Letter from Ray I. Mehan to Mr. Herbert S. Scharff discussing the state of oil and gas production among various properties.

"This study shows three things: (1) a precedent for the expenditure of public funds to teach electricity in our public high schools has already been established by the school system in the larger school systems of Texas, (2) the rural families living on electrified farms in the North Texas area want instruction of this type given to the boys and girls in their communities, and (3) both the rural people and the professional people of the North Texas area believe that instruction dealing with the use of electricity and electrical equipment had spread until by 1935 more than twenty-one million homes, about eighty percent of the total in America at that time, were electrified, only eleven American farms out of every 100 had central-station electricity. More than five million American farms lacked electric service. "--leaf 50.

Petrolia Public School 4th Grade. Photo taken during 1949-50 school year: Petrolia, Texas.

Pioneer Reunion visiting on Courthouse Lawn: O.S. Worsham, Grundy Bryant, Cleve Hooper, Frank Hurn, Charley Smith, Charlie Worsham, and Henry Zachry. Photo taken in 1949: Henrietta, Texas.

Rietta Drive-In Movie theater in Henrietta, TX around 1949.

Henrietta High School Senior Class Sponsors. Photo taken in 1948: Henrietta, Texas.

Pioneer Reunion: Virgil and Miss Lulu Johnson. Photo taken in 1948: Henrietta, Texas.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Authority of the Commissioners' Court of Clay County to equip the "Clay County Memorial Hospital."

Red Cross Volunteers in Henrietta, TX around 1947 (l to r) Edith Petro, Mary Olsen, Alice Lefevre, Ruby Ninmo, Myrtle Gates, Lee Eddie Heath, Georgia Gilchrist, Alma Stine, Jewell Quisenberry, and Theronne Thompson. They are in uniform holding their caps.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether Clay County is entitled to an apportionment from the State of Texas under the provisions of Subdivision (a) of Section 15, Article 3912a, V. A. C. S.

County Tax Officials: Ray Slagle, Bernard Wetsel, Lillian Rotta, Kirk Hampton. Photo taken in 1946: Henrietta, Texas.

Olsen-Stelzer Boot Co.: Harry Olsen, John Firestone, Corrine Edwards, Betty Jean Ingram, Mary Williams Cueba, Ruby Wood Duncan. Photo circa 1945: Henrietta, Texas.

Students at the Thornberry School in 1945.

First and second grade school children and teacher at playground. Photo taken in 1944: Dean, Texas.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: May the commissioners Court of Clay County make advance payments to the Tax Assessor-Collector and his deputy from the General Fund of Clay County, under the given facts?

Henrietta HS Graduating class of 1943. Photo taken in 1943: Henrietta, Texas.

Henrietta Public School Grade 8: Teacher Majorie Howard . Photo circa 1943: Henrietta, Texas.

Henrietta Public School Grade 8: Teacher Naomi Kimbrough . Photo circa 1943: Henrietta, Texas.

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000

Petrolia Senior Class Dress-up Day. Photo taken in 1943: Petrolia, Texas.

Petrolia Senior Class Dress-up Day. Photo taken in 1943: Petrolia, Texas.

Petrolia Senior Class Dress-up Day. Photo taken in 1943: Petrolia, Texas.

Hurnville Baptist built in 1942. Photo taken in 1942: Hurnville, Texas.

St. Elmo Hotel on a corner in Henrietta, TX around 1942. Automobiles are parked outside the building. Other businesses include a drug store and a cafe.