The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 1930 Page: 8 of 10
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THE BAnc
est Texans
ong in Politics
CONTENT NEWS
e e 0
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Jacquetta Jenkins. already registered at the city hall building and as soon as they are
Miss Blanche Johnson is teacher and Tuesday morning 75 had reg- approved by the city commission,
of this department, lictered at the chamber of com- bids will be advertised for and a
We are still hoping for rain. If
it doesn’t come soon things will
become very gloomy around here
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merce office. Very few more are date set for opening them.
Shakespeare Club, the Lions unw.
and the Chamber of Cemmerce;
“To the American Legion and
the Ballinger Baptist Church who
opened their doors for our com-
fort and convenience;
"To the courteous pages.
meant. T . ,
directors of the commercial or
ganization, heads of all organ-
izations in Coleman and a num-
ber of city officials from nearby
Our boys and girla in the upper expected at the city office, but A number of contractors have
grades are working on a play the listing is believed to have already signified their intentions
which they will present on Wed-’just commenced at the chamber of bidding on this work and the
the! "To the scrap book and poster towns were present,
use judges; E P. Scarbrough, former may-
"To the generous space given by or of Coleman, was one of the
The Ballinger Daily ledger and principal speakers and he pledged
all other daily and weekly pub- his untiring support to the men
lications of the sixth district, who are to take over municipal
D I 1 • o I To the Ballinger Hr ms who affairs there for the next two
1e0isteredi March contributed in so many ways, years The Ballinger men report
460* and the Winters Floral Company: a very pleasant meeting and one
x- work on the new bridge across And to the local and out-of- that should be profitable to Cole-
Mrs Adelle Hudson Gladden the Colorado River in Ballinger Cars registered in Runnels town talent that contributed so man citizens
now famous "river bed bill," giv-1 Mrs Lura Hollingsworth me was taken to Abilene for an oper- the contractors will have no diffi county for the month of March much to the pleasure and variety -
in land owners instead of the with the home demonstration ation Monday afternoon At last culty in lining up crews There numbered 43 and 7 trucks were of the programs
state title to the dry creek beds club Thursday afternoon A very report she was resting as well as probably will be more laborers licensed Automotive sales have “And to everyone who has con-
enjoyable and instructive discus- could be expected than labor, even with all this im been holding up remarkably well tributed to the success of the
sion was had on Dairying Gur "REPORTER" prove ment in progress. this spring and while less than conference
home demonstration agent always • ------The city commission is now that of previous years all agencies
brings us something good. About..........• * * * * • improving Phillips Avenue and a in the county are continuing to
15 ladies were present at the . EAGLE BRANCH NEWS ■ few men are engaged in that make sales
meeting. The ladies voted for the •••••• . -----...*... work Caliche has been hauled The
house dress to be entered in the The Eagle Branch P.-T. A.
clothing contest. The next meet- carried the play entitled “He’s My
ing will be in charge of Mrs. Ray Pal," to Crews Friday night. April Street and dumped on this street fers on used cars have been re- LOCAL OFFICIALS GO TO
Dick and Mrs. C. C. Simmons who 4th The proceeds were $15.00 'from Broadway to the Halley & corded
will demonstrate the use of the Crews P.-T A was given 20 per Love Sanitarium Laborers were Following as the list as turn
pressure cooker in preparing a cent of the proceeds, busy Monday scattering this ma ished from the records of w
whole meal. It was decided that We are very grateful to Mr and terial and a crew with fire hose Brown county tax collector
the ladies will meet about 10 o-Mrs. Tom Brevard and H G began Monday morning to wet
clock, each one bringing some-Bradley for the splendid music the caliche so that it would pack
thing to be prepared for dinner, * and form a hard surface
of things and for three or four to bring Mr and Mrs Naufleet Brown —— —•----
■ that we
AUSTIN, April 9.—Names of two
feat Texans persist in bobbing
BP wherever politicians gather to
dlcuss the impending guberna-will soon take away the effects
trial campaign. They are both of the moisture which our last |
ana tors a n warm personal “snow” put into the soil Some
friends Clint C. Small of Well- fields of grain are looking very
ington and Pink L. Parrish, "the'
M Lubbock people have a little garden stuff
Small is a sharp lawyer, former up
district judge and shrewd legis-
lator He was the author of the
We may have to change the
name of our community to "Dis-
Content.” The wind and the heat
nesday evening We are expect- of commerce office as rural cit- contractor who is awarded
ing something good, and hope izens have just heard of the contract will be asked to
that many will be present for the proposition and are rushing here home labor if possible
occasion to get their names on the dotted •
-x- line.
