The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 14, 1926 Page: 7 of 8
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AUGUST 14. 1080
THE BIO LAKE WILDCAT
School That la Made Up of Many Nationalities
STILES NEWS
STAR CAST IN LATEST
PARAMOUNT PICTURE
Mr. Jim WagjH-i and daughter, of
Wain, i<-liirii'-d home Saturday
Slile-’ li.i-.ehalI team went over to Of tin main worth while and im
He-t to play hall Sunday, returning pro-he features in the picture, the
with the victory of the game. one thing that stand- out above every-
llie meeting which has heen going thing else in Paramount’* latest
on in Stile- closed Sunday night, thriller, “( ode of the West,” which
Hiere was dinner on the ground Sun- opens at the Crystal Monday for a
day. two-day run, is the individual and
Mr. ami Mrs. (.lark (.hi I dress, of collective |»erfomi allies of the tnl-
Rig Lake, spent Saturday night with ruled east.
hei sister, Mrs. Shelton, attending the It i- quite evident that William K
dinner Sunday. Howard, who produced the picture,
Mr. and .Mrs. ( offer and children
attended church Sunday morning.
exercised unusual rare in the selec-
tion of the players, for even the min-
Mr. McMaster and daughter were or parts ate played hy actors of long
exjrerietiee and recognized ability.
The leading roles are in the capa-
ble hands of some of screendorn’*
her friend, Miss most popular favorites, Owen Moore,
whose ingratiating personality is well
That (lie Quinn public school of Bethlehem,
altttee, representative of tha student body
paL Mlnaes Inna Zimmerman and Elisabeth Randall, left background,
1 of 08 per cent foreign born or of foreign parentage.
mat
Mdwalti
&
la virtually a melting pvt la evident by thin group of twenty
tha school, of which John J. McNamara, above. In center, la
are In struct ora The atudent body la
■PRODUCTION INCREASE
eludes the Panhandle, West Central
Texas, where Brown and Shackel-
MDE BY GOING DEEPER upward rwWon, and the GuU Co!*l,
where Spindle lop deep sands arc
- furnishing the new production.
Drilled seven feet deeper in the
RIG LAKE PRAISED
FOR HER HOSPITALITY
seven
»y, lh. Rox». Corpor.- SMj'of OkUhom., T«u» .
tilKre^^.'pol.ntW production 0kUhonm wrnl iWo “co,M‘P1*'
|p the point where it is estimated it
nil be good for between 400 and
The increase in Texas production
put the state about 50,000 barrels,
assed |
lOO barrels on the pump. The tools
■ere run hack in the hole Tuesday
pd the well deepend from its former
among the oil producing states last
week.
The increase in production in the
country as a whole last week was 25,-
400 barrels. The production was
2,141,650 barrels, which was only
San Angelo, August 7th, 1026.
Mayor Milton Moore
Big l.akc. Texas, >
Dear Mr. Moore:
The good people of Big Lake arr
certainly to he commended for their
royal hospitality which was largely
responsible for making our booster
trip to your city one of the most suc-
cessful ever held.
Everybody enjoyed the barbecue.
in Stiles Tuesday.
Miss Edith (jiffman has returned
to her home in Mert/.on. Sin- has been
in Stile- vi-iling
Altho Poag.
Mr. W. C. I-rev returned home known to film fans, heads the list of
1 uesday from Henrietta where he ha-j
been visiting relatives, leaving his
daughter. Miss Selma I rev, in Dulla-
for school.
Mrs. Harvey Dixon and children
were in Stiles Tuesday.
Mr. 0. F. Boyd was in town Tue» |
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pettit and chil-
dren, with his father, went to the
Rio Grande for a few days. They
were also accompanied by Mr. Ben
Frazier’s father.
Mrs. Opal Rogers is visiting Mrs.
Charley Lindlry of Stiles.
Mr. Ed Guy and Riley Branch and
Francis and Fayette Shelton went
down on the Concho fishing Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Wagner and
children went to Midland. Texas, to
get a load of feed.
Mr. G. A. Stidham returned home
from San Angelo Saturday night.
