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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
S10 Buys You
 A Chance For
 An Oil GuSher

ley iller well, if gusher. will be worth possibly FIFTY for ONE
 If you want to be counted in possi- ble big winning you must act QUICKl
 Don't delay.
 Do it right NOW.
 Remember. we must have s1.ooo cash RIGHT NOW to cinch this option
 s1o buys 100 shares that may be worth 50 for 1.
 Send any amount from s1o to $500 quick.
 Every person who sends money for stock. to help cinch option on the possible gusher. will share in all other interests of the Flow ing Well Oil and Lease Co, of Texas and Louisiana.
 at the present time. the following other described property.
 Ten acres located in the southeast ex- tension of the Burkburnett oil field. where plan to drill for oil.
 Sixteen hundred in the great oil ] district of Northern Louisiana. near wells to 1 be drilled. This land is checkerboarded, be- | ing mostly in 40-acre tracts.
 Fifty acres in Montague county. Texas, located southeast of the Nocona well. Two million feet of gas. also oil estimated at from five to twenty barrels per day, has been found in Nocona well. according to reliable of the sand. The well is expected to be . gusher. Watch the oil papers any day now for news of the Nocona well which may startle the oil world.
 We have deal pending for over a thou sand lease on a ranch northeast of the famous Amarillo, Texas, gas field. This l lease is reported to be close to drilling commission WITH PRACTICALLY NO COST to the company. Amarillo gas wells are claimed to be the biggest in the world
 Things happening fast down here in the oil fields.
 In .ors;der;no this report kindly hear in i mind that it takes only forty acres of oil land rightly located to be worth possibly a million dollars
 All stock in our company is 10 cents per share par value.
 CAPITAL. s1.ooo, ,0oo.oo.
 orpanized under declaration of trust.
 Fill out the enclosed coupon. clip and mail.
 Amount .....-..'.......... Shares ................... City ....................
 I understand that you will use this money l to help carry forward the development plans of the company; and for the necessary ex- pense to advance the company's interests that am to receive according to my invest ment the benefits and dividends that may result from the operations of the company
 tSend money order, check or bank draft payable to the company. IS 1000 buys 100 shares
 25.00 buys......... 250 shares 50.D0 buys..... 500 shares
 10000 buys....-.. i.ooo shares | 500.oo buys. 5000 shares | 100000 buys 10000 shares
 FLOWING WE'LL OIL LEASE co. | of Texas and Louisiana
 TUCKER BROTHERS. Trustees. Wm. l.. Tucker. Pres: Dudley R. Tucker. Vice Pres; Howard A. Tucker. Secretary Treasurer Post office Box $50. Wichita 1 Falls, Texas Office 721-A Ohio Avenue. l Wichita Falls. Texas. BAH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
FIVE FINISHED WELLS
 LEASE "Co


 located in the southern part of Easand County the B l. Terry farm It is wonderful twelve acres with sixteen feet of productive sand These wells are settled to the serious business of producing oil for life the pump
 Two of these wells operated swentyfour days in De- cember and produced SIP The same two wells operated tweny-sx days January and produced in ex and January roads were practically impossible and M b ns and epud not be hauled in to the lease for Nos B. and 5, and plants pro advertisement these are being put on the pump and we e&Xpec & this lease to pay us between $2oOOo00 and $3o,ooooo per month from the sale of oil
 GAS SOURCE OF INCOME
 Wells 1, and are producing sufficiens casinghead gas to make about four hundred gallons of gasoline per aa h g M so % % nearby plant and o Company owns the lease and equipment subject to us seven-eghths of the from oil and tenths o the gas produced This is valuable property fin management of vice president and field manager should hold it's with the longved wells for which 1901 and is still producing oil The Corsicana field was opened up years and those old wells Electra field was opened in 1910 and this field is still ws s ae0G an en a % y of producing oil begins when the wells go on the pump
 TWO FINISHED WELLS
 LEASE "P'
 Located about south of Lease "Cp These two wells are finished cleaned out and ready be ubed and pumped There 1000 feet of oil standing in each have the delivery of tubing snd power plants to this lease but within days time these wells than $500 % day This lease is profitable oil pro Our statement of s3oO00 per day income is low
 DIVIDEND MAKERS
 The finished wells owned by this company are positive dividend makers without the aid Louis earners. In fact, the two wells pumping are pro ducng sufficient earnings to pay more than 25 cent the Lewis Eastland Oil Company.
 LEASE "R"
 is five located in the famous Burburnett district being done by experienced oil operators This highly valued piece o acreage that deserves the good of ence to present development '''N'''' ''i'' LEASE "B'-AT HOMER, LOUISIANA This is choice 30 in the big gusher district west of Homer. Contract is made for drilling well on this 30 expect sensational developments from this we'll It will cost about SIT 00O drill well and power of wells in this immediate neighborhood
 LEASE "R-2"
 of Homer from the progress made in drilling in this neighborhood should be ready for well
 OPERATING POLICY , The many years experience in producing oil and mar sn g @ ss of hs and vice pI should meet with your approval We believe that 75 per vested in settled and that a5 psr een the
 JOHN L. LEWIS, President Lewis EaStlan Oil Company
 Third Floor Edwards Building
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
LOCAL NURSE IS AWAY

