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ELECTRA, WICHITA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1924
NUMBER 3
HARD GAME IS
EXPECTED SAT.
WITH QUANAH
Week Has Been Spent in Hard
Work Under Instructions of
Coach Gillstrap
Contractors Make
Camp for Grading
Work on K.M.A. Road
The second game of the season
for the local gridders will be next
Saturday when the Tigers journey
to Quanah. Although Quanah has
been placed in Class B division for
this district a hard game is ex-
pected. Last year Electra won by
the score of 27-0 although Quanah
was successful in holding the strong
Vernon team to a tie score.
On Saturday, almost the entire
Electra team journeyed to Wichita
Falls to see the game there when
Devol was beaten 71-0. Although
little opposition was offered, those
who saw Wichita in action are sure
that they have a real, fighting team
that will be hard to whip. They
are up on their toes constantly and
have learned to run beautiful in
terference.
The early part of this week, Gill
strap has been putting his men
through the hardest kind of scrim-
mage work. With four full teams
on the team, there is plenty of
material for all kinds of work. At
present, Electra looks strong on
the line, but is remarkably weak
in other departments of the game
such as kicking and team work.
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Enterprise School
Opens September SO
T. L. Hill, one of the trustees
of the Enterprise school, said that
this school would open for the Fall
term, Tuesday, September 30. This
date was set rather than Monday in
order to permit the school children
to attend the opening of the Texas-
Oklahoma Fair as a large number
of free tickets have been iss
throughout the county for
event.
T. W. Carpenter is principal of
the Enterprise school and he is as-
were about 100 pupils in
ance.
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Electrons Invited
R. B. Strup & Company who has
the contract for -the grading of the
Electra-Archer county road, has es-
tablished his camp near the south
end of the road and started his
work on Thursday. C. H. McClel-
lan who has contracted under Mr.
Strup ^for part of the grading work
on this road, was in Electra Wed-
nesday making arrangements to
establish his construction camp
about a mile and a half south of
Electra, and he plans to start work
on establishing the grade, begin-
ning at the city limits of ‘Electra,
within the next week.
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COMMUNITY FAIR
EXHIBITS RATED
HIGH BY MR. ORR
BATTING AVERAGES
TWILIGHT LEAGUE
OF SECOND SERIES
Hitting Average of Twilight League
Players for Second Half of
Recent Series
Stidham Purchases
Grocery and Filling
Station on Waggoner
play, all Departments Show
Gain Over Last Year
As announced in the News last
week, the batting averages of the
Twilight League players are pub-
lished herewith. The averages here
shown are official, being taken
from the official score book, and
have been carefully compiled and
checked. Averages for the first
half of the season are not avail-
able, as no official box scores were
kept of those games.
Lina Motor
to attend the box supper and com-
munity meeting at Barwise church
on Friday evening, September
A number of local business i
plan to attend this meeting, al-
Player
G
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Williams
____12
31
11
.355
Cor bell
-----7
17
6
.300
Ray _____
____11
23
5
.213
Easley
______12
35
7
.200
Scheurer
_____5
10
2
.200
Hundt
-----8
22
4
.181
McCracken
_______12
34
6
.176
Alston ___
______12
32
6
.151
Gibson ___
____10
21
3
.144
Bristo
_____6
12
1
.083
Warren ____
______11
Magnolia
25
2
.080
Player
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Av.
Williamson
— ___14
40
18
.405
Sargent ___
— ___13
35
16
.405
Wilborn
_____9
25
12
.408
McMullin
---- 14
39
12
.300
James
_____13
34
10
.209
T. Ray ___
---- 13
39
8
.206
Courtney
. ____13
38
7
.184
Anderson
___ 10
25
2
.080
Stimpson
______7
16
1
.060
Lanning
- _ _ 6
Texhoma
19
10
.502
Player
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Av.
Starks _____
. ____6
15
5
.333
Lightholder
_ ___11
23
7
.304
Conyers
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14
4
.285
G. Williams
_____6
14
4
.280
D. Williams
_____13
34
9
.265
Kemple _ __
__10
24
6
.250
J. A. Stidham has just returned
from an extensive trip to points
_ in Colorado, Yellowstone Park and
With Exception of Live Stock Dis- the ^lack Hills of South Dakota
on a vacation trip of almost two
months. Mr. Stidham was accom-
panied by his family and Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Grady. The entire trip
was made in a Studebaker special
six. Since his return to Electra,
Mr. Stidham has purchased the fill-
ing station and grocery store at the
end of Waggoner street in Wood-
ruff Heights from W. E. Whitfield
and will operate this under the
name of Stidham’s grocery and fill-
ing station.
headwaYmade-
TOWARD LIBRARY
IN NEAR FUTURE
Parent-Teachers Association and
Chamber of Commerce Take
Matter Before City Dads
are on the high school football -----------
team, and have a game scheduled | Huchens ---------
for the following day.