Miss Carrie Lee McIntosh is on the
sick list this week.
featured players in the part of an
awkard, Arizona cowboy who turns
caveman to win the love of a girl.
Constance Bennett, one of the most
promising of the new crop of screen
luminaries, plays the fivnine lead Op-
posite Moore. Mal»ei Bulliu, who
starred in many notable film produc-
tion?- and cored so heavily in “Vani-
ty I air,” (diaries Ogle, famous char
after actor, and David Butler, popu-
lar heavy, are the other leatured
The supporting cast includes Lil-
lian lx*ighton, f.dwurd Gribbon,
Gertrude Short. Pal Hurtigun and
Frankie l ee.
The -tnrv of “Code of the West
was adapted by Lueien Hubbard
from the novel of the same name by
Zune Grey and centers around a flir-
tatious flapper and a romantic cow-
boy. The picture i* filled with thrills,
love-interest, conu-dv and human ap-
peal. Several melodramatic highspol*
including exciting automobile-horse
race and a tremendous forest fire.
B&SSKS -... *...
» the amount of the gas, hut there corresponding week of la* year, the | \umhet of vour rilizcn,.
* still not enough to flow the well. ending August », 1925- Wr |ruft, ,hal an Par|y dalc WP
’ fTh» “ exr tefa to l* ,,ear ,hc ! will be able to reciprocate and ex-
of production for this year. the - -
only increase of moment last week
came from Texas field1;, and pip® |
line congestion in two of those con- (
tributing the principal increases inch-1
The new producer made several
Hnall heads Tuesday, but whether
they were caused by gas pressure or
agitation or a combination of the
two was not known here W'ednesday
morning. jtrmutingi . ...
The well i» now swabbing and will *° C°m'
k
likely be
Mk'wWoii a r
M Monday,
ih»“*niimn n.Vd plctions and, of course, an early halt (Secretary B°ard
the pump and P* ^ producliof| cIimb in both of!
tend an invitation to all of your citi-
zens to visit San Angelo whenever
possible.
Yours very truly.
BALLANGER BRYAN.
of City Develop-
■ I t i nimnna ann. oi riiunr. uti ratav nail i * *
placed on
.... - real tent within a few days.
onday, before the well was deepen- . i i . . .
ed, it swabbed 302 barrels in twenty- Da,h avera*p ,raPor\s of petrole-, The Wildcat, in behalf of the Big
four hours. It is located in the north um. at PrinciPal Por|* (or ,^r wpJ’*t l-ake citizenry, assures fMe Son An-
central part of the field. cndcd Anfua\ 7 wprp ?48,571 barrels, 8<.|0 boosters ,hat their words «f
Production of the Gulf Production ™mPared w,th l87.I4» barreU [or praiiM. and atliludp toward Big Lake
Company’s No. 1 McElrov in Crane ‘j1® previous week, and 223,429 for are heartily appreciated. Big l.ake ci-
county has been increased 54 bar- *ke four weeks ended August 7. ,uens never do things by halves. The
rels daily as a result of changing the . Dady avpra«* receipts of Cal if or- p,*,, WPlU in to make ,he barbecue a
coupling of the well to its flow tanks. n,a od al tAt*an,1.c and ^u.,f success and did, l»oth financially and
Wednesday’s guage was 552 barrels. P0**8 1*®T*h„e .werk cnded Auf?u*1 * otherwise. Wr also accept the invita-
Previous to Wednesday, the well was ^re [25,143 barrels, compared with tion extended and can assure the big-
connected through a separator which »J,571 for the previous week, and hearted San Angeloans that Big 1-akr
puts a back pressure of 40 pounds “-071 [OT Jhe ^ wceks ended will be pleased to take advantage of
against the well, and caused a mate- AuKus* 7Star TeUgram. tbe privilege when opportunity pre-
rial decrease in production.—San An- ~ sents.
gelo Standard.
