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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-21
Is LITTLE PUPILS
RENDERPROCRAM
Show Teachers Council
What Is Being Done In
Primary Grade

Miss Sarah Cobb, principal of the
Americas Grammar school, held the
attention of every one present at the
regular meeting of the Americas
Teachers Council at the Furlow
school Tuesday afternoon when she
read paper on the training of young
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-21

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02

You invited your money with and share the results
Here Of the big things you share IN:
the Bel
This without doubt wells from the 650foot Bell sand
occupies position Bell we'll
oil from this alone Should all the money invested and also
dividends from month o month
Half IN Refinery and the land fee that being built
Iaben the Bell we'll The Fe Railway through
property. refinery complete opera
making gasoline within 30 days The profits
this refinery the of the crude supply where there ready market for all
products prices above the should prove big all
vii be the refinery hundreds Of products
viii command big premium because of freight both the crude and
refined products.
This refinery viii be operated under the Abne Davis System making standard
Pyramid brands One-hal going o Syndicate
Half II another drilling the Bell Anhcn
Half interest so fee simple the oil and mineral rights the
Citizens well shot from the
cal on the known structure
Half 80 carrying oil rights the
well district which regarded excellent location for big deep wells
of 1000 drilling operations
regarded immensely valuable potential oil possibilities.
Half properties option. details
be made public a this time.
Half IN pipe line and oil gathering face. be established the
Pecos field
Half large block of checker boarded greatest
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02

els represent you do It yousslh
what have Ot-aee producing ell sase2 Well
here IS a estimate
where s there should be as, 20 web drilled
40 acresto the first sand
suppose wells make 50 b each day that would 100
bbs of oil 500 the present $3.50 Dbl ihs
would give you an Of l75O per day
On the deep drilled they produced proportion
your income easily become Sl75OOOO day
In fact there limit place on the returns from good lease and certainly
opportunity when good for dollars
dollar and then simply until hyy
drilling contract individual vii the
expense for drilling oil you have the lease
last deal Of this kind vii have opportunity to get and get
rch the last shall take shoulders to handle
al plenty OF Tor drilling
operations plenty oil for the Abnr Davis nenes and these
now operation shall undertake further
ton Of drilling campaign.
have bring together
big i've growing wildcats big drilling deep tests soon to be I'm
offsets be drilled at night
down to actual handle the the ground floor and
results smallest initial with potential pTohs
certainly big enough o satisfy anybody earth
membership certificate the Consolidated Syndicate viii be mailed promptly
showing member vii be kept posted
tneo line as developments progress.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02

hundreds Of thousands of dollars these people furnished succeed WITH was the
most hated individual stOckseng promoters
When oil wells really proved producers and when my I gan ~
crude every effort knocking changed expressions
Of and confidence 30 TODAY
when the promotion game an those who have good properties
the where ready money
be legitimate property and progressive desOPmnt
My remarkable Inside Syndicate raising feat has spread IKE
advertisement name IN @ I'VE
great cities lin Pittsburgh New York. Los Angeles and Dan
brought from hundred and nifty people and tt money came
bv telegraph enabling pay $4,000 leases held bank escrow
sevensO hours has established bass for not only the respect and 3n
dence the public the that be had not only
fields of but louisiana New Mexico Oklahoma and Kentucky
There hardly the Inside Syndicate closed that have not
and mall from friends begging come
letters and kilograms Pedgng
money needed complete this Consolidated Syndicate otter an no"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
PLUNGE With ME
In the Great Pecos Valley--Win Mill
In This Virgin Oil Field

makng-and this Syndicate viii be the biggest accumulation ob
been assembled with little VII be the
Of
oil business dollar deal percent basis
words those furnish money money the hundred
holdings usually takes and charges the public the hundred for
the one values Abner Davis profit sharing
templates using dollars 10 millions and dis
hbuhng those who furnish the whether they
furnish 500 $1,000, they receive the prOEaia share
Syndicate deal share Of onend the Abner DAVIS
those and individually In this
Consolidated Syndicate DEAL because of its gigantic proportions Is percent VII
me my present and the IS viii those who and
this Syndicate.
You your money fgr the Consolidated Syndicate direct the First Ma
Bank Of Commerce. Wichita Falls.
the National of Commerce. Worth Texas Abnsr DAVIS
Trustee Consolidated Syndicate, Fort WORTH Texas
You buying you becoming Syndicate member and owning
all Of stock be formed can be
operated a a syndicate undsy Plan you prefer
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02

