The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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* CLINGER. RUNNELS COUr TY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBE 3ER 6, 1916.
VOLUMN XI
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
Germany Appeals to
The concert tonight bids
Wilson For Feace?
1 ■
MANY DEBTS PAID
DURING THIS WEEK
*
MAN SERIOUSLY HURT
AT HOLLOWAY GIN
HOW IS THIS FOR
A CLEAN COUNTY?
re-
IWWII6N SUIT
HEARING POSTPONED
ties.
closes in Europe.
HAVE BABY CHRISTENED
sted states.
Okk loma Cow Boys Celebrating
393
ANGELO ANTIS HEDGING
AGAINST PRO ELECTION
Tuesdav, Ocotber
Storage Battery Service Station
a n
See Us or We Both Loose
Filtered Gasoline 18c per Gallon
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to
of
and
and
over
BAND READY TO
ENTERTAIN TONIGHT.
morning for Brownwood to visit
her brother, Edward, and to at-
tend the fair a day or two.
Py U tiled J’ress
WORTH, <
could be expected ami will
cover.
ill of dv’Us it
J. N .Cox, of the Xew Home com
rnunity, is in the Halley & Love
Sanitarium suffering with several
broken ribs and other injuries,
which he sustained at the iloilo-
fway & Son gin shortly afternoon
Thursday.
It seems that Mr. Cox was hurt
by being caught between his wa-
gon and the seed conveyor where
the seed box projects out to em-
pty the seed into the wagon. He
had just unloaded hi< cotton and
drove around to get the seed when
he was caught by driving too close
to the seed box, and several ribs
caved in.
He was carried to the sanitarium
and given prompt medical atten-
tion, and the latest report says
teated by a very narrow margin.
For years he edited tin* Wills
, Point Chronicle. He is a former
job in an effort to raise a bonus
for a new hotel for that city. The
San Angelo Standard reports
that the committee is making
good headway, and that about
$17,000 had been subscribed to the
By United Press
PARIS, Oct. 6.—Violent bom-
bardment broke out along the
northern front near Verdun last
night, after several weeks of in-
activity, and this is evidently a
prelude to severe fighting on
the Verdun front again.
Reports from both sides of
the Somme say the British forces
are in control of greater terri-
tory than at any time since the
offensive began, and it is be-
lieved a general German retreat
will follow as fast as the allies
strengthen their lines, which was
announced today.
and Thirty
representing
in the house.
10.
Mr. Gilmore
the Thirtieth
Mon
W.
with
Me-
Stenoizrapher 1
pay yer, but I s gwine do de right
thing bout di< pay up week, ii
ver don’t port me to «’e law I’>
gwine pa/ you some more ’fore
Sat’day.”
That’s the way the National
pay up spirit worked on one good
old colored man in this city. Th*'
publicity given the occasion hi 1
lead him ;<? I elie- c that it was a
law and if he failed to come across
he would be in bad witii the strong
:»rin of the law, and h<* wanted t )
show his willingness to do the
WiLspn literature in the closely
cont
_ contest
inch of the ground in the
douitful territory, where the re-
' publicans are doing their strong*
cst Fork.
Sirrely Ballinger wants to have
a h< id in helping to re-elect Mr.
year. One of the largest
NEW YORK, Oct., 6.—The New
York Evening Post says in its issue of to-
day that Ambassador Gerard is enroute
to America with peace appeal applicat-
ion from Germany. The Post asserts
that Mr. Gerard is bringing to President
Wilson a note from Germany asking him
to use his good offices in aiding Germany
in suing for peace. :
Ambassador Gerard is due to arrive
in New York on the lijier Fredrick VIII
Tuesday, of next week, and it is expect-
ed that he will at once go to Washington
where he will place the German appli-
cation before the president.
This verifies a report received here
several days ago from Rome to the effect
that Germany would call on the United
States in framing some plan for ending
the European war.
Storage batteries of all kind carried in stock for
exchange and rent while we repair and recharge
your battery. We have taken the agency for the
U. S. L. and the Hytork and we will have in stock
parts for all kind of storage batteries and an exper-
ienced manto do the work and every battery turned
out will be guaranteed by us. Our prices will be less
than charged by others as usual.
Complete stock of supplies, all kind of repairing
done by men that know how—Every job guaranteed.
Last Indian Buffalo Hunt.
Goodnight. Tvx., Oct. 6.- Resi-
dents of this sc lion will have
the opportunity to witness what
probably will be the last buffalo
limit by real Indians, that, will
ever be staged in Texas, this after-
noon at 2 o'clock, when Col. (.’har-
ks Goodnight owner of the fam-
ous Goodnight Ranch, which shel-
ters the only remaining herd of
buffalo in Texas, will entertain
his friends with a real buffalo
hunt and barbecue.
