The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 8, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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The Daily ledger
VOLUMNXI
is German Submarine Bremen
Convention
VOTEFORR.R, LOSING
WALK OUT
HEAVILY
ih reliable sources.
answer made by the railroads.
village of b leury.
near the
APPRECIATES SCHOOL HELP
L£G BROKEN
••ol-
In a
It seemed as if ev-
the
REPUBLICANS MEET
8.—
Irs. Abb McFarland left
: FARMERS UNION
WOLTERS AND COLQUITT[j J CROP
(Continued on Last Page.)
IN STATE MEET
393
eountv
NEW BANKER ARRIVES
Condi
<n e oits, as both the nationality tired of the manner in which
P.||S. One new Maxwell to sell at $100.00 discount
re shop
* home.
French made
Thiaumont and
Buick Six from the ;
agency of the II. C. W. Co.
J
once christened Charles Walker
Thorp The mother and baby are
both reported as getting along
nicely.
Magazines and Old Books
I want all the old books and
magazines I can get to help fill
my ear. Don’t burn them. Phone
me and I will come for them quick.
Phone 27 or 190. Albert Sledge.
TOURING SOUTH TEXAS
IN AUTOMOBILE
CORSICANA NEWSPAPER
BURNS
AUTO SALES MADE BY
H. C. W. COMPANY.
<We will do your Repairing for less
and have men that know how'
LEDGER TO BULLETIN ELEC-
TION RETURNS
two or three hundred dollars, be-
sides considerable damage to the
furniture and other household
goods, so says Prof. J. C. Wells,
who was in Ballinger Monday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. tfielby Craft and little
son and
Tuesdayfet noon for San Angelo to
visit friends a few days.
advanced to trenches he:
enemy.
The Germans also
losses from the French
the Hemwood and the
and the
south of
I nder the head of “Examples
of Civic Attractiveness’’ the Dal-
las News of Monday carried a pic-
ture of Lake Victoria, near Strat-
What is now a real
at Stratford was
formerly a mill pond, and the boy-
hood swimming pool of the Mc-
Gregor brothers. Pete, Jack and
Robert. The McGregors readily
recognized their “old swimming
hole.’’
SEES PICTURE OF BOYHOOD
PLAY GROUNDS
MEMBER UNITED PRESS. TALLINGER. RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8,1916 .
ductor, chaplain,
ami five members
five committee will
fore adjournment.
RUSSIANS IN NEW
OFFENSIVE
Petrograd, Aug. 8.—The Rus-
sians made the first telling strike
in their new offensive last night
when they captured Tlumacz, ten
miles southeast of Stanislau, gain
ing seventeen miles front south-
east of Lemberg.
his name was being used in the
senatorial campaign. Some men
who were near the two declare
that he told Mr. Colquitt he must
henceforth desist.
San Antonio, Tex., Aug.
The Republicans were holding a
state convention here today. Own-
ing to the fact that 99 out of every
100 Texans usually boasts “he
never scratched a Democratic tick
et, ” it was expected to be rather
a lonssome affair.
Ry United Press
HOUSTON, Aug. 8.—Davis E.
Decker of Quanah, Texas, a Fer-
guson supporter, and an anti-pro-
hibitionist, was elected as tem-
porary chairman of the Democra-
tic State convention this after-
noon over M. H. Wolf, of Dallas,
a prohibitionist. Decker received
639 1-2 votes and Wolf received
1911-2.
C. J. Kirk defeated Pat M. Neff
for secretary by the same vote,
and the steam roller is working
nicelv.
He seemed as much ex-
I began to study
About 3:30 fire
It
O. D. Dillingham and family of
Winters, and Miss Irene Clampitt
of Ballinger, left Sunday after-
noon for an Overland trip to dif-
ferent points in South Texas. Mr.
Dillingham will attend the Repub-
lican convention at San Antonio
ami later t.'he party will visit on |
the coast, ami came back b'
Waco.
J. O. Bigby and J. A. George, of
Garden City, motored over to
Ballinger Tuesday to visit Mends
and to h? <R after business affairs.
0. B. Colquitt ami Col. Jake F.
Wolters met and engaged in ;
heated colloquy. Just wlhat either
man said was not distinguishable,
origin. Prof.
Corsicana, Aug. 8.—The Corsi-
cana News, a morning daily pa-
per published here was badly
damaged by fire early this morn-
ing. The fire originated in
News building.
