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Or. L. J. Mims, president of Howard
Payne college, is convalescing after
a several days' illness.
KevJohn Power has been called to
Brady tomorrow and there will be no
Lenten services Wednesday afternoon.
Services on Friday evening at 7:30
oclock as announced.
BROWNWOOD BULLETIN, MARCH 1, 1921
OF
ACTIVE ORGANIZATION
! WAS MESSENGER FOR LINCOLN
NOW TAKES STATE SENATE JOB
IN LEGISLATURE OF COLORADO
«HL TO BE FOOLED AM) SOLI) BY
EXECITJVE COMMITTEE I>
MOST AVAILABLE MARKET.
Th-3 oil producers of the Brown
county shallow field formed permanent
orfanization at their meeting held at
the city hall Monday night. The name
of the organization is "The Producers
of the Frown wood Shallow Oil Field".
By M. T. DACEY,
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.
CANAN CITY, Co., March 1.—Michael
R. Geraghty ha& deserted lite
fruit farm, near here, for the time
being, to hobnob again with the habitues
of legislative halls. Geraghty
has accepted an appointment as a
"bill clerk" in the Colorado Senate
and will occupy himself under the
golden dome of the State Capitol in
Constitution and by laws read and | (Denver for the next few days
approved at a previous meeting were Many o' the Senators at the State
adopted. A selling or executive com- Capitol will be surprised to learn that
mittee was appointed, the duty of Geraghty, who is eighty-three years
which will be to act between the pro- add and was born in Ireland, was for
ducers and the market. In other words several years a White House messen-
Uio committee will seek to pool all ger in Washington.
the oil produced in the Brown county
shallow, field, and sell it to the highest
bidder through regular oil channels
in a systematic way to the end
that the producers may get every cent
their oil Is worth minus useless worry
and delay. The comr.ittee now has
l. r i0 barrels daily pledged and it is its walked daily into the office of Presiintention
to have 200 barrels pledged dent Lincoln with departmental meswithin
the next few days. With this sages and documents, Geraghty said:
quantity of oil To ofi>r daily the com- "It is a long time ago, but 1 remittee
feels that a permanent feature
will soon be esaUished and the shallow
fields of Brown county come ii to
their own, from an industrial :md
financial pcint of view. Another interesting
feature is that if the plans now
outlined, prove to be a success it will
mean that a laree number of i»ewr
shallow wells will be put down in the
near future and the shallow field de- tenger for President Bucharan I waij
veloped on a most extensive scalo.
The committee will act withou*. any
»xp«nia* whatever to the producers in 1861 and 1S62." ;
with the exception that each member
of the committee will draw the princely
3alary of just one dollar per annum.
The committee is composed of 'Buchanan was an aristocrat." ht
the following producers or producers said: "Very dignified and difficult tc
representatives: J. A. Spaulding of the approach. All the four years I work
Spaulding Oil Company; H. C. Fletch- ed under him he never once asked
er of the Commercial Petroleum me to sit down. I'd walk in, click m>
Company; S. E. Bovard of the J- V heels together and
Shoat Companyr E. R. Kirkpatrick f*f whiie he opened
the I'ippin Oil Company. Meetings bro'isrht. Some of those message*
will be called from time to Urn.- at were lengthy and often it took him
which time the committee in ol»arge
will make reports.
■ • ■
County Farm Bureau to
Be Organized Here Next
Saturday Is Program
Local farm bureaus were organized
at Bangs, Beards school house and
Mount Zion. Monday niuht and tonight
there will be speaking at Salt
Branch, Red River and Zephyr and it
is hoped local bureaus will be organized
at each of these places. Satur-
Monroe. day morning at 1G o'clock the farmers
Mrs. Marshall Smith and daughter. | living adjacent to Brownwood will
f I Miss Nellie Belle, left this morning meet at the courthouse at 10 o'clock
; for Dallas where they will attend the | for the purpose of organizing a local
D. Boas of Galveston is spending a Tettrazini concert. They will go to ! union and at 2:30 in the afterr.ton a
flay or so in Brownwood with friend? ' Springfield, Mo., for a several months! general meeting will take place in the
and acquaintances. {visit before returning home.
- Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Justus of Llano. "•
are visiting friends and relatives in |;
Brownwood for a few days.
i. W. Massey left Monday nitzht for
Corpus Cfcristi alter spemiin- about
a week with bis family in Brownwood.
