The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 26, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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The
Daily ledger.
'ALLTNGER. RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916.
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
VOLUMN XI
BINDERS
and Deering " x
for the Extra you need. VAN PELT, KIRK and MACK
The Largest Stock of Repairs in West Texas. Orders Filled DafReceived “Tell the Truth Advertisers”
mHE “FEDERAL RESERVE” System of Banks, of
* which our bank is a member, was thought out
by the best brains in the banking ami business
world.
This system demands that a bank be sound before
it can become a member bank.
We can take care of your banking business and
shall be glad to have you come in and “make your-
self at home.”
The
First National Bank
of Ballinger
ARMED SHIP HIT
BY GERMAN SUB. CALLING FOR HELP
By United Press
LONDON, Aug. 26.—In the of-
ficial British admiralty statement
issued this afternoon, it was an-
nounced that the British steamship
the Duke of Albany, had been
sunk by a German submarine
Thursday. The Duke of Albany
was submarined in the North Sea.
The loss of life from the disaster
will amount to about twenty-four J
it is admitted, with eighty-seven
lives saved.
The Duke of Albany is describ-
ed in the government report as an
“armed” ship.
WANTED— Charity Funds.
Phone your subscription to
The ledger offices or to the
Charity Committee, and the
committee will call for the
money. The Ledger will keep
this column open for a few
days, ami money subscribed
will be reported daily:
II. T. Williams . ...
. . .$.'> ,00
C. J. Lynn & Son . .
.... 2.50
Cash ..............
... $2.50
11. L. Mobley
$2.50
Scott 11. Mack......
.. .$2.50
W. A. Nance
393
NIGHT PHONES
Henry Jones
556
Mitchell, Dodge and Maxwell Cars
Could You Think of Three Better Cars?
We keep them up for one year—that makes a diffe-
rence.
Stock of Racine, Ropublic, Micheline, Goodyear and
Sivertown tires. You better see us or we both loose
— We Girt thfr Price OfiEmyttUfig for the Atrtomobiie
__ - —_ H O -
Gasoline 19c Spark Plugs,
Oil 40c 15c to 50c
^TWe will do your Repairing for less
" and have men that; know how.
\ . T < 7 t .
Second Hand Cars at a Bargain
BALLINGER AUTO COMPANY
--Oppwttt Court Hotwe Lawn.
Telephone Namber 505
General Strike Expected
By Bailway Brotherhoods
U. S. COAST DEFENSES TEXAS VOTES
38 NEGROES LEAVE
ARE ATTACKED TODAY
AGAIN TODAY
FOR COTTON FIELDS
Ballinger
a I’nited Stat-
an
militarv
v ar.
kept dustless with pure artesian' Ho^n Votes on Jitneys and
. . > . . ... .i i t Senator Tndiv
INSANE 17 YEARS;
WANTS 8AD ROAD
OUT ASYLUM TODAY
FIXED RIGHT NOW
There is Just One
big cotton receipts.
off,
one
l»e-
for a reply to President Wilson’s
suggestion for an eight hour day.
The railroad executives came
back with a counter proposals
which embodied arbitration, which
the employes had already declar-
ed they would oppose.
Brownwood will please take no-
tice that Ballinger streets are
who will not follow the strikers, to
prevent a milk and food famine in
the cities and congested districts.
The managers said they knew a
few of the men would continue to
work, but the railroads as a whole
would be paralyzed.
The strike will not come as a
surprise, as the heads of the four
great railroad brotherhoods
hreatening a nation wide strike,
announced last night that the men
‘ Something should be done at
once on the South Ballinger road
leaving the wagon bridge ami ex-
tending to th,. cross roads and to-
One local gin man stated Friday
that he would come down to the
tune Of $10.00 if something was
done, and several others have
voldnteeered to kick in. The
•wiirk must be ddrie and (Lettie night,
now if Ballinger gets her usual
The race is undoubtedly' being
by
By United P
WASHINGTON,
Noel Penn left Saturday for
points east in the interest of the
W. (’. Penn cotton company.
A Summer Laxative and Liver
Regulator
Po-Do-Lax is a liquid laxative
—mild and effective. It arouses
the liver, increases the bile, does
School of Expression
Miss Wilmeth will open a class
in Expression and Physical Cul-
ture September 1st, for terms tele-
phone 59.
