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The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
OIL OOzING FROM
OXFORD STREETS?
Oxford Eagle Claims Oil Can
Be Seen Coming Out of The
Ground In Two Places-Gas
In Quantity Known to Be
Escaping From Eagle Office.

Editor Price says it's not a pipe
dream-fancy or delusion. He tells
it to the world as a solemn fact-hon-
est to goodness truth that oil, real
pure liquid gold is actually oozing out
of the ground in two different places
within 300 yards of his editorial
sanctum.
Now if Editor Price will assure us
that he was not laboring under a
HhAifucination superinduced by pow
.erful kick from q white mule at the
time he wrote the "news" giving to
the world the glad tidings that LIQUID
gold was so bountiful in Lafayette
country that it actually oozed out of
the streets in Oxford, we would feel
disposed not to doubt the correctness
of the editors observations and state
ments made relative thereto.
We do believe that there is oil in
Lafayette county-we do commend
the honest efforts some of the Oxford
citizens are making toward develop
ment-we do hope the proposed test
well will be put down-nd hope that
oil win soon be flowing from hundreds
of wells throughout the county.
Oil In Oxford Streest?
The Oxford Eagle says it is no pipe
dream. 1t is an actual fact.
If there is any one doubling this
statement, we only ask that you come
to the Eagle Office and we will take
pleasure in showing you that there is
oil coming out of the ground at two
different places within three hundred
yards of the Eagle Office
AS to how much there Is under the
ground will never be known until a
test well is put down We do know
that there is oil here, and that the
water brings it to the surface after
rain. We are told chat there are
iust such oil signs in Mexia, Texas,
one of the richest oil fields in the Uni
ted States.
Oxford sits on a dividing ridge, and
the belief has been advanced by men
who know something of oil signs, that
there is an immence lake of oil be-
meath the streets of the city. Since
we made the discovery that oil was
coming out of the ground here our be-
lief that Lafayette county has been
bountifully blessed with abundance of
oil beneath the soil has been greatly
strengthened.
There are several oil men in Oxford
now, and drill is being prepared for
shipment. Before our next issue
makes its appearance we have good
reason to believe that drill will be
on the ground at the proposed oil
sight, six miles west Of the city, Prep
arations to that end are in progress.
The bad weather has hindered to a
great extent in making preliminary
arrangements for drilling. Yesterday
and today number Of oil men were
seen at the oil well site, and 1t is said
by those in position to know that drill
ing will be in propress before many
days have passed.
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
OIL INDICATIONS
SEEN AT CLOSTER
Citizens Ooganize to Discover
Cause of Strange Seepage

GL0STER, Miss, Feb. 4.-Follow-
ing the reports of coal oil seeping
from the hills west of Gloster for
some several weeks, many have seen
fit to investigate and all have report
ed the matter as being truly seep-
ing of practically pure coal oil. The
matter being so out of the ordinary
most of our people were inclined to
discredit the entire report. However,
many people from oil fields have Wis
tied the place and all report having
seen exactly the same before.
The matter having been pretty
throughly agitated, it was decided to
have an expert driller and organizer
from the Eldorado fields visit US. This
was done, and Messers. L. A. Clark
and r. M. Smiley visited as yesterday
and after inspecting the flow they too
declared that they had never seen
anything of the kind.
At a depth of three feet rock can
be penetrated with an iron bar, from
which gas viii come and viii burn
for several minutes. The samples of
water from the springs have almost
the exact odor of coal oil.
A mass meteing of our citizens
was held last night and temporary
organization was formed with view
to determining the source Of this oil.
Samples have been sent away for
official analysis, and it is not the pur-
pose of the organization to report
anything but the facts. If we have
a phenomenon (Which it appears we
havel we expect to let the world
know it, and no stock will be sold un-
til we can demonstrate exactly what
we have. r. M. Smiley, a driller of
several years experience, says it is
possible to get oil within ESQ feet.
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
NUMBER a

