Oil Mill Gazetteer.

Oil Mill Gazetteer.
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SCHULENBURG,
TEXAS,
FEBRUARY
1904,
Briggs’ Machinery & Supply
NO.
10
Co.,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
W E CARRY A C O M P L E T E STOCK OF E V E R Y T H I N G IN T H E
MACHINERY &, SU PPLY
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LINE.
O U R MOTTO: Quality, Prices and Q uick Shipments.
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--------- # W R IT E F O E C A T A L O G U E . # ----------
T H E G A Z E T T E E R , Thomas Alexander’s Cotton Gin
_____ ______________________________ at Lampasas burned, loss $6,500,
Official O rgan Oil MiJI S u p t’s
insurance $4:, 000.
issued Monthly.
The Jacksonville Cotton Oil Co.
THE STICKER, - PUBLISHER. Jacksonville, Tex. has been incorH. J. J. THIESSEN - EDITOR, porated, capital $50,000.
Entered at the Schulenburg Postofflce as
-Tne Univeisal Oil & Fertilize
second-class matter, May 5, i9oo.
Co., W ilm ington N. C, has bBeii
-----------------------------------------------*------ chartered, capital $50,000.
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The Atlanta Oil Fertilizer Co.,
Devoted to the interests of the Oil Mill industry Atlanta, Ga will increase its Capital
of th . w « ld and dwlgned to furnish a me- gt k f
$40.000 to ^$125,000.
diana for ths interchange of view* on subjects
^ pertiining to tfce b*sin««.
The plant will be enlarged and
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improved.
Address all communications to
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Gazetteer
notes with pleaO
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sure the new venture of our Brother
An oil mill will be built at Coch J- Burruss. May success attend
ran, Ga. this coming season.
?ou in your new line is the hearty
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Anderson County Cotton Oil Co.
Palestine. Tex. has been incorpo- The Burruss Engineering Co.
rated, Capital $60,000.
hag been chartered in Atlanta, Ga.
---------- ------------with a maximum Capital of $100;
A rumor is afloat of several mills 000 to buj, sell and erj;ect machto build in north-west Texas in the inery. The incarporators are J, C.
cattle country and out of reach ot Burruss, Fred. W. Burrus, M. R.
the boll weevil.
Burruss.
Association,
beer iff f i o n ,
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c A u /e n o t i r & j
\ *ear.
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OIL MILL GAZETTEER
t
Mr. John Woodhead hag been will be held in Houston and you
installed as official weigher and are not alone expected to come
inspector at Galveston to act for yourself, but bring your wife or
the the Texas Cotton Seed Crush­ s veethoart and also a new can­
ers Association.
didate. You also have a duty to
The Mexinan goyernment has perform, prep ire a paper to be
granted a concession to James C. read at the convention.
Burke, to establish a batterine and A $500,000 plant: The Atlanta
compound lard plant, the invest­ Oil and Fertilizer Co. Atlanta, Ga.
ment will be $100,000.
has increased the capital -stock to
the
figure. In addition
I t is only a short time until our t® thoabove
large
Fertilizer
the
next anual meeting will be called, largest Cotton Seed Oilworks,
Mill
and we earnestly solicit your views the state will be erected, also ina
as to this meeting and also would large Cotton Seed Oil Refinery
like to call your attention to the soap
plant and compound lard
fact that you come prepared to plant and
as a great deal of cold
tako an active part in the proceed­ storage is required
for compound
ings.
lard making an ice plant of 125
Mr. C. G. Hewitt of the G ’obe tons capacity will also be included.
Refining Co, Louisville, Ky., has This plant is located about 5 miles
bought the plant of the Georgia fiom Atlanta, at Mina Siding
Soap Co., Atlanta, Ga., and will at the intersection of the Seaboard
add a Cotton Seed Oil Refinery. Air Line and the Southern Rail­
The Soap Co. occupies a large road.
three-story brickbuilding and the
plant has a railroad frontage of THE NEWEST IN THE OIL MILL LINE.
400 ft.
