The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1929 Page: 1 of 6
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BALLINGER, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER «, 1929
VOLUME NO. 4*.
In Abilene This Week
Showed Runnels leading all West
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3 30 exander, county health nurse and
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Divorces in Runnels
in ’29 Show Gain
in rried uf
ght years
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West
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Monday, Dec. 14—9:00. Blanton;
10.00, Dietz; 11:00, Herring. Lunch
the
will
Talks by
& M. ex
h been living on the
in the Hatrhel com
Mrs Franklin, newly appointed
health nurse of Brown county was
cot
for '
the standards of the state depart-
ment.
Statistics prepared here by Miss
Oe rria Sirgietary, district clerk
work done to the Abilene meet-
ing
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Hill
Bethel
alleged
•el bill
i all
com
ing made at each school
The itinerary is as follows:
Monday. Dec 9 9:00 am.. Run-
nels: 10 00 Hatchel; 11 00. Frank-
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ne
Wedr
Brookshier;
Ma rie
Thursday
Boy Injured by
Fall Sunday Dies
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geli
Mi -st
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dis; riet
thirts I
schools
y ars.
Imai D/Ierhi^ on
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1929
7 435
5 556
25 310
5 063
15 623
3 739
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same date in 1938
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Brown
Coke
Coleman
Comanche
Concho
Garaa
Haskell
Jones
Llano
Lubbock
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Mason
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in shortest
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the young
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beaten hi
Ballinger
Roads 10 00. Red Bank.
Bed Lunch at C. H. Ray’s
Honeycutt, !
H rris place
munity ! । u
Crepes - Salifts
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ANNER-LEDGER
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Seven days will be spent in the ! at L. Dietz’s. 1:30, Crews,
inspection trips, a brief stop be- ■ Content
at tne
ve tl.e i
here the
Ml, Georgia Walker late aid
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our plant it > omplet and up to the minute, wi are in position to give real
service in abstracting
ty will take fine reports of the I him
. 'i pe ople His sudden
la a ' ' dy indeed
, no th” shadow
of Hie visit
V former
had met
a cl *
tension service will feature
Holin gsworth. Runnels
County agents and their coun-
ties are: J. A Barton, Comanche;
Mark Buckingham, Erath; J V
Bush, Howard; C. H Clark. Nolan.
«d your
>'. regula:
when hf
• ar. • r 'l n in prev i
<■<•111.• Superinter
H I ARM STR NG I vmg been in th C
Tailoring busines: in 13 iger for twer ty ' '' 1 h e
made many friend, a' .! istomers, and I am ' W. '
pandlng my busin Include the Fun i CH NEk ’1.
WOOLEN CO LINE of fine Clothing and to quc! /
introduce this line in Ballinger I am going to make He
following off< r:
TO THE FIRST 50 CUSTOMERS. 2 SUIrs OF EQUAL
VALUE 437 50
SIGN YOUR NAME
PRESENT THIS CARD TO ME Thursday Friday, or Sit
urday. December 5 A 7 1929, make a small deposit and
be measured tor one of my famous >37 50 Suits, and re-
ceive another Suit, overcoat er Topcoat, of equal value at
No ADDITIONAL COSI Remember folks, th - offer ends
Saturday night, December 7 at 10 p m
Kemember, After This isle All Suits from This line will
he $37.50 Each
Bailey here *' ■ d
Friday Dec 13 9 00 Barnett means . of carrying it out
Cooper. Callahan; W
Mitchell; E Gibbens,
Armstrong Tailor Shop
Fit and satisfaction Guaranteed Lining Guaranteed for
Life of Suhs _ . ..
We Have Huh Us This Week L i Expert to Take 3 our
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popular with
i .v v. • is that the fune
ture on the J R Harris place ■ started to breaking land in mi
playing in some way two of the parts of the county
horse collided and the steed
Elmo V Cook, Bosque.
Honeycutt and two other boys within
■' rty-six schot . advis ing
-.g fon
Will yi u enje • tin
d> pend on others?
peace, comfort, inde r i
I II I Is I IKI I HI si ASONS
inspector's visit, and all efforts be i 10:00, Norton; 11:30, North Nor-
made to have the school in first J ton Lunch at Jim Campbell’s,
class condition and according to 130 Mazeland; 3 00. Oak Creek.