Anniston, February 21.-(SueciaL)-Miss Sarah Williams, the public health nurse attached to the government clinic Tn ms city, and who was called to Birmingnall several days ago by the serious illness of her brother, will remain there until her relatives are better.
 Miss Williams writes that five members of the family are suffering with influ- enza attacks. and that their conditions are stilf serious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
SEVEN BIG Producing Wells SHARES Sc

wonderfully productive the operating in the MConnent and Southwestern fields The state of credited authorities with 96662 o6o barrels of oil 1919 This production de-
 ered Tn the face o constantly in the crude oil market the market the advanced $225 barrel $3 % barrel In the month of 1920 the state of credited with producing 8628 Ill barrels of oil.
 The Lewis Eastand Oil Company operating in the North Texas barrels of high grade oil and the Central field produced 2955488 barrels of high grade oil The quality oil these two fields is of the highest grade and taken at s. barrel rapidly lines have been completed producing fields and there difficulty marketing barrel produced.
 Nineteen development high grade districts that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

TWO SCRAPPERS FINED
 Anniston, February H.-(SpeciaD-Judge ]. G. Green, recorder of the police court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
THE OFFICERS

John L. Lewis president and general manager, drilled first well in Indiana in 1897 and since has been tive in producing oil and marketing refined products. Lincoln Hl vice president began field work quar- ter of century ago the Pennsylvania fields and for many years employed by great oil corporations in field work His experience the Pennsylvania, Oho ln- diana Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Texas fields. His life work has consisted of making oil wells of putting the finishing touches leases viz connecting up wells
 lines MT Hill is in active charge of oil production with Lewis Eastand Oil Company. George T. Cope, Director and Secretary and Treasurer successful oil operator with Texas experience He has the reputation of being careful shrewd oil man. Albert Walker, Attorney, Da- las Director specializing oil companies, leases and legal questions peculiar to the oil business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

Address all letters to-
 FLOWING WELL OIL ( LEASE co.
 of Texas and Louisiana
 TUCKER BROTHERS. Trustees. Wm. L. Tucker. Pres; Dudley R. Tucker. Vice Pres; Howard A. Tucker Secretary Treasurer. Post office Box $50. Wichita Falls, Texas. Office 721-A Ohio Avenue. Wichita Falls, Texas. BAH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
WE MUST ACT QUICKLY
REASON NUMBER 2

And we need more money than now have to take ad vantage of these great opportunities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

We wish develop few tracts of land in desirable To- cations where the opportunity exists of multiplying investment thousand fold We must have production, we must show progress show possibilities if wish to be in harmony with the real history of the oil industry We have present earnings than sufficient to pay unusual dividends. We certain to multiply these earnings from existing producing wells now owned by this company. We developing lease in the most sensational field in the world today which establishes tre mendOus possibilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

located in the southern part of Easand County
 E. l. Terry farm. 1t is wonderful twelve with sixteen feet of productive sand These wells are settled
 to the serious business of producing oil for life the
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

