The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 25 x 18 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
9'
: - ■
y-p*
jit
3
? ;. .
J
iy county, texas,
sssBsaaa
crosbyton,
voai9
as
ay/february ii, 1927
W. Jackson
";vai
I
I
"V
i'l
J. W. Jackson has in more than 700
-acres of. wheat. It is looking fine
Md could npt promise better at this
tune. "With ^fai? yield, s*y.20 bush
I Boy''ScobiEa.Jof America, and we have
"- .^can
how much money will
crop of. wheat.
^Hr, Jackson is frfarmer who lives
■is uot. lying over the
price "of cotton. '"I have made
"off of my hogs than I havepjtff
my cotton," said Mr: -Jackson.
'Sold one hog-alone, which brought
I hfe. said. Jackson said he
-rejJized half'as.much off his turkey
"""• a's nie had off his couon"cT6pT *" ~
;Li Bemdes this Mr. Jackson keeps five
cqwb "and from them he realizes about
$80 a; .month from the cream. These
things jnay not pay debts, he said,
big thing about it is, they
keep me fropi goiajj£ in debt.
gathered' the following information
_ from our efficient Scoutmaster, Bro.
Buie: . V V'/-
There are 27 meihberjs, classified as
follows: tenderfoot, 6; seeondvclassy 10
first class, 11. Seven of the first
class scouts have becoirie Life Scouts.
.Star Scouts have-' pass'ed five merit
badges, and Life Scouts have passed
.a~;
onor
y tenth W0'* patrol..
"•'J
The next Cfpurt of Honor in Cros-
> byton will be in the high school audi-
torium Thursday; night, February 10.
" jXl Vvill 'bB tlW llltfd Cag3ft' of Hohbf ^e
r Crqslayton Boy Scouts -will* have ha4d
; arid it Is hoped and' believed that it
will bie the biggest and most success-
ful _'_ • - >—• • — -
Immediately after the program of
the Court of Honor a ^banquet will be
' had for the Boy Scouts and their
.. facers. ■ 1' '.
Miss Barth made another splendid
k to the Scouts on .the merit badge
«f first aid. ( _ _ ■:
This-week,IfrOm the sixth to the
thirteenth) is Scout' Annive$pary Week
Scouts are supposed to do a
food turn daily and-they are pinning
" knots on people to remind them to
also doa good turri each day. The
patrols have different colored knots
and the patrol that pins the .most
Snots on people will be given a merit.
At -the last meeting a contest was
- ; • - ■ .
— - " • r" -- - >1
Some Interesting, Dr. Horn
To
LocaLScauts J. ed Auditorium
The Review believe^ it would be of
interest to our readers to know sojnfc;
thing of Crosbyton Troop No,-l of the
Harriett
New Jew-
ort
held between the different patrols on
knot tying. The Hawk patrol and the
Panther patrol tied for firstrplace."1
... ' - —Scribe; ".
■iO~THerit badges." '
Theis^.are four'' iffitrols, Hawk,
-Panther, Flying Eerie, - and Wolf.
Hoy-JCarr is leader of ^the HaStfk"^^
rtol; Julian Littlefield for thePanth-
er patrol/ Merrell Howell- for the Fly-
mg Eagle; and Eugene Cagle foi* the
Georgie McDerinett is
Senior Patrol Leader: >■ =-
Our Court of Honor is composed of
the local troop committee with three
special mqmbeTB;^ PttrfrCf R; Ow^ri,- "R:
E." Karr and W. N^Covper, with Mr.
Owen as chairman. All: pastors of
the town-are also "members:
• Miss Barth, county health nurse,
has been so helpful in giving instruc-
tion and furnishing literature that the
troop has elected her' as honorary
member. „ "// V .
The equipment consists of two
United States flags, one troop flag,
one Christian flag, four patrol flags,
drum, bugle, regular red cross first
aid pouch, regulation troop record
boolk_ji small library of books for
boys, 25 merit badge books, and most
of the boys have the official Boy
Scout uniform.
Dr. T. J. JCagle, Cr C. Ingram and
M. G. Bass compose the local troop
committee, . ilev, E. P.. Duie. is Scout.
assist--
Banquet.at M E
master and Edgar Hutchins
**n*t , ,
Bro. Buie tells„ua that the majority
of the boys endeavor to live up to
the high Ideals of Scouting, arid are
at all times reSdy and anxious to help
someone in need, and that the work" is
appreciated by the community.
on. wf.ix FOITND
Night Feb. 18th
The ladies of the Womans Mission-
ge a banquet on Friday night,
.February 18, in th« Sunday school
rooms at the church. This will be
given for the entire membership of
t.ho fhiirrifi. and the friends of. the.
chufch. ' ..^.
