The Ringling News (Ringling, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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RINGLING JEFFERSON COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY AUCUST 28 1914
NO 11
OIL PRODUCTION i'ADVERTISINB RATES ' I FIRST MONDAY
nOAD TO RIVER
SEEMS ASSURED
Jcflrruon and Love Counties May
lluild Bridge Jointly
' ' on Mud Creek
DRIFTING WEST
TO BE INCREASED
The prospect is pood for a road
from Ringling to the Red river
country that will enable the
farmers in the Petersburg and
AJourtney flat districts to haul
their cotton and other produce
here for market Jefferson and
Lovecounties will likely cooperate
in building a steel bridge across
Mud creek which at this time is
a barrier to traffic from those
districts to Ringling
Last Monday Commissioner II
N Dulaney met with Commis-
sioner Baker of Love county and
file went to Mud creek on the
ection line two or three miles
south of Orr where the proposed
bridge will be erected in case the
twcounties- build a bridge joint
ly They found that it would
take a span of seventy feet and
they have already written for
price and for estimates of the
cost of the bridge Each com-
missioner will take the matter up
with their respective' boards at
the regular meeting in Septem-
ber and at that time action will
be taken
Already there is a road open
from Ringling south to within
two and a half miles of Orr and
if the bridge is built south of
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APPEAL FOB EXTENTION
OB UNO PAYMENTS
Because of the uncertainty of
a cotton market citizens through-
out this section of Oklahoma are
apealing to their congressmen
and senators to use their influ-
ence and official positions to have
the payments on unalloted Indian
lands deferred There are thous-
ands of acres of unalloted Indian
lands in Jelflerson Stephens
Carter and Love counties which
was purchased by farmers and
many of them u ill not be able to
meet the payments in November
when the unpaid balances will
mature unless an extention is
granted
Congress is now in session and
in the event the secretary is not
New Well In Jeirrmon County Is
Shoeing For Good Produc-
er at 1100 Feet
The belief that there Is an out-
let of the oil producing sands of
the Healdton fields to the west
was strengthened this week by
the bringing in of the Corsicana
Petroleum Company’s well in
section 1-4-4 The new well is in
Jefferson com tv And is alout a
quarter of a mile south of what
is known ns tne Bess-Tucker well
in section 36 3-4 The sand was
reached at a depth of 1080 feet
and wa3 penetrated some 25 Or
30 feet Early in the week the
already authorized to grant an j drillers were experiencing some
extention of payments he could trouble on account of a crooked
be empowered to do so by con- hole and as soon as this is
gress While there is hope that
a market will be provided soon
for cotton farmers want to be
on the safe 6ide ' Every citizen
in this section of th£ country
should write their congressman
and urge the necessity of prompt
action
Orr Love county would open theL
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e j destroyed Showers fell through
road from the bridge on the sec
tion line running north on the
west side of Orr to a point one i
and a half miles' north of Orr f
thence west to the Jefferson
county Tine By opening one
mile we would then have a road
into the Petersburg nd Court-
ney flat districts The cotton
crop is good jn that section of
the country and with a good road
ihe farmers’ would conie toJiingr
ling to market their cotton and
to do their trading'
Torrential Rainstorm-
This section of the country is
thoroughly drenched The creeks
and ravines are overflowed as a
'result of a torrential rainstorm
Thursday morning It was prob-
ably the biggest rain of the year
and it is feared that crops on the
creek bottoms will be greatly
damaged and in some instances
GALL FOB fRECINCT CAUCUS
The Democratic voters of pre-
cinct No 2 of Earl township are
hereby called to meet at the court
house in the city of Cornish on
the 29th day of August- 1914 at
2 o’clock P M of said day The
object of this meeting is to select
delegates to the county con-
vention which meets in the city
of Waurika on September 5th to
elect delegates to the state con-
vention to be held in Oklahoma
City September -8th All Dem-
ocrats are respectfully requested
to be present and take part in
the transaction of such business
as may come before the caucus
D F Sprad'ing v
Precinct Committeeman
out the day Wednesday and the
earth was already full of water
before the big-rain came asa
climax Great gulche3 were
Washed in the roads and traffic
will be hindered to some extent
No rain wps 1 needed here and
the cotton crop would hav e fared
better without the extremely
heavy rain
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Expenses of Candidates
The six candidates for govern-
or spent about $15000 in the re-
cent campaign Jennings’ ex-
penditures are not known - but
the other five candidates in their
statements show the following:
Williams $196125
West $274498
Robertson $291175
Dunlop $256427
Herring $274725
Total for the five $1292950
Mr and Mrs P H Carter of
Cornish are reported ill thi£
week
Mrs G T Bennett of Waurika
accompanied by her daughter
Mrs Georgia Jasper of Planb
Texas were here last Saturday
and Surtday- spending the time
on Mr Benett’s ranch - three
miles east of the City
straightened and the 8-inch cas-
ing is lowered the well will be
drilled in
-A half mile to the east of the
new well in section 6-4-3 the
Coline Company has a well which
made an initial production of
3100 barrels a day and the pay
sand in the Coline well is 300 feet
in thickness It will not be
known just how good the well is