was the ground when the famous Bell well top.
have the big acreage the properties many millions
takes handle opportunities ground
floor
have picked ums from Tree you enjoy
with mel?
It for and officers Of large bonus
valuable other fat graft bes but decidedly
fact uhead Of for the the bonus his associates who
furnish the money.
This Of the deals that
should be brought together and exceptional splendid quick
possibilities but above all the worth of
his additional dollar Of
which has exceptional 1000 potential possibilities
few dollars grow into competency.
1913 my announcement of the Abner
Davis prohag plan laughed by the professional graft
When became evident succeed became the object
of ne and the subject of abuse than hped
When succeeded bringing 5000 people organizations with the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02


and Henry Hutchings OF Fort Worth
plan extensive operations in the
field.
ABNER DAVIS BUSY.
Abner Davis OF Fort Worth will
drill forty acres adjoining the Bell
well. Davis has a star rig en- route
TO the field He also closed for 20
acres on the Santa Fe, where he viii
erect a refinery.
Davis was the busiest operator IN
the 1ield last week, securing approx
mately 1000 acres He leased all Of
section s. block So, township Z. 7.
P survey. consisting Of $40 acres
also 47s acres in section g. block 81
township 4, T & P. survey. This
total OF Lib acres Is located south
and west OF the Bell wen and takes
IN territory on both sides Of the Citi-
zen,s wen, now drilling Davis. It is
said. paid an average Of $500 an acre
for this land
Davis also leased 1000 acres sur
rounding the Zone well. which spud-
oed IN last week This acreage is
northeast OF Pecos- The Forth Worth
operator says he paid $50 to $50
Tor acreage around the Zone.
The Fort Worth plunger also
bought a subdivision, consisting OF
81 lots north OF town. located 200
yards from the Orient hotel, the Wal
dorf-Astoria Of Pecos- Davis be-
lieves that II the Bell field stands
the acid test. the town OF Pecos viii
spread northward He intends TO
start one Of his One-man refineries
on this subdivision Immediately
Davis wound up his Pecos cam
paign BY leasing the home Of a
banker named Parker for three
ner has great confidence in the field
and expects to make Pecos his op-
Grating headquarters He informed
the writer that he had invested ap-
proIimately 100000 il Pecos realty
and oil property during the week.
II I had had that kind Of money
when Ranger and Burkburnett fields
were discovered I would have made
S1Oo,oO0.o00." said the optimistic Alb
ner.
Pecos IS a bustling little town. full
Of enterprising business men. mer-
chants, ranchers, etc, and she is
packed TO the roof now with oil op-
orators. scouts, lease brokers and I
roaming traders who follow oil field
boOms. The town has, two hotels
and two good eating houses A float
ing population OF 1900 is now ell
bowling each other there. Naturally
conditions are abnormal
The writer had to stand In line 10
get something to eat three times a
day. We were fortunate in having
access TO z P Towards room in the I
Orient. Mr.. Howard has this room /
engaged for the year. He is now in I
New York exploiting the Pecos field. I
I didn't have to worry about a bed. .
which I shared with a friend. You I
have to be accommodating in boom f.
ing oil field
Rex. where a dozen brokers are I
buster than bees. marketing leases I
Probably a hundred other brokers ]
are operating up and down Oak I
street, the trading thoroughfars Of /
Pecos.
]. o. Stewart OF the New York /
Brokerage company, Shreveport, a F.
New York operator. has just started /
another exchange that will house a /
dozen Shreveport Fort Worth and
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02

