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The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

power driven spindles operating in
the United States and they work up
into fabrics the product of IL 900 900
bales of cotton "a year.
In 1910 there were thirty miles OF
steam railroad in the whole U. S.
Today land this astounding change
has come about in seventy years. there
are 400,0 600 miles Of steam railroads
in the United States; there are $4,000
steam locomotives; there are 100000
ars passenger and freight and these
railroads employ 100000 men. Steam
and machinery have done that as well.
Only thirty-two years ago electric
ity was applied to the purposes of city
street transportation. Today there
are 10000 miles Of street car tracks in
the United States, and the street car
systems of the country present an ac-
tual cash investment ("water' ex-
cluded) of $4,000, 000, 900.
Oil and Its Marvels
But crude oil and gasoline are do
ing still more marvellous things. 1t
is only twenty years ago since the first
really practicable" automobile Git was
a French Panhard carl made the first
notable long distance run which was
from Paris to Marseilles, in sixteen
hours. That Panhard averaged II
miles an hour, and t~wenty-one years
ago II miles was an astounding rec
ord" Today the average stock tour
ing car can make 80 miles an hour on
good western roads with comfort and
safety, and, last year, the automobiles
in actual use in the United States were
valued by the United States bureau of
statistics at $500, 900 900. Those fig
ures, however, give only a part-and a
small part-of the "story of oil" as 1t
has unfolded rapidly, page by page, in
the last ten years.
Oil is not only being used for the
propulsion of automobiles. 1t is be-
ing employed directly for internal COM
bustion engines in railroad locomotives
freight ships, warships, submarines,
aeroplanes, power plants, cotton mills,
paper mills, farming machinery, trac-
ton engines and delivery trucks.
Un 1915 the United States navy
used 100000 gallons of gasoline, and
its consumption of gasoline this year
will run more than S0,000,000.)
For crude oil and gasoline are the
great modern powers. The are more
mobile" than steam, because steam is
made by water and coal.
They are cheaper than electricity,
because electricity is made from coal
and water and steam combined.
The future of oil" is the imme-
date, economic and industrial future
Of mankind.
Respectfully yours,
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Jim Jordan was in from the plains
this week on business.
+. f. West and A. c. West were
Tucumcari visitors today.
Make easy money cutting bcargrass
$500 a ton. See Whitmore.
A. Paul Siegel was here this week
from Nara Visa on business.
FOR SALE-Used Maxwell; price
cheap. See Harry II. McElroy.
List your property with Bowen-Boy-
er Agency. They'll do the rest.
We are in the market for old iron.
Texas Feed and Junk Yard.
Mrs. Willard Capps was here this
week on her way to Logan from San
Jon.
Ten head of mich cows, half with
calves by side; others fresh soon. APP
ply at this Office.
Jimmy O'Rourke, was up from FL
Paso Sunday visiting his many friends
and looking after business.
G. Berlin, wife and son, are here
from Obar, visiting friends and at
tending to business matters.
FOR RENT-Modern house with n
nice sleeping porch and bath. Call
phone 325W. Mrs. DeOliviera.
Bring your old scrap iron to US. We
are paying 5000 per ton.
Texas Junk Yard.
FOR RENT-Two room house on
Second street. Apply at this Office or
at the office Of Bowen-Boyer Agency.
-$S50.00 Kurtzman Player Piano for
sale. Practically new. $4,000. For
particulars see Miss Annette Jennings.
II. W. Galbraith of Amarillo, one
of the stockholders in the Pearson
Lumber Co., was here last Friday on
business.
Mrs. j. G.. Atkins will do first-class
dressmaking. Prices reasonable, at
residence on street south from the
Elks' Club, second house south of the
Ozark Trail. At
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

