The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1917 Page: 9 of 12
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THE BANNER-LEDGER: FRIDAY, MARCH 16,1917.
CITY FINANCIAL REPORT
TOO NEED A TONIC
$12,180.85
$12,180.85
$90,549.37
are
$11,777.41
$11,777.41
$90,549.37
$ 5,946.64
$ 5,946.64
»i
$12,211.95
$12,211.95
out of the
a
$ 1,205.00
$ 1,205.00
W. FUND
$12,126.23
$12,126.23
his
$12,956.44
$12,956.44
4
$ 6,072.96
6,072.96
as.
$ 1,205.00
1,205.00
THE
14.70
$10,063.95
.80
$10,064.75
$10,064.75
V
$ 5,405.36
$ 5,405.36
$ 4,467.09
$
4,467.09
The above statement is correct. R. G. Erwin.
$
2,579.66
316.19
$ 2,895.85
$ 2,895.85
WALTER WOODWARD SAYS
HE WILL RUN FOR CONGRESS
$ 275.54
5,797.42
There
with a
ut her
have
170.67
4,296.42
$ 3,634.10
8,577.85
$2,694.10
2,000.00
390.03
697.55
291.28
$10,187.50
1,938.73
3,634.10
8,577.85
I in-
in
’.15
the
just
164.96
2,000.00
697.55
2,694.10
390.03
Rev. Smith of San Angelo, who
filled the pulpit at the First Pres-
byterian church in our city Sun-
day, returned home Monday after-
noon.
351.80
853.20
Is,
‘or
est
$ 1,542.89
550.00
10,000.00
16,000.00 ,
20,000.00
14,000.00
10,000.00
18,456.48
$ 5,401.57
545.07
; 744.37
12,212.07
$ 3,570.03
8.164.45
1,221.96
42.93
8,164.45
3,570.03
General Fund
Balance over drawn February 1, 1916 ...
Vouchers issued
Cash paid treasurer
Money borrowed, warrants issued
Balance February 1,1917
them,
and
and
tri-
ad
$ 4,323.73
. 75
142.61
$10,212.47
1,968.38
$11,724.08
53.33
We hereby certify that the above report is true and correct, as
shown by the city books.
WHOLE CITY THREAT-
ENED WITH INSANITY
A. II. Wigle, who has been tem-
porarily at the Santa Fe Temple
station the last two weeks, came
in Sunday to visit Mrs. Wigle. On
account of Mrs. Wigle’s illness.
Mr. Wigle remained over Monday
in Ballinger.
THE HONORABLE MAYOR:
J.?. coaiPlianc® with your request, we have audited the books of
; herewith our
General Fund
Balance on hand February 1, 1916 i
Received from taxes
Received poll taxes
Received fines
Received dog tax
Received horse sold from pond
Paid to treasurer
refunds
Balance on hand February 1, 1917
W. W. Fund
Balance on hand February 1, 1916 $ 7,888.22
Received from secretary 4,323.73
Warrants paid
Balance on hand February 1,1917
Special Warrant Fund
Cash to treasurer February 2, 1917 $ 1,205.00
Warrants issued
Balance February 1,1917
SECRETARY’S FINANCE LEDGER, S. W.
Balance February 1,1916 $ 1,133.78
Received money borrowed 1,000.00
Cash paid treasurer 9,992.45
Vouchers issued
Balance February 1, 1917
ROAD OVERSEERS SUBJECT
TO $100 FINE IS WARNING
Patronize—
Ballinger Saddlery Mfg. Co. the
EjgL
Special Warrant Fund
Received from secretary $ 1,205.00
Warrants paid
Balance on hand, February 1, 1917
n
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X-
10
d-
E. V. BATEMAN,
C. R. STEPHENS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of Feb., 1917.
(Seal) J. W. POWELL,
Notary Public Runnels County, Texas.
RESOURCES.
Cash in hands treasurer February 1, 1917
Cash in hands Secretary
Delinquent tax
Delinquent water rent
Water Works System (cost)
City park and lots
One team mules and wagon
Fire truck and equipments
Office fixtures
$ 4,775.03
.25
630.08
Bad Cough? Feverish? Grippy?
