The Gilmer Daily Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1931 Page: 2 of 4
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GILMER OIL EXCHANGE
Choice Leases and Royalties
Ground Floor Rear F. & M.
Bank
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1929 Chevrolet Coach
1929 Ferd Ceach
1928 Frd Sport Coupe
1928 Chevrolet Coach
1930 1 1-2 ton Chevrolet
Truck and cab
1929 Ford Truck
1929 Ford Trude and Cab.
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BID FOR OIL AND GAS
LEASES
30 Chevrolet Coupe to exchange for a 30 model Coach or
Sedan, give or take difference.
A number of -others to select from and every car sold with
our liberal guarantee.
PALACE BARBER SHOP. -
Frank Hartt, Mgr.
Modern Shop, Expert Barbers
Next door to Robertson’s
Drug Store
The Mirror carries a full line of paper
and other supplies, such as:
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Manila and Manifold Papers
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CURTIS HILL
Attorneyat-Law
Civil Practice
County Attorney’s Office,
Court House, Gilmer, Texas.
Phone 179 for Samples and Prices
or call at
MEEKER & NORMAN
Engineers
Surveying and Mapping
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DR. T. S. RAGLAND
And
DR. MADISON S. RAGLAND
Offices over 1st Nat Bank
Phons No. 6, 171 and 103
The New York City Police
Department represents a stand-
ing army of 19,000 men.
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When it comes to wounding
our feelings, dur friends, not
our enemies carry the sharpest
knives.
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N. J. HARRISON
For
Fire, Auto Tornado and Other
INSURANCE
ELMWOOD SANITARIUM
New Modern Equipment
Electric Model it lea for treat-
ment, as well as X-ray and
Flouroscope
J. C. WINN, M. D.
GUARANTY OIL
EXCHANGE
Leases, Royalty, Real Estate
Located in Gilmer State
Bank Bldg,,
to Dairy. Your family's health
to safeguarded as long as you
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Between 5,000 and 6,000 Fili-
pinos are employed during har-
• ests of the California aspara-
HORACE V. DAVIS
Lawyer
1st National Bank RIdg.
Gilmer, Texas.
THE TAILOR
MODERN CLEANING PLANT
Delivery Seryice _ Phone 160
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The countryside— with its gold-
en sun and pure air and clean
OR SALE—At water Kent eleetrie ra-
dio. $25. A. L. Johnson. 28 atde
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Starting April 18, gas will be
15c a gallon at City Motor Co.
28 3tdwe.
Upshur county tract and $5.00
per acre for the Cherokee coun-
ty tract, with agreement to pay •
an annual rental of .not less
than $1.00 per acre, and a roy-
alty of not less than 1-8 of the
value of oil and gas produced
and saved from the land. Sep-
arate bid must be made for
each whole survey or subdivis-
ion thereof, on which bidder
desires to acquire a lease.
Each bid must be accompa-
nied by cash or exchange pay-
able to the Commissioner of
Phone ill
be told what to do, on ent
Josh Houm. To this I M
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found rygur menu on
fresh dairy products:
from tented cowa.
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best candidate always,
asident down to road
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you sends you milt and eream
— hygienically bottled by Whit-
Also Combination Maps of Tezns
LEE MAP CO.
1619 Firm ationai Bae* lg.
Phene 2-784
DALLAS, TEXAS
Ajoyslus Han. who had
the tivere at Africa befone
HOTEL GILMER
J. 8. WHITIS DAIRY
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Used Cars
With a Guarantee That Counts
These cars represent thousands of miles of dependable
transportation at Bargain prices. See these cars before
you buy.
On m. Own
I was pleased to leave Adonimango,
as I was completely my own master.
Following the 'main channel of the
Ogowe River was a huge picnic. I
had charge of the river trade and
visited most of the up and across
traders, taking stock of the amount
of rubber, ivory, etc. 1 likewine
bought many large canoea big enough
tor river tr*<1*.
I selected a large well-bult canoe
and took twenty of she beat boys, ala
of whom were old Experienced hunt
tera aa my crew. I was wall filled
with rifes and ammunition, food and
trading good* to pay current Ex-
penses with, aa money was practically
unknown on the river trade. I was
well supplied on my first trip which
turned out most successfully both for
myself and the Firm I represented.
