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Ohe Gilmer Neeklg Mirror
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GILMER, UPSHUR COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY.21, 1931.
VOL. 55. NO. 17
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in the W. II. Augustine Survey
ing north of the T. & P. tracks.
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Commencement-
Another test well, hitherto
Week Program
1 1
May 22 will be the last day
the southeast corner and 150
Claude Ray
crowded with student activit-
drick & Hargrove of Dallas, and
embezzlement of State funds,
completed Thursday anti con-
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age in
The Home Oil-Futrell is still
Bill Davis .
tiens
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-HD, Richardsen No. 1, the first
A. Hall, judge of the 71st dis-
a
deeded to the Loftin family of
20.00
_ 10.00
NC.
barrels
31,000
equivalent of
life.
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See OIL NEWS on Page 4
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Arrested By Rangers On
Charges of Forging State
Witness Fee Certificates
They may spud in by hand to-
day to fulfill contract • oblige-
Derricks Up For Two
New Tests; Fleetborn-
Edwards Down 3,400 Ft.
The derrick on the Mudge-
Richardson has been torn down.
Kelsey-Enoch Tea-
chers Honor Sup-
ervisor L. F. Boyle
Machiney is en route to the
test and is expected any day.
Derrick is up for the well to
be drilled by L. L. Montgomery
et al.on the O. M. Victory 10
The secondlocation for which
derrick is up is on the John K.
Edwards tract, in the David
Five Gilmer Grad-
uates from A. & M.
Allen McClelland
R. A. Adkins
A. B. Mackey ---
The case of Ladd Johnson vs
J. w .Marshall and Chas. Rob-
erts to cancel title to royalty
they purchased some time ago,
and which is now very valuable
tried in the Distriet Court Fri.
to leave, the jury decided that
the deed was good and the ver-
dict was in favor of the Loftins
Judge Gordon Simpson rep-
And W. J. Bryson Was Appoint
ed to Fill the Vacancy by
Judge W. G. Russell
and an audit of his books and
accounts since he went in of-
fice eight years ago.
Mr. E. E. Upshaw of the
State Comprtoller’s office is al-
so here from Austin, in connec-
tion with the investigation.
The charges against District
Clerk Claude Ray will be for
each separate offense, of for-
' The derrick has been complet
ed for the test to be drilled by
Mr. Bert Crook spent Sun-
day in Henderson.,
Please make checks payable
to "Drillers’ Bonus Fund" and
get them to The Gilmer Mirror
working for Crosby-McGaughy-
Marshall Co.
Plaintiff’s attorneys gave no
tice of appeal.
tract calls for spudding in by
June 1.
was one of the most popular
County Officers, being elected
over all opposition for the past
eight years, and the news of
his arrest for delinquencies in
office, will come as a: great
shock to the people of Upshur
District Clerk Claude Ray,
who confessed to the forgery
of $2,000 worth of witness fee
certificates, and is in jail at
Austin, under five indictments,
wirehis resignation to judge
W. G. Russell Thursday after-
non late, which was accepted
and W: J. Bryson appointed to
fill the vacancy.
Mr. Bryson has had much ex-
perience around the court in
most all the offices and was
perhaps the best qualified man
available for the place.
Runic Callahan.
Owners of the lease are Ken-
of, Wichita Falls.
It is on the J. W. Bland tract
southeast of the Mudge test,
and will be known as the Peck-
ham-land No. 1.
Oil Land Case Is
' Decided in Favor
of the Loftins
lorn
hoe
his
ers
l lo
hi
are
olt
you
District Clerk
Claude Ray Wires
His Resignation
From Last Week’s Daily Mirror
The Mudge Oil Company’s J.
ught
I Gil-
was
as quickly as possible.
em -------------
"I saw it in The Mirror
District Judge’s Name Appears
on Four of Certificatew
turned him over to State Rang- gery of witness script, embez-
er Robert H. Goss, who put him 1 zlement of State funds, false
in an auto and left, for an un-1 costs bills, and it was stated
known destination somewhere that a page would scarcely hold
daily potential production.
Under proration it means
Marshall and
Roberts Win In
Suit For Royalty
Brought by Ladd Johnson in
the District Court
preparing to file charges against Ray, who was alleged to have
forged State witness fee certificates.
The-grand jury was due to investigate, the charges in the
Ray.case here today.
Two men in other cuntis, charged in recent months with "
similar deeds, committed suicide.