II. c. Zillman, wife and daughter,
Miss June, will be here from Nara
Visa in charge Of the Vorenberg Ho-
tel during the absence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Vorenberg, who will spend a month
at Mineral Wells, Texas, taking the
baths and resting. They will leave
next Wednesday and expect to ge gone
a month. Their friends hope they
will receive much benefit.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Trains are running mighty irregular
these days on account Of big SHOWS in
the east. No. 3 was annulled this morn
ing because of SHOWS in Chicago and
other northeastern cities. II is cold
and snowy all along the line and trains
have been from four to twelve hours
late. This will give them a chance to
miss a day and catch up with their
usual schedule.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Last year the State of Wyoming pro-
duced more crude oil than the whole
world produced fifty years ago. Twen-
ty years ago the production of crude
oil in the United States amounted to
60,475,5l6 barrels.
In 1915, according to the official re-
port of the United States geological
survey, the production Of crude oil in
this country was 28l ,0l4 ola barrels.
Seventeen years ago there were not
more than 700 automobiles in U. S.
Last year the manufacturers Of this
country sold 1,303,400 automobiles and
delivery trucks, the wholesale value of
that product being 81, 069, 100000.
And in 1915, the crude oil piped and
tanked in the United States was valued
by the geological survey of the De-
partment of the Interior at $3.50 100000
These figures are official. They may
all be found in part 2 Of a report on
the mineral resources of the United
States issued from the government
printing Office in Washington last year.
And they tell a story that is part Of
the true and astounding fairy tale Of
the modern world.
A Very Modern World.
Our world of today is a very mod
ern world, too. 1t is so modern, so
new, that there are men actually liv-
ing still, who were babies when those
first great changes began that were to
change this whole earth, and after the
intimate, personal relations of men,
cities and nations.
Less than ninety years ago there
were no steamships running between
New York and the old world. There
were no steam railroads. There were
no steam driven power plants. There
were no telephones; no telegraphsi
no ocean cables; no electric lights; nc
tramways.
Less than ninety ears ago there wer,
twenty-four STATES in the union ant
the population of the whole nation wa
only II, 000, 1000. Since then, during
the lifetime of men still on this earth
all of these modern, marvel working
instruments of the world have been in,
vented and brought to perfection. II
that comparatively brief period, steam
electricity, and, last of all, OIL ant
GASOLINE, have revolutionized tn,
world. And the employment of crude
oil and gasoline in ~locomotion, trans
p~ortation, navigation and power plant:
is such today that it is safe to sa,
this world revolution, instead of hav,
ing reached its zenith, is only JUS
beginning.
One hundred years ago Hargrave'
and Cartwright invented the spinning
frame and the spinning jenny. Steam
power was applied to that machiner.
in 1880. Today there are 27,000,00
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

A number Of Geological Survey men
have been here several weeks working
in the interest of the homesteaders
who are entities to more land. They
have covered most of the county and
will soon be ready to turn in their re-
port to the government. They found
very little irrigable land in Quay coun-
ty and classed most of the land as
grazing land it is understood.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Mrs. Ayers and son was here from
Hudson Wednesday. She has a son in
France and has heard from him sew
cral times.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

A Mr.. Lobby, about fifty years old,
died at his home in the West COM
munity the first of the week. No par
t~iculars were learned by the News.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Don't fail to read Bowcn-Boyer
Agency's bargain list of property for
sale now being advertised in this pa
per. The terms are like buying a new
home and paying for it AS you now
pay rent.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Fertile soil; Fine climate and water.
No crop failures; Plenty OF fruit and
gardens. Cheap homes. Write Pin
kerton & Orebaugh, the Land Men, AT
Green Forest, Carroll CO., Ark. At
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

John Hardin and ]. l.. Rogers of
Jordan, were here today on business.
They report some snow on the plains
but not enough to do much good.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

FOR SALE-Cattle, horses, wagon
and harness, pillow tools, farm, house
and lot in town, and household goods.
Phone 1913. W. W. Croft.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17
truth OF
WORLDS OIL STORY

