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GILMER, UPSHUR CQUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1981.
VOL. 55. NO. 3
Believed It Will Extend North
and Went To Gilmer.
Capitalists At Once
Gilmer has some potential oil
K
ests let a contract Monday, Jun-
to the custody of Sheriff J. M. seed than had ever been accumu
Driggers Home
Leased As Hotel
we expected.
Thursday afternoon:
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Again in Trouble
Father Died
was also chosen school beauty
of
Father
anywhere.
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ternoon.
SINCLAIR PREPARES TO
briends and relatives.
THE NEW SCHOOL
Sheriff J. M, Seago has arrest
AUDITORIUM
Mr.3H.Feters of Oklahoma
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The Upshur County court
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.house is abuot the busiest place Thursday evening.
study rooms, is having the roof of the square next to the bowl-
put on, and it is believed will be
Naylors Cash store at Tyler
burned about 2 d'clock on
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was
burned Sunday night. It was a making plans to build a pipeline
building, and a grat convenience
Elder Gayle
united in
Qler, of the Church of
complete loss.
kid of convention.
switch north of Henderson. '»
fire undetermined.
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connection with the shooting of
John Childs at West Mountin
Test Well To Be
Put Down By Gilmer
City, has leased one-half of the
Wall building on the west side
able of holding an audience of
over 2.000, and furnishing extra
H. P. MeGaughy, J. W. Wall, J.
W. Croley, V. E. Todd and F. L.
are being gotten together here
now for the purpose of drilling
as soon as the legal end of the
work is completed and before
many days, there should be de-
ed and placed under bond of
1500 each, Mssrs. W. A. Reev-
DRILL IN JOINER AREA
Henderson, Feb. 2.—Harry F.
Sinclair has entered the Joiner
I area of the Rusk county oil pool.
Meyers of Marshall conducted
the funeral services which took
place at Lone Mountain at 3:80
Monday" afternoon, the funeral
services being attended by a
large concourse of grief stricken
Seago, to await an agent of the
penitentiary to serve their sen-
tence.
Judge W. G. Russell lectured
the three younger of the quar-
tett, and admonished them to
he believes that sooner or latet
-perhaps before we expect it.
there will be a big oil ploy in
Upshur County, with activity ,
centered in Gilmer, and he want
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lou Calvert and is a
young man of pleasing personal-
ity and sterling character.
Southwestern
Trans. Co. Pays
At the homa of Miss Achsa
Todd at 6 o'clock Thursday even
ing, Mr. John Howard Galva and J
Miss Edith Fayrene Taylor were.
counts for the continued crowd
of oil men coming daily to Gil-
mer to trade in leases and royal-
ty. • _
who were apprehended by Dep-
uty Sheriff Clem Hill, who cap-
tured some of the stolen grocer-
ies, indicted by the grand jury
on the 22nd of Jnuary, were on
Thursday the 29th, each given
two yeas in the Texas peniten-
tiary, on pleas of guilty, waved
J. W. Owen of Pittsburg has
leased the 15 room residence of
Mrs. Cassie J. Driggers located
on the North Highway, and will
convert it into a hotel at once.
It wil! lie known as Hotel Gil-
mer, and is another evidence of
the need for greater hotel fa-
cilities in Gilmer.
arrived.
Mr. Hughes said T will be a !
week or ten days before he will
be ready to open"his new res
taurant.
Pine Tree Well
Center of Big
East Texas Pool
Another Abstract
Company Here
Will Drill Test
Near (Jenwood
Within 60 Days
New Restaurant
Soon To Open
Mrs. Eastwood
Died Sunday
At the Home of Her Brother-in-
Law at Lone Mountain
Waller’s Filling
Station Burned
by the taxpayers.
Aged Lady
Of Oak Hill
Nirs. L: L. Campbell. Died Wed-
nesduy and Was Buried
Thursday
JONES-SELLERS
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED
ing alley, and will establish a
first class restaurant there.
He has had long experiepce in
the business and will move some
three thousand dollars worth of
equipment to this stand.
TO BE SPUDDED IN NEXT
MONDAY NEAR ORE
CITY
W.A.Reeves and
Son, Tom, Heid
in Jail at Marshall Charged
With Driving Car While
Drunk
The filling station and store
of Mr. C. W, Waller, on the high
way, just as you turn to go to
Bettie, six miles north of here.
Leases Bring As
High As $125 Acre
- In East Upshur Co.
Gilmer Fast Becoming a Center
. Of Oil Activity And Prices
Go Up.
Four Young Men
Draw Term In
Penitentiary
They Plead Guilty to Robbing
Willie Peteet’s Store at
Ashland.
