The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUMNE X
MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS.
BALLINGER. RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1915.
WE CAN TAKE CARE OF YOU with everything necessary
for the sustenance and comforts of life. Phone 37.
Van Pelt, Kirk & Mack
MAY PUT
STRIKERS
IN ARMY
GENERALS
FAMILY BURN
TO DEAT
h WHITE CITY
By Un IteL Pt•«**-
LONDON Aug. *27.--The hug
i'Nh cabinet is considering the
proposition or taking over and
operating coal mines. Tins will
settle coal strife) troubles and will
fciee ten thousands strikers into
m my.
ANOTHER DEVILISH
DEVISE USED IN WAR.
By Criled Pres*-
1 SAN FRISCO, Aug. 27—The!
.wife and three children of Gen.
Peishing, were burned to death
in their home here early this I
morning. Gen Pershing is at El j
Paso, where he is in command of!
Cnited States troops stationed at
that place-
Pittsburg, Aug. 26.—Barbed
wire painted a .oliage green is
now being manufactured here for
use of the armies in Europe. Steel
men today said reports from
abroad show that a short distance
away it is impossible to see the
green wire.
BOND MADE IN
COLEMAN MURDER
Mrs. Pretty and babe, of Valera
who had been visiting her parents,
Mr and Mrs- M S. Garrett, of the
Winters country, passed through
Ballinger Thursday en route home
CHARITY SHOULD
BEGIN AT HOME
The inconsistency with which
we some time carry on our charity
work is pictured in the compari-
son of the following two items
clipped from the Friday's issue of
the San Angelo Standard:
“Chairman Muibourn McCarty
(’. E. Whitt and son, II. R. Witt,
and son-in-law, E. II Harding, re-
turned from Coleman Thursday
night, where they went to be at j
the examining trial of their son-
in-law and brother-in-law, Km K.
Curry, who is charged with kill-
ing Abe Dillingham and mortally
wounding Evei'ett Dillingham and
seriously wounding another Dil-
lingham at Shields, iti Coleman
county, Tuesday afternoon.
According to the particulars of
the killing, as learned by tile men
returning from Coleman, the cir- j
cumstances are about as n lated in
the Ledger a few days ago, and j
Curry, it appears from the evi-
dence brought out. will have little
j trouble in proving that he acted
in self defense.
Two charges were filed against
Curry, and in one In* was allowed
1 bond in the sum of $4000 and in
of the committee which was iiam- the other $1000 bond. If the man
ed by the board of directors of the thought to be mortally wounded
Chamber of Commerce to solicit dies the $1000 bond will probably
funds for the storm sufferers on lie increased,
the Texas coast outside of thej The gentlemen returning from
cities of Galveston and Houston, Coleman stated that thirtv-three
stated this Thursday morning that j sjg„ed the bond of Curry and
it is hoped to hay* $*>00 in hand. that there were many others who
to send to Gove •nor t ergusoir volunteered to sign, and the bond
Thursday evening >y wire. was worth more than one him-
“Early tills, Thuisday, morning , ,|mj thousand dollars,
as a Standard representative was!
passing in front of Arkansaw
Smith s grocery store in East Con-
ho avenue two five-cent pieces j
Coming
Aynesworth Marvelous Motion Pictures of
WILD ANIMAL LIFE
PRIEST
SHOOTS
BISHOP
By Un4****
WINONA, Minn., Aug. 27.—
Rev* Father Aloysios Lesches shot
Bishop Ucftuian, Roman Catholic.
Lesches became angered at the
bishop because the bishop regard-
ed Lesches as a failure. Lesches
attempted to escape but was cap-
tured after a siege by the police.
The bishop is in a critical condi-
tion, but may recover.
GERMANY
TO AGEDE TO
DEMANDS
BOY KILLS 6-FOOT
PILOT RATTLE SNAKE
Hunting Big Game in the Canadian
Rockies and Alaska
Don't forget the Galveston Flood Pictures Wednesday
Admission only 10c
P, 0. DEPARTMENT TO CITY SECRETARY WILL
FORCE GOOD ROADS EMPLOY CITY PUMPER
Vermont Wendorf, theMo-vear-
>l»l boy of II. Ij. Wendorf. is some
thing of a snake destroyer. Yes-
terday morning, while in their
grape vinyard in South Ballinger,
Vermont discovered a large snake
and soon had him trussed up and
dead. The snake measured a lit-
ile over six feet long, and was
much taller than the boy. Expert
snake men say the snake is a
‘pilot rattler” of the non-poison-
ous. variety They frequent plac-
es common to the ordinary rattle
snake, and are much similar to
the poisonous specie. This reptile
when peeled and split, had a hide
that measured 6 1-2 inches across
and ran for a length of 4 1-2
feet. Tlie hide will probably lie
cured and used for a belt, with a
small portion utilized for a ladies
purse.
