The Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 28, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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Cbe IBannersSLeader
BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY DEC. 28 1907
NO 15
3-8. POSSIBILITIES
Se
us for
A
Some
notice
last
the
$35 Per Acre for Land.
E. P. Williams, Pastor.
I.-R.
his last hours.
BISSER’S|mSSEH'S|RISSER'S RISSEB'S | RISSER'S BISSER'S
Great Slaughter Cost Sale of Merchandise
Of Merit
Wh olesale Gost--or Less
Adversity
I».
R. A. Risser & Go
Texas.
Balli
BETTER COME IN TODAY
AND OPEN AN ACCOUNT
*
A combination of circ
seasonable Dry Goods, Cltthing, Shoes, Millinery, ete. Absolutely no article in the <tock is reserved
everything goes in thiasale at
The Last Sunday.
who read this
The town is full of Christmas
• , I visitors and it is impossible for
Lilt) . . 1 11
the mak- us to make mention of them all.
Thad Thomson came in
Brownwood on the late
yesterday.
George Lagrone
one day this week, and with the
many changes to be made in ad-
l vertising necessarily cuts reading
Mrs. L. H. Bacon is visiting matter short.
friends in Miles, this week.
Rev, G. W. Newman and wife■
spent Christmas in Coleman with
Alfred Luckett came down
from Miles to spend Christmas
day with relatives.
Will and Farrar Gressett are at
home from a lengthy stay in
New Mexico and other places.
W. A. Perry, editor of Sweet-
water Reporter, accompanied by
his family, are here visiting Mrs.
Perry’s mother, Mrs. Cordill.
B. H. Melton, a citizen for a
long time of Santa Anna, and
wrell known over this section of
the sta^e, died at his home in
Santa Anna, last week.
Miss Erie Routh won the dell -
given away in the guessing con-
1 test by the City Drug Store and
We off er a complete new stock of Merchandise bought directly from manufactures at prices
that befy competition.
In our last issue our reporter
stated that Rev. E. P. Williams
and wife gave a six o’clock din-
ner to the Trustees and Board of
Stewarts of the Methodist
church, when he should have
said to the Board of Stewards
only.
Judge B. B. Stone, wife and
children returned from Dallas,
yesterday, where they were
called to be with Mrs. Stone’s
Comes to all of us at
some time in our lives,
and when the proverbial
“rainy day’’ falls to your
lot it is probable that
some ready cash will be
a great help over the
troubulous time.
Why not open a bank
account and lay aside a
portion of your earnings
as a safe-guard against
the future. An account
with this bank will re-
lieve you of a lot of wor-
ry, will be a step in the
right direction, and will
help to put your business
on a more systematic
basis.
First National Bank
Ballinger, •** Texas.
were-: La Verne Allen, Jack Blas-
dell, Edmund and Erskine Wil-
liams, Archie, Rothal and Ham-
mond O’Kelley.
this week purchased from C. A.
Doose & Co. 140 acres of land i
out of the W. M. Forbus tractI
in the Norton country, paying for
same $35 per acre cash. This is
Wert Will Start as Soon as Boiiis is
cirri. Abilene Will Puli Up.
As a result of an enthusiastic
mass meetirg last Saturday, at
which the move was pui| on foot
to raise the required
the Ballinger-Abilene |road, a
committee is at work soliciting
the bonus. Judge J. W. Powell
and Secretary of the Commer-
cial Club, Lee Maddox, have the
matter in hand, and are pushing,
the work, and it is stated that as
soon as the bonus is secured the
work of constructing the road
will start. . -
Chief Engineer McDaniel
writes from Abilene that he finds
upon investigation that the Com-
mercial club of that place is ready
and willing to meet any reason-
able demands from the Company,
and that the bonus at that end
nstances compels us to unload our large stock of new. up-to-date,
Bal-
after
renewals and increase subscrip-
tion list of a prominent monthly
magazine, on a salary and com-
mission basis. Experience de-
sirable, but not necessary. Good
opportunity for right person.
, Sta-
enterprise, and that, in his mind, i another^family a nice turkey was
there'is every reason to believe
that the conjecture will soon be-
come a certainty.
Signs of tbe Tines.
Following is an excerpt from a
^HntlTINR RFiiHRD letter from a wholesale and man-
anuu i mu ntuunu ufacturing house to B local flrm
The letter, in a condense form,
I tells the true condition of busi-
ness and financial matters gener-
ally:
‘ All danger of a financial pan-
ic is over. The soundness of our
Banks has been fully established
and they are fast resuming cash
payments. Exports of Wheat
and Cotton will be heavy, giving
us large cash balances in Europe
to draw against.