The proceeds jvill go to help pay off
" an Old bj^nk not. There will be a 'pro?'
gi'ant, rendered and a general get-
-togethg^ ,meeting ig .desired. Let
•" "%very member plan to be on hand.
Speaking .before an audience that
taxed the capacity Of the large high
schort auditorium last Sunday night
Dr. "Paul W. Hbrn, president Qf the
Technological College, deeliPred that
the "J6eor3s Show Tthat nov first class
Scout has ever "darkened th«T doors" of
a penitentiary: . This within itself is
sufficient evrdence of tHe great value
■Of the Boy Scout organization, and
that it should have unreserved sup-:
port of every community.
The BOy Scouts of America are
this week observing their seventeenth
anniversary and the Sunday night
service was the beginning of the
(week's program that had been previ-
ously announced. - " .
:t^4)r. .Horn is a rnember of - th^jNa-
tional Boy Scout Cduncil of Aanerica
and his message tp the community in
behalf of- th%- B(fy Scout ^mwement
.was received. wi^h iriurh-tnterest by
the large crowd assembled. Dj.- Horn
lOiid as his subject, "AM th ? schihl.
•grew- in wisdom and in st^tuo'arid in
fayor with God and man." "Some'wilt
Baptist church and had been for many
years. ; • 'v ^ •• _
The k'isiains were shipped to the
old" home in JJell county an^laid to
rest by the Side of her husband wh6
died several years, ago. "She has
three children living, Ge0. McLain,
' Mrs. C. M. White and "Mrs. Byron
Coward, and one daughter who died
in-Ball county about five years ago.
The funeral cereirionies tfere con-
ducted t>-y i{ev. C. E. Dick:
tori crop or- the wheat crop, or, th
hog crop, etc. is the. greatest crop we
have, "but I tell .you it-i6 the boy
crop of Airierica~that it, ;ne most val-
tiable ccop we have." - ' —
All congregations of the city. diiv
^nissed their evening service to attend
the special service, on this occdsibn.
•k During this week the Boy Scout;-
in observing the. Seventeenth Anniver-
^axK-jof the order, are emphasizing
each day some different phase, of the
Scout life. Last night was the regu.
lar Court of Honor night,, in which
several officials of the South~~Plains
Council participated.
u. of t. students
6bing cheer to
eleemosynary
The Index , has conten*fe(l* all along
that the O'Donnel country was the
lid to a great oil pool and only need-
trd punc.turing"tb brirf^- the golden
liquid, to the surface, but so far the
fur nas passed the
coufitry' up, pireferrfng ~ to J;ake" his
chances in pro territory. To find
oil, one usual'. r ; te- 1—ill for , it, of-
ten meeting many obstacles before it
AUSTIN, Tex^ Feb. 10 —Entertain-
riient and ilfte.r are brought the
residents of the state .eleemosynary
institutions around Austin on-Sunday
afternoons by a group of University
of Texas students, according to Ed-
ward L. McCollum of Forrttran, gen-
eral director, of the Sunday clubs of
the various churches. Pr
g7°sTfgrT
talks, arid Stunts->of various kinds by
both the old folk and, the studejpts.
"At no place are our visits more ap-
preciated than at- the Poor Farm,'
McCollum said. ., "To watch the people
of^mMrim^^er^rient make^ th'i'
•" ">rth whrle. When we
Garnet McL^in passed aw^ ^ ^ R. Smith wad family arrived hen
laat Fnday morairtg ab<^it five o'clock' -
at the home of George 'MeLain, her
son, Where she. had been making .her.
home. v .,
Mrf. MeLaiSt; or "Aunt Harriet" aa.
she waj? familiarly known, . was * 76
yfetfts old gt the time o? her death
She- was a faithful member of the
county court
in session
the latter part of last week from
Cordill, Okla., and will make Crosby-
tpri theix. home.
Mr. Smith is establishing an up-to-
date jewelry store and repair shop in
the building" vheated by "Parks-Ruth-
erford Dry Goods^Store, next door to
the postoffice. Mr. Smith has a, om
plete outfit that goes to.maltha first
clas jewelry establishme:
Other goods will be coming in soon,
s^id Mr.- Smith, and I expect to keep
as-good selection of goods 'as can be.
bought anywhere.