You need Dr. King’s New Dis-
covery to stop that cold, the
soothing halsam ingredients heal
the irritated membranes, soothe,
the sore throat, the antiseptic
qualities kill the germ and your
cold is quickly relieved. Dr.
King’s New Discovery has for 48
years been the standard remedy
for coughs and colds in thous-
ands of homos, (let a bottle to-
day and hake it handy in your
medicine chest for coughs, colds,
croup, grippe and all bronchial
affections. At your druggist, 50e.
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock
Surplus and Undivided Profits
Unearned Interest
Circulation
Deposits
****o»»*******o*****
* MORTUARY,
SECRETARY’S CASH BOOK
S. W. W. Fund
Over pair February 1, 1916
Received from water
Paid treasurer
Paid refunds
Balance over paid February 1, 1917
LIABILITIES
Warrants outstanding February 1,1917
Hose debt, open account
Water Bonds, 6 per cent due, 1943
Water Bonds, 5 per cent due, 1945
Street and bridge bonds, due 1948, 5 per cent
Water Bonds, 5 per cent, 1950
Refunding warrants, 7 percent (Serial) 1917-26 ..
Difference
$11,997.83
455.70
2,871.39
342.00
63,482.45
2,500.00
400.00
8,000.00
500.00
ce on hand February 1, 1917
STATEMENT
* ojCCondition -❖
Notice.
The Runnels County Ilog
Growers Association will hold an
annual meeting Saturday, March
17, 1917, at the Court House at
2:30 o’clock p. m. for the purpose
of electing officers and for the
purpose of buying some breeding
stock.
Let every man interested in
Washington, March 12.—With
a cry for help that an entire city
of 7,000 may be saved from total
collapse and its inhabitants safe-
guarded against possible examin-
ation for insanity, a newspaper-
man, of Visalia, California, has
appealed to the U. S. Marines to |
give him the answer to a puzzle
published in his paper, which was
started on its mission by
He writes that the Mayor
and other officials, the police
fire departments, and
gonometrical experts
failed to solve it.
Here’s the puzzle:
three houses in a row
plant, a steam plant, and a water
plant in rear of them, and the
grand central idea is to run a pipe
line from each plant to each house
without crossing lines or going
through a house. Hereafter the
citizens of Visalia who bump in-
to metaphysical or other perplex-
ities will “Tell it to the Marines.”i
session
, but
the court failed to get into the
trial of a ease, and the jury was
dismissed until eight-thirty Tues-
day morning. The second week
will be criminal docket week.
W. W. FUND
Balance February 1,1916 $ 7,888.22
Cash paid treasurer 4,323.73
Vouchers issued
Balance February 1, 1917
S. and B. Fund
Balance February 1,1916
VdfcLfegrs issued......................
Casl?I)aid treasurer
Money borrowed warrants issued
Interest from daily balance
Warrants issued
Balance February 1, 1917
e City Secretary and Treasurer, and beg to submit
report, showing the condition of the various accounts:
TREASURER’S BOOK
L Special Water Works Fund
1,188.40
1,000.00
9,992.45
S. and B. Fund
Balance on hand February 1, 1916 $
Received from money borrowed
Received from bonds
Received from secretary
Received interest on daily balances ....
Warrants paid
Balance on hand February 1, 1917
. $12,211.95 $12,211.95
misdemeanor crimes that men of-1
ten become felons, and urged the'AUTO TRUCK KILLS
grand jury to investigate all mis-1
demeanor charges and bring those
guilty of misdemeanor to time,
regardless of who they were.
According to the judge’s in-
struction to the grand jury a fin-
ance committee, composed of three
competent men, will be appointed
General Fund
Balance on hand February 1, 1916 .....1
Received from bonds
Received from secretary
Warrants paid
Balance on hand February 1, 1917
Balance on hand February 1, 1916 ..
^teeived from bonds
Received from Secretary
Warrants paid
Balance on hand February 1, 1917 ..
Judge Walter Woodward, of
Coleman, was here Monday at-
tending district court, and before
returning home stated to a Ledger
reporter that he would he a can-
didate for Congress from the
Seventeenth District in the next
campaign. The new district in-
cludes part of the old Sixteenth
District.
