The Ozona Stockman (Ozona, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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Flower* Grocery—- Bakery
"We do The l imit To I1
THE OZONA STOCKMAN f
THE ONLY PAPER IN CROCKET I’ COUNTY-3.000 SQUARE MILES OF LIVESTOCK TERRITORY l
flower* Grocery—Bakery
'We Go The Limit To Please’
“OUT IN THE
WEST,
WHERE THE AIR IS PURE, 1HE CLIMATE AGREEABLE, AND THE
PEOPLE
FRIENDLY-THE BEST
PUCE ON EARTH
TO CALL HOME
YOU
15,
$2.00 Per Year In Texaa-»2.50 Elsewhere. OZONA, CROCKETT COUNTY.
TEXAS,
THURSDAY, August f*. l!»2k.
5 Cent* Per Copy.
No. 18.
NOGUCHI BRAVE HAN.
LAND OR OPPORTUNITY.
THE AUTOMATkf MACHINE.
SHE WEIGHED MO POUNDS.
The death of Dt Noguchi, a
courageoui Japanese adentiat, i* a
great lost to the world.
Backed by the Rockefeller Institute,
was a leader ui the war
diaeaaa, and poverty and
born of dueaae.
now fever killed him at laet, aa
he sought for more knowledge in
the African yellow fever regions
Some brume bandit on horseback
aV.ukl give his high place to Noguchi
Wh'ee memory real I > deserves honor.
America is the country of uppartu-
SMty. and Milwaukee is one of the
best American cities. All over America
are opportunities, visible to the
majority when it in too late to seise
them. VVhai everj^xxly knows is not
to valuable.
For instance, consider the baby
carriage business that C. J. Smith
managed in Milwaukee up to 1887.
Fifty thousand dollars would have
bought it. A. O. Smith inherited it
and made bicycle ports.
In 1904, the A O Smith Corpora-
tion was formed and L. K. Smith,
grandson of C L took charge His
lather put $K5>,000 and others put
fP£UX) more into the corporation.
L. R Smith did new things, making
frame;, lot auttenoliiles, keeping up
With the times, and ahead uf them.
Time jutssrd, and in 1923 J. E.
BRIDGE FUND
SUBSCRIPTION
OVER $3,000
List To Be Preiented
To Com. Court Monday
By Committee
ASK COUNTY AID
Goal $3*500 Expected
To Be Reached By End
Of The Week
BE OPERATING
BY NEXT WEEK
Permit Granted For
Establishment Of
Through Line
MAY START AUG. 15
BaatbdU Idol
Miss Ella Van Heusen of Chi*
cago. better known as Miss Uni-
verse, tipping the hat of the me-
chanical man. Mr. Televox, during
his exhibition in Chicago. The
“robot’’ easily won the fair lady
and was caught holding her hand!
Uihlrin advised this writer and^oth^r
Jorpuratum. A very able i
stock in the A.
friend», “Isiy
Smith Corpora______ „___
With new ideas, is TaUSwhg It”
TV sliirk sold then at ~S1J a sham.
A little later it sold at $525 a ahara,
and five shares were given for IXM
Th» 4wby camagr ixwmeM that
you could have bought in 1887 rev
|S0,an. or in 1923 lor $.1,300,000, wow
•ells <>n the Stock Exchange at
$40,0011,(100
The ablest American manufacturers
could leain about mass production
•nd labor saving Is L FL Smith’s
plants
One of his mills, making 35,000
wtomol.de frames a week for
Cheviolet, using marvrious automatic
merhinerv, «k*es with 200 men work
that reumnrt 2jW)0 men in other
pkuits
One automatic madtonc, changing
Steel sheets into steel frames, is 350
feet king. In one glace machinery
and thirty-four men handle 14,000
•idr bar* ami 30,000 crossbars and
drive 1,0002X10 rivets pet day
Machines do the work, men look
an. From the floor Mow, heavy
•tael rivets are iiloWLi up through
fkin pipes by «At power, placed to the
frame* and fixed iWe, no hand
touching anything
There you see solved the printem
seised by Inadequate jangralion.
