The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 26, 1929 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUMK IV
®Ijc 3x0 £al« tUil&rat
(Big Lake News and Oil Review Absorbed by Purchase March 1, 1927)
TEXAS, j
f
i : 4a /
‘‘Lowe Hardware Closes
Out Big Lake Business
BIG LAKE, REAGAN COUNTY, TIXAS, JANUARY 26, \<m No P>
child badly injured DEEPEST oil well is West Texas Pioneer is
IN ADTO COLLISION BEING HELD DOWN
Foi several week* * tin* Wildcat In*
horn promising i '* reader* -ottr"
new* in regard to bu*mc*s <!».111■ ■ < -
in Rig I ike. So here it is;
Tin I .owe II.1 dwar and I iiinituir
Company thi* week sold its Hi; I .ik-
business and interests. I In* I. I*.
Young Corporation take* all tin' tin-
riitnre, rugs. cU ., while Win. Cameron
*\ Company take n- r die hardware.
\e*lerday the J. !>. Young Corpo-
ration finished moving their piinhn*-
<s to the Rig l.ake F urniture Co, «lnie
and I he* hardware stock was dicing in-
voiced. and will l>-‘moved to the
home of tin* Win. Cameron & Co.
This does not mean that Rig Liik'*
is losing ground but on the other
hand that both intercs s will he hen",
fitted by the merger of the two stock*.
It will mean larger a'oeka for both
enterprises, better service, lower ov-
erhead expenses and lower prices.
Heads of both concerns assure the
Wildcat that there will be no advance
in prices on account of the merger
und consequent lack of competition.
The J. D, Young Corporation Ins
leased the building occupied hv the
I,owe Hardware Co., but Dr. Young
of the J. 1). Young Corporation,
stars that at the present time he does
j Honored By Coitegs
p* $
~ * j
1 ,1 .■
Ohcrlin CoMcfcc, Ohcriin, < >, has
unveiled a tablet to Hu- memory (*f
C Iiarlcs Martin Hall, who worked
his way through <in. codec,»• amt
eft it twelve milli.,11 dollars when
lie died. Hall ini nted the process
for making aluminum in 18*/;. when
>till a young boy. His work m.niv
aluminum valuable commercially.
Saturday night a about *>:(K> Atj article wih a Rig l.uke date j
o'clock a Dodge touthtcr collided 1 line relative to the world's deepest
with n Ford coupe nt the turning p'r*1 j oil »r* lI i* interesting and appeared
near the lust Mac Hunk. As a re as f•»>i iw> in th< Sail Aneglo Morn-
■ult the little eijlit-year-olil child of mg Juries of |- inlay:
Harper MiMidiacI, living on the ( Tl world’s derp< *t oil well, il.
old Selnieemaitn ranch about fourteen *>.M f t deep, the Texon Oil \ I and
it ihs ‘ou Ji of town, was thrown Company'* No. I H I niveisi y, whi !i
throu rh the windshield and onto the r< till* oil wot Id talking and gue--ir..r
radiator, according to < il\ Marshal a- to what this find means, is tied
Frank \frCuire. I he face and !i> * down like the lug gushers in tie*
were badly rut to the hone and in- Yales Held, Sprocket cha ns and
te mil injuries were feared. Frank I -ho} ire used to hold the well in
MeCuite was lii* on the scene and i place, for no chat.ee is being taken,
rallied the child into the Rig Take j with the deep furth producer. Only
Drug (.0. store where Dr. Miller . la I w. ck when two flow liar*, lead
dns-“d the wounds, after which Me ! jng from the well to the battery o*
< in in* took the child tp his home and |jve tanks being increased by two
phoned the parents. Hie child w as j others were cut off fora few minutes
allied home Sunday and word from ! the pleasure got -u high that the we!'
NATURAL GAS TO BE
her Thursday night was to the effect
that sin* was resting well.
According to Marshall McGuire
a man by the name of Jones was
driving the McMiehael coupe, accom-
panied hv the little child and in mak-
had to Ic opened and allowed to gi
on the gfound for a few niinutes.