The McPhail 4 Smith Kay
No. 1 being drilled about one
mile south of Big Sandy, closed
down at midnight Thursday, at
The Spanish Republic hop-
es to"* divorce the ■” Catholic
church from the Spanish state.
First Yank Wound-
ed In World War
Slain by Irate Wife
(Ry A ssoe iated Press)
New .Orleans, May 18—Ed-
gar- Bouligny, 43, a' photog-
rapher, who was the first Am-
erican soldier to be wounded in
from 6 in the afternoon to 3
a. Ie
CLAUDE RAY TAKEN TO AUSTIN JAIL
resented the plaintiffs and at-
torney red the defendants. i
have impelled them to be more
particular with prisonefs, in an - J
effort to prevent suicide of the
prisoners when apprehended.
Mr. J. T. Jonas was a deputy
District Clerk and ha is acting . <
in place of Mr. Ray, with Mr. ■ ’’
W. J. Bryson doing the work.
It was at first stated that
a page would not hold the Indi- '
vidual charges against Mr. Ray
as they are estimated to prob-
ably reach one hundred.
Set Claude Ray ’
Bonds at $1,000
On Five Counts
er the address.
This year’s graduating class
is the largest in the history
of the school, numbering 87
students. The pupils winning
class honors are Miss Evelyn
Martin*,, valedictorian, with an
average*for the year of 98.732
ami Miss Kathryn Cook with a
yearly average of 98.678. Ray
Wilson Maberry was third in
the class, and highest for the
boys, with 98.035.
These are exceptionally /hih
averages and reflect consider-
h for the
judge of the seventh, district
appears.
acres of a 72 acre tract in the
E. A. J; Evans survey, in the
southern part of the-county.
Contract calls for the well to
be spudded in by May 21.
Austin, May 14. (By Associated Press)—Officers broi
Claude Ray, Upshur County District Clerk, here today from
mer. Assistant Attorney-General Bruce Bryant stated he
May 24 at eleven o’clock a. m.
Rev..C. W. Lokey of the Methy
odist church will deliver the
sermon and the choirs of ’the
Baptist, Methodist and Chris-
tian churches will furnish the
j day, resulted in a verdict for
and is "reached from the Big Messrs Marshall and Roberts. ,
& l" J
now,- and asa:result J no. D.
Morgan, ex-District Clerk of
Ccketf county committed sui-
cide rather than face the char-
ges, and right here close to us,
Porter Barnes,' deputy District
Clerk, suicided at Winona, ra-
ther than face the charges of
forgery, etc., in Dallas county.
Mr. T. M. Markham, assist-
ant State Auditor, has the key
to District Clerk Claude Ray’s
office, for further investigation
feet west of the east line of the of school at the Gilmer High
38-acre tract belonging to Mrs. School and this week will be
in Texas, where he will be held the charges.
in jail for 48 hours for investi- j District Clerk
gation, without a chance to
Sergeant M. T. (Lone Wolf)
Gonzullas, Texas Rangers, just
as court adjourned Wednesday
afternoon walked into District
Clerk Claude Ray’s office in
the Upshur County court house
and said to him, “You are un-
der arrest; come with me."
He took Mr. Ray out and
By TUCKER a LASCHINGER
3,800 feet on 34.75 acres in the , able credit on the students for
G. W. Hooper survey on the J. maintaining such a high aver-
-s-a-i.
In addition to the 40 or 80
stenographers at work for Ab-
stract Companies during the .
day. the Title Abstract Plant
is working 20 stenographers
make bond. ,
.The State Comptroller’s De-
partment, working in connec-
tion with the State Auditor’s
Department and the Attorney
General’s department, have been
apartment they occupied .here.
Mrs. Bouligny said that she-
shot her husband as a climax
to years of quarreling ami af-
ter repeated threats against
repeated threats against her
The case of the State vs. Bill
Davis, charged with willing
whiskey, tried in the District
Court, Wednesday, resulted in
Davis being given one year in
the penitentiary.
Gets One Year the Great War, was shot and
_____ killed today by his wife in the
producer in Upshur county, was
gauged Wednesday by state pro
ration officials and found to
flow 102 barrels of oil in one
hour through an 11-16 inch
choke.
investigating forgery charges, county.
temtemitnda g These jnvestigations that
have been going on over tha—_
Sandy-Gladewater highway, be j The contention was that Mr.
ing north of the T. & P. tracks. | Roberts, took the acknowledge-
The Fleetborn-Edwards No.