You wonder that marweUouely eft-
•taut long lasting automobiles can he
•old at preeent prices, but remember,
lor one lima, mat sainttag •» «oto-
mSJU frame, baking it ao that it
mt with a beautifal coat of
for
•earns oat with *
hriOiaat black «
aaas taker, mm
and tlw labor ta
gM^fmltad
t aad a'half neat*
sbwh?5
Mr. Smith'* tataiterttai, revolution
Ma Important It—rtii of American
CLtry, Ir ene of the msag such
•baits thraaghoat the action Oar
mwaiatturcra. aetog fhair hrate* re-
hrina on new avtfiad*. aot on low
wages, can uoderSsll Esrape aad Asia.
The tiaoldng brain and the anti-tit
•arp— are the real waaldk pro-
Weight law its
to the euatrarv
Mrs Myrs Huddleston.
Hi has broken thr world'*
lot long rwunming Sh
Rears, Noting »«>» «*'
4—rd by sa ostirr my.
Sg kmt setnibm record hy foal
> Mr*. Huddleston" wriehed_240
paih when th. «t»Mrd. 21’ pound*
Ian when sh» hrnsbrd Skinny prl»
aad woaMO. y*w erwl not weigh 4WJ.
hat you limul.l hr •ikanwd tu CSt
down your vitality l«* *hr sake tf
an ugly, bony ip «
Edwin* Nall and W. ■
of ftaiirikM. tlklab.n.i >i
lyn Danner of -»•< *
'"Goof* Jackson and "( h 11
nel of Sherman; and Bra.
hltd Bkelley Kidd of Fan Aug«
were here Saturday visiting Mi
Elisabeth Davidson.
i.-ptr
Eve-
•Ml*,
I »*«•
( i bb
Stock Exchange
To Move In Soon
Sign* On Building Win-
dows; Furnishings To j
Be Installed
A subscription lint representing
pledge* amounting to ar< uml $5500
made by citizens of Ozona toward
a fund for the construction if a
permanent cone rite bridge across
Johnson Draw will be presented
to the Commissioner* < ourt nex
week by a committee < f citizen*
who have been pushing tin bndir.'j
movement, with a request that thei
Court appropriate from county;
funds the necessary oulance t ■(
complete the bridge.
More than $11,000 had b* mi sul
scribed the first of tne week, !
was indicateti by those in criurg •
of the lists, and it wu- e\|.ectt
that the total would be swilled t
$3,f»00 or more by tin etui oi th.
week.
Subscription from residents a
cross the draw were practically
100 per cent., committee members
said, and the response from jier-
,ons living on this side of the draw
nas been liberal. Tbe goal of the
private subscription list was set
at $3,54M>.
Bridge engineers have estimat-
ed that approximately $6,500 will
lie necessary to build
which would satisfy the wed for
a crossing over the draw. This ciatioa
will 1h‘ a 100 toot span made of Sign painters
i-mi'orced concrete ant! with a ^
good clearance above the high ..
change name as well as the nano
water murk. * , „ ,
The proponed bridge is to be e- (,t the Sheep and (.oat Ranter* A-
reeled at tbe street crossing west sociation of Texas on the window-
of the Hotel Oaona. Efforts were of building and the necessmy
made to get th.-Old Spanish Trail furnishings for the building will
re-iXMited through Ozona to cross be received soon,
he draw at this point, but the’ The building will hm.se th.
-Late Highway Department declin* H|ocA exchange and the otti <■ <>'
.-d t« make this Aesignatwai on the tbe secretary of the Sheep
/round that it would add another Goat Kaisers Association and
right angle turn to the highway understood that offices of com
through the city.
-«-
The Crockett County Slock Ex- , ]
change, recently organized with a j»!
rmmb. t'ship of uround 75 »toik-j
men and ranchers of this section,
will he established in the new
Mason Man Looking
Over Route Here
Last Week
\ tlirough bus line from Mason
Mit'i.m.-y through Ozona will
n operation by August 15, ai-
ling to Kay Walker of Mason,
line operator who will estab-
tie line through thi- city. Mr.
‘ker was recently granted a per-
' hy the Kailroad Commission of
• - to establish the line and
through Ozona last we. k
"king over the route preparatory
putting the busses on the road.