Dollar Day Set for
Saturday, October
Reid ____________8
Scott ____________10
Jarrett __________10
ft? Griswold
. Player G
C. W. Gore ______14
Smith ___________19
the 1 Underwood ______12
27
33
20
24
20
.222
.212
.200
.166
.100
The mercantile bureau of
Chamber of Commerce and Agri-1 Bateman ________8
culture announces a dollar day for Blakley __________12
Saturday, October 4, in which a Short ____________4
fine collection of dollar specials are Modrall __________12
being offered. Trades day circu- Guyer ___________6
lars will be printed and mailed out Woods ___________9
the first of next week. IM, Gore_________7
Scholdberg _______13
Witherspoon ____9
Lions Club
Player G AB
Warden _________14 33
Saturday, October 4, has been|E* Scott ---------12 30
dedicated by the Texas-Oklahoma
West Texas C. of C. to
Have Day at Fair
AB
35
28
32
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32
11
29
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16
28
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13 .371
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.263
.218
.182
.172
.145
.143
.125
.107
.055
Fair association as West Texas
Teel ------------- 6
Marvant _________,13
14
33
Chamber of Commerce Day, and in ^enn\n£s ---------*
response to a request from Porter |
A. Whaley, manager of the West j
Burgin __________10
Totten ___________14
23
_______ _ _ ^ _ 38
Texas Chamber of Commerce, the | ----------5?
1 Mashburn ________11 25
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Electra Chamber of Commerce is
planning to have a representative
H Av.
9 .273
.233
.214
.212
.182
.174
.158
.133
.120
At the weekly meeting of the
board of directors of the Chamber
of Commerce and Agriculture, held
on Wednesday, W. C. Orr, chair-;
man of the agricultural bureau of
the Chamber, told the directors
that the exhibits at the Communi-
ty Fair this year were by far bet-
ter than any ever shown at our
Community Fairs, with the single
exception of live stock. He report-
ed that the women’s department in
addition to being the most attrac-
tive, contained the most complete
variety of exhibits shown at the
fair. In this connection he stated
that 201 individual exhibits were
shown in the canning department,
and 8 in the fine arts department.
79 exhibits in the textile depart-
ment, 21 in the culinary department
According to Mr. Orr, the agri-
cultural exhibit at our Community
Fair was exceptionally good, in
fact, much better than the com-
mittee had expected, it having rain-
ed the day before the fair. In
this department 90 individual ex-
hibits were shown including eight
individual exhibits of cotton. Five
of the exhibitors showing cotton
had been enrolled in the state cot-
ton contest. An expert on cotton
raising who attended the fair stat-
ed that ours was one of the finest
cotton exhibits he had ever seen.
Mr. Orr is planning to make a spe-
cial feature of cotton in Electra’s
booth at the Texas-Oklahoma Fair
and farmers in Electra’s trade ter-
ritory are requested to select fifty
open bolls, arranged neatly in a
square frame of box, and three uni-
formly .fruited stalks, and bring
these samples to the Chamber of
Commerce*, riot later than Friday,
September 26, in order that the
exhibits may be entered at the
Texas-Oklahoma Fair.
In the poultry department 73
individual exhibits were shown
which total is not quite as large
as the number shown at the winter
poultry show, but according to Mr.
Orr the quality of birds shown at
the fair was better than at any
previous poultry show in Electra,
and it is expected that many of the
birds shown here will win first hon
ors at the Texas-Oklahoma Fair.
Concluding his report to the board
of directors, Mr. Orr stated that
the success of the Community Fair
this year, in spite of unfavorable
weather conditions, emphasized the
necessity of adequate grounds anc
buildings for our annual Communi
ty Fair.
The board of directors extended
a vote of thanks to Mr. Orr and
his fair committee, to the depart
ment superintendents, the judges,
and all who co-operated in making
Electra’s 1924 Community Fair a
success.