I chose early morning for a start
and th* sun was not yet visible when
I met Herr Shim, th* Representative
of Carl Woerman and Ge. an* dis-
“And they initiated me into the
ritce of Eybo. the Spear Thrower of
the Black Gode. and I wan a blood
brother to cannibaU.
solutions into a silver mine,
converting the silver caght in
the aolutions into a $600 a
month.
FURNISHED ROOM For Rent, within
a block of aquare. K. 3. Sharp, Phone
200. ’ 20 atdp
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equal to the bonus offered. All
bids subject to rejection at the
discretion of the Board........
If any bid is accepted, the
lease issued to the successful
b'dder will be in compliance
with Chapter 23 of the Acts of
the Fourth Called Session of
the Forty First Legislature, re-
lating to the sale of oil and»gas
in lands of the Eleemosynary
Institutions and State Memori-
al Parke.
All btds must be addressed
to this Board in care of the
Commissioner of the General
Land Office, Austin, Texas.
Write General Land Office
for full information.
Board for Lease of Eleemosy-
nary and State Memorial
Park Lands.
Claude D. Tetr, Chairman,
Board of Control.
J. V. Allred, Atty. General.
J. H. Walker. Commissioner,
General Land Office.
WED_THURS_FRI.
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Extensive deposits of high
grade glass making sand hav-
ing having been discovered at
Singapore, the erection of a
glass factory has been planned.
sanders & McIntosh "t
Notary in Office
......... Lawyers
•cy In the ivory and rubber trade
th* French trade was insignificant
compared to these two Giants of Com-
merce. The feeling between the
British and German races to each
other and trad* rivalry mad* no dit-
ference in their friendship to each
other. Both took their success or de-
feat* In gaining trad* la a good-
hearted, sportsmanlike manner, and
when the day's, work was over visited
each other and even cracked jokes
as to their various mistakes and eled
with each other in hospitality. Most-
ly from Hamburg, they were a On*
lot of men.
M’paugwes and Ceringus
By far the greatest number of n*-
tives who occupied Equatorial Afri-
ea were Mpangwes and their terri-
tory waa immense, stretching from
th* coast and following th* north
bank of the Ogowe River Into Con-
tral Equatorial Africa, yet unknown
They paid tribute to no man and were"
entirely free in every sense, and did
not know or ear* about the French-
men a* th* great majority of. them
had never -seen a whit* man, whom
they looked upon a* a great curi-
acity.
I have entered many a M’pahgwe
village followed by a crowd of laugh-
ing women and chilren anxious to
get a look at a white man whilat
those who happened to be taken by
surprise would dear quickly out of
their houses and bide behind trees,
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Having learnt the Ivory an rubber
trade I was cent to Adimanongo the
furthest up-country poet of the Firm.
I boarded th* Pioneet, a large padele
steamer belonging to Hatton and
Cookson. As the rainy season was
now ever thia was th* last trip this
boat, coul make up the river for six
months or more. Coming to Cape
Lopea we entered the river Ogowe
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Instead of wasting $165,000,-
. 000 building a dam, it would
have been wiser to have spent
a like amount setting out for-
est trees to reforest cut over
and waste land areas. Where
dal Ad J wisdom of spending a
vast sum of money to build a
dam tq throw more acres into
prodution when the big prob-
lem now is over-production On
the other hand, the country is
short of timber. Lumber is so
high that building is restricted
and curtailed. Why would it
not be wiser to attempt to sup-
ply the thing we need and are
gong ot need more and more
rather than to supply more of a
’ thing that we already have too
much of now?
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Safety is a good habit—grab
it.
full cargo made up of ivory. Ebony,
Ball-rubber, also Tongue and Flake
Rubber.
Mr Sinclair was a tall well made
Scotchman from the Orkney Ialande
and was a hard worker: he had an as-
sistant named Mr. (Surrey who took
fever shortly after I landed and died.
J had full charge of the Ivory and in-
din-rubber which ame In and I must
say we did double the trade than th*
Depot at Gaboon On the arrivts of
the new bookkeeper named Gibson
and most of the trade being over on,
account of the fall of the river. I was
put to work surveying the Ogowe.
carefully noting the position of the
main river channels from the mouth
to 100 miles above, the trading iU-
tloo.
cussed matter* with him for a short ,
apace of time. The old man gave me
the best of advice, as Kb had been a
long time with, his firm be knew
what he was talking about, and I
found hla Fatherly advice did me •
great deal of Good. So bidding a
most fond Adieu, I waa soon far away
travelling very swirtiy along the
river Channel.
