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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1923
Page
1
Pecos High School seniors wrapped a week of Baccalaureate services Class Day sunrise breakfast and commencement. The event featured poetry readings the Key of Knowledge ceremony and a class song with the Juniors receiving the gilded Key of Knowledge amid playful remarks from a class critic.
Baccalaureate services were held at the Baptist Church of Pecos on Sunday May 13 1923. Rev C A Johnson pastor of the Christian church delivered the address titled Mountain Walks and a Valley Service praising distant war veterans and urging graduates to balance lofty dreams with service to others as the path to lasting life.
The May 15 class day featured humor and music as seniors staged a lively program in the auditorium. Miss Irene Prewit accompanied the performers, Donald Runyon welcomed all, and Miss Virginia Runnels gave a piano solo before a floral gum drop presentation. Cap Weyer delivered a train coach styled class history as the quartet Hicks Childress Wilson Thurston closed the program with song.
The Pecos High School Senior class held a Sunrise Breakfast at Sullivan's Bridge after gathering at the Baptist church. Students swam in the river and enjoyed a breakfast of fruits toast potatoes omelet and coffee. Irene Prewit and Mrs J W Brooks chaperoned.
Commencement exercises will be held Friday evening at the First Baptist Church of Pecos. Nineteen graduates will receive diplomas including Virginia Runnels, Zelma Childers, Fern Biggs, and others. The program features invocation by Rev. L L Thurston, addresses by Judge Jas. Ross, and the class motto We Finish to Begin with white carnation flower and purple and white colors.
The Miller family of Pecos expresses gratitude to friends for kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of their wife and mother, Ann Nak Imulncti.
A large Barstow delegation joined Toyah musicians for a Mother's Day musical service. About sixty musicians from Toyah and Barstow performed hymns and anthems with church choirs. Photographer W F Howard captured the group. a Barstow summer program is planned, with the Star-Telegram and Pecos Enterprise to publish photos.
G F Howard of Loving New Mexico met Pecos county commissioners to discuss the highway between Pecos and Carlsbad. Reeves County plans to begin work on the Reeves end within two weeks, with the Route 17 project linking Pecos to Carlsbad as a major trunk line second only to the Bankhead Highway.
County Commissioners R N Couch John Sisk Pat Fulgim W D Bozeman Mike Neiderkorn and Webb Justis completed an inspection trip along the road to Jal New Mexico. They found Porterville area well built with three miles of sand in Loving County identified for early graveling.
The Ways and Means Committee of the Carnegie Library Association plans a Friday evening lawn fete on May 25 at 8 o clock at Capt and Mrs Dean residence to support the library. Attendees are urged to bring a silver offering or a book and will be served punch and wafers free.
San Angelo property owner John D. Shipman travels from Reeves and Loving counties to share stories of his ranching and farming ventures. He describes building a nine and then ten foot wolf proof fence around thousands of acres, fencing that impressed buyers but followed by losses including a stolen and vanished property and even a highway built on a former grave site. He laments theft and misfortune while noting his deep Texan roots and long experience as a stockman and landowner.
The Pecos grammar school held its commencement program on May 17 1923 at the First Methodist Church. The program featured Invocation by J L Spears salutatory by Bobbie Dean class song Stars Brightly Shining poems and solos, prophesy, choruses, and diplomas presented by R B Norman. The close roll lists graduates Aldred Browning Anice Buchanan Wylie Cole Virgie Cowan Ima Dardin Mildred Budaly Ora Fuqua Ruby Lee Farr Clara Fuqua Edith Hudson Della Mae Hudson Evelyn Leeman Janice McKellar Mamie Moran Ruby Peer Louise Prindle Ellen Kate Ross Bryan Biggs Morris Collie Bob Dean Norman Eisenwine Howell Johnson Frank Wilson George Morrison.
A quartet of serenaders visited several families Tuesday night and sang with their sweet voices after a recital. The performance was enjoyed by all, but the group hurried to end when a Ford passed by, then ran away, suggesting they are shy of Fords. A playful remark about sealing a Ford to them is made.
A Pecos Catholic church forms a children's choir directed by Mrs J G Crawford. The tiny singers, praised for fine voices, debut on Sunday May 27 as Pecos boasts likely the youngest church choir in the state or nation.
Ed Vickers and E L Collings are visiting and attending to business matters in El Paso.
Ramsey No 2 operators have advanced daily for a week, drilling through hard limestone. They expect a salt strata strike soon to show rotary capabilities. Bluebird near Carlsbad drills at 2200 feet in a favorable formation with potential quick developments. Keyes Gray drillers near Brown well at 920 feet report progress and a produc ing well is expected shortly. Further wells anticipated in the Artesia field.
The boilermaker has worked all week to fix the boiler at the lease. Delays in material have slowed progress, but all necessary items are now on hand and the crew expects to finish soon and steam up the equipment in a few days.
A brief shutdown is reported awaiting arrival of a casing string. Operations will resume once casing is in place to prevent any accident during drilling while oil remains locked.
The Toyah Bell oil well near Ramsey 1 shows activity as repairs run ahead of a planned restart. drilling crews have drilled to 1600 feet and will remove the casing after a 2900 foot string is pulled, with steam expected by Monday and expectations of a high gravity oil yield if cleaned.
Colorado field notes Looney No 1 of Looney Snyder and Eddleman tops Morrison tests at 2964 feet. Reports say field extends south and east with several local oil men traveling to the test. Moore No 1 in Scurry County drilled gas pocket, Gulf Production Co test underway, Badgett gasser flowing several million cubic feet daily.
Sol Stage and Gee Etz plan to buy casing for Tri- State Development Company well No 2 and seek tubing and a gas pumping engine to pump the Brown Well under their control. The Pruit-Etz syndicate now operates as a named company and progresses toward the oil pool as Telinois No 3 drills and reaches 1300 feet. The Roswell Buffalo Well near Roswell continues drilling at 2300 feet with daily gains.
The Pioneer reports four inch casing for the Troy well owned by Vortex Oil Company on section 20 block 140 T and St. Louis survey, enabling Supt. J W Grant to resume work. Grant estimates 30 days total to casing cement and drilling, barring delays, with several nearby wells progressing and investors eyeing early completion.
J. D. Granger, working Ramsey No. 2, departed for Fort Worth after naming Midland as a meeting point with E. F. Pumphrey's son. He said elder Pumphrey would finance the project upon return, while California partners had failed to provide funds. Granger predicted no delays, planned a double shift on return, and noted the well was below 800 feet with salt formation expected in about 20 feet, a three to four day drive through hard formation.
About 25 workers from Pecos Mercantile and 75 guests traveled 16 miles to the Pecos river for the annual outing and fish fry. Floyd Brownlee and Jim Prewit caught around 120 pounds of fish, stored on ice for Jim King to prepare. The group enjoyed games and swimming, with 25 cars transporting attendees and the store closing at 3:30 pm for the event. They returned by 9 pm and praised the outing as a pronounced success.
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