I Wo gaugers are on duty at this
well till the time, says <>. C. \lorri*
one of the gaugers and one of th**
farm bosses, K.ilpli Stephenson look*
SAN ANGELO AIRPORT
ing the turn around the post at the after it ronsantly. II the well ever J||q^ j
hank corner to turn south, the Dodge. 1 egim- to decline in production, then
_|h *iinrw occupied l>\ two gentlemen, eut in on the tools wdl he lowered into the hole
PIPFD Til THRFF TflWN * l'ie left side and the collision oe- and the well deepened, *.iy* Carl
I LU I w I IIIILl. I U TV lit) , hck,!. Mefiuire arrested both grit* j Cromwell, the superin 'undent of the
~ —— tlenten and jduccd them in jail until Texon and owner of l(Mt,t)(Mt share*
(.;is franchise* have been secured Monday when one of them paid >
•*' Mcf.amey and Rankin and an op- fine for a misdemeanor in the may
tion has been secured on a franchise <>T* court and the o her is bring he'd
of sin k in the company. .
Cla.ton Williams, whose reeom ! I,",c f,iKht ™*ry> W- K <(JnY
mend..tions as thief engineer andn.ai.agor of the Magrslic
Called hy Death Alltel
I*. II Coates, Sr. pu.-sed tiw.iv 'it
I his rmieJi boon a few miles north o'
'own I lie-day moreing, Ja1111.it y 2!',
1929. at about II o'clock following
I declining iondlh for the past sever'd
| month-. Il was only a lew wok*
ago December I'Hli that he und
Mls. Coates kept open house to ihe t
Iriemls, and served a barbecued din*
ne 1 at tile noon hour, in celebration
of their golden wedding anniversan .
Mr Coates was hoi 11 March T>,
IR.'i.'i, in Mississippi and came to
I Texas in ins early life, huviiig le d
in Texas for (>l years and in Reagan
; county lor the past 3.r> years, where
he has always been held in highe-t
r-*e«in by his fellowman ami h i-
identified himself with every effort
for the uphuilduig of the country, in
short, he was a good citweil, a good
man and the world is heller for his
having passed ibis way. He w 1
mar iieil to Miss Sicrlry Jayroe. 1
kinsman of Texas’ beloved ex-goven
or, the late James Stephen Hogg, in
Taylor county, Dorriufier 19, M!7d
arid to their union were born thirteen
children, all of whom made good end
Al Henley, Fort Worth pilot and highly rfttper.led ciliwna.
“ L “k Mr. and Mrs. Coaes were pioneer
•ranchers in We-l leva* where thei
have Siieeeeiled in amassing ron-i
*?
Two months old Marilyn Ann
Culfetl of Cleveland lias been re-
corded as the youngest p.isscrtgi r
ever to ride in a plane, having ar-
rived m Chicago with tier parents
via the air. The baby will al»o ride
hack by plane.
not know how he will use it. After} at Rig Take. |,y Recce K. Metier, it um|ri a om* thousand dollar bond to Urologist for the irx„„' wlm had i 1 lu‘i,,rr •" h,r NV,,r,,, af,J l)a" „av<. ...................... - —
the sale, which will start February 8. iV;l* reported in San Angelo Tuesday await the action of the grand jury. much to do wiRt the sinkiu • of the!K,a/"?* f,,rmrr S‘in biwdwH ;rrab!r wealth. Mr. Coates was o-
he will decide ju«t how the buatnea* night hv Lorain Tan him of fthi ....... t. ,t hhi* Miat the recovery Pl*Ter» lheijr Uf thoae dependable men of the old
will lie conducted-and where. city, his representative. Mr. M.C-e l |*T()N COURT TO ASK BOND ' per war Rom the d .p sand will be ' altr^mptfel to land Frank _ IVkirll’- ty}M., whi.se word was bis bond
Mr. U. L. Tuwe of Sterling Citv, | js „ ^ a„d couT actor of ISM F. AT FFRRl ARY TERM j 'rU.lKA) barrels or from I.'i tJOtflo 20 - *!v,in Monoplane on the San Angelo i j W|,(W. i„icgnly and honor w.t-
obou: two years ago opened up< v , Blackwell. Oklahoma. - out) fc, rxeexs or the estimated per VirP'"« •'>:•«> ye-terday afternoon. |M.%cf qunrtianw| by his fellowman.
put hi- Mr. Taughliu was In McCmey on Rankin, .fan. 2T The commission- itrrt rcovm from the two uthet ! ai'd Shy I bin were dead w^,rn> : J|,: a kind ami devo rd husbund
branch house hen- and put his
daughter, Mrs. Joe Conger, in charge Monday and Tuesday making pre irs court has adjournnl without eall-
They have done a very good business liminary surveys of the city, he said. i„g the half million dollar bond issue
trom the start hut something like
year ago he opened another store
hardware and furniture -similar to
the one in Big Lake, in Rankin and
put his son, Roland, in charge there.