A FASCINATING CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE
MAGICAL POwwER-FUEL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Make easy money cutting beargrass
$500 "A ton. See Whitmore.
Fertile soil; Fine climate and water.
No crop failures; Plenty Of fruit and
gardens. Cheap homes. Write Pin
kerton & O%rebaugh, the Land Men, at
Green Forest, Carroll CO., Ark. 1t
Don't fail to read Boyer
Agency's bargain list of property for
sale now being advertised in this pa
per. The terms are like buying a new
home and paying for it AS you now
pay rent.
All the plumbers are busy repair
ing broken water pipes caused by the
recent freeze. A number Of the pipes
were not more than four or five inches
under ground and the continued cold
weather got several of them.
W. w. Croft had the misfortune to
cut his right forefinger pretty badly
n few days ago. Blood poison set in
but was stopped and it is thought the
finger will not have to be amputated
although the danger point has not yet
been passed.
The Tucumcari Hide a. Produce Co.
has issued a big price list this week
bidding high for furs and hides which
are in great demand. The prices are
better than ever before and this firm
is going after the business with "a real
vengeance.
The Ladies Of the Friday Bridge
| Club will give a card, finch and dom
moe party at Norenberg Hotel dining
room, commencing at $50 p. m. Mon
day, Jan. 81. Tickets will be SOC. The
proceeds will go to the local Red Cross
work. Refreshments will be served by
the club.
Miss Susie Curbello, who has been
employed in the office of Bowen d
Boyer for the past year, has resigned
her position and accepted a similar
in the Southwestern Offices. She is a
good stenographer and was offered "A
substantial raise in salary so she de-
| cided to make the change.
At the Presbyterian church Jan. 90
| the morning worship will be at II.
I The minister has prepared a sermon
that will be interesting to the business
man. The subject is "Life's Invest
ment and Dividends Assured" 1880
p. m. song and gospel service. The
subject "The Troubled Mind"
A. d. Goldenberg, Alex. Street and
X. A.. Prentice have returned from
Electra, Texas, where they leased 40C
acres of land in the oil fields. They
have purchased casing and have hired
a driller to put down a well upon the
leased ground. II they strike paying
oil they will continue drilling the rest
Of the property.
j. II. league has purchased the gro,
Gerry store Of j. NJ. Putnam and ha,
taken charge of same. He is an ex'
perienced man and will surely max,
good. There are other parties asso'
ciated with him in the business. The
name of the new firm will be "Tht
Tucumcari Grocery Company" with
Mr.. league as manager.
Chas. Cusack went to FL Paso tn,
first of the week to enlist in the Fielc
Artillery. He passed and is coming
home for a few days before joining
the company assigned him. Charley
is one of the star players in the Higi
School Basket Ball team but he is only
seventeen years old. His patriotism
was too strong for him to remain a
home SO he chose to join the color:
and do his bit. His many friends hop'
for his safe return.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

WO-yeuT leuSc vi HiCe
rooming house, twelve rooms furnish
ed, good location, kitchen we'll equip
ped. $500 cash. See Mrs. j. +. jolly
statesmen WANTED to solicit or
ders for lubricating oils, greases and
paints. Salary or commission. Ad-
dress THE HARVEY OIL CO., Cleve-
land, Ohio.
WANTED-Six or eight head Of cat
tie to pasture at SO each per month.
Extra good grass and water. Will
buy four or five head if price is right.
See Jim Lovelady.
LOST-One openface gold watch,
with fob containing pressed dollar as
charm. Initials "E c." Finder please
leave at this office and receive suit
able reward.
At the Baptist church, Jan. 90, Bible
school at 9.45; II a. m. the subject
will be Seeking the Lost" At 1880
Paul Before Felix" There will be
special music. Pastor.
General Supt. l.. U. Morris, together
with his chief clerk, Harrison Fisher,
and F. l.. Hunter, manager Of purchas-
ing supplies, are here today from Ell
Paso on business.
Group at Midnight Well in Morning
"A few nights ago one Of my pa
irons had a small child taken with
Group about midnight" writes NJ. r.
Davis, Bearsville, w. Va. They came
to my store and got a bottle of Foley's
Honey and Tar. Before morning the
child had entirely recovered" Use
only Foley's for coughs, colds, Group,
and grip. For sale by Sands Dorsey.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

