Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 19, 1906 Page: 4 of 12
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Published every Saturday.
Subscription $1.00 per annum.
SHEPHERD & LEE,
Proprietors.
ALBERT S. LEE, Editor.
ought
should,
a will.
manufMturer* of
> HAIR VIGOR.
PQ AGUE CURE.
' O CHERRY PECTORAL.
Yes. 100,000 times each day.
Does it send out good blood
or bad blood ? You know, for
good blood is good health;
bad blood, bad health. And
you know precisely what to
take for bad blood — Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla. Doctors have
endorsed it for 60 years.
One frequent eanie of bad blood ii a «lnRRl»h
liver. This produces constipation. Poisonous
substances are then absorbed into the blood.
Instead of being removed from the body daily
as nature intended. Keep the bowels oven
with Ayer’s Pills, liver pills. All vegetable.
Does Your
Heart Beat
fortunate.
property
J. D. Norwood, Mgr,
will
the
the
my ability,
pawnshops,
police court,
If you have visitors er if you know
any item which would be of interest to
our readers, please ‘ phone us and if
necessary we will send our reporter to
get data.
Entered at the postcffice at Ballinger,
Texas as second-class matter.
A Blessing in Disguise.
The rumor is afloat, and is so
authoritative that it is hardly to
be considered a rumor, that sev-
eral anti-prohibitionists have al-
ready interviewed some of our
merchants and informed them
that if they vote the prohibition
ticket they will cease to pationize
them. Ten days ago we had too
much respect for the antis to be-
lieve that they had any such
ECLIPSE
new shoe
While we want facts, we want
all the facts.
Facts and nothing but facts’ so
help me God.
If parts of the facts are good
all of the facts are better and
the whole truth is best.
Right may be injured by a
portion of the truth but, all
the facts do a righteous cause
good.
THE
like a
you get. If he rides both of us
much he will have to rise early
and keep late hours.
I will do my best
moral purity and
growth.
Should you doubt
I refer you to the
the poorhouse, the i
the penitentiary
Jim Brown Case Affirmed.
The case of State of Texas
v s Jim Brown was affirmed in
the court of criminal appeals this
week now in session at Austin.
It will be remembered that Jim
Brown (colored) was convicted
in the Dist. Court here last fall
for the murder of negro George
and sentenced to 15 years in
Penitentiary.
Try the Eclipse $3.50 Patent
Col; Oxford. Six new shapeP
toes, perfect fit and wear, f Ev-
ery pair warranted.
Lot Sale in San Angelo.,
We call atttention to an ad in
this issue of a lot sale in San An-
gelo May 24th to 26th by T. P.
Bell this is a very pretty part cf
San Angelo and no doubt
make pretty resident lots.
on.uuA.B m tneir ranks, but a little
time sometimes reveals wonders.
We are sorry indeed to learn
that Ballinger is burdened with
any sudti narrow-minded charac-
ters, and it is with reluctance
that we even have to class them
with anti-prohibitinnists.
The merchant who gets the
names of these whelps off of his
books first ought to consider him-
self
Will Issue Daily.
The Banner-Leader will issue
a Daily, beginning Monday, May
21 and continueing until the close
of the prohibition campaign.
We expect to give all the news
and keep our readers up with
the campaign.
Notice.
Come unto me, all ye that are
weary and heavy laden with run
down Sewing Machines, and I
will give you rest.
My work will make your bur-
dens easy, and my charges are
light.
Dan Lewis, the Sewing Ma-
chines!, at Mater Hotel, Phone
215.
Revival Services.
The revival services at
Methodist church are increasing
in interest. Rev. J. K. Wooten,
Evangelist, is a preacher of pow-
er. He and his wife will be with
us until the meeting closes. The
service will continue next week.
Come and bring your friends.
E. P. Williams, Pastor.
jnow that the Prohibition election is
ordered for June the 2nd and the cam-
paign is already in progress as pro-
moters of this issue, we, business men
in Ballinger and citizens desire to say
that campaign was inaugurated because
we believe the ope : saloon is an evil
and enemy to the best interests of
society in Ballinger and Runnels county.
This is a fight against a condition and
not against any man or set of men.
