Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, March 30, 1936 Page: 1 of 4
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Titus County—Center of the Best Dairy - Poultry Section of Texas
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VOLUME SEVENTEEN
MOUNT PLEASANT. TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1936.
NUMBER 1"
Mrs. Pit Milner
Dies Sunday Nite
East Side Home
\ Mrs. Pit Milner passed away
[at her home on the East Side of
tMt. Pleasant Sunday night, at.’
9:20 o’clock, at the age of 51
years. The exact nature of her
death was not given. ;
The deceased is survived by a i
daughter, Mrs. William Freddy of
this city; a granddaughter, Miss:
Narie Parker; six brothers, Will
Bankhead, Mt. Pleasant; Jess1
Bankhead, Cookville; Jack and;
Windsor Well Flowing At
Rate of 29 Barrels Hourly
; 2 New Oil Tests
Saturday Draws j In North of County
Big Attendance! Have Been Spudded
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Production and
Loan Assns. Move
To New Location
The Countv Meet for literary,i Rapid developments of the oil
track and field events, which was ; operations in the north part of
__ I held at the high school Saturday, ■ Titus County were on their way
Kenorts from the Humble. jattrected a attendance, and ! Monday morning when it was an-
Windsor well, located on the King-
Hughes tract southwest of Talco,
\ Monday morning placed the nat-
i ural flow of oil at 29 barrels of
oil hourly, or at a rate of
! about 700 barrels per day. Sto-
: rage tanks have been set up to
was one of the reasons for such an j nounced that two new test wells
enormous crowd in town Satur- have been spudded in for that
The Mt. Pleasant
day.
Many of the schools of the coun-
ty had representatives in the va-
rious contests, and there was a
good attendance from each of 1he
school districts to
witness
the
;• their
en-
; draw
big
area. One of the wells is expect-
ed to prove the eastern sector
while the other is expected to
show the results of drilling south
of the Balcones fault line.
The C. M. Joiner test, located
on the Banks Headright in
the extreme western part of North
Farm Loan! take care of the production and , ^ boQst for their
Lester Bankhead, Winfield; Jim ^Association and the Mt. Pleasant i the oil is being conserved instea j trants These events d’-aw big ‘ the extreme western oar i oi in one
Bankhead, Mt. Vernon, and Mrs. , Production Credit Corporation °f being allowed to flow into the j crcwds each year> but Saturday’s Titus County, was spudded ir.
Vannie Norton, Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. j havc moved their offices from the slush Plts-
Milner’s husband preceded her in ; Greenspun building on East Third | Rumors were prevalent Monday
death about two months ago. j street to the Lilienstern building ; morning to the effect that the
Funeral services were held at on tbe same street, which was [ Humble and Refining Company
the Winfield Baptist Church Mon-! formCriy occupied by the bakery.; had made location for a loading
attendance was unusually large. ; Saturday about noon, announced
First and second place winners; Monday morning that surface
for senior track and field events! casing was being set. This tes-.
are as follows: i is about seven miles due east o.
120 yard high hurdles—Suggs, j Pad’s Chapel, and is the only on?
clay afternoon, at 3:30 o’clock, un- j Tho new location for these as-j rack on the Paris & Mt. Pleasant; Mt Pleasant; Payne, Winfield, tie.! that has made location that far
der the direction'of Rev. J. N. j sociations is being fitted up nicely,
Vandiver, who was aassisted by; and wju give them much more
Rev. Davis, pastor of the Winfield , room than thcy formerly had, in-
Railroad and plan to lay a pipe; 100_yard dash—Coker
line connecting the loading rack j Spurger) Mt. Pleasant.
with the well. Whether or not
440-yard dash—Coker.
Winfield.
and j east of the Talco area and yet
I still be in the same county. It is
,__________________ , , „„ ....... ......... Mt.; understood that Mr. Joiner has a
church. Interment was at Gray; eluding private offices for the i the rumors arc a fact could not j Pleasant; Reedi Winfield. j block of 40,000 acres in that sec-
Rock cemetery, two miles west of | transaction of especial business. I be definitely determined. If they 220-yard dash — Coker, Spur- j tion and that he plans to drill at
Each association will use the j are a fact crude oil from the well j ger Pleasant. ! least two other tests in the near
same lobby, but a partition has j will probably start moving from j 880-yard run—McElroy. Chap- j future.
been constructed, which will di- j the well as soon as the pipe line j ej Amerson, Winfield. ■ The Humble Oil & Refining
vide the two offices into equal I been laid. j Mdc run—Nelson, Winfield;' Company has made location on.
space where the details of their j Oil was being pumped from the I Parham< Cookville. j the Ed Galt tract in the R. Winn
business will be handled. Their | Peveto Monday morning at a rate j 220-yard low hurdles—Payne, j survey, three-fourths of a mile
new quarters arc better equipped | of thirty-two barrels per hour, j Winfield; Presley, Mt. Pleasant, i due south of the Pevteo well.
rAnLinunno Cli/\Wlthan thosc from which they have' The pumping unit was installed j tie j Derrick and drilling rig were set
LOnimUOUS MOW! moved. I last week and pumping was be-j Mile relay—Winfield, Mt. Pleas- up the latter part of last week and
---- gun Saturday morning after sev- {ant j members of tho drilling crew
oral adjustments wexe made. j Discus throw—Copeland, Mt. j stated that the well was Lo have
j Operations at the Humble-Mae j Picasant; Parham, Cookville. ! been spudded in Monday morning.
