The Electra News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1931 Page: 2 of 12
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Mrs. W. L. Lake, Correspondent
ENTERPRISE
5 Miles North, 2 Miles East
of Electra.
Mrs. Jewell Crass, Correspondent
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Entered as second class mail matter
August 2, 1907, at the postoffice at
Electra, Wichita County, Texas, un-
der Act of Congress of March 8,
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Henderson on a business trip.
Airs. Vera Turner has been quite
ill at the home of her brother, Les-
ter Fridge and wife.
R. E. Corley is stepping out quite?
spiffy with his new baseball suit-
He drew one with the Cicero Smith
Lumber Co. monogram on the blouse-
He participated in the" Electra Oil-
ers game with Chillicothe.
Mesdames R. W. Tucker
Charley Bray are visiting a
days among friends on their return-
visit t,o their homes in Pampa.
Mrs. Martha Case is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Winnie Balis, neap
Vernon, and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cor-
ley drove down Monday evening to*
visit her.
LIBERTY THEATRE
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THE ELE CTRA/'NEW'S, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931
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FOR YOUR HEALTH’S
SAKE, DRINK
OZARKA WATER
PURE SPRING WATER
from the famous Eureka Springs
Delivered to your home or
office in steam sterilized
bottles.
J. M. DARTER
PHONE 559
North End Wichita Street
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IN EXT time you are out
of fix as the result of ir-
regular or faulty bowel
movement, try Thedford’s
Black-Draught for the re-
freshing relief it gives
thousands of people who take it.
Mr.E.W.CecB, a construction super-
intendent in Pulaski, Va., aays:
“^****>*mm»» "When I get con-
stipated, toy .head aches, and I
have that dull, tired feeling-just
not equal to' rny wort I don’t
feel hungry and I know that I
need something to cleanse my
system, so I take Black-Draught.
We have found it a great help."
Sold in 25-cent packages,
Thedfordb ■ A
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I “onth, rtwcUd take Cwr-
far wvyr ywanu f-l]ry<
- With, President Hoover startling
’ the'"nations‘of Europe with his plea'
for suspending payment on the debts
arising from the World War for a
period of one y^ar from July 1 and
with Will Rogers, premier of Amer-
ican satirists proposing a sim-
ilar project to be effected perma-
nently for individuals, banks and
business concerns in the United
States and Governor Sterling out-
lining what looks like a really sen-
sible policy of governing the out-
put of Texas oil, things are warm-
ing up in fine shape for a glorious
Independence Day celebration. Nat-
urally there are European nations
which are going to want their debts
suspended without involving cancel-
lations of obligations to themselves.
Will Rogers got enthusiastic sup-
port of his plan from two fellows
who owed him and GoverjRH^_St(jr-
ling at least gets applause from the
gallery occupied byz suffering oil
people from the districts hit hardest
by the flood of unrestrained oil
production in East Texas.
The main thing, emphasized in the
allied cancellation and conservation
program is the fact that when one
nation’s credit suffers, all others
are affected to a certain degree;
when individuals and banks are hard I
hit the financial structure of the I
nation is .weakened thus affecting i
all. If the Texas oil man gets on
his feet he will naturally help his
struggling brother who is selling
wheat at 35 cents per bushel.
After - all the financial strength
of a nation, stale or city depends
on the credit of the individual and
if Hoover’s plan helps nations to
regain their financial stability and
Sterling's plan pulls Texas state
treasury out of the enormous de-
ficit safely even within two years,
we may look forward with a^degree
of .optimism toward stabilization,
which in plain words, means pay-
ing debts, whether of nation, state
or just plain Electra citizens. Re-
turn of prosperity has ceased to
be the slogan, just plain live and
let live and be able to meet our
most pressing obligations is the
present goal.
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
at 106 North Main St
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Mr. Whisnant's brother, toy,
turned home with them for an
tended visit.
Willis Schoonovet- and Johnnie
Kearsey went to Seymour, Thurs-
day. to visit relatives.
Miss Merle Richardson of Electra
?>pent Sundaj’ and
with her cousin,
Richardson.
George Lofland and family visi*-
near Seymour, Thurs-
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such velocity that it maimed live-
stock, Cattle in pastures were said
to have had their backs broken by
the slugs of falling ice.
O. N. Stark has been transferred
from the Continetal oil lease here
to the company’s lease at Burkbur-
nett, where he fills the place form-
erly occupied by W. W. Ryne. The
Rynes lived here for some time on
the Continental lease and have many
friends here and in Electra who
will be glad to lear that he has
been promoted to a better position
with the company on their holdings
in the Salt Creek field m Wyoming.