Middletown, N. Y., Aug. 26.—
Ralph Albert Blakeloek, the fam-
j ous atrist who has been confined
in the state asylum here ever since
' he went insane over the poverty of
his family 17 wars ago, is gone
• • * . •
today to a private sanitarium at
licve many other business men will
i ome down on a subscription list, ’
the young Mr. Pierce continued.
It is said Ballinger is losing
good money ,big nionc
having this road fixed
can be hauled to town,
living within four miles of Bal-
linger are carrying their crop to
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. —
“We are ready.” This statement
came t-rom both the executives of
the railroads and employees as the
genend strike on practically all
railroads in the United States
loomed up this afternoon.
It was decided that it was im-
possible for the two committees
to reach any agreement, and
many of the brotherhood repres-
entatives are preparing to leave
The railroad managers contend
that they can keep sufficient trains
noon, when
women and
east-bound Santa Fe for Copeland,
Texas, where they will be placed
in the cotton fields.
It was the sudden and unex-
pected exodus of the colored folks
that attracted the entire colored
population of the city to the sta-
tion. Those that didn’ go were
at the train to see the others
and the farewell scene was
newer pictured in Ballinger
son administration involved, the
campaign fight between the sup-
porters of Senator Charles A. Cul-
berson and Ex-Governor O. B.
THE BUSY SHOP
is still busy repairing shoes in the
hot summer weather. Come and
bring your shoes and get prompt
repairing. II. L. WENDORF,
The Saddle and Harness Man. if
lost thirty-eight of
citizens Friday after-
that number of men,
children boarded the
ing. “ I ’ll give $5,110 towards fix-
A negro man, representing
employment agency, came to Bal-
’inger a few days ago, and round-
ed up the negroes ad providing
them with transportation carried
them to Copeland. Most of the
negroes were those who were
brought to this country on simi-
lar mission last year, and the
year before. Very few of the
(►Ider negro citizens left Ballin-
ger, and with the departure of
this party of cotton pickers the
| About a year ago Blakeloek
showed signs of returning sanity,
and unmistakable eevidences of'
. the return of clouded genius. His
fellow American artists started a
$10,(MIO this vear if the road is not f"’"1 to Provide for him at a pri-]
worked immediately,” said Mr vate sanitanum, with a cottage m;
Pearce. ”T h e commissioners
court have said they would be-
gin operations on the road as soon
as it rains. That is not soon en-
ough, and Ballinger merchants
should put up their money and
with the help of the commission-
ers get the South Ballinger road
worked. If thoge humps and
holes were only ploughed, it
dueed to almost normal again.
There is a local demand for cot-
ton pickers at present, but the sup
ply of Mexicans, whites, and ne-
groes was more than will be need
ed here to gather the crop, and
realizing that the picking would
be short these negroes were in-
duced to ero to where the work
would last longer. We are per-)not gripe and acts as a general
feretly willing to see them leave, tonic to the whole system. Aids
--------------- nature to clear and purify the
Senator Today.
Houston, Tex., Aug. 26.—Hous-
ton voters are easting two votes
In addition to the state
senatorial election, the endorse-
ment or rejection of a new jitney
ordinance is being voted on by the
Houston balloters.
blood—as a laxative tonic for
summer Po-Do-Lax has no equal.
What was “good enough for my
father is good enough for me”
never applied with more force
than the use of Po-Do-Lax for the
liver. An old time tried
Get a bottle, take a dOSfe TWif
and see how muchbetter you feet
At all druggists
■ loodaife
Cure for Cholera Morbus.