Tun htlsses "ill he operated at
u Mr. Walker said, additional
,, will be placed in operation as
ii a* possible.
The line will connect at Mason
■' busses from Austin, at June-
;• u with busses from San Antonio
; at .Sonora with a line to Del
It will thus give connections
I'm Ozona to these points and
i redules will be arranged to make
he best posilde connections in all
ct ions.
Killy paper- from Austin and
*ii Antonio will be carried by th.
jf arrangements can be made
PHILLIPS MAY
LOSE EYE AS
REULT MISHAP
Rock Flung From Tire
Of Passing Car Hits
Windshield
EYEBALL GASHED
bridge ■s‘m',b building in a few days, it is
learned from officers of the asso
have
Week putting the
been hi
stock '
mision dealers will be also main
luiAed in the exchange building.
E. B. Baggett, Jr., recently de
feated for re-election to the offic.
of county and district clerk of
To Play Here Sunday , h,'V
bv i’resid.-nt I. A kuiciiid a tu!
Comstock's Challenge
Accepted By Giants;
Th
wilt al*o ad j.- »n-cretary for th--
stuck exchange and he available
to member ra mb me n for *t.*U"
graphic work, publicity matter-
and for maintainiTig postings ami
-i-easswe; s=rfs.ri
Giants was accepted by the latter N <•'aham. res.gm d
club and a game has been match- U*'**r' *" r'"
ed for Sunday afteriKHin «n the
local diamond, beginning at T
o’clock, it has boe® announced by
MaAiiger Jack Allen.
The GamtaUtck challenge to the . ,
Giants came after tbe former club ^ihrw to the unde
had three times defeated the Ozona <u ,hf* organization rn-.-t
Sons «»f Best by big scores. In- ,n(t- __ _
-piretl by thi* rei-ord of vick-ries _,_ ~ ~ '
over Ozona teams, the t’orastock Pipe Line Company
nine felt that they had earned a Men Here To Secure
chance at the Giants. They have «• *.
also piled up a good average dur- lll$nC*l/r-Way l\OUic
ing the entire season, playing
ome of the fasteat teams in that *** « Davis, repreto-nting a pip.‘
territory and holding their own line instruction company of New
.•gainst the best of them. York t’ity. and Joe Montague •>!
___o__San Angelo, were here this week
• aa p J einnpkfting all details f«*r the righ:
"S#f. *7i,J,nenr, | of-way for the Transcontinental
Bride Of Sid Scbwelbe lJipe Uve ('ompany. The line will
........ i he buflt from the Yates oil field
Miss Margaret Friend, daughter U» Texas City on the Gulf Coast
of Mr. and Mrs. Hurry J. Friend. Work on the line will commem.
Sr., became the bride of Sid j in about Gtl days or probably soon
Schwalbe at a quiet wedding per- er, Mr. Daxis said. The line will likely please all who gather at San
formed Wednesday evening of last be of 10-inch pipe with a carrying Xngelo for the exposition
week by Kev. M. M. Fulmer, pastor'capacity of approximately 40.ooh
if the Ozona Baptist Church, at barrels daily It is the intention
the parsonage. ;of the company to have the lin»-
The ceremony was witnessed by laid to deep water by the first of
Miss Mildred Schwalbe, sister of February. By laying the line dur
the groom, and Elmo Taylor. The it.g the winter months the work
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.'men will not interfere with ranch
Fayette Schwalbe and is employed men during lambing season, th.-y
n his father’s ranch across the said. Other pipe line companies
Pecos. I he bride attended NUI have damaged ranches considerwb
Kim* State Teachers College al l>. he said, but the Transeontinon
Upine the past two years |t*l will do everything to avoid thi
irtd'efforts will be mad.- to secur*
mail franchise to carry tbe mail
-tom these points destined for
points .ilong the bn- Inns. Mi
Walker declared
Permit I'ot the .-tnldishment of
•lie line was grunted by the Kail
- oad Commission following a hear-
,ng held recently at Mason when
representatives of tin- variou-
towns along the route were pr<
-ml Jo put in th. ir word for the
ne. A. W. Jones and J. T Keet.ui
"-•re present from O/oria and pr«
• nted data concerning the trail-
"I’tation facilities oi tins city,
ointiug out the need lor u bus
l;ne through ea*t and w.-t Mr.
ones and Mr Keeton were d.sig
n.iU-d by the l.mn> Club to attend
tne hearing.
o
Angelo Prepares For
Best Exposition In
History Sept. 17-22
tli Angelo, \tlgllst K Promi-.
at the program features for the
(il West Texas 1'. \ posi lion S« pt. m
><-r I7-'2‘J, will It*' better than ha-
- er been attempted in San Angelo
has been made by K 11 Henderson.
resident.
