The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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SEE J. SANDFORD SMltH FOR FIRE, TORNADO, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE, MEXIA, TEXAS.
VOL. XXII. NO. 49.
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Mexia Weekly Herald.
MEXIA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DEC. 3, 1920.
$1.50 Per Year, in Advance.
The above photograph is of the Humphreys well, three
miles west of Mexia, on the Rogers farm. This picture was ta-
ken while the well was spouting oil last Saturday.
Motor Car Service Al-
* most Ready to Start
R. E. George, who is with the
passenger department of the H.
£ T. C. was a visitor in the city
Wednesday in the interest ol'
^ the proposed new motor car ser-!
vice between Mexia and Corsi-
cana. While we did not get an
interview with Mr. George, we
understand that all preparations
for putting an hourly motor car
service between the two points
have been completed, and the
service will likely begin within
the next few days, less than a
week, at most.
This service will assist mater
ially in handling the passenger
business from a number of
points close by and be a drawing
card for both Mexia and Corsi-
cana.
Joe Blake, of Houston, an old
Mexiaite, is here mingling with
old friends.
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What Knowing How
Means to You
Into the Exide Battery made for your
car is built the experience gained in
making batteries for a majority of the
world's submarines, the Bell telephone
system, central power stations, and every
industrial use. The first commercially
successful autpmobile starting and light-
ing battery w\, an Exide.
The result of knowing how is a battery
that will give you long-lasting power
and care-free service.
We know how to repair every make
of battery and make it last as long as
possible, dntil you are ready to replace
it with an Exide. Call today.
Mexia battery and Tire Co.
"The Daitery Doctors"
Many False Items
Appear in Papers
The oil strike at Mexia has
given all the amateur reporters
and correspondents in the coun-
try an opportunity of spreading
false rumors and reports to such
an extent that one here on the
ground becomes amused at
some of the reports being print-
ed.
The Fort Worth Record Mon-
day carried a report, evidently
copied from the San Antonio
Express, which stated that the
rush to this point by oil opera-
tors had created a condition un-
heard of, and that a leading ho-
tel here was charging $1.0 a
night for cots in the hahway
without any cover. The discov-
ery of oil here was also pictured
with a man rushing into town
yelling that oil had been struck,
after which a wild scramble,
hard to imagine, was staged by
the citizenry.
All this would sound proper
in a paper such as the Pennsyl-
vania Grit or the Saturday
Blade, but coming from what
we have been led to believe
were metropolitan newspapers
of the first class, it is rather dis-
appointing to our citizenship.
The Mexia Commercial Club
received the following telegram
from the Fort Worth Record on
Tuesday morning:
Mexia Commercial Club,
Mexia, Texas,
Wire 300 words on Mexia oil
field Tuesday. Will send an oil
man down there for write up
Sunday with pictures, if the
Chamber will buy 2 pages of ad-
vertising matter. The Fort
Worth Record.
The Commercial Club wired
back the following reply:
Fort Worth Record,
Your telegram received.
We are not interested in
your proposition at this
time.
If you care to send your
reporter here to gather
news for your paper we will
be glad to extend to him the
proper courtesies, as we are
doing to all other visitors in
our midst.
Yours very truly,
Mexia Commercial Club
The attitude of the Record is
showing a decided contrast to
that of the other big papers, and
if the president of the Commer-
cial Club had read the report in
Monday's paper before the re-
ply to Tuesday morning's tele-
gram was sent, more than likely
there would have been some
mention, if not a retraction of
the false statement, asked of
the Record.
There is only one leading ho-
tel here so far, and so far as we
know the rates have not gone
above $5 a day. Hundreds of
visiting people are securing nice
comfortable quarters among the
residence section, and we be-
lieve the people are rather gen-
erous in throwing their homes
open to the public.
Oil Continues to Flow
From the New Weii
Shoes at a Big Discount
-—Men's Shoes—Women's Shoes
---Boy's Shoes---Girl's Shoes
-—All Go at Greatly Reduced Prices*
—Men's Dress Shoes on sale at $5.95, $7.85 and $9.85.