Lowe recently purchased the
that from which die present produe
lion i* obtained.
The gas production from this well
adding that he probably would make fur which a petition was presented,
headquarters there. hut will rail the election at the FVr-
Arrangements are being made to ruary meeting,
secure the gas from the world’s deep- The fac, that the petition called
est well, (rroiip One Oil (.orpotalions for work only mi highway 99 caused
, No. 1-R University, in Reagan county, the tabling of the petition and the ....
^Jlock of his competitor. at Ran 1 I lie firm will build its own pip- new petition will make it possible for | j* being used in part hv the Signal
*t.d has consolidated^ 'hose two j line. Laughlin said. Sun Am.-elo the mm cv to he spin: not tmk on I Ca-i»ghe.»d plant though it is no*
v oeks. Jor- t.ongei hirs an agerc v .Time*. *___highway 99 but on other roads in the *„ rich in ga.«olinr content as the
wllilli:(1 tin a n d*'' I t'i *'3 re- i d c n ec ""the’n- I* T. A. TO MEET Mil DAY C0“,|,ly’.. . f, . . „ (from die other two producing sards
won o taraanre ni. a n enu ... , . . I think the election will carry three gins flans are used to burn the
and they decided to sell the business , 1 he “rent-1 eacher Associa ion ^ ^ j( ^ |)rf.s|,n|r(1 lo ,Ju. prople,” ' excess gas and the roar sounds like
here rather than put it entirely m ' 1 ,n"' >" thr 'Wy molm-- |li(l WmdlK.m, county comm is- ,}„. Crane «itinty fields in the old
the hands of outside help. Mrs. Con- . f r. la afternoon at d o dock on the > ifi^ y,Jev,r< lhnt <lav#> Muir lh/
^er will move to Rankin and be con- day of the month, m the high
•«Ad) from which the field has been *h'T w,''r lr,'m 'he plane an.l j { |ovi ;miJ pat.—.l father and a »ov
prodin ing. Williams believes that 1 ,:iu r ,1,nl lM '"n' 'hr anil>u,"RC« ar , a| friend and neighbor,
the pay -and in the deep well is from m;«'1 »° ' arry «*» l,,e j f-Uneral services were held at 'h-
200 to 300 fee! thick and that the 1 "<• l*la,,p 1 approximately • I f.in,;jy rrsidc.Hr at I oVIoch, Thur*
producing area will be larger than hut died Icet ai d missed lie airpoMlj^ afiernoo/1, condueteif by bis son
uect«‘«l with the store there.
'The result is that Rig Lake has one
i 11 u»n wt iimmii, tit tip 111 • r
school auditorium. 11,ere will he ., ,n f‘,V',r of
gas there lost it*
head.”
At the “gun barrel,” or first tank
.... ...............„..............r";""1: ,hr. Z rJa? hahtr,4* w?iTlX m •in* iiiiin-n .,1 u„kn. ......... »vi.i,
A cnnli.il mvttatnm i, extent]-
er firms with belter stocks of good*
'The J. 1). Young Corporation has M- 1
■ways bandied a splendid line or Those from (krona who
goods, the equal of those of the larger ov,.r to attend the funeral
ed to all who are interested to at-
tend.
were
of
cities, and at popular city prices, too f*t 11. Coates Thursday were Judge
—in wane instances lower. They » ll and Mrs. C. E. Davidson, Mr. a> d
cnnliimr to hundJe good stult sml \|rs Charles Coaes, Mr. and’ \1r*.
will lie enabled iu give thr trade a'l Collin Coates, Mr. and Mrs. Ned
that it demands. Friend, Mr. am1 Mrs. Fleet Coates.
Mr. and Mr*. Frank Friend, Ron
S-ahorn and Vli-s Dollie Coates.
NEW AND PROPOSED
RAILWAY EXTENSIONS
New and proponed extensions of
rail muds in West Texas follows:
Fort Worth and Denver City South
Plains extension.