It is proposed to equip a num­
If you look through the roster ber of barges of sufficient size to
of membership on the last page of contain a complete Cotton Seed
the Gazetteer you will find your Oil Mill, which will be towed from
name among it, and also writen be­ point to point along
the
hind your name but not with print­ rivers in Georgia, Alabama and
ers ink is the pledge that you made also along the Mississipi. These
at the lust meeting. “ That you mills will tie up along the large
would assist the Editor in making plantations and work the seed l ight
the Gazetteer more readable” . there, and then move on to the
How well you haye keep your next point and in that way elimi­
I romise.
nate the cost of hauling the seed
to the mill, but instead the mill
Remember that the next meeting will come to where tho seed ig.
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OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
l^ww^WMwywwwwwwwwwwwwwm. H let us hope to reyive interest and
% an interchange of ideas through tho
% valuable columns of the Gazetteer,
who has so liberally offered us it’s
--------helping hand.
1 wish Mr. Willis had been more The meal comes into the Pressexplicit in answering the questions room down t h r o u g h the charges
of his ‘‘Mississippi Brother” in the into the cookcrs. The charges are
December issue of the Gazetteer. I graduated so as to hold just 15good
did not intend our communications full cakes.
to the Gazetteer for our benefit or If tho meal is good and dry, I
edification alone. I hoped to enlist supply with live steam just enough
the interest of ether Superinten- moisture to make it form good
dents and to have all of us talk the cakes. If I am working “ off” meal,
matter over.
no moisture is supplied but cookers
I have received two letters of a are ventilated so that excess of
personal nature, enquiring:
moisture is evaporated.
First—If Mr. Willis’ cooker, that ho 1 think much depends on meal
runs 60 revolutions per minute, being of just the right consistencyhastwo or four sweeps. He says not too wet nor too dry.
that four-sweep cookers can be run I have two 52 in. cookers, with
at one-half the speed of two-sweep two sweeps each traveling 75 re­
cooker: Therefore, we take it for volutions per minute. Eight Ballgran te d that he has two-sweep cook- breakers are suspended through
ers, as it would be unreasonable to top of cooker to within oua inch of
run sweeps at 120 revolutions.
sweeps. When working good meal,
Second— How does Mr. Willis J carry a steam pressure of from
get water to his cookers? 1 never, 50-60 lbs. on cookers-some call it
be fo r e , heard of water being used temperature. I regulate this w ith
to supply moisture.
a reducing valye and keep the steam
I am plying Mr. Willis with j ry by using a steam trap which
questions that others have asked automatically discharges the conand feel sure that he will answer densation. If meai is ‘‘off” I use
them as gracefully as ho did the higher pressure, or more heat, acothers.
cording to quality of meal.
Following is a synopsis of my j cook (one pressing at a time)
press-room vvoik. Let it be under- f rom 12 to 20 minutes-usually makstood that I cordially invite in£ a “ change” every 15 minutes,
criticism (not sarcasm) should any allowing 5 minutes to load a»d u n ­
brother diffj.v with me. Let him load
thug retaining a presgive practical reasons and a better
^
plan to do the work. By so doing, sure of 3000 lbs. per square inch or
(Questions and Answers
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OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
300 tons per 16 in, ram for 1') min­ 1 will answer Greas Spot by
utes. My cake will average about saying that I have never seen a
12 lbs. each. Five or six pressings 11 inch or a 13 inch conveyor but
are put on a pair of trucks, weighed if they do exi>t I would run them
and carried to the adjoining meal the same speed as a 12 inch.
room and stacked to “ dry out.” Now Greas Spot answer the origi­
The oil is carried firm the two nal question.
G reasy.
presses through pipes to the settl­
ing tank underneath. From there
BUNDLES OF COTTON 0ILC0Mpumped to the storage tanks.
PLAINTS.
This completes the press-room
The Cotton Seed Crusher has
which is all done by three men.
his
own troubles just now. He
In the future perhaps I will tell
you he w I manage the seed from says that he is abused by the far­
the wagon to the meal room, but mers because ssed is lower than
in the maan time, let us hear from last year; twigged by the lardmen
some other brother.
because prime yellow cottonseed
Brother Willis and 1 do n't want oil is dearer than lard at the fac­
to do all of the talking.
tory, and btrated by the stockmen
I fear I have already encroachedbecause meal and cake are too dear
upon our good Editor’s time and to feed to cattle at the present
space, so in conclusion permit, me price for beeras. In the meantime
again to invite your interest and the farmer wont let the crushers
criticism.
haye his seed, and European or­
Very truly yours,
ders
are calling for oil. That is
“ Super”
about
the cotton oil situation —
S umm it G in & I m p . Co.