S. and B. Fund
Amount over paid February 1, 1916 $ 201.60
Received from taxes '•
Amount paid treasurer 15
ver paid February 1,1917
643.52
4,298.19
206.50
156.25
82.00
18.90
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts
U. S. Bonds .•
Banking House, F. and F.
Stock Federal Reserve Bank
Acceptances (Cotton)
Cash and Exchange
We desire to thank our many friends and customers
for all business entrusted to us, making it possible
for us to render this most satisfactory statement.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF BALLINGER
March 5th, 1917
Sprains and Strains Relieved.
Sloan’s Liniment quickly takes
| the pain out of strains, sprains,
bruises and all muscle soreness. A
the clean, clear liquid easily applied,
J quickly penetrates without rub-
Sloan’s Liniment does not
I /
Ex-
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, as a Spring
Medicine, is the Best.
Spring sickness comes in some
degree to every man, woman abd
child in our climate. It is that run-
down condition of the system that
results from impure, impoverished,
devitalized blood. It is marked by
loss of appetite and that tired feel-
ing, and in many cases by some
form of eruption.
The best way to treat spring sick-
ness is to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Ask your druggist for this old reli-
able family medicine. It purifies,
enriches and revitalizes the blood.
It is an all-the-year-round alter-
ative and tonic, and is absolutely
the best Spring medicine.
Get your blood in good condition
at once—now. Delay may be dan-
gerous. Be sure to get Hood’s Sar-j
saparilla, nothing else can take its
place.
J. M. ADAMS.
J. D. Smith, county commission-
largest leather establishment west [®y °I J he \\ ingate country, was in
of Ft. Worth- Buyers in
quau
« number
is the un-
(to. Mr.
riving he
own for
vould not
3 rules in-
at he was
♦hen the
in turning
9,992.15
57.60
twentwtwo
Los Angeels, March 13.—A re-
port received here today say that
22 Mexicans were killed 20 miles
north of Saugus this morning, as
ihe result of a heavy truck roll-
ing over the edge of the Ridge
Route road.
no
sane reason why dvery public
road in this county does not show
where it leads too ami at the
same time tells the number of
miles it is Io the place it leads
the traveler. A stranger travel-
ing through this county must do
so on a guess. The overseers will
no doubt get busy, and where
there are no overseers for any
particular road the commissioners
court will be compelled to give
this matter their attention.
The men selected to probe into
the violations of the law are as
follows: Scott II. Mack, foreman ;
F. L. Harper, J. B. Riggs, Edgar
Jayroe, W. W. Poe, J. W. .Murray,
Henry Harfinann, I). S. (’rockett,
T. J. McCaughn, H. A. Mitchell,
W. E. Puckett, W. R. Albritton.
In his charge Judge Woodward
was very complimentary to the
citizenship of the county. He
stated that there was no county in
his district with anything like an
equal population that had as little!
crime as Runnels county. The!
.judge stated that his home county 1 ATTENDING FAT
STOCK SHOW
h. E. and B. J. Clayton, of the
tenoit country; J. L. Atwell, of
Miles; E. S. McWilliams of the
Norton country; J. W. Bigby .of
the Pony creek country; and j. W.
E. Meadows. L. P. Wood, R. W.
Gilliam and G. M. Milliken, left
from this point Monday afternoon
for Fort Worth to attend the Fat
Stock Show.
To Care a Cold In One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Qaiaine. It slop* Ihe
Cough aad Headache and works off the Cold.
DruggiMs refund money il it fails to cure.
E. W. GROVE'S signature on each bo*. ZVc.
was guilty of almost twice asi
much crime as Runnels county,'
and he could not account for this.' |
However. Judge Woodward call-
ed attention to the fact that for-
gery and burglary and swindling
was on the increase, and he attri-
buted this to the suspended sen-
tence law, which he credited with
setting a man free, although he
had been convicted for the crime.
The judge delivered ihe usual
charge required by the law con-
cerning Ihe enforcement of the
local option law. He told the jury
that the way to break up bootleg-
ging was to go ri'zht after f
bootlegger, saying that a bootleg- it
ger don’t belong in any man’s hi
country. He asked the investiga-1 stain Ihe skin or
tors to make a thorough investiga-' like
tion of any violation of Ihe local For
option law.