Prayer meeting will be held on When construc tion commences T OIL - I HECC I CIS
| good now, and a very few of our | Tuesday night of this week, on here in a few days on the new
I account of the school play on dam, water distribution system.
Wednesday night grading on highway No 4 and
where the channels were more
than 30 feet wide. Under the law
before Small changed
II. dry
creeks and river beds were "nav-
igable" if they were 30 feet or
more wide and hence belonged to
* the state and as state land could
5 be filed on for mineral purposes.
1 Same of them were valuable for
oil and gas.
After the governor vetoed
Small’s bill, the Wellington sen-
ator gracefully put it through
both houses over the executive’s
veto.
He has the knack of stepping
in and taking hold _____..
when the old boat begins to their cookers in order
wobble. For instance: He was fav- might have enough dinner for all
orable to the move to adjourn
the legislature sine die and go
home about a week before the Brother King held his usual
constitutional limit sent it home services at the church on Satur- | patrons
during the fifth special session day night and Sunday Sunday
present
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Brother King held
during the fifth special session, day night and Sunday
but he was also in favor of school in the morning was well
staying on the Job in event any- attended. The Methodist Sunday
thing could be accomplished. The school, held in the afternoon, was
vote on the adjournment motion not so very well attended, as some
was about six and six small of those who regularly attend
voted to stay in session and his went to the singing at Ballinger.
work
from
Church
Caliche has been hauled
the
of
foundation of
Christ
on
registrations listed below
the.are for new cars only, and in
Eighth addition a large number of trana-
from Broadway to the Halley & corded
visited in the home of th- for- M 1 I | 1
mer’s parents Mr and Mrs J D MUCH Home LaDOI
Presley 1
Asking for Work
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The majority of Eagle Branch
attended the singing
L
)
"Respectfully submitted,
Mrs John W Pepper Sweet-
water,
Mrs T L Hiner. Abilene
Mrs W L Brown Ballinger."
NIEA
♦
COLEMAN FOR BANQUET
Mayor W C McCarver, Com-
Friday and Saturday
Leo Maloney
in
“Yellow Cargo”
missioner O L Parrish and J D
Mo ley went to Coleman Tues
day night to be present at a
banquet given by the directors of
the Coleman Chamber of Com-
merce The affair was in honor
Chapter 2 of
Tarzan, the Tiger”
Fords
Harwell Motor Co. 5
Nance-Brown Co 8
Miles Motor Co 3
Phillips Motor Co. 1
Chev rolets
Healer Chevrolet Co 8
Patrick Chevrolet Co. 2
C & C Motor Co. 10
Peiper & Gleich, 1
Chryslers
Motor Sales Company 1
De Sotos
J E Young & Co. 1
Pontiac*
Ballinger Auto Co. 1
Bryson Motor Co 1
Buicks
F R Ligon, 1
Harwell Motor Co sold one
truck Healer Chevrolet Co 3 and
C & C Company 3
♦
P.-T. A. Committee
Pass Resolutions
And a Two Reel Comedy
convention at Ballinger Thirty men had applied Satur-
x day morning at the city hall for
Tile dance given at J H Free- work when the new water project
man's was well attended and a is started. Most of the applica-
very enjoyable time was re-tons were registered late Friday
ported afternoon but others continued
% to come in all day Saturday
Jim Clayton sold his farm to J. Those desiring work are regis-
H Kurtz tering with City Secretary K V
* ; Northington. giving their names,
. . . A little son was born to Mr and addresses, telephone numbers
ion up If the legislature did not Sunday afternoon and was very Mrs. R C. Kurtz last Thursday, length of residence here and
get busy He held a nice ad- happily received by his many April 3 Mother and baby are what they are capable of doing
friends here Following adjourn- doing nicely This list will be turned over to
ment of the Sunday school a x
. . , X the contractors when they arrive
large number went over to the The rabbit drives of Thursday to begin construction
home of Mr and Mrs Simmons, and Friday proved successful ,
and a very pleasant hour was x 1 is understood that the con-
spent in singing and "visiting" Mr and Mrs Jim Berry the tractors on highway No. 4 have
, , . agreed to use all home labor in Mrs Frank Pearce president ol
nowismed me AN mes"°Mere) the building of that road County the Ballinger Parent Teacher as
' . „ ., Judge Paul Trimmier announced sociation is in receipt if the
They will welcome the visits ° that a list would be compiled of courtesy resolutions passed by the
any o er r -REPORT ER „ those who wanted work on the sixth district conference while in
. highway and bridge and those convention at Ballinger on the
vote settled the issue, but , he - x
smartly moved to reconsider and Bro. C. A. Baskin, who was pas-
spread on the journal, giving tor of the Baptist Church here a
notice he would call the resolut- few years ago, was pre sent on
vantage and he manipulated it
to a nicity
Parrish is a jovial, easy-going
fellow with a marked physical
resemblance of the late Gov.
