The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 66, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 17, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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* ________ ______ .VOL. IX. BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUN TY. TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914.
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Let Us Help You Make the “High Cost of L’ving” cost you
less during 1914.
NUMBER 66
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OUT OF THE RAGE
BABY WAS SNATCHED FROM
MOTHER’S SIDE BY ROPE.
FOR GOVERNOR
TERS.
.stood the trip home nicely and is
Mrs. II. II. Thomson and two lit
♦tie sons returned home Tuesday
i at noon from a visit to friends at
Fort Worth and Dallas and heard
the Grand Opera singers while in
the latter city.
and
A doctor was
called immediately but the childS. B. Caperton, the Maverick
stock man, was serving his county
as a juror at District court this
week. imotive when altruistic principles
will prompt each and every mo-
tive and will be the corner stone
underlying each investment; and
that legislation will be instituted
for the sole purpose of serving
humanity’s best interests; ami
that humanitarians will mount the
forum and form the throne of
government, usher upon us the
effulgent dawn of a righteous—
scientific age.
“In Hoc Signo Vinces.”
, V R. O. BRASWELL.
Austin, March 16.—One of the
most tragic accidents conceivable
occurred here today when Pasco
3iartir.cz, thirteenmonths old,
Fort Worth, Tex. March 17.— was killed. While seated at the
In my withdrawal from the race side of the road, close -to its
for Governor I respectfully direct mother, the rope fastening a
Dr. E. B. Middleton left Tucs-j
day morning for New Orleans,'
La., where he will attend medical I
school for several weeks.
Mrs. Alec Orr and son, Boyd,|
arrived in Winters Thursday af-
ternoon. Boyd has been in bad'
health Tor some’time and we trust'
his visit will prove a beneficial1
one. We are glad to welcome them]
back to their old home, as they!
mo\ed from here to Dallas two1
years ago.
The teachers and pupils of the;
Winters High School gave a very
pleasing and entertaining pro-
gram at the Opera House Satur-.
day night. It was indeed well at-’
tended and enjoyed by all. The'
proceeds which were large, will go
to paying off a payment on the
library books.
Mrs. Jas. F. Holliday spent sev-
eral days the last week with her
father and friends in Ballinger.
Winters, March 16.—Judge J.
I*. Cogdell had business in Ballin-
ger Thursday and Friday.
31 r. J. Y. Pearce of Ballinger,
who has been here in the interest
of his drug business, returned'
homc*Thursday.
3lrs. Wm. Smiley returned Sat-
day with her little son, Dale, who
man race to correct evils that:
have long existed. The criminal-'
ly insane have but two places to
go—to the penitentiary where all
are bad or to the mad house where
all are mad. Neither place offers'
a hope of relief. Under the pres
ent system science does not enter
into the care of those confined ini
the penal or insane institutions.
We need legislation on this line'
more than any other at this time.I
In our anxiety for better -things
we have a vision of more perfect
conditions. We see the dawning
of the day when altruistic prin-j
James Iluffhines was a business
visitor -to Ballinger between trams
, Saturday.
Rev. J. C. Boyd, pastor of the!
Winters Baptist church, had bus-1
iness in Ballinger the first of the
week, and returned in his new
four-passenger Ford automobile,!
which he recently purchased at'
Governor and the legislature to fiQm the tension exerted by the
the helpless and voicless inmates frightened animal and coiled
in our State institutions. While around the child’s neck. Fright-
looking in that direction it might ened by a passing automobile the
be well for you to take a peep in-1 horse dashed down the road drag
to the jails where hundreds of de-' ging the child behind it while the
inented souls are classed as crim-j panic stricken mother ran futily
inals where they cannot get the after the animal.
the proper attention, but where' Attracted by the cries of the
’ their physical sufferir|»s are mother. Willie Von Rosenberg,
augmented, their already sad men-; son of County Judge Von Rosen -
tal afflictions made more deplor- berg stepped into the road and
able, their maladies accentuated stopped the animal,
and made more grievous.
In your conquest for suprem- was dead.acy it may be appropriate to pause --------------
for a moment now and then at I GOING AND COMING IN WIN-
the fountain of humanity anddrink from the cup of human
kindness, brotherly love, which
would cool your ambitious zeal
and perhaps cause sober reflection
that would bring-to mind the price
that has been paid, the fearful
neglect running rant and jhe mer-
ciless inhuman system now in vo-
gue in the wards of this great:
State. Is there no relief? ‘‘Is
there no balm in Gilead: is there
no physician there?”
We would not experience much improving as well as could be ex-
tiouble correcting crime ami in- pected.
sanity if the legislators would di- Trace Gillespie had busi-
red their energies and intellectual ness iu Ballinger Thursday,
vision to humanity instead of prop
erty interests. Much has been
W. W. Wigle and E. B. Walker
of the Hatchel country, were a-
mong the visitors in Ballinger
Monday.Deputy Sheriff R. B. Allison,
of the Tennyson country, was
looking after official business m
Ballinger Tuesday.