Mr. Massey has a position
the Texas Mexican and Rio Granie
railroad running from Corpus Christi
to Laredo. His family will pretaMy
jote him in the early summer.
U. H. Gresham has returned from
Temple where he has spent about ten
days with Mrs. Gresham who underwent
a very serious operation but is
now s|owly improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Elliott and
children have gone to
where Mr. Elliott will be connected
with the R. B. Rogers store.
Judge C. H. Jenkics. a:. ociate justice
of the Third Court of Civil Appeals,
has been spending several days
with his daughters in Brownwood.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mims have returns
to Merkel after a visit with Dr.
and Mrs. L. J. Mims.
Charles Guthrie of Dallas spent
Monday in Brownwood visiting with
L1EIT. ( ARL WAKBEEBB,
mn SLAVER, PACES TRIAL
(CONTINUED PROM PACK ONE.)
and abhorring the thought of becoming
a father, had staged the fake holdup
as a convenient method of'ridding
himself of his responsibilities and
starting life anew. It was also shown
that for several nights preceding the
murders Wanderer had forsaken his
: wife while she made clothing for their
District Clerk Charles llynum and I coming child and had escorted a six-
Ball inger father. W. H. Bynum. of Zephyr went j teen-year-old girl to dance halls and
to Snyder Monday to attend the funer- ' other amusements.
al of a sister of W. D. Bynum who
died Sunday. During the absence of
the district clerk E. C. Beckham will
attend to the duties of the office.
J. -M. Snipes i> in a »:o*pital in Ft
Wortfl, where he weal for an operation
which was performed last Saturday.
Relatives here have received in Six believed Wanderer insane, they
foimation that Irs condition is cat Is-1 told * Judge Pam but were afrald he
'
business! fictory. although he will probably be ! wou,d be released from the asylum for
relatives and attending to
matters.
compelled to remain in the hospital
Mr. and Mrs. ('. N. Harville have for several days.
moved to Bailinger to locate aft#r
living in Brownwood for several
A typographical error
1
months.
C. D. Phinney has returned from
Monday in the story ef the accident!
Austin where be was called on account
of the illness of his son,
Baker on Sunday afternoon, it
Charles, who underwent an operastated
that "Mrs. Baker said the gur* 1
tion but is now doing nicely. He will
had always been kept loaded," when
resume his duties with the legislature
the statement should have read "the
as soon as his condition permits run had always been kept un'oodeti."
Miss Kathryn Anderson, from the] -,. „. . !" _J
State University, Is spending the I Th * T ' ***** ■ rabhlt *** In **
week-and with her parents. Dr. and j ni % of W ' F - Smith's p^ace on
Mrs. A. EM Anderson, Miss Anderson a . y '. on Brady road, 15 miles
la a student in the ScLool of Journal- south of Brownwood and near Dulin.
ism of the University.
Shot guns will be the weapons and the
Mrs. L. C. Randolph of Plainview rabbits will be driven into Mr.Smith's
who has been a guest of her sister, wolf proof fence which has been made
rabbit proof on three sides. It is urged
lira. R. L/ Wataott, left this morning
tor L visit with friends and relatives tnat the "« ood 8h6t8 " and other s from
Brownwood come and help as thoy
have lots of rabbits to dispose of and
need help.
in Austin.
Tom Leach, who has been located in
Fort Worth and Breckenridfe for several
weeks attending to business,
spent a short time Sunday with his
family in Brownwood.
Rev. Mr. Mason, who conducted the
tSnrml services of Hazel Black on
(*kday, returned tfi Brookesmith on
evening.
flfceflltlri of Brookesmith atfuneral
of Hazel Black on
^turning to his home on
•d to fcr*JJSk and children returning
t**i53"fh today after attendher
little daughralUfrOI^
Monday wttfc*Mi*x» w Mexico spent
San Antonio Base Bali
Fans Are Looking for
Season Full of Thrills
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 1.—
With the training squads of the Detroit
Tigers and New York Giants due
here about March 1, baseball fans are
bocmia? up interest in the pre-season
exhibition games.
The Giants will train at Texas
League Park, while Ty Cobb's Tigers |
vill gambol on an especially prepared
diamond at Braekeniidge Park. Additional
locker space and shower
:i aths have been installed at the club
house of the league park and an er.-
•ir^lv new cub house, with all mod-
The recent anniversary of Lincoln'sI Q^ 'facilities, has been erected for
Birthday brought out the interesting| t he Cobb performers at DrackenrUige
story of Geraghty's service in thejp ar^
Wnite House under the great eman- A tentative schedule of games with
cipntor, as veil as four years under' ther ma j or league teams and with
his predecessor, President Buchanan |Texas League teams ha* been avrang-
Reminiscing of the days when he| C d as follows:
.March 5-6—NYw York Giants vs.