“ When our little boy, now seven
years old, was a baby he was eur-i
ed of cholera morbus by Cham-j
berlaiu’s Colic Cholera and Diarr-j
hoea Remedy,” writes Mrs. Sidney
Simmons, Fair Haven, N. * Yj
“Since then other members of my1
faniRv have used thus. valuable
tRMwincCtVrleXlic and WiJcJ Jrcfiij!
ble with good santisfacti^gjWdjX
gladly endorse it as a remedy'(T
exceptions 1 merit?’ Obtainable
everywhere.
Way to Do Business
and That is the Right
Way
You will always find
us handling our custo-
mer’s business to their
entire satisfaction and
profit and if you want
yours handled on the
same basis we invite you,
to bring your aeeount-to-
ITS/- r I •. ; -
-wldeh he will pa ml the. picUifil
making-lm drrtmn the- Acad-
emy. Blakel
be with him.
water, at least the water would be
artesian if we had as much gas
as there is in some other cities,
with which to force the water out ' today,
of the ground. The water comes ........
from mother earth under the pres-
sure of an electric pump, and is as
pure as the mountain dew drops.
The street sprinkler is filled
from the well, which in the early
days of Ballinger, was known as
the Cameron Wagon Yard well. It
is located in the E. Allison & Son
building on Eighth street, and the
supply seems sufficient to keep the
big pump busy.
der the command of
Helm who commands
defenses engaged the
squadron under Admiral i
The defender> “sank” the battle-I;
ships Texas and Nevada ami
lost the scout criiiseis Wais ;,.;m policy of the administration.
sunk
read if America was attacked by
la real enemy, with our eoast de-
fenses prepared as they are at
present
In the sham battle off the coast Colquitt, ended today by the run-
of New ork harbor this morning; off election, has been particular-
; at five o’clock, the main fleet uu- |y interesting.
Admiral j Culberson supporters claim
tne coast ■ t||at faj|nre |0 r,quril ||h. senior
■dt-iC''ing senator to Washington will be a
• ,l>" repudiation of the Wilson admin-
..... listration by Texans, in view of
... a ' * Colquitt ’s crilisism of the Mexi-
i ’ •••• | »’ »• • < IF 1 I ll< 11’ I I 11 ■ I I int I <1 I |1F I |.
I Colquitt supporters deny this, and
Admiral Helm s coast forces claim that Washington has no
ost the scout cruiser Binning- right to dictate to the people of
dtleship I exas has been With every question from pro-
I his is the way it would hibition to repudiation of the W il.
returning faculties ar,> expec
to become completely normal.
It was not until many years af-
ter he came to the asylum here
that Blakeloek was elected to
bv n4lt I’"embership in the National Aca-
‘ (lemv. When he lost his mind he
|.’nnil'M.s'had'been selling what he could
'of his now world famous and ex-'
tremelv valuable moonlight scenes
K’owena and other towns farther ‘"'j S(’a'1<‘e eno"^h lo l,U-v fo<1 ,orl
distant in order lo get out of
crossing this bad road. Holes two l
feet deep and a few feet apart
are making the road look like a
Drayton and Balch.
'I’he practice naval engagement ' watched with close interest
Iwill cease thi* afternoon at five Washington.
i; ■' spectacle is being; Both eamlidates are anti-prohi-
with keen interest by , |.dbini.sts, but the Culberson par-
am! naval observers, S‘si|js;1||s (.|;)j|n that their candidat-
the resourres ot the I uu ,.s- pi'oinise to abide bv the decis-
s in the ease of an actual j(>n of the people of Texas, as ex-
! pressed in the coming prohibition
--— | election, will result in the major-
ARTESIAN WATER FOR ,,j‘ j|1(. Campbell and Brooks
BALLINGER STREETS votes being thrown to his support
in the run-off.
ANK
5
LARME^MWB
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 26, 1916, newspaper, August 26, 1916; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1178353/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.