! Groves test, a mile cast of Mea- ! Broad jump—Brownleee, Mid- i This office has had no informa-
; dows’ Curve, were at a standstill I wav; jackson, Mt. Pleasant. I tion that would indicate that the
; Monday morning because of a j jumD—Martin. Mt. Pleas- 1 spudding date was postponed.
breakdown of machinery. .The j ant; Brownlee. Midway. !--
1 i hole is bottomed at 4,268 feet,! shot pui_Copeland, Mt. Pleas- Mrs. J. R. Reynolds and Mrs.
sixty feet below the level of the | ant. Brownlee, Midway. j D. E. Peel spent the week end
Palace Theatre
Opens Sunday for
opSsrt? J*Hicks Dies
and will present programs every;
day of the week, instead of Fri- i
day and Saturday as heretofore. :
The Palace is under the same1
management as the Martin The- ]
atre, and has good sound equip- |
mont, which was recently install- :
On Saturday From
Lingering Illness:
The death cf J. R. Hicks occur-! ?ov£t° and Windsor wells and so
, ,—, , ,, , __far, core tests have failed to
Sows'proven \ 7cu2 ^3 Mid- | *£ stated
feature of operation is satisfac-1 way community. Mr Hicks was, on ^ Q c Lilienstern tract in
tory* i } A.-Jeftn -uc -n ' the Wm. Cann survey, four miles
As the management has a large,-e,- i t.as o-u-tt - a • southwest of the Peveto discovery
variety cf pictures from which to j i . . ! well, was drilling Monday morn-
selrct. their programs, come of the; Surviving him arc ms widow,— nnnn — i~a.-
latest and best films will now be; two brothers, A. J. and T. J-. re expected to
shown at the Palace, which here- j Hicks, both of thia county; five | nf
tofere has featured mostly West- | sisters, Mrs. Lizzie McClanahan,
rrn,. I of Oklahoma; Mrs. Effie Waller,; '
_____ ! Los Angeles. Calif.; Mrs. Mattie , STRATOSPHERE
Miss Mildred Pope of Brenhamj Truitt Mrs. Ada McKelvey and! BAG IS EXPLODED
spent the week end with her par- j Mrs- Emm:i Martm’ 011 ot Tltus
H j County.
j The last rites were held at
I Gladewater church, eight miles
! northeast of Mt. Pleasant, Sun-
| day afternoon at two o’clock un-
1 der the direction of Rev. M. M.
I Pate, pastor.
Mt. Pleasant was first with 58
points, Winfield second with 37
points, Midway made 11 points. I
Chapel Hill and Cookville each 9
points and Old Union made 2
points. High individual scores
I southwest of the Peveto discovery wero Cokcr, Mt.- Pleasant. 16; |
Payne. Winfield,
with relatives
Trinity.
at Groveton and
Miss Ruth Sims of Denison
spent the week end with her
father, Frank Sims, and family.
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Pope.
MARTIN THEATRE
Last Times Today
“SPLENDOR”
with
MIRIAM HOPKINS
and
JOEL McGREA
PALACE THEATRE
Today & Tomorrow
‘To Beat The Band”
with
HUGH HERBERT
HELEN BRODERICK
ing at below 3000 feet. Core tests
be made about
the last of the week.
BY MAN S CIGARET
11 1-4; Brown-
lee. Midway 11.
In the junior meet. Chapel Hill
won first place with 23 points. Mt.
Pleasant second with 14. Old Un-
ion 12, East Ward 8 and Winfield
5.
The District Meet will take place
at Texarkana on Friday and Sat-
urday, April 10 and 11, with lit-
erary events on the first day and
track and field events the second
The Weather
The weather for the past 24
hours according to readings made
at 6:30:
Warsaw, March 29.—A burning
cigaret caused an explosion of gas
in the balloon Warsawa, which
hod just descended today after an! day.
attempt to reach the stratosphere, j---
Burial followed im- j Several children were injured.
Maximum
Minimum
Temperature
Wind from
Sky
Barometer
84
61
61
SW
Partly Cloudy
28.76
6:30
: mediately at the Gladewater ccm-
| Aery.
NAMES OF NEW CHILDREN
! MOVING HERE WANTED
Copt. Zbigniew Bursynski, win-
ner of the 1935 Gordon Bennet
balloon race, tcok off early this
morning !in the attempt. After
reaching an altitude of approxi-
mately 7,000 feet he landed near
The names of new children j Lcmza.
moving to Mt. Pleasant recently j A peasant, rushing to the scene
are wanted by the local school I with a lighted cigaret in his hand
officials so that they can be in- j toughed the bag and the ballon
eluded in the census enumeration, was severely damaged. Several,
which close;; Tuesday. Anyone j peasant children standing nearby |
knowing of new scholastics are! were hurt. j [**
asked to send their names to Supt. I ------ i j*
P. E. Wallace of Frank Sims, so | Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Riddle and j J
| that, their appropriations may be little daughter, Mary Ann, of i Y
Torlington, Wyoming, are visiting y
\ STOP
BURPS
parents, Mr.
Riddle. Rev.
ana
and
included, for the coming term.
the former's
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Mrs. Green
HOLDS MEETING TONIGHT i Mrs. Albert Spence of Pittsburg
-- J and Mrs. Buell Wright of Omaha
! The Chamber of Commerce will | were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rid-
hold its regular weekly meeting j die Sunday.
! tonight at 7:30 o’clock, with some
i very important matters for atten-
| lion. Every member is urged to
j attend this meeting.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, March 30, 1936, newspaper, March 30, 1936; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth822416/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.