Vermont was formerly a car-
rier boy for the Daily Ledger,
and we are glad to see him doing
so well in his new position
By United Press-
WASHINGTON, Aug 27.—Ac-
crding to information conveyed to
| the administration today by Am-
j bassador Von Bernstorif, it was
i never the policy of the Germans
to lorePdo passenger ships with,
out warning. German submarine
commanders were instructed to
let all passengers escape, accord-
ing to Bernstorff, before sinking
merchant ships, and if any com-
mander did otherwise he exceed
ed his instructions.
These representations will be
included in Germany’s reply to
the United States note making
certain demands concerning sub-
marine warfare.
It is also reliably reported that
Bernstorff submits to the United
States guarantee against unwar«
chant-
ranged attacks made on merer_____
men, and Germany will offer fuU
reparation for losses sustained in
the destruction of the Lusitania
J
FOLKS, WHERE IS
THE YANKEE GIOL?
Unless the pen pie along rural
routes show an imer st iti good
roads and Like steps to provide
WILL ROPE GOATS FOR FORD.
.. , . ,, The abilitv to catch and tie a
were seen to pass Iron, the hand frisk , within the shortest
of Mr. South into the out-stretch-. ,im, lvjM wiu „ „„v Kor,l
ed hand ot a negro man whtwe !,„,„mohi|e for Texas eowhov
limbs have been warped and Brownwood Kreel’all Kai'r
twwtrd by some awful physical; ((,.toll(.r e.10th This hAmiy one
ai,“ent* . ■ , , , I of the bior amusement features
The negro grinned and ahowod wM , wi|| staged during the
h,s teeth in appreciation . B,............. Pli jmt it is
On being questioned Mr. Smith thl„ 0 n„b Park „,P
stated ,n», tor several months h-j • wi|| held, will be
had been giving the same negro, ,.rowdei, with twentv or twenty-
trom 1» to 20 cents every day. thousallll s|>(.ctators to see the
“I can t refuse the needy, es- Fo].a .......i.out given awav to the
pee,id,y inuse as helpless as that The roping eon-
poor negro. continued Mr. h,tilth ,,.s| ........... „|| ................
as the negro slowly moved west ,„.f()re September
on East < echo avenue i:„h. It is expected that cowl,ova
• 1 was over in the Post Wed- f,.om manv counties „.iM mllke
nesday afternoon vusitnig among ,.ff , ,jriv(. KoH
p tented ci y of till,ere,liars, ...... home from the Brownwood
I want to tfll you something musi ...
be Alone- __
“We visited five tents in which! \ o i „ r ,... +„
,. * , . , ; A. S. Lee, ot Lometa came in
cansumptives iire nous* <1. and
some days they don’t have half
( Gontiauec on Last Paise. -
Fritlav at noon to look after bus-
iness affairs and to visit friends a
! few days.
WHITE CITY
Last Night o!
Musical McDonalds
Tonight
Last Night of
Musical McDonalds
Pf USIC AL MCJ)ONALDS
ENEL
Positively a Riot—World’s Great-
est Music Mixers-
THREE PEOPLE THREE
Picture Program
“The New Exploits of Elaine” Spontaneous Combination, in
2 parts. “Smoking Out Bella Butts” Vitagraph Comedy, feat-
uring Hughie Mack and Flora*Finch. “The House of D’or”
Lubin 2 part drama. 5,000 FEET.
Admission only a Dime
good roads they can expect to suf <
ter the loss of their free daily mail I
service- The post office depart-
ment is installing autos for rural
mail service, and the routes will
he confined to good roads terri-
tory only, and where the good
roads do not cover sufficient terri-
tory to warrant an auto mail car-
rier the services will he suspend-
ed
Tis is not an official announce-
ment from the department; but
it is what can be relied on from
instructions sent to the postmas-
ters and mail carriers. The in-
struction says: “Rural carriers
and postmasters are instructed by
the post office department to re-
port all bad or impassable roads
to Washington, 1). (’., for action
with the Highways Commission.”
Every one knows that the
roads leading out of Ballinger aiv
not what they should be. The
man living in the country, who
ms been receiving his mail daily,
and who has declined to support
every effort made tor road build-
ing, may wake up to find that he
has lost out.
The parcel post system was ori-
ginated especially for the man on
the rural mail route. Farmers
may now ship peaches and plums
and other products by parcel post.
! By properly crating farm pro-
ducts it is not necessary for the
farmer to come to town to mar-
k'd his products. He can sell them
over tin* phone and deliver them
by parcel post.
But to do all this we must have
| roads, and even to continue to get
dialv mail, tin* rural man must
show more interest in good roads.
The city council, in session Fri-
day morning for the purpose of
electing a city pumper, a man to
succeed Carlos Dunn, whose re-
signation takes effect on Sept. 1st
failed to agree upon a man, and
the matter of employing a man
for the place lias been passed up
to City Secretary Lusk.
