The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1921 Page: 1 of 4
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With a Mission—
without a Muzzle!
JEbc ©Incy enterprise.
$1.50 the Year
and worth it, too!
VOLUME XII
Published by R. Shuffler, at Olney, Young County, Texas, Friday, September 23, 1921
NUMBER 23
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ILDCAT
NEAR ARCHER CITY
DESPITE OIL LULL
Archer City, Texas—Despite the
general lull , in oil operations
thorough out the country, Archer
City is getting several wildcat tests
in new territory. Wells Nos. 1 and
2, drilled 'by the W. R. Shankle,
adjoining the townsite, have re-
ceived the most attention. Well No
1 encountered twelve feet of oil
sand at 1,350 feet, which was passed
up after several attempts had been
made to bring it in.
Five miles north of town J. E.
Walsh and associates are dialling
at 1,600 feet on block No. 117 of
the L. F. Wilson lands. A mile
southeast of this location T. G.
Markley and' others are drilling at
I, 180 feet on block 121 of the L. F.
Wilson lands. Well No. 2 has been
contracted to offset this well to test
out a sand found at 600 feet.
C. Everts, of Wichita Falls, has
obtained a block of acreage about
seven miles east of town and enter-
ed into a contract with the fee own-
ers to drill a test 2,500 feet, opera-
tions to start within the next 30
days.
R. A. Plate, of Chicago, has a
derrick up on the Baker survey,
southwest of town.. Adjoining
this acreage on the west and north
J. M. Scott of Decatur has obtain-
ed a drilling contract with the land
owners and preparations are being
made to start drilling. About sev-
en miles ‘‘Southwest of these tests
the Suu Company is drilling its sec-
ond well about one and one-half
miles from the discovery well at a
depth of 1,450 feet, and expects to
drill in inside of the next ten or
fifteen feet, These two wells are
located on a 7,500 acre lease owned
by the Sun Company.
School Shows Largest Enrollment
In High School Department it
Has Ever Shown
The middle of the second week
finds the school with good pros-
pects for a large attendance and a
great year in every respect. The
enrollment is increasing daily and
probably will exceed that of last
year. The enrollment for the High
School is already the largest on
record for any entire year. The
largest previous enrollment for an
entire year was last year when one
hundred were enrolled. The en-
rollment for the last five years
including the present High School'
enrollment is as follows. 1
1917- 1918, 64
1918- 1919, 73
1919- 1920, 94
1920- 1821, 100
2nd week 1921-1922, 106.
Simular figures for the elementrv
grades are not available.
The present enrollment (Wed-
nesday) by grades is as follows
primary department, 1st grade 46;
2nd grade 45; 3rd grade 41; inter-
mediate department, 4th grade 49;
5th grade 43; 6th grade 29; 7th
grade 37; total elementary 290;
high school, first year 53; 2nd year
34; 3rd year 11; 4th year 8. Total
high school 106. Total all grades
396.
OLNEY COTTON WAREHOUSE
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LIME BANDIT HOBS
PALOJTB BANK
Bandit Overlooks $27,000 In Bonds
And Escapes With $486
In Cash.
Probably this is the busiest business institution in our city at
this time, as cotton is coming in at the rate of almost a hundred bales
a day. Up to today they have received 2,246 bales in the local yards.
NEWS ITEMS AND COMMENT
OF PURELY LOCAL INTEREST
Chronicling the Doings ’Round About
Town as the Editor Sees them
MELONS AND POTATOES
INSTEAD OF COTTON
J. M. Daves, who lives four miles
south of Graham, has decided that
he can make a living at something
else besides raising cotton. He
rented all of his land except twenty
acres and put that in watermelons,
sweet potatoes, etc. H’,5; water
melons were fine and he realized a
neat sum for them. He is now en-
gaged in selling his sweet pota-
toes. He was in town with a fine
load Tuesday, which 'he was selling
at $2.50 a bushel. * He believes that
his potatoes .will make 225 bushels
an acre. He has two acres in these
fine Nancy Hall potatoes that he
is bringing to town. If they could
all be disposed of at $2.50 a bushel
he would realize more than $1,000
from the two acres which he says
beats raising cotton.
Mr. Daves lives in the deep sand
on the Brazos that will raise any-
thing. It raises fine cotton but he
stated to the reporter that he
plowed under about twenty bales
last year because it was not worth
picking. He thinks it more profit-
able to raise watermelons, potatoes,
peas and other things that people
can eat.—Graham Lead er.
It is estimated that there are in
Paris z50,000 cats! The “official
cats,’’ which keep the museums
and offices free of rats and mice,
cost the state $3.00 a head a year
for upkeep, so that if the private
cats cost an equal amount, the to-
tal would be about $750,000 a year,
says the London Mail. But, judg-
ing by the number of rats before
dawn, feeding from the refuse box-
es, several thousand more cats
would be a good investment, for
the amount of damage done by the
rats must be enormous.