Colton
Seed Oil Magazine.
Editor Gazetteer:\Vill you plcr.se in­ I h e editor is not responsible
form mo through your paper the for the delivery of the Gazetteer,
qualifications necessary to gain jf you do not get your paper re­
membership in 1he Oil Mill Sup­ gular get after the publisher he is
erintendents’ Association. A man the man to make complaints to or
having been night foreman for notify if you wish your address
four years, is be eligable?
changed. It is just as easy for
Respectfully, . you to write tho publisher as it is
Arthur Stone. to write to m e.
I live hundreth
(Supts:— Please give him all the of miles from the publisher and 1
information he desires. Send it to have to write him and waste lime
postage when your letter ad­
the Gazetteer and we will publish and
dressed
to the Oil Mill Gazeteer
it and perhaps some others will Schultnburg.
Tex. will give vou
derive benefit thereby. Ed.)
relieve.
OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
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Oil Mill Superintendents’ Convention.
The season is past and we have a new year.
And the time to go to Houston is almost here;
So bring along your wives, and sweet-hearts as well,
And the time we will have is difficult to tell.
Chorus.
We are going to Houston to that Convention Hall,
We are going to Houston, so come one and all,
Wo are going to Houston, you will be treated right,
There will be a hot time in Houston that night,
We will talk about oil, and how to make bright cake,
And how to run a mill and never make a break,
And how to cook meal and have it turn out fine.
And how to run the press and keep it in time.
C horus.
The people of Houston, they are all right,
They will feed us on turkeys, and show us the sights;
We will sample their beer and smoke good cigars,
And glide
the city on their Palace cars.
Chorus.
To any Supcx.^iendent that lives in the Stute,
So go down in your pockets and dig up the dough;
To attend this convention you have a good show.
Chorus.
Now the supply man will be there, with his little cash,
And on the ladies he will try to make a mash;
He will take the Superintendents around at a rapid gait,
But never mind that for Jones, he pays the freight.
Chobus.
Now you young men that want to get on top,
Just go to studying and rub up vour knot,
And come to the front, now don’t be afraid,
To stand examination and mak« a good grade.
Ch o r us.
For t h e ___ .agers know our Certificates are good,
And would employ no other Supt. if they could,
Our boys are all right to attend to their work,
Never was
known from his duty to shirk.
Ch o r u s .
OIL MILL GAZETTEER
A serious accident occured at sion of the release closed the doors
the plant of the Abilene Cotton and threw him to the floor, and
Oil Co., Abilene, Texas, Jan, 3. when willing hands reached him
A new internal fired boiler has he was found to be ^scalded from
been installed-this season, to be his chin on down, doctors were on
operated under a pressure up to hand in a very short time and af160 lb. per square inch. The en- ter hasty he/p was taken home and
gine in use was a Atlas Corliss 16- we are glad to state he is now on
x36, running 84 revolutions per a rapid road to recovery,
minute. When this engine was The old engine was taken up
built a good many year* ago, 100 and “ out” , new foundation built
Jb boiler pressure was considered and just 9 days after the accident
very high, the frame was light in a new engine 18x36 set the wheels
fact all parts of the engine were going again.
built iight. More machinery has
---------— ---------been added from year to year until TEN DOLLARS FOR TEN RULES.
the engine was heavely loaded,
----------with a high pressure boiler in use To Persons Interested in the Oper.
. . was to
, use as high
. . . ationof an Oil Mill:
the insensitive
pressure as the engine could stand.
^ aidwcll Machine ComThe work was hard and the frame paf^ of B whmond, Va. desire to
of the engine was not any to heavy have Printed a Ust of Ten bost
and through bending and vibrating ru ^es ^01 operating an oil mill
the weekest part finallo gave away, w^ c*1 they
print on caids and
which proved to be the 'crosshead. ^ ve
m *^s 01'der to get
Four large set screws held the pisa
^ ie ^ est
ton in the croashead and the cast- vve ^ avG adopted the following
ing not any to strong was weaken- P^an:
ed right at the set screw holes, and
erf the 1 en Rulgave away, tho piston on its travel 08 se^ec^ec^as^ that evervaway from the crank, carrying one connected with the operation
part of the cross-head crashed
a
Superintendent, Manaagainst the head and went clear ^er‘ Engineer, Foreman, or one
out of the cylinder breaking both holding any other position submit
heads and wrecking the engine 0116 r u ^e ou as m any a3 they
completely,
choose.
