Eastland County Texas Archives News.....Ranger, Texas in 1927 1927
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Ranger Daily Times 1927
-	Ranger celebrated the first discovery of oil in Eastland County on October 21,
1927, which was the 10th 
anniversary of the most momentous occasion in the county and was the beginning of
the growth of the City of 
Ranger.
-	The occasion was fittingly celebrated with a homecoming of many of the earlier
operators who won fame 
and fortune in the Ranger field. The big parade, in which floats were entered from
many towns and for which a 
prize was awarded to Fort Worth for the best float, was headed by Col. W.K. Gordon,
discoverer of the Ranger 
field.
-	Jan 3 – A purse snatcher took $4,000 in gems from Mrs. J.B. Ames.
-	Jan 4 – J.E. Meroney announced largest post office receipts in years.
-	Jan 10 – The new Liberty Cafι was robbed of $225. 
-	Jan 12 -  The Citizens State and Ranger State banks declared an 8 percent
dividend
-	Jan 14 – A pipe line was laid to a new oil pool discovered south of Ranger and
movie stars, reported 
interested in the well, were reported getting up a special train from Hollywood to
visit their holdings
-	Feb 1 – The DeGroff hotel burned with a loss of $10,000. It was the last downtown
frame landmark of the 
early boom days.
-	Feb 10 - the Shamrock dance hall, at Mirror lake, another boom day landmark
burned.
-	Feb 16 – J.F. Lillard succeeded his nephew, the late Steven Lillard, as active
president of the Ranger 
State Bank
-	Feb 20 – Nitro Field’s name was changed to Lillard Field
-	March 6 – Master forgers were busy in Ranger. The Right Rev. Rudolph A. Gerken of
Ranger had been 
made a bishop by the Pope.
-	Apr 4 – An attempt was made to rob the Lamb Theatre and the following night, the
Piggly-Wiggly store 
was robbed.
-	Apr 6 – John Thurman was elected Mayor, an office he held until his injury forced
him to retire. The 
entire police force resigned and on May 4, Jim Ingram was made chief of police
-	Apr 7 – C.C. Patterson resigned as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce
-	Apr 26 – W.C. Hickey was elected as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce
-	June 10 – The Mead Art and Novelty Shop burned
-	June 20 – Joseph Dry Goods company was robbed of $510.91 in currency, $50 in gold
and nine rings
-	Aug 3 – The City Commission outlined plans for paving 40 blocks of city Streets
-	Aug 4 – it was announced that the Times Publishing Company would build a “Home
Beautiful”
-	Aug 10 – Announcement was made that a huge Amesite plant would be installed near
Tiffin
-	Aug 20 – Announcment that Ranger had secured a national guard unit
-	Aug 20 - After four months in office, Chief of Police Jim Ingram had collected
$2,336 in fines, made 333 
arrests and recovered nine stolen cars
-	Nov 4 – The paving contract was let for 40 blocks of city streets
-	Nov 15 – A narcotic thief robbed the Stafford Drug Company and got away with
$9.05. 
-	Nov 16 – R.H. McFarland, T.&P. brakeman, was killed in collision between two
freight trains and Robert 
Lewis was injured. 
-	Nov 17 – Ranger was striving to get a new post office
-	Dec 3 – A big narcotic theft was thwarted when a man who robbed the narcotic case
at the Paramount 
Pharmacy was captured when Herbert Stafford notified the police of the theft. 
-	Dec 23 – The Santa Claus bandit case in Cisco shocked the entire country and
Ranger police aided in the 
manhunt.
-	Dec 29 – A 2200 barrel well was brought in near Staff and the same day, the Perry
Fox home was 
robbed. Mrs. Fox was slugged.


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