Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 302, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1931 — Page 13

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__ .... UVJ.U.O ... *\ v Ss§ '. xX Xf. xJi jroWw tSSI eMMaB Ifll I ANOTHER YEAR IS MHK 1 ?/////> %MWW x® > If BECKONING US WITH »WwII IB BHbIhBI H MWM IWPSSS ’•' its hopes and opportunities lor 2 J> ','i' '? ; F ■h®. service. We pause to review » our pleasant relations of the FlB Past year and to greet our j 1 > friends. I < Entd I -1 w,sh you a WWb I £ hOI ?w 11 MERRY CHRISTMAS feßMfl ' RMS m B * : *' Rhiiiilib ■ gw< L A Mk J I** and a Happy Ne» Year filled |B|IBBB|I I ! W{|| with happiness and success. '■ ■ Is - 1 ~J OLD ADAMS COUNIT BANK «fe« ■ i >/«, uW I ; li-i. I Till* 'offT •■ -■ '' • ‘ lljSI . w l’&' ~.w ;''W'”? .•' *’ iiW '

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SLUMP FAILS i' TO HALT EAST TEX. OIL BOOMi: I s Seventy-Mile Field Rushes Drilling in Feverish Haste Kilgore, Tex.. Dec. 23. (U,R) —The I picturesque red clay hills of East : Texas today remained perhaps the | only spot in the United States Iwasting anything resembling a I boom. As tlie world's most productive i oil field prepared to celebrate its ' Hrst anniversary Dec. 27, there were nearly 40,000 derricks in a | narrow belt stretching 70 miles through four caunties. Since the first gusher roared in, East Texas has been afflicted with all sorts of troubles ranging from low crude prices to incendiary fires, but the fact remains that approximately 78,742,642 barrels of crude oil have been produced in the area. Huge Revenue A rough estimate gives tlie revenue at about $25,000,000,000. W hen the field was opened crude i oil was selling at nearly $1 a barrel. The huge flow from East Tex-' ias soon sent thep rice tumbling to I ten cents and finally to zero. | Today, with national guardsmen I enforcing Governor Ross Sterling’s I . executive orders, wells capable of; ' producing 50,000 barrels daily are ‘ I lirnite dto 100 barrels daily. Last 1 j August, before the advent of mar- i jtial law. the field was producing a| itotal of nearly 8,000,000 barrels] I daily. Assuming that the governor's i | latest order is being enforced the | jtotal production today would be ini the neighborhood of 400,000 barrels I j daily. Business Lively The factor that makes business i appear lively is that drilling is goI ing forward at almost the same pace as last December. It costs

approximately $20,000 to drill the I average Texas well. Most of the! sum is spent, right in tlie area cm-; bracing Rusk. Gregg, Upshur and Smith counties. Because of this intense activity roadroads ship thousands of tons of machinery and lumber. Machine shops, lumber, yards, boiler victories and industrial concerns .’ie operating fail blast in Kilgore, Longview. Tyler, Willow Springs, Gladewater and other points that before the boom were poor cotton hamlets. Los Angeles Seeks New Name For Gigolos Los Angeles. Dee. 23.—U.R)—Los Angeles dancing men — those who kiss and tell—are up in arms be cause the public refuses to call them anything but “gigolos.” They want to be called “dancnig escorts,” or “tangoists,” or something else—not gigolos. “We admit our business is women—young, middle-aged, old. To feminine tangoists we're sold nightly to push and to haul and to tow," they admit. So to avoid the disgrace of being a “gigolo”, the California Hotel Men's Association has taken up the dancers’ battle and has offered a prize for the best “gigolo” substitute offered. qZ Clock Sounding Horn Guides I Muskegon. Mich.—(U.R)—Edward Mecher likes to hunt deer alone. But, dee hunters often become lost. ■ Therefore, Mecher invented a clock which sounds his automobile horn I every 30 minutes. He plans to I hunt within hearing distance of his j invention. 0 Dog Causes Crash; Laps Milk Medford, Mass. —(U.R) —A certain local dog doesn't cry over spilled milk. It was sunning itself on a 'curbstone when a motor truck appeared. John Amlaw, driver, swer|ved to avoid the dog and wrecked [the truck, spilling 800 quarts of i milk and cream on the street. Af■ter drinking its fill of milk the dog, ; unharmed, departed.