—Ladies Shoes on sale at $4.95, $5.50, $7.85 and $9.85.
—Boy's Shoes on sale at $3.95, $4.35 and $1.95.
—Girl's Shoes on sale at $3.50, $3.69 and $4.39.
—Children's Shoes on sale at $1.69, S1.89. S1.98 and $2.48.
Always
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o Serve
You
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MEXIA TEXAS.
Leaders
in Mexia
40 Odd
Years
$600,000 HOTEL BUILDING, FIVE
STORIES HIGH, TO BE BUILT HERE
Spillers Accepts Life
Term in Penitentiary
The last flow of the Humph-
reys well occurred in the early
hours Tuesday morning, when
possibly 100 barrels of oil ran
into the slush pit.
Workmen are busily engaged
in the task of erecting storage
tanks to care for the oil from
this well and two of the large
wooden tanks have been com-
pleted. The steel tanks have al-
so arrived and will be erected
as soon as the wooden tanks are
completed. These tanks will
care for several thousand bar-
rels bf oil, and of course other
provision will be made as soon
as necessity requires.
Another flow of the well is ex-
pected momentarily.
Misses Marguerite and John-
nie Faught of Groesbeck, who
have been here the guests of
their sister, Mrs. Gene Sinclair
and family, returned home Sun-
day accompanied by Mrs. Sin-
clair and little son, James.
Plans are now on foot for
the erection in Mexia at an ear-
ly date of a five-story hotel buil-
ding of steel and brick, fire proof
throughout. Proposed location of
this structure will be on the site
of the three buildings owned by
the Colonial Investment Com-
pany and Jesse McLendon, be-
tween the Jackson Bros. Build-
ing on Commerce St., and the
alley next to Roller's drug store.
Mr. Ben Smith tells us that
the building will be one of
the finest hotel properties in the
state and construction will begin
as early as material can be had
and after the buildings now oc-j
cupyuig the lots are razed. The |
east^ialf of the ground floor will
be occupied by the First Nat-
ional Bank, a new concern just
organised. The entire second
floor will be occupied by the I
Humphreys Mexia Company,1
the remaining floor space to be
used for the hotel rooms.
The company financing this J
project" is composed of local peo-
ple, who propose to erect and
maintain a hotel second to none
in the entire south. The base-
ment will be used as a kitchen
and culinary department for
the hotel, and will be equipped ]
in a manner surpassing many of
the larger and higher priced ho-'
tels of the country.
The erection of this new hotel j
will serve to relieve any doubts
in the minds of those who have
wanted to know what Mexia pro- j
poses to do in the way "of taking
care of our visitors and thous-
ands of people who wish to make I
this city their headquarters
while engaged in various lines of
industry incidental to the oil de-
velopments surrounding.
Judge B. H. Gardner and wife
of Palestine are here the gue&ts
of J. W. Bonner's family. The
judge is here looking for an of-
fice in which to establish a
branch law office o fthe firm of
Gardner & Hopkins. The jun-
ior member, Mr. J. R. Hopkins,
will have charge of the Mexia
office.
| Groesbeck, Nov. 29.—Henry
Spillers, who killed S. A. Box at
Mexia, on Nov. 2, and who was
given a life sentence by a jury
in Judge Blackmon's Court, has
; been sent to the State penitenti-
; ary, as he filed no appeal.
i R. PI Yeldell, Jr.. who has
been in west Texas several
months past, most of the time in
the Breckenridge oil fields, spent
, a few days last week visiting
relatives here. Mr. Yeldell was
(highly elated over the prospects
' for a big oil field here.
Hog Killing Time
Lard Cans, all sizes, best grade.
Meat Choppers and Sausage Mills—all lards, several
sizes.
Butcher Knives, Diamond Edge, the best grade on the
market.
Get a Block and Tackle for pulling your hovrs out of the
vat, and for swinging the carcass.
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Cobb-Bennett Hdw. Co.
"If it's Hardware, we have it."
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The Mexia Weekly Herald. (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1920, newspaper, December 3, 1920; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth292391/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.