11:00 a visitor in Ballinger Monday.
1:00 coming here to see Miss Addie Al-
four years
inspector for the rural school
supervision division ol the state
The report of cotton ginned in iepartment of educati will be
14th in fl ; ill er Monday 1 ember 9
Texas prior to November
01 will you
ly for rest
ABILENE. Dec 2 County farm
agents from 21 West Texas coun-
ties in district thru of the Texas
A. & M. College Extension Serv-
ice. 13 home demonstration agents
and key bankers from the various
countis will attend the annual
meeting of county and home
agents here Decembe r 5 6.
The mecting is for the purpose
of outlining work to be done dur-
Mt Walker is th- la
inspector to visit I.
sch .nd also is in
earilest ■ .it which t
to consult her on her methods of
' inspecting school children, and the
way that she kept her records
The entire day was spe nt in go-
ing over the health work and
Mr Lehmberg stated Monday has approved the < st ' on of
that he would endeavor to work a $1,250,000 ' .aal hi
up a delegation of people from work to be n i ext
Ballinger who are interested in the
extension movement to attend the
u} ' rintendent
• 1 be made
on this date a re still ahead of
William Randall Honeycutt, ag‛ the 1928 report but the crop thi
16 years 7 months and 12 days year was practically an gathered
died at the Ballinger Sanitarium on this date whereas on Novem-
Tuesday morning at 2 20 Young ber 14th last year there was still
Honeycutt was seriously injured much cotton in the field Gin
Sunday morning when Ms hors nings to the middle of November
fell with him and rolled over him this year amounted to 39,589
several timer A Higginbotham bales in 1928 on this date 18 7 W! ■. ending a
that then- were thirty legal .par ambulance rushed to th. scene M bales had been turned out
ations granted in Runnels county the accident and brought the vic-. The 40.000 -bale mark 1 , , he
for the twelve-month pertod um to the local hospital but he. been passed this cou y (.
In 1924 19 divorces were never regained consciousness a d, the crop is about gathere , Ther,
granted, with 26 granted in 1927 death came rlv Tuesday
were made
for the census bureau depart-
Following i
muntty a
l”. Iv lies
be given
Eurogra m.
2.0. B Martin, st. ' director of
the extension service, will be one
ot the principal speakers on th*
progran, along with H 11 Wil-
,' amson, state farm agent and
vice-director of the service, and
T. B Wood;, director of district
No. 3 with headquarters at Col-
lege Station
Miss Mildred Horton, state home
demonstration agent will appear
on the program for the women's
division. Miss Helen Swift, dis-
trict 3 home agent, also.will at-
tend.
Key bankers from ich county,
chosen by the ba • r..' association
in cooperation wi h the A &: M
extension service, are expected to
attend the sessions. Bert E Low
vice-president of the Citizens Na
t tonal Bank of Abliene, - chal
man and kev banker of the dis-
trict. Ocie Hunt, of Bradshaw, is
the key banker representing Tay-
lor county.
The sessions will be held here
ti the Hilton Hotel.
Home demonstration age ' in
the district and the count; each
represents follow Misses Lucy B
Algood, Howard. Gertrude Brent.
Coleman; Caroline Chamber
Taylor; Genevieve Derryberry,
Runnel’.
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San Saba
1 .
. ; Taylor
Tom Gree
p le ot that
d was also a I
Budding sprin, 11 me
fruiting autumn । l m
lightful or direful di ,
vision t the . ■ It ol
the Rui.'
list of
Measure
BALLINGER TEXAS Phone 273
Navy er. Pt
nations, w ols
order lo cut tin
half Hie origin.
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21 169
25 242
2 193
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Texas counties shown g
mad here The li : t
this
aft
e col
six
o th r
year and th
In ; he let Ui
asks that
reudy for the
■ ill cost you no mure Estimates given 9
ri .er it, the
mates state
w ith tin in '
per is
lit'.
