The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. [8], No. 234, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1913 Page: 2 of 4
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THE DAILY LEDGER
The Daily Ledger
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bolly biulder.
but a few years in the peniten-
: Electrical Conveniences -
re.
be.
Prices according to grade. Phone
120.
Sep20-26td 4w
%. T. Griggs, of the
Norton
afternoon en route home.
Grass for Sale for Pasture.
14-tfd or Ed Gaston.
pure food man.
14-5td ltw
The Ballinger Dairy.
Phone 210
Phone 66
Mercantile Company
Mi
SEEK
EEE-
Santa Fe
and
guar
sale over twenty-one days will be Located 11 miles north of town
a violation of the law. so_savs the: on Valiev creek. See W. C. Smith
Rev. Burrow of Stacy, who had
been in our city as a witness in
the District court, left Thursday
afternoon for his home.
th.
rett
— the death penalty is assessed
Not, however, when the defendant
has money enough to secure conn
sel and influence. The great ma-
Il is a
creator and
A MESSAGE TO WOMEN.
Who Are “Just Ready to Drop.”
2=338 8390933309:
N You Eat to Live and Live to Eat NO
over, not in a hundred years nor a
thousand. But even if it were pos
sible for wamon to grow whiskers,
she wouldn’t do it. Woman has
omes of Runnels County by
turning a verdict of guilt.
The various transactions
Rev. W. Bion Adkins and John
Moore returned home Thursday
afternoon from Miles, where they
attended the meeting of the Run-
nels County Baptist Association
the past few days.
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for both I
‘shop. TELL
W. H. ROARK
Published every afternoon except
Banday by the Ballinger Printing
J. D. Norwood, came in from
the east Thursday afternoon to
spend a few weeks with his fam-
ily and Ballinger friends.
'returned to Ballinger Thursday four city, and left Friday afternoon
for their home.
Inside of two years corn meal
will be labeled the date it is man-
The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
___________THECENTAUR COMPANVNEwORKCTY,
T have a section of grass for
ifactured and any offered for sale or will take stock to pasture.
Don’t cost much but add
greatly to the convenience of
the housewife and gives her
many an hour of recreation.
Don’t put the matter off; but
See to it at once.
Stop roughing! you rack the .See Us for Best Coal and Wool,
lungs and worry the body. Bal-
The Chicago doctor must be a but generally the punishment is
• quack. Nature can not be made
Listen!
C. A. Freeze, the Singer sew-
ing machine man, buys all kinds
of second hand clothing and pays’
spot cash for same, or will sell
you a Singer machine for cash or
on terms to suit you. Will allow
you all your old machine is worth
on a new Singer machine. 23-26td
- The Ballinger Dairy --
Wants to sell vou milk. Prompt service.
QUICK DELIVERIES.
Good Milk is Our Motto
WHISKERS.
A Chicago doctor says women
will all be wearing boards in an-
other century. At the rate of style
changes, we do not understand
how the doctor figures the com-
ing of lady "whisters" so long
off.-—Ballinger Ledger.
DIRECTORS
f, Y. Pearce, 0. L. Parish, Paul
Ntimmier, C. P. Shepherd, A. W.
STOCKHOLDERS:
J M. Skinner, C. P. Shepherd, Paul
Trimmier, A. W. Sledge, H. M.
Jones, R. T. Williams, J. Y. Pearce,
Scott H. Mack, R. G. Erwin, 0. L.
Parish, R. W. Bruce.
Arrested
F urther arre sts are being made
daily—not of persons, but of pain.
Its Hunt’s Lightning Oil that so
many people are talking about be-
cause it arrests and stops pain,
and affords almost instant relief
in cases of Neuralgia Rheumatism
Headaches, Burns, etc. Just try it
if you want pain to quit quick.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per-
CH, sonal supervision since its infancy.
% tetcred Allow no one to deceive you in this.
€ ounterfeits. Imitations and “ Just-as-good ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare-
gorie. Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys W orms
nnd allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation
Flatulency, Wind Colle, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
SLAUGHTER CASE
NEARING END
(Continued from First Page.)
C. J. LYNN & BRO., corner
Sard’s Horehound Syrup checks 10th street and R. R. Avenue,
irritation, heals the lungs and res. Best McAlester lump, best McAles-
tores comfortable breathing. Price ter washed nut, best New Mexico
-*•»(•. 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Sold Sugarette; large stock on hand,
by The Walker Drug Co.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s
Special Train
Service
to
DALLAS
via
R. B. Cre asey returned home
Thursday afternoon from San An-
gelo where he had been looking
after the interest of the Ballinger
Cotton Oil Mill in that city the
past week or so.
an "esthetic sense as part of her
birthright, and there never was
a woman, from Eve to Emmeline, ority walk out of the court house
who imagined she would be beau- set free.
tiful in a beard. What lover “ We are told by men well in
tiary. Now and then not often
women will never want to be be- sure to go up if proof is establish-
whiskered. It is as sensible to ed. Theft is one thing, but homi-
Minnose that they will desire to be cide is another. Take a man's
baldheaded. The report is just eight dollars pig or sell him a
a campaign canard. It was spread drink of adulterated whisky and
. with a doctor for authority, in the penitentiary doors open wide
he hope that it would weaken the to receive the offender; take his
equal rights cause. No man would life and that is a different matter,
yield a jot to the feminine pro-especially if the killer has money."’
