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*tfH-naT &&>**** AK'Crr UlMiaN OttCKUfT ’SSSST wttw buinw) cheam A*' wmtU HAv/C RHXNG THE RANGE Dh» Dqu$- STtjpff Cow Bov* &quQ By A. B. CHAPIN MeY.Suh SWAPfTup! Your* V SlONBST St OVA JJTRKCO. I ever. Saw f THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME. «a,Ma,ma/tw Toms ~-v oh AAe ( H&zd i am s^cakim* OP TM* STAlRS, AM* TH* */#F6 (.SAT THIS MORMIMG ON A VAC AT l OM f { . Peace in Texas [AirrooAtfTgRl * Mrs. M. A. Ferguson, first worn-. ,an governor of Texas, Is going to< Say her bet with Dan Moody—per ap« late in October—by resigns »ing. Moody, her principal oppon ent in the Democratic primaries, agreed to resign as Attorney Gen-1 eral if defeated. Moody polled the larger vote. r TEASERS'— Vhe otRscTut- a the. Right orocr., Pvmd *ths ^^MiDOuC.uPWtGHT COLUMN BBllVMUL. SR»VL MV NWe S\ r&K ^ i /,, -(^yrooAtt Amw to Uot Week ANTELOPE BEAR .—,^p W»fr_ Oil Brings Riches, But No Hired Help for “Grannv!” filin' sudden riches that oil brought have made little change In the life of '‘Granny" Crowe, 67-year-old woman who has a little place near Owensboro, Ky. She still doea her own housework, wears gingham drossbs. refuses to ride In 'an automobile or travel outside of her county. » She doesn't do the plowing any more. But prohubly this is because 'there is no longer any plowing to be done. Eleven oil derricks are scat tered over her land, pumping up the "black gold" that has brought her wealth. Two years ago, Mrs. Lucinda Crowe had practically nothing. She was horn on the farm from which her rich income Is now flowing. She married, had seven children and twenty years ago was left a widow. Boys Left The rbeky. barren land yielded a , poor living when there were the six boys to work it But they married und left home, leaving "Granny” I Crowe and her daughter Clara to make their own way. But they were discouraged not at ’all In fact, they decided to buy up the Interests of the other six heirs so that the 157 acres of hills and lunderbrush would be all their own 1 There was only one way to do it and that was to sow and plow and 1 market their produce themselves 1 For years they worked the few l ttlej spots where cultivation was possible. | •'‘Granny” held the plow and Clara ] led the recalcitrant and emaciated; mule f I<and Worn Out Finally the little hank account had 'grown to $600, und with this they bought up all of the other Interests in the farm Later. Clara muirled Ed Cickctt. By this time the land was prac tically worn out and would produce • hut little, no matter how hard flick • tt worked in cultivating *t. There * Mrs. slc.id l.urlitrfn Crowe, her daughter, Mrs. Ed Birkett and <vM «_a ttiaf they bought b> plowing fields. They own eleven oil wells nJ? w.'if no money for fertilizing or for now implement*. The house, huilt before Civil War days. was sadly in need of repair Strangers came one day. looked over the land, examined the rock* that had made- existence so difficult for the* family Royalty papers were signed and drilling was started for oil Found Gas and Coal That was in November. 19^4. Re cently, the eleventh well was brought in, a iPOharrel producer Some; of them bring In but little, others are good, but nP are producers. The wells are located on all parts of the Crowe tract, each connected by a pipe Mne with four large storage tanks. In 'rilling the wells a vejn of cool approximately five feet thick wasj found and below that a quantity of* natural pas. The house Is heatcd( and lighted by gas from on© well, and the gas from the other hole* Is allowed to escape, or la burned like* a torch to keep down the odor. Each month there comes a check from the pipeline corni»any for *1.000 It is divided by Mrs. Crowe into nine equal parts. To the six I sons who married and left her go six of the shares. Her aged brother, her daughter and herself get the' other three. If she kept what right-, fully is hers. “Granny- would be rich. But she would rather give It away than buy “these dangerous automobiles- or -high faintin' • clothe* RSfflfaM’Pond*] VJ wr f - —NBA. San Francisco Bureau ' Rear Admiral Charles Fremont! Pond. U. 8. N.. retired, refuses to stay on the shelf, although he is nearly 80 years old He Is shown1 here Just after completing a hike of |l60 miles from his home In Berkeley.] ,04*111 Admiral Pond served.under* .Samson In Cuba.*" ■ « PEN POINTED ' Most men never think seriously of ] acquiring a fortune until they nre married. Then they realize how badly they need one. ^ Cabinets lock alike to the franc*. It falls on ad of them. More than forty seven million dol lars worth of chewing gum was chewed In the United States last^ year. As In other sports, we put the champ In champion. Some people want the jazz tmnd: others want the jazz banned. ( A poet started writing verse to, keep the wolves from his door. Wi' )hnd no idea that wolves eould read • • • 1 A London bn by has been Christ cncd Clenevn. Its parents are hoping^ for peace. i * PUBLISHED!? • torrocAsm service r*g. u?.mx omcB T