-Mr. Smith expects to have hi3ropen-
ing on Monday, February 14.
We are glad , to welcome Mr. and
Mrs. Smith and family to our town
County court is in session this week.
The jury; has been called* for next
i'^Si ' • .. n „ .. v. ■ v . fweek instead of the fijst"week. as here
you> sa d Dr. Horn, that thyco^
A good many cases, both civil and
criminal, are on the docket this teiroJ"^T **":
it is said, which will likely take more1 p
than a wek to a. .'.pose of, said Judge
Mabe. "
- Oran Mc'Clure and soni, Welddn arid
little Mac, all of Spur, visited with
- Unele Tony 4a«t Sunday. Like ttrhavg
them with me. The pleasure was all
mine. Mr. McClure'is^the father of
grady hill in ^
new location
Grady Hill has m&ved his'cafe _to
the north side- and changed the[name
from the Blue Froiit -Cafe to Hill's
Cafe. He is very nicely situated" and
is starting off good, he. says. ;
negro "Killed at
■ ra' lswei). night]
A negro was shot .and killed by
youtn and
efforts. v:e~
go to the Confederates Womens Home
the boys 'get plenty of motherly ad-
vice, and when we go to the Home for
was encountered,, but this week the Confederate Veterans, the old men
reverse took place in E. D. Yeasts' like to flirt with the co-eds." *-
water well—'the oil just Simply drill- Visits are aFso made to the Institute
ing~ its way. into the well^ good old(>for the Blind, the Insane Asylum, and
■negro stabs wwts
man—is' caught
V '~4
> A negro stabbed a white man by
'. ^ the name of Sanders at Lorfepzo last
Saturday nigfitv Sheriff Elmer1
.1 «was notified and immediately
chase: ahd-eaug&^he negro at Justice-
burg. He was brought here andjpiac-
ed*ln jail to await the actiori of £he
Gsand Jtfry.
d has ho1 t
the "Holt"t Combine
itory. J. L. Boyd
Tom j[ :jSoyd ^11 assist in- sales'
A";sample of ^his combine wa un-
first of the week and
r -Stat here the public
ri®yiFMT.^Boyd,(
greafj^V; lugh>gravlty oil,' giving off a
gas that is easily ghited. Fro- l a
pbor farmer that was pot aL : ;j.o ...:et
the notes n his land K.. .-ClSxc: '^nd:^
a chancy of becoming a million e in
short order. ... <v-v: <T;
piimp Xailed 'to work and to ascertain
the cause he pulled the piping and
foun^l- that the well liad caved to the
-exterit that it required "a drilling ma-
chine to slush .out the debris arid
when, the bucket was let down and
brought ypj. no water Was in the buck-
et, but instead it was filled with oil.
As the oil was drawn from the 'we .
it again filled several feet. 'Spine gas
is reported as corning from the Well.
Mr. Yeatts arid Tom Cole came to
"town "Monday bringing a bucket of oil,
from tlje well wid it attracted-quite
a bit of attention. Several business
men have visited the we during the
week and they express the opinion
that the oil has -bew" forced into it
^omewhere above the water level by
4gas pressure. The well was originally
100 feet in depth but it is now filled
to within 107 feet of the top with the
caving—O'Donnel Index. . • "
'" ' 1 . 1—1i
night, according to Sheriff Eliner
Reed who was called to the scene:
Sheriff Reed arrested a negro chairg
ed- with the kiling and placed him-in
jail to await .the, action of the Grand
Jury. - ' "•')
llkske building
nearly completed
Th'1
pleted. Albert Lieske and C. L.
(Happy), Dyer will operate a "Piggly-
Wiggly".store in this building ami ex-
pect to be ready for operation abau.t
the first of March.
sain .vir.;„L/.yer* but. the shipment of
fixtures has heen delayed and it will
be Mar^,. 1st before we hope to be
in operation. * j
WAKE ITEMS
.Mr. Sam, Phillips and wife and lit-
tle. Juanita,;of - Fioydada, gave the
Blossoiri Filling Station a -pleasant
call last Sunday mornipg,
Bob Forbes, of Spar, was greeting
old friends in our midst last Week, lie
also wanted to buy some cattle.- .
, B^.P. Hodge, Elsie -and Lottie Bar-
nett have returned from a several
days visit in Archer Gity".