FIFTEEN CONVERTS DISTRICT COURT
NAZERENE CHURCH WINOS UP TERM
A Satislied Customer is
the Best Advertisement”
State Bank and Trust GoGuaranty Fund Bank.
A HOME INSTITUTION
THE PEOPLES FRIEND.
NO ACCOUNT TOO SMALL TO RECEIVE OUR BEST ATTENTION.
Open An Account with Us and Let Us Prove that
We Take Care of Our Customers
ALMOST ASSURED
CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
I feel that
RETURNED FROM BA-KIRK
d land credits
for your inspee-
mld afford me
COMES WILL IT
the duties of my
will
THE DRY COLUMN
IN
Put it in our BANK and YOU will have it.
d&wDr. W. A. Gustavus, the dentist
Make OUR bank YOUR bank.
ters Tuesday.
ing that -the drinking
We are requested to announce
that Rev. E. W. Wells, pastor of
the Nazarene church of our city,
will preach next Sunday after-
noon at the Millar school house
A DOLLAR IN
the Bank?
our
<
in
made
sin-
ask
Lof those in favor of a special ses-
i sion would be only 74 members,
while to have an even division it
would take eighty-three members
in the affirmative.
The governor will scarcely call
a special session without at least
50 per cent in favor of such an
act.
W. T PADGETT FOR I rpiCI ITIIir DCCT
TAX COLLECTOR LtUIOLA I IVt tlLO I
PREACHING AT MILLAR
SCHOOL HOUSE
E.‘ had been shipped out, freight pre-j
le ' r.'niJ mill ivmilil crtrtti tirrivo in
A. Nance, H. (). Rhodes, and city and be installed by a man sent
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Judge Chas. Ragan, of Austin,
came in Tuesday at noon to look
after his ranch interests in
county for a few days.
o'clock. Everybody cordially in-
vited to attend the service.
committal.
Of thirty members of the sen-
ate. 22 members have responded.
Only six of this number favor a
special session while eleven advise
against such an action and five
members are non- committal.
The total shows that forty-three
members of both houses favor a
session, sixty-one members oppose
and 32 are non committal. A
large majority favor the amend-
“Some days must be dark and dreary: into each life
some rain must fall.” Storms often come up suddenly
“Alas, how easily things go wrong.” But it is a protect-
ion against most ills to have plenty of money in the bank.
To have a bank account, you must START one. WHO
gets the money you earn?
A letter was received by the
mayor and read to the council
A phone
the Ledger
states that
mained dry in 3Ionday’s election
by a majority of 90 votes. The
county went dry six years ago by
a majority of 328. Big Springs if
the county site of Howard county,
and is a railroad town, and the
railroad men took much interest
in the campaign. The campaign
was one of the most strenuous
ones ever held in Texas, and the
best talent in Howard county
counties were called in by both
and able speakers form outside
factions.
message received at
office this afternoon
Howard county re-
ing tin- time for which
been responsible for the
amis of dollars that hav
To The Voters ami 3Iy Friends of
Runnels County:
After discussing with many of
my friends the advisability of
submitting my name to the voters
i<-r their support and approval of
my past record as tax collector,
and after giving the matter
thorough consideration, I have
decided to come before you and
ask you to permit me -to continue
to serve you in the capacity
which
good.
My
col lector.
i Assuring every one of my
i cere appreciation .and kindly
' ing you to support me with your
vote and thanking you for any-
thing you do in my behalf during
-the present campaign, 1 am
Your tax collector,
W. T. PADGETT.
Austin, March 16.—Even the
most ardent, supporters of a spec-
ial session see little chance of
Governor Colquitt calling any
sessioh to amend the Terrell elec-
ti?r law to make a majority elec-
tion rule prevail in the.coming
primaries.
At this time, 13G members of
both houses have responded -to
governor’s query. There are out-
standing at this time thirty-one
responses fiom twenty-three mem
hers of the house and eight mem-
bers of thc^senate.
The poll at this time shows that
114 members of the house have
answered. Fifty members advise
tax against a special session, thirty-I. 0. 0. F. CONVENTION
The following citizens of this
city and other points in the coun-
ty left Sunday afternoon to at-
tend the state meeting of the Odd
Fellows Lodge at Fort Worth:
Airs. J. A. Ostertag, Joe Hadden,
of Ballinger; T. J. McCaugn.
of Norton; J. A. Smith, of the
Winters country and Mr. and 31rs.
Walter 31idgely, of Paint Rock.
The First National Bank
of Ballinger, Texas.
ting down a telephone wire. It!
developed in the trial that the
telephone wire in question was
a party line ami that Schneiderl
was one of the leasees of the line.'
