Ballinger Daily Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 282, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 7, 1923 Page: 1 of 4
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Ballinger Daily Ledger
VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 282 BALLINGER, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7,1923. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
100,000 CUT OFF
Our Pet Peeve
INTRODUCING
Men’s and Young Men’s
Spring Suits
BUYS HOME ON EIGHTH 8T.
Monroe Clothes
Read th* ads and profit.
Who is the Devil—
Quality is a Saje Guide to True Economy.
WHERE
THE HUB
abductors.
DID HE
Everything to Wear
GET HIS
i a n
POWER
they did riot charge for their
There
< ’ourt
NEW HATS FOR OLD ONES WITH
JOHN A WEEKS
first
The Beautiful
TODAY
was
Wallace Reid in
Sunshine
Admission 10c and 25c
Oldeet - Biggeft Beet
the
the
the
the
law
ap-
in'r
Ballinger.
March Sth,
Flowers
should
work
been
station,
Ballinger
Ballinger
entire
Mandc-
flo w e r
and
coin
where you can get hot bis-
cuits; hot waffles and hot
cakes with maple syrup, as
well as other good things to
eat. If we please” you tell
others, if notjtell us.
by their own people. A date
about six weeks hence has been
WINS SIXTH PRIZE IN
SUBSCRIPTION CONTEST
SOCIAL MEETING AT
METHODIST CHURCH
J. W. Tippett, of the
country, was a visitor
county site town first
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 7.—
During the two years of Pres*
ident Hardings administration,
ending March 4th, almost one
Crews
to
of
The smashing tale ol a ne’er-do-well who puts hia
snobbish family on the map. With a few straight
.1, (I. Goetz, of the llatehel
country, was transacting business
in Ballinger Tuesday.
“The World's Champion"
Y. Pearce
Drug Co.
The South half of the block on
Broadway between Hutchings
and the Santa Fc has been cov-
ered with brick and the brick
layers are working on the North
half of the block, which will also
be completed by the end of the
week.
With favorable weather there
will be no cause for further coin
plaint in delay of the work, and
two months will put the job up
almost to the end of the program.
E. ('. Moor has purchased the
I home opposite the Weeks home
I on Eighth Street from John A.
Weeks. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Stone
have been occupying the place
for some time.
For the new season we present many new
fabrics, with splendid wearing qualities; the
pattern developed in mixtures of tan and gray.
A determined effort to kill the
bill to authorize the consolidation
of the Frisco and five other rail
roads will be
measure conies
until assurance
officials of the
Great Northern
shopmen will be returned to
as it is alleged that had
the concrete work will be com-
THE WEATHER
Tonight fair; Thursday
clfiudy.
Miss Kate Cockrell will M<ar a
■How gold wrist watch as the
ubscript mn contest
increasing the fees on autos
proximately one hundred
out
old I
without a record vote. The bill
was debated for three hours and
several minor amendments adopt*
trike out
exempt ion
and < 'hr i s t
Watch for “The Storm” which
wall hit Ballinger! 7-4d
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK. March 7. John
A special invitation is extend
ed the new members to come
and get acquainted. The
members are urged to leave
hind “the cares that, infest
day,” come out.
acquaintance
am! welcome the new members.
('ommittee.
We have handled
ville and King’s
seeds for thirty years,
have never heard a
plaint.
Ladies, call and look ever
the elegant variety.
the
and rem w the.r
with each <thcr.
made when the
up in the House,
is given by the
International A
that striking
(By Associated Press)
Al STIN, Mar. 7.—The Court
of Criminal Appeals today tit-
participate!]. M s
of the largest lumber companies
in Texas and president of the
Southern Tariff Association, and
one of the best known financiers
anil politicians in the Southwest,
is made defendant in a suit filed
in the supreme court by Miss
Olga Ralph.
Mias Ralph is a music student
at present in Evanston, Ill. Hhe
has brought suit against Kirby
for $4.00o. She alleges in her
petition that Kirby promised to
give her <u"»00 per month for the
remainder of her life for >*«•
nouncinft the name of Kirby, af«
ter she had adopted it at his re-
quest. ,
Miss Ralph ia twenty-n 1 n e
J. R. Fielder was in the city
from Abilene Tuesday, looking
after the interests of the Hardin
lumber yards.
It is pointed out that as a pub-
licity “stunt” it would reach
over the entire 1’nited States,
Canada, foreign countries ami is-
lands, where the excellence of
the Telegram's broadcasting ap-
paratus and programs is s well
known that radio “fans” listen
in on Fort Worth in preference to
<>t her stat ions.
<>n a charge of misappropriation
of public funds.
The court denied a motion for
rehearing in the case ol ...........
Sagu, senten- ed to death in Wil-
liamson county for the murder of
S. (). Woffered.
The big concrete machine made
a record breaking run Wednes-
day morning when for the
hour of the day’s work
square yards of concrete
poured out on Hutchings Avenue
on the block between Broadway
and Seventh Street. The big
machine is crawling r
> Morgan, former chief
in the state treasury de-
EAT >T
Rhode's Cafe
tor of St. Paul Church, Abilene, i
and Rev. T. S. Barens, presiding
Young Woman Sues Texas
Lumber King for $4,000
NOTICE
Our driveway facing Broadway
will be open from now on. Enter
Broadway at Santa Fe tracks,
drive over new paved street for
your Gas. Oil, Free Air and
Water. Yours for service.
