The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1969 Page: 4 of 10
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-Cowpuncher's Life
landings and takeoffs
SUPER MARKET
can
can
KING SIZE
Btl/Ctn.
GRADE A LARGE
CLOROX
Bleach
»/, GAL.
Doz
Ruby Red
Golden Ripe
LB.
20 oz.
Garden Fresh
$79.95
1N2 that the Concha {cam.
I Ben Ficklyn) flood took
ae camp was nt the mouth
FLAT
CAN
Stayed with 74-H Outfit
Until Wire Fences Came
GRIP CLUTCH
Ol a Starts and
power propelled
Opportunity knocks but oncA
while temptation leans on th*
doorbell.
FOLD-DOWN
£ a For compact
• and easy port-
Fare 4—Section One, Thursday. March 13, 19W
The Ballinger Ledger, Ballinger, Texa*
THRU SAT.
March 15
20 Lb.
BAG
Miss Willie Hale gave a re
port of the spring convention of
District VIII. Texas Garden
Clubs, Inc., which met in Sweet
water recently, at the Tuesday
morning meeting of Ballinger
Civic Garden Club.
A former student at Ballin-
ger High School, Caswell s ad
dress is: Sp4 William Caswell
RA15775810, Co. D 94th Engr,
APO New York NY 09061.
Giant
Site
SP4 William Caswell
... in Germany
" Liquid
IVORY
WAmeeflrttach. abttrt twelve mBev
low Paint Rock, right across the Con-
cho River from D. C. Melton’s home.
That flcxxl swept the entire site of Ben
Ficklyn. a town, located on the main
Concho, as clean as a slate. Coming on
down it took everything before it. We
cowboys put in all our time trying to
help all we could, and roped everything
in that river, from cattle, horses and hu_-
man brings to baby’s cradle. Some of
the folk were already dead and some
were clinging to the housetops, and
divers other things. It was terrible to
see and not be able to do more than we
were, and yet we didjill we could.
Mrs. John Allbright. report
cd for the nominating commit
tee. The club president, (to be
named later); first vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Allbright; second
vice president and program
chairman, Mrs. Walter Muel-
ler; secretary, Mrs. E. A
Saunders; treasurer, Mrs. Bill
Clark: historian, Mrs. Joe
Beard; parliamentarian, Mrs.
Frostie Acres
Frozen
PEAS
Limit 2
ARMOURl>_AOc
star Bacon o #
Boston Butt
PORK
STEAK
"The\ Cardwell family, some five
miles below our camp, living in a tent
at the time their bouse was being com-
pleted, were all drowned at one time,
excepting Mr. CardWriL All of the
bodies. that is his wife and two children
were found a couple of days after drown-
ing, but one child was searched for
more than a week, when Fog Coffey, a
cowboy, found her in a big drift near
the mouth of the Colorado River. After
her body was found/ Mr. Cardwell said
he was ready and wanted to die and
he did that night, and we boys helped
to take up the bodies of the wife and two
children, and the five of them were
buried in one grave at Paint Rock one
day later. It was the saddest occasion
I have ever witnessed, just as that river
at its height was the most spectacular.
There were seventy-two people ‘drowned
in that flood and do telling how much
property was destroyed.
Work on the airfield at Stutt-
gart includes construction of
a ramp and hanger facilities.
US forces use the Stuttgart
civilian airport runway for
horses, loaded the girls in and off they
went, Having the eld stage driver ous-
ting and counting his money; They had
paid him $10 a couple to make the trip,
to he wasn’t so much' to the bad after i
all. But he had to walk ta, or ride one
ef the hones left there bareback
ADC DOUBLE CUT*
• High performance
de vacuum action
1 for a
spell New over they would stop and
graze along until another norther New
’em further en their way. After one of
our Mg blizzards I have seen as many as
It,Oto to 25,000 bead at that line at one
time. Of course we had no way of count
tag them, but we did not guess for
wrong I am sure. It wasn’t especially
* Hard work keeping ’em back, but it
wall disagreeable; for it was in the
coldest of weather that we had to be
everlastingly at ft. But we had good
times, too, and never missed swinging
our partners at the dances at Paint
Bock or Runnels.
meeting. Mrs., H B. Horn of
Del Rio, incoming president,
will, be installed at the next
meeting of TGC, Inc., May 26
28 in Austin Miss Hale was ac-
companied as a delegate to the
convention by Mrs J. P, Car-
son.
Ballinger man
doing work on
German airport
A national flower show judge
and a member of the speak
ers’ list of District II, TGC.
Mrs. Courtney give a talk on
the convention theme, ■“Flow-
Can.’’ Other speakers at
convention were Mayor
George Etz and Keith Vaughn,
manager of the Swoetwater
Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Charles Gibbs, district
president, presided at the
A Ballinger man, Sp4 William
Caswell, is part of a U. S. Army
group in Germany which is do-
ing construction work ort the
airport at Stuttgart, Germany.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald
L. Wiiltamg of Eleventh
St., BamRjfer. the soldier has
been in service for about 18
months.