7 The Arttilope basket ball team won
from-Bake* and McCoy, rural school
from the South side. The same team
,4-will play Lockriey this week.
Misses Bessie DobUs -rartiK Mavis
Tilson are visiting in Amheyst at'tgis
writing'
• Truman Barnett let old .'^Lizzie'
spill him in the bar pit last Sunday
evening:^ No one hurt- . -
olyde HdH'eyin'au'haSv.been..in East"
land county for -.some • time,
reTurned .honjeV'
Bill Dunn was in cfur vicinity first
of the week, taking the census. "* _
Grover Cleveland Thompson, of May
View, Floyd county, has moved on the
welcome
Thompson a rid f am i ly amen g us.
J. H. Barker went to Spur today on
business, :
Alex HolL^jjian, o.^, Gorman, East-
land county, visited with his fathc.r
,,, ,, , , , - D. N. Holleyman, this week.
\\ e would have beejLj^^,^^t^L^,^Tji^T,.
Last Holiday night
%y
mm
en inter and sevend hundred
worth of
•Irthijtot
on the case and on Toeaday ctf Mfe
week he returned from A&agBS wUkll*#*. 1
a. collection of dresses,
^ identified' : by Mr.
Weathereby of the Jones Dry Gdmh
Co., of I«t%n^> ai; the goods sUjtea
from- his WeaJthecrahy aft- .. ,
Companied Sheriff Reed to Ainarflltt.
Sheriff Reed also "a^resteti 'two m«a''
charged .with the robbery- and placed
them in jail to ajjrait the-action pi me
Grand Jury. . r: - - . - ^
Sheriff Reed said yesterday,
Jim Shirley, one of the
had made bond, and was releasee!.
mr. and mrs. caple
CALLI^TOmLLAS
•-r«a.n.;
death of daughter
J. A. Caple, of * Mr/kdoo, .
throuh Spur Monday on hi*
home from Dallas where he and Mia.
Caple had been called on account of .
the illness and de^h' W their" daeg^-
ter, Mm' Pauline Stewart Mr. and
Mrs. Stewart had been teaching^achMd
at Honey .Grove, when she became' H
and on Thursday went to the Baptist
Sanitarium at Dallas for an 'operatioa,
her trouble being diagnosed as cancer
of the stomach, she living only a
days after the operation was perforat-
ed, the body being carried to Bj^jutfa
MUT Jri ^Cass county for interment ia
the Stewart family cemetery.
Caple remauied with the family
another imrtiffn
o-*: '
^ : .
■ - A
^nd Mrs. Cajde certainly have experi-
enced misfortunes in the family the
past several years, and The Texas
Spur certainly -extends them sympathy
3T sorrow and - nfisfbrtnnes.-
Teias Spur.
f!o;icy-(i rave to a item I the funeral of
her'-'daughter,' Mrs.' Stewart, will re-
turn home today.-
other'institutions of tfi'fe, kind.
T SIDE CAFE
:• TO MOVE SOON
the West" Side „Cafe,. they, will
occupy their, new building about thr>
15 of this month.
The-W^it Side Cafe will" occupy the
new bqjjiling rederitl/ -completed by
the Citizens National Barik"^nd which
adjoins* that building on thle west.
announcement '
1 i "
I will open my Jewelry store for
business, February 14. "WiTl'have a
comple£e.,.Une of jewelry (sooq>; in't
emblems, rings, art ware, silver ware
f Jff. Tam a certified watchmaker arid
will do a general repair business in
watches clocks, phonographs, all kinds
of soldering'work." Expert l&mon'd
setter in fancy, airline mountings,
Mill grain work. 'Over 400 wedding
rings to pick from, both whiteand yei-
low gold. J. Kent ^nith, South side
«<i« re. 4^
AJft~work guaranteed. •
COOPER ATTENDS
U OF C. BANQUET
AT FLOYDADA
Sefretary S. W.. Coo per attended the
Chamber 'qf Commerce ban<iuet at
Fioydada last Friday-night'and re-
ports an enjoyable occasion, -w. ,
Tlie feature, of the banquet was the
fact that all the canned goods served
ty," said Mr. Cooper.
A spirit Of optimism prevailed hrid
a fine program outlined for the year.