The high steam pressure sudenmanDer
which the ten
ly released went on its destroying that we pay for will be selected
. •„
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will be as follows: At the meeting°
mission.
_
.
of the Oil Mill Superjntendents
Itae Superintendent of the Mill Association to be hek, m j unf!)
was caught like a rat in the trap 1904, a committee will be appoinin the engine room as the concus- ted by the President and all the
OIL MILL GAZETTEER
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suggestions received up to that York itself. The fame of the Mid
time, prepared without names land stop and waste cock, Iiigating
attached, will be turned over to brass cylinders and working barthe committe who 'will select the rels for deep wells is known all
ten that, in their opinion, are the
oyer the United States
best. We will then announce the
In entering the works you have
names of those who furnished the to pass through the large and elerules selected and pay one dollar gantly fitted up Office, with its
ior each of them. It may be that mamoth Irone safe and lire proof
one person will furnish all ten
vault.
that are selected or they may be
The officers are courteous and
furnished by ten different people, obliging and the writer was taken
W e hope to reccive suggestions from one end to the other and every
from one or more connected with
operation was explained,
your mill. Simply wnte plainly
Brass goods are mainly castings
what you think a re tho best rules, and as ihat is the begining of the
sign, giving position about the
operation we started there,
mill and name of the mill, and
To make a casting it requires
send to our Atlanta Agency as soon first a patern to make the casting
as convenient, but not later than form, and those for the regular
June 1st, 1904.
work are made out of brass, 'from
J. C. BuerucJ, Agent,
a wood pa tern, as are tlsa the care
For Cardwell Machine Co.
boxes. A fine sand is required to
624 Century Bldg. Atlanta, Ga. make good castings and the molders
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are steadily at work to give the
furnaces a Show to get l’id of the
--------firy liquid which is purred into tho
The representative of th® Oil mold*, and constitudes the brass
Mill Gazetteer was shown through castings, which after being cleaned
tho very extensive plant of the Mid- 0f the adhering sand and if found
land Brass Works located in a very S0lind and true to the patern, is
fine and substantial brick and rock chipped and ground to free it of all
building at the corner of first and
gates $,nd sprues starts on its
Trockmorton Street, Fort Worth, ^o the different machines and unTexas. The factory is 70ft by 145 dergoes a transformation to be put
feet with basement, which is used out at last as a finished product
as a stock supply room.
and if found after through in»pec26 high grade mechanics are em- tion to be up to the itandard goes
ployed by this firm and nothing in the store room, ready to be
but first class brass good* are turn- shipped out. The writer noted
ed out, which are shipped to Old among the 20 or more machine* in
and New Mexico, California and u8e, buret lathes, speed lathes,
the far Eastern State* even to New fox monitor lathes, milling
Midland Brass Works.
OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
machines, shaper, drill presses. which they insisted came about as
And a special grinding machine to a matter of chance, and was not
grind the Midland stop and waste arranged uratU after it was found
cock and stop cocks, the work on that there were several of the
this machine is hard to beat as if it miller3 in the city.
was not perfect, the machine for C. A. Anderson, of Sherman,
testing all the cocks would show and R. L. Hefflin of Galveston,
up the defects at once. Every who are the receivers appointed
cock is tested to a water pressure by the court for the plant and
of 200 lbs. per square inch, and if business of the Sherman Oil end
it doesdeak it is thrown out.
Cotton Company, had a conference
Pump cylinders of all descrip­ with about a dozen of the leading
tion are manufactured, globe oil mill men of the state yesterday
valyes. Engine brasses, Brass afternoon.
plates for oil presses, is one of The conference was informal and
the specialities Fuel Oil Burners. no definite action was taken.
Hose pipes, floot valyes and tank Conditions of the property were
valyes, hose couplings and rteam asked about and described, and
flue blowers and brass and bronco there was talk of forming a stock
hulls up to two inches are made company to take over the property
here.
valued at $650,000, which has an
One of the finest facilities for incumbrance of $250,000.
testing and repairing Steam and A committee oi the millers was
Hydraulic Gauges can be found appointed to visit and inspect the
here. In fact everything in Cop­ plant at Sherman. Further action
per and brass is made.
will await the result of their re­
The writer found an imence port. Among those present were
stock of rawe material as well as E. P. Bomar of Gainsville, C. H.