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The new High School Audi-
aauea---E
Radishes Going
To Quincy, III.
At Bettie Sunday Night. A
Complete Umm.
there
who have just come to thia city.
Mr. J. B. Martin, who resided
a short distance northeast of .
Gilmer, died at 6 p. m. Sunday,
. Bryce hem, will join the Mirror
in extending its sincerest condo-
lence in her sore bereavement.
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Mrs. L. L. Catpbell of the
Oak Hill community near Bet-
tie, age 78, died Wednesday.
She is survived by a number
of sons nad grandchildren.
Her funeral took place at the
Oak Hill Cemetery Thursday af-
Like many o<
who knew her.
She was a member
Catholic church, and
in town. In addition to the 25
or 30 stenographers working
there, it is the mecca for all the
oil men that come to Gilmer.
W. H. McNair, former Tax
Collector of Upshur County, un-
der indictment for embezzle-
ment of several thousand of the
county's funds, and his case set
for some time in February on
a change of vendue to Gregg
County, was arrested at Mar-
shall last Friday, and lodged in
jail charged with driving a car
while drunk.
It is said that he drove down
the street, running into four or
five cars before being arrested.
He was arrested at Tyler a
short time ago on the. same
charge and was fined >50, and
this case is on appeal
rights here. Strangers all seem
to think that Longview is the J
one place to go if they are inter-
ested in oil.. As a matter of
fact a greater acreage of land
has probably been leased in this
county than in Gregg, and from
present indications this county
will be the center of more oil ac-
tivity in the dear future than
Gregg County.
Let’s tell the world that Gil-
An actual test of the Lathrop
No. 1 well, made Tuesday by Of-
ficials of the well, showed that
it was capable of producing at
least 30,000 barrels of high
grade oil daily, according ot a
statement made by F. K. Lath-
rop and confirmed by B. A.
Skipper. The test was made An
Will Open Offices in Gilmer On
Monday, February 2 -
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The East Texas Abstract Co.
has located in Gilmer and will,
open for business Monday.
Every new business that op-
ens here by reason of the oil
activity, will add new business
and to the population of Gimer
andI they are all welcome.
Officials said that the well
would make 40,000 barrels if
opened up.. The actual test
showed 30,000 barrels. This is
an increase of from 10_to 16,000
over the estimate made Monday
afternoon when the well came
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By TUCKER * LASGHINGER -
all of the growres can be sup-
- - plied. - _2, A number of blocks of leases
time and ware at once sentenced * Mr. Long said this was more
County $1205.40
Friday afternoon Messrs C. B.
Moore, purchasing agent and 8.
L. Crumpton, Solicitor for the
Southwestern Transportation
Co., were in Gilmer to buy licen-
ses for their trucks and busses.
They fought licenses for five
of their vehicles at a total coat
traded For Well to Start
Within 60 Days,
M. Turney and Chas, Cobb,
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after a brief illness wtih pneu-
monia. ‘ <
making five new locations in the
bicinity of the Deep Rock Co.,
producer whre he has purchas-
ed seventy five acres. Derricks
are rigging up for the No. 1 and
No. 2 on the W. W. Holland
tract.
The Sinclair Company also is
J.P. Ray’s Bldg.
Leased For Large
New Cafe Here
Mr. R. C. Hughes of Sherman
has completed arrangements
with Mr. J. P. Ray of Gilmer
to occupy his building on the
corner of the square and the Jef
ferson Highway, with a large
cafe.*
The lease for the property
has been . closed and Monday
morning the sidewalk was being
torn up in front of the building,
which was formerly occupied by
J. E. Croley A Son, and a new
sidewalk to the curbs will be
laid.
Mr. Hughes is in Dallas now,
buying the equipment, which
will all be new, white enamel fix
tures throughout. It is expect-
ed the investment for the‘new
cafe will be from ten to fifteen
thouand dollars.
An experienced restaurateur,
Mr. Hughes said he will give a
cafe that will be second to none
Huntsville where they both en-
tered school at the Sam Hous-
ton State Teachers College on
Monday; .
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Berry and
one of Gilmer’s most charming
and attractive young ladies. She
graduated from the Gilmer
plored by a large circle qf
friends and relatives.
His fueral took place this
(Monday) afternoon at 3:30
o’clock and his remains were
laid to rest in the city cemetery
a large concourse of grief strick
en friends turning out to pay
this last sad tribute of respect
to his memory.
The First National Bank, was
closed for the funeral, he being
an uncle of Mr. Louis Martin,
assistant cashier.
