The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 242, Ed. 1 Monday, October 27, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. VIII.
BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1913.
NUMBER 242
VAN PELT, KIRK & MACK
RIGATION MEET
ELECTION IS VOID;
THURSDAYAFTERNOON
HUERTA IN POWER
Picture Program
Ballinger to Brady, and on thru
Mason.
attending will be settled.
The new shipping law will not
court last week, stated that he
“Maria Roma” Reliance
Valley.
The Princess Theatre
that has been given out that indi- age s have come to Ballinger from
However, as the time approaches
state law is to be contested, but un on ne w life and indications point
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MAY NOT WRITE COURT
WILSON MURDER
CASE AFFIRMED
Weather Forecast.
438
Attend to It To
Make Our Bank your Bank
Under Direct Supervision of U. S. Governments.
. iis
Gen. Rascon.
If this claim is correct, it is
will be to get on the train or hitch
up your auto and go get it. You
for the enforcement of the inter-
state shipment law, and as the holi
day season draws near, the ship-
Young Man Convicted of Killing
Companion at Paint Rock
Remains in Ballinger Jail.
Tonight’s Program .
Is up to the usual
Mutual standard and
then some. The punki-
est program may some-
times have a bright ray,
but every three reels of
Mutual Program are
three features. See ’em
every night at the Prin-
cess Theatre.
Large Shipment RED SEAL GINGHAMS received,
* special price 12 yards for $1.00
Admission 10c
Reserved Seat 20c
New Law Will Not Effect Ballin-
ger. Liquor Shipments Less
Than Packages Per Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim McWhirter
are rejoicing over the arrival of
a fine baby bory born at their
home Saturday night. We are
glad to report Mrs. McWhirter
and babe doing well and it is
thought by careful attention Jim
1 will recover.
No official announcement was
made but it was officially esti-
mated judging from the results in
the captal, where it was expected
the vote would be up to the aver-
age. that less than 10,000 of the
80,000 eligible voters in the fed-
eral district went to the polls. In
the republic there are estimated to
be 3,000,000 voters. It would be
no surprise if congress, the mem-
bers of which also were voted for
today, declared the elections void
when that body is organized and
revise the returns.
The leaders of the Catholic par-
ty claimed a long lead although
they were unable to estimate the
number of votes polled for their
HE HID HIS MONEY IN
THE GROUND. ITS GONE
IF HE HAD HIDDEN IT IN
OUR BANK IT WOULD
DE SAFE NOW
Mass Meeting at Bronte to be Held
Thursday Instead of Tuesday.
Ballinger Represented.
NEW LIQUOR LAW
EFFECTIVE NOV, 18
At Corner 8th. St. and
Railroad Ave.
Rumor That Rock Island Will
Traverse Colorado Valley with
Railroad. Proposition be
Submitted.
Insurance placed with us
is safe--we write it right
BALLINGER INSURANCE
AGENCY.
read a letter from an official or eff et Ballinger .as the total ship-
an attache of the Rock Island to ments t Through the local express
parties at Colorado City, which office since the state shipping law
stated that the Rock Island would went into effect on July 1st, had
BENNETT ABSTRACT
COMPANY
Prompt and Accurate
Wink.
THE FARMERS & MERCHANTS STATE BANK
, “Fathers and Mothers Bank.” Eru
_ keep their ear to the ground and
HOUS EINSURANCE not allow anything good to pass
The First National Bank
Of Ballinger
Another piece of news that has. .
.... . , , . , candidates. Federico Gamboa and
put new life in the project is that
build a road down the Colorado been less than one hundred pack-
This is the first news ages. To be exact, just 94 pack-
The Court of Criminal Appeals
has affirmed the case of Roy Wil-
son, who was sentenced to serve
49 years in the State penitent
about a year ago. Roy Wilson
shot one Saturday afternoon, in
Paint Rock, Roy Stuart aid killed
RAILROAD COMING
BALLINGER WAY
Mexicans Remain Away From
Polls. Out of 80,000 Votes
In City Less Than 10,000
Cast Ballot.
that the road would cross the
Santa Fe either at Ballinger or
Now is the acceptable time to open
an account with The Farmers & Merch-
ants State Bank.
City, who was here
which comes from Congressman
Smith. If the present move is not
successful and does not develop
into something tangible, and that
pretty soon, the United States gov
ernment will be called upon to
take hold of the proposition. The
government is spending money in
reclamation work, and in build-
ing irrigation projects that does
not compare with the Colorado riv
er project as to its feasibility. As
time passes the proposition takes
For several wet ks past there has
been rumors afloat that has put
in motion considerable railroad
rumblings. Up to the present lit-
tle attention lias been paid to
these rumors by Ballinger citizens.
A proposition was recently sth-
mitted to the citzens of Brady in
which parties proposed to buile
a road from some point North of
“TOM BLAKE’S RE-
DEMPTION” Featuring
J. Warren Kerrigan the
famed Western Actor—
American
til the validity of it is determined
in the courts, the express com-
panies will not deliver the goods.
west of Ballinger, and with the
' perfecting of the great irrigation
project, it is a safe prediction to
make that another railroad is go-
ing to penetrate our territory.