until the same is finished Jbut the
belief is general that it is a good
one
The Healdton field has been
defined in every direction with
the exception of a narrow strip
leading out to the southwest and
it is in this strip that the new
well is located and there is hope
that the pay sand extends far-
ther to the southwest and other
tests will doubtless be made to
the south and west of the new
well lhusit will be seen that
any possible expansion of the
field must bring it nearer to Ring-
ling The new well is less than
five miles from the business dis-
trict of Ringling
There are-now-wells
in the field
ing and there are
other tests The
the field is estimated at 56000
barrels a day but probably k 30
000 would be more nearly accur
ate and conservative
EXCESS LEVY clRBiB
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We have the following lands for sale and those de-
siring further information concerning any or all of
them may obtain same in full by writing us direct
or calling us at our office in Ringling: -
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210 acres one mile north and two miles west
of Ringling 160 acres in cultivation 50 acres in
Grass Well improved Price per acre $3000
100 acres seven miles south of Ringling 20
acres in cultivation and balance in grass No
improvements Price per acre $1750
180 acres one-half mile east of Ringling all
grass well watered and unimproved Price
$2500 per acre
130 acres one mile west of Ringling 60 acres
in cultivation balance in grass 'good improve-
ments Price per acre $3000 v
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Brooks & Elder
- Ringling Oklahoma
In the election held last Tues-
day afternoon for the purpose of
voting on the three mill excess
levy lor school purposes there
were a total of 106 votes polled
Only four votes were polled
against the levy and 102 for the
levy Late in the afternoon
there was some fear that one
third of the voters might fail to
attend the election and for that
reason parties were sent out to
urge the patrons'to attend There
are probably 300 voters in the
school district including the wo-
men Under the law SO per cent
of all the voters of the school
district must participate in the
election to make it legal More
than 30 per cent voted and the
community is assured of an eight
months school
DEMOCRATS BOLD PREICNCT
CAUCUS NEXT SATURDAY
The Democrats of this precinct
will meet in caucus next Satur-
day August 29 for the purpose
of selecting delegates to the
county convention which will be
held at Waurika September 5
The county convention will select
the delegates to the Democratic
state convention which will be
leld in Oklahoma' City on Sep
tember $ All the Democrats of
this voting precinct should attend
the caucus next Saturday afternoon
Beginning with the first week
in September the rates for di-
Rlay advertising in the Ringling
ew will be 15c per column inch
instead of 10c per column inch
Thus if one Is running an adver-
tisement three columns wiJe and
ten inches long the cost would
be $460 Instead of $300 as in the
past It may appear to some
that this increase of one third in
the price of display advertising
Is unnecessary but we brieve
we cau show each and every one
of our customers where the in-
crease in price will lc advanta-
geous to them to us and to our
subscribers
In the first place we have had
the price so law in the past that
in order to raise sufficient revenue
for the running of the paper we
have been forced to accept so
much advertising that it left no
room for reading matter and thus
lessened the news value of our
paper and also lessened the adver-
tising value To be a successful
advertising medium a newspaper
must be made interesting to every
person who attempts to read the
paper To accomplish this it
must be filled with live interest-
ing news matter A paper tbat
does not render this service to its
readers does not give the full ad-
vertising value to its advertising
customers
If this increase in price affect-
ed only a part of our customers
it would be unfair to the rest but
as the increase affecta every ad
in the News it will be unfair to
no one AVe will say for instance
that you are running a three col-
umn ten inch advertisement and
in order to make the paper pay
we are forced to place your ad
up at the side of another ad with
no news matter between Would
it not pay-you better to use a ten
inch two- column ad and have the
extra teirtncbes in good live news
matter adjoining than to have it
as heretofore? We know that it
would and if you are looking at
your advertising as an invest-
ment you are forced to see that
it will bring greater results to
you to use a third less advertis-
ing space at the same price and
have a third more news matter
in the1 paper than it vould to
have you? ad jammed up against
another ad
If therejs any dissatisfaction
on your part due to the increase
in price we ask that you do us
the justice to pall at our office or
IS TRADES DAY
Chamber of Commerce In Meeting
Appoints Committee to
Raise Premium Lint
At the meeting of the chamber
of commerce Wednesday evening
ft was decided to make the first
Monday of each month a trades
day and a committee of three
was appointed to make all ar
rangements and to see the mer-
chants and all citizens and ar
range a premium list F E Fag
erquist V O E Wright and
M M Smith were named as the
committee to have charge of ar-
rangements The premium list
will be made up this week and
will be published next week
The first trades day will he on
Monday September 7th While
the time for advertising the first
trades day is short it was the
judgement of all present the first
day could be fairly well advertis
ed and that most people in our
trade territory could be reached
before that time