,1I1’,I the average li-
the couples hrld
was a fraction
Seven couple
’wo years. Hin l
three for three
no* include one ’
marriace d '•
tions filed alleged cruel
ment, the other two
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Tuesday, Dec. 17—9 80. Dale
Mexican; 10:00. Dale; 11 30, lunch
at Winters. 12:30, Victory; 2 00
Harmony; 3 30, Bugle Branch.
In upple 111’ :
V ; terred b’ si
j ce !■ d l. m .
3 go
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’ ■ t
. era : arr n . •
addle Hu play-
that hi remained
• until he had rolled
< < timt s and then
cot t . ted. t
tne dill ren
we you twenty-four hour service in most cases
b made । ii k v have lots of the material
already assembled.
which goes to in >k the figure
closer.
Fifteen children were involved
in the divorce p th. ns or an
••verage of two children to the
couple Twenty-eight ! th- P
: 9 00 Spring
Ridge, 11 00
Bethel 2 00
3-d widths, AAA , . M
an made by S< y V( eci: |
Marriages per capita have also
fallen off during the same period
the fell limp ti m the saddle
William Randall son of A B
Jeff Davis and Presidio; O P
Griffin, Brown; C Metz Heald
Taylor; C W Lehmberg. Runnel
•W I Marshall. Tom Green; E C
Martin, El Paso; R 8. Miller. Mc
L nnan; J. C. Patterson. East-
land: C. Snell, Coryell; 1. E Sum
ners, Schleicher; W P Weaver
Mils Frank Wendt. Midland
R E
j each
horses were down in the pas- will be stopped Farmers have
! babyhe od bb ’ s ming
hood, womanhood th
for him it Sweetwater which also i
was returned it is ’ ' ti l I
Bailey left Balling own
bills and checks whi 1 1 > at
tempt was made to pay
( fficers l ive
working on several clues in in
effort to find Bai..". nd rins
si .tin in Abilene Thursday Sev il
eral have signified their in - erat
linn of going to Abilene Thurs- count
DULUTH Di i
fol n inspection ol schools lin Lunch at Winters 130 p
A clearance •! 100 pair rt fall and
winter shoes. Pattern: taken fr m our reg-
mar stock of $6.00 and $7 00 shoi in which
our sizes are no longer completi \ll sizes in
the group but not complete on each shoe,
these are some of our best sellir g shoes. In
। i ials of s; '
ail height heel, i . shoi t it fit, i from
m , Cochran 2 30, Poe.
Tuesday, Dec 10 9 00 Baldwin j
10 30, Drasco; 11:30, Pumphrey 1
Lunch at J H Mitchell's 130
Midland" Myrtle Gaines, Bosque; A- n , , ,
Mayesie Malone, Brown, Gladys GiVAK L ’ ■
Martin Tom Green; Marie A
Neff, Nolan, Mayme Lou Parr (.y 1, n { l veq
McLennan; Ruth Ramey, East- ’ al tli>l! . it -
laud. Irene Sealy. El Paso; Abbie,
Sevier, Mitchell; and Mrs Lura George B ib
linger resident since At •. u
peered from ere l- • ' kin
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। ing the ensuing year
। specialists from th" A
abandonment Twenty
petitions ver • filed by the
nd ten by the husband
County Agents to Meet County Ginnings Here j h ! I It ” t
in Abilene This Week Lead All West Texas sttherevecnth
man who
with him a Ford belongine t
, Hurns Hol! H>
j the car from Mi li giving Mm
a check for the lust payment
After getting al ne" ary ir
rangements made ii" it', but the
check came back marke !
account
Wifn '
Bailey he hadd
trace was found at sweetwater
. r > . at 10 o >
lav. on Brown
. iatin Immed
Texas counties by a considerable in this < unty whirl
Pre-Christn
hou Not
F u s do
on which
margin Ginnings lor tin county
County Agent C W l ehmberg
and Mrs. Lura Hollingsworth,
county home demonstration agent
will leave Ballinger early Wed-
nesday morning for Abilene to
attend this meeting The two
extension workers from this conn-
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