-dee wildcat in Denton
County south of Gainesville and.
northeast of Denton. They also have .
a rig running on a wildcat in Cook
County near Gainesville.
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qight o’clock, will' be received by
Mrs. I. K. Williams, presM&nt of
the Ladies Auxiliary of the Country
’Club, at a meeting to be held at
her home at half, past two o’clock
Friday afternoon.
DIRECTORS DAY
Tuesday, Feb. 15 has been
designated as Director’s Day
* and each director of our local
* Chamber of Commerce is
gently requested to be present.
If you do not attend this
meeting* you will miss some-
4 Constructive Newspaper for a Constructive People
ELECTRA, WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1927
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Ben M. Meyer, who recently re-
signed as editor of the Electra
News, and Miss Christine Richard-
son, a teacher at Baylor University.
Waco, were married Tuesday in Wa-
co by the Rev. F. B. Thorn, pastor
of the Columbus Avenue Baptist
church of that city, acording to
word received here Wednesday.
Mr Meyer’s former home is in
San Antonio, and he has just been
engaged to work for the Associated
Press in Atlanta, Ga. The bride
is a daughter of Judge and Mrs.
J- T. Richardson, of Fordyce, Ark-
Before coming to this city, Mr-
Meyer' was for several months news
editor of the Wichita Falls 'Record-
News and he is very well known
m that city as well as in - Elec-
tra
After brief visits to relatives in
San Antonio and Fordyce,t-'Mr. and
Mrs Meyer will go to At’-’.nta.
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Dr. Frank S. Onderdonk has been
secured by Dr. Walter J. Johnson,
presiding elder, and the local Meth-
odist pastors, to deliver his soul-
stirring message on Methodism’s
Opporrunity, next Sunday evening at
.7:30 o’clock, from Wichita Falls,
where he will deliver his message
at first church in that city Sunday
morning dt 11:00 o’clock.
Dr. Onderdonk is one ot the great-
est iripn and preachers in Southern
Methcdism. He is honored and ad-
mired by both Methodists, North
and South.
There could hardly be a greater
treat in store for the people in and
around Electra than the treat thi«
opportunity affords to hear one of
the greatest men and speakers of
the day.
While Dr- Onderdonk’s message is
one of profound thought, it is also
one of great soul and spirit. There-
fore, people are moved by his mes-
sages as no other speaker can move
them.
Being such a rare treat and op-
portunity to hear one of the very
greatest men in America today, no
Methodist can or should fail to hear
Dr. Onderdonk Sunday night. The
public is cordially invited to
present.
Joe Howell No- 1, Burnett section
9, H. & T. B. Survey, one and one-
half mile east of Electra, having
drilled below the 1800 foot Ham-
mond sand recently discovered in
section 12, 300 feet east on the Jen-
nings Estate land, failed to g*-t pro-
duction. Jim Jennings et al. drilling
on Jennings Estate, have also failed
to strike the expected pay, having
reached the depth of 1812 feet
Wednesday night.
Reports reached the city Thurs-
day that Mrs. Charles F. Ancell is
seriously ill at the family home,
sixteen miles south of Electra. In
fact, her condition is regarded as so
critical that relatives from other
Talk about having things conven-
ient about the house, women are
perhaps the pioneers in wanting
things fixed “handy” to save time
and labor.
The men are taking up the same
idea, and oil men. at that I Doc
Fisher, Electra, field foreman of
the Patterson Oil Company of Fort
Worth, reports that the Patterson
company is drilling a 250-fdtft water
well right by the derrick floor, so
as to have the water handy abbut
the rig. Instead of leasing water
rights in a well or tank as is Some-
times necessary, then buying Water
lines and pumping equipment, and *
hiring a pumper at a good ‘stiff’’price
per day or month. The tool’dfesser
can just hook up the walking’ beam,
presto! The storage tank is filled
with water with little cost in ex-
pense or labor.
300 feet of two-inch casing have
beep set; on the „ Patterson Npl 1.
jMcEIroy and Campbell, eighteen
miles southwest of Canyon, and drill-
ing on the “big hole” is being ^sus-
pended while the water well Is* be- *
ing "drilled tKi§"w&k7 '*’~A tentative
agreement was made in December
for Magee Brothers, contractors, of ,
Electra, to drill this test, which will
be carried down to 3500 feet “or o'l ”
This deal, however, was called off,
and the Patterson company bought
cable tools and assembled a crew
and are doing their own drilling
Mr. frisher of Fleet11 being the field
foreman.