San Antonio Broncs.
March 12-13 —Giants vs. Tigers.
Mar^h 19-20—Tigers vs. San Antonio
member many incidents that occurred !r» r oncs
curing the stirring days of the C'.vilj }Iud-week games will be staged be-
Wur and the four years that preceded \ tween tne Tiger antl ^iani crew3 0 f
it. 1 was eighty-three years old tiuj first a nd second string men.
13th of February, but I can recall, The venerable and scrapping John
Lincoln and Buchanan as though it ;M cC,raw has reserved rooms at the
were yesterday. ^ JMenger Hotel for his Giants. The
Served Under Lincoln. 'Tigers will be housesd at the Travel-
After serving four years as mes- | er » i Hotel.
Country clubs will be thrown open
reappointed in that capacity by Prcs- f or entertainment of members of both
Went Lincoln and served under hhr teams aR(1 special trips through historic
Spanish missions, including the
Geraghty narrated numerous anec ; .\i am0f are being arrarged.
dotes about the two chief executives, »
of the nation that he served. Pan-American Life
Insurance Company to
Open Offices Here
E. B. Bynum, of Dallas, district agtand
at attention ent f° r the Pan-American Life Insurmessages
| had! ance Company, has been a guest of
Finley Hurlbut, local representative
for several days and upon leaving
many minutes to read them. I'd ril- * -^tiited that he was very highly pleaswav
6 have to stand still until he had; ed with. Brownwood and vicinity. Acfinished
and instructed me what tc cording to Mr. Hurlbut, Mr. Bynum
(j 0< iand other officials of the company
'•When President Lincoln took office! win ** in Brownwood next week with
it was an different. - He would ta;:c ,u v,ew of. locating a district office here
the paper I had brought him and s iv | with branch offlces in Ballinger. Cole-
man, Santa Anna and other surrounding
towns, and appointing about 40
*Sit down a minute, pease.* Then he
would read it and start me off with an
answer.'
acants over this territory.
Geraghty came West in 1878 and p_ / j p
first settled ia LeadviUe. He purchased
a fruit farm near here several
years ago, where he spends most of:
his time.
Buried in Snowslide, Man
Is Rescued Just in Time
(By International News Service.)
district court room for the purnose of SILVERTON. Col., March 1.—D. E.
organizing a county farm burenu. It i Smith, local railroad agent.had a naris
necessary that delegations from all
the local unions be present, if a strong
county organization is Jo be fo.med.
But it was the vivid picture of police
brutality as painted by Attorneys
Short and Guenther that the jury remembered
when it retired for what
was to prove a forty-eight-hour deliberation.
Not one, it was later explained,
voted for the death penalty,
and only two for life imprisonment.
the criminal insane on a writ of habeas
corpus. So t^e verdict of twenty-five
years was rendered—actually
less than five years for each of the
three victims.
Then started the demand to hanR
mint of litt. P :iaz,I EJ«k by Fred WandeVrTyTrytag £&c th"e ^
H !der of the "ragged stranger." The
police again circularized the entire
United States and Canada with the
morgue picture of the dupe and a
score of "identifications" were made.
None have stood up, however, so that
it is for the* murder of "John Doe"
that Wanderer goes to trial today.
LOSES SUIT AGAINST Qt'EEX.
(By International News SeVvice)
PARIS, Feb. 14.—An uncessful attempt
has Just been made by heirs of
a French doctor to recover $4,000 for
attendance on the late Queen Draga
of Serbia, when she was about to give
birth to a child) The doctor was summoned
to Belgrade a year before Draga
was assassinated! His heirs were
defeated in a suit they brought
against the dead Queen's mother-inlaw,
Queen Nathalie.
The National Board of Underwriters
M. HaUiff, and tr^V Mrs. Charles estimate $1,500,000,000 fire losses in
James United States in 1916.
UL"*
Hotel Arrivals
Graham Hotel.
S. M. Richardson, Denton; E. L.
Stevenson, San Angelo; L. L. Wooten,
Arlington; E. W. Sanford, Houston;
J. T. Lowery, Dallas; A. Martin, Cisco;
T. C. McDonald,