Great soaking and glorious rainfall hits Pecos County
Rain from last weekend and ongoing showers deliver one to six inches across Pecos County West Texas. Flooding and washed out tracks reported on several ranches including Orient railway area and Leon Valley lake. John Trent notes the season’s heaviest rain since 1920 and ranches such as Scharbauer report over six inches. A ranch house on Big Canyon with 30 years of history was nearly wrecked as waters swept rooms away.
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Cayanosa Territory
Hood Mendel
John Oates
Dutch Cattle Company
John M. Odom
Elsinore Cattle Company
Orient Railway
Leon Valley Lake
G. A. Sachse
Bud Price
Marsh Lea
Guy Rachal
J. M. Montgomery
Scharbauer Cattle Company
John Trent
Harral Brothers
John Collins
Scharbauer Ranch
Big Canyon
Duncan Campbell
Sheffield
Cap Yates
Frank Perry, White, Baker & Company
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Grade Night Exercises At Fort Stockton High
The Fort Stockton public school primary and intermediate departments perform a miscellaneous program at the high school auditorium with admission free. The piece includes a chorus titled The Song and the Breeze. Light rains visited northern Imperial and Buena Vista areas, with heavier but beneficial rainfall reported countywide. A40 headloss of sheep and about 100 goats occurred after a Saturday downpour on Tom Riggs’s ranch, the heaviest in 40 years. At Camp No. 5 on E L ranch a small cyclone caused damage including a killed horse, overturned wagons, damaged truck, and uprooted mesquite and hackberry trees. Pina’s camp outfit members were beaten and thrashed, and an old abandoned tractor was moved about 100 yards from its prior location.
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Fort Stockton
Imperial
Buenavista
Girvin
Tom Riggs
Riggs
E L Ranch
Carlos Pina
Pina
Oil activity in Pecos and Reagan counties reported
Gulf Production Company drills around 2800 feet in Baker White & Co ranch with an oil showing and good producer prospects. Transcontinental Oil finishes fishing and sets 58 inch casing around 2800 feet with an encouraging oil showing. Reagan County fields see two wells bring in with Santa Rita production totaling about 41 000 barrels, with deeper drilling expected to raise flow.
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Gulf Production Company
G. C
F. Ry. Co. Ry
Baker, White & Company
Transcontinental Oil Company
T. C. Ry. Company
Reagan County
Texan Oil & Land Company No
Fort Worth Man Sells 200 Section Texas Ranch
Warner Moore of Fort Worth reports a Sanderson deal by Sheffield Terrace Land Co to M. C. Taylor of Panther City. The Terrell county ranch spans about 200 sections and will be developed for oil and irrigated farming, with a steel derrick staged for drilling once geologist A. D. Lloyd marks the site.
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Warner Moore
Fort Worth
Mr. Moore
Sanderson
Sheffield Terrace Land Company
Ft. Worth
M. C. Taylor
Panther City
Terrell County
A. D. Lloyd
Plan to Push the Cotton Seed Oil Mill in Pecos County
A chamber of commerce committee in Fort Stockton plans to form a company to build a cotton seed oil mill costing at least 20000 dollars. They will solicit stock from Pecos County citizens and begin building once funds are raised, aiming to create a local feed and home market for cotton seed and to ease livestock feeding.
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Chamber of Commerce
Fort Stockton
H. H. Butz
R. H. Gray
W. P., Rooney
S. C. Johnson
D. S. Beeman
A. Niemann
Pecos County
United Co-Operation
Fort Stockton 1925 26 Public School Faculty Elected
At a school board meeting last Saturday the faculty for the 1925 26 term was elected. Names include Miss Hertha Waldschmidt primary Miss Euna Sachse second grade Miss Fern Pugh third grade Miss Lurline Fitzgerald fourth grade Miss Lela Mae Skinner fourth grade Mrs J H Head fifth grade Jessye B Smith sixth grade Mrs R H Hughes seventh grade O T Jernigan seventh grade Miss Frances McNeill domestic economy G A Kastner principal Mexican School Miss Hettye Warnock assistant Mexican School O J Laas principal Commercial O A Zimmerman manual train Miss Vera Park Latin and Spanish Mrs Isabel Winter English.
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Hertha Waldschmidt
Euna Sachse
Fern Pugh
Lurline’ Fitzgerald
Lela Mae Skinner
J. H. Head
Jessye B. Smith
R. H. Hughes
O. T. Jernigan
Frances McNeill
G. A. Kastner
Hettye Warnock
O. J. Laas
O. A. Zimmerman
Vera Park
Isabel Winter
Local Range Cattle Shipments From Oklahoma Pasture
J. M. Odom shipped fifteen cars of cattle to Borron Oklahoma for pasture. Frank Murchison sent fourteen cars from Baldridge to Borron territory. R. H. Price E. L. Brown and James Power sold 250 steel yearlings to Timberlake Adams shipped to Fairfax Oklahoma.
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J. M. Odom
Borron
Okla
Frank Murchison
Baldridge
R. H. Price
E. L. Brown
James Power
Timberlake & Adams
Fairfax
Sleet Covers Mountain in Late Season Warm Spell
A mountain over 4,000 feet high in the Allison and Gilbert ranch was coated with sleet on Wednesday. This unusual late season event followed record April heat, with temperatures reaching as high as 102 degrees for several days.
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Allison & Gilbert
Prospectors Pleased With Fort Stockton Visit
A St. Louis group led by Edwin Daniel of the St. Louis & Southern Realty Co visited Fort Stockton last week. Dr. T M Williams Dr E J Brais T F Wadsack W A Reed R C FE Koch and Martha C Bach toured irrigation lands and potential oil fields, guided by the Fort Stockton Chamber committee. They expressed confidence in the area’s latent resources and promised to back further development upon returning to Missouri.
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Fort Stockton
St. Louis
Missouri
Fort Stockton Baseball Loses Again to Grandfalls
Fort Stockton and Grandfalls met on the Fort Stockton diamond Sunday with Grandfalls again taking the game 11 to 4 after a prior 16 to 3 defeat. The Fort Stockton team faced a heavy loss as Grandfalls maintained the lead throughout the contest.
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Fort Stockton
Grandfallis
Stockton
Gowen's Furniture Store Sells Rubber Hose for Lawns
A local ad notes rubber hose offered by Gowen's Furniture Store in various lengths. The copy playfully assures customers the hose is not silk and jokes about water needs for lawns and gardens. References to Rosa Bonheur and Billy DeBeck appear in light, unrelated fashion.
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Gowen’s
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West Texas
Mrs. Hughes
Mrs. Rose
Santa Rita Field
SELLS
Rosa Bonheur
Billy DeBeck
Avery
Avery Champion
Grocery Department
Gent
Rooney Mercantile Company
Fort Stockton’s Department Store
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