The test ic be ng drilled on a
large block of wiixat acreage. lo-
cated on what is known, geological-
ly speaking, as the L’alu burn Struc-
ture. eminent geologists having lec-
ommended that locality as contain-
ing out-croppings indicating oil be-
neath the surface.
SPECIAL MEETING
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The Electra firemen met Wednes-
day at the fire hall in a special call
meeting with Fire Chief C. A. Jones
in charge. After the business session
a surprise birthday party was giv-
en Red Lewis and Cleve Jones, with
’Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. C. A. Jones
acting as hostesses. In the center
of the table were'" the main attrac-
tions, two large white birthday cakes
bearing tiny pink candles for their
respective-. ages. Games and con-
tests were -.enjoyed throughout the
evening, with music enjoyed also by
the fiddle band. The honorees re-
ceived a nice selection of gifts, Mr-
Le^ls being presented with a large
tin razor with a pine handle., which,
of course, was the most appreciated
gift. This was- presented by ’JR. .
E. Greenway. r
Late in the evening refreshments
consisting of cake and coffee were
served to Messrs, and Mesdames
W. A. Jones, P. L. Cherry, O. E.
Taylor. G- G. Greaney, Walter C-!tbat bad been bI°wn av
Suttle, Red Lewis, C- H. Honeycutt, j.ts t aProaches^ the bridge
R. E. Greenway and Clem Brown;
Misses Cecil Suttle, Flake Hamilton,
Nina Suttle, Delia Mae Woods, Alma
Mc”e. Bettie Pauline Ramsey; Mes-
srs. L. D. Warren. Quinton Whit-
worth, H. J. Suttle, W. M. Suttle,
Frank Julianson, Melvin Rogers,
Ben Twomey. Dewey Doval, J. C-
Harris, H. F. Hailey, Clarence Johns,
D. Jordan, D. K. Martin, Charlie
Green. Lonnie Whitworth. C. A.
Jones, O. J. Dietz, Carnie Stidham,
O ,M. Stidham, Scott Green, O. D.
Green and J. M. Brokaw.
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A senior class play of the Electra
high school will be given early
in March for the benefit of zhe sen-
ior annual. The title of the play
is “A College Town.” It will be
directed by Miss Eva Williamson,
teacher of expression in the pub-
lic schools. The first rehearsal of
the play was given Thursday.
At a meeting of the members of
the senior class, E. H. S-, last Mon-
day, the president, Johnny LpBus,
was in charge, and after 1he busi-
ness of the day had been disposed
of, the cast of characters for the
class play was arranged as follows.
Jimmy Cavendish, Clinton Waters;
Tad Cheseldine, Ralph Delashaw;
Leviticus, Raymond Bradley; Major
Culpepper, Henry Davis: Prof. Pop,
Joe Dorsey; Scotch McAllister, Fran-
cis Osborn; Shorty Long, Freddie
Baldwin; Billie Van Horn, Clayton
Avens; Dr. Twiggs, Roy Mankins;
Miss Jenn Channing, Brunetta Clo-
ninger; Marjorie Haviland, Grace
Brown; Mrs. Bagsby. Ruth Francis;
Miss Jane Cavendish, Dean
Reneau; Miss Mollie Styles, * Audrey
Tarlton; Miss Twiggs, Elizabeln Mc-
Gann, and Mrs. Twiggs, El’a Lee
to the raiding party,
was still warm.
No arrests were
time.
The manufacturing apparatus
brought to Electra and it is
that this is one
stiljs that the officers have cap-
turfed in this section of the coun-
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BRIDGE OVER PEASE
RIVER COLLAPSES
TRAFFIC DIVERTED P. T. A. PATRONS
i On account of the collapse of the I
Pease River bridge north of Vernon,1
Sunday, traffic over the Colorado-
to-the-Gulf highway between Vernon
and Chillicothe is being routed oVer
the Fargo road. leaving that road
at the end of the paving north of
Vernon, according to advices received
here. It will require several months
for the rebuilding ofv the bridge so
that it will be passable, it is said.
The bridge is described as a total
wreck.
A crew of men working at the
base of the south approach of the
bridge narrowly ‘escaped death at 8
o’clock Sunday afternoon when the
10-ton concrete block toppled over.
Thfe large cable which the base of
the bridge supported dropped, pre-
cipitating the, greater part of the
bri3^e;'s'triicture into the ^andy bed
of the river. The bridge will have
to be replaced with a new one.