MAGNOLIA FILLING STATION
*7-41 *1
(By Associated Press)
Al STIN. Mar. 7. The House
passed the bill and it was sent to
the governor for his signature
today, with amendments made in
the Senate amending the medical
practice act. The vote was !tO to
pl. The House
amendment to s
clause granting
chiropractors
the bell rings.
Cast Includes Lois Wilson
A Paramount Picture
Also Universal Comedy
The House engrossed the
Senate bill to prevent the
of Criminal Appeals from reiers I
ing criminal eases on grounds ofi
technicality and irregularity.
The House passed th® Qusid
general emergency appropriation
lull appropriating $214,204.
The House investigating com
niittee recommended the recalling
of all girls paroled from the
training school at Gainesville to
other institutions, and the aban-
donment of the parole policy.
The committee said that the com-
mitting judge ami probation offi
cers should be consulted before
the paroles were granted. The
•ommittee recommended increas-
ed facilities and the establish-
ment of the office of business
manager for the school.
CONCRETE SPREADER
MAKES RECORD TIME
Hart Schaffner & Marx
with two pair pants.
COLORS OLD a NEW STRAW HATS
Bring vour old Mraw hat* out of the cloaet. CoIorite them. Haw new hats
thia )r*r without coat. iKiti’t take chance* with imitations. Cone to ua
for the original, eatiafaction guaranteed liolonte. In sixteen colors to suit
is sixty-three and is married;
that in 191S he agreed that if she
would give up her entire time to
hint and travel with him as his
secretary and companion that he
would take care of her for life.
The young woman said that later
an agreement was made to give
up the name Kirby, which she
adopted by a court order, and
that the agreement also ineluded
the return of all letters and pho-
tographs and other documents
con Acted with the case. Miss
Ralph alleges that Kirby agreed
to pay her $500 a month if she
would drop his name and return
letters, photographs, etc, and
she entered into the agreement,
and the is now seeking to recover
amounts due under the terms of
the alleged agreement.
MOONSHINERS LOCAL TALENT
BURY OFFICERS RADIO PROGRAM
UNDERCARCASS
DOCTOR LEFT
IN MUD PUDDLE U. S. PAY ROLL
RY DOPE FIENDS
The Young Men’s Business
League is endeavoring to arrange
with the Ft. Worth E*- -
(By Associated Press) ( gram’s broadea sting
FRANKLINTON. La.. March i W BA I’, for a special
7—The bodies of Wesley Crain ought, at which time
and Wiley Pierce, deputy sheriffs! artists would furnish the
who were slain by moonshiners program.
last Saturday, were found early! The program would consist of
today buried in mud under the! numbers by the Saxophone Sex-
carcass of a cow. The body of tet and young lady soloists, and
Pierce wA mutilated with an axe.1 a talk on Ballinger and the Colo-
The slavers of the officers,' ™do Irrigation project. The art-
John M urphy and Gideon Kester,1S1S,S " '•* he taken to Ft. Worth
moonshiners, confessed to the jautos, donated by generous
crime and led the officers to the Ballinger ’boosters. Speeml
burial spot The two men had photographs of the performers
previously been rounded up with I «"'ild be carried in the Star-
ten others and placed in jail by | Telegram prior to the event.
a posse seeking the slayers of the J Mr. Teague of the Ballinger
two deputies. -------
with strong evidence the
whiskey makers made a
mi i(»r |
f ManuelI eomiu t.-.
in which
(By Associated Press!
OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar. 7. —
I Dr. B. Cheston Goldberg
into police headquarters here to-
day and told the officers that he
1 regained consciousness ami found
himself ly ng in a pop! of mud
thirteen nines from the city, after
he had been beaten and robbed.
Dr. Goldberg was abducted by j
four unmasked men from his
home last night. His face was’
disfigured by unexplained slashes
I from eyes to the throat. The
physician expressed belief that
his captors were sr.-king narcot-
ics in his emergency kit. They
robbed him of a diamond ring,
$»i0 in money and other personal
effects.
The authorities said that the
only elm- leading to a description
of the men ua- furnished by Mrs.
Goldberg who tried to drive the
men away front her husband In
the sniffle a i.at sold by a local
SPEEDS UP AS COURT AFFIRMS
END IS NEAR DEATH SENTENCE
walked j hundred thousand employes have
been separated from the govern-
ment service. This was given
out in tabulation made under the
direction of Mr. Harding.
; Mr. Teague of the Ballinger
When confronted I Electric Co. is the originator of
two the idea, and plans to arrange a
confes- special hear i n g in Ballinger,
sion and told Sheriff Murphy erecting a receiver in some public
that the meh were killed after the place where all of Ballinger
pair had arrested Crain and could hear the program rendered
Fierce in a raid on their still.
Estelle McDonald ol Sonora, w< n
the first price a I >■••!•?■ ar
10 I4().7()o votes. The s. nd and
third prizes were won by San
II be a get-together Angelo parties.
the Methodists of I
Thursday evening. Watch for "The Storm which
at the church at 7 30 will hit Ballinger! 7 4d
m has been prepared I
f special music, and
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Sledge, A. W. Ballinger Daily Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 282, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 7, 1923, newspaper, March 7, 1923; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1206387/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.