Proposed Santa Fe branch from
Rrownfield to Plains.
Proposed Santa Fe extension from
Seagraves k> .New Mexico.
Texas and Pacific branch from
.Monahans to Wink and krrtnit.
Proposed Orient extension tram
Alpine lo Presidio.
Proposed Cail to Carden City ex-
tension.
Yale* and West Texas, from Shef
field lo Rankin, charter applied for
Proposed line from Harnli.irt I" j
(txonn.
I10 o*ed Santa F e extension from j
S in \ng< i** to D i Rio.
I’ opo*cd extension from Menard:
t,i Jinn lion.
Proposed extension of Frisco from ■
Seymour to Paducah, and Seymour
to Vernon.
Texas and Pacific extension from
r o to I hr*M krnorton, opened ld»l 1
Aog.
•S Fe bram h from llrady to
Aw*, son.
Southern Pacific branch from
l valde to Hatrsville.
Propoifd nlfn^ion of C»ulf,
and Western from Snle«ville to Fort
Worth.
Risk Island connection between
Amarillo and main line in Oklaho-
ma, gi*»ng through connection to
Liberal. Kan*-, now under construe
lion.
well. lias been lost as the hundred* of sam
--------— pies were taken, lias made the pbicr
FI’YY OR III I.F.ACl F. SOCIAL muddy. Hundreds of samples have
I he F.pworth l.eague gave tlicir 1 Iw-.-n taken awav and one Arkansas
monthly social at thr MetFiodist ) diHlor ordered ten gallons by mail
church F riday evening. \ goodlv ' to he used, the letter said, for eilri-
number of young proplc were oui 1 hit inn purpose*.
and a good time was reported. Came* -,----
were played and refreshments of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hk'krrwon haw
sandwiches and fruit were serve. i moved into Mrs. \k. W. Pittman’*
comfortable home in the north part
of town.
entirely, landing on Hs nose about a |-n lj|w |hr ^ j5rn who
hundred and fifty feet M.iith of lb* |’Hvi„r aI1,| |„..,„ilful trihue to
administration building and m the i\ ^ ufc of tflc fM.|oVed father, whom
space fenced off lor s|h< ator. aed i ,u> ha<| so inliini.tely and knew
for parking earn. Ihere *«e fifty L u Uue a,„J u,.right. Mr.
ears near rt. but the plane . ^ ^ ^ .d a fr .
them all. Several . xr^ but a f w , ^ u.fon. (hr uf Jlih Jn-ing pre
fee. away, were drmehrd .1. gaoolinr | ^ f(„ firrnil wlli^ „ „ gmt
w .,.1. bum* a wave from the idm. J.J(fnUr| lhr f.^Uy. Ry Tequ-I
.‘.7 7"^!!'^ :"T '!":>•vhr M'” N N,,k*>an'’
Mi-s llelline Pat In son renderc I
beautifully and touchingly a duct
Wildcat ads get results.
A CUn>e tiuce-
By Albert T Reul
thud and hurried its nose into th'
earth.
A crowd of several hundred wit-;..,, ^ Wr„ wilh M Soul.
nessed the tragedy. Ihe thrrnmoior |{rv (> ,, MmrUn<l U)T of |t,
Ford plane ot the Seme Airways , Metlwniist r hurxh. ot
I nr., or I rnu-nix, whieti arrived on .... r , ..... .....
’ . . . which the liiniily an- corntnuiiu ant
Wednesday alU rnaon, riad attraeU-d 1, . . f , ..
. : , 1 /-ii , had eh urge of the service al tin cem
.1 numtirr ol iierson* to tile In-Id und .
, , . 1 . , ,«-|ery, «I« *ing it in .1 vrry irnpr.-sso •
tiad born currying passengers during -is . 1 l .1
. . 1 1 * ■ r r. , way. 1 nr worn out • Soak, the ear
tlie d.iy. It hud last come down from .it .1.111 .l 1 1
. . merit uf elay. that had Irrn the halo
its last flight and was bring taken I f .. . , .
, r B j In* of the spirit was cast asut- and
into the hangar.
Henley met hi* death on tin- vrry
field which lie bad helped urlret and
which he had wulrked develop from
a pasture to thr first complete air
port in Went Texan, land summer
folded away in M»lhr> Faith
iM.iutiful gtry metalw casket to await
the M-Mirrrrl.on morning, while the
spirit that had oner wnrn it mounted
up and pul on immortality.
