Anson, Jones county, Texas
Friday, September 18, 1939

Publisher’s Father First Subscriber
First subscriber to the Jones County Observer was J.B. Miller of Stamford, Texas, father of Otis Miller, the editor and publisher. Mr. Miller lives with his daughter, Mrs. G.B. McLaughlin. Mr. Miller sent six of his children a year’s paid-up subscription to the Observer. The honor of holding the first paid up in advance five-year subscription went to H.R. Phenix, principal of the Anson Ward School. First paid in advance foreign subscription was W.C. Cannon of Apartado, Peru, South America. Mr. Cannon and his wife and son reside in the Ica Valley, a cotton growing section of Peru. His wife will be remembered as the former Ruth brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.  J.T. brown. The writer of this article remembers Mrs. Cannon as the golden hair little girl with long curls who used to play sometimes about her father’s bottling plant, and her husband, Mr. Cannon, as the mischievous little rascal who used to take pot shots with air guns at certain high bred pigeons that didn’t roost in the Cannon barn loft. J.W. Wheeler of Hawley was the second subscriber.

Sides Motor Company
Main at Lueders
Lueders, Texas

Familiar scene in Lueders nowadays is the unloading of oil field pipe.

Lueders Limestone for Los Angeles building
Lueders Limestone deposit only one in United States Comparable to Limestone, Stanford for United States. The quarrying of Limestone at Lueders in Jones County, Texas, is one of the big industries of Lueders, and according to Mr. J.J. Kell, owner and operator of the Kell Stone Company, will develop in the next 10 years into one of the biggest industries in Texas. Already Lueders Limestone has been used on public and business buildings as far away as Los Angeles, California. The Lueders limestone deposits, according to Mr. Kell, are the only limestone deposits in the United States comparable to the Indiana limestone which is accepted in this country as a standard. The Kell stone company opened their stone business in Lueders in 1931. At the Lueders plant the stone is put through all the stages of cutting, polishing, finishing, and ornamenting. Most of the stone now being used at the plant is being quarried from land belonging to the city of Stamford. Stone is also being quarried on the T.A. Putnam farm and on several other farms in and around Lueders. The plant is now engaged in cutting, polishing, finishing, and ornamenting stone for a hospital at Lubbock, the Plains Clinic. A job for the First Christian Church of Amarillo was also under way at the plant this week. Recently a job of exterior and finishing stone was completed at the plant for the Plains High School of Plains, Yoakum county. One of the by-products is the making of building blocks for stone or rock veneering from waste materials. The waste rock is put through a giant pressure machine where it is broken up into blocks of convenient size. Part of the equipment includes two diamond studded saws, the larger of which contains 540 rough diamonds of a total value of $650.00.  This saw is left out in the open on the machine for weeks at a time, for no person could find a buyer for it if he was foolish enough to steal it. This saw is attached to a machine costing $4,000.00. J.W. Kell, son of the owner of the plant, does much of the designing and ornamental cutting of the stone. There are 17 men on the payroll which amounts to $550.00 per week.

Several carloads of poles for the Stamford Electric Co-op arrived in Lueders last weekend.

Farmer’s Co-operative Gin and Feed Store
Lueders, Texas

Parker’s Red and White
Lueders, Texas

Lueders  Variety Store

Herrick’s Dry Goods Store owned and operated by Henry Herrick at Lueders, Jones County, Texas, is one among the oldest firms continuously doing business at Lueders. Mr. Herrick stated that when he reached Lueders and opened his first store the prairie dogs had a “town” in what is now the main street of Lueders. He has watched Lueders grow from a straggling hamlet to its present size and has weathered all the years in between.

Jones County Crude Oil Refined at Lueders
Finished product from Avoca and Bluff Creek fields finds wide retail market.
Jones county gasoline refined from Jones county crude run through a Jones county pipe line from the Avoca field to the Panhandle refinery at Lueders and delivered to your car at a retail station in Stamford, Anson, Lueders and Avoca is the saga of the oil business and the Panhandle Refining company in Jones County and has come about largely through the vision of J.C. Hester, superintendent of the Lueders plant. The plant of the Panhandle Refining Company at Lueders under present operation has a daily crude run of 1200 barrels. Pipe line connections also bring crude to the plant from the Bluff Creek Field in Shackelford county just over the Jones county line. The plant of Lueders now employs 22 men with a monthly payroll of $3,500.00. Most of the men own their own homes and live in Lueders. The plant is located on the south side of the highway in southeast Lueders. The Lueders plant turns out Nox-less Ethyl gasoline, Regular Ethyl gasoline, Panhandle Special gasoline, third grade gasoline, kerosene, distillate, Diesel Fuel Oil, and fuel oil. Trade territory of the Lueders refinery extends from Fort worth on the East to Lubbock and Littlefield or the West. The Panhandle Refining company is an independent concern. Roby B. Jones in Wichita Falls is president of the company. Other officers: G.W. Reed, vice president and sales manager; W.F. Sims, manager of refineries; J.C. Hester, superintendent of the Lueders refinery. J.T. Stell of Stamford, Texas, is wholesale jobber for the local Jones county and adjoining territory.

