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The Banner-
edger
NUMBER 27
BALLINGER, TEXAS, FRIDAY. MARC H 26. 1920
OLUMNE 39
RANGERS
WILL PROBE
Hot
red
-Ule
iiiib'-r at 70,
f
at
Claudia Reagan 1".
I AG DAY IN BEHAlF
M.
Miss
PRISON AGENT GETS
OF BETTER SCHOOLS
SIX PRISONERS HERE
M
Man-
We are delighted to announce
Miss
number,
12 lit
I10VX
11 >•'
11 i.*,i >
Miss
in:.-.
M iss
till
. 135
Miss
COMMISSIONER SMITH
Mr
Yours f< r Ennis and Maxwell".
the
.•..ininisskhi r
1‘honi .120
the
tner
DISASTROUS STORM
r. suits.
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SWEEPS KANSAS
A Particular
point of our service is the fact that we
Tin
inent. Here you will find one
Look what we save
you
v as
Come in at once and get a six months supply at these prices
The Winters State Bank
Higginbotham Bros. & Co
Capital and Surplus $100,00000
liallingrr't Shopping Center
Deposits Guaranteed
$2.85
3,40
.85
.90
.90
.90
.80
a
in
the
but
the
J. XV. Fn’i’inan, of the \’..i: hern
part of the countv. had business
in Ballinger Tuesday
A I. Higdon and R B. R»>u<ts.
dry goods men, and part owners
of the Rogem-Higdon Co store at
Ollie at ' < I-
afternoon
\ isit in/
II'..t Iler,
rs II r.
INCREASE IN
GAS AND OIL
Tile
.Old
Lillie Aldridge . .
(Content ■
Velma 1‘rni ’
I..-.-II
Mrs
: )e u-
2 ■ I . ght t riotis-
l.e, ii killed since
i io. i,.. <mt on
or three and doing it
indifferent1 y.
The “luvorite Contest closed
at four o'clock Satin day after
noon with more than $700 real
ixed from the scheme inaugurated
to raise money to defray the ex
penses of the rural school annual
which the schools of this county
are issuing
Miss Cladi,i Reagan, of the
Hatchel schol led the race with
10,965 votes, with Miss Zuella
Mills, of the Victory school, run
ning a close second with 10,900
votes.
Miss Reagan Miss Mills, Miss
Myrtle Bowden, of the Maverick
school; Miss Marion Patterson, of
Drasco; Miss Hildegard Hcnni
ger of Dale; and Miss Alma Ty-
known MAXWELL automobiles, and
are now selling real XUTOMOBILES as
confer-
view to
the mat
Occasionally we find i person to whom a Eord
does not exactly appeal, but wants a real automobile
and is willing to pay the difference in price,
have the latest 1920 model and it is a beauty.
LABOR UNIONS DEMANDING
FULL CONTROL IN GERMANY
RUSHED TO
RED RIVER
Maxwell Agency
500 sack". Queen of Dallas l_l"ur at
15(10 sacks. Belle of W ichita I lour .it
500 gallons. Farmer J<...... Sv rup at
1000 gallons, Cascade Syrup at
800 gallons. Koo-Koo Sy rup at
500 gallons. White Star Syrup at
100 gallons. Blue Karo Syrup at
mg tin- higli groiimi <>i top
and filling the Imi place,, in de. p
drifts Thus uplamls wore strip
BLYS HOFLSCHER
STORE AT OLFIN
i.iis now in
■ I strike also
i. !. ut Wurt
i<- S. for Abilene, leaving •
with eight n an<| m- wm.itn
The penitentiary agent stat.
Will take pleasure in demonstrating
Fords or Maxwells. Call <m Us
AUSTIN, March 22. Fourteen
Texas rangers arrived in Austin
this morning from stations along
the Rio Grande and are expecting
to receive orders to report for
duty on the Red River, where
I Texas and Oklahoma are in litiga-
ree, of Barnett; were the winners tjon over valuable oil territory,
and their pictures will be pub The rangers will be sent to the
lished in the rural school annual, disputed area to reinforce fifteen
There were sixteen contestants )am>ers who are already on duty
and interest was intense during there under Caniain Erooks, hold-
the last hour of the contest, and jn« territory which the Oklahoma
more than $200 were cast in the courts have ordered Texas to re
box during the last fifteen min-'lease Gov. Hobby has refused to
relinquish possession of the ter-
ritory and will place moie ran
ers on the ?round.
■I for another
of the
fourteen
make a
fields in
following
i-ka, Km. Mai
reach mi! ! 11t''
T c long wml' i di '.ut h. ■
.ken in Cent nil Kansas,
' . L round dry lie u m l dr..i .•
p.vrt.tn, Much 22. — (Last
Night) Knl Lei’ien, head of
the E> ’. n labor unions, late to-
night demanded the resignation
of the entire Ebert cabinet The
radicals ..nnouneed that the un-
■j’’ ha ' decided to continue ’.heir
■cneril strike unless the govern-
o n plies with their de-
mands.