When Clirence and Bert Hes-
ter of Milel. were returning home
from San .Jngelo last Saturday
evening, their auto was over-
turned in ditch and Bert Hester
had the misfortune to get his leg
broken near the hip, and after
having the proper medical atten-
tion was resting very nicety Sun-
day as reported by friends from
Miles, who were in Ballinger Mon-
day. t
* -•
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. (Dick)
Thorp are the proud parents of a
bouncing baby boy born at high
A committee of citizens from the
Marie country were in Ballinger
Monday, soliciting funds for a
new school building at Marie.
They were very successful in their
work, ami before leaving for their
home Albert Gentry and John
Black called at The Ledger office
and expressed th ir appreciation
lor the liberal aid given them by
the Ballinger b;isu;ess men. “We
want you to thank them through
your paper for us,’’ said th* gen-
tlemen, “for we got a nice
lection here.”
coal collier Hector, which was
wrecked off the coast of Charles-
ton, S. C.
Bob had just accepted a job
with Uncle Sam, and this was his
first voyage on the high sea.
While en route to take up duty
on the Hector, and before he was
transferred from the transfer boat
to the Hector, Bob was caught in
a storm, and his experience in his
new line of work will no doubt
remain with him.
It will be noticed from the let-
ter which follows that Bob proved
himself equal to the occasion and
was one of six who volunteered to
perform a daring deed that saved
the life of the crew. His Ballin-
ger friends are proud of his heroic
work, and G. W. Dunlap says he
thinks the young man should be
remembered by Uncle Andrew
Carnegie’s hero committee, and
proper rewjy-d made. In giving an
account of his experience on the
ill-fated ship Bob says:
“We left the wharf of the cus-
tom house here, on July 12th,
about 1 p. m. on the tug Sebago.
out about eight miles we sighted
the Hector, she anchored close to
the Charleston light ship, we roled
up the side, the sea was a little bit
choppy and codld not tie up to the
Hector so put gang plank across
and pitched our rifles and expedi-
tionary packs aboard and would
take one step on gang plank.
When lhe ship would rise up we
would jump We were 40 or 45
minutes transferring. Then the
Hector drew in her anchors and
we started to sail. There were no
quaters for u« to sleep in so up
on the ’>i'W was the place for ns.
We put our > iiles in a racx and got
-our places p:; ked out where to
sleep and puj; our < Janke*, rolls
down, stored our haver sacks in
one of *he hatch-holds. It being
the fir*: time at sea lor the mo-t
of us, we crowded around the
railing on the bow of the beat to
Bob Norman, the son of W. J_. (-------, .......- . .... ......-
Norman, formerly of this city, in I’ooni and any place there
a letter to Cecil Glenn, writes in- morn for you to curl up.
MITCHELL CARS
You Had Better See the Mitchell Before You Buyl
We have several late model second-hand cars in good
condition for sale cheap or for trade. See us at once
we must have the room.
Reported Sunk Bj Accident
Chairman 94 per cent Germans
if the railways refused to meet
the demands, math: by the em-
caplured f’re °f unknown w ___
valuable guns and *ook supplies M ells and family were leaving
By United Press
LONDON, Aug. 8.—
BALLINGER AUTO COMPANY
Hposite Coart Hoose Uwi. Telephone Kimber 505
Some of the would be close ob-
servers have called our attention
to our “forgetfulness’’ in not pull-
ing in the Ledger’s bulletin board.
We appreciate the interest man-
ifested, Suit we are not through
voting yet, hence we are not thru
to
O. L. H.i’ j lelt Ti.esd v for
points e.i< on a short business
trip.
A. _ below, some of us in the store
• was
_ _______ __ _________, __________ “ ‘.Itried
terestingly of his experience on the to sleep a few minutes, but soon
The Higginbotham - Currie •
Williams Co. reported the sale of
three cal’s Monday of this week.
M. McCraery of Winters, and J.
L. Faubion of Norton, purchased
a new Chevrolet each, and Thos.
Lilly of Norton, purchased a new j for(i Ontario.