ture aided and abetted and inspired
by my enemies has gone to some Of
the highest officers of this state to
counsel with her in attempting to
murder me, my wife, the young ladies
in my Office and a large number Of
the other persons whom she knew
would be in her way in procuring
sum of money at my hands.
"All these refused to aid her in her
murderous schemes, of course, they
believed her insane.
"This self-confessed degraded wo-
man who has spent months and
months in feverish attempt to pro-
cure money from me and who has
attempted to murder and kill, is to
be pitied. She should have been in
an institution for outcasts of her class
many years ago, both because of her
deprivity, according to her own state
ment, and because Of her mental con-
dition. My wife and / tried to be-
friend this outcast and unfortunate
wretch and this is the reward for our
aid and good will in her trouble. To
that great body of Mssissippians who
believe in fair play, / simply ask that
JNN WAshAOA0 yVdE OpAhAVu Will tliS
most dastardly piece of blackmail has
been unfolded. To the legislature,
that body of big broad gauged men,
whose uniform courtesy and consid-
Grafton has been most healpful, say
that this whole matter is open to you,
/ desire nothing covered up. I stand
ready for trial in the courts of the
land and court full and free investi-
CATION by anybody and everybody.
IF any fair minded citizen, man or
woman Of this state, will investigate
who this woman is, they will see the
villiany behind it all, and when they
find out how my political enemies
have conspired with this depraved wo-
man they will condemn them as the
most disabolical lot of criminals that
ever infested this state. l am a nat
i've citizen, 46 years old, and no man,
woman or child, white or black, high
or low, honorable or degraded, has
any reason to charge me with any
such reprehensible conduct, as al
legged in this case.
my bitterest political enemies
everywhere understand very well not
to make the charge, they use this
outcast! regret that the name of the
state, is to be dragged before he pub
lie in this way, but so long as crea-
lures like this woman and her CO.
conspirators, who ever they may be,
are allowed to live, we viii be in this
same slough of despond.
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10

In reply to allegations made against
him in federal court by Miss Frances
c. Birkhead, Governor Lee M. Russell
Monday night issued the following
statement
Today's papers carry the shocking
intelligence about suit filed against
me by woman by the name of Fran
ces c. Birkhead. Of all the infamous
pieces of blackmail and conspiracy
ever concocted in this or any state,
this is the limit. Those who have
known me throughout my entire life,
public and private, fully understand
that there is not one jot or title of
truth in anything of the sort. Even
the worst enemy / have in the world
would not dare to make the shocking
allegations that are stated in these
charges. / might say this much,
when l first saw this woman in the
year 1918 she was in the midst of q
piece of blackmail against high and
honorable citizen of this state and was
going from house to house and from
citizen to citizen telling her shame in
a case similar to this and WIS then
charging distinguished citizen of the
same dirty charges with which she
charges me. She advertised her
shame everywhere to some of the
most representative men and women
in this state. She carried her case be-
fore the officials of the institution of
which this distinguished gentleman
had charge and these officials heard
her charge and refused to believe one
word that she said. In this charge
she said that this person had outraged
her and sent her to the city of New
Orleans where a criminal operation
was performed. This woman was
then much over 21 years of age. Not
getting these officials to discharge
this person she proceeded to get
pistol and tried to do violence to sew
eral persons. The officials of the city
of Jackson and another town had to
drive her away and for weeks and
days and weeks and weeks she was in
a rage, crying and screaming and af-
fiicting everyone with the story of her
shame, and these officials believed
that she was mentally irresponsible.
"She finally came to me and plead
ed with me to aid her in ousting this
man from his place, ousting the Of
ficials who had turned a deaf ear to
her self-advertised story. In all of
these actions she acted the part of
person almost berefit Of all reason.
"Upon my refusal to aid her in pun
ishing her objects of her hate, she
then began a well-founded consuiracy
with my political enemies (for I was
then starting my campaign for Gov
ernor) to bring about my downfall.
She then turned upon me with all the
fury of fiend, aided and abetted by
political enemies and since that time
she has been plotting and planning my
dowfall. She has repeatedly demand
ed money of me by letter and by
word of mouth. OF course, spurned
her demands. She has tried numerous
lawyers throughout Mississippi en-
deavoring to persuade them to bring
suit against me. Xxx This era
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
SENATORS MAY
FALL FOR THE
SHORT SKIRTS
Rule Giving Women Privilege
of Floor Is Held Up-The
Timid Afraid of Leg Show