Phone 15.
Ballinger Electric Light Plant
Fa’linger, Texas.
antee of satisfaction. You get your
money back if Vinol does not
help you. The Walker Drug Co.
Ballinger, Texas.
I’. S. For any skin trouble try
our Saxo Salve. We guarantee
it.
paganda if he believed it possible
that- whiskers would or could be
adopted by the female of the
species. Above all things, man
wants woman adorable, and there
never was a man who could adore
a goatee—unless it was his own
,— Dallas News State Press.
--o------
HUMAN LIFE I. CHEAP IN
TEX AS.
The city of London has over
seven hundred thousand people.
A certain Texas city that has less
than one hundred thousand peo
ple, or a population of less than
one seventieth of that of London
had 96 murders within a given
time, while London only had 18
murders within the same period.
There is something wrong with
Texas laws governing the taking
of human life.
The Houston Post in comment
ing on this question says:
‘There is scarcely a day that
from one to a dozen tragedies are
not re ported. Look at the dockets
of Texas. There are hundreds of
murder cases pending, and these
are being added to faster than
they are tried.
” There are c onvietions, of
course, quite a number of them.
Would want to stroke his sweet- formed that the penitentiary is
heart’s lambrequins? What belle acquiring a large number of erim
would wish to give up butter- inals of minor grade. Men who
milk that her mustache might be sell whisky unlawfully, negroes
more immaculate? It is the ver- who steal razorback hogs or any-
jest foolishness to say that the thing else of value these are
of the defendant on the stand,
with reference to the manner in
which the shooting of Craig tool,
ph.....at the dance. The state, on
the other hand, the speaker said,
had introduced seven witnesses’
testimony to prove the opposite of
what Slaughter had told the jury
The names of some of those wit
nesses as told to the jury in the
speech of the prosecuting attor
ney, were Ira Hargis, Mrs. Ira HIar
is, W alter Latham and M. C.
Dickens.
Inr gard to the testimony of the
de fendant that Craig came at
Slaughter with a knife raised ii
’he air as if about to strike, the
attorney said, the jury should ac
it him it it believed his store
• the affair. On the other hand,
if the jurv believed the story as
old by th several witnesses of
the state, then it must protect the
wonderful, strength
When you are “just ready to
drop" when you feel so weak that
you can hardly drag yourself
about and because you have not
| slept well, you get up as tired out
next morning as when you went
to bed, you need help.
Miss Lea Dumas writes from
Malone, N. Y., sayirg: "I was in
a badly run down condition for
several weeks but two bottles of
Vinol put me on my feet again and
made me strong and well. Vinol
has done me more goc d than all
the other medicines I ever took. '
If the ear worn, run down wom
an, the pale, sickly children and
children and feeble old folks
around here would follow Mis:
Dumas' example, they too, would
soon be able to say that Vinol, our
dlieious cod liver and iron rem
dy, had built them up and made
them strong.
we sell it under a
‘ween .......ased and the defendant
luring the 7 years preceding the
‘eatl of Crair. were outlined by
Goreev Goodson, to the jurv
he first difficulty between the
ferdent and DeWitt Craig, the
ime Slaught r l,jt Craig over the
end with a stiek. according to
the testimony, and many other
es between the two were
cited by the lawyer. He dwelt
mN the transaction of th night
of the dance at length and told of
Slaughter coming into the dance
hall with his overcoat on and
how he sat on a bench by himself
and lefus. d to be engaged in con-
versation by other membe rs of
he dancing party.
‘ That overcoat Slaughter was
wearing shouted the attorney,
“like charity covered a multi
tude of sins. Evi lence has been
introduced to prove that he had a
| gun in one of the overcoat pockets
and that he was sitting on that
5 nch following Craig with his
eXe, around the hall as he was
dancing, awaiting an opportunity
to shoot him '’
J. 0. Woodward.
The first attorney for the de-
fense to make argument was J. O.
NW oodward of Coleman. He be
wan his talk in a manner similar
i, many respects to that made by
Attorney Goodson, of the state’s
side, in reference to his coming
before the jury a stranger
NW ith the court' charge in one
hand he told jury that Goodson
did not do what he had promised
the 12 men he would do, that he
would explain the law as set
forth by the court in his charge.