Judge Woodward also
out the best wav to prevent an in-
crease in criminals. He slated grippe ami following
that a felon was not made in a work, it gives quick re
day, and it was by committing druggists. 25c.
In his first charge to a grand to investigate the county’s finau-
jury in this county since he was <*iaj affairs,
elected district judge for his pre-
sent term, Judge J. 0. Woodward
sounded a warning to road over-
seers who are not complying with
the law, and the judge charged the
body of investigators to make a
recommendation to the road over-
seers, and while he did not recom-
mend that they be indicted at the
present term of court, he hinted
that it would be unfortunate for
road overseers who did not comply
with the law governing the pro-
per marking and posting of sign
posts along.public highways.
“The law requires road over-
seers to put up mile post,’’ said the
judge, “and road overseers who
fail to do this are subject to a
fine of not less than $100.’’ A
hint to the wise is sufficient, and
we judge that the traveling pub-
lic will profit by the hint thrown
out by Judge Woodward in
charge.
The county pays the bill for
posting roads, and there i
sane reason why (Aery
$373,779.70
26,500 00
25,000.00
3,800.00
55,824.75
137,863.59
$624,768.04
$ 351.80
853.20
$100,000.00
53,321.80
. 9,000.00
25,000.00
437,446.24
$624,768.04
President.
J. II. TAYLOR,
8-1td-2tw. Secretary.
F. T. RUSHING.
JI1L west j' ‘ VVUUVIJ, Ill
“ __ l-i jobbing'th® ®’ty Monday and informed us
KicGill, bUZ P.ast] : that J. M. Adams, one of the pio-
at 4 o’clock Wednesday • tieer and highly esteemed citizens
before he could be take! of 1he Wingate country, died at
home. A. A. McGill is | his home Sunday morning about 8
brother of the deceased o’clock and was buried in the Win-
funeral will take place gate cemetery in the afternoon,
residence at 3 o’clock Air. Adams was about 60 years of
ternoon, services to be <age and died from kidney trouble
by the Rev. E. F. Lyon, from which he had been effected
the First Baptist churefor some time past. Mr. Adams
ment to be made in Faiwas commissioner of his precinct
The deceased had beei^six years and was succeeded
time, suffering from caiin *h® SnJ}th’
complication of kidney A host of friends all over the
When taken ill he was <®?™ty will be pained to learn of
to San Angelo with 1,1 j113 death and all join the Ledger
sheep he and a Mexica: condolence and sympathy for
driving here to be shea™® ?ad relat,ves 1®* to mourn his
t i demise.
Vv illis Johnson, a sot
Johnson, telephoned A. Peter Helm
Tuesday night that a Mr. Smith also informed us that
county ranch that his ’pejer Helm, another prominent
J very sick in camp in ( i Wingate citizen died Sunday night
MeGd) lett here from pneumonia, and the remains
were tenderly laid to rest in the
Wingate cemetery Monday.
While the judge
stated that he did not want to be
be understood as saying that this
was necessary, or that any county
officer was guilty of not keeping
his books in proper shape, he felt cssion was
that it was an important matter ‘
for the grand jury to take up and strikin
in this way it kept the countyhas
from getting behind in this work.? "ho will
The committee will be appointed ‘ Ledger i>
with the instruction to make their Is® i'npres-
report at the next term of courth®®n creat-
six months hence. >’•
The county attorney reported ter for the
that there were twenty-one cases predicts a
pending for the grand jury to ew agency
investigate. This announcement tinted dis-
caused Judge Woodward to say
that he expected that he had bet-
ter take back what he had just
said about this being a clean coun-
ty. However, the twenty-one cas-
es, if any thing will be mostly mis-
demeanors and of little conse-
quence.
Civil Docket Called.
A meeting of the local bar with
the district judge was held at ten
o clock Monday morning, and the
civil docket sounded out. A num-
ber of cases were set for the third
week. At the afternoon
the civil docket was called,
W. W. FUND
Balance February 1, 1916
Received from taxes
Paid treasurer
Refund
Ba
inussy plasters or ointments,
chronic rheumatic aches and
pains, neuralgia, gout and lumba-
ponited go have this well-known rem-
edy handy. For the pains of
strenuous
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Sledge, A. W. The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1917, newspaper, March 16, 1917; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1172576/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.