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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1920
Page
6
City records show a 1920 Wellington election to fill the mayoral post after resignation. The document is signed by acting mayor P Starr and city secretary Jas C Mahan, dated July 1920.
Eugene Moora of the Booat ers selected Happy Briscoe of Hollis to join the Marines in Dallas. Briscoe, Hollis shortstop, is fast and clever and may play with Dallas in coming games this week. The Index predicts Briscoe will rise within a year.
Me Newton Wiles and Miss Manado Dowik wed Thursday afternoon in Wellington. The ceremony was at the Methodist church with Pastor presiding. The couple left with friends and Claude Adams joined. no one suspected the surprise ceremony. The Childress Index and friends extend best wishes for a long, happy marriage.
Report describes a diverse group of laborers from farmers to college boys working together in the Panhandle harvest. A wandering Record man observes a laborer returning home with a magazine, noting the era’s political and economic topics shaping their reading.
The Texas Drilling Company outlines plans to drill to 8 000 feet with full gear, fishing tools, and a truck and trailer. It offers 5 000 to 15 000 foot contracts at cash per foot, with rigs on cash and 40 50 bases. Projected annual earnings reach millions depending on acreage sold and oil prices.
A young man home from France rejects a proposed stock threshing wage of 87,000 and questions whether America drifts from strong old line companies. The letter cites Canadian Record commentary and urges investigation of local insurers in Stamford and Franklin.
The Wild Ike well, drilled in the Potter gas field, advanced to 2650 feet after jars arrived to resume work. The ten inch hole nears lime layer as promoters target 3000 feet, eyeing potential value beneath the blue lime. Gas odor noted above lime as drillers push toward deeper casing. New horse-shoer noted at Ed Riley's and courteous treatment advertised by Nichols & Davis.
Posted notice warns against hunting prowling or trespassing on lands owned or controlled by W M Bourland. Signed 68 tf and Riley advertises for business.
An old advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh, describing it as an internal remedy that works through the bloodstream. It claims the product, combined with purifiers, is prescribed by leading physicians and sold by Cheney & Co with nationwide druggists carrying Hall's Purify Pills.
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