The S. S. club held the ir annual guest
night at the Carnegie lub rooms last
evening aid some eight.yr-five people
were prese mt to enjoy the evening.
Members and guests gathered at the
club rooms at $50 and at z O'Clock they
were invited to the dining room where
a delicious three course supper was
served. Misses Sophie Bale and Anna
Schumacher were the menu hOsteSses,
aud not a sing lie detail was overlooked
to make it one of the most successful
affairs in the history of the club. The
room was lastly decorated Tor the oc-
casion, sunset colois being used in pro-
fusion At each table there was cen.
terpiece of carnations and attractive
place cards We're us ed. After supper
delightful program was; given, which
was in the form of q vaudeville. The
program opened with orchestra selec.
tons played on fine tooth combs. Miss
Grace Schlumberger ws:s the able dl-
rector of this orchestr 3, which was
heartily encored. A tru love skit, in
which Miss Alice Stevens played the
part Of Juliet and Miss t1irnena Hoff-
man as Romeo, proved perfect scream.
A monologue with Miss Ghra ce Schlum-
berger in the role of a bal. Der made
decided hit with the audiertce, and the
puns were most clever, hitting many of
the audience Acrobatic stunts by Miss
Mclean and Miss Brodersetn kept the
audience tense. The final n lumber was
clever and all enjoyed the ] ok dances
in which various members t>f the club
participated. Those .witnessi ne. the en-
tertainment are loud in theh praises OF
the participants and firm in. the belief
that they have missed their calling and
should by ail means ma Ike arrangement
TO go on the stage at the earliest oppor-
tunity. 1t was Indeed a most ENJOYABLE
evening for all and one thai will long
be remembered, especially by those who
occupied the bald headed row
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25
NEIGHI|BORS VISIT
JOHN WOODRUFF
John Woodruff, Popular Farmer Of
Goodrich Township, Given Surprise
by His Many NeighbOrs
BRING OYSTERS AND COFFEE
Old Time NeighbOrs Regret That He i
I'R to Retire From the Farm but y
4. -, Wish Him Every Success

ANNOUNCEMENT was received in Den.
ison this week of the birth of a son to
Mr.. and Mrs. John. Mcmillan, of New
York city, on February 14th. Mrs. Nc.
MILAN sWill be remembered by Denison
people as Miss Enid Shaw, eldest daugh-
Il AVG. Rohwef Easta business VISITOR
ssErnest CLARK Vas s I'll ron DowCity
Tuesday attending to some business
matters at the county capital.
4 Twelve neighborss and old friends of
|Mohn Woodruff, residing in Go0drich
ktNWnshipsrperpetratsd@a "a. paeasant sur.
Eptise on him Monday evening Fof this
gTa,ha s & W oa acre E Tifs
good thingsrto eat and Peter DeConnick
acted in the capacity of "chef," and pre-
pared the oyster stews and coffee. AZ
ter the sumptous repast cigars were
reminfscing. > Z : % - =
MIR. woodruff was born and reared on
the farm in Goodrich township where
he is now living and which he sold re.
Gently. He has decided to take a well
earned vacation and will leave this
spring in company with his brother for
an extended automobile trip through the
west, visiting all of the important cities,
and does not plan to return until next
/ fall... Mr.. Woodruff has been closely
identified with the affairs of Goodrich
township for forty years. He received
his early education in the schools of
that township and of late years has
been one of the leaders of the com
munity. It.. was Mr.. Woodruff who
started the movement for the Farmers
cooperative elevator which was erect
ed here in Denison,' and he has been an
active booster for the farm bureau or
ganization. During the war he was a
member of the township council of de.
fenses and devpted much Of his time to
war activity work.
The old friends of Mr.. Woodruff in
Goodrich township sincerely regret his
having sold his farm there, but hope
that he may later decide to. return to
that community to make his home.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25
dealt OF mrs.
R. II. GIBSON
II esgSi+ - - ~ n N 80
Former Resident of Dow City Passes
Away at Bloomfield, Neb., on NORM
ing Of February Is.
SISTER OF MRS. FRANK McHENRY
Deceaseas sWas- Sixty-F Four Years of Age
at Time Of DEATH Was Possessed
ssOf Fine Musical Education. "a
~ City, Feb. 24-Special:

Dow City, Feb. 24-Special:
The F'ranks McHeIry family recent
ly received sas sad message, which con-
veyed the information of the death OF
Mrs. McHenry's sister-in-law, Mrs. r.
HI. grGibsons which occurred at Bloom:
Z field, Neb The deceased was well
known Ill. this vicinity and her friends
were very sorry indeed to learn OF her
demise.
Rate C. Thompson was, born in
Chicago, ILL.,, November S, 1855, where
shesgrew to womanhood. In early life
shes was converted and joined the Cen
Il tenary Methodist Episcopal church
] church worker. She was united in
marriage November Is, 1892 to r. II.
Gibson, of Dow City. To this union
five children were born, Mrs. T. e.
Buesing, Bloomfield, Neb.; Mrs. Ross
( Warrick, Birchtree, Mo-, Rhoda Blanch,
deceased, Fred H. Gibson, Julesburg
Colo. and Charles o. Gibson. of Bloom
field, Neb.
For more than six years she had
MOST helpless during the latter part
Of that period. Throughout all she
had been patient and cheerful. Five
days before her death she was taken
Ill with influenza which caused her
death on the morning of February Is,
1929, having attained the age OF 81
yeafs, months and 10 days i!aE
The DECEASED had a good musical ed
ucation and was always willing to
uses her talent for the pleasure of
others. She was organist Of the
Methodist church in Dow CITY for some
tira4. Although she lived a "shut in"
life for SO long. her husband and child
reM surrounded her with every COM
6foSe her pleasure being their first
th6lg hit. The funeral services were
heH at the home February IL conduct
eddy Rev. Richiaonds sof, Bloomfield,
Neb., and she was laid to rest beside
hey little gran ddaiighter, Berniecs
Buzsing. The floral tributes were
most beautiful. coming from friends of
the family, as a last token of love and
respect to the departed.
Dow City friends wish to be num-
Abered among those in offering condol-
ence to the Borrowing family, relatives
and friends.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

Mrs. Hugo; Saggau was hostess &c
the Coterie club on Thursday afternoon
February 18th, when a splendid attend
ance was present. The afternoon was
most pleasantly spent with visiting ano
handiwork. Late in the afternoon a
very delicious supper was served at one
large and several small tables, which
were daintily arranged with spring flow
ers in small holders. t
P. f. 0. met with Mrs. j. p. Bale on
Friday evening, when the regular bust
ness meeting was held and program Civ
en-, followed by a social hour and
dainty refreshments.
The West Minister club will meet
Thursday, March 4th at 2:30 O'Clock
at the home of Mrs. Hugo Saggau
Mrs. Saggau and Mrs. Barney Otto are
hostess.
The Current Event club will meet
| Thursday, February 26 at the home OF
Mrs. Geo. Richardson. on Chestnut
street, at the usual meeting hour.
Mrs. F. +. Ranniger, assisted by Mrs
JOY Gardener, entertained very inform
ally for Mrs. Alva Champion last Thurs
day afternoon: Several old friends ano
neighbors brought their work and gave
Mrs. Champion a complete surprise. a
jolly afternoon followed with music and
visiting, after which a two course lun
cheon was served by the hostesses. AT
length the guests departed, feeling loath
to say good bye to this good and 'popu
lar lady who is soon to- leave their
midst
On Tuesday evening at the home OF
Mrs. IA. G. Daniels about twenty-five
Friends Of Mrs. Marshall Jones planned
and executed a very pleasant surprise
towel shower. The evening was spent
in playing games. Atya late hour light
refreshments were served, after which
the guests departed, wishing the hon
ored lone many years of happiness In
her new life work.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25
Complicated, but Easy.

SLOW do you get your husband to
do what he doesn't want to do when
you want him to do it," '"That's easy.
I make big fuss over something he
has already done which didn't want
him to do, or I remind him of some.
thing which / have done which he
wanted me to do and I didn't want to
To-, and soon he is doing what I want
him to do just as though he had want
ed to do it all along."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25
Smile always Gets Results.