To the Josh House *
The Ogowe waa full of strange life
and sounds st Early dawn. In fact
was a veritable Zoo let loose Hippo,
would scurry from the Pappyhus
swamps into deep water, crocodiles
would slide from the banks and clouds
of white-winged seabirds would rise
from the banks on which they laid
their eggs and raised their young,
having come from the Ocean for thia
purpose.
By noon we had entered a small
ereek which led to Lake Azingo and
before sunset I was having a good
hearty supper on th* shore of the
most beautiful lake in the world.
By sundown we arrived at a large
Calwa village, situated on the norih
bank of the river. Here was a ahull
house or large Native Josh House,
supposed to contain an Izoga, a
•acred human being who never died.
This Josh house waa situated some
distance from the village, and aa the
sacred Ates were being held at the
time no one *•• allowed near IL espe-
daily the stranger or the uninitiated.
Some of the boys were quite agr
to join thia Josh so I gave them full
permission to do aa they wished, In
fact T wm curious to know all about
thia Josh or Godman and mentioned
this faet to their Chief. He said I
will see what can be done, and oh hla
return told me that it I waited till
the following evening I could gingina
or be received as one of them.
The First White Man
A special ceremony would be neces-
sary for a white man, and I would
TGet your carbon paper and e
typewriter paper at the Mirror
A punching bag has been in-
vented that -can be attached to
the user’s head with an elastic'
cord, returning toward him
PIANO TUNING—Call Mr. Shallow at
Palmer Melody Shop if an experienced
and through tner and technician ap-
peals to you. Highest class references
Yurnished. 29 3tdp
MEBANE COTTON SEED—State test-
ted. grown on black land. A car load
to sell at SOe cash, or will exchange
one bushel for two of mixed seed. J.
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SITUATION WANTED- A» practical
NATURE’S FOODS
_ Brought to You
FOR RENT— Nicely furnished bed-
room, all conveniences, one block
south of Crysta Theatre. Phone 280
or see Mrs. H. T. Dial - 2« dS e
OAK LAWN SANITARIUM
X-ray and Other Electrical, —
' Equipment.
Emergency, Surgical and
Medical Cases Received
DR. H. J. CHILDRESS
STOP AT
THE FRAZIER HOTEL
Gilmer, Texas.
Comfortable Rooms, Good
Home Cooked Food, Reason-
able Rates.
1927 Chevrolet Touring
1927 Ford Roadster
• 1926 Chevrolet Coach
1926 Chevrolet Touring
1931 Chevrolet Coach
1930 Chevrolet Coach
1930 Chevrolet Coupe
THE GILMER DAILY MIRROR, • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1981.
CIVIL ENGINEER
SURVEYOR
8. P. COLLIER
Crosby Bldg. Phone 118
the town of Angola, Cape Lopes and
this, river mouth la Inhabited by the
Ceringus, mostly pirates and slave
traders, and was then considered the
most dangerous spot on the coast
•specially to small sailing craft.
Mr. Stnelair
Leaving Angola we were soon In a
well-nhahited country, and paqsed
quit* a number of villages each day.
Th* Camm* boys occupied the south
bank of th* river and on th* north
bank were Evilis and Shekhania.
Further up stream we passed G«>**
and Okelly villages and then earns
ths Mpangwe towns both on the
right and left hank. Ths oatives all
cheered us crowding the banks a we
pnssed, •
On the point of *n island we now
had a view of Cart Woanaaa'a
splendid depot where thoes were large
numbers of nntives trading at the
time la a few minutes ws drew up
at the Pier of Raifon and Cookson's
trading depot and were recelved by
olaasa,ttrea ot auvehtrine. Al were buuyinno time leading and k. Penn
checking cargo and in a few e ya
the steamer Pioneer departed with a
INITIATED INTO THE NATIVE
KITES
Having given you a slight idea of
the character of natives who in-
'. habited the Gaboon I will describe
to you if possible haw.sho while
„ traders as well as the natives were
situated under the French Govern-
ment.
