The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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The Daily Ledger
BALLINGER RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS, MONDAY, MARCH 6 1916.
MEMBER UNITED PRESS.
VOLUMN XI
SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY
Mr. Shepherd had the house in-
' MRS. CROUGHEN
DIED SUNDAY
of-
LADIES TO LAUNCH
CIVIC CAMPAIGN
and
: MAD DOG
re- •
W. A. Nance
Henry Jones
hearty co-operation from the men ||ie
TONIGHT
PICTURE PROGRAM
WOMAN LOST IN
num
HAYRICK MOUNTAINS
lt<
Parties here from Poke countv
HOME BURNED.
carried out:
ift ernoon
... JOc
Admission
Watch the Fords Go By.
r,
1 j
:e the home owners to make,
nost attractive place to live.
Joseph Smith and Laura
Hamilton in the extraordin-
ary four act “Broadway
Favorites’’ feature “THE
APPACHES OF PARIS.’’
Introduced in this country
by Mr. Smith, the famous
“Dance of the Arpaches”
which he and Miss Hamil-
ton present in this produc-
tion, swept the country like
wild fire a few years ago.
country,
wrs in t
/ one
wound :
fh yon
own a
Chis is one of the most at-
tractive offerings of the
Vitagraph comedy “Quits”
week .
o’dock j
remains •
Bargains! Bargains!! Bargains!!! in
SECOND HAND CARS
ity, in Poke county, was lost in
the Hayrick mountain a good part
Otto Elder left Sunday after-
noon for Coleman on a short bus-
iness trip.
Weather Report.
Tonight fair, colder; Tuesday
fair.
May Co-oper-
According to the information ,
brought here, Mrs. Martin wan-
dered from her home in her sleep
some time during the night Sat-
urday night. As soon as the fam-
ily missed her an al Tin was given
and the neighbors formed a search
ing party.
The woman wandered out into
the brush and into the mountain
region and for nearly twenty-
four hours was lost. Fortunately
the weather was warm and when
found Mrs. Martin was not suf-
fering from exposure.
IMPERIAL POTENTATE
AT FORT WORTS.
Fort Worth, Tex., March 6.—J.
Putman Stevens, imperial poten-
tate, will be present today when a
large class of novices is initiated
hy Moslah temples. Among the
cities to be represented in the class
are Abilene, Amarillo, Belleue,
Childress, Crowell, Cleburne, Den
ison, Gainesville, Graham, Jacks-
boro, Lubbock, Mineral Wells,
Munday, Sher ma,n, StamforcL,
Waco and Wichita Falls.
that the people of this county
wanted prohibition.
Following are the figures for the
past three elections, together with
the poll tax payments for each
box for the respestive years in
which elections were held. The
result of last Saturday's election
may be changed either one way or
the other, a few votes, by the
ficial count:
ZEPPELIN
KILLS 20;
INJURES 33
Eason,
F. Ed-
Woods.
Tillery, of
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, March 6. —
Newton D- Baker, age forty-five
will he the new secretary of war,
was the official announcement
made by the White House today.
Mr. Baker was born in Martins-
burg, West Virginia, and was
twice mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
He is a strong personal friend of
President Wilson.
SECRETARY
OF WAR IS
SELECTED
By United Pres*
LONDON, March 6.—Twelve
were killed and thirty-three were
injured Sunday night when Zep-
plins raided the northeast coi st
of England. This was the twen-
ty-first air attack made on Eng-
land, and the total killed up to
• late figures two hundred and for-
ty-two, and four hundred
twenty-nine injured.
By United Pres*-
VANALSTY, N. (’. .March 6.—
The state pastuer institute report-
ed today that a dog ran amuck
in a movie theatre last Wednes-
day night and bit twenty-six per-
sons. The dog was suffering with
rabies, and the people have all
been carried to the institute for
treatment, many of them going to
TWO FIRES SHOWDOWN
IN ONE HOUR VOTE COMING
BIG LOSS ON QUESTION
W. O. Cryer, Editor
Gene Underwood and E,
wards of Winters. J. W.
of Crews and R. C.
Concho, were among the visitors
in Ballinger Monday.
BITES 20 IN
THEATRE
sent to Fort Worth. A slight
chance for the good in the condi-
tion of the woman and the an-
nouncement from the physicians
“How the City
ate"—J. W. Powell.
“How the Women's Clubs May
Co-operate”—Mrs. R. R. Rives.
METHODIST STUDENTS
CAN’T LOAF
Dallas, Tex., March 6.—No more
loafing for Southern Methodist
University students.
The recent faculty decree of
compulsory exercise for all male
students of the institution went
into effect today- Only those
whose physical condition—vouch-
ed for by the university physical!
—will not permit such exercise
will be excluded from the order.