Roller Rink
Anson, Texas

Palace Barber Shop
Ted Carson
W.F. Crumpler
L.R. Scott
Cooled with Washed Air

Frank Pustejovsky Left Czechoslovakia When Lad of Sixteen
Frank Pustejovsky of the Tuxedo community in Jones county who came to this country from Mistek, Czechoslovakia, believes that Hitler will have to be dealt with finally with reference to all Southern Europe, even though the present war with Roland over Danzig is settled without all the countries of Europe getting into a general war. Frank (we call him Frank to keep him from spelling his name again), came to this country to escape military service in the Austro-Hungarian army. Austro-Hungary being a part of the German empire at that time but having its own army. Mr. Pustejovsky, 16 years of age when he came to this country. That was 33 years ago. He has lived in the Tuxedo community for the past 17 years. Frank’s brother John, who died at Stamford in 1936, came over five years later when he was 15 years old. These young Bohemian brothers were born near the Polish border where Hitler now has many troops stationed. Mr. Pustejovsky voiced the opinion that England and France made a grave mistake when they left Hitler take Czechoslovakia, for in doing so the German Reich got two great munitions plants, the Skoda Works, and another smaller plant near the Polish border at Witkovica. According to Mr. Pustejovsky, the Reich is short on iron and steel. Letters from friends, he says, tell of how the Germans have torn down buildings in Czechoslovakia to get the iron and steel used to reinforce the buildings. Mr. Pustejovsky takes several newspapers printed in the Czech language, one published in Chicago and another at West, Texas, near Waco. Since his brother John’s death, he is the only member of his family in this country. He says he has had his name pronounced every way but the right way, and that he was once addressed as Mr. Post Toastie. He believes that Czechoslovakia will one day regain her freedom. “Our people are a liberty-loving people,” said Mr. Pustejovsky. “They will endure much, but they will never submit to German rule permanently.”

The press on which this first issue of the Observer was printed was completely rebuilt by Mr. J.G. McDaniel of the Texas Printing Press Service of Dallas.

James D. Willeford is new church of Christ minister at Anson. He comes here from Carlsbad, NM.  His wife is visiting her mother at Natchez, Mississippi. Mr. Willeford has been in ministry for 17 years having served at Chattanooga, Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky; Springfield, Missouri and Carlsbad, New Mexico

The Jones County Observer
Friday, September 25, 1939

Robert Buggert, band director of Anson high school has organized a band class in the ward school this week.

The Jones County Observer
Friday, September 25, 1939

The Anson Tiger will play Swenson on the local gridiron. Coach C.B. Rowland is expecting a touch game with the Swenson 11.

355 enrolled at Anson Public Schools.

The Jones County Observer
Friday, October 6, 1939

The Anson Tiger football team meets Rule High school. Last week the Tigers barely nosed out Baird’s Bears by the score of 7-6, while Rule lost to Munday 32 to 7.

The Jones county Observer
Friday, October 20, 1939

Jones County Budget is $8.10 per capital in 1940.

The Jones County Observer
Friday, October 27, 1939

T.T. Chandler and J.W. Begley have done very difficult installation of the electric at the Observer plant. The power plant for the Michle press being installed is a four horse power, three phase induction motor. It is controlled from the pressman’s seat by a six-button automatic combination switch.

J.K. Pittard ginned 4100 pounds of snap, qualla cotton at the Anson gin, and got 1320 pounds of lint cotton, a 580-pound bale and a 740-pound bale.

Mrs. Frank Collins went to Midland to visit her bother, A.L. Gilbreath last week. She brought he little niece, Marilyn Gilbreath home.

Funston News
By Marguerite Mathis
Among those who went to Tuscola to hear the Rev. Hugh Hunt were Mr. and Mrs.  John Roberts, Mr. and Mrs.  H.A. Bandy, Mr. and Mrs.  McGee Mr. and Mrs.  Ed Horn. A Halloween party is being sponsored by MR. AND MRS.  M.D. Johnson four miles north of Funston. Mr. Audra Black was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ray Spraberry of Anson. Mr. and Mrs.  Orvel Hill attended the ACC game. Vaulene Moore, Frances Wilson, Mr. and Mrs.  Ray Lindsey and Mrs. Lindsey’s father visited relatives in graham. Mrs. George Dixon of Abilene is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.  John Roberts.

Charles English of the Stamford Leader paid the Observer a visit.

City Barber Shop
Oldest Shop in Jones County
Dew Womack, prop.
“Scotty” – “Blackey”
Enough Said

The Jones County Observer
A County Seat Newspaper
Published every Friday at 18 Commercial Avenue, South, Anson, Texas
By Otis Miller, Owner, Editor-Publisher - Thomas Durham, Associate Editor

Mrs. Fannie Nugent and son of Olney and Mrs. Amanda Bland and daughter of Post City spent the week with their sister, Mrs. Lee Garrett.

The Jones County Observer
Friday, April 12, 1940

Ed Lynn of Anson, who has tickled the palates of Anson for 15 years sold his Dr. Pepper Bottling plant to J.T. brown of Stamford, owner, and operator of the Dr. Pepper bottling works of Stamford. Mr. Lynn originally had the Dr. Pepper franchise for all of Jones county but sold Mr. brown all the county except a 10-mile square surrounding Anson.
           
Fifteen years is quite a spell to serve the public. It was on April 5th, 1925, that he mixed and bottled the first Dr. Peppers in Anson trade territory.

The Jones County Observer
Friday, May 3, 1940

Mr. and Mrs.  J.L. Lantrip of Anson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Albert Johnson who lives southeast of Anson Mr. Lantrip was born in Southern Kentucky 75 years ago and came to Texas in 1881. Mrs. Lantrip was born at Clifton, Bosque County in 1883 where she lived until she came to Jones county in 1897 Mr. and Mrs.  Lantrip were married at Clifton, May 1, 1890, and came to Jones county in November of 1897, where they lived two miles south of town. Mr. Lantrip owned and operated the first and only steam laundry in the Anson. Children: 3 sons: Claud, Wesley of Anson, and Georgia Lee of Hawley; 2 daughters: Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Roy Martin of Anson; 15 grandchildren.

Transcribed by Dorman Holub