Brass tubing of all sizes in the Bencini of Brown wood, Ed. Wood­
warehouse, but was realy not much all of Hillsboro, Jo Allison of
astonished after being toid that Ennis, and R. N. Jones of Whitesan average of 15000 lbs of brass boro.
goods are turned out every mouth Forth Worth, Tex., Jan, 21 —
and still lots and lots of people say Cotton oil mill operators have re­
that nothing can be made in Texas. turned from Dallas where a m e eThe first time you are in Fort ing of a number of cotton mill
Worth ask to be shown through the operators and owners has been
plant and you will never send held to consider the matter of
your work north to be made.
purchasing the Sherman Cotton
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, ------------------------Dallas, Tex. Jan 19.—There was Oil Company plant, which is now
a meeting of the cotton oil mill in the hands of a receiver.
paen yesterday at the Oriental, Nothing definite was done and
OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
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it was the judgement of those in FOR SALE.— The Machinery
the city to-night who attended the in a small O IL MILL and three
meeting that the deal would not go stand ginnery. Address,
through in its present shape.
B u r r u s s E n g i n e e r i n g Co,
The oil mill referred to, as is 624 Century B l d g . , Atlanta, Ga.
well koown, is probably the lar­
R O S T E R ^F MEMBERHIP.
gest institution of its kind in the
country.
The following was coppied from
the
last proceeding, not having
COTTONSEED OIL MILL
time to look up the addresses of
those unknown. In our next issue
Fort Worth, Tex., F e b . —It is we will endeavor to give the cor­
learned from a thoroughly reliable rect addresses of everyone. I f
source tonight that C. H- Bencini you know any of the addresses of
and associates will erect in time for those marked unknown please for­
next season’s cotton crop an eighty- ward to us immediately:
ton cotton seed oil mill near the •J. C. Burr us, Atlanta, G a.; R.
packing houses, to cost between H. Shumacher, Navasota, Tex.;
$75,000 and $80,000.
M. B. Wilson, San Marcos, Tex.;
Mr. Bencini is in the city tonight C. M, Edwards, unknown; Geo. T.
and was asked concerning the m at­ Parkhouse, Cisco, Tvx.; Geo. C.
ter. H e said that he did not care Walsh, unknown; A, A. Vardell,
to discuss tho subject at this tune, Dallas, Texas.; S. J. Duke, P itt s ­
but acknowledged that arrange­ burg. Tex.; T. T. Wafpudin, un ­
ments had practically been made to known; H. J. J. Thiessen, Sher­
man, Tex.; D. M. (Jrosswaith, u n ­
erect the mill.
known;
J. M. Collins, unknown;
Mr. Bencini was asked if it was
Joh
n
Sweeney,
2103 Kam St.
a fact that he would remove from
Houston,
Tex.;
B.
[.C. Newberry,
his present home at Brown wood to
Blossom,
Tex
;
Gus
A. Baumgarthis city, and replied: '“ I am con­
templating making Fort Worth m y ten Schulenburg, Tex.; M. B.
home, and will probably m ove here Koerper, Little Bock, A rk ,; J, C.
this year, if the plan we haye on Fox, Muskogee, I. T.; H . C.
Vanse, unknown; J. R . Erb, un ­
foot goes through.'’
Mr. Bencini is one of the p ro m ­ known; J . G, M cRae, unkown;
inent cotton oil mill men of the N. E. Blackman, unknown, R. S.
State, and is attracted to the city Cathart. unknown; A. J. Regan,
by reason of the location of the Corsicana, Tex.; F. W. Rothe, sr.
packing houses here. He is inter­ Sherman, Tex., H. Wuundelich
ested with Winfield Scott of this Waco, Tex.; J. W. Russel, Mc­
city in seyeral cotton oil mills in Gregor, Tex.; J. W. Roberts, u n ­
known; Alex Junghans, unknown;
the State.
OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
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C. W. Thatcher, Wills Point, Bardwick-Conner Mch. Co. Dallas
Tex.; C. D, Wallace, Tillar, Ark.; Tex.; Chas. Eubank, Dallas, Tex.;
Chas. Dabney, unknown; Chas. J. S. Bonner, Houston, Tex.;
Duncan, Green vilie, Tex.; W. A. Geo. I. Baldwin, c Continental
Wilhelm, unknown; A. M. Doug­ Gm Co. Dallas, Tex.; Edwin M.
las?, unknown; £C. M. Byers un­ George, Chicago, 111.; Raymond
known; W. H. Emerson, un­ Winfree, Schulenburg, Tex.; Win.
known; John Drake New Boston, B. Lupe Dallas, Tex.; R. Duncan,
Tex.; W. A. Henson, New York; Dallas, T e x .; L. B. Mozier, St.
