The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. [37], Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1930 Page: 3 of 8
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THE BALLINGER LEDGER
ner Citizen Motley to Welcome Farmers of Texas Face Big
Killed in Wreck Firemen at Angelo
Task in Soil Conservation
other parts of the nation which department la paying a substant-
in a comparatively abort time lal part of the salaries of several
have passed from the state of experienced trappers.
good agricultural land to an
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eroded, impoverished condition BALLINGER WOMAN IN
Calgary constituted the larges
bull sale in North America.'
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SLIGHT SCHEDULE CHANGES
MADE IN SANTA FE TRAMS
The following account of the
death of Mrs John W Milton,
who was in a car wreck near Bas-
trop was published in the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram Monday
morning The accident occured
Sunday morning
The State Firemen’s Association
will open a three-day convention
in San Angelo on June 10, and
the Ballinger company plans to
have 100 per cent attendance on
opening day M C Atkins, chief
By H. H. Bennett
soil is washed out of the fields it
COLLEGE STATION, Muy 24 cannot be restored. Much of it
Recent heavy rains in Texas floats away In the direction of the
BASTROP May 25
unavailable for any possibility ofl
profitable cultivation
This situation is by no means
HOSPITAL AT JUNCTION ----
---1 A slight change in schedule, to
Mrs R M Hammock is in a become effective on June 1st, Ban
restricted to the black belt of hospital at Junction
suffering been announced for Santa Te
Texas fills area happens to be from a stroke of paralysis Rev trains passing through Balling-,
one of highly erosive soils The and Mrs. Hammock were on their The change will be only a few
same situation exists in many way to Junction for visit Tues- minutes on three trains, which
other parts of this youthful nat-day when Mrs Hammock became j will operate on the following
ton, and the same sinister process unconscious She was hurriedly! schedule No 7a west -bound,
of soil impoverishment and ab taken to the hospital and an will arrive here at 11 4t P m.;
evidence that not less than forty or over several million acres in solute soil destruction is going on examination revealed
million tons of rich soil material that section not one acre of cul- while we complacently ascribe caused by a blood clot on the train will arrive at 5 18; and No.
was washed from the upper slop tivated land was unaffected al-the devasation to the vagaries of brain, according to information 77 west-bound train, will arrive
les of the black land belt alone to though where well terraced the a beneficent nature received here at 1131 a m The afternoon
be carried off toward the sea or damage was lessened. In effect • ♦ east-bound train will continue en
i Largest Bull Sale its same schedule
Notice to Debtors and Creditors CALGARY Albert u 22 I ♦
To Those Indebted to, orHolding (A) Five hundred and thirty-one J D Forman, of Throckmorton,
Mo AHAtN and Georeta Aunt bulls seillpe stnely for a total "““ here visatang his brother. Jos
Deceased:
The undersigned having been
„ . , j , duly appointed administrator of
other soil conservation methods ally they were covered with slimy . PT , . e
and by proper care in the eul- sedimentsCore M.eded. late ‘ of
tivation of the soil, the time will This process of taking off a Runnels County Asas be Paul
come when the farm lands will thin layer of soil every time it Trimmier judge of the county
be denuded of their productive rains is cumulative Twenty-three court of said county on the 25th
top soil to an extent that will years ago when I was doing soil day of March A D 1930, during
rende r them unavailable for prof- survey work in Central Texas a regula term thereof h reby
the black land belt was i true . 4,
.notifies all persons indebte d to
with black belt, now it is a mixed
have taken an enormous toll of sea
rich soil material from farm Another field of approximately
lands through washing and eros- forty acres was so badly affected
San Angelo this week-end to hold ion, particularly in the black land that half of the cotton was
of the local department, will visit
Kn route to a conference with John Parker, belt of Central Texas There is washed out, laid flat or covered
__—- -______- - . - chief of the San Angelo depart-
Milton, 50 was instantly killed, ment and president of the state
paralysis| No 76, early morning east - bound
her husband, pastor of the First association.
Baptist Church here and
their part in the convention
son, Joseph. 8. were injured, when
to plan Ballinger's
Mi Atkins said Saturday morn-
their car overturned 16 miles west ing that he expected at least fifty,
of here at 9 o’clock this morning per cent of the local fire fighters
depot ited on the lower slopes and the entire region was converted
in valleys where the soil is al-into a river and rich soil was
Rev,: Milton who was driving the to attend the convention for the ready deep and rich, needing no afloat on a scale so prodigious
car, escaped with minor cuts, but full three days and believed all
the son suffered a broken arm. would be present for the entire
severe gashes on the head and day on June 10th
face and is also believed to have
J D Motley, of Ballinger, has
sustained internal injuries He is been selected to make the wel-
at the hospital here where phy- come address to the state fire-
sicians are doubtful as to his re- men in behalf of West Texas Mr
covery
Motley is working on this speech
In attempting to pass another and will have the support of
additional deposits
that one is incapable of concelv-
Unless measures are taken to ing the enormity of the wastage
prevent this wastage of product- . When stream
bottoms were
1115475 or about $217 each.
at Forman
ive soil, through terracing and washed in places, though gener-
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car. Rev Milton drove into some every Ballinger member and the
loose gravel The car turned over Balling r Hand when he is called
twice before coming to a stop in upon to extend the welcome On itabl cultivation
the ditch Mrs Milton’s neck was the opening day th. local com- In Texas in connection with black belt; now it is a muxeu . . , form rd and
broken pany headed by the local band th. Oil erosion work being car-black yellow, and white beit The these
They left here about 8 30 a m will ail in entertaining the vis- ried in cooperatively by the next stage will lie - vast yellow ‘ ... : ' id , tate
for Waco to attend the funeral of itors at San Angelo They will United State Department of An and white country with black -.....: 4 , - . .