O. N. Midgett has® been over in
Is In the Army
Private George N. Nichols, E. Bat-
tery, 1st Field Artillery, Fort Sill,
Oklahoma, writes relatives here that
Decoration Day in and around the
army post is quite an interesting
affair to visitors, but for the new
recruit it means a lot of hard work.
Private Nichols is a son of Mrs.
Katherine Nichols of this city, and
he attended Waggoner school here
v *n 1928 and 1929. He writes that
clearly foreseen and among the men' ^Te ’s enjoying army ilfe, and The
responsible for the drilling of the
vast pool there were some of Elec-
tra’s foremost operators who have
been trying hard to recoup on losses
caused by last year’s slump and to
make payroll for their employes a
large majority of whom are from
this vicinity and to whom even small
wage has been a Godsend.
Naturally our people feel deep
resentment over the fact that the
North Texas field should have been
the hardest hit because of the un-
curbed flood of East Texas oil, but
chamber of commerce woikers and
agricultural experts have foretold
the present situation during the past
ten years. They have fought valiantly
to lay the foundations for pros-
perity on the surface of the land
by development of o daily, ' poultry
and general farming industries. If
the drouth and other disasters of
that sort had not struck this sec-
tion at the same time, that the oil
slump and demoralization came we
would have been better able to have
withstood the change which so far
as anything we could have done a-
bout it was inevitable.
Harrison Lofland and family of
Pampa spent several days here with
his mother, Mrs. B. A. Head, his
brother. Dub Lofland, and sister, day.
Mrs. M. E. Bray.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy „
spent Thursday at Pilot Point vis-1 Fort Smith,
— ... Whisnant. | fell so
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A beautiful five-passenger car,
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Wittenbach
of Harlington visited in this com-
munity last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Holden of
Cross Plains visited last week with*
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Wittenbach-
with longer, widfir body, and
attractive, comfortable interior. The slanting windshield is made of
Triplex safety plate glass. You can now have the new Ford delivered
with safety glass in all windows and doors at slight additional cost.'/
The price of the new Ford Standard Sedan is $590, f. o. b. Detroit.
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1,0. B. Detroit, plus freight Jettvepr. Bumpen and sparu lire'extra ut lout .x
Authorised Ford Firumce pQu uf tka Uuiuerml Credit CrTflmjr' .
The R H. Lambs reported seeing
Whisenanl [ a real hail storm while visiting near
, Ark. They said had
thick and large and with
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A front page editorial recently
in the Mexia News has created no
small amount of interest especially
in towns effected as Mexia/Electra
and all West Texas and Panhandle
communities have been, by de-
moralization of the oil business*
Many state papers have commented
on the timeliness of the protest
against such selfishness and greed
as was shown ip the disregarding
qf pro-ration and ^orderly drilling
Orders issued to operators in the
East Texas fields.
Excerpts from the editorial in-
clude:
“A great general stood contem-
plating a victorious march of his
armies. All about him were bleeding
and dying men, the flower of youth
of his land strewn over the battle-1
field. The cries of dying men ec-
hoed the noise of cannon and rifle.
The general stood in silence. He
was deeply moved. ,
"You have led us to a great
victory,” one of his lieutenants com-
forted him.
“Victory.! Victory!” the general
cried, his voice shaken with emo-
tion. “Another victory like it and
we are wiped .out!”
He had won a costly victory.
- Anti-prorationists of East Texas
have won a victory. What a glorious ‘
i Thursday for a visit with relatives
in Olney and Kilgore.
I Mr. and Mrs. Bart Crass visited
| Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. S.
Marshall.
Mrs. C. M. Crass and daughter
spent the week-end with Mr. and
Mrs. E. R. Stearns.
Mr. and ’Mrs. Leonard Baumgard-
ner and daughters of Wichita Falls
visited Saturday and Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rinefeldt.
BARWISE
6 Miles North, 6 Miles East of
Electra.
Mrs. Jewell Crass, Correspondent
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an^ Mrs. J. W. Swanson
victory. Bankruptcy, unemployment, Miss ^Anna Fae Eddings left
bread lines, abandoned oil fields, ““ ‘ x
havoc and disaster—glorious vic-
tory.
"The anti-prorationists wanted a
competitive market and unlimited
production. They got it, and how”—
“Their victory brought chaos, ca-
lamity and waste—a once proud in-
dustry has been bowed low.”
The article closes with a plea
to Governor Sterling, the newspap-
ers, citizens and East Texas anti-
prorationists to join hands in a de-
’ mand for government relief for the
situation brought about by the vic-
tory won by the “open field” con-
tingent which is blamed for waste
of our national resources.
The plea is timely as we see it,
yet it is hard to throw all the blame
on the East Texas operators who
disregarded all warnings in their!
frenzy to make money while the,
making appeared good. It is a
calamity that could not have been
News joins his many
wishing him success.
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