New York brokers who are headed
for the scene
The New York Brokerage company
handled over s5,000.0O0 worth Of
trades In the North Louisiana fields
and ranks with the great oil leasing
organizations OF the Mid-COntinent,
Texas and Louisiana fields. Stewart
Is an expert in the business and
promises TO build up a tremendous
trade in the Pecos field.
The Bell IS an oil well: how much
Il will make on the pump Is some
thing I wouldn't care TO estimate be-
yond venturlng an opinion that Il
looks like a good bet at $50 feet"
The Sunshine OIL corporation. one
Of the pioneer drillers OF the field.
viii build an office building at Cedar
and oak streets, EecOs, and lay out
Sunshine city on spur from the
santa Fe railroad to the corporations
Laura we'll
Alfred finally is president Of the
Sunshine Oil corporation. and the
first man TO initiate a deep test in
the PecOs field proper finally cut
his eyeteeth in the oil game in the
Rumanian field. where some great
gushers were drilled He prospected
Mexico Tor oil and came 70 Pecos to
mine sulphur; found surface indica-
tons Of oil and shifted from sulphur
TO the oil business. finally went
over the Ranger field before Il was
brought in and reported favorably
on the field He was anchored in
Reeves county at the time and has
stuck TO his knitting here ever since.
finally predicts that large Eush-
ers will be drilled In Pecos at 1000
feet. he and his associates have
10000 acres in the field. finally
showed the writer a letter from the
Dutch Shell company, the Standards
competitor. asking for an option on
rH1Haa HHn .aa" %
acre.
THAT letter came too late" said
finally. I am now holding the acre
age at 800"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
Girl, on Skis, Makes Trip
OOer Continental DiUide

KrsmmlinE, Col. April Travel
ing alone. on skis, pretty Miss Bar
bara Collins arrived here safely after
a perflous trip over the Continental
Divide from North park.
Defying a raging blizzard, Miss
Collins left her home near Muddy
Pass, made the ascent TO the noun
tain top and then descended six miles
over the bleak, lonely and WlndsWept
trail 10 Martin. Removing the skis
at this point, the intrepid young girl
walked three miles through an IN
broken canon trail TO the foot OF
Whitiey's Peak. where she secured
transportation TO KremmlinE.
Miss Collins, aside from a richly
hronzed face. suffered no III effects
from the hazardous trip.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
Women Cannot
Cast 4 Vote In
School Election

Women viii not vote IN the school
election Saturday. They are only per-
mirted 20 vote in primaries to make
party nominations. They cannot even
serve as officers OF election, accord
Ing 20 R r Jones, assistant city
school superintendent, who Is In
charge Of arrangements for the cleo
ton
Polls VIII be open from a. m. 70
Z p. m. Every man who IS a qualified
voter, whether property owner or
not. VIII have the privilege OF the
ballot.
me following shows the precincts.
the judges for each and the location
Of the voting boxes:
T. A. P. Brunswick, FranlElin school
2 I Y. Williams, Alabama hotel. Us
South Oregon
,. ;. P. Bender. Douglass school
4, T. Garcia Liberty hall
s. p. A. Maese, f07 South virginia
6. II Esca5eda- Alamo school
z. Edgar Fewer, city hall
s. Ed Kneezel, garage. TsEaa and Flor
ence streets
10. C. r. Cook. Esst FL Paso Ere sta
II. W. T. Eesbitt. Essrsua and Alameda
u J. 6. Daurhsrty. woodlavn school
1s. o. " Gillian. store. 1S1s Stevens
avenue.
Il J. H DauEhsrty. Ealgs. rear 1901
EersnlnE drive
Is. George Taylor. Gimbsl's grocery.
Is. = H. Lawrence, Alta vista school
u. Dr. Darnen, Fishers shoe store rs
Is. / s. crozis-. grocery. Fedszal and
Is, c -Sgatisns. Highland Park fire sta
90 A Mcdonald IDEAL pharmacy. Five
Il J. McKee,. Morris garage. 1915 Mon
% H J Hsitgsn. garage. 1915 East Rio
Grande.
=. G. 3 Davis. Lamar school
"a. sam Gatlin. Brown and Missouri
3. T. C. Coleman. Coleman's Erocerys |
North Brown street
IS. = 2 weeks. rear 1901 Arizone, "a
=. W. K HiH. Hm Awning company.
81 East Boulevard
Is. 7. A Taylor, garage. So North
IS. G. r. Folk. Mesa IRE station.
90 J. II. LanFford, N1rehead school
81. C. II Order, Earls garage 1904 CHI /
cinnai CEern Place..
81 T. Wells Brown. ElrzEe. Hilierest
apartmenta
s.. 2. z Babs-. Frazer Broa. t13 North
81. II. Mccoy, AnEsluH hotel
IS. P v. Kelly, Sunset school
IS. r. r. Aidridge, Putnan1'H EaraEe,
1901 North e Paso.
81 A. Il Goldstsin, Sunset IRE station-
ss, = L. Kouf. Villas school
90. Mark Miller. Nortou's garage, 61s
q. a ). Blaine. stso Sacramento street.
grocery
Il, o. Il Baum. GrandvisE sehooL
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
SPELLING CONTEST Is ON
AT Ell PAS0 HIGH SCHOOL