This is a great country. The
underlying conditions are sound;
Farmers generally have had a
prosperous year; The enormous
amount of steel articles made
during 1907 has practically gone
into use, which leaves small or
no stock on hand, and just as
soon as financial matters assume
their normal condition there
must necessarialy be a heavy
buying movement to take care of
the actual needs of the coming
year.”
M. W. McGinnis and family
are here from Sweetwater visit-
ing relatives.
Nick Stallworth was in first of
the week to meet his daughter,
who came in from school,
Mrs. J. G. Douglass returned
brought her sister.s two children
j home with her.
I
Among those who applied for
license to wed this week are
Walter Bost and Eunice Mat-
thews; Emil Salge and Augusta
Bredemeyer; C. E. Slaughter
and Julia Thompson; P. B. El- i
liott and Peble Nesbit; Frank
Corder and Laura Stovall. Vance
Wilson and Loula Moore; D. W.
McShann and Elsie Hunt.
Fire Excitement Last Night. DDCAkC ll/RDI D
At six-thirty last night a fire wUHLU
; alarm was turned in from E. D. i
Walker’s residence on Thirteenth
j Street. A ballon fell on the
Sunday School Makes Substantial Bitts roof and set the shingles afire, Out of Total of 72,500 Targets Only
to Needy Families in Ballinger.
SANTA GLAUS
FOR THE POOR
Notice-Keep Out.
All my lands which boarder
Valley Creek are posted and I
hereby warn all parties to keep
out. No hunting, pecan gather-
ing or trespassing allowed.
tf W. E. Allen
and the blaze had started up be- Nine Shots Were Missed,
fore the fire was discovered. The
One of the most profitable fire company responded prompt- ^an Antonio, Dec. 22.—I ne
Christmas services .was that of ly and made a fine run, a few most remarkable shooting exhi-
bition ever pulled off with fire-
arms was concluded today when
Ad Toepperwein completed a ten
days’ shooting series, during
which time he shot at 72,500 tar-
gets and missed only nine.
This breaks the world’s record
ip several different ways, both
as to the number of targets shot
and the number missed.
Mr. Toeoperwein closed his
wonderful exhibition in whirl-
wind fashion, shooting at the
final 6,500 targets and scoring
only one miss. This one miss
was due to the wind, which was
blowing strongly and made ex-
tremely unfavorable conditions
for rifle work. The blocks were
very light and were easily swept
from their course.
Mr. Toepperwein used a 22-
caliber automatic rifle and the
blocks were 2 1-4 inches thick,
and were thrown into the air at
a distance of twenty feet from
the point where stood the marks-
man.
Mr, Toepperwein^s longest run
was 14,540 without a miss and
there were several runs that
went over 13,000 without a miss.
Mr.- Toepperwein usually shot
about eight hours a day, and con-
sumed ten day’s shooting at the
entire 72,500 targets.
When Mr. Toepperwein began
to shoot he planned to break the
world’s record. He decided to
shoot 5,000 targets a day for ten
days, making a total of 50,000.
which is 10,000 over the record.
His shoots, however, averaged
about 7,000 a day, and he decid-
! ed to shoot the full ten days,
making the total of 72,500, with
the Eighth Street Presbyterian1 buckets of w’ater put
Sunday School. fire out.
An interesting program was
carried out after which the teach-
ers of the Sunday School and a -Wanted
few others remained at the j Local representative for
church and sent out sixteen box- linger and.vicinity to look
es filled with things calculated
to make Christmas merry for
those who were not financially
able to provide for themselves.
A box was delivered to each fam-
ily and the contents of each box
consisted of a sack of flour, 2! Address Publisher, Box 59,
pounds of coffee, ' 50c sugar, 1 tion O, New’ York,
gallon syrup. 1 bucket lard, 3
cans corn, 1 can baking powder,
50c bacon, apples, oranges, nuts,
candies, toys and in several of
the boxes dry goods and cloth- have permitted fifty-one Sundays
......... * go-
ing, and the w’riter noticed in to pass by this year without
one box a big fat hen and to ing to church.
‘ Sunday will be your
sent. Truly Christmas was made chance
glad for the poor in Ballinger, j Sunday at w a m
Preaching at 11 a. m. at
Court House.
n n Preaching at 7:30 p. m. at the
P. B. Campbell, of Hill county Christian church<
brother-in-law, Walter Knight.
M. D. Leslie, of the State Uni-
versity of Kansas, is spending
Christmas with his parents, Rev.
and Mrs. J. D. Leslie.
At the Thompson boarding
house on Christmas eve. Rev. friends.