WASHINGTON, Dist. C.-Shall
the historic dignity Of the United
States Senate be disturbed by pretty
girls with bobbed hair and short
skirts which permit the display of a
foot or more of filmy stocking?
This is the question agitating the
committee on rules which has before
it an amendment permitting the fe-
male secretaries and clerks Of sena-
tors the same floor privileges as are
now enjoyed by the male secretaries.
There is sharp division of senti-
ment on this question. Many sena-
tors who have dispensed with male
secretaries entirely claim that their
pretty successors are just as busin-
ess-like and efficient and are entitled
to every privilege granted the al
legged stronger sex.
But there is marked opposition to
extending the privileges of the Sem
ate floor to the cute little "fiappers,"
as distinguished from the "old TIM
ers" of their sex AS one of these
women attaches of the Senate ex-
pressed it today.
eff it were not for the fiappers up
here-the girls who run around with
bobbed hair, short skirts and al sorts
of Greenwich Village scenery, I be-
lieve we could get this rule through.
OF course, don't believe that the
Senator's would stand for these loud
dressers violating their dignity and
upsetting their precious debate by
marching in on the floor. Goodness
knows what they would do if they got
/ . n AA~ An k.are
best to convert the Senate into leg
show.
One Of the so-called fiapper secre-
taries to whom these remarks were
relayed, dismissed them scornfully in
two words:
"Sour grapes" she said bitngly.
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
WILL BE GLAD TO COME AND
TELL HER STORY WHEN
EVER WANTED

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. S.-If there
is a legislative investigation of the
charges brought against Governor
Lee M. Russell by Miss Frances Birk-
head, who has entered suit against
the Governor for 100000 on charge
of seduction, she win be willing to
testify against him, she said tonight
in a statement to a local newspaper:
81 think it is nothing but fair to all
concerned; the state of Mississippi,
the plaintiff and the defendent," the
statement said, "that I testify at any
hearing which the legislature may
order. I am willing that an investiga-
ton should be held and viii gladly
go to Jackson to testify at any time
that suit the investigating committee.
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
THE ROOT OF HICH-cOST
LIVING

Everybody wonders why he has to
pay so much more for everything
he buys. Because everybody on earth
has to have an automobile and keep
up the style that goes with it. The
year 1922 is not 1912.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
GROWS LARGE ruRNIP

OAKLAND, MISS, Feb. 6.-J. w.
Helms, farmer and business man of
this community, brought to town this
morning . turnip that weighed TN
pounds. It measured % inches
around and 40 inches in length from
tip to tip. II is thought it is so large
that II would not be possible to get q
larger ona
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks and deep appreciation to the
good people Of Water Valley for their
kindness and sympathy extended 10
as during the illness and death Of our
wife and daughter MrA Frank
Storms.
FRANK STORMS
MRS. MARY WARD
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our deep APP
probation and heartfelt thanks for
the kindness, sympathy and assistance
afforded during the illness, death
and burial Of our mother.
EDWARD CARLSON
ALBERT CARLSON
SELMA CARLSON
JOHN A. CARLSON
EDLA CARLSON
MRS. J. NJ. TRAYLOR
The north Mississippi herald., 1922-02-10
GOVERNOR VOWS
DAMAGE SUIT Is
BLACKMAIL PLOT
"Not One Jot or Title of truth
in Stenographer's Allega-
tions-"Of Infamous Pieces
of Conspiracy This is the
Limit"

o o o o o o o o o o
o II do not believe a sin o
o gle word of this hor- o
o rible story! 1t is simply o
o the work of my hus- o
o bands political enc. O
o mics, and / will see him O
o through, no matter o
o what comes !"-declar- O
o ed Mrs. Russell Monday o
o night while standing in O
o the parlor at the Man O
o sion with the Governor. O
90 o o o % o o O O O
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21
Tom Sims Says