1 and that too at no far distant
! date. This being true it stands
I in hand for Ballinger people to
generally thought that General
Felix Diaz and Senor Requena
ran second. The liberal candi-
dates, Manuel Calero and Flores
Magon had no printed tickets at
the polling places, their constitu-
ents oblige d to write their names
on blank ballots.
President Huerta did not vote.
He spent the day at Popotla, his
suburban home.
A decree will be issued by Gen-
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Do you see this picture? Well this is a common oc-
currence. The papers contain accounts almost daily of
where people lose their money by hiding it in unsafe
places. If you want to place your money where it will
be safe, place it behind our thick walls and strong locks.
We refer those who have not banked with us to those
who have.
Mexico City, Oct. 27.—At the
close of the elections yesterday the
indications were that not suffi-
cient votes had been cast in Mex-
ico to constitute a legal choice for
the presidency to succeed Gen.
Victoriano Huerta.
horse on the hip aad in return for
the slap the horse kicked Mr.
Wood on the leg badly breaking
both bones between the knee and
ankle. A physician was hastily
summoned and the wound dress-
ed. Mr. Wood will likely be con-
fine, to his bed for several weeks
me nts are increasing. This inter-
him instantly. The killing oc-
curred in July last year. 11 was
tried at the February term of
court and sentenced as above stat-
ed. Since then he has been await-
ling the results of his appeal to
the higher court. This court has
just acted, closing the last chap-
ter, but one, in the history of the
case, Roy Wilson is a young man
just turned into his majority.
The boy he killed, Roy Stuart, was
also very young, about twenty,
, One of the strange things of the
killing is that there seemed to be
but a slight falling out between
the boys.—Paint Rock Herald.
Young Wilson has been in the
Ballinger jail since the day of the
killing, as there is no jail at Paint
RocAk. His attorneys have filed a
motion for a new trial, and until
this is passe d on Wilson will re-
main here.
cates in anv way who is behind the other states. More than this
proposed Colorado Valley line, amount was handled in one day
With a fine agricultural terri- before the law went into effect,
tory that is parctically undevelop which goes to show that the peo-
ed and without railroad facilities ple are opposed to sending out of
lying South of Ballnger, and also the, state for what they use.
along the Colorado river north-
“W hen the Darkness
Came” Thanhouser
there is some doubt as to whether his horses about - o’clock Wed-
their companies will carry the , .
, 1 nesday morning there was one
court house insurance at this • , .1 - 1
- ■ 1 1 voUng horse that stood in
time. The companies have de- ■ 1.1 .1 41 1.
5 1 1 gate and would not let the other
manded that some changes be 1 . ... 1 , , +1
,. : . • 1 horses in. Mr. N ood slapped the
made in the electric wiring be-
fore they will accept the risk. We
stated in Saturday’s Ledger that
the building would again be pro-
tected by the former amount of
insurance carried.
Tonight rising temperature as the flesh was badly lacerated
Tuesday increasing cloudiness; as well as the bones broken.—Win-
wa rm er. ters Enterpri se.
i it to you after that date.
The proposition stated The only way to get liquor then
Telephone messages from M r.
Kearney .of Bronte to C. O.
Douse, and also a phone message
from Mr. Riley to Jo Wilmeth,
Monday morning stated that the
irrigation mass meeting at that
place would be held Thursday af-
ternoon at two o'clock instead of
Tuesday. The date advertised as
Tuesday was an error.
The announcement that Engi-
neer Stanley was ready to submit
his proposition to the people has
put new life in the irrigation pro-
position, and quite a number from]
Ballinger will attend the meet
ing at Bronte, Mr. Stanley has
not given out what his proposition
is, further than to say he will not
call on the people for a bonus. This
state ment relieved the minds of
the people who naturally looked
upon the proposition with sus-
picion and suspected that they
would be called upon to dig up
for the healthy bonus.
© sro-naan
The new state law, putting into
effect the Webb liquor bill, which
prohibits the express companies s
from handling liquor in dry terri-
tory, will go into effect on Nov.
18. After that date liquor will
not be shipped from any point in
of the state to a dry town in the
state. It makes no difference
where your booze comes from the
express company will not deliver
Everything has beginning. Today
you should begin to do business with
The Farmers & Merchants State Bank.
It pays to do business with this Bank.
Coleman. Only a short time ago can not bring it for another, and
a committee of Paint Rock citizens some of the courts have he Id that
were called to Sweetwater to at- it is unlawful to even give your
tend a railroad meeting. The met- friend a drink when you bring
ing was held and its report has a bottle home with you. How-
been kept from the public, ever, the law is not clear on this
Judge C. II, Ernst, of Colorado point, but is in the court and
------us by.
We understand through some of ---
the local insurance agencies that When W. P. Wood went to feed
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 242, Ed. 1 Monday, October 27, 1913, newspaper, October 27, 1913; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694667/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.