The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-08-29
BIRDSEYE HAS AN OIL
BOOM {!
BIG CUSI|RR STRUCK!

Hurra for Birdseye! Nothing Is
ltoo good for Dubois county! Our
"Hoosier Company" would have
done better to have invested their
cash nearer home. An Evansville
company leased land near Birdseye,
and last week struck it rich, drilling
lin a so barrel well, with fair pros,
pect Of it yielding larger. Several
lof the stockholders in Evansville
visited the we'll, and were greatly
pleased. The Evansville Courier
saws of il "Birdseye, the little town
E lon the Southern railroad, a few miles
I east Of Huntingburg, promises TO
{ become one Of the leading oil CEN
; tiers OF the state.
The town is wild with excitement
b over the discovery Of oil there q lew
: Idays ago, and the capitalists VINO
# form the company are themselves
e greatly elated.
e The company, which is composed
If of local capitalists, has over l3,oU
Is acres land around Birdseye leased
4 and several wells will be drilled.
a oil was struck at depth Of 99l
ST feet. The drillers went to ! ,Ol5 ieet
G. when the point Of the drill brok'
"a and was left in the well, stopping tn
d, flow Of oil. The deeper the dril
:, went the stronger became the nov
st of oil. The drillers expect to sh 30
Is the we'll in few days, and the wei
will be drilled about fifty feet deep
d. er. The oil was discovered in Iren
of ton rock, and the men who are dril
nd ing the well have had consideraol
is experience in the gas and oil fields
m. and assert the prospects are brigi
re- for plenty Of oil in and about bird
Sc, eye.
is County Auditor Louis Legler WI
he is one of the stockholders, has r
to turned from Birdseye, and says a.
Gu ditional wells will be drilled at ono
ler The town Of Birdseye, Which
lrt. one OF the most thriving in DuDo
in, county lis astir, and Mr.. Legler lool
not for a bonn there such as the town d
La never before enjoyed"
ese A Young woman thought she v
ne ne getting fat. She really wasn't, 3
q. a. she thought she was. She worn
=: =: about it until she sprouted an a6u
~ ,m' dant crop Of wrinkles on her io'
81 head. She had eaten enough pic
les and consumed enough lemo
iade TO reduce the fat lady OF
old circus to 80 pounds. But she '
in still fat. In fact she is stiii -as ia'
to- as ever
pipe She had racked her poor br'
to- for months trying to get "skinny
the until last fall she conceived the &c
the that gymnastics was the proper
n in per. She was over-jubilant
on weeks and weeks. Faithfully I
in attended the meetings OF her cl
With at the Y. M. C. A. and followed
ppi- precepts Of the course to lett
Several times in her enthusias
ends she overdid herself.
l1ter l0eQ cduc tuo Cuu "
She had been weighed and meas
Ben ed at the first Of the term. Ag
Idly she was put upon the never-erI
fe?" scales and again she was entwi
lent, by the tape line.
The instructor was as happy
peak June bug, and almost danced as
much told this miss that she had gal
six pounds, and and that ain
ee as every measurement had incres
slightly.
s." The one who thinks that she
fat was not enthusiastic as the
o. structor. The instructor mis-
" Of her lack Of Joy and explained
!, COR there was a strong probability
yraph another term would make . n
On to better showing.
ritten The gay gazelle 10 now tr
,,rtrv .so.,, baths Ind. Sun.