ELECTRA WINS IN
ONE SIDED GAME
WITH IOWA PARK
Final Score of 43-0 Made by Tigers.
Coach Gillstrap Uses Nu-
merous Substitutes
A petition requesting the estab-
lishment of a free public library
in Electra was presented to the
mayor and city commissioners Wed-
nesday night by a joint committee
representing the Parent-Teachers
association and the Chamber of
Commerce and Agriculture. Mayor
Newsum and each of the commis-
sioners present stated that they
were in favor of a public library in
Electra, and assured the committee
that when the board of equaliza-
tion was organized it would be in-
structed to make provision for the
establishment and maintenance of
a free public library in Electra, if
possible within the next year. May
The opening football game of the
season on the new athletic field Fri-
day afternoon with Iowa Park was
won by Electra by the score of 43-0
in a game which showed to the five
hundred odd spectators that Coach
Gillstrap has the material for a
good team. The visitors were much
lighter and showed the lacking of
coaching and team work, and at
no time up until the last quarter
did they make first down, and then
only after the Electra coach had
sent the entire first string to the
showers.
Electra has showed the results
of good coaching and the players
have assimilated some of the rudi-
ments of interference under the
guidance of Gillstrap. However,
the team played ragged at times,
and constantly showed a too great
eagerness which resulted in many
offside penalties. Much of the team
work and zip was lacking that
might be expected later in the sea-
son after more practice.
Electra Scores Early
Electra kicked off at 4:20 to Pey-
ton of Iowa Park on the ten yard
line who ran it back seven yards.
In two line bucks, Iowa Park fail-
ed to gain with the visitors punt-
ing on the fourth down. On the
first offensive play, Hammond made
seven yards with a five yard penal-
ty given Electra for offside. Thomas
made a pretty end run which net-
ted fifteen yards and the first
down. The ball was carried over
by Thomas in less than four min-
BOTH COTTON GINS
EXCEEDINGLY BUSY
DURING LAST WEEK
Over 300 Bales Ginned to Date
Estimate 800 Bales More
Than Last Year
delegation of Electra business men j Rurkbumett Boosters
at the T. O. Fair on this date. I JJere in Behalf of Fair
Grain Dealers Fight j A delegation of boosters from
Increase in Freight I wet
- nesday afternoon advertising the
h erd Keller Jr., returned Wed- Burkbumett Community Fair which
nesday from Amarillo where he will be held there Friday and Sat
had been called by an executive urday of this week,
board meeting of the grain grow- There were about thirty or forty
ers. At this time the matter of the men who paraded the downtown
proposed increase in freight rates streets and distributed cards and
on gram was discussed, with the invitations to the people here to be
association taking a decided stand present,
to fight it out. It is quite likely
that the grain men will have some I Mrs. E. M. Francis and several
representative at Washington, D. other ladies of the Baptist church
C., when this matter is brought be- attended the Baptist county asso-
fore the Washington commission ciation held in Wichita Falls last
some time in October. Thursday and Friday.
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To avoid missing any issues of your Workmen have been engaged the
NEWS, watch the date opposite your
name each week and renew promptly. Drug store.
Both cotton gins here reporter
that cotton was now coming in at
a lively rate and more than 300
bales had been ginned up to Thur§
day of this week. The excellent
weather which has prevailed here
for the last week has permitted
all of the pickers to get started.
Many of the cotton farmers in
this district report that there is
still a shortage of pickers with
families in great demand.
Estimates place the total crop
which will be ginned in Electra as
exceeding 2,500 bales this year com-
pared with a total of about 1,700
bales last year. The $10 price ad-
vance which came Tuesday was
most delightful news for all of the
cotton growers. This advance came
after a steady slump which had
extended over a period of several
weeks.
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Students Leave for College
Spurgeon Jennings and Virgil
Fisher of Wichita Falls left last
week for Washington Lee Uni-
versity in Lexington, Va, Mr. Jen-
nings is the son of Mrs. Grace Jen-
nings and attended Kemper Col-
lege in Missouri for the past two
years, he enters as a junior this
year in the university.