A band of Kiowa and Com-
manche Indians will kill the buf-
falo in the ancient Indian fashion.
Col. and Mrs. Goodnight, pio-
neers, have sent out a general in-
vitation to friends and neighbors
to attend the hunt and barbecue.
(This order was issued her** just
I after the committee had met here
I to nominate a candidate. Hear-
BALLINGER AUTO COMPANY
Opposite Coort Boose Uwn. Telephooe Nanber 505
Bill collect' rs and business men
in general report Pay I p Week i
great s im-e.-s, and the man who
has j aid his debt fet Is better,
me of the merchants report it
the ibes. week both for new busi-
ness and collections m their his-
tory*
The success of National Pay In
Week proves the value of publi-
city. It also proves that the coun-
try is in a prosperous condition
and proves tha. people, as a rule,
are eager to pay their debts when
they have money, and if proves
that money put in circulation in
to
no
set
pectcd to gather on the
law a tonight, and 1 he pro-
gram arranged will be a
good one. The music starts
about eight o’clock. You
ard the committee met with some
opposition Thursday when eerjain
prominent and wealthy antis re-
fused to subscribe to the bonus
unless they were guaranteed that
there would be no prohibition
election held in Toni Green coun-
ty. The committee declined
give the guarantee, and one
the committeemen said:
“A few property owners de-
manded a guarantee that no pro-
hibition election would be. pulled
off. Neither the hotel committee
nor any one else has the author-
ity to give such a guarantee.
Neither has prohibition or anti-
prohibition any place in the build
ing up of San Angelo. Besides
such demands will create discus-
sion in the ranks of the party
making them, and actually will
assist in bringing about the very
thing they are trying to avoid.”
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Fox and lit-'
tie baby, and parents Mr.
Mrs. J. J. Fox, with Mr.
Mrs. Lon Mapes, motored
1,000,000
POLANDERS
FOR S. A
The Ladies Aid of the Eighth
Street Presbyterian Church will
Jiave a candy and pastry sale Sat-
urday, Oct. 7th, at the Miller Mer-
cantile Co. ltd nd
NOTICE
Our corn shipment delayed on ac-
count of scarcity of cars. West Texas
Grain Co. 4-2td-2tw
tonight ’s concert.
The highest price ever paid for ever paid for farm land in Run-
farm land in Runnels county was n<ds county, is the fact that the
money.
• Hoelscher and Ocker
niadeicvery dollar of the money
------|ig in Runnels county. Mr.
Waurika, Okla., Oct. 6.—Sever-
al hundred pioneer cattlemen of
Oklahoma are attending an old-
fashioned cowboy reunion and
tourney at the “KW” tank, thir-
teen miles east of here today.
Broncho busting, roping and
other cowboy diversions will be
staged and $900 in cash prizes will
be ylvarded the winners in the
contest.
The meeting will last through
Saturday, and dancing, bathing
and boat riding will he among the
other entertainment features
the temporary injunction res-
training the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee from placing the
name of the candidate lor rail-
road commissioner <»n the ticket,
both sides this morning agreed to
a postponement of hearing until
nine o'clock Saturday morning
Atto-mvs representing both sides
are trying to work out som • plan
for jvflling the question.
sj»eii1 in the effort to defeat Wil-
Demo-
This
Highest Cash Price Ever
Paid for Farm Land Here
Fighting
at Verdun
Renewed
Wm. Gray of the Crews coun-
try, was transacting business in
'the city Friday.
FORT WORTH. Oct. 6.—C. E.
Gilmore of Wills Point avowed
candidate for the vacancy on the
railroad commission caused by
the death of Judge Williams yes-
terday was granted a temporary
injunction in the Seventeenth
District Court, against Chairman
Waples and all members of the
Democratic state executive com-
mittee to prevent action toward
[selecting a candidate for that
I place. The order also prevents
j Secretary of State John G. M<*-
, Kay from certifying the name of
any candidate on the ticket for
social ion.
Gilmore’s petition alleges Wil-
liams was not the. nominee of the
democratic party for the place,
Agents For
Mitchell, Dodge and Maxwell Cars
VAN PEL.T, KIRK & MAGK
______Read of the other big savings—inside—
vr u-* -i WiL mi, and while the vote of this
McGregor received a I , . .... .
Wilbur Marsh, |C?Un^r^ W1 a^most solid for
by statue or action of the demo-
cratic party permitting the dec-
laration of a nominee by the exe-
cutive committee under such cir-
cumstances.