All the plumbers are busy repair
ing broken water pipes caused by the
recent freeze. A number Of the pipes
were not more than four or five inches
under ground and the continued cold
weather got several Of them.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

b. f. Conger and family have NOV
ed to Tucumcari from their farm and
the children have started to school.
Mr.. Conger will leave Monday for Cal
iforna to learn more about the Taft
Oil Field where he has invested con
siderable money. Mr.. Conger made
good at dry-farming and he will make
good at anything where honesty and
perseverance have anything to do
with the case.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Stansbury have return
ed home from their Eastern visit.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Make easy money cutting beargrass
$500 "A ton. See Whitmore.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

FOR SALE-Two-year lease on nice
rooming house, twelve rooms furnish
ed, good location, kitchen well equip
ped. $500 cash. See Mrs. j. +. jolly
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

W. W. Croft had the misfortune to
cut his right forefnger pretty badly
n few days ago. Blood poison set in
but was stopped and it is thought the
finger will not have to be amputated
although the danger point has not yet
been passed.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

At the Presbyterian church Jan. 90
the morning worship will be at II.
The minister has prepared a sermon
that will be interesting to the business
man. The subject is "Life's Invest
ment and Dividends Assured" 1880
p. m. song and gospel service. The
subject "The Troubled Mind"
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

The Tucumcari Hide a. Produce Co.
has issued n big price list this week
bidding high for furs and hides which
are in great demand. The prices are
better than ever before and this firm
is going after the business with a real
vengeance.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Miss Susie Curbello, who has been
employed in the Office of Bowen 4
Boyer for the past year, has resigned
her position and accepted a similar
in the Southwestern Offices. She is a
good s~tenographer and was offered a
substantial raise in salary so she de-
cided to make the change.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

A. d. Goldenberg, Alex. Street and
X. A. Prentice have returned from
Electra, Texas, where they leased 40C
acres of land in the oil fields. They
have purchased casing and have hired
a driller to put down a well upon the
leased ground. If they strike paying
oil they will continue drilling the rest
Of the property.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

The Ladies Of the Friday Bridge
Club will give a card, finch and dom
moe party at Vorenberg Hotel dining
room, commencing at $50 p. m. Mon
day, Jan. 81. Tickets will be SOC. The
proceeds will go to the local Red Cross
work. Refreshments will be served by
the club.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Mrs. J. G.. Atkins will do first-class
dressmaking. Prices reasonable, at
residence on street south from the
Elks' Club, second house south of the
Ozark Trail. At
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Last Friday was the coolest day Of
the winter so far. The thermometer
at the Government station registered
three below zero. Some of the other
thermometers around town went as
low as seven below. 1t was sure cold,
but on the same day the official regis
ter at Amarillo was eight below. Mis-
cry loves company, so when it is cold
here there is some consolation that it
was colder somewhere else close.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

J. II. league has purchased the gro
Gerry store Of J. NJ. Putnam and has
taken charge of same. He is an *
perienced MAI and will surely make
good. There are other parties assoc
ciated with him in the business. The
name Of the new firm will be "The
Tucumcari Grocery Company" with
Mr.. league as manager.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

Mrs. Willard Capps was here this
week on her way to Logan from San
Jon.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

We are in the market for old iron.
Texas Feed and Junk Yard.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Fuel Order Permits
Election Bulletins

A DISPATCH from Washington
"A announcing a modification of
the iightless night order will be made
on Tuesday night to permit the dis
playing of election returns was re-
ceived here last night, just when the
city was preparing itself for the first
election night of years without the
ashing bulletins at the most fire.
quented places.
Officials of the local fuel admins
tration we're surprised at the modi-
fication order, as they already had
announced that the time -honored Gus
tom must give way to conservation
this year.
1t is understood no other iilumi-
nation, including the ashing of red
or white lights to denote partisan I
victory, will be permitted
Asked if the showing of motion
pictures during the intervals between
the flashing of returns would be per-
mitted, Mr.. Schley said:
II do not believe that we will pro-
hibit this, provided no current is
wasted. If two machines are neces-
sary both should not be burning at
any one time"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03

