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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
3
Wilbarger County wells halted as fuel oil ran dry and roads worsened keeping inspections sparse. Multiple company names and well numbers show shut downs, fishing for tools, underreaming, or rigging up across the Wilbarger field.
Quanah-Texas Drilling Association No 1 Section 22 Block A drills at 500 feet. Old Colony Petroleum Co No 1 Lot 62 Block H W N Ry Co shuts down at 3100 feet. Nee-No-She Petroleum Co No 1 Section 241 Stewart underreaming 12 1 2 casing at 775 feet. Groesbeck No 1 Parks drilling at 400 feet No 2 O'Hair drilling at 4380 feet. H O Company Section 60 Block 16 500 feet drilling. Great Western Petroleum Co Hopkins school land shuts down at 1000 feet. Frizzell et al No 1 Norton drilling at 900 feet No 2 Norton shut down at 255 feet No 3 Porterfield change to rotary at 1002 feet. Fort Mir Oi Company Acme ready. Mid-West Petroleum Co Wheat No 1 Section 84 Block K cleaning out at 2065 feet No 1 Gilliam shut down at 1050 feet No 1 Mulkey sprudding 50 feet. Agatite Company drilling on Section 207 and another location made. McReynolds Oil & Gas Co No 1 O'Hair 480 feet drilling. OW Products Co derrick and tools Jake Wolters No 1 Gilliam derrick Flmhurst Investment Co Brock THO feet Billy Greene Off Co material.
A baby boy was born at 2 05 PM to Mr and Mrs EF West on Maiden Street in what appears to be a local birth notice. The arrival marks a family milestone reported in the community snapshot.
Advertisement notes nice new rooms centrally located and arranged for offices. The buyer is urged to see or phone eye lip Ady. Dewey Wilson signs the notice in a brief classified-like item.
H F Crossland, a north side farmer, asks The Record readers to determine when February will host five Sundays again. With February starting on Sunday in a leap year the month contains twenty nine days and yields five Sundays.
Come in and hear real music advertised by HB and W Drug Company in a local promotion. The notice invites customers to experience the New Edison sound technology and showcases its presence in the store.
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