Mrs. Milton’s father. Mr. Tyler, stage purad oncert and en-cultur 1 the Texas A & M ps along th trean
who died .Sunday morning at 1 30 tertainment in hotel lobbies, et Exp riment Station at the Temple will come much sooner han it 71ar Runnel 1
o’clock All B allinger firemen will be: lore, he
ind Eyier oil erosion stations we nas been agreeable to con em- County Texas where he receives
In addition to her husband and asked to wear their caps to the had occasion to observe at first plate This is not a prediction; his mail this the 12th day of
son Mrs Milton is survived by two convention hand much of the result in Cen- it is an-obvious eventualty based May D
Miss Lavierne Sims has been tral Texas of the recent heavy on the depth of the black soil o L PARISH.
Her election rains and the rate of erosion unless Administrator of the Estate of M
vol is done and done A Bass and Georgia Bass.
Deceased 16-4tw
daughters Miss Dixie, 19, a stu-
dent at Baylor University and selected permanent
Mus Ray, 15, a pupil of the Bas- the local company ner execuon. , vastly more
trop high school was made at the last session of Rains on May 16 and immed-i
Funeral services for Mrs Milton the firemen held this week She lately fillowing have been
wifi be conducted here this af-
termoon.
Rev.: Milton and his family
ex- quickly to protect these splendid
has been out of town and the ceedingly destructive to crop lands
chief has not been able to notify lands in ninny parts sof the state No business can withstand such
and secure her acceptance. Soil washing was extraordinar- losses The state cannot afford
department feels sure ily violent on shallow sandy land them, nor the nation Certainly
she will accept and accompany having clay sub-soil and on all the farmers cannot afford to AUSTIN May 24 Cougars are
the fire fighters on the trip to of the heavy soil of a large part have their rich black soil thus more deadly to the wild deer of
of the black land belt visited converted into relatively unpro- South Texas than the combined
her
COUGARS KILL MORE DEER
IN WEBB THAN HU INTERS
came to Bastrop about a year ago
from Ban Antonio A take over
the pastorate of the First Bap-
tist Church here He succeeded
in having a new enurch building
erected which U scheduled to be
opened next Sunday-
Mr and Mrs Milton formerly
lived in Ballinger He was pastor
of the Ninth Street Baptist
but the
the state meeting
Mrs Albert
Afflerbach, ner Miss Olga Zappa, by these washing rains In addi- ductive clay chalk and rock The bullets of the great
was sponsor for a number of tion to the heavy washings away indifference that
years until she married and of soil from the upper slopes of have displayed toward this un- Tucker, executive secretary of the
Church here for sveeral years be-
fore moving to Waco He and his
family will be remembered here
by man citizens
FOR BLUE BUG/
moved from Ballinger
many of
army of
us hunters according to William J
SURE! I can finish that today"
A strong healthy body and mind always
respond to the occasion I mployers ap
preciate and recognize unfailing fresh-
ness—always ready cheerfully ready to
carry on- minus that “tired feeling
the black land be it, even lands ceasing process of land destruct- Game Fish and Oyster Commis
Another visitor to the conven- That appear level to the eye ion and impoverishment 1 inex sion
tion that local firemen expect to washed severely in many instan- cusable although we have not of
take with them will be their life-ces
A report received from C R
time chaplain, Rev W H
Rev Doss was elected to
office for life a number of
Is sS
this the
years in
go and has been an enthusiastic
member of the department ever
ince He attend , me tings about
I regularly is any other fireman
s stripping of the soil
les productive yellow
vhit chalk nearer
or exposes them The
ing fields
and is always present at banquets rainy period One
and special e
department
nts lit ld by the
observed in the
brings
course been conscious of any such Landon leader of predator
ression. We have looked mal control in Texas for
ponthe process as an navoid
nature
v €
ON T let a we akene i body hold
you back. Prolonged it may
angry gain and sleep soundly;
t in so-called pre
ld
firm flesh should take the place of
once flabby You
w ch wa
Your nerves
I rich, red
processes
urished.
SSS
exain and
th and
ands of
. C. let.
nd v
1 on
by
farm
spring
hat was
at last
the wrath o
Under nature soil forms from 100 deer had been found the ev
the underlying strata about as denc unmistakably indic
AND CHICKEN MITES IN THE San Angelo firemen are prepar rains fell had its area f poor fast a it is washed away from ... kill f by ugars
POULTRY HOI SE USE MAR- ing to entertain a huge throne yellow clay and chalk gravel in- the urface When we break down The ougar ros int Texas
TIN’S ROOST PAINT, an insecti- during the three days The fire-creased by several acres A strip this equilibrium giving no pre from Mexico but th dep rtment
cide and wood preserver This oil men’s convention always draws of accumulated black soil washed tection to the tilled slopes we is taking special teps to war on
large attendance and is one of from the slopes above and de- are violating every stabilizing them In addition to furnishing
the few conventions held in t e posited n,.ar the highway was in- agency that nature knows how to game wardens and h inds. the
is very penetrating and lasting
year,
rains
when
imilar destructive
MARTIN’S POULTER YTONE
is valuable as a