1, is drilling at a depth of 3,400
feet, making exceptionally fast
time, as they spudded in only
nine days ago. They topped
th pecan gap chalk at 2.523
feet, and went out of that for-
mation at 2,970 feet. Eleva-
tion is 355.
Claude Ray, former district
clerk of Upshur county, was
charged by indictment with
forging five witness fee certifi-
cates totaling $264 in amount,
Monday by the Travis county
grand jury.
Ray is in the county jail at
Austin where he was lodged
several days ago after being
taken there from Gilmer .by
State Rangers in connection
with forgery investigations.
Bond in the five cases here has ’
been fied by Judge J. D
Moore at $ 1,000 in each ewe
The name of Walter G. Rus-
sell, judge of the seventh dis-
trict court at Gilmer, appears
on four of the certificates; on
the fifth the name of Reuben
F. Bland 62 1-2 acre tractv.
Jas L. Duffy made the as-
signment of the lease to Clyde
B. Becker of Chickasha, Okla.,
who is to drill the well within
thirty days.
In addition to a cash consid-
eration, Mr. Duffy is to receive
ies for the graduating class
and students. Final examinat-
ions will also be held this-
The well is to be a west offset
• to the Fleetborn-Edwards No.
1, 500’feet distant. The slush
pit is being built and some pipe
. is going on the ground. It is
also in the Mudge area, altho
to the southwest of that well.
Machinery is arriving on lo-
cation-t the Home Oil-Futrelt
No.-"two and one-half miles
south of Gilmer, beside the
highway. N. M. Dunman of
Houston is drilling contractor
A drilling' contract dated
May 12, has been filed, calling
for the drilling of a well to
entered at 2,520. Elevation is
301.
ment, but it was shown that
he only acquired a half interest
in the royalty a week later, and
that at the time the acknowl-
edgement was taken he was
Richardson No. 1 and the
a depth of 2,840 feet. They are
in Pecan Gap chalk which they - This is estimated to be the
Bill Signed To
Prevent Witness
- Fee Forgeries
(By Aanociated Press)
Austin, May 19.—Governor
Sterling today signed a bill de-
signed to prevent a repitition
of witness fee warrant forger-
ies, which have resulted in a
number of indictments, includ-
ing that of Claude Ray, former
district judge and county audi-
The law becomes effective
immeditely. It requires the
disrtict judge and county audi-
tor to approve witness fee
claims. It also stipulates that
a copy of the court minutes
must be sent to the comptroller
so he can check the authentici-
ty of all claims made.
Five Gilmer boys are includ-
ed among the list of those
finishing their work at Tex-
as A. & M. College this year.
They arc Graceton Floyd,
Joe Connell, Judie Willingham,
Harvey Crawford and Jno. A.
Mathis. Jr.
Misses Irene Martin and
Frances Buie graduate from
the Uhversity of Texas, both
of these young ladies having
completed the four years’ work
in three years.
The 1930 Cotton
Crop Amounted
To 13,765,000
in the case for poesemdon of triet eourt, sitting for
piece of oil land that was . •
rigging up, all brand new ma-
chinery having been hauled in. oil in part payment.
J. W. (Joe) Burnham of Fort (
Worth, to. be known as the Burn '
ham-Beck No. 1. It is locaed
10.00 Tyler, and the negro woman had
moved back on it and refused
Washington May 14-—The
census buerau here today an-
nounced that the amount of
cotton consumed in April total-
ed 588,744 bates lintcotton and
66,807 linters,' compared with
531,911 lint and,67,454 linters
in April 1930. -
Carl €ox Had Leg
Broken When Hit
By Car At Terril
‘ v - s
Carl, the eight year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Cox ST
Cox School House community,
northeast of Gilmer, was
brought to this city Thursday
from Terrell, where he had-a
leg broken as the result of be-
ing run over by a car between
that reity and Forney .about
noon Tuesday.
The family had the car park-
ed by the side of the road eat-
ing lunch when the acident hap
pened. The little fellow had
started from the rear of the
car to look at a train that was
running close by when the pass
ing auto struck him.
An auto bound for Terrell
picked up the child and his mo-
hter and hurried both to the
Terrell Sanitarium where he
was examffned, revealing the
broken leg and possibly other
injuries.
. The car that hit him was
driven by B. F. Dean of Denton
The father seemed overcome
and almost fainted at the sani-
tarium saying he could not re-
call the details of the accident.
The Cranfill-Reynolds-Porter
No. 1, on the Gregg-Upshur
line, in the G. W. Hooper sun
vey is still awaiting boilers,
which are expected today. The
location of this test is just 150
feet from the south and east
lines, and if a producer is
brought in, it will mean that
future drilling in this acreage
will all be in Upshur county.
Derrick is already up for an off
set well to the south, over the
line in Gregg county.
Surface casing was set in the
Peckham-Free No. 1 Monday
night and drilling should start
in a few days more.
standards as Gilmer High.
As an evidence that the Gil-
mer High School does maintain
a very high scholastie stand-
ings is the fact that “A” stu-
dents in the local school in-
variably make the honor roll
at the various coleges and un-
iversities of the state.
padding costs bills, forging
costs bills, etc., for some “time, state, and have caused suicides
(By Associated? Press)
Washington, D. C. May 16.—
The Census Bureau here today
announced its annual crop pro-
duction bulletin, -and revised
the final figures on 1930 crop
ginnings, placing the running
bales at 13,931,597 or 1,656
more than announced in March.
■The Baeealaureate services
will be held at the new high
school Auditorium Sunday,
At the final meeting of the
Kelsey-Enoch teachers. Super-
intendent Louis F. Boyle and
his wife were presented with
a beautiful nut bowl and its
accoutrements. At a previous
meeting, under the auspices of
the Kelsey trustees, the teach-
ers were presented with lovely
silver fruit bowls by the school
patrons.
_ -In the faculty meeting Sat-
urday morning, Supervisor
Boyle spoke of the great prog-
ress "made during the year and
expresssed -his -appreciation for.
the fine co-operation and Joyal
support of the faculty mem-
bers.
Miss White and Mr. Wood
are the only ones scheduled, at
the present time, io return but
all spoke of the joy that had
been theirs during the school
year. They said they will be
watching the progress of" the
school in future years with
the greatest interest.
The Misses Walker and Hale
are going to Shreveport, La. to
spend some time while the
Misses Vance, Layton, Mitch-
ell and Fugal will go to Hous-
ton. Messrs. Wood and Huns-
aker .will remain at Kelsey for
a few (lays as will Miss White.
a school with as rigid
the location is being cleared off music. The new auditorium
...... the Christmas tree and will give ample seating fa*
seperator have been given a or for all Who want to
coat of paint. attend.
. .. ,, . . j Commencement exercises are
Another location, the closest .
* .. ... 1, . . to be held at the auditorium
to the Mudge well, has been * . Nr or .
made by the Peckham Oil Corp. Monday evening. May 25. Hon.
- Morgan G. Sanders will deliv-
Derricks for new tests and
wells to be drilled in Upshur
county are springing up with
increasing frequency, and de-
tails of a number of new loca-
tions are to be released any
day.
Tuesday the finishing touch-
es were being put on a derrick
located on the 80-acre Dr. Ham-
ilton tract, located east of Glen
wood. The derrick is just
about 150 feet from the road,
and is 250 feet from the east
line and 150 feet from the
south line, in the southeast cor-
ner. It is in the Marshall
Mann survey.
This test is to be drilled by
J. Ben Ross, et al.
The location is just about a
mile southwest of the DeAr-
man-Burke salter, and a little
over a . mile from the Gregg
county line. It will result in
renewed activity in this section
of the county, where oil play
has been dormant since the De-
Arman-Burke failure.
Drillers’ Bonus
Is Still Growing
• A number of those who
pledged donations to the Drill-
ers’ Bonus Fund have made
their payments, as shown be-
low, but many more have not
paid in the amount promised.
Kindly let us have your
check at your earliest conven-
ience.
Payments to date are as fol-
lows :
H. J. Childress, M. D.... >100.00
H. P. McGaughy ............ 100.00
C. C. Landers _________ 100.00
Joe Miller_________100.00
G. J. Mackey . 100.00
J. R. Pehn 50.00
Gilmer Lumber-Co._____50.00
Gilmer Mirror____:____ 25.00
Nat Harrison_________25.00
Gilmer (McVey) Oil Ex. 25.00
, . .. .
unannounced, is to be drilled in A] Aa • .
the E. A J. Evans survey. At ulmer High
The location is 150 feet from
the test will be known as the
Kendrick & Hargrove No. 1 CalFweek.
tahan. A--------—— —
It is in line with the Mudge-
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Tucker, George. The Gilmer Weekly Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 21, 1931, newspaper, May 21, 1931; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1440189/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Upshur County Library.