We live in Ballinger and are just as
much concerned about her future
growth and prosperity as any anti-pro-
hibitionist can be, we are
holders and are not afraid of any de-
cline in values or any other calamity
happenning to the town by reason of
Local Option as our anti-friends would
try to make you believe.
We are aware of the fact that our
anti friends call us enthusiasts cranks,
zealots and that we are actuated by a
selfish motive in promoting this cam-
paign, but be that as it may, we think
our cause is just, that as democratic
American citizens we have a perfect
right to launch this campaign and we
expect to fight it to a finish with our
efforts, our hearts, our means and
every other legitimate and fair way
we can command, and if wre lose, we
will have the satisfaction that we have
done our best to eleiminate what we
believe to be a detriment to the moral
and religious upbuilding of our town.
It is our aim to conduct this campaign
along a high plane, without abuse to
anyone, but we expect to arraign the
liquor traffic in such a way as to show
the evils attendant upon it's iniquitous
tendencies.
We grant you, that the anti’s have a
right to defend their side of the ques-
tion in a fair and legitimate way, but
we do ask them (the anti’s) to stick
square to the issue, instead of showing
what prohibition will not do. Please
state the good that saloons, running
under license do; show that they are
an uplifting force for good, that they
benefit society, that they develop the
educational spirit in a town,
tKat they are a good thing for the
women and children. Don’t confine
your argument to the weakness of
the local option law.
Defend your position affirmatively,
and do not try to dodge the issue.
J. N. Adams, H. C. Parramore, J. H,
Kelly, W. B. Currie, C. C. F. Blanch-
ard, T. A. Rape, W. W. Fowler, C. P,
Shepherd, C. O. Harris, C. F. Dicken-
son, T. S. Lankford, M. D. Chastain,
W. A. Davis, T. M. Osteen.
Prof. Ed. S. McCarver was in
town Saturday. He has just
closed the Deitz school near
Crews, and has secured the Crews
school for another year. Ed is
a bright and industrious young
man and a successful school
teacher. He will attend the Uni-
versity Summer Law School this
summer and remain in the Uni-
versity until time to open his
school at Crews. Ed is an or-
phan boy and has had a hard
fight to make himself what he is
and to obtain an education. He
graduated several years ago from
the Moody Academy which is
affiliated with the State Univers-
ity. Ed has many friends in
Runnels County and elsewhere
who are anxious to see him climb-
ing higher.
Fits
Fells like a old shoe si
Wears like a good shoe
A $5.00 value for
Tresspass Notice.
All parties found hunting, cut-
ting wood, gathering stock or
tresspassing in any way on the
R. K. or H. C. Wyle ranches will
be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law. C. A. Doose, Ballin-
ger, Texas. w. 42
A Change of Heart.
• The following article appeared |to pour' it 'into him e“very chance
in the daily Ledger of Wednes-
day May 16th, which tells the
truth about saloons and we are
indeed glad to see Bro. Truly
get right on the question,—
WORK DONE BY SA-
LOON.
The Following is Said to be
the Agvertisement of a Sa-
loonkeeper in Tombstone,
Special Sale
On Mens’ Boys’ and Ladies’
NECKWEAR
Our large show window is full
of new and stylish neckwear.
Value
Advertising
Patrons.
The Banner-Leader accepts
advertising under the guaranty
that its Aeturil Bonafide paid
Circulation is as large as any
paper published in Runnels
County, i
A Thought,
The number of signatures on
the petition to the Commission-
er’s Court ordering a local option
election in Runnels county, ap-
proximated 500. So you can see
that this represents about 25 per
cent of the voting strength of
Runnels county, since 2082 poll
taxes were paid. Now, don’t
this look good to the Pi j’s.
It occurs to us that The Led-
ger man made a reckless guess
when he guessed “in all proba-
bility” there would not be enough
signers to the petition to warrant
the granting of the election. He
made this guess, he thought, to
suit the occasion, and to have
some incouraging effect, and it
did from what we have learned,
have a wonderful effect, but to all poor. 7
the sorrow of The Ledger man. in infidelity, dissipation,
Had he been an employe of a
real up-to-date newspaper man,
instead of a proprietor, and will-
fully and intently made such a
bust as he did make, he would
have been hunting a job before
the ink dried on his “article.”