‘live mound, in the Stiles rrmr rv.
1 ity started la rwtahliah -in ,nirma.fl, wnv made fwvode the
airport, Henley agreed to come ou.
and give some professional advice on
sites. He insinx-ted thr iwrnrnt air-« . . ■ , ■ , , ,
. , , 1 wan piled hirh wi h ran and eo-tll
imrt and declared it to lie the fm**.i n -\ , .
Iw-bived daughter who prrccrdrd her
lullin' to etrrnity some year* «!■ 1
ilowrrn, silent Irslunooy uf ibe love
and e-derm hi wIimH deceased wa*
lwId || wan oik among lilt largest
attrndrvi (uncial- rvi » held in Rea: ci
eowrwy. I’raitwaMy all the hii*iiie -
housr- in Rig lake «dosed fm thr
funeral, for Mr. Caratrs was uinv-*
S; •*
-
natural landing field in tkr St.u'h
“TKi* 2/iti acres ir thr lint nainrnf
airport I have ever seen,” hr natd wn
Iiis first visit. “’Diere are few rtlir*
who enn ge> natrji a well drained,
smooth tirld where you can diive a
rat 40 miles an h««u« .n any di.n-l ,, , .
. » ' -wJIy loved. Inrre were many on'
1,1 * ,.OVM . .1 1 a. . , of loan relatives and friends rwesen'
Attempting to land with the wind 1 ,, , . . , . , 1 ,
• , , ,t IwtiivxI »s survived «iy to* »i|i
is given a* lhr cause ol thr wrrek. 1 • . . . t >• ..
. . I rigrt daii"mrTS as lot low*: Mrs. ’>.
San Angela I, mr*. ^ j ,V(flirV nfH< M(v <;-r,
Will,ltd. New Mexico; Mrs. I,. J«• -
er*. M's. .bdin O. (nrr, M-rs. R I
MiKi-rr y. Mis J A (^ucefi and
Mi*. I lo-M ■ ( o.xl»" of Rig Take
Vf: R 1 P. Tei of ( i-* t»; 'hreesori-,
W W ( mil*. P. IT (.oaten, Jr., and
Fii-d C" Irs l*o of Rig laike; one
brother. Dr W. D Coates of Calilor-
•11 ii i.r end or 1 i ler, Mrs. V
I). I’.irkcr of I uenon, Arironn, Inflit
of wiiom were pr.sK' il lor the funer-
al. Hr is ;d*o siimveil by twenty-
IRC ( M i l f; sai.k. at
IIK.II IKK F; OF SKNMI)
San Ant gin, Jan. 21. Onr of lh<
largest cow deals of the last *1 x
inoritFin was consummated here Satin
V \ win-'i Smi IT,-,* ,iih| l.. |. f ..*k ■
idd to Wallcv Mu-t.ird and Joli
Kirby, 1:1 tie buyer* from kn»s->
I 9X1 three- and four-year-old sleer
for a reported prier of ari>out •
(MM).
one cl .i»iifehild/cri. All of the chi'-
Mann C,m,mission C«., who mad- ! /'ren wrrr prr^nyxcefH iine d.uah-
‘let. Mis (.art l,n«»rr ol f>cw Mexico,
who could not come U-caus*- of ill
nes* in h<v family. The Rig loike
Furniture Company were the under-
takers in charge.
To the bereaved we join the other
many friends in deepest sympathy.
the deal would not give the price
paid but it was underst«M»d a hoe'
town that the cattle brought belle’
than $100 a bead.
The iMttle will lie shipped from the
How* and loikr ranches m Reagan
Irion and Shlenber counties nn
May I. The cattle are big and in
excellent condition ami will he nee
of the bent hunches of nterrs that
have gone out of here from thr ranw-
in se-vrra! yearn*
Rooat for Better, Bigger Big Lake.
( land Riley and hia daughter*,
Missrs Mafwd and Ilnrvey are at
home fr««m Faglu Pane where fFiey
have fieen for the paat sever si months
and where Mr. Riley has hern filling
a drilling
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Hibdon, John. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 19, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 26, 1929, newspaper, January 26, 1929; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633647/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Reagan County Library.