Buick Six from the auto sales beauty spot
Experience of Ballinger
Boy on Storm Wrecked
Hector, a Coal Steamer
found it was to much rocking to
suit me. At 11 p. m. I went on
guard in the mid bridge. That
is a bridge about midway of the
ship, where the pilot steals the
boat. The captain and officers
quarters, but I was to guard our
rifles. The sea was getting rough-
er and rougher all the time as the
wind was blowing, about 80 miles
per hour, at this time. There was
no one on the side of the bridge
I was on and being the first time
at sea I enjoyed watching the
waves roll up high. They would
look like mountains and the white
foam when tlhey would breaik
would look like silver, that was
only for an hour or two: then it
begin to change; all 1 could do t
stay on the floor and hold t > an
iron railing. When it came time
for relief to come the water was
rolling over the ship at intervals
so bad that I had to stay on the
other man’s watch. It began to
look gloomy to me. Our lieuten-
ant came out and asked me how
I was making it. I said I
there, and the rifles. I ask him
what he thought about it. He said
it is hell,
cited as 1 did
how to pray. About 3:30 I
broke out on the after deck,
was raining pretty hard and
wondered what in the world was
back there that could burn and it
raining so hard. A wave washed
up high enough to strike a life
buoy and it had chemical that
would ignite when water struck
it. Well, they put it out in a
few minutes, but while fighting it
one man got his leg broke.
short while three or more fires
broke out.
cry thing was happening to on
disadvantage. The barrometer
was falling and showed we were
not in the hardest part of it yet.
At 8 o’clock Thursday morning
the chief engineer and fireman
were struck on the head by a
falling ventilator. The -hief’s
and he is in
.. , ---^ —.....The
up high. They began to break on jfireman blinde.I and was
* blind as a bat for nine days, he
is improving now am i is a ole to
get around. This ad happened in
In* engine roon The crew b'gan
to weaken. Some of them worked
down and others were sea sick.
The marines went down to fire
and pass coal. We worked in 20
HOUSTON, Aug. 8.—The pros
in a caucus'* he'd preceding the
convening of the Democratic con- unjj| after the
vention this morning, selected M.
II. Wolf as their candidate
eairman of the democratic
vention and Pat M. Neff a?
retary.
The anti caucus perfunctory
state executive committee placed
>n roll the Ferguson delegatees
from Bell. Hill, Tom Green, Har-
din and Hays counties, showing
that the bolting d-legiates would
be seated in the convention if the
Ferguson delegates are in con-
trol of the convention.
The pros are busy ami hope to
be able to hold their own in the
fight for a submission plank, ami
for a plank endorsing the Robert-
son insurance law.
although there was a pronounced [against 655,000,00g last year,
hush in the vicinity tas Colquitt) Corn 2,077,000,000 against 3,-
and Wolters advanced toward
each other menacingly.
Neither will discuss the inci-
dent. For a moment it seemed as
if a personal encounter was inevit-
able and men who surrounded the
two backed off, several even duck
ing and dodging. With a few
heated sentences, i n w h i c h
“Atlanta, speech’’ and “your
statement” and “your attitude”
stood out prominently, the two
walked different directions.
Colonel Wolters declared, it is
said, that he has grown extreme-
We Gut the Price On Everything for the Automobile
Gasoline 19c Spark Plugs, any Kind
OH 40c at Cut Rate
Tires, any kind of standard makes 10 per cent, off
NIGHT PHONES M sn ry Jones
055,00(1.000 Last year.
Sweet potatoes 71,000,000 bush-
els against 74,300,000 last year.
Cotton 12,900,000 bale*. ins*,
fl,200i000 last year,
The reoort place
tions as follows:
Wheat sixty-thij
tenths per cent; cd
and three-tenths pe rcent ' sweet
potatoes eighty-five and nine-
tenths; cotton seventy-two and
three-tenths.
The yield per acre for chi pre-
sent crop is estimated as follows:
Wheat twelve and nine-ten ths
bushels per acre; com twenty-five
and six-tenths bushels per acre;
sweet potatoes ninty six and five-
tenths bushels per acre; Irish po-
tatoes eighty-seven and one-tent'i
bushels per acre; cotton one hun-
dred and seventy-three and four-
tenths pounds per acre.
Last year’s cotton crop brought >
on the New York market an an- ‘ y
erage of twelve and* six-tent L?
cents per pound. ’ - -
and state governments have recog-
nized their demands for co-opera-
tion.
The session will continue thru
today, Wednesday and Thursday.