It must be remembered that at tbs
time of my first few years on the
Coast ths French were not as friend-
ly and could naturally not be so to
the Germana as they were to the
Britishers The sting of their great
defeat at Sedan was still green tn
their memories and this fact was a
great help to un English traders, as
the big German house ot Carl Woer-
man of Hamburg who were the only
real opposition, were straining every
nerve to gain possession of s fair
share of ths Trailer of this part of
Africa.
Whilst the British and Geqman
traders wv“e eontsnfftnj fur tupretn-
not know it. There is one thing
, the United Statesidoe know,
, and that is that git takes twice
as much wheat
much corn and
many eggs to b
as it used to.
of the large Hollywoodless than $7.00 per acre for the
rpicture laboratories has
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FRESH SWEET MILK- Delivered fresh
every night, 5c • pint. Phone 308 or
see H, E. Pickett. 27 atdp
H«»nry Ford nays the United the General Land Office in
Austin, Texas, Tor 'ah amount —--
Mrs. J. W. Owens, Prop.
4 blocks from square ob l i
North Highway
If Satisfied ‘Fell Others. If ,
Not Satisfied. Tell Us,
Notice is hereby given that
•the Board for Lease of Ele-
mosynary and State Memorial
Parks Lands will receive sealed
bids up to 10 o’clock A. _M.,
11th of May, 1931, for oil and
gas.leases on lands described as
follows:
500 acres more or less in Up-
shur County, part of the Ani-
seta Lumbrera Grant, and
south part of site of the Col-
ored Orphans Home near Gil-
mer.
220 acres more or less in
Cherokee county, being the
South 220 acres of the J. S.
Evans survey.
All bids must be in writing,
naming a cash bonus of not
Livinwstone and Stanley, finel. refuge ia
a flop houne at jehanpepburg in she
Transval and earns Nia living by making* '
and peddling wire kitchem usemeila. Oar
day ha called at the hoax ot Ethelveda
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satehes herein are also reserved.
14win, (ameus South African novelist,
and mhe induced him le write the story of
his early lift. The famous book, "Trader
Horm," a best-sellyr all over the worid.
vat the renult at hia wrinine aa<! her
eoitine. In hit story, which it avpearin
aerially in this papey if twemy-one daya
Trader Horn Ivlin ef ad vent urea witla
aa age beanta and wild cannibal tribes.
Thekuajnt speilin of Trader Horn
and Nihahi of ramabtine away from Ma
story to fell of interesting details at hiii
InnnoT life add to"the charn of the
narrative.
The Metrolpldwyn -Mayer picture
“Trader Horn,lmed iu Africa, is based
on the story of hs adventures with Nim
T, the While Goddess of the Isorga.
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GEO? TUCKER ____________________Editor
R. H. _________________________________________________ Business Manager
MRS. G^pRGlA LASCHINGER_________________Advertising Manager
Entered at the poet office at Gilmer, Texas aa second elass mail matter.
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Our geography used to tell
us that the earth was divided
into two parts, land and water.
Since getting out of school we
have learned that the earth is
divided between those that
have it and those whorare try-
ing to get it.
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Orders for rubber stamps,
taken at the Mirror office, tf
nurse, or caring for motherless home
or aged couple, in refined hristian
home. Charges reasonable. Out of
town if neceskary. Inquire Red Posey,
Gilmer Second Hand Store. 27 Stdp
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had the pleasure of being initiated.
I needed a rent and occupied myseir
drawing the river chart till th* eve-
ning. the Aim* for my initiation.
What I saw in the Josh House was '
such a surpise to me that I •hall * "
never forgot what took place. These
ceremonies alwaye take place in th*
eventngn. I waa told that the power
of Itoga for gw* or evil waa au-
preme, and would always help ma
to get what I wished. Further I
could Ranga Tan (swar by saying
Taal) whih meant calling Yam t*
witnem what I mH. and I would be
belleved by 4 members of th* fra-
ternity. I wthe rat white man
become n "mber
(To he caninued) • .
OT>tf.t»db^et^eie
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Planting Seed, Ww per
Spann, Gilmer, Texas
Gilmer, Texas
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W. W. Sander* W. A. Melntosh
E. H. (EDD) MOODY, Prop.
Gilmer Texas
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FOK RENT—Two-room house, unfurn-
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