NOTICE TO LIGHT
COMPANY PATRONS
Begginning October the first,
1921, we will require a meter de-
posit from each and every patron.
This deposit for residences will be
$5.00, and for business houses etc.
$10.00.
A receipt for this deposit will be
issued, and the Company agrees to
pay interest on same at the rate of
six per cent, and the deposit itself
will be returned upon discontin-
'uance of the service at any time.
We wish to state that this de-
posit is customary in all cities and
towns, and that it is necessary if
we are to improve the, service as it
should be.
Very truly yours,
Olney Light & Power Co.
Mayor McCracken and Attorney
Elmer Graham had a fistic en-
counter Monday afternoon, and
both paid fines to the city govern-
lent. The trouble was long stand-
ing and is-well known through the
community.
Since the water supply has been
so low it has been necessary to keep
the water cut off the greater por
tion of each day, and it has worked
an especial hardship on the cs'hool
children. The school board is hav-
ing a well put down on the school
grounds now and it is hoped this
Local sportsmen report dove wifl afford temporary relief,
shooting good and the birds plenti
ful, also they report seeing lots of The excursion from Wichita
quail. Let us hope they are only Falls and intermediate points to
“seeing” the quail, for the season Breckenridge passed through Tues
on that delectable bird does not day morning and both Wichita
open until December 1st, Falls and Archer City were well
represented. The Wichita Falls
In a clipping from the local pa-‘boosters had a good band along
per of Mercedes, California, refer- j with them, and they played several
ring,to a meeting being held there selections while the train was stop-
by the Rev. D. L. Coale, it is sta- J ped here. Only a few Olneyites
ted that there were 100 conversions made the trip,
in the 'services last Sunday. Rev.
In only a few cities of Western
Siberia are there two-story houses.
Baths in houses are very rare, the
public baths being used.
Albert Kemp, of Croydon, Eng.
hammered the piano for 110 hours
without any rest, pause or inter-
mission, except what was called for
by the music, 'and he claims that
this is the record performance of
this character.
BILLY FRANK PASCHALL
The above is a picture of little
Billey Frank Paschal, infant son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Paschall, who
died in this city on Saturday,
June 26.
Coale and party are expected to j On account of numerous object-
reach Olney Sunday. j ions as to the style of building they
- | were erecting, we understand that
Chas. Martin is elated—not to the Young County Motor Company
say jubilant—over the announce- j changed its plans and that they will
ment from Washinst^rsthat every | now construct a brick veneer build-
citizen (head of th/ziamny) wrill be ■ ing instead of using sheet iron
allowed to manufactupr 200 gallons ^ siding as heretofore planned. This
of home brew for personal use. He ; will be a much more substantial
advises Archer County farmers to structure, and we- are glad to note
plant vineyards and cut out cattle, the change in plans.
-cotton and wheat hereafter.
The Enterprise is somewhat shy
on personal items this week, as we
had depended on Mrs. Averitt to
get t)ie greater portion of that kind
of copy, and she took French leave-
on us and went visiting without let-
ting us know that, she would be
gone.
The business men failed to have
their regular meeting last Tuesday,
and we are of the opinion that it
was because the Enterprise man
was in bed sick and failed to prod
them up about it the day before.
We are certainly in hopes that the.
next one will be well attended and
that no more of them will be miss-
ed in future.
Center Street is receiving a new
surfacing and grading, which work
is to be continued on Southward to
a connection with the Olney road
near Anarene, or at least continue
as far in that direction as is possible
with the present supply of mois-
ture. We have finally decided to
build those Olney ginks a sure
enough road, but wish to remind
them that in case we send another
basket ball team down there and
they don’t, root for it, we’ll rub it
out. Will Wright is in charge of
the work, and the first mile sample
of his output is a hum-dinger.—
Archer County News.
Justice Court was in session all
day Monday and a part of Mon-
day night, and probably the most
interesting item on the docket was
the City of Olney vs. W. T. Camp-
bell, in which the City was" trying
to recover the cost of sidewalks
constructed on said Campbell’s
property. Justice Gray ruled that
the sidewalk wasn’t- worth anything
to the property and that Mr. Camp-
bell did not owe the city anything.
The city is taking aiTappeal to the
County Court.
This newfangled requirement of
the Light Company that- each of
its patrons make a “meter deposit”
of five or ten dollars goes some-
what against the grain, and we ex-'
pact the company will experience
some little difficulty in collecting
it, but- as they state in their notice,
it is a. customary procedure" in
many places. On its face it appears
to us as a forced loan from the
company’s patrons, but if the new
owners do what they promise with
reference to installing two new
and bigger engines and larger
wires over town, then we fe^l that
these tilings can be considered in
the light of “extenuating circum-
stances” and it will not go so much
against the-grain to loan them the
five or ten dollars required under
the comonflague title of “meter
deposit. ’ ’
Mineral Wells, Texas-, Sept 21.—
A lone bandit robbed the banking
house of Cunningham Bros, at Palo
Pinto shprtly after noon today. All
of the employes and officers of the
bank were at lunch with the excep-
tion of Louis Bryan, assistant cash-
ier..