Perhaps nobody loves fat man because
he is hard to get around.
This winter hypocrite is a coal dealer who
frowns.
The Christmas during which We shop early
is always next Christmas
Restaurant mince pie is made by putting
something in the raisins.
Sam Gompers fell asleep in court. Some
courts do look like churches.
A Tennessee hunter who wore a red cap
and met a bull will buy another kind Of CAP
when he gets out
Once your friends put you hep. but now
they put you hip.
When man is talking to himself he be-
lieves everything he hears.
| Another comet has appeared, making three
none of which is as hign as tried chicken in
Russia.
| | A big Canadian asbestos mill burned re.
Gently. We can prove it did.
| Congress ends its session in March, which
| is the month of other winds.
Michigan woman horsewhippeG ner hus
band, so she may have thought he acted like
a jackass
| An Alabama man who drove too fast witt
a wagon load of dynamite is former Alabama
man now.
| All the cream on milk must be vanishing
cream because you seldom see any cream OF
milk.
/ Absence of short skirts makes the ment
necks grow longer.
/ Many cheap fountain pen signs a BIZ
/ check.
Acting low down is not the proper way t.
get higher up
II many of our day dreams came true the,
would be Nightmares.
French explorer has found some bread 2,40l
" I'D ;ok olA ~af
eaters.
San Francisco bandits blew safe an,
escaped with $4,000. Police think robber
vas the motive.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21

nous hostelries in leading American cities
now memories only. to realize the changing
conditions In rapidly growing republic. FASH
ions change, and SO do hotels. The patronage
Of notables follows these kaleidoscope changes
with unerring regularity.
In the medium-sized and smaller American
cities the same Transformation has taken place
Utility has supplanted sentiment The old no.
tells that ware once the center Of everything
Important have passed and new generation
has almost forgotten them. But in the larger
cities the ravaSes Of time have been more com.
plste. Each decade has its nav. hotels. and
each ono has some improvements that repre-.
ssnt the last word n public catering. Modern.
ity d too rapid to wait for the sentimental
aaaocistions that only time can bring. A cen.
tufy-old hotel 4. not wonder n Europe, bui
u America 4 3 marvel
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21
By OLIVE ROBERTS barton,

Nick now" 9 4.
Dusty Coat, for such was !.
dwarf's name, looked SUPPRESS, ~
and pleased, and turned instsns y
Well. isn't that nice now: ~
said wrinkling up his nice ola - y.
in a queer twisty smile. IN ,,
ways lucky. I'm glad 10 see ". 4
Yes" said the Fairy queen ~.
the children. 1--WE were just a. ~,
ing about you. You see. Dusty w. -.
is the Sandman to all the crea. .sssr.
In Outdoor Land, just as the o's 4,
Sandman you know about is 70 n
boys and girls all over the VA" ssst
Dusty Coat sprinkles magical ~. i
on their tails or dusts q llttie v
their tongues and then they ~
sleepy and crawl into their no'ss
and sleep the long winter thro ~
III it were not for Dusty vi
they would stay out all Winter n n
freeze. poor things. Then waen N N
gets them ali tucked away soap S,s
in bed, he sprtnkies them with 10y
magical dust and they have n,p ~
dreams. Would you like to ss's
him :" 81
"Oh, yes!" cried Nancy and -
quickly. -. s------ls's.,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21

Soon all the Christmas notes
were collected and delivered to
Santa Claus and the Toy Maker.
Every little boy and girl. thanks
to help Of the Twins, was sure to
have q flne Christmas.
Very soon after that, Nancy and
Nick. wishing to have another ad-
venture in Fairyiand, hunted up
their magical Green Shoes again,
and held them on to the Fairy
Queens palace.
As they entered the door they
passed 4 funny little dwarf going
out. He was quite tiny. not much
larger, indeed, than a good-sized
beetle, and he, had . long white
beard that reached to the ground. A
pointed cap covered his head and
over his shoulders was slung q
brownish looking sack.
Good morrow, good friends! he
remarked in . shrill voice. touching
his queer cap which was brown like
Al the rsst OF him. Then hitehing
his. bag . little higher he bsnt his
hack to his load and tFudged away.
Dusty Coat" called the Fairy
oaeen AFTER him. "Oh. Dusty Coat!
Como hack! Here ere Nancy and
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21
Daily Poem, By s. sisse'
WE FORGET.