De you know that when your face
wears smile, other people smile, too,
without knowing why? Or when you
look cross or downcast, other faces
become shadOwed? 1t is q fine thing
% pass ycar lightncss of heart along,
out how about the other? If we are
feeling sad, let us try to keep it to
ourselves, and not, by an overcast
face, pass it on to someone else
Evangelical Herald.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25
Roumania,s Great Sail Mines.

I Roumania is famous for it's salt
mines, and could supply all Europe
with this commodity for hundreds OF
years. In some mines the beds are
from 600 to $50 feet. thick, and at So.
rat there is salt mountain whose
sides are quarried with electric ma
hines which cut out blocks each a
cubic yard III size, while the fragments
are. scooped up in steam shovels.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

thorough and dignifed. Aircraft pro
duction during the war was a re.
proach to the mechanical genius Of
the American people, and it was not
free from scandalous features. There
was prodigious waste OF money, and
the cost-plus system was by no means
the only cause of it. Yet if anyone
was held accountable no one was pun
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25


ished In the published summaries
of the house committee reports the
example of Mr.. Hughes in urging pro.
secutions and a courtmartial does not
seem to have followed. The majority
report is partisan to an extreme and
the minority report palliates what was
a bad business that the American peo-.
pie would like to forget.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

New York Times: 1t is doubtful if
the house committee discovered any
thing of impor lance not to be found
in the report of Mr.. Hughes, which
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

plains why one pig is better than an
other, you may be sure that your child.
if he is one of the exhibitors, will see
the why and the wherefore
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

Economical college boys are. saving
their $500 hats by going bareheaded and
incidentally loading a $50 doctor bill on
dad.s 10 ~ D. / II F$ESRa VII 80 ~
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

Secretary Lansing has been forced
out of the cabinet, but up to the time
OF going to press congress has not had
to resign.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25

A Miss Robinson, of pear Vail, was
close bidder with Leo Mccullough on
the Chas. Speck hog. At West Side
there are six boys who are members of
the club and these boys purchased their
stock before the sale. There are also
number at Denison who purchased
before the sale. The entry closes April
1st and any boy or girl who wishes to
enter the contest may do SO by sending
name and address to the county agent.
Mr.. Quist is much Interested III the
contests nd will pick his judging team
for the Iowa state fair from among the
members of the club. He Is also much
the parents of the club members. In
circular letter sent out recently the
county agent, speaking OF the club
work, said: n fsa5lls Eh
Those boys and girls will learn to
judge hogs, to feed and care for show
filters, they will learn to study pedi-
grees and thereby be able to know
which family of hogs are the best breed
types. The clubHrules require that the
club members show his, litter at coun-
ty show to be held next fall
Showing the litter not only means an
outing to your boys and girls who have
worked hard during the summer, but 1t
also means that your child will have a
chance to meet with other children in
competition. sThis develops confidence
and self RELIANCE in the child.
Your Child may not be able to see the
faults Of his litter until he has them in
the judging ring. When the judge ex.
was as just as it was temperate,
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-25
COasting.

.Esg8 COaStlng.
New York Evening World: Coasting
today is not what II used to be. Ask
any father. These new tangled
guide.with-our-feet sleds with flexible
turn SO easily are not like the ones
that dad and his friends used to fash
Ion for themselves. Sleds have been
improved. They are lighter, speedier
, and Sless subject to collapse. They
are safer because they guide so, easily,
butT-well, dad has a sort of contemp
for them. When dad was a young.
ster coasting was a mans sport, a
test of skill. Instead of sitting down
dad went "belly buster" flat down on
the sled. with firm grip on the points
of the runners and face stung by fly.
ing snow. When dad wanted to make
a curve on high he had to know just
how, and then he had to do it. His
weight must be shifted just so. One
toe gave certain braking effect at
just the right instant, while the other
waved in the air, for balance. One
arm lifted one runner ever so highly,
and always with the chance that the
other would skid and cause a grand
spill. Coasting was an art in which
one learned from mistakes. Today
children make the same turns with
scare an effort Steel runners writhe
under foot pressure on lever. 1t is
better no doubt, for any boy is as good
as the best of dads gang, but, given
an old fashioned straight runner sled
dad would just like to show the child
rem some coasting that IS coasting-
provided the neighbors wouldn't watch.