The bandit, who was masked and
heavily armed, walked in and for-
ced Bryan into the vault. He fol-
lowered and searched a number* of
valuable papers, casting aside a
bundle containing $27,000 in
bonds. He then locked Bryan in
the vault and walked out of the
bank, taking $486 in silver and cur-
rency.
The man is belived to have left
Palo Pinto in an auto.
County and city officers are
scouring the surrounding country
trying to locate the robber for
y/hom reward of $1,000 has been
offered.
Although the reads in every di-
rection have been guarded since
a few minutes' after the robbery,
no trace of the robber has been
found and local officers believe he
is hiding in the hills near the scene
of the robbery.
DIRECTOR OF
SOUIOEBN 01
MISS LOIS WARE
SUCCESSFUL TEACHER
The Leader is in receipt of a
long article from the Eleetra News
giving an account of the successful
staging of Tom Thumb Wedding by
Miss Lois Ware, who f ormerly lived
here. The following is taken from
the News:
‘4 Miss Lois Ware, the expression
teacher, put on a Tom Thumb Wed-
ding at the Grand Theatre - last
Thursday night for the benefit of
the kindergarten departments of
the Methodjst church.
. £ 4 Much credit is due Miss Lois
Ware,..who trained the little folks
and many other goods things are
promised this winter from the ex-
pression class.—Graham Leader.
M. K. Graham, the man whose
tenacity of purpose resulted in the
running of the Wichita Falls and
Southern through Graham, even
though the original route would
have been more to his personal in-
terest, running through 12 miles of
land owned by him, with the estab-
lishment of a townsite in the cen-
ter, was added to the board of di-
rectors of- the Wichita Falls and
Southern at a' stockholders meet-
ing here Wednesday. Breck Wal-
ker of Breckenridge, who with C.
M. Caldwell of that place, has been
closely associated with the builders
bf the line in carrying out the
project, was also' named as a mem-
ber of the board.
Issuance of stock and securities
was authorized at the stockholders
meeting. The road now has no
outstanding securities of any kind,
nor has any stock been issued, the
road having beenlmilt with an in-
formal grouping of “shares” rep-
resenting a many times larger in-
vestment than the usual share of
stock issued by corporations.
The amount of stock nor the
amount of securities issued has not
been determined..
A directors meeting followed the
stockholders meeting, both meetings
being helcL in the office of Frank
Kell, the head of the road.—Wich-
ita Falls Record News.
OUR SIDE.
Sons sometimes profit by their
fathers’ mistakes. For instance,
if the present Morgan, Jr., has oc-
casion to operate upon a bunch of
stockholders, he probably uses an
anaesthetic of some kind, whereas
old Morgan Sr., used to use an axe.
.Science is now grafting healthy
brain tissues of animals. upon dis-
eased human. beings. That must
be old stuff, for there, are lots of
men on Wall street equipped with
the brain tissues of the hog.
Never find fault because a news-
paper fails to give every scrap of
news so long as you take no pains
to give the editor information.
The average editor isn’t- a medium
nor a mind reader, but he gets the
news the same way a milkman
gets his milk—by pumping. This
is true especially of that class of
items as personals. Rightly they
are not 4 4 puffery,” but simply
personal mention for the informa-
tion of local readers and those
having friends visiting them
should always let the local editor
know it, and he will always be
glad to give it the proper notice.
So if you have a bit of news worth
printing put it in the way of our
pencil pusher. — Lubbock Ava-
lanche.
REV. ALBERT CUNNINGHAM
This is a photograph of Rev.
Albert Cunningham, who is to con-
iluct the.song service at the Coale
revival now in progress at the
Methodist Church.
The cork oak grows plentifully
in Spain, and the peasants make
use of the bark to light- their hous-
es at night. The bark is placed
in a kettle from which protrudes a
spout, and when it is hot enough
it gives off a gas which burns with
considerable brilliancy.
The island of Malta, already ov-
ercrowded, is increasing its popu-
lation by 2,000 to 3,000 a year,,
this being the gain of the birth rate
over the death rate. There are not-
industries enough to provide em-
ployment for the present popula-
tion.
■ According to statistics gathered
by the Institute of Public Service,
lone in every fiften students in 22
American colleges is studying with
a view*- to entering the teaching
profession. The figures are based
on a survey-' covering more than
20,000 undergraduates.
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Saws with similar fixed teeth
more than eight feet long were us-
ed in Egypt more than sixty centu-
ries ago for sawing blocks of gran-
ite. Knowledge of this method of
making saws and drills was lost
for thousands of years. The Ro-
mans bad no tools of the kind, and
they were not reinvented until 50
years ago.
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, September 23, 1921, newspaper, September 23, 1921; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113740/m1/1/: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.