Executive officers, including pres
ident, vice president, secretary-
treasurer, general organizer, con-
door-keeper,
of the execu-
be elected be-
four-
-one
Beach auditorium here today,
with approximately 1500 delegat-
es representing every county in
the state, in attendance.
I his is the second consecutive
time that the annual convention
has been held here. Houston be-
ing selected last year for the meet-
ing.
President Pope is presiding and
following the organization meet-
ing held this morning, some of
the most important questions con
fronting Texas farmers today will
be acted upon. Chief among
these are the financing and mar-
keting of the cotton crop and the
building of bonded warehouses
for the storing of cotton. The
union has been striving for years
to secure some governmental
action on these important matters
and the present convention finds
them elated at the success of
for Sunday school Sunday morn-
ing and it is thought that in.
GERMANS MAKE COUNTER closing the typewriter a match
GAINS I was in the fiaohine and caused a
Paris, Aug. 8—The French lost'which Ignited the paper and
some of the territory recently j brought on Jthe fire. The build-
gained last night when the Ger-1 ing was damaged to the value of
mans recaptured Thiaumont.
VAN PELT, KIRK and MACK
The Largest Stock of Repairs in West Tens. Orders Filled Daf Received “Tell the Truth Advertisers
No further steps will be made
------- -------J joint committee
meeting of the railways ajid
” brotherhoods is held and the final
eon
IN PERSONAL CLASHR£pQ[{ JQ
f Beau.) fourteenth annual session of the 7"
Farmers’ Educational and Co- real _____________
Operative Union convened in the which caused the lobby
The residence of Prof. J. C.
Somme, Wells of Miles, was considerably
progress damaged Sunday morning by a
Ry United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—The re-
sult of the strike vote was formal-* scored further victory with first
ly announced this lafternoon; attack in resuming offensive on
showing that ninty-four per cent'Somme front last nigh*, "’he Ge-
of the four
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug 8.—The
. ™ 1 pre-convention sensation, I
------ --------HL_ ______/ of the
Rice literally to hum with ex-
citement came shortly after noon| ..WASHINGTON, .Aug. 8.—The
yesterday when Former Governori department of agriculture issued
a bulletin this afternoon, making
a an estimate on crops for the pre-
• sent year as follows:
Wheat 455,000.000 bushels
comes
FIRE AT MILES
X.I Mini,’ A.vr'.ai pvi ut • *.71,111 lilt; llUlll lllgll . I IIU ’ K ; . • i • Txt, V
r railway brotherhoods 'mans were pu.hed back to lhe euU Ue
were in favor of “walking out”|skirts of Guillemont and the allies'
‘ d by th*-
suffered j
between i
By United Press
BERNE, Switzerland, Aug. 8.—
The German submarine Bremen,
the sister ship of the Deutschland,
which saileed from Bremen with a
valuable cargo of freight, a month
ago, has been lost. According to
an announcement made by the
Berliner Taghlatt, a Berlin news-
paper, the sh\p was sunk through
| an accident to its own, machinery.
[ The Bremen has been due on the
American coast for two weeks, and
Tb<> Ri itivh t*]ere has been much speculation
as to the cause of its delay. The
'announcement made by the Tag-
blatt does net give details of the
BINDERS
and Deering A
keeping the public posted as
how the people vote.
The returns from the second
county primary will be held next
Saturday will be posted on the bul
letin board, and again on Satur-
day, Aug. 26th we are to make a
‘‘Hobson’s choice” for United
States Senator, and you will won’t
to know wlho the people choose.
After that the board will be stor-
ed away for two years—unless
'lour anti friends come again.
“ V I 1 I I LU I " JI .
watch the waves as they would'^kull was fractured :i
hit the sides of the boat and roll very ser.o.is condiiu*
T--LA-1. mt----l--- - - • ’
the top and we gathered up our
blanket roils and went to the after
deck, what was used for the mess
hall. This was about dark and
several of the boys were feeding
the fish already. I didn’t eat
much supper as I was afraid of
getting sea sick. About 9 p. m.
the water began to roll up on the
after deck and we had to go down!
Mi<s Rena Walker am
of the Hatchel country, we
ping in Ballinger Tuesday
Prof. Daniels ami wife, o
mont, who had been visitii
fives and friends in our
the past week or two passe
Ballinger Tuesday en rout<
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 8, 1916, newspaper, August 8, 1916; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1177636/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.