Unele Tony. — -Ut iuuLiur offirj' wnrlr <Ptw>
DATE FOR SUMMER
SCHOOL ANNOUNC-
ED FORJTHE TECH
-LUBBOCK, Tex.' Feb. 9.—A twelve
-weeks summer', school at Texas Tech
nolog.ical College is announced to be,1-
gin Tuesday, June ^ and close Friday
August 26, the session ..to be^dwd*?
adt
MURPH*!& BUILDINGS ,
> ARE COMPLETED
J. Murphy has completed --,fwq
new brick buildings,- on.e on the east
side of therati <ire and one on south'
Berkshire hfrfni i mitTi. i'lT The Review
office. They are riioder(n in every
. .. - . .. way5and add much to Reappearance
eluding watches, clocks, watch chains, ^tho city.
HAWtCINS-MONTGOMERY
1494 at u. of t.
Leo Hawkins andHMiss Linnie Mont-
gomery Were married Saturday night
at the, Methodist, parsonage by Rev.
J. T. Weems. ~ 5T
. The coritracting parties are populag,
young" pebple of the community and,
have the. well wishes of many frienr
CAIUTOF THANHS ^ "
"Work of. ioliege' grade in the schools
of liberal arts, agriculture, engineer-'
ing, and home economics will be of"
fere<l, th^eptire ,school plant being
available for summer students- 'Marij
niembers of the regular faculty, as-
, .sisted fay.^pCcioliats of—recognizeri
Stamling, will offer both regular and
special courses. / . . v . . * '
- ' Since the clmate of Lubbock is un
uSuaflly pleasant^ the suriimfer sessions
will be featured. It is expected.that
many teachers from the loWer"'.
warmer altitud<^a. will elect to atterki P^^flned, and-J was bel
here, combining1 a pleasant—vacation wnnlr" **"* '
With a period of profitable study.
The altitude pf Lubbock is 3,251 feet-
Last summer a trip to thfe'famous
Carlsbad Cavern was sponsored by the
institution and proved a most inter-
esting (feature. This trip will be,, re-
peated this year, with the probability
that other trips of special or histori
cal interest will Aa planned. Those
Whp bring their «0mobiles to Lub-
-r-r*-—
t' -i. f
be gladly given a*ul he is arixious far
5^—
AUSTIN, Tex. Feb. 10.—Alexander
Barclay's tranalatlon of
....... . ^ ......... . Wc^alw; this meapstof —
Mondayour thariks to theae^^ who^^ ifr any^ way
prospective buyers fb see
of njade In 1609-m the oldest
>k in tlvr^renn collection of the
University Of T>auw. The book w.as
written in 1494 by the Germani Se
The, ShipJ urtusually waifm feather, for winter,
a re&l northeiTtftiTick with consider-
able foreft*-and continues until Thur^s W <iSa^ mother.
ue wordj^roi^ cofhfort
during the recent illriess and death of
day aftomodn,-when the sun came
to grow
. . ." ' « -
V'VT • f '■ '-
-
Geo/ge-iMcfcatn a«d*<amily.
Mrs. d M. White1
Mrs. .Byron Coward and family..
Remodeled
Work is gqn
courthouse remodelirig-the County
Clerk's offioq. ,A partition is being
built in the front part of the office
in order that more convenience may
"
door opening i.pto tile hall will be open
to the public-; for the transaction of
business.
Other necessary improvements wt3
be made in the vault for the purpose.-;
of Tiling records, said MrvAHan/eoun-
ty4 ch?rk.
. '-i
likes crosbyton ;
: ""
Bogata, Jexas, Feb. 1; 1^57,'
Editor Crosbyton Review,
Crosbyton, Texas. *• ■„
Dear .Sir: "
I'enjoy the R«;view every week, it_
is likfe one of those gtentfe zephyrs
tl at blow all'the time ojit in
handle where there is room
pand.
the Pan- i I
to
1 had expected to be back eie
now, but one of owi.housefr ne8.rty
caught "ablaze from a grass fire-i-1
put ^t out and got my .hands iburned
to a blister and then they 1
, -.. r Je
weeks, and ndw^ny .wife
j'luenza. -I do not know
but I,am going back V>
live, I like, the
that^gectipn of
/•
......
I
V.
jmm
Land Surveyor.
WS0&
Si WW
♦fhete he had been b&
ed the
ana has charge at
department under
bbek wilt find many points of intereBt
• ■" '—^
may
On account of the didagre^VWr
weather, the publie ^ile of S. J. Hand
ley of the Wake co'mmypity, has been
postponed until Tuesday, Feb. 16.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1927, newspaper, February 11, 1927; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255659/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Crosby County Public Library.