The bridge was erected about 20
years ago on the sit&of a bridge
away. With
„ !■ was 1600
feet long and was 16 feet wide. It
cost about $30,000 when built
Last week the bridge was found to
be in bad condition. Traffic over
it was stopped and a crew of men
put to work to repair it- While
they were at work the bridge col-
An excellent program was pre-
sented at the meeting of the First
W^rd P.-T. A. at the First Ward
school, Tuesday afternoon. The
meeting opened at 3:40 p. m., with
thirty-two members and visitors
present. Mrs. A. T. McDannald of-
fered prayer, which was followed,
by a song by Miss Balthrop’s pupils,
directed by Miss Thrash. “Febru-
ary Song,” was given by Miss Davis’
pupils. Rollo Davidson, Jr., follow-
ed with a reading. The next num-
ber was a song by Miss Swicord’s
pupils, after which Lucile Davis read.
Miss Balthrop gave a paper on
“Childhood Handicaps,” ■ and Mar?
garet Terrell read Miss Wilma
Kilpatrick, who has just returned
from a trip to Florida and Havana,
gave a very interesting talk, tell-
ing of the events of the journey,
which concluded the program.
At the business meeting the min-
utes of the last meeting were read
and the treasurer gave a report
showing $19.75 in the treasury At
the last meeting it was voted to
purchase a loving cup to be given
for the spelling contestants. Miss
Ida Lee Falls, principal of the First
Ward School, was appointed to pur-
chase the cup at once. This is the
first year that a cup has been giv-
en in the spelling contests.
Mrs. Martha McSpadden
kindly offered the use of her win-
dow at the Grand Theatfe for the
sale of anything that the P.-T- A.
wished to offer on Saturday after-
noons and nights. This offer was
accepted.
A letter of appreciation will be
sent to Mrs. E. D. Kelley and to
Miss Eva Williamson for the joint
recital recently given by their pu-
pils for the benefit of the four di-
visions of the Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciation of Electra.
L. C. TANNER OF IOWA
PARK DIES AT PAMPA, TEX.
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COMMITTEE TO REPORT
Reports of committees on arrange-
ments and entertainment for the
Valentine party to be held az 'the
United States “good will' aviators Country Club Monday evening at
Another streak of bad weather has
stopped all activities in the Electra
oil fields except that vhich was ab-
solutely necessary to be carried on.
John Brownlee has been shut down
because of the bad weather oi his
Shamrock Oil Company No. 1, Wag-
goner, ^section 33, H. & T. C. sur-
vey, semi-wildcat, five miles south-
west of Electra, but will
drilling Friday. He has
a depth of 1140 feet.
Joe McKinney, Electra, drilling
supervisor for Bridw-ell-Heydrick Oil
Company, reports that company’s
rigs shut down! awaiting better
weather. They have one rig run-
ning m the Red River bed near the
Devol bridge, exposed water liaes
and bad going, either in cars or
“on foot” to the ng forces a shut
down when the weather goes to
freezing point. This well is drilling
below 1400 feet.
Bridwell-Heydrick No. 1, State
lands, in Wichita River bed, is also
shut down below 1400, waiting for
fairer weather.
Bridwell and Heydrick No. 1, Grif-
fin, outer edge well to the west of
the Panhandle-Griffin ranch pool, is
a recent completion, said to be mak-
ing above1150 barrels a day.
£uYf Production Company No. 1,
Charles F5. Ancell, section 7, block
7, H; &. T. C. survey, wildcat, six-
teen miles south ^bf Electra, is shut
down around 1400 feet, awaiting fair-
er weWther and better roads.
The Simms Oil Company No. 1,
J. and J. Waggoner, Lazy J. ranch
area, 10 miles southeast of Electra,
is drilling be|ow J300 feet.
The Magnolia^P^iroleum Company
has been--forced to slow down drill-
irfg to some" extent, but report 7
drilling operations undej way in the
Electra area. They are: Minnie Wag-
goner No. 1, semi-wildcat, southwest
of Electra, is running 6 5-8 inch
pipe at 1880 feet.
W. T. Waggoner No. 11, proven
area, south field, completed last
week from sand found from 1747
feet to 1757 feet, making 5 barrels
pumper-
C P. Honaker No. 1 (W. B- Hon-
aker tract) five miles northwest of
Electra, proven area, drilling at
1440. *
Lutie Ancell No. 1, G. B. Ancell.
Sr., section 12, block 7, H. & T. C.
survey, fourteen miles south of Elec-
tra, drilling at 160 feet.