He stated that the state s attor-
ney dial not read what the court
had said about convieting Slaugh-
ter of manslaughter, if the evi-
dence, in the minds of the jury,
was such as to justify such a con
vietion, nor did the attorney pre
ceding in argument state that if
the evidence showed that Craig
was coming at Slaughter with an
open knife in the hall at Eden two
years ago, then the defendant was
justified in shooting the de.....ased.
The speaker then went on to re-
late the contention of the defense
in regard to Craig’s actions in the
hall, and how it was supported by
the testimony of the defendant
himself.
, The speaker referred to the
V7ANIISISSSSSS
Y It’s our business to furnish your table with 00.
A the Best Groceries. Our deliveries are 00.
A prompt —our goods are first class. W
country, who attended the Bap-I Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Rodgers, of
fist association meeting at Miles Winters, spent Thursday night in
statement made by Attorney Good
son, in regard to the defense hav-
ing introduced no testimony cor-
roborating the evidence given by
the defendant himself, and said
that he and his assstants had at-
tempted to introduce testimony,
but had been stopped by the
state's attorneys. He mentioned
the name of Chas. Malloy, a de-
ense witness, and started to tell
of some testimony excluded from
the jurv, when District Attorney
Early interrupted and asked t
court not to allow the speaker to
refer in any manner to the testi-
mony of that witness. The court
ruled that all testimony exeluded
from the inrv should not be mon
tinned in the arguments, and the
argumentation proceeded.
The attorney mentioned the
wagon yard transaction an I how
Craig had threatened to take
Slaughter’s life if he ever saw him
and how the meeting in the yard
at Brady was the first time after
the baptising, w here Craig was hit
over the head with a willow stick
by Slaughter. llow Slaughter
had pleaded with the deceased to
spare his life and how he was will
ing to drop the matter, if Craig
was willing and how the latter had
always refused to come to amie
able terms with the defendant ;
Those points and many others
Were dismissed by the leading at-
torney for the defense.
The speaker said that if Craig
had killed Slaughter in the wa
gon yard at Brady, he would
have been charged with murder
in the first degree, but that Slaugh
ter, under the circumstances
would and could not be charged
with murder in the same degree.
He went on to explain the three
degrees and how they would have
affected Craig, had he killed
Slaughter.
‘ The circumstances," said the
speaker, “are entirely different
in this case. Here we have Craig
making threats against Slaughter
carry ng around with him through
the country, a winchester, power-
ful enough to tear a man's body
completely asunder, coming a
long distance, about thirty-five
miles, to the dance at Eden, to
meet Craig, and a man, when he
saw him, threatening to make him
leave the hall against his own
will. This man the state will
have you , convict of murder in
the first degree. It is murder in
the third degree if anything, but
we are contending that it is not
even that, for Craig had repeat-
edly threatened his life."’
The court ruled before Attor-
lev Woodward spoke that Slaugh
ter had a perfect right to go
wherever he pleased, after Attor-
ney Goodson had made the state-
ment in his argument that Slaugh
ter should not have gone to the
dance, after he had been warned
by parties that DeWitt Craig was
present. The instruction, which
was added to the charge deliver-
ed before the arguments began,
took both sides on surprise, es-
pecially the prosecution. The de-
tense took advantage of the op-
portunity which presented itself
with the instruction, and insisted
in its arguments that the defend-
Ant should be acquitted.
J. E. Shropshire.
Immediately after the noon hour
the state again took up the argu
ment when Attorney 4. E. Shrop-
shire of Brady began telling his
side. The state's attorney con
tinned to insist upon a conviction
in first degree murder, and ridi
ruled the idea of the defense in
pleading for a verdiet of ae
unital and stating in argument
that the killing was one which
(Continued on Last Page.)
October 18th.
account
Texas State Fair
Special Train will Leave Ballinger
9:20 p. m. For Further Details Ask
Deafness Cannot Be Cured,
by local application, as they can-
not reach the diseased portion of
the car. There is only one way to
cure deafness, and that is by con-
stitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inflamed condition
of the mucous lining of the Eust-
achian Tube. When this tube Is
inflamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed, Deaf-
ness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out
this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroy-
ed forever; nine eases out of ten
ten are caused by Catarrh, which
is nothing but an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred
Dollars for any case of Deafness
(caused by Catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY, & CO., Toledo,
Ohio.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for
constipation.
A. H. WIGLE, Agent.
GUNTER HOTEL
Absolutely Fire- SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. Rates
proof, Modern, A Votol Quilt For Tho Climato $1.00 to $3.00
European. A n0l8l DUIIl for I Uliidte Per Day
SAN ANTONIO HOTEL 00., Owners, PERCY TYRRELL, Mgr.
A. W. SLEDGE..........Editor
IL P. SHEPHERD..Business Mgr
OFFICERS:
D. L. Parish, president; Paul Trim-
mier, vice-president; C. P. Shep-
herd, secretary and treasurer.
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. [8], No. 234, Ed. 1 Friday, October 17, 1913, newspaper, October 17, 1913; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694659/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.