The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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The Daily ledger
VOLUMN XI
MEMBER UNITED PRESS 'ALLINGER. RUNNELS COUN TY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916.
■ ■ —■——- 11 --- 1 I "”" -
DEMOCRATS ASK FOR REPEAL BRITISH
, Man Killed When He
Tries to Take Child
HOTEL INTEREST
< ? ARSEST SALOONIST
Lf t < >
FOR TAX FRAODS
’l‘'s will regret to learn that hr and about a work ago when he is
here pending this court's order.
Russian barbarians fit only to be
tc
on
GOOD RAIN
make a canvas
will
I Oliva IV wan Ilin
The shower covered a strip-understanding that the people
it four milou —1._____utt.
MAY ACCEPT CALL
The
re-
(Continued on Page 3.)
permanent call to this church. Idri
QUEEN THEATRE
WHITE CITY
NIGHT PHONES
393
TONIGHT
TONIGHT
they are just now getting organ
ized foi’ fight iii2
plead with eon-
said that th'-re is ••ven
••!• iii'-nt a mon <
"PEG 0 THE RING
MITCHELL CARS
’ Am-rican
i him
moi ••
tLink of it . “
••buckle that the
• • wa
know
6000 feet
10 cents
MTWe will do your Repairing for less
nland have men that know how.
“Pram- now would !><• the great
hac s our greatest benefit to be d
P. S. On naw Maxwell to sell it $100.00 tflscwit
Admission 10c
Admission 10c
(Continued on Last Page.)
1 hese
exten-
Featured bv Grice Cunard
and Francis po»-d
•ausii > the entire Austrian line
southward toward Tirnapo]
A deal was closed Friday after-
noon and the transfer will be made
within a lew days in which II. L.
Mobley sells his lease on the < en-
tral Hotel, together with certain
fixtures ami furnishings, to G. (
Carlisle, formerly of Austin, but
lately from Santa Anna.
Mr. Carlisle came up from Santa
Anna this week, ami after talking
trade for a day or two the deal
was closed, ami Mr. Mobley will
retire from the hotel business in
this city.
The m-w proprietor of the local
hostelry has been in the oil bus-
iness at Santa Anna for some time,
lie will have associated with him
in the hotel here an experienced
party, who will no doubt maintain
the splendid reputation establish-
ed for the Central by Mr. Mobley.
Mr. Mobley came to Ballinger
about four years ago, buying out
the interest of Mr. Norris in the
Central Hotel, lie has enjoyed a
good business since coming here,
and has made many friends
29.—
The
we talk these
“.What do you
he it
t nan
the Duma pree<(.lings f
among the countryfolk,
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.
BROTHER OF GIRL STAR
OF FILMS 18 BURIED
AS PICTURE IS SHOWN
Austrians are continuing the bat-
tle on the southern border of
Brody
The capture of Brody, an i:.i-
•ortaiP railw -v junction some fif-
ty miles northeast of Lemberg,
Lammle Photoplay presents
“ALIAS JANE JONES ’ in
Two acts.
CENTER STREETS PLACES
FOR CARS SAYS DUNLAP
an
I queried.
BALLINGER AUTO COMPANY
•ffMite Cwrt tae Laws. Tdtsta taker 505
Menace, an
W. B. Dunlap who recently
visited a number of towns in the
plains country, making an auto
trip of about bOO giiles, says he
saw the scheme to [«ark cars in
the center of the streets tried out
“But .all neutral counties arc
hearing considerable about peace.
Do you believe there is a move-
ment on foot to bring about
early end to the war!’
“All 1 can say is this:’’ he ans-
wered “Any peace talk now is
unfriendly to the Allies, so J leave
you to guess who is doing most of
the talking. If it does the Ger-
mans any good, however, to talk
peace, let them talk. It certainly
By United Presa
HoCSTG.N, July 29.-11. S. Gor-
don, aged twenty-four, a teller in
Rev. Atwood, of San Angelo,
came in Saturday morning to
make arrangements for a home
and will preach at the First Pres-
byterian church for the month of
August ami may possibly accept a
Condeming the present law un-
der which the elections ot this
state are held and also condeming
the poll tax law, the delegales in
county convention assembled in
trolling group in the Duma,
piled with a satisfied smile:
up an appeal, through resolution
adopted, to the legislature ami
the state democratic executive
committee asking those bodies to
use their offices to have such laws
repealed.
The Democracy represented in
the convention by the delegates
also adopted resolutions endors-
ing the Wilson administration ami
Bv
Al RoRA,
“BILLIES WATERLOO '
A pugelistic love story by
Billie Ritchie.
“HER GREAT PAST A
drama of the stage with
Myrtle Gonzales.