"I want to speak a ward to every eld
open range Texas cowboy who reads
this. A lot of us cowboytahave banded
together and for several years have held
a reunion at my ranch, right out of old
Runnels town, on Coyote and Elm
Creek. Our organization takes care of
all expenses. Nobody pays for anything,
and there are no concessions sold. Wo
barbecue — and what I mean is we
barbecue — beef and mutton for every-
body, and the women folks bring the
“fixins'. There’s bread and pickles and
lots of good black coffee and camp for
everybody eamps. So come prepared to
do that. We have built a pavilion and
have on band old time fiddlers, who
make old-time music for old-time square
dances. We waltz and scottishe and poi-
ka, but there’s never a Charleston nor
turkey trot nor black bottom done. Us
boys trade yarns of trail of herd, drink
coffee, sing cowboys songs, and relive
as nearly as possible all we can of those
good open range days. Any- old-time
open range puncher is welcome to come
and camp with us the two days'. The
time is Tuesday and Wednesday on or
before the first full moon in August
every year. Don’t forget the place and
time, for there will be a 'light and put
her there. , <
ROTARY
ARE
Frostie Acres
Frozen
Carrots
20 “■ jL9c
Frostie Acres
Frozen
CORN
Gifts With
Scottie
Stamps
NIm Coffefle J
Mrs CoHelle president.
in charge of the business a<w
named the following commjttmj
to assist the-Chamber of Coito
merco decorating committee gg
the Chamber of Commerce beta
<iuet in April Miss Hale, MH
Clyde Gabbert. Mrs. E. A*
Saunders, Mrs W H Glim||i
and Mrs Mueller. »
Mrs J P. Carson and Mr<
W H Glimp were welcomed ag
new club members
Members were urged to ea<®
bring a new club member ■
the April meeting. £ L,
• Miss Hale presented the local
library with the “New 1U^
strated Encyclopedia $jf/,ttyr*
denemng.’’ Mrs. Bill • Clai*!^ rm
ported that Cl boxes of not*
paper had been received, whicR
is to be sold by club .member^
Carden Clubbers
hear of convention
I and Miss Ray Pipkin was married at
Runnels. They had a big dance and sup-
I par for them. I was much concerned in
a crowd that was coming over from
Paint Rock, for my girl was in one of
the six buggies that meant a lot to aev-
I eral of us boys if they ever got there.
The Colorado River was out of its banks
when we went down to see if we thought
thoy could cross, and moot of us were
looking forward to a good mourner's
bench instead of a good time after that
until we heard the boys had got the
girlsto say they would cross in the fer-
ry boat. As hick would have it, that
boat broke loose just before the crowd
reached the river, and it looked like a
lot worse than a stampede of cattle to
| us hoys waiting on the other side.
"But they fins tty - pot the girls to con
over in a skiff after the beys
had tied it out first and arranged with
the oM stage driver on the other side
to take them six miles to Runnels They
got across all right and loaded the girls
inside the stagte, with the boys on top.
up the second bank
to the river they began staging. About
the end of the first line that stage gave
a swerve and rolled over on one side,
depositing the top load on the ground.
Luridly it was soft and also muddy.
They cut the horses loose before they
had time to run, carried the girls out
of the danger zone, patched up the cut
o'clock and the women of the town
harried over to see if they needed any
thing they could supply ta the way of
dress. But the suitcases had neither
gotten wet nor left behind in the shuffle,
sat -pretty anon those girls came into
flje ballroom — the dining room* of the
hotel — ta pink and white tarlatan and
Me dippers looking as near like angels
as we boyr ever hoped to see We sure
had some fun at that dance and after-
Ward, too, for it was three days before
the river got low enough to ford and
what with hotel bills, care of the teams
and buggies' by the ferryman, amount
paid the stag driver and Incidentals,
none of us boys had any salary for two
months in advance that hadn’t already
been spent, for those of us who weren't
actually ta the crowd stayed around the
hotel and talked to those girls when-
ever we had a chance and helped the
boys out who had the heavy expense
until they left for Paint Rock. But we
sure did have a good timet
_______ **1 am like all of the other boys that
lived through wire cutting time, never
actually saw it done; but I got to the
O. H. Triangle ranch just about an hour
after it had its fence riddled. It was
a long pull and a hard one for the cow-
men who had come out and fought the
Indians off to see the sheepmen and
’nesters,’ as they called the farmer
then, buy the land and fence them out.
But«it bad to be, and after all it was
best, for it changed the country from
open range to good farms with schools,
improvements, and conveniences then
unheard of. It wasn’t easy for us boys,
used to going to all of the big round-upe
from Brown County to the Pecos, to go
back to stock farming instead. As for
taygelf, I have always had a right smart
bunch of cattle and always hope to
' have. But if I ever find another round-
up like they used to be I sure will go
and relive the old times over and be a
‘ real’cowboji again. _—
All Flavors z
JELL-0
Kimbells
PEARS
Argo Green Beans
V. Camp Pork & Beans X
Ranch Style Beans
Kimbell Yel. Corn can
R. Heart Dog Food
PACE CURED
PICNICS
DEL monte
TUNA
Boston Butt
PORK
ROAST
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Perry, Richard H. The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1969, newspaper, March 13, 1969; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184033/m1/4/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.