James S. Hogg, champion of the
common people and outstanding with each other
hero of Texas politics. —x—
He has the "gift of gab," to use Miss Hattie May Dunlap of
a slang expression, and could Ballinger, who will graduate in
warm the hearts of the “com-music from Simmons University
this year, was with Bro King and
mon" people from the hustings
It was he who discovered that
many county officials were draw-
ing in excess of $12,500 annually
in fees and salaries of office and
set out to limit their remuner-
ation to that figure He was in
favor of lowering it to $10,000,
but he could not get much sup-
port in the legislature in fixing
that mamimum He started the
"ball a rollin"" which brought
legislation to curb the practice
of counties paying excessive com-
, missions for collection of delin-
quent state and county taxes
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9 Wedding Permits
Granted in March
. March was a poor month for
weddings here, Miss Ima McKown,
county clerk issuing only licenses
to permit couples to visit the
minister. The county clerk lost
one, however, when the applica-
tion was cancelled A man made
application for a license and also
arrangements with a county
PALACE
THEATRE
-Ballinger-
3 Days Sun - Mon - Tues
Eclipsing in sheer dramatic grandeur the
mightiest spectacles of screen or stage----
ZIEGFELD5
A
A
01er u R
Radio Pictures'
Colossal glorification in voice, song, color
and be auty of Ziegfeld’s greatest girl-
music spectacle with
BEBE DANIELS
hailed as the screen’s greatest singing star
JOHN BOLES
Newest romantic idol Bert Wheeler Robert Woolsey, Dorothy
Lee, Don Tivarado and a thousand others
SOUND NEWS
who live 11a Runnels county and last day of March
his wife She played for all the
services and also gave some
special piano numbers which
were enjoyed by all .
- r HTCU 1UI VVVIA giving the same information as publish them until this time
The Intermediate and Junior required by the city Following is a copy of the res-
B. Y. P. U gave a pleasing pro- Men seeking jobs on public con- Chas Cohen of the firm of W olutions passed
gram just before the preaching struction soon to start here con-S Thompson & Company, has Whereas The Ballinge i 1 1
service. The pastor gave diplo-tinued to register all day Monday been here for the past week pre A has proven itself such a era
mas to a number of the girls and at the city hall and at the cham- paring to begin road construction ious hostess
boys who did work in the training ber of commerce office City Sec- This work is expected to The sixth district < Inference
school for Junior B Y P U's in retary K v Northington declared commence not later than April wishes to express its appreciate n
the winter Those receiving Tuesday morning that he be-115th and a large number of men for the many courtesies extended
diplomas were Dixie Norris. Helen lieve d most . very labor r in Bal- will be employed on the rond and • specially to the per ple *
Simmons, Pauline Jones, Mary linger needing work had already i bridge graciously opened their homes to
248 Applications
Filed for Work
linger needing work
are seeking work will file with In some way
J. D Motley, secretary of the Bal- left town with
linger Chamber
of Commerce, and 1'
the < mmittee
the resolutions
has been impossible t
Katherine Brown
Taylor B Locket
1 Lockett
Zuma Brown registered with the city and that
The only other publi
work to the visitors and delegates
and Orvil
X-
There were 45 preesnt at the
school house on Saturday after-
noon to vote for three trustees.
W. L. Porch and W 11 Little:
were reelected and Ike Ray was
elected as the third member of
the board
Hugh Hardigree was shaking
hands with old friends here last
week Mr. Hardigree moved away
from this community about thirty
years ago
official to marry him, but after
visiting his would-be wife, for the
Drat time, returned and told the
clerk that he did not want the
license as everything was "off."