The chamber of commerce also
tlok up the matter of roads and
a committee was appointed to
look after the opening of a road
south and a road west Commis-
sioner Dulany has agreed to
build a bridge ' on North Mud
creek about one mile west of
Ringling and as soon as the
right of wav for the road can be
secured the road will be opened
and the bridge built Work on
both these roads will be pushed
to a speedy conclusion Many
farmers residing two and three
miles west of town are forced to
go five and six miles to get to
Ringling and when this is open
they can reach here 'without
making the drive to the town-
ship line and then through Corn-
ish and a mile north to Ringling
It was necessary for the citizens
taraisa funds o-purchaseposts
for fencing on both road? and a
committee is looking after that
and the necessary funds will be
raised by the last of the week
Adventures ofKathlyn
a’low our business manager to
call in person and go into the
matter in detail with you We
can readily illustrate to you the
advantage ot the increase It
will not increase our revenue as
you may suppose but will increase
the news value of the NEWS and
hence increase it in value as a
trade getter
Fred Hannan formerly of Law-
ton has located here and has
built one of the best garages in
this section of the state He has
had many years experience in the
automobile business and is pre-
pared to do first class repair work
He has a commodious building
and furnishes free storage and
free air for tires He will ap-
preciate your business and - give
you the best service
J P Logan in Dallas
The News is in receipt of a
letter from John P Logan re-
cently a citizen of Ringiing and
resident of the Ringling Cham-
er of Commerce stating that he
las accepted the management of
Dallas brokerage company and
will remain there indefinitely
Air Logan located here at the
opening of the town "and took a
eading part in all matters for the
advancement and progress of the
town
Hannan’s Garage
Hannan’s garage on 5th street
north of Main is open and ready
’or business This is a large
welj equipped garage in fact the
largest in the county Mr Fred
Hannan who owns and operates
this place is an old head at the
automobile business and has an
eye out for anything that will be
a convenience fr the auto pub-
lic He furnishes free car stor-
age free air and maintains a
first class repair department
keeps a full line of supplies and
good livery cars
The Gem Theatre has secured
the adventures of Kathlyn con-
sisting of 27 reels and will show
the first installment Friday night
August 28th This is one of the
best features being shown on the
screen and the public is certainly
fortunate in haying the opportu-
nity of seeing iU ’ The manage-
ment of the Gem are to be con-
gratulated for the splendid ser-
vice they are giving the public
and especially in securing so noted
a photoplay as The 'Adventures
of Kathlyn
HIGH INSURANCE RITES EN-
COURAGES BRICK BUILDINGS
Since the rate man has been
here and established insurance
rates for Ringling property and
the rate in many instances is so
high as to be prohibitive many
realize the mistake they made in
building frame structures For
that reason there will likely be
witnessed in the next few months
much building activity in Ring-
ing and the buildings will be of
rlc k too
Wnen the business men receiv-
ed the rates established they
went up in the air and many of
them declared that they would be
compelled to cancel their insur-
ance The rate in some of the
)usiness blocks where they have
een built up solidly is as high as
13 per cent or $130 on a thou-
sand dollars insurance Some of
ihe merchants will likely cancel
their insurance and carry their
own risks
HE THIRD BILE PREMIUM
HAS NOTJETBEEN TAKEN
Ringling citizens raised a pre-
mium fund of $7550 to be given
to the persons bringing the first
second and third bales of cottons
The first and second premium
have been taken but the third
premium has not yet been taken
and there is $2020 in the fund
for the man who brings the third
bale D C Davis who brought '
the first bale and received the
first premium of $30 also brought
the third bale last Saturday but
the committee in charge decided
that the premium should go to
the third person instead of third
bale
BIG FIRE IN THE ¥ FIELDS
- Lightning-Ignited some oil
tanks in the Healdton oil field
Wednesday night during the
rain The News was not able
to get definite information Thurs-
day morning before going to
press and cannot give the amount
of the loss but it must have been
considerable as there appeared
to be five tanks burning v ' The
blaze could be plainly seen from
Ringling Thursday morning and
those who were awake - during
the night say that the whole
country in the region of the oil
fields was as light as da
Ice cold towels with every
shave at the 66 barber shop
Don’t let your car stand out in
the sun and rain Hannan’s gar-
age will store it free of charge
Free air and first class work
full line of supplies reasonable
prices ‘
'W S Gilley of Cornish is
ported quite sick this week
Before Selecting A Bank' With Which To Do Buisness
You Should Investigate The
First National Bank
CAPITAL STOCK $5000000
Ringling Oklahoma
H E Foster manager of the
Ardmore Light & Power Co
was here Monday on business
L P Anderson of Ardmore
canie out Tuesday and watched
the progress of his brick build-
on Main street which he is having
erected '
The Bank Best Fitted To Take Care of Your Needs
' and Assist You Financially
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McCrory, A. The Ringling News (Ringling, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1914, newspaper, August 28, 1914; Ringling, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1857120/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.