Mr. J. B. Martin
Died Sunday Eve
amount of money here in Up-
shur County, where it will help
our roads, it goes without say- Mrs. O. J. BfUCe’s
ing, will be greatly appreciated
- Methodist Parsonage Saturday
evening. Rev. C. W. Lokey per- —I-.-
forming the ceremony. . W. H. McNair
They left Sunday morning for • • •
consensus of opinion was that
- the development was all towards
lated in any East Texas county
at any time and he belives
there wil. be enough acreage in
truck crops this year to make
the project go thru in a very en-
couraging way.
I of >1.205,40. all of which re-
I mains in Upshur County to be
used on County roads.
According to Mr. Moore, the
Southwestern Transportation
Co. pays annually about >30,000
l for auto licenses on their lines
from El Paso to St. Louis, and
of their total gross income, ten
per cent is paid out in taxes of
various sorts alone.
The expenditure of this'
Upshur county and that we
were on the-eve of a big oil boom
He wanted to .see Mirror
jump into metropolitan propor-
tions at once, with dispatches
and everything, before one of
the chain syndicate started a
big daily here, of which he had
heard talk there a few minutes
before.
, We assured him that we were
ready at any time the patronage
justified it, but at present, it
looked as if even a local daily
would have to be dispensed with
for want of, patronage; and noth
ingsofar justified the Mirror
in spreading out.
However we assured him that
it was gratifying news that the
oil men of that' section believed
that the field was tending to-
ward Gilmer, and that we hoped
development would come before
Had Mr. Martin lived until
, the 18th day of March he would
, have been 68 years of age. ,
He was one of 11 sons of
Judge W. L. Martin, one of the
pioneers of East Texas, and the
first County Judge of Upshur
County. Three brothers survive
him, John M. Martin, of Sulphur
Springs, Taylor Martin of Gil-
mer and Henry Martin of Hen-
derson -
He is alio survived by his
wife and six children.
Mr. Martin was a good citizen
greatly esteemed by all who.
knew him, a good husband an
The last lew days have seen
greater activity than ever in
leasing around Gilmer, with one
30 acre tract in the eastern part
of-the County selling Friday at
>125.00 per acre.
According to oil men inter-
viewed .at Tyler and Longview,
the real play in oil is to come
in Upshur county, which ac-
____________ _______ ocmpleted in February,
Wednesday morning and the en- it is going to be a creditable
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finite information about' new
tests to be drilled, not only in
the eastern part of the county,
but according to some reports,
to the south and southwest of
Gilmer as well.
One of the most necessary
things right now is an oil ex-
change, where persons having,
land to lease or royalty to sell
could list their offerings, and
there these oil men could meet
to trade, instead of"having to
look up individua/“owners and
spend much time running down
people here and there. At Long
view. most of. the trading is
done at the Hotel Gregg, but
Gilmer not having a hotel where
people interested in oil can con-
gregate and buy and sell. If oil
men knew there was an ex-
change here they would come
here by the dozens where one
is here now.
We must not sleep on our
the for the- High School Annual in
1927-28.
Futrell. , 2
They not only own the lease
Jr., representing Marshall inter- bpt a large tract of land just
Mr. K. C. Jones of Indian
Rock and Mrs. Lillian Sellars of
Gilmer were united in marriage
at Texarkana on last Oct. 17th.
The marriage has been kept se-
cret and just been announced.
Mrs. Sellers is the daughter
of Mrs. H. C. Wilson and is well
known in Gilmer. Mr. Jones is
a prominent’ farmer of Indian
Rock community, where they
will mke their home.
The test of 30,000 barrels will
make the Lathrop well by far
the greatest producer in the
newly discovered East Texas.
It proves beyond doubt, oil men
say, that* it is, in the center of
the great pool of oil in the area.
The Bateman-Crim gusher at
Kilgore was estimated 'at not
more than 23,000 barrels at the
greatest.
In conversation with a United
Press representative at Mar-
shall Tuesday night, he said the
over in Marion county from Oro
City.
The derrick for the teat well
oLG. W. Hindman and Henry E.
Rondeau, MeGaughy No. 2, has
been erected three miles east of
Ore City, in Marion County, and
machinery is being placed.' It
is expected that the well will be
spudded in by Monday, Leas-
ing has been very active there
for the last several days and
practically all land Th* been
leased at prices ranging up to
>10 an acre. The Southern
Crude Oil Purchasing Company
is paying the rentala on its
block of several thousand acres
around there.
The owners of this large tract
of several thousand acres, told
a small farm to a negro last year
out of the tract, and Thursday
he disposed of half of his royal-.
ty for enough money to pay
iem for the tract
All Gilmer will join the Mir-
ror in wishing them succesa, in
MeGaughy No. 2, and* trust it
will be a big gusher.
It will mean that we will at
least have four or five rich oil
men in Gilmer.