The petitioner declares the dec-
laration of a nominee by the com
[mittee will be equivalent to an
I election, and asserts such action
will be taking from the people the
right to speak and placing it in
the hands of “the political mach-
inery of the state.”
Buy $7.50 Worth Other Merchandise--Get—
20 Pounds SUGAR $1.00
As was to be expected the grand
... I jurv was disehraged Monday af
t-tta crrTurrmv /> * r rm. ter having reported no bills found
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—The 7 ‘ . ...
. , _ ’ , ; There has not been a bill re-
united Press learns from un- turm>(1 eilbcr Inis<ieriieanor o-
questionable authority today that felony, by a Sterling county gram!
Russia is negotiating with South jury for more than two years.
American republics for the colon-; Uut f°r a couple of appearance
• cases, in which no action could be
ization of over one million Rus- ’ . . , . .
. . » . » • taken until the 2nd day ot the
sian Poles in Latin America. term, court could have adjourned
It is the plan to establish a Monday evening.
Polish colony in some South Amer The only business transacted?
ican country as soon as the war hy the court was the granting o.
two judgments by default.
land.
Th< Schertz farm is producing
$30,000 worth of cotton this vear,
the crop being estimated at 300
balesl This is two-thirds as much
as tl® land sold for, and shows
Ake xllue of good farm land in
this (W'unty. The prevailing price
of cotiton makes good land in this
section valuable and there are no
prosp ets for a decline in realty
valuei. ,.hile the demand in-
creaw $ from year to year. While
$51 per acre may appear to be a
high price for land we predict
that this same land will be val-
ued at $100 per acne in less than
ten years.
By United Press
LONDON, Oct. 6— Orville
Wright, the great airship invent !
or, has presented all his patents)
to the British government free of
cost, according to today 's issue of
the aviation magazine, Aeroplane.
Every British manufacturer is
therefore enabled to use Wright’s
patents, valued at millions, unre-
servedly and without cost.
It is claimed, that the release
of all the patents will revive aero-
plane building in this country (
and enable the British govern-
ment to build aircraft for war
purposes at a { saving in cost.
from their homes near Pony creek adopt a diet of
Friday and were here to attend
the baptism of the baby Fox and
christened him Patrick Alonzo months.
Fox.
NIGHT PHONES Menr^"e’
For a Muddy Complexion.
Take Chamberlain’s Tablets and
vegetables and
cereals. Take outdoor exercise j
daily and your complexion will be
greatly improved within a few
...........;. Try it. Obtainable ev-
erv where.
Sterling City, Texas, Oct.
District Court convened here
day morning with Judge J.
Timmins on the bench and
District Attorney Milburn
Cartv
Jl-red
S I.
Jack
telegram from 1-------
treasurer of the National Demo-|®im» a ^ew dolors from here will
eratic Finance Committee, urging [help to overcome the damage that
that the Democrats in this city is being done by circulating anti-
respond promptly to the call for”"”
funds for the Wilson campaign.
Mr. Marsh stated in the telegram
that quick action was necessary.
Vp to this time nothing has
been done in Ballinger to assist
in financing the great National
campaign, and Mr. McGregor im-
mediately got busy, and in a short
while had about fifty dollars
ready to w ire in to headquarters.
The money will not be remitted
for a few days and all who will
contribute should see Mr. Mc-
Gregor, or pay in the amount at
any one of the banks in Ballin-
ger who will turn it over to Mr.
McGregor ami it will be wired to
Democratic headquarters at New-
York.
Millions of dollars are being
Presents
Patents to
England
paid this week when II. Gicsccke [ l*]1,c^ase Pr*cc *s home
sold the Wm. Schertz farm south
of Ballinger for $51 per acre, spot farnifc^ ‘ ~
cash. This body of land is located Ocke J made the money he used
between Ballinger and Rowena, Jin bu*ing the plaee on rented
being about six miles from Ballin- ’
ger. It consists of 892 acres and
at present is producing a good
revenue in crops.
Clement Hoelscher and Charlie
Oker became owners of the land
through the. deal closed this week
and Mr. Giesecke, representing
Mr. Schertz, received $45,492.
The purchasers of the land will
subdivide same, but the survey
has not been made, and we are
unable to say at this time how the
land will be divided between the
two purchasers.
One remarkable feature about
this land deal, aside from the fact
that it is the highest cash price
f
son and overthrow the
eratic administration.
makes necessary for the Demo-
crat^ to be active and
eve
RAISING
CASH FOR
CAMPAIGN
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 6, 1916, newspaper, October 6, 1916; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1178772/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.