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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1933
Page
7
From the Pecos Enterprise files five years ago, October 19 1928. The issue highlights the Hotel Graham opening this week and city council debates over telephone rate increases. Other items note boom days, shineboy rate hike from 10 to 15 cents, and damage to the J. B. Davis home by fire.
From the Pecos Times October 20 1916: Adairs glory barn revival house seats 1500 with room for 200 more. Evangelist Lockett Jair to lead. Turkey Day set. Reeves county fair receipts and disbursements show a profitable year. Booster trip funds and a US Army acad appointment for William Ross noted. Local politics mention R B Creager as Republic candidate and F E Ferguson as Democratic challenger.
An article notes plans by the Lions Club to sponsor a Boy Scout troop in Pecos. It mentions rotation on oil fields in Ward and Loving counties and outlines community development efforts.
A Red Bluff committee resolved at a meeting to apply for a four million five hundred thousand dollar loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for their project.
Every square mile of Michigan's fire zone, spanning about 19 million acres, is visible from one of the state's 150 fire towers.
The record notes that at different periods over time, as many as thirty distinct means of execution were officially employed across the world, ranging from boiling to electrocution.
The weekly drilling report details two new Ward county locations for Grand Falls and Gulf O'Brien sectors and lists multiple wells in progress. Entries include Gulf Production Co No 37 O'Brien with 990 north and 350 east lines, Abell Bros No 1 California Archenhold with 2310 north east and 330 southeast lines, and numerous other wells with depths, depths reached, and fluids produced or tested.
Goldman and McKague No 1 Regan Mcbivain shut down partly rigged up J D Goulette and FE Klinger No 1 section 2 block 57 T and UV Railway Survey total depth of anhydrite Prepare run 10 inch casing R L Allen No 1 Fee Sec 32 bik B33 H T C Location A R Eppenauer No 2 Allen Location Freels et al No 1 J B Green man total depth 1705 anhydrite shut down for casing
Rotarians and their ladies enjoyed a quarterly Ladies Night at the Ralph Williams home. Indoor due to rain, the Spanish themed evening featured music by Miss Warren Collings and Mrs. J. C. Wilson, a Mexican lunch, and a Latin American culture talk by Martin Michel. President Jack Hawkins presided as toastmaster.
The report lists multiple oil wells with specifics on sections, blocks, and parcels. No. 8 Texas-Pacific Coal and Oil Co. shows total depth 253 feet with flow 5369 barrels per day through tubing and marked complete. No. 1-B S. A Thompson and No. 1-D Johnson locations include depths 2090 and 2510 feet with references to southwest and northwest line measurements.
John R. Brandon, president of the company behind Hotel B tt i ad, and Barney Hubbs of the Pecos Enterprise send congratulations on final approval of the Red Bluff plan. The note credits county and city leaders, Senator Regan, Judge Starley, and local efforts, predicting dawn of commercial industrial agricultural growth with Pecos as the pivot and urging completion of the federal building and a soft water project.
R Bonna Ridgway, attorney at law, has moved with his family to Pecos and will have an office over the City Pharmacy. He is known across Texas, formerly lived in Fort Worth, practiced in McCamey and Presidio, served two terms in the Texas Legislature, drafted Texas first automobile law and other measures, and managed Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 Texas campaign. He has been Fort Worth and McCamey city attorney, a State Game Commission supervisor, and has visited nearly all Texas counties.
Several Pecos Rotary members plan to attend a dinner dance hosted by the Marfa Rotary club on Tuesday night October 31. Pecos Rotary has been invited to the affair.
Berne Switzerland has about 100000 residents and is primarily German-speaking with a Protestant majority.
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