John Dixon, unknown; Alex Mc­ Louis, Mo.; J. A. Ballard, SherRae, unknown; M. H. Perry, un­ man, Tex.; C. J. Cunyus, Dallas,
known; J. D. Leyerett, unknown; Tex.; E. P. Perkinson, Roxton,
S. H. Deane, deceased; J. T. Tur­ Tex.; J. C. Newberry, Deport,
ner, unknown,; Thos. Bell, Tyler, Tex.; F. M. Moore, Giddings.
Tex.; F. P. Brooks, McKinney, Tex,; J. J, Shine, Wolf City, Tex.;
Tex.; R. B. Latting, Purcell, I. T.; Thes. Martin, Pilot Point, Tex.;
R. H. Crawford, unknown; F. B. A. H. Sticht, Sherman, Tex.; A.
Gregory, Canton, Miss.; F. B. D. Evans, Dallas, Tex.; W. J,
Shropshire, unknown; J. W. F u l­ Stockton, Roxton, Tex,; T. W.
mer, unknown. Chas. L- K.aricofe, Rothe, Denison, Tex., H. F.
Manana, Ark,; W. J. Crossland, Brinks, Muskogee, I. T., H. W.
Kerens, Tex.; J . P. Bass, Bryan, Bates, Cuero, Tex.; Ami Hicks,
Tex.; J. W. Win free, Ashdown , Waco, Tex.; James H. Rose, Ver­
Ark,; Richard Moore, Pilot Point, non, Tex,; W, S. Woodward,
Tex., G. W. Johnson, unknown; Shawnee, 0. T.; A. A. Diffey,
W. B. Collins, unknown: S. R. Kauffman, Tex.; J. Wr. Kimbrough
Howe Ft. Worth, Tex.; R. F. Dallas, Tex.; W. M. Cassal,
Brown, Dallas, Tex.; C. E. Shipp, Whitesboro, Tex.; T, T. Samuel.
Dallas, Tex.; S. L. Dickey, Dal­ Paris, Tex.; W. C. White. L*olas, Tex.; C. B. P. Carver, East nard, Texas.; D. W. Quarries, un ­
Bridgewater, Mass.; J. P. Hunter, known; A. D. Hamby, Ennis,
unknown; J . C. VanArsdell, Dal­ Tex.; J. F. Folinrd. Paris, Tex.
las. Tex.; B. F. Wolfe, Jr. Mew
WHY HE DID NOT GET ON.
Orleans, La.; J. I. Pierce, Yazoo
City, Miss,, W. B. Bradshaw, E n­ He had low ideals.
nis, Tex.; S. A. Etter, Dallas, He did not dare to take chances.
Tex.; Wm. Bauer jr. Burton, Tex, H e had too m any irons in the fire.
Aug- Balzer, La Grange, Tex.; He was never a whole man at
T. R. Crawson, pecan (jap, Tex.; anything.
J . T. Higgins, Corsicana, Tex.; He thought a gooc? business
A. H. Wright, Daingerfield. Tex.; should rim itself.
John H. Green, Barlow, Miss.; He did not appreciate the value
T. G. Wolfe, Shawne, O. T.; of appearances.
OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
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He did not know how to duplicate neighborly call, however, and
himself.in others.
how quickly everything is chang­
H e let gruff, indifferent clerks ed. Both husband and wife wel­
drive away his business.
come him with the sweetest of
H e trusted incompetent friends smiles and courtesy. When the
with responsible positions.
yisitor departs, he is bowed out
H e would not change fairly good with the most charming grace and
methods for better ones.
in silver tones inyited to call
H e did things oyer and over again.
again because he lacked system.
This is eminently right and
H e thought he knew all there proper, but why should not
was to know about his business. same consideration prevail among
H e tried to economize by cutting those who are bound to each other
down hia advertising appropria­ by ties of family relationship—
tion.
“ our own whom we love best?”