or Newsum explained to the com- utes of play. Electra failed to
mittee that due to the rapid growth kick goal. From this point on it
of our city during the past three was a rather one-sided affair with
years, the city government has la- the locals gaining at will,
bored under serious financial handi- The second and third touchdowns
caps in providing absolutely essen- came in the second quarter. The
tial improvements in protection of second one made by Guy Thomas
health and property, but that he 0n a short forward pass from Ham-
had long since been convinced that mond and the third one when Ham-
our city s educational system was mond circled left end. Neither goal
incomplete without a free public was converted,
library. In the petition presented p__. w.,™* c
by the joint committee of the Par- P”r*V ”aycs Scores Touchdown
ent-Teachers association and the r, l 'e °,?.e?II\g of tbe seconc
Chamber, it was stated that the w’JlS p“ ? w across the goal
board of education had set aside l'n* W1‘hk P°rter ^ayf goln* down
one of the frame school buildings JJ1® Park appar-
on the grounds of-the Waggoner ®?‘lydd n°* kaow what ta do,wl‘h
street ward school to be used as a H b which was captured by
library building. The library peti- ?ayf f an<iP,*h.lch a touen
tion was endorsed by the board of Electra although it
directors of the Chamber of Com-., ft ®d\ *?
merce, and the board of directors I, a ft * '. 9" ‘J1® ne*t, k™k'°.M’
of the Parent-Teachers association, L-.a„?f5k *“mbled Wltb Electra
and was signed by the following I T50maa through
committees: Chamber of Commerce 5.„or sev«nteen yarda
and Agriculture committee, C. P. fil l by, ^?m™.ond ,wh? “ad«
Engelking, chairman; E. V. Hal- Seven through the lme. Agam Eiec-
tom, E. R. Brown, Rev. Byron Hes- fta , "as Penalmed the usual five
ter; Parent-Teachers association, yardft. ^TJ? I?ad® *“ yard?
committee, Mrs. E. J. Torvie, chair- th® h.nc Placin£ th® baU
man; Mrs. W. J. Sheldon, Mrs. .*w0 yards of,tb® }mf- Thomr
Bruce Hyde, Mrs. I. K. Williams I ?„s "?dfAy”d_and,_filist down “d
and Mrs. J. E. Olmstead.
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Bids Too High on j
Clara Improved Road 1
Commissioner Say&;
mt ■ ■ i —
Following the precedent set last
Monday, the county commissioners
again rejected all bids which had
been submitted for the building of
the Clara road, one of the new im-
proved roads which' will be con-
structed north of town.
In asking the rejection of the
bids Tuesday on the seven-mile
stretch, Commissioner Haynes main-
tained that the bids were entirely*
too high and asked that the road
be re-advertised for Monday, Oc-
tober 27, at which time the second
set of bids will be received on the
Electra-K. M. A. road.
LIONS OF WICHITA
HOST TO VISITING
CLUBS TUESDAY EVE
Burkburnett and Electra Clubs Are
Guests. Large Delegations of
Local Lions Attend
DRUBBING EXPECTED
WHEN CLARENDON
PLAYSHEREOCT.il
in the next down, Electra was once
more penalized for offside. In
cleverly executed pass from Ham-
mond to Thomas the fifth touch-
down was made with the same poor
luck at kicking j^oals, making the
score 30-0 in favor of the Tigers.
The sixth touchdown came fol-
lowing a splendid nineteen yard
run by Hammond in which he clear-
_ ed the secondary line of defense;
One of the Best Games of Season 13 flf‘e®n.. yard ran by Tbomas
Scheduled at Local Field Ti u tW®"ty yard ru”
Saturday After Next by ' lme and
1 an eight yard lme plunge across
On October 11, Electra will play I‘h®, ®0al ,y ?a™”ond- ™s
the Clarendon “Bulldogs” on the | f ®! ™\ft"VertTed by Th°™aa W1‘h
local field. This announcement was j P " . , seJCentb touch
made by Superintendent Dinsmore , y Hammond in
after completing the negotiations !nn, iJi ThoZ, m f°nowlnj: ‘on*
Wednesday afternoon. Ejd.^ ’ M°°re 8nd Ha”‘
This game will probably be the| In'the fourth quarter, Gillstrap
second best game to be played on sent the first team men to the
‘be I«a’.deld' second to showers and sent in the second,
the Wichita Falls game. A big third and fourth team players, with
crowd is expected feu: _ this game I practically every one on the squad
and plans are now being worked getting a chance. During this per-
°" fo>\ equippmg the playing field iod of the game Bob Scott acted
with bleachers. as quarter and was responsible for
The Clarendon gridders have al- several long runs. No further scor-
ways put out an exceptionally strong ing was done during this quarter,
team as they are college players, however.