The sty le show, which has ju*t
ii'Wi announced, will lie conducted
n Thursday evening. September
Jn, when the very f'nest creations
m ill be presented on living models.
! iw finest apparel will hr gatheml
’ oni markets of the world and
banight to San Angelo for the . n-
ti rtainnient of tlios.- attending the
x posit ion. insuring the style show
bring one of the most expensive
exhibitions of its kind ever present
ed in West Texas,
11 or *e races five fast on* * each
of the *ix days will attract large
..ttenduao in the opinion of Wal-
ter Beall, secretary manager of the
exposition who has spared no ef-
fort in an endeavor to form the
t , pe of program that w ill most
The better bahy conference,
which will be conducted by Mis*
Emma Barth, public health nurse,
will lie a valuable feature of the
- \position Rabies will In- receiv-
ed at the Exposition ground* clinic
at any time during the six days,
where complete examinations will
I., made by a staff of trained
physicians and nurses.
Miss Mildred Davis
Wednesday- from Fan
where she ha* been
school.
returned' W. W. Childress and family re-
Anfonio turned laet Friday from a two-
The first of the new Silver An
mversary Huirks to ta* sold in O-
zona, a Master S|lort Coupe, by the !
Wilson Motor Company, wasj
attending week's visit to Galveston and San tmught by Miss Rachael Schraeder
Antonio.
The fan* lave the brilliant pbv
1»g of Travis Jackson, vnung
ihort*top of the New York Giantx,
who i* field captain feu the 1VJM
•taxon. Jackson succeeds- Rogers
Hornsby as fiel<t captain.
Lions Club Gets
Action On Street
Lion Willis Puts Crew
To Work Draining
Water Hole
W. S. U .Ills c.-'irdy r< ..d over-
'.-«•]• mid sheriff .T.i l, vs.i- on Ih-
job W.-dri.-sday with a cr.-w of
wcirkm. n filling in a lew pla>» in
the i-tr.-.-t in front of the Kincaid
apartrn.nl hou-t which stood
several inch, s deep in water alter
• v.-ry rain a* a result of bad drain-
age.
(Vui<k tut ion to relieve th. bad
■ondition of that stretch of street
wa> secured by flu- 1 tori- Club a-
a r< ult of a "little talking" b>
Kev I II M.-rednh K.-v M# r»-
ditli was culled upon t.v fT.-suji nr
Fulmer for a brief talk on his trip
to the K.-rrville Encampment and
after briefly discussing the * e
arnpment he declared that ruin-
which he ran into this side o! So
mini reminded him of the lake
winch forms across the highway
a less mile out of Ozona and he
wondered if it was again fail and
tin- road impassable. Fortunately
however, he said, the lake was not
full and tie wondered if the "littl.
talking" that he had don.- recently
before the l.ions Club concerning
this lake had been m any way r»
sponsible.
"If we can help that road by
talking. I want to talk about tin
mud hob hi front of the K.m.iid
apartment," the speaker said, and
he described tin- condition nt this
-.treet and -« veral other bad ; laces
n the slrn I - nl »i.-niia
Scott I’etir- had a- guests jor
the Monday luncheon J--. Montu
gue of Fort Stockton, lorni. r di-
triit attorney of tin- distriot, and
P. H. Harris of the United Pro
due.-is Pije- Line Company, who is
here securing right of way for a
pipe line through this section
Both Mr. Montague and Mr liar
ris made brief talk- to the club.