J. D. Leslie spoke the words that L. C. Proctor and family are
united in matrimony C. E. ; here from Midland spending the
Slaughter and Miss Julia Thomp- holidays.
son- j Lit Chastain, from Coleman
Frank Maddox, of the Lee1 spent the holidays, this week
Moddox insurance agency went' visiting relatives,
over to Paint Rock w’ith the ad-
justers 4ast Friday and the loss-
es which occured there a couple
of weeks ago adjusted to the
satisfaction of all parties con-
cerned.
Mrs. E. L. Rasbury gave a din-
ner narty last Friday evening at
7 o’clock in honor of her daugh-! home from Itasca, to-day. She
ter, Miss Bertha and her guest
Miss Kidd of Talpa. An elegant
six course dinner was served and
thoroughly enjoyed after which
the guests played a number of
interesting games of 42. The
following were present: Misses
Mammie Kidd, Bertha Rasbury,
Minnie Lewis, Clara Malone, and
Messrs: Ralph Erwin, Scott Man-
gum, Everett Hardgrave and
Lawrence.
> foreign capitalists, in looking
I over the field for a new railroad.
odauMio dotputed wbich wil1 quite probablybe e.x
unUn1IW DRlun I tn tended from Abilene to Comfort,
j by way of Brady.
From directions north and
south through the territory men-
tioned there are no railroad facil-
ties and the only access to that
part of the country now is from
Fort Worth, The distance now’
under consideration for the line
is 250 miles and according to a
statement made by Mr. Dunham,
the country abounds in the most
favorable conditions, despite the
fact that this year’s crops have
been very poor. The prospec-
tive terminal is scheduled for
Abilene and at Comfort the nat-
ural connections will be with the
“Sap.”
The Texas and Pacific and
Wichita Valley also reach Abi-
lene and Mr. Dunham appears
very enthusiastic over the pros-
pects. He .states that he will
continue his observation survey
_ __ ~v v immediately after the holidays
of the line can be had for the and within two weeks time will
asking. As soon as the Ballinger be eenabled to make a report to
bonus is secured a committee jthose financially interested in the
will meet with the Abilejie peo-
ple. ' i
Ballinger must have this road,
and if you have failed to sub-
scrib to the bonus, and are
to do so you are neglecting
duty as a citizen. As has
stated time and again if we
get busy and secure
road the line will be built
Abilene to Brady and will
run East of Ballinger.
LOCATINtt A NEW LI
Fort Worth ^Tex., Dec.
M. Dunham of the contracting
firm of Coppage & Dunh? n has
returned from Brady, wh<j-e he
has spent the last two weeks, father, Jud *e Henderson, during
while representing a party of
Happy Xmas for Seven Boys.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
evidence sufficient that Runnels j O’Kelley was a merry place on
county land continues to grow in Xlnas eve. A beautiful tree
value despite a short crop and was arranged in honor of their
money panic. guests, *Mr. and Mrs. Brchie Al-1
------------ ! len and their little son, of Lock- i
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Boyd spent hart. Among those present were
Christmas day with relatives in Dr. and Mrs. Blasdell. Mr. and
Brownwood. Mrs. Geo. White, Rev. and Mrs.
11 ~ E. P, Williams and Santa Claus.
The youngsters who furnished
music with horns, drums, and i
pop-guns, and ate candy, fruit,;
nuts, and cake until a late hour, i I**
T ... T i th onlynine misses.
I \/X^M»-»XX A I I XX*-. I«xz\lr l_l I xx xx
The w’onderful marbsman used
two rifles loading himself and
shooting 500 shots with each gun , Miss Eleahor Kirk won the one
alternately in order to keep them given away by the 5 & 10c Store,
cool.
from There was a very large crowd i
train out at the shoot to witness the
closing day’s work in .......
is herefrom in^0^ tbe record- • T . pp -, wants a little Christmas vacation
Johson County on a visit to his vvein s work was Wldely applaud- anj tfie Leader force observed
ed. <— *------ — — *
Naples at Cost
Shoes at Cost
Dry Goods at Cost
Clothing at Cost
Hats at Cost
Underwear at Cost
Biankis at Cost
Ladies Suits at Cost
Ladies Skirts at Cost
Ladies Mats at Cost
Dress Goods at Cost
Everything at Cost
IV VIIUI^UU VI VUIU VII n|JfJI VMUIIVII WUIIII^ IIIIV VUIV
Come and examine ourl
buy them.
jtock. You will find goods cheaper than you ever thougt you could
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Sledge, A. W. The Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 28, 1907, newspaper, December 28, 1907; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1181415/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.