Thank Heaven we forget. For thus we gain
Peace from the cruel wounds OF soaring pain !;
Our hearts heal over, and again We fare
Upon our way, unshackled by despair
Free Of past suffering and old regret,
Thank Heaven We forget!
Thank Heaven we forget the barbs; and stinRs
OF yesterday. and that about us clings
But little memory Of little woes.
Thank Heaven that the past SO quickly goes
Into the limbo where dead days are gone.
While we lift hopeful eyes to each new dawn!
Thank Heaven we forget, for otherwise
We should waste breath In un2vailinx sighs
For vanished pain. and stagger meath q cross
OF sin repented, and Of bygone loss,
Which now we bury in oblivion,
unwept-with all that's better dead and done.
Thank Heaven we forget, and 20 our way.
Troubled or gladdened mainly by Today;
Daring new pain, obiivious Of the old.
Remembered only rs q tale long-told
Ever upon new goals our eyes are set,
Thank Heaven we forget!
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21
THE NEW PoLLYANNAs.

There's nothing good or bad but thinking
makes it So" Shakespeare announced long
time ago. He meant, of course. if you really
think it. IT'S most comfortable doctrine il
you think only along lines of cheerfulness and
optimism. Pollyanna applied it and was for
ever smiling. 1t reappears now as an original
discovery, as the modern miracle.
Just think what transformation would be
effected could people unreservedly believe in
it. DAY by day in every way ann getting
better and better. are the magic words which
should prove the "open sesame" to all happi-
ness. The began might soon think his rags
into royal robes: every Cinderella become a
princess: every slim bank account swell into
Rockefeller dimensions. Whether anything of
the kind happened or not, the result would be
the same if man could persuade himself by
patient repetition of certain formula, that
they had happened. AS man thinks. SO he is.
DR.. Crabbe might make the volstead act eff
fective by saying forty times. morning and
night. every day in every way the country is
getting dryer and dryer" So the thirsty. de-
prived OF liquid refreshment, could console
themselves with the phrase Every day in every
way am getting drunken and drunken"
The possibilities Of self-hypnotism are
boundless. Newspapers, which had vainly tried
to increase their circulation by other methods,
might Try the prescription Every day in every
way ] am becoming more popular" Even il
the assertion did not represent a fact. it might
create pleasing elf-delusion that would 80
far toward allaying the<pains that affect un-
appreciated merit II you can't get real turtle
mock turtle is not bad
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-12-21
Ssppese Ten Did Heys An. OpeF.
AHA

Having an operation il quite an
event IN . quiet life. / must ad-
NIT It Is a unique experience, even
Though Thousands and thousands Of
Others are having the same exper-
fence at the same time, like visit
to Niagara Falls or Old Doc 's
museum. Something tostalk about
more or less for years to come, Il
there are any years to come, more
l il you are Of . morbid tempera-
ment, less IL you are cheerful
customer. It is curious how some
Of the most operated upon crea-
lures almost resort to deception to
conceal heir exploits in that dfrec-
tion, while mere beginners who
have had but one or two cello
ltomies never tire OF telling about
it For instance there ID the good
woman who in an eventful career
had surrendered successfully her
tonsils, most Of her teeth. her gall
sac, her thyroid gland and other
appurtenances too numerous to
mention. Her doctor made = ten
tative diagnosis OF chronic involu-
tional appendicitis and-well, only
reluctantly did the patient admit
that it seemed strange. for her ap-
pendix had been removed shortly
after the forfeiture of her tonsils.
speak alphabetically. or as
nearly SO as may be, about opera
tons. mind you, for I had one. /
do not boast Of It. merely men
ton it SO that NO one can say / do
not understand.
There is nothing particularly at
tractiYe about having a major op-
| Grafton. at least to the normal
mind, though unquestionably many
individuals to actually wish for a
chance to undergo an operation,
whether for a fancied social pres
tige or for the sake of sympathy OF
what not l know not. But they
do crave to be opened up and ex-
plored. To the healthy imagina-
ton, however, a major cutting
makes no particular appeal. By
the same token the prospect
arouses no particularly horror
One reasonably familiar with the
ways and accomplishments OF
modern surgery-when luck breaks
right-takes his ether with sur
prising degree of equanimity. II
lis perhaps another instance oil
knowledge or familiarity abolishine
fear. Indeed one might say that a
new danger has come with horror
less, shockless surgery, the dan.
ger that too many operations will
be sought by morbid individuals