concern. Senstor James died, and Gov
ernor Stanley is in the race. The Re-
publicans named DR.. B. l.. Bruner
whose grandfather was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War and whose father
was soldier in the Civil War. He
himsel fserved creditably in the Span-
ish- American war, and he has two sons
Republicans expect a net gain of two
seats.
Newberry to Beat Ford
Lieutenant Commander Truman H.
Newberry's election is quite generally
conceded in Michigan, although the
President has gone out of his way to
support Henry Ford There is brisk
tight on to make the Michigan delega-
ton solidly Republican, The Demo
Gratis now have two out of the thirteen
Representatives. n
In Missouri the Republicans believe
they have real chance to elect Seldom
T. Spencer as successor to William j.
Stone, deceased. Joseph Folk is the
Democratic candidate.
In Montana Representative Jeanette
Rankin is the National party's candi-
date for United States Senator, having
been beaten in the Republican primar-
: les by Oscar NJ. Lanstrum. The Demo-
cratic candidate is Senator Thomas J.
Walsh.
In Nevada the Republicans have NOM
mated E. E. Roberts against Senator
Charles B. Henderson.
New Hampshire Republicans are con-
tident of electing both their candidates
for Senator, Governor Henry W. Keyes
and George H. Moses. The Democrats
are making hard fight against Keyes.
n od
winner in the New Jersey battle.
Senator Baird, ad interim appontee
candidate to succeed himself for the
short term, is bitterly opposed by
women voters.
Seeks Revenge on Fall
The fight this year for Senator in
because President Wilson, in order to
beat Senator A. B. Fall, Republican,
who bitterly attacked him on his Mex
lean war policy, has indorsed his op-
ponent, W: B. Walton, who. Colonel
Roosevelt is informed, is a Socialist.
New York is placed in the Repub-
lican column by the campaign man.
ayers. The normal Republican mar
gi mis- close to 100000 with the women
voting, and State Chairman Glynn says
Governor Whitman will carry the state
Dy 1UO,UVU. ne campaign managers
believe they will gain four Congress
districts the Sd. where John McCrate
has the nomination of both the Repub-
licans and Democrats; the 21st, where
John A. Bolles is running against Rep
resentative Donovan; the Schenectady
district, where Dr.. Frank Crowther is
the Republican candidate against
George R. Lunn, and in the 41st, in
the city of Buffalo, where the Repub-
licans are backing Clarence MacGregor
against Representative Charles B.
Smith.
In Ohio the Republicans assert they
will make gain of three or four seats.
No changes are looked for either in
North Dakota, Oklahoma or Oregon.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-03
Whitman, to Win
By 100000, Says
Republican Leader
Chairman Glynn Predicts
Upstate Plurality of at
Least 500, 600
Democrats Confident
Secret Tammany Straw Vote
Said to Have Been Disap-
pointing, However

The election of Governor Whitman
by a majority Of from 10000 to 200,-
900 or more is predicted by local and
State Republican leaders, and that this
estimate is conservative may be judged
from the fact that two Yeas ago these
same men claimed the state by 10000,
the figures on election night showing
that the Republican state ticket ticket
had been swept into Office by major
icy of nearly 100000.
Gains in the State Legislature and
in the New York Congressional delega-
tion are also predicted by the Repub-
lican leaders.
Local Democratic leaders, who were
loud last year in predicting Mayor
Hyian's election, were silent yesterday.
1t can be stated authoritatively that
the secret canvass of the city taken by
Tammany Hall gives the city to Al
fred f. Smith by less than 175,OOO.
When it is recalled that two years ago,
without women voting. the p-statc
majority for Governor Whitman was
l85,000--a majority that all agree will
be nearly doubled this yearit will be
seen that the chances of Smith win
ming are reduced almost to an in
tinitesimal negligibility.
Despite these facts, the Democratic
State Chairman, j. A. Kellogg, issued a
statement at Syracuse last night claim
ing Tammany landslide by $4,000 to
100000.
George A. Glynn, Republican State
Chairman, estimates that the Governor
will win by 100000 or more
Samuel S. Koenig, chairman of the
County Committee, predicts Republi-
can state victory by at least 100000.
100000. Says Glynn
"Tammany hasn't ghost Of chance
this year." said Chairman Glynn. RE
ports received from all parts of the