BREWERS FACE 81 EXTINCTION ON : BRITISH ISLES Declare They Are Slowly Being Taxed To Death London. (UP) — The great breweries and distilleries o. the B itish Isles, whose huge profits kept rolling in while other enterprises went to the wall, now feel that they are slowly being taxed out of existence. The fact that the poorer classes of Britain spend almost one-third of'their income on drink has been larkely responsible so rthe towering financial strength of the breweries. But with new taxes being piled on them, the uneasy brewers are beginning to wonder if they may not before long be going the way of the Scotland distilleries. Almost half of the distilleries in the north have closed, their business ruined, they declare, by prohibitive taxation. Most of those still running are open only a few months a year. For whisky is no longer a worktilleries have lost two-thirds of their logman's drink. Since 1900 the disbusiness as the government tax soared from a mere few shillings to 50 and then to 72 shillings, sixpence $17.40) a gallon. In vain did the Scots buy t'ullpage advertising space in the newspapers to appeal to Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden to lower the tax. But it has remained at the level and there is little prospect of it going down. The People’s Voice I I | This column for the rise of our | ' readers who wish to make sug- i ] gestions for the general good j | or discuss questions of inter- j | est. "lease sign your name to I | show authenticity. It will not I | be used if you prefer that it | [ not be. I In Memory of Samuel Durbin How our hearts were to.n and bleeding As we stood besides your bed. And we knew that very soon You'd lie numbered with the dead. How we tried so hard to help you, 'And to keep you in our home, But Jesus said, "I'm ready,” And took you to His own. You have fought the many battles, That have come across life way To receive a crown of glory At the end of a Perfect Day. When that last tim shall be ended. Earthly things have past away, We will meet you at the dawning O. a resurrection day. There's a beautiful land In a far away strand (Tis a beautiful home of the soul. With my Jesu . so night, Where we never will die, in the land where we'll neve: grow old. In that beautiful home Where we never shall roam. But we ll meet in the “sweet bye and bye". And give praise to the king. And throu.h eternity sinr. In the land where we'll never grow old. ■ When our work is all done And our life’s e.own is won And our trile and troubles are or’er All our sor.ows will end. And our voices will blend With the Lived ones who have | gone on before. Chores Never grow old We will n vc. ggrow old ii the land whe.e we'll never grow old. A. friend, R. C. o Oid Time Doctor Passos Away Jerusalem, O. (U.R) —Dr. G. W. Stewart, 81. lust of Monroe conn ty's "country doctors," died here recently. For 61 year. Dr. Stewart drove bis horse through snow mid heat to >"• his patients; lie .scoffed I it the automobile mid kepi hi.horse and buggy until he made bis| last call. Those who knew him! said ho had the first qualifications| for the old-time country doctor - he blended medicine and a kindly philosophy. o Christmas Party Assured Chicago. — (U.R) — The annual Christmas party of 3,000 children has been assured by th" wives of doctors of Northwestern University’s medical clinic on the McKlinlock campus. The clinic is tlie only one in the city not endowed and was lacking the required funds until aided by tin- women's auxiliary Seventy-five children are treated each day with as much attention paid to those who are well as to those who may be sick. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home

Split Infinities Find Champ Chicago. (U.R) The Jurlcious putting of one's infinitives found ready adherents in Professor John

BELLO Jr cgL EVERYBODY J9P: At this season of the year our / tn thoughts go out in Gratitude to ' ! our friends who have made busi- Tg JL- i fit ness with us a pleasure. i V 5 i May we extend at this time ] /' \ our h ear ty and sincere good wishes for a MERRY CHRISTMAS U CITIZENS ' !W ■■ > telephone MO: COMPANY .K f .aAI H .IXIXII 11. Llklli H 11.1 ■l■■..lM Hi 11HI 1 n Hl.. ,t,HIu (1 f til M MERRY I CHRISTMAS 1 ■ Sb* O n C hristman Morning may a "* fortune be cast -1 . 3?^ across your threshold, to linjry**?cr there forever and ever. never intervening lli jehlit shadow or disappointment. new YEAR y \..; I and the best of luck in 1932. We sincerely hope __ p mH 1999lHQEi@Eir MESHBER6ER BROS. STONE CO. LINN GROVE

M. Manly, head of tlie English dei partment of tlie University of ChlI cago, and Professor William F. Brynan, head of the English department

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