United Press
Missouri, .July
machinery of
ant i-( ‘at holic paper
Gregor and Judge Jno. 1. Guion
Monday The last episode of
“The Iron Claw ; (101 Bi-
son) “The Cage Man";
Nestor comedy, “Twixt
Love and .The .Iceman ;
Imp comedy “When Slim
Picked a Peach.”
capital. The occupation of the
Ami h- should know, being a
landowner and farmer himself. lie
•■aim direct from his plantation
■
his family are to move away from
this city. Mr. Mobley st.ateed that
he had a hotel proposition in hand
that suited him better than the one
here, and after spending a month
or two recreating he would go to
< iseo, where he owns a desirable
building site, and would begin at
onee the construction of a hotel
building in that city. Mr. Mobley
will remain with the new proprie-
tor here for several weeks, and as.
sist him in getting a line up
the work.
By United Pretty.
HOUSTON, Tex., July 29.—E.
W. Hill, aged thirty six, died here
this morning from the effects of
bullet wounds in the head, after
hiving been shot by his wife last
night. Hill and his wife had been
separated for a considerable time,
and the husband was attempting
to force his way into his wife's
apartments to get their son. The
child is two years old.
Mrs. Hill, in a statement today
said she “didn’t mean to kill
him.”
thought to have suffered paraly-
sis while in deep water. Every
effort to communicate with his
sister, for whom he had his life
insured, has proved unavailing.
Leading citizens and officers here
believe the film company for
whom she is working will not im-
part the news of her brother’s
death to her while she is in the
midst of the making of a film.
irs of five letters from the
fighting nations of Europe.
The articles are written by
I nite,| Pres-. correspondents
who are on the scene of act-
ion. A letter from Pari?. will
appear in Monday's Ledger.
— Editor.
I’nder the present system har
Testers are sent to the farmers as
calls are made for them. The re-
sult has been that generally there
is an estimate given out far over
the number of men actually need-
ed. Men who come from eastern
places sometimes do not get suf-
ficient work to pay them for their
trip to the state.
Berlin through your correspon-
dents quoting German official.-..
The rest to ail appearances is pre.
pared by German agents in the
I >umn I pir t h< <■!!• 1 ion :
the
mending Gov. Jas. E. Ferguson
for his splendid business admin-
istration, and endorsing in the
strongest terms possible the W il-
son policy in handling foreign af-
fairs.
It was a harmonious convention.
There was no opposition to any
motion put before th? house, or to
any question that came up for
■consideration. If any delegate pre-
sent did not approve of the pro-
gram carried out. they kept su-
prinely secret, realizing their help
lessness.
The convening cf the convention
was delayed on account of the
work of the executive committee
in canvassing the election returns.
It was nearly three o’clock when
Judge A. K. Doss called the meet-
ing to order, and called for the
election of a chairman. Judge T.
T. Crosson nominated J. Y. Pearce
for the chairmanship and Mr.
1‘Carce was elected without oppos-
ition. Judge < rosson also placed
in nomination Judge Q. V. Miller
for secretary, and Judge Miller
was elected without opposition.
A roll call of the precincts
showed that eight precincts, rep-
resenting seventeen votes, were]
represented in the <
in Gali da and have broken the
Austro-German first lines we:
Lutsk in Volhynia, according ...
the latest Russian official commun-
ication. In addition the Russians
have taken 9,(Mln prisoners and 4»>
guns. Vienna admits the penetra-
‘ion of the Austrian line on the
right to be. They were never
more prosperous than now. Their
s irit is fine You won't find any
three bombs this morning. Tin*
resultant blaze from the blow-up
eaught refuse paper but was ex-
tinguished by prom t work of the
fire department.
tic independence of Germany.
Peace at this junction would fail
to give us this Economically
Germany has exploited us for
long. She has called us the ‘hin-
"three on credentials and represent
ations, and named the committee:
■viz: Paul Trimmier, J. A. Han-
cock, C. S. Miller. The chair Ap-
pointed the committee.
Judge Crosson made a motion
that the chairman appoint a com-
mittee of three on resolutions,
platform and to nominate delegat-
es to the various conventfbns,
HOUSTON
H. L MOBLEY SELLS
brought here by a German prize
crew on the first of February
w ill be restored to its British own
(Continued on page 2)
Triangle Kay-Bee, Mary
Boland Willard Mack and
Frank Mills in—
“THE EDGE OF THE
ABYSS .”
Thomas H. Ince production
Syd Chaplain, with Key
stone players in—
A SUBMARINE PIRATE’
A Mack Sennett production
In a four reel comedy.
than an Allied victory. Two years
of war waged under trying cire irn
: stances finds them more determin-
‘■d than ever. They feel that they
unt i]
“He
wh-t German domination
I er cent of.your population—are
they for war!” I asked.