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tire stock and building was a
Mr. A. O. Phillips of El Paso, complete loss, estimated at from ot the city in entertaining any
is her on a visit. _ ! >150,000 to >200,000.
She was 62 years of age, andHigh School in 1929 Class as
Valedictorian of the Class. She
Radish Shipments
First returns on radishes ship
ped by F. L. Shaw, Sand Hill,
bought the grower 17 1-2 per
dozen net. At'this rate an acre
' will net the grower >157.50.
These radishes were planted
Nov. 15, and were not first cass
on account of having been in the
field too long and run too pithy.
Eight more barrels were ship-
ped Saturday.
It would have been possible
under the past three months'
weather conditions to have been
shipping thousands of barrels
and also car lots all during De-
cember and January, bringing
in thousands of dollars of rev-
enues to the farmers.
These people upon receipt of
the first two barrels wired for
twd more and further ordered a
barrel shipped every other day
until further notice, which will
be from now until May first if
they can be supplied .
CALVERT-BERaY
MARRITE SATURDAY
Miss Ethelyn Berry and Mr.
Ted Calvert were married at the
behave themselves that they 4 ’ --———~a—
Results of the
indulgent father, a good neigh- 4
bor and his death is deeply de- *—
Lontinued on Lant
Tuesday as a number of qil men
watched.
Many witnesses from here in
that case testified that they had
never seen, him drunk. es, an dhis son, Tom Reeves, in
Origin of the from its holdings to Friar
Mrs. Mattie Eastwood, of
Lone Mountain died at the home
of her brother-in-law, Mr. O. D.
Hollad at 5 o'clock Sunday af-
ternoon.
In Dallas and Was Buried in Ty-
ler Thursday.
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Mr. John A. Bryant, father
of Mrs. O. J. Bruce, of this city,
died at a sanitarium in Dallas
Monday after a very brief ill-
ness wjth spinal meingitis pneu-
monia, a very rare complication.
He was sick only a few days,
-being in Gilmer last Friday.
He is survived by his widow
and five children. 3 girls and
two boy a. - ’’
The many friends of Mrs.
Mr. B. V. Long, sales agent of
the Upahur County Farm Pro-
ducts Assn., who Tuesday ship-
ped two barrels of radishes to
Quincy, Ill., Saturday received a
telegram from the buyer there
saying they wanted two more
barrels by express at once, the
first being sold in quick time.
Saturday,' at Waghalter’s
store, there was a jam of farm-
ers getting their seed to plant
radishes Monday, when the first
planting will be made on 150
acres of ground.
Two thousand pounds of seed
have been received, but another
thousand will be required before
uary 26, for the drilling of a
well within 60 days on the 417
acre Marshall Man survey, a
tract located about a mile south
east of Glenwood.
The drillers with whom the
contract was made, are J. Afton
Burk of Corsicana and DeAr-
man Bros., of Van, who have de-
posited a >3,000 forfeit to drill
within the time specified.
The contract calls for the well
to be drilled to a depth of 3,700
feet, unless .oil or gas is found
in paying quantities before that
depth is reached.
This is the first of many
wells to be drilled in the eastern
"part of Upshur County within a
short time. According to a lo-
cal banker in close touch with
the oil situation, it is tikely that
a hundred wells will go down in
Gregg and Upshur counties
within the next few months.
might get out in the shortest
possible time, and that it might
be a lesson to them and that
they might try to become useful
and law abiding citizens after
serving their sentences.
He was more severe in his ad-
monitions to Ernest Beauchamp
who gave his age at 30 years, a
big, able-bodied six-footer, and
upbreaided him with dragging
into the penitentiary with him
the other three boys.
All four of the boys have been
convicted in Louisiana on the
same charge and received six
year sentences there.
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• Hog Theft Canes
- ' Fack Brunnell, Buster Thom-
as and Geo'. Helm, of Camp
county, charged with theft of
two hgs they killed in Cypress
swamp in Upshur county, enter-
ed a plea of guilty, and asked
for a suspended sentence. The
jury gave Brunnell two years,
Buster Thomas, three years,
and Geo. Helm 4 years, but re-
commended a suspended sen-
tence. There being no other
criminal cases ready for trifl
the jury was discharged for the
term an the grand- jury is ex-
pected to wind up their business
, a lady greatly esteemed by all
torium, .being erected onothe GU —
mer High School campus, cap-
Marshall Interests Have Con- magnates. These are Mesars.
Joe Simmons, 17 years of age
E. M. Finley, 19 years of age;
Jewell Simmons, 20 years of age
and Earnest Beauchamp, 30, on
pleas of guilty to robbing Mr.
. Willie Peteet’s store on the
- night of January 15th, and
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