There were six or seven parties
on the line, and another partyi
connected with the line without
consent of Schneider and this'
brought about the trouble in which'
the line was disconnected. After
hearing the evidence in 'the case
the judge instructed the jury to
bring in a verdict of not guilty.
The following gentlemen spent
a pleasant day ami night at Ba-J
Kirk on the Concho and returned
home Tuesday at noon and report from the Holland’s Magazine stat
a very pleasant outing and
splendid catch of fish: 1'. I
Hartman, Jesse and Louie Strobl
W ; --
his brother in law, Mr. Freeman. 1 for that purpose
---------------- I Alagazuie
Sunday was a splendid day for
the Nazarene church in Ballinger
There were 125 present at Sunday
school, and the singing by the
children was unusually good and
enjoyed by 'the older members of
the Sunday school. The pastor
Rev. Wells, pre.-udied in the morn-
ing and evening t • a large crowd.
At the evening services the house
was firm'd to overflowing, many
being unable to in the house.!
and were turne I away. At the ev-
ening service a collection was tak-
en for making sonic improvements
in the way of adding more seats,
and three hundred ehairs will be,
bought and placed in the church,!
and other improvements made.
At the two services at this1
church Sunday there were fifteen
conversions and eleven received
into the church. This sounds like
a revival service, but there is no
revival in progress at this church.!
, It is just a showing of the spleii-l
I did work being done by this !
church. Less than one year ago
this church had an average attend
dance at Sunday school of about
fifty, now they report over -one
hundred .and the church lias doub!
led in membership during the
time. When Rev. Wells came to
Ballinger the church was st rug-1
gling for existence and today it is
•prosperous spiritually and finan-
cially.
Weather Forecast. th<
Tonight fair, somewhat colder ; In y •
Wednesday fair. test.
I have never made an error that "’ertMljU this time respond m fa-
cost the countv one cent, and mvj 'O1 O1 a special session the total
reports to the commissioner s of th,,sp in favor of n snppifll
court arc open for your inspec-
tion, and it would afford me
pleasure for you to see them.
It is with my experience that 1
come before you and respectfully
solicit you to re-elect me. 1 am
truly grateful for your loyal sup-
port in the past, and feel that 1
have never given any one cause
to regret having cast his vote
for me. if 1 have it was a mis-
take of the head and not of the |
heart, for I have always tried io
do what 1 thought best in every
question that 1 have to deal with.
If elected I will continue to do
mv work as near perfect as I can
and as in the'
all my time to
office, and not ■
to engage in
some other line of business. It has'
never been my policy to carry a HOWARD COUNTY REMAINS
side line, and the same rule will IN '----------
The city council met in called
session Tuesday to consider bids
from different firms to sell to the
eity a new pump for the water
works system ami after due eon-'
sideration and investigation, the
contract was ‘ closed with the
Epping Carpenter Company for a
.Duplex pump of 1000 gallons cap-
acity per minute.
The pump will be modern and
up-to-date in every particular
and will be rushed out from the
factory and it is thought will be
here ami installed within the
next six weeks.
paid and would soon arrive in our
iv a man sent i
■' Hollands!
It will be remembered:
arc flu prizes awarded Bal !
in 1 he n • < nt clean up \n.-|After trying one case, in which
the judge instructed a verdict of
not guilty, district court came toi
an end just after noon Tuesday,
and unless some other case,on the
civil docket is called by agree-
meii't, there will be no more court-
ing for the present term.
The grand ury is still in session
ami the judge will remain over to
receive the report of that body
and discharge them, and the dis-
trict attorney will be here as-
sisting the inquisitors. It is rum-
ored that the grand ury will not
be in session but a short time.
The case tried Tuesday morn-
ing was the only one tried on the'
criminal docket. It was the State
of Texas vs. A. 11. Schneider.:
race for reelection will be
upon my record in office,
and jf you feel that 1 have not
served you in a faithful and eco-
nomical way, I will not expect
you vote for me. Th? records in1
my office speak for my work, and
without the least brt of egotism.1
1 wish to say to you—the t..._ ,
payers of this county, that 1 am seven members are in favor of a
proud ot my work, and I trust you session and 27 members are non-
wili re.fbice with me, and show
your :'ppreciati<in by giving me a1
splendid majority on -July 25th.[
1 feel that my experience in hand-j
ling the tax collections of this
fountains1 vounty. one of the best counties in
Texas, is worth something to
every voter in the county. As
collector and deputy I have been'
connected with the tax collector's
office for a number of years, per
haps Io iger than any other man
in the couirty. I am familiar with
d dm-l wa|.p||OUSe ]aw
thouJ JaW'
lH,(l|1| Should all of the members of
handled through'this department.1 1,01,1 who have not ans-
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 66, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 17, 1914, newspaper, March 17, 1914; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1172670/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.