Those granted permits to wed
were:
A. L. Burden and Miss Dovie
Armstrong
Roy Allen and Mis Gene Self
Pres Edwards and Miss Gertie Friends of Mr and Mrs Alex
Lee Wilson Edwards are pleased to have them
Andy Verner and Miss Bessiereturn to our community to live,
Baker after having been at Haskell for
M H Lackey and Miss Mary | the past few years Mr Edwards
Cooper will have charge of the black -
Herman Pepper and Mrs Bessie smith shop here His “music" on
J. Smith
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Mr Schwartz, of Winters, was
in our “city" last week trying to
meet the voters of
munitv
this com-
soon will be
those coming now were mostly be instituted here
from the country and were being the erection of tne new city hall Frank Pearce
sent to the chamber of commerce
to make application
A total of 133 laborers have
--X—
Mrs J W Dale, of Winters, and
her son, M C Dale, were visitors
here Sunday afternoon
x
His “music” on
To the general chairman Mrs
The architect, Paul Silber, of San helpers
and her efficient
| Antonio, is due here at any time To the folle wing r anizat ions
I now with the revised plans of the the Runnels County Council, the
1930 s LOW PRICES
BRING GOODYEARS
WITHIN REACH OF
A A We now w II Godvear- for little more than
the cheapet makes let we can prove that
■ Gondy ear are • superior < to highe -I priced
P I Ke a-on enough Goods, build- more
" W ■ Ain America
came eeerinn enomaker- divide the re maind
There Is No Difference
It has always been our policy to make no
discrimination of any kind in our service Race,
creed and social position like financial status,
are not permitted to influence in any way the
quality of our service
We serve all to the be st of our ability, and
at a cost commensurate with the family's
means and desires always
HIGGINBOTHAM
FUNE RAL HOME
601 PARK AVE
zone
12 8
Leonard Ross and Miss Beatrice
Price
K. A Sparks and Miss Vivian
Woodsp
gao
WORK STARTED WEDNESDAY
ON NEW CITY AIRI ORT
Workmen began Wedneday
' morning cleaning off the grounds
F for the new municipal airport. A
small amount of brush and one
fence were being removed from
the grounds and it was expected
to have the landing field in shape
for another city crew to etart
grading Thursday morning
The grounds will be put in ex-
eelent shape for planes to land
by Saturday of this week and the
center of the plot will be marked
style similar to that of other
municipal airports.
The Ballinger Chamber of Com-
merce will place other equipment
on the field as soon as possible
until the port will be one of the
best in this section.
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Mar. and Mrs. J. T. Pearce have
returned from an extended stay
in Ban Antonio and pointe in thv
the anvil will be a pleasing sound
to those who need such work as
it has been some time since the
shop has been kept open more |
than one or two days a wee Si
On Easier Sunday, Bro Wilker-
son hopes to open the Methodist
revival meeting The children of
both Sunday schools will present
a very pretty Sunday school pa-
geant at the ten o'clock hour
Service will be held through the
week, both day and night, and as
long as interest shown justifies
extended into the following week.
We are hopeful for a real revival
among professional Christians
and that many more may enlist
in the service
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Honor Roll
The following names are on the
honor roll in the primary room:
Delbert Jones, Caleb Brown, Gil-
bert Carter, Roy Lee Patton, Leroy
Pierce, Charlie Fay Simmons.
Stella Rosson, Jacquetta Jenkins,
Olga Joe Hudson, Jewell McGraw.
Those perfect In oral spelling
this month are:
Delbert Jones, Caleb Brown, Roy
Lee Patton, Olga Joe Hudson,
Bayne Miller. Stella Rosson,
All Sizes All Types III Prices
ALL GOODYEARS
Double Eagle
New Heavy Duty
Standard Weather
— - — . ________________„
For the Rock-Bottom in High Quality at Low Cost
The New Style GOODYEAR Pinfinde
Metehlees for the money in looks construction and perform
amee Full Oversise Fresh 1930 ‘firsts’ carefully mounted
—lifetime guaranteed and backed by our year round service.
30x312 $5.60
30x4.50 $6.90
The
30x5 $22.50
30x5.25 $10.80
Ballinger Auto Co
Golder
Rule
in Business !
Particular Bank
Farmers & Merchants
State Bank
Established 1909
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The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 1930, newspaper, April 11, 1930; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1695442/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.