Show OIL FOUND ON FARM OF DESTITUTE WIDOW Near Starvation Recently Woman With Seven Children Children Chil Chil- dren Now Has in Bank Okla Okia March lArch An 1 An eighty acre farm with five producing oU oil wells welle on it and a bank account Is IA the gift the year tar brings to Mrs Lottie c Hamm Hammock k a widow with seven M fatherless fatherless father father- less les children children who three months ego ago were I threatened with starvation Mrs Mm 1 Hammocks Hammock's husband died die some Rome sometime I time ago leaving leasing her an ar acro farm I heavily mortgaged and with poor Improvements im improvements Im- Im on ft it It was ae poor land and anda a hopeless task talk for a widow with seven e children to to make a living out of ot But nul tho the mother struggled along whit the wolf walt olf howling closer and clo closer cr r. r until throe three months aso go the farm larm was wan a advertised ad for sale AAle under a 0 mort mortgage foreclosure Then I humanity Intervened E. E W. W an oil man who ho In his day lad he heard rd Adversity beating upon his hlA door like an automatic riveter heard about the tha widows widow's foreclosure Kimbley hIm himself eel at tit th the same ame time was in hard bard lu luck k Ho had been eon following tho the fortunes fortunes for for- tunes of ot the tho oil field in Oklahoma for tor several e years and lila Ills bad had luck had become become be be- come i so o proverbial yer L that oil men E bad had come I 1 to know him bird himas as Hole Dry ly ft Kimbley bi nn i-nn Ever Every oil well that ho drilled was waA not nota notI a n. well at all all It It yea tat a dry hole So 80 many failures had ie registered that oil oilmen oilmen men came camo to look upon him as a hoodoo and would not let lel him In tn on an oil proposition proposition It If they could help It it and consequently consequently conse conse- his credit was at lowest ebb But Kimbley G gathered together torether a group of prosperous oil men and und asked them to go in on a a. deal to put an oil well down on the widows widow's land and keep herout herout her herout out of ot the poorhouse It if Providence smiled and the they found oil oil and to take tho the loss of ot the well wen themselves if It it came in a duster The Tho oil men admired tie nerve tho the spirit phit and the chance chanco that Kurt Kurt- Me bley asked them to take The They drilled the welL It was a wildcat anti a long ong shot hot even as 88 a gamble But the tho long shot sometimes wins and this wa was tho the time lime The drill in wildcat territory found a now no and wonderfully rich oil and opened up what Is now known as ns the Booch sand field northeast t of Morris There are arc now I five 0 producing oil well on t the tio eIghty i acres The They have made Mrs Irs Hammock I rich and they arc are many other people in that territory rich also aso |