The spelling matches scheduled for
this week began AZ the high school
Friday morning. All the students OF
the school VIII take part in the
match before IL IS concluded The
students in the various record groups
viii spell against each other TO Sc
1ect the winner, who later viii con-
test aEinst the winners o. the vari-
ous groups 70 decide the champion
spelier Of the school
The staff Of the Art club met at
10 o'clock Friday morning to make
arrangements for the Art club picnic
10 be held Saturday at Hueco Natural
park
The senior class met Friday morn
ing for a short meeting.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
BY DICK COLLINS, OIL EDITOR OF
EORT WORTH RECnRn.


Pecoss March 20.-Ira J. Bell, who
drilled in the first producing oil well
in Pecos, served as deputy Insurance
commissioner Of Illinois before ne To-
Gated in Pecos ten years ago. The
Bell well was financed by Spring
field H. Chicago and Mississippi
people. The Dixieland syndicate.
operating name Of the company that
brought in the Bell well, controls all
OF section 80 and the southwest
quarter OF section 20, where the Bell
was drilled
Bell sold shares In the Dixieland
syndicate for $50 which called for
one-tenth Of an acre in section 30
and a shareholders pro-rata in the
syndieate's well and holdings In sec
ton 20.
Eighty-four locations have been
made around the Bell well. The new
town OF Irabell, on the Santa Fe line,
has been established Chester r.
Bunker OF Fort Worth VIII sub-divide
the town for Bell and associates
The new oil field is situated near
the Pecos river, the base OF slope
that reminds oil men OF
the Tampico field
The great oil field Of Mexico Is 10
Gated a. the slope Of a great chain
Of hills
Bell and his associates have made
fifty drilling contracts with opera
tors. Goodloe and Sallaska Of Wich-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
PIANO IS NEEDED FOR
YSLETA PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

The new parechial school being
built at Esleta is nearing completion.
The expense OF building the school
has been greater than was at first
expected and the sisters in charge Of
the school have extended the wish
that someone having a piano in Btor-
age, or someone wishing TO give a
piano TO a school would make the
donation. fincs there are many chill
cren at IEleta who are anxious TO
take piano lessons, but are unable TO
do 90 because there Is no piano at
the school
made from giving lessons viii be
used In buying other fixtures and
furniture for the school, or viii be
applied on the debt.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02

The Abner Davis Refinery at
Wichita Falls has sold 100 cars Of
Fuel oil. every barrel OF which is
10 be shipped TO PecOs for drilling
purposes In that new field
The Abner Davis Refinery at
Fort Worth viii also ship every
available barrel Of fuel and gaso-
line to the Pecos field.
To further take care Of the IN
heard Of activities in the new
Pecos Valley oil country, another
Abner Davis Refinery IS already
being assembled on the cars for
shipment to Irabell, the new town
on the Santa Fe, In the heart Of
the field.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02

