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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1925
Page
6
H L Stafford associated with Troy Laundry died of pneumonia in a local hospital. The body was sent to Dalhart by Griggs Undertaking yesterday for burial. He attended the Methodist church. His brother C W Stafford owned the Dalhart Laundry in Dalhart.
Dr Mary E Bates a prominent Denver physician and surgeon and Who s Who in America listed witness in the Mayer and Coker case in district court She is noted for child welfare and animal cruelty prevention work and is a director in Johnson Ranch Royalty Company whose holdings are involved in the suit.
Amarillo Methodists will hold a Sunday school conference at Polk Street Methodist Church with Dr. W C Owens of Nashville and three other Sunday School workers arriving Saturday. The event starts at 9 o clock Sunday and continues at 10 o'clock Monday, with Rev. Gaston Foote coordinating arrangements. all Amarillo Sunday School workers are expected to attend.
In Washington the fingerprint records list 60,000 Smiths 40,000 Johnsons and 28,000 Browns. The numbers reflect prints taken from men enlisting in the army during a wartime enrollment period.
Mrs. Ruby Neff of Happy died at home at 2 yesterday morning. The 23 year old wife of F. E. Neff leaves an infant son Edward Carl and is survived by her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. Evans, three brothers J G Evans Charles Evans both of Happy and Howard Evans of Canyon, five sisters Mrs J C Cox Mrs K M Reed Mena Ark Mrs A W Montgomery Mrs R B Evans and Miss Edessa Evans of Happy. Funeral arrangements are by Griggs Undertaking Company and burial will be in Happy Sunday afternoon. She was a Baptist enero.
J E Drysdall of Davenport Iowa contracts J R Phillips Pan handle drilling contractor to drill four wells in the NW or NW of section 17 block Y Weatherly ranch Hutchinson county. John McKinney of National Carbon Company Niagara Falls NY contracts Ace Michaels of Ardmore to drill a well in the NW of NE of section 17 block Y Weatherly ranch Hutchinson county pool. Travelers Oil Company SW of NE of section 6 block Y Hutchinson pool Kingsland ranch is drilling with cable tools at 100 feet.
Westex Oil Company of Amarillo filed for a charter and plans to drill immediately on leases owned by Fred Bone Ford Brandenburg L A Wells comprising 109 acres in the southeast corner of section 13 block Y Hutchinson county Whittenburg ranch.
Plans are under way to give the Bar num well in section 87 block Y Hutchinson county a shot of nitro today to increase production now flowing 69 barrels daily.
South Hutchinson Oil Company No 1 Whittenburg reports a well in section 12 block 7 Hutchinson. The well is flowing naturally at about 76 barrels per day with a to day swab test conducted.
Mr and Mrs P J Lowary of 902 Buchanan street were met by ambulances on their return to Amarillo yesterday morning. Two months earlier Mrs Lowary took her husband to the Mayo Brothers sanitarium in Rochester Minnesota. She was struck by a car there and suffered a broken right leg now in a plaster cast. While recovering she improved, Mr Lowary remains unable to walk far.
The Adams and Parr building at 408 Polk Street was sold yesterday by Allen Early to Col. C. T. Herring. Terms of the sale were private. The transaction was processed through Griffin Realty by E. Griffin.
Card expresses gratitude for courtesies during the death of the husband and father. Signed by Mrs. T. H. Buchanan and family, noting kind words acts and flowers will be remembered.
Dublin reports the Irish pig market in its worst state in 30 years as Danish competition pulls buyers away. Prewar Ireland kept 976,000 pigs while Denmark held 600,000. now Denmark allegedly has 1,800,000 pigs. Pig losses blamed on high feed costs, a poor potato crop, and a general reluctance to breed pigs.
All new machinery. Sanding and waxing services offered by H. C. Dobbs. Phone 1741J.
Amarillo members who subscribed to the Texas Tax League in 1922 will receive 199.62 dollars back. The league collected 2,419.64 dollars from Amarillo, sent to the Amarill Bank and Trust Company for distribution. Subscriptions were paid at half price, and the board voted to return the remaining fund and close affairs after deeming state equal taxation unattainable.
City brief notes G A Gosser leaves for Tulsa to see his two sons and will tour Little Rock to call on M F Lackney former Pierce Oil agent now Arkansas Louisiana sales manager. Dr George J Nunn praises Hugh S Cummings health articles in The Evening Post especially the fruit piece. Read Sunday News classifieds by calling 883.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Sam F Richardson at 407 Kentucky Street last Saturday. Norene Cazzell of 501 Florida Street, injured in an automobile crash Monday, is much improved. A marriage license was issued yesterday to L H Steele and Miss Myrtle Keily. Mrs William W Gibson is teaching temporarily in the Summit school.
A vintage advertisement warns of indigestion as a deadly season danger. It lists symptoms such as gas fullness restlessness and heart fluttering and promotes Ferraline as a fast acting stomach tonic with a money back relief guarantee from The Ferraline Co Atlanta Ga.
In Decatur Arkansas on October 2 the town well long a relic of pre germ days is being repurposed as a sanitary drinking fountain. A deep pipe from the water works will reach the well and supply water to the new fountain at the busiest corner.
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