H e was a good, honest man, but Why should not the wife, the
he did not do business in a busi­ child, the servant, whom you meet
ness way.— Success.
every day in the most intimate re­
lations— w hy should they not, I
COURTESY IN THE HOMES.
ask be vouchsafed some courtesy
as well as the guest who calls for a
There is 110 place where there brief hour?
is greater need of true, refined, “ Charity begins at hom e,” we
everyday c^uvtesy or where it will are told, and I think courtesy
be more greatly appreciated than should too. No one be ho man or
in the home circle. Yet in how woman, can stand weeks and years
m an y households do we see an en­ of continual fault finding or habi­
tire lack of it.
tual discourtesy.
The husband comes in tired and You bow to your next door
surly, hurries down hjs meal, -giv­ neighbor when Syon m eet her in
es the cat a kick and departs with­ the street and give her a kind or
out one kind word or gracious act cordial word. Why not be r e ­
to any one.
spectful to members of your own
The children are noisy and family? Try it. You will find
quarrelsome. The mother tired you will be happier for it. Your
and neryous, has only sharp, re­ home will beeome an ideal one,
criminating words for her husband and every one will be influenced
the children and the servent. The to good by the lij'lit which will
whole atmospheae appears sur­ radiate from it.— Pittsburg Press.
charged with the very quintessence
of disturbing and disheartning ele­
Remember that the meeting of
ments.
the
Association will be in June.
Let a vistor come in to make a
12
OIL MILL GAZETTEER.
Odd Ways of Making a Living.
no^os as good as new and warranted
Placards and sign boards in New to til” are advertised near Chatham
Y o rk disclose some strange ways Square, conveying the impression
that m a yhem is not an uncommon
of m aking a living.
In East Thirty-fourth street a crime in some quarters.
sign in the window of a house ni- I n Chatham street the wayfarer
forms the public th at “ Birds are is told: “ Dine here and you will
boarded there by the day, week or never dine anywhere else,” and m
m o n th .” A little further down M ulbery street an undertaker
town a sign in a basement window makes a bid for business with a
announces that “ Dogs’ cars and sign in his window which reads:
tails are cut in the latest f a s h i o n / ’ “ W h y walk about in m isery when
and a sign in the same locality I can bury you decently for $18?”
reads: “ I educate cross cats and — Mail and Express,
dog? to be gentle and well-behayed.’
Makes a Pile From $2.59,
Young ladies are invited to come A young m an walked into the
in and learn the name and calling- Tenderloin police station to pay
oi their future husbands in West Captain Burfeind $2,50 which he
Twenty-third street, near Eighth borrowed two days before. B u r­
avenue. “ Boundsbouldered peo­
is always relieving strangers
ple made straight” is an announce­ feind
in distress. H ere is the story tb
m ent on East Nineteenth street, young man told: “ I spent 25 ce
and near N ineteenth street, on o f that $2.50, Captain, on a bedFou rth a ven ue,” perfect grace is you remember, it was a very cold
25 cents for breakfast.
taught in twelyo lessons,” and night-and
W
hile
I
was
what I
“ satisfaction guaranteed/’ ‘‘Beauty would do with considering
the remaining $2 a
pads for thin ladies” may be ob­ fellow in Sixth ayenue gave me a
tained on the Bowery, near H o u s ­ sure thing on the fourth race at
ton street; and not far away “ ladies New Orleans. I took the chance.
was a 6 to 1 shot, and I cashed
deficient in wardrobe are fashion­ Itin $14.
Then I stuck to it till I
ably dressed on easy, m o n th ly in­ ran that $14
up to $200. Then I
stallments.”
quit, and, being in funds, got a job
“ Sore eyes in poodles effectually as a bookkeeper.” “ T hat’b in te r­
cured h ere,” is a piece of yaluabfe esting, ” said the captain, ''find I ’m
to here y o u ’re at work. By
information given in E ast B ro a d ­ glad
the
way,
th at poolroom in u'
way. In Catharine street “ Babies district?” was“ That
would betel'
are hired or exchanged,’' and in said the young; man, and he b a a .
Division street ‘‘Old sets of arti­ the captain good day. This inci­
ficial feelh are bought and sold.” dent is interesting chiefly because
B urfeind is both a good fellow and
I n H ester street “ Black eyes are the
most strenuous suppressor of
artfully painted oVer,” and “ false gaming in the Tenderloin__,]Iy