There were six applications be-
fore the council, as follows: Por-
ter Murray, T- E. Low. Coy Dren-
lian. T. F. Marjih, J. P- Pogue, and
a new mau in the city by tin*
name of Stevens. All the appli-
cations were discussed, hut the
council decided it would he bet-
ter to leave the selection of a
pumper up to the city secretary
and Mr. Lusk will make his choice
ti*oin the applications filed.
W. M. Dreiman, who has been
serving the city as night man at
tin* pump station, was retained,
and will receive the same salary
lie has been drawing heretofore.
EDISON SUBMARINE
APPLIANCE TESTED.
Mrs. J. R- Berthand and two
little sons, of Waco, carne in from
San Angelo Thursday and will he
the guests of her sister, Mrs. A. K.
Doss and family a few days be-
fore going on home.
Max Russell of the Russel-Lea-
day ranch passed through Ballin-
ger Friday en route to points vvert
on stock business.
LeRoy Wilke came in from fjin
Angelo Thursday afternoon to
visit his parents.
New York, Aug. 26.—After the
tirst official test today on sub-
marine K-6 of the Nickel batteries
designed by Thomas A. Edison,
to elimiaiite the keneration of
chlorine. Lieut. .1. E. Bailey in
charge said lie was “much pleas-
ed.
Within a few days the sulmia-
arine will he submerged for sev-
eral hours as an additional test-
Nazy yard officials are under-
stood to have requested Secretary
Daniels to have Nickel batteries
ordered for three more submar-
ines so that a cruising test can 1m*
made lie xtmonth.
TWENTY-ONE BRITISH VES-
SELS DESTROYED IN 7 DAYS
London, Aug. 27.—During the
week ending August 2”>. nineteen
British merchant vessels with a
total tonnage of 76,000, and three
fishing vessels, were destroyed by
submarines, or mines. The week
was one of the most successful
German uuderwater craft have
had since the beginning of the
wa r.
Fourteen steamers with a total
gross tonnage of 47,698 were sunk
by German submarines August 19
and 20. The largest was the Ara-
bic. Ten were British and four
sailed under neutral flags.
“The Yankee Girl” who is she
and where will she he found, is
a question that the Ballinger Con*,
cert Band is asking in their ad-
vertising for a certain lady that
they are anxious to find- Does it
mean that a mysterious strange
woman will take a leading role
in a drama? Does it mean that a.
man will impersonate a lady and
cut funny antics? Does it mean,
that only one “Yankee Girl” is in
town.
The band asks that all desiring
enter contest to write the Ballin*.
gor Concert Band. Ballinger, Tex-
as, and particulars will be dis-
closed. Monday. The inside cir-
cle of the secret conclave knows
all, and sees all, is omnipresent
Black magic awaits he who dis-
obeys the favor of the potentate
of the mystery.
PREACHING SERVICES
We are requested to announce,
on account of the absence of the
pastor at Waco, Rev. V. N. Harp
will conduct services at the Na-
zarene church in Ballinger Sunday;
morning and night-
NEW MOTOR AGENCY.
Allard French, of San An-
gelo. is agent tor the Princess
“30” in this and adjoining coun-
ties He arrived Wednesday af-
ternoon in a 1916 model touring
car. The machine is fully equip-
ped with electric starter and
lights There is no excess weight
about the ear, but strength and
comfort are not sacrificed- The
steam line body is a deep marror
while the elassis is black Mr.
Frem h stated Thursday that a car
load of touring cars will be re-
ceived in San Angelo about Sep-
tember 1st. These ears will In*
finished in black and striped with
gold.
WHY
DOES
PASSUR
SELL
SO MUCH?
.Miss Bonnie Mac Lawrence of
San Angelo, who had been the
guest of Miss Effiie McKay the
past few days, left for her home
Friday.
J. N McKay has just traded for
a new Ford.
Ed Dozier of Paint Rock was
among the business visitors in the
city Thursday.
It's better and cheaper than
walking if you phone 320 for a 9
cent Jitney R P. CONN. 26d3wl
Diaz Wood returned home Fri-
day Fit noon from Houston, Waco,
Dallas. Taylor and other points in
that section where he had been
making cotton seed contracts.
Misses Annie. Carrie and John-
nie B. Reese, of Kerns, Texas, who
had been visiting their uncle J. T.
Brown of Winters, passed thru
Ballinger Thursday en route
home. Grandma Flvnt, of Win-
ters, accompanied them and will
visit relatives at Kerns before re-
turning home.
Hubert Tolar of Lorain, pass-
ed through Ballinger Friday en
route to Miles, on a short business
trip'.
Mrs. Steffens of Brownwood,
who had been visiting her broth-
er, Edwin Day and wife, return-
ed home Thursday afternoon.
Commencing
SATURDAY
WHITE CITY
•WHERE IT’S COOL'
LOTTIE PICKFORD
in a picturized romat’c
novel
“The
Diamond
from the
Sky”
$10,000 for a
Suggestion
Also Regular Picture
Program
Admission 10c
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915, newspaper, August 27, 1915; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1138107/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.