H. C- Obenhaus No. 1, Sheldon-
Obenhaus pool, eight miles northl
east of Electra, is drilling at 1020
feet.
H. & T. C. No. 76, proven area,
three miles west of Electra, is rig-
ging up with cable tools.
S. E. Honaker, No. 73.
«rea 2 miles northeast of Electra
spudded in this week and made 30
feet.
C. P. Sheldon No- B-l Frankl,
Section 327. Waggoner Colony lands,
fight miles northeast of Electra off-
setting the Sheldon Brothers discov-
ery pool, after failing to strike
the 1650 foot sand found in the
offset wells, drilled fourteen feet
deeper, picking up a sand at 1664
feet, which on a twenty-four hour
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a statewide “Moody for Presi-
dent” club which is now in pro-
cess of formation, Daniel an-
nounced Thursday.
a resident of
well known in
Wichita Falls,
formerly assoria^ed with
the real estate firm of Stampfli and
Tanner, but since the first of this
year has been connected with the
Auto Equipment company.
Funeral services will be at the
First Methodist Church in Iowa
Park. Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Burial will be in the Highland cem-
etery at Iowa Park-
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NEW WESTERN UNION
MANAGERS NAMED
FEDERATED SOCIETY
HAS SPLENDID
MONTHLY MEETING FiREMEN^HAVE
The regular monthly board meet-
ing of the Federated Missionary So-
ciety was held Tuesday afternoon at
the home of the newly-i lee ted pres-
ident, Mrs. A. C. Rippy. The
meeting was opened with prayer by
Mrs. L. J. Crawford.
Reports were presented by chair-
men of the following committee's:
Charity. Extension, Membership.
It was decided to have '•he annual
drive for funds the latter part .of
November, this drive’ hiving been
omitted for a year or two past.
Mrs. L. J. Crawford acted as sec-,
retary pro tern at this meeting in
the absence Cummings.
Recommendations were made for
an amendment to the constitution.
This wijl be read the next quar-
terly meeting of the Federated Mis-
sionary Society, to bp held in Slarch,
when ihe’:PresByteriafi'"la wi1! act?
as hostesses.
The prompt payment of d jes of
members of each church was dis-
cussed. Mrs. E. R. Keller closed the
meeting with prayer.
Present were the following mem-
bers: Mrs. A. C. Rippv, George
McGann. E. R Keller, T. T. Weather-
all. C. W. Coffey. J. W. Shaddix.
L J. Crawford, J. R. Brewer and
C. C. Dorsey-
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The Knights of Pythias conferred
the rank of page upon Messrs. L.
D. Warren, E. E. Rogers, Lonnie
White and E. N. Gibson, Monday
night, with the rank of Esquire
to follow next Monday night, when
all the lodges in this district are
invited to attend-
*At the next mee'mg, airange-
ments will also be completed for the
sixty-third anniversary of this order,
which will be held at wght o’clock
p. m. at the First Presbyterian church
of Electra, Sunday, February 2G.
with the Rev. L. D. Grafton in
charge of the services.
“Friendship” will be the topic of
the lesson. The K—P. stereoptican
slides showing the ritual work will
be exhibited for the first time in
Electra, at the anniversary serw.ee.
Arrangements will also be made
at the next meeting for the district
meeting of the Wichita Crescent
to be held in Electra Wednesday,
Feb, 16, and all D. O. K. K. mem-
bers are urged to attend.
By MRS. N. D. COOPER, Oil Editor.
James Strawn, Wichita Falls, senior member of the firm Strawn
Brothers, Drilling Contractors, Electra and Wichita Falls, was in th® c^y
Monday afternoon and reports they are making preparations to drill a
deep wildcat for the Sun Oil Company on the Burnett ranch, thirty miles '
west of Crowell, and approximately twenty-five miles southeast of Paducah^
The well is to be located near the line of Foard and Cottle counties. Coh-
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 10.— *
Representative Daniel of W:"h- *
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“The object of the club is to *
perfect plans to sent a solid *
Texas delegation to the
Democratic convention instruct-
ed fnr Daniel Moody fur Presi-
dent,” said Daniel.
lapsed.
The main artery of travel in
Northwest Texas was over the Pease
River bridge. When it was built 20
ago the heavy traffic of
was not anticipated. This
shaken the foundations of
„thle bridge that the collapes result-
ed.
night. .
who resides southwest- of Electra’,.
who have left their plane? at Do#
and are on their way bv rail 'ft$
LaPaz, .the Bolivian capital, to ex-
iwiir remain in Arequipa uhtil Fri-
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