• Kan-
sas harvest fields next summer
until it has a job for everyman
called.
The bureau
of farmers in the spring, asking
each how many men he must
V'fi.-.i
We Cut the Price On Everything for the Automobile
Gasoline 19c Spark Plugs, any Kind
Oil 40c at Cut Rate
Tires, any kind of standard makes 10 per cent, off
By United Press
NORFOLK, Va., July 29.—Fed
era) Judge Waddell, in a decision
reached today states that the in-
“RESTORE
APPAM TO
BRITISH”
mittee as named.
The committee’s report were
There is But One Word in
Russian Peace Talk—‘No!
McCoJmUk BINDERS
and Deering U x X "
We have thrown off this yoke
I The commercial treaty she impos-
ed during our war with Japan,
more beneficial to Germany than
to us, no longer binds. When
pe.Bce and victory come, Russia
J will hold the new freedom she had
I won and developed her own in-
Idustries to the profit of her own
< Staff Correspondent people.
■ “These are some of the benefits
of the war which Russia expects.
I ntil Germany is beaten we can
not get them. Can you wonder
i every Russian savs
the attitude
eon;jn;iijlg it
DALLAS, July 29. — Saloon-
keeper John Morgan, who was in-
dicted by a grand jury here sev-
eral months ago in connection with
city tax funds embezzlement
• barge-., w is arrested today in a
local saloon. Morgan is alleged
to be i member of the city's tax
swindling gang.
were well pleased with it. “It
leaves plenty room on each side
for travel and for 4 e merchants
to handle their trado and I found
it much easier to m «ve your ear
when you got ready.” said Mr.
Dunlap. Accord ng to Mr. Dun-
lap’s statement the cars parked
at such mi angle that it is r.o trou-
ble or idconvcniencc. to the auto
A telephone message received in
Ballinger Friday night from R. M.
Davis informed us thatjie had an
inch and half rain at his place in ___________
the Crews country Friday after- at Vernon, Texas, and it was his
noon.
of about four miles.
John McAdams and
ami children, of Winters, was visiting]
ten- her sister, Mrs. Henry Jones
---: other relatives in Ballinger
'______i.
LONDON. July 29. British
forces are successfully withstand
ing German counter attacks in the
I region of the DeVille woods, af-11he I nion National bank here, was
Iter taking important positions in arrested today on the charge of
that section, says the war office embezzlement. Gordon is cited as
bulletin. E-Xtensive preparations having stolen fourteen thousand
are being made by the British for dollars of the bank’s funds,
their ••• ining super-offensive.
By William Philip Simms
I nited Press
PETR<m;raD, July (By
Mail —“You <-an'f .write an arti-
cle about peace in Russia,” de-
clared Serguis Shidovsky, ex-Viee J|(n
Prt»id.T,t ..f the third l.n|.erml ........... ,jiis
l>u..lll»1dl>re.Md<.ntofth..|SureaU ....... vou |1,e„tj((„ •„
of the Progressive Bloc as we pac 1 .... . ..
Cd the long, hardwood floor of the'. .,,easantsTabout 0
Duma lobby.
“You can't because there is but
one thing to be said about it—one
short sharp emphatic word—No!"
This sums up fairly well the at-
titude of the Russian p«?ople re
„ . „ . with
Driving forward at two points funds Gordon speculated
is than, sixtv miles apart Rus- sively in oil lands.
Won't Call Eastern Laborers
Harvest Fields Unless Jobs
Are Waiting.
Topeka, Kans., July 29.—The
represented in the convention.jstate employment bureau announc
Judge Crosson moved that the,ed today that it won t call an armv
chairman appoint a committee of of eastern laborers to the Kan
11 «. in anger. Rat) er he >mii-
Hi> attitude was considerably
that of Mark Twain who,
n informed of bn «>wn report
for the Extra you need. VAN PELT, KIRK and MACK
The Largest Stock of Repairs in West Texas. Orders Filled Day Receive! “Tell the Truth Advertisers**
POLL TAX AND ELECTION LAW HOLD OFF ARRESTED AT
GERMANS
San Angelo, Tex., July 2H.—At
a local picture show here yester-
day a film was shown with Agnes
Younger in the title role. Miss
Younger’s real name is Agnes Ver-
non. While the picture was be-
ing shown the body of the star’s
brother, Eliot Vernon, was low-
ered into a grave in Fairmount
• 'emet4*rv.
• Eliot Vernon met death in the
who South Concho river at Chistovtal
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