It is quite likely that Electra will The lineups:
come out at the short end of the ELECTRA IOWA PARK
score, but it is the kind of a game Coolidge ________________ Tanner
that should teach them what con- Center
stitutes good football. | B. Smith ____________ M. Oualline
*1 * Right Guard
Lions Will Attend Social I Red Hayes __________ D. Oualline
Right Tackle
A good representation of the Turner _____________________ jjill
Lions club have promised to at- Right End
tend the box supper which will be Martin ________________ _ Fields
held Friday evening at Barwise Left Guard”
community. A committee consist- Gilger _________________ nurm
ing of E. H. Archer, W. A. Asbill Left Tackle
and H. Anderson, was appointed to Aven __________________ Wielev
make arrangements for some kind Left End ~ e y
entertainment feature, and all Hammond _________________ White
members are urged to be present, j Quarter
A splendid time was enjoyed by
a large delegation of Electra Lions
who attended the banquet in Wich-
ita Falls last Tuesday evening at
which time the Wichita Falls club
was host to the Burkburnett and,
Electra Lions. This meeting vra,s
the first of a series of three which!
will be held with each club acting
as host to the other two. • On Oc-
tober 7 the Burkburnett club yill
have as its guests the Wichita FaR«
club and the local Lions which ’will
be followed two weeks later with
Electra acting as host.
S. A. L. Morgan, president of
the Wichita club presided at the
banquet which was held at the Kemp
hotel. Mr. Morgan welcomed the
two visiting clubs in a brief speech
and was later followed by JL J.
Bruce who gave a cordial welcome
to the Burkburnett club and Joe
B. Hatchitt did the honors for the
Electra club. H. A. Decker respond-
ed for Electra.
Lion A. B. Maples was director
of the entertainment. Miss Wini-
fred Alvis, director of music in the
junior college, sang “Carmena,” be-
ing accompanied at the piano by
Miss Juanita Kinsey, director of
public speaking in the junior col-
lege. She replied to an encore with
the “Rose of Picardy” with a vio-
lin obligato by David Clark. A
stunt by B. S. Majors of Burk-
burnett furnished much amusement.
Twelve Lions of the three clubs
were called on to stand in a drink-
ing contest, consisting of salt water.
The Electra club pulled its pic-
ture stunt with Lion Hardy Tot-
ten in charge of ceremonies. A tri-
pod covered with cloth was set up
with instructions to those present
that a flashlight picture would be
taken. Every one arranged them-
selves to the best advantage. Tot-
ten called for Homer Hill to as-
sist and Lion Hill tripped over thd
tripod causing a smashing of glass
and general consternation to all,
before they appreciated that it was
a fake picture.
Those from Electra who were
present were: H. T. S. Totten, John
Henley, K. P. Belden, Roy Beasanf*
J. E, Warden, J. R. Stalcup, B. W.
Tipton, F. C. Miller, C. E. McCon-
nell, N. N. Sand, G. D. Ezell, R. S.
Cox, W. L. Hill, A. W. Shanafelt,
E. H. Archer, G. K. Davidson, H. A;
Decker, Ed Campbell, C. A. Lin-
ninger, A. W. Richardson, O. M,
Stidham, I. K. Williams, E. M.
Francis, S. B. Marchant, J. C. Cabe,
F. M. Baker, H. C. Hill, W, A.
Hughes, G. E. McDavid, and Miss
L. Wofford. . 4
LINA MOTOR MECHANIC
PASSES LINCOLN TEST
WITH HIGH GRADE
J. L. McCombs, service man for
the Lincoln Motor cars, passed a
service examination conducted by a
factory representative with the
grade of 98 per cent, which is con-
sidered exceedingly high. In this
connection Mr. Asbill, manager o$
the Lina Motor company wishes the
public to know that this firm is
prepared to give the maximum of
service to all Lincoln owners.
Trammell ----------------- Enice
Half
Thomas ------------------ Bumie
Half
Moore ------------------ Peyton
Full
Officials—W. B. McClain of Wich-
ita Falls, referee; W. B. Hall ox
Burkburnett, umpire, and “Bud”
McCallum of Wichita Falls, head
linesman. Substitutions — Electra:
Sanderlin, Bob Scott, Weller, Brown,
Buzz Smith, Ballard, Weaver, Head,
Richardson, Bilbrey; Iowa Park:
Shannon, Fillmore, Pitts, Henson.
Hooks.
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