.Fra Mai
• ■ brought
r - n the
. t ■ < .-one un-
fl allies, ae-
r<- cd Imre
s ' th. lands
as o.-u re-
■;-w hr The
have been
boll worm in Te\ . and
WASHINGTON March 2d
Representative Dyer, of Missouri,
has introduced a resolution in the
House demanding an invest.^
tion for the cause of continued ir.
creases in the price of gasoline
and oils
Mr Dver calls attention to th<
f i , that four increases in g-isc
line and oils wre announced by
the oil interests last month, and
tcld what i huce niofit th will
idd u» th? industry. The n.at.-i
will probably be hissed p to tt <
attorney general for nromn; ict
’on.
$700 RAISED BY RURAL IPINK BOLL WORM MAY
SCHOOL FAVORITE VOTING CAUSE COTTON EMBARGO
•
..I i.v wag-
nt t<> about
E<t
in g. r Mon-
- have nnt
:si.n. but
day* when
With gin«
Angelo Saturday moiuin-.-
in.<• three ' "ii' lets w h<> he
Tli.-rcf' i", th
WINTERS WILL WEIGH
BALES COTTON
parties win. wer.
•tvd in th-' I
ami s.'iit■■lu.’d 1'
district court
term* in the pen. .
tin- motion
.[iss Hild'd. Henninger 7.-X39
(Dale s.-houl
Miss Myrtle It.wden
(Maverick
diss Wimma Moore . .
(Harmony
d iss Lea Baron ......
(Rowena
Luella Robertson
( Mazeiand
Irma t’hapiuond .
t < 'oeliraii
June Cumby ....
(Elm Creek
Lorenc Johnston
Zella Mills .....10,900
T March 2 3. —
ul.' ai il.-iaUy
ari red in the
a:..! f.ghtiug with
ai my there is ex-
utes of the contest.
Following is the total vote
Miss
r>..'l; tiresi.bd Ut th
• I > e Tile meet l|.e tldol
Alma Tyree ....".72->
(Barnett
Marion Patterson .."I11
AUSTIN. March 18 A special es . in of tin Tex.t legisl.it
jute may *’e i-lled ut an early date. Buch movi i beinj. consider-
ed for the purpose of taking some steps to ri-i Tex. s of the Pink
Bill wonn. it was announced nt the overnor s <!iice thi after-
noon
Ccvernor Hobby has received a letter from the United St ites
Dep-irtnient of Agriculture varninu him that unit Texa take
some immediate steps to vindicate the St it- of ; | . f,; boh worm
a strict Federal quar-antme against Texas < >ttor. and otton -eed
would be established t.nd enforced, and i .>■ ibly. i freight embargo
placed < n movements from Texas to other nates
The letter from the U S Department of A jiculture sug-
gested that Mr. Hobby rail a special session of ’he lee s’iture at
once.
DALIAS, March 'S- With
quarantine against Texas placed
by lo-iiiiana, Arkansas. Florida.
.and Alabama because of alleg- ’
ed presence in thiK state of the
pink boil worm of cott an. twenty, t
one representatives of Texas and I
other business interest
red here today, with
ascertaining all facts
ter
-ludg.' W. K Ram ■
Migh Cost of Living
Given Ma rd Blow
II. I-'. Demmer returned home
ia’urday from San Antonio,
i lu-rc lie was called attend the|
uneral of his brotht" x youngest
hild, a girl tweive years old
that he would pick up others at
Abilene and along down ti e |ii. •
until he reached the pen and
would go in enrlv . ext week with
about fifty lo w e.uiviets for th*-
state penitentiary
Mr Russell recently carried do
convict, to the pen from other
parts <>f Texas, ,-n.d h>' stilted that
he never saw silrh a waive of
crim.- of minor character that is
SAYS HE WILL RESIGN sweeping the stat. He stated
County Commissioner -I. 1> , that a large percent of the nice
Smith tells us that he will resign i he is carrying to the pen ar.' incn
his office at the meeting of the <-(,u\icte<I on torgeri and th.-t’
court next week. The county
judge will thus be called upon to
. appoint a successor for ’i.
Smith ami it i, suggested that I
George Miller of Wingate will |
make a good man in Mr. Smith s
place.
George is a good man and
Inake
quarantine officers . f th
• t Vh-k irg. Mis M •
at
el.Hscd
He
Eula Vinyard ..
(Lone Star school
Alma Davis ...... 220
(Stone school
latuLs were buried in drifts ■ d
earth.
It is ..ft’ieially reported that t’ •'
Ins, to wheat growers will r
millions >.f dollars It «as
second wind storm of a week
was much more severe than
one preceding it
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Sledge, A. W. The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1920, newspaper, March 26, 1920; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184405/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.