DAILY AVERAGE OUTPUT
OIL GROWING GREATER
WELL IN WEST END
STRIKES THE PAY
IN BIG LAKE
THE PALACE CAFE
IS RECOGNIZED AS |j
. THE LEADER j
__. -itk {
A. M. HOFFMAN
WATCHMAKER
Best, Texas
Work turned out in one to six days
NO WAITING
ALL WORK DONE HERE ON
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE
Will sell you watches and diamonds
The Bvron Robertson. F. F. Cow -
den No. I well, located in the center
I of thr north half of lot 10, block I t.
During last week nearly foui in* h
es of rain fell here as well as in ilu-;
surrounding country. The rain-fall
extended o\rr three <la\ so there wa-
rn* overflow in the streams Un-
makes the range and crops alrno-t
perfect. While most of the feet I crops
D„il> average crude oil ,.r,.du. ,i..n j ^VaTeu'dad'dilTun to tW Suva V.f Mii I ,*h" "'“-I »'>"»'
.V““ t .m'; ri ,'d "'""k III- pay a, l.1» f. -l ,|1C ,round, far ...a k. .............. ji.u-
during the weekending lust Saturday Wednesday and shut down till tubing frr«u#0n beaten to a fru//le and Dan
for the first tune in approximately ,,culd ,M. , in> aftpr whi.h the well: VJH]y tlri.tnL why ,)h.uI.I old -ter-
a year and a half. The value of tins wU, u pu, on ,hp pump. , b(. pay ^)rr> v ^>r/ing City W
output approximates $1, , K l’*‘rj which in this case is water, is stand-
aL . .... | , , ii ing 94 feet in the hole.
This is indicated by the weekly A fivp.in< b ra,inp was M., al lot*
summary of production issued by the fwH car,ier in |bp wppk and Ullder.
American I etroleum Institute in New rpamjnK bud con#umrd ^imr ,imP
York Tuesday night and rexeiverl
Record.
I
here by telegraph.
The production of the state is
shown in the A. P. I. report to have
average approximately 500,800 bar-
rels lost week.
The last time it was above the
500,000 barrel level was in Januarv,
1925, during the short-lived peak at
Wortham.
The single previous occasion it had ■
been above that mark was another'
year and a half previous when the
Powell field was at its peak in the
fall of 1923.
The production for Texas in the,
A. P. !. repor* »• srriy~\ s! by adding
the figures for North Texas and W’est j
Central Texas (comprising the terri-
tory known locally under the general
term of “West Texas") with East
Central Texas, Southwest Texas and
Gulf Coast. From the latter is de-
ducted the approximately 10,000 bar-
rels credited to Iamisiana Costal
production. The result is 5U9,foCC.
barrels. Of this, We«t Texas’ qw'.: j S3
was more than half.
Texas production ias« week in- j B
creases* to total of 26,200 barrels, j |
which waa greater than the net in-
cr*«M of the entire United States.
NraUna except nominal changes were i m
reported from any outside-Texas (Ml , .
Irlct. i *
The Texas increase came principal- j
iy from the area designated by the
A. P I as “North Texas,” which m-'<
(iaven in southwest Africa are U*-
reaming ha*l consumed some time j ing fitter! to hold the instruments ol
following a cave-in. two American observers who will al-
ibis well is an off set to the Proc-. tempt to measure the sun s radius,
tor well on the block north. Mul- A scientist s|>ent six months and
land Reporter.
Dr. W. N. Jones, Dentist, San An-
gelo, Texas; office over First Nation-
al Bank. 4B-tf
traveled 30,000 miles in an effort
to determine the best locality for the
experiment.
Wildcat ads get results.
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Colorado Diavalo Lump Coal
at $14.00 in Ton Ixds
GARNER & SON
Dray and Transfer
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PAl L IK)RAN, Proprietor
I HOME Id I) EROM HOME
. The Texas Hotel
BIG LAKE, TEXAS
Hotel Doran
BIG LAKE, TEXAS
Santa Rita Hotel
REST, TEXAS
-THE TEXAS is Modernly Equipped with
Simmons Steel Furniture.
—HOTEL DORAN open to tin1 public this week,
is modem in its entirety.
-vSANTA RITA is as good as you will find any-
where in the West.
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Hibdon, John. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 14, 1926, newspaper, August 14, 1926; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth633674/m1/7/?q=%22~1~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Reagan County Library.