friend believes Il to be, and my
scout can check up with the drilier
and learn for sure, a block OF acre
age close by that can be had a. 800
an acre. viii be worth from 5000
TO $4,000 an acre almost any day
II I find this 10 be a sure-shot we'll
we viii take this acreage-1 not
we VIII simply pass It up
A MILLION MAKER
Proven lease with offset wells that
must be drilled or present owner VIII
forfeit IL takes not only cash
money, but Il takes drilling outfits
and real oil well drillers 70 protect
this property 1 can set halt OF TINS
deal FOR a song. but the song must
be suns now with dollars and action.
I think this deal Is good for a cool
million in profits. and I think We
can commence taking these profits
in 30 to 40 days from the moment we
start drilling. Proven leases are
mighty good investments. Offset
wells are the only cinch drilling in
vestmenr in the game When the
other fellow drills, get the oil and
proves the adjoining lease, that Is
where the velvet or big easy pro1it
comes in TO the lease-holder, but
the law and all the rules require
the adjoining lease-holder 10 drill at
once to protect the land owner or
royalty holder against loss OF oil
we profit by drilling for the people
who own the offset locations, but
have not the cash To work with
quickly.
$1,000 TO 81.
Options TO take over 10000 acres
OF leases in great new OIL field where
every dollar invested can easily re-
turn $1,000 to one and these profits
II they materialize at all viii be
cashable in a very short time
PLAY WITH OIL lIEN-LIKE OIL
MEN PLAY.
You buy and pay for the Syndicate
interest which shares in all the best
surest. money makers and in addi-
become an absolute lease-oWuer 20
do with as you please, and five or
ten acres is enough to make you all
the money you viii ever want
500 TO $1,000 how will give you
the greatest holdings ever offered.
and you get holdings big enough 20
put you in the oil business as oil
men play IT. Scattered interest part
~ invested in oil wells. refinery and
production lines with leases acquired
at the low figure TO grow Into the
big fortune
S1.OO Today. $1,000 in 20 Days. Is the
Way Leases Jump in Value
This is the secret.
oil and gas leases are in the bank
dated and put in escrow some months
ago, the chance to buy came 70 me
through a close friend Some Of this
property I am buying at Sl0e per
acre. can. in so days, jump 70 the
price Of $1,000 per acre just the same
as did some other acreage I am buy
ing today
am buying leases now at $50,
500. $500 and $1,000 per acre The
81 900 acre leases were offered few
weeks ago at a dollar. This is the
reason ] tell you this is. thousand
10 one shot, because values have
jumped from Sle0 10 thousand and
even to ten thousand They can do
it again. and I am confident the
leases I am giving you as a bonus
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
II Years Ago Today
From The Herald OF This Date, 1905


DEPORTS concerning the strike Of
~ mine operators states that al
though half a million members OF
the United Mine Workers Of America
did not resume work today awaiting
the granting OF their wage demands
alarm at headquarters. President John
Mitchell Is in New York 10 meet the
anthracite operators tomorrow.
The main canal OF the Franklin
Irrigation company broke through
its wall near the J. A. Smith ranch,
miles east OF the city at 3 o'clock
this morning. More than 1000 feet Of
the c. h track were inundated by the
swiftly running water.
The city council spent three hours
this morning in the mayors office
discussing the street paving propo-
Eition. At the close Of the session.
the situation was more complicated
than Il was when the council left
the matter yesterday. No contract
was signed and no final agreement
was reached
Major Logan. Z. S. A, retired, who
resides near Fort Bliss, IS able 70
be out on clutches, after being laid
I'D several weeks from q broken leg
as a result Of a runaway
Battling Nelson accompanied by
his manager, Billy Nolan, IS visiting
Fl Paso. en- route 70 Los Angeles
where he viii fight Aurello Herrera.
Chas- Davis. r., FL Paso county's
representative TO the legislature, is
able TO be out on the streets. after
being confined to Hotel Dieu for sew
eral weeks as q result OF an acciden-
tai pistol wound and q severe case Of
grip
A hotel to be known as the Gads-
den and to cost $4,000. is 70 be built
this sumner in Douglas, Arizona
Randolph Terry and bride returned
70 the city yesterday from California
Both Chas. Gal and J. ". HadlOck
refused 70 resign when asked BY
collector A L Sharpe and he removed
them from the service yesterday and
put L L Merrill and Joe Hudson on
In their places
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
Fort Worth, Dallas,
Ell PaSO Operators
Look OUer PecOS

Pecos. March 20.-Pecos tomorrow
will be hosthfo $50 business men OF
Fort Worth and Dallas. headed by j.
S. Bonner, and a party OF fifty from
FL Paso. who made the trip here in
special cars 10 visit the new Pecos
valley oil fields
Abner Davis, Fort Worth and
Wichita Falls refiner, has announced
two new locations. one is in sec
ton Of block So and the other is in
section Of block 81. being located
five and four miles respectively
southsof the Bell we'll
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-04-02
soNE sEcRErs NECEssARI.
YTU AND I MUST WORK
TOGETHER.

You cannot win alone-I could not
win alone We need each other TO
get the best results am at your
service as a partner, as your Trustee.
man to man. I can win with my
knowledge and experience - with
your dollars and your support.
You can. feel sure, sell one-halt
interest in the lease I give you now
for five or ten, or even a hundred.
times what you invest, a little later
II developments show the fabulous
results we look for-and still you
hold the other sure interest TO bring
you profits from the entire eombina-
tion offered
You must risk-you must move
forward and take a chance, you must
pioneer II you want the big rich re-
ward.