A man who will blow up his
town and county to “newcomers”
as being the “garden spot of
Texas,” and urge them to locate
and become citizens; citing his
own twenty years of successful
experience here as evidence that
Runnels county is all that he
claims it to be; we say that a
man who can and will do all of
this, and then fling such an in-
sult into the faces of the “new
comers” as he has, does not de-
serve their recognition much less
their patronage.
It does not pay a fellow to be
too pat in this age of hustle,
bustle, phones and telegraphs,
because he is liable to become a
“newcomer” when he least ex-
pects it.
SMig Dictation.
Yesterday’s Daily Ledger
thought it made the hit of the
season when it reproduced a
short editional clipped from the
Miles Messenger, wherein it
had handed him the straight
truth consisting of just what it
thought about a man who is so
fond of money that for a
few gold dollars would publish
just such excerpts of an official
record to bear him out in deceiv-
ing the voters of Runnels County.
The reason, old man, that the
editor of the Miles Messinger did
not attempt to explain the simple
reason why your Bell County
stuff was “rot, ” was that he
deemed it wholly unnecessary,
becanse it came from a source
that absorbed what little truth
they got “through the pores
of their skins” and not through
their hearts.
We and the Messinger are
in this fight because we know it
is right—you are in it old man
for the dollars and cents.
Don’t hesitate, brother Perry,
Not in The Market.
The Ledger has exausted
enough hot air about the size and
length of its subscription list
during the past few weeks to
have stalled a double-header
going down the steepest grade
on the Santa Fe route.
Blow on March wind, “it is an
ill wind that does not blow good
to some one.” The Banner-
Leader, however, is not bidding
for any of your “papaw” or
“bee-course” subscribers.
Election Ordered.
The Commissioners’ Court has
passed upon the petition signed
by about 500 citizens and duly
qualified voters of Runnels coun-
ty asking that body to order an
election at the May term fou the
purpose of determining whether
or not the sale of intoxicating
liquors should be prohibited
within the limits of Runnels
county. The election was grant-
ed May 16, and was set for June
2, 1906.
the hospital,
and the gallows, where you will
find many of my best customers
have gone. A sight of them
will convince you that I do what
I say. Allow me to inform you
that you are fools and that I am
an honest saloon keeper.
Friends and Neigbors: I am
grateful for past favors, and,
having supplied my store with a
fine line of choice wines and
liquors, allow me tc inform you
that I shall continue to make
drunkards, paupers and beggars
for the sober, industrious, re-
spectable part of the community
to support. My liquors will ex-
cite riot, robbery and bloodshed.
They will diminish your com-
forts, increase your expenses and
shorten life. I shall confidently
recommend them as sure to multi-
ply fatal accidents and incurable
diseases.
They will deprive some of life,
others of reason, many of char-
acter, and all of peace. They
will make fathers fiends, wives
widows, children orphans, and
.1 will train your sons
. ' . ' > igno-j
rance, lewdness and every other
j vice. I will corrupt the minis-
ters of religion, obstruct the
i Gospel, defile the church, and
. cause as much temporal and eter-
nal death as I can. I will thus ‘
“accommodate the public”—it |
may be at the loss of my never |
dying soul. But I have a family |
i to support—the business pays—
and the public encourages it.
I have paid my license and the'
traffic is lawful; and if I don’t)
sell it somebody else will. I.
know the Bible says, “Thoushaltl
not kill,” “No drunkard shall!
enter the Kingdom of Heaven,”
and I do not expect the drunkard I
maker to fare any better, but 11
want an easy living, and I have!
resolved to gather the wages of I
iniquity and fatten on the ruin i
of my species.
I shall therefore carry on my
business with energy, and do my |
best to diminish the wealth of
the nation and endanger the
safety of the state. As my busi-
ness flourishes in proportion to
your, sensuality and ignorance,
to prevent
intellectual I
We want to buy your eggs &
butter and sell you your Gro-
ceries.
Godwin Grocery. Co.
Very large and extensive
line of ladies’ Canvas and
Kid Oxfords Value
51 Ii H
Beautiful selection of Drew
Silby Oxfords in Kid and
Patent Kid, Value
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Cockrell, C. C., Sr. Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 19, 1906, newspaper, May 19, 1906; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1180404/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.