The Lamar register., 1919-10-15
FOR OLD FRIENDSHIPS SAKE
Long Lost Friend Who Wants
To Make Him Rich

mar Motor Sales Co. this week receiv-
ed long letter proving that friends
that you never heard of may remember
you fondly when they get in the oil
game. The letter starts out as follows:
Dear Mr.. Christy:
| have been intending to write you in
regard to the Texas Oil & Refining
Company proposition for several
weeks. Your name was given me by
a mutual friend, MIR. J. J. Anderson
of Blackwell, Oklahoma, President of
the Surety Royalty Company and Vice
President of the Globe Oil Company.
He has just made trip of personal
inspection of the properties of the Tex
as Oil & Refining Company with the
idea of accepting the Presidency of
our Company and taking active charge
of our Fort Worth, Texas, office, and
after making the personal inspection
through Oklahoma to the Desdemona-
Duke Ranger. Texas, properties, Mr..
Anderson admitted that he considers
the Texas proposition better than l
have represented it.
When he gave me your name, |
promised him to give you the oppor-
tunity to come in at the organization
price of &c per share.
On account of an enforced absence
from the office the most Of the time
for the last sixty days, it has not been
physically possible for me to keep my
promise to write you in the time |
had expected and have not had time
friends and members of the Board of
Directors of our Company, hence,
am extending the time to the 20th
day Of October to clean up all out
standing options and promises to let
our friends in on the organization
price of &c.
Then follows long statement Of
how they have salvaged some Of this
stock from eastern investors who are
clamoring to buy it at 10 cents and
old friend Bob will get it at cents.
Mr.. Christy made the following re-
ply which The Register requested per-
mission to publish as a gem of the
rsrest friendship we have ever had the
privilege of reading:
Lamar, Colo, October 15, 1919
Dear Jerry:
was sure glad to get your person
al letter which you forgot to date and
which noticed that Uncle Sam carried
for you for the sum of one cent 1t
was awfully nice Of dear old j. J.
Anderson to remember me to you and
| am tickled to death that he made
you promise to write me and let me
in on the ground floor on this oil
business. That was just like dear old
J. j. He was always that way-al-
ways wanting to do something for mis-
friends no matter how much it cost
him. He certainly is a pure, sweet
character and knowing him as i do |
am positive that you are a dreadfully
nice man too, or he would have nothing
to do with you.
You know | can't help thinking
about dear old friend John, or is it
anyway-dear old friend
Jess is sure a true-blue sport isn't he ?
I'll bet you and old Jip, or / mean
John, are terribly good friends and
just can't help but be all swelled up
to think that you have-or / mean
that dear old Jack-I mean Jess has
prevailed upon you to let me have a
small block of that stock. That's just
old Jip over and over again. Here he
has such good thing and could make
himself billions and billions out of it
but does he do it. He does not. He
proceeds to think Of his
old boyhood friend-who he hasn't
seen or heard of for eighty or ninety
years-and wants to divide up with
him. 1t makes tears trickle down my
cheeks to think of such wonderful
] simply can't bear it. It's !
too much. No not the price of the |
stock. That is certainly reasonable. |
And then when you think that all those