Physical culture classes will he
held from 4 to 6 o'clock every af-
ternoon. ’
it one time was a man
•able wealth. Accord-
while his home was burning Sat-
urday night-
The home was entirely destroy-
ed and a little baby son narrow-
ly escaped burning as the flames
were all about him when the fa-
ther rushed to him in the corner
of the room and took him out.
Nothing was saved and no in-
sunance and it is a heavy loss f >r
this estimable family and no
doubt friends will come to their
assistance in this terrible disas-
ter.
1 Brush, will run, $40.00 cash.
1 Overland, dandy good car, tires all good, cost $1100 will
sell for $350: $2o0 cash balance $12.50 per month. This car
is worth $50o.
1 Auborn, 5 passenger, electric starter and lights, spare
rim and tire, c >st $1850; will sell at $450; $250 cash balance
next fall. A snap for some one on an up-to-date car,
1 new Ford will sell for $15,00 off list.
1 4 passenger Metz, cost 1650 good as new, will take $250
$150 cash balance $10 per month.
We Cut the Price on Everything for Autos
Gasoline 19c. Spark Plugs Champion X 30c. Any Plug
not over 50c. Dry Batteries 30c. See us-----
BALLINGER AUTO COMPANY
Opposite Court Hoose Lawn. Telephone Nosber 505
At three o’clock tomorrow
(Tuesday) it is expected that a
large crowd of ladies of the city,
and men too, will meet at the
Methodist cureh for the purpose
of launching a civic campaign,
and a planning of work that will
make Ballinger both a healthier
ami more beautiful city.
Every citizen who can possibly
do so should attend this meeting-
A program has been arranged for
the occasion and preceding the
business session the program will
be rendered.
It will be remembered that a
meeting for the same purpose was
' held about two weeks ago at the
Business League. The attendance
was not what it should have been
•and another meeting was im-
! mediately planned for, and the
i ladies have been assured of a
fare of the health of the common tin >ngh strong drink,
it v sufficient to cause von to lend ; A family of four cl
After suffering for nearly
month from a gun shot 1
Mrs. J- <’. (’roughen died in
local sanitarium at seven
Sunday morning. The
were prepared for burial and were
laid to rest in the city cemetery
Sunday afternoon.
This closes the chapter of the
tragedy written when J. U.
(.'roughen, a horse trader, shot his
wife with a pistol at a camp where
the family were living on the Col-
orado river just in the edge of the
city, ('roughen had just returned
from San Angelo, and it is said
that the deed was committed
while the man was under the in-
fluence of whiskey.
(’roughen was arrested im-
mediately following the shooting,
and placed in jail and a few (lays
later he ended his own Hfe in the
local jail by cutting his throat
with a razor. (Toughen’s remains;
were held in the local undertak-
ing parlors for more than a week
Van Pelt, Kirk and Mack
“Tell the TRUTH Advertisers”
THE WINDMILL^WITH A REASON WHY-
AERMOTOR
They’re the kind most people buy
three-thirty Monday afternoon,
and on account of the high wind
the fire alarms caused much ex-
citement among the down town
citizens.
The first fire destroyed a rent
house owned by C. P. Shepherd
and occupied by C P. Burgess,
near the Catholic church. The -------
high wind swept the flames across seeret mission to the belligerent
a vacant lot towards the home of countries, and will give President
J. T. Morgan ,and if it had not Wilson important information at
been for the fire company that once- Appendixes of the German
home would have been destroyed. (,ecree against armed merchant-
Mr. Shepherd had the house in- me“» including photographs of al-
sured for $900, while Mr. Burgess leged Britlsh orders for merchant-
was carrying $400 on his furni- men to attack submarines are due
ture. The house was insured in Ito arnve at the State Department
the agency of Miss Maggie Sharp I{ds0-
and Elmer Shepperd & Co., were
carrying the household goods in-
surance.
In thirty minutes after the
Burgess home was destroyed an I
alarm was turned in from the I
western part of the city, and the |
home of W. G. Bair, on the op-
posite side of the town and a mile
from where the first fire started,
was soon reduced to ashes.
i Mr. Bair was carrying $400 in-
j surance on his house in the Elmer
Shepperd & Co., agency and $600
on his household goods in the
Ballinger Insurance Agency
It is not known how the fire
started as there was no one at the
home at the time, and at the time
of going to press we have not been
able to learn how the second fire
started.
Two homes were burnued in By United Press
Ballinger between two-thirty and: WASHINGTON, March 6. —«
three-thirty Monday afternoon, Three important developments are
shaping the government’s furth-
er plans in handling the German
submarine question. Plans have
practically been eampleted for
the House to come to a show down
vote tomorrow on McLemore’s
warning resolution-
Col. House has returned from a
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1916, newspaper, March 6, 1916; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1172484/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.