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2 New Locations For
Oil Wells In County
Interest Operators
Two new location for oil test*
in Crockett County have been made
during the last week T \V Cal
lahim and association has mad.
location for their No 1 Todd in
Section I ft. Block YZ on the Todd
Ranch. E I.. & K li. Ky. survey.
The test is 1,520 feet from the
south and west line* of the section.
Callahan and associates have drill-
ed two wells in that area
The Furham Petroleum t or|>or*
at ion of Dallas will drill a teat
well 3S0 feet south of the north
line of Section 17, J. K. Graham
survey. Thi* teat j* fl mile* south-
west of the Henshaw-McMan No. 1
J. W Owen* which drilled over
4.000 feet and got a allowing of
gas estimated at a million and a
naif cubic feet, interest is high
in this test and lease price* are
-aid to have soared an A result
of the location.
LOST- Bunch of key* on ring.
Finder please return to Stockman
office.
Temple Doctors Have
Hope Of Saving His
Eyesight
Arthur Phillips, -on of Mrs. S.
B Phillips and prominent young
Crockett County ram her. may lose
the sight of on. «y< as a result of
a pe» uliar accident on the highway
about f<>ur mil.* the other side of
Sonora Saturday night.
A small ro. k. flung buck from
:he tire of a pa-sing car struck Mr.
Phillips’ windshield directly in
’.rout oi his face and the shattered
gins from th. windshield struck
turn in th. lac. a pier, oi it cut-
ting a deep gash in the eyeball.
Mr. Phillips was on his way to
San Angelo in company with S. (i.
Jones oi O/.nna, J J (ioodfellow,
San Angelo surveyor, and a helper.
Mr Goodf.-ilow had been here sur-
veying the line lietwi i'ii the Phil-
lips and Jones ram dies and Mr,
Phillips and Mr Jones planned to
go from Sail Angelo to Austin on
business.
The ai i ident happened about
foiii miles the other side of Sonora
on a siietch of gravel road. The
ini k thrown by th. passing c.ir
shot through the windshield and
i landed on the back seat of tbe car.
Mr Phillip- suffered several se-
vere cuts on the face in addition
it., the gash across his eye.
Mr Jones took the wheel after
th. accident and the party rushed
into San Angelo where the injured
man was examined by a physician.
Sail Angelo eve specialist- held
out no hope for saving the injured
eye and recommended that it be
removed. -Members of the family,
however, would not consent to
this and he was taken to Temple
for further examination by eye
specialists
| Although part of thi shattered
glass was still embedded in the
eyeball, Temple doctors held out
hope tor saving the eyeball, accord
mg to last reports trom the hospi-
tal and the injured optic is still
being treated there.
Mrs. Arthur Philips, Hillery
Phillips and Richard Flowers were
i in Temple with Mr. Phillips this
w.-.-k Hillery and Mrs. S. B. Phil-
lip-. wlio was unable to make the
trip to Temple but stayed in Kan
Angelo in touch with the Temple
hospital, ic’umed home Wc*ln<
i day mght They reported that the
'operation tor removing the glass
.trom the injured eye had not yet
been p. i formed and that attending
physicians were still hopeful of
I saving the eye.
Member* <>t th. family reported
| that before leaving Kan Angelo
! Mr, Phillips was able to see a little
! from the eye. Whether or not the
; sight will be saved, however, will
j not lie determined until after this
; operation.
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Margaret Childress
And Bob Weaver Are
Married In Angelo
Mi** Mm ga ref Child res*, dau-
ghter of Mr And Mrs Walter
(Childrens, former reaident* of ()-
I zona, now of Kan Angelo, and Bob
Weaver, of OznnM, were united in
, marriage at the Methodmt parson-
age in San Angelo Wednesday
i evening, according to word receiv-
ed here by friend* and relative*
'Thursday morning.
| The ceremony ws* performed in
| the presence of the bride'* parents
land Mi** Ethel ChiltlreM* of Ozona
and Mi**e* Alice Henderson and
Mary Sue Montgomery of San An-
gelo.
J After the ceremony the young
couple left on a honeymoon trip.
Mr. Weaver haa until recently
been connected with the Crockett
County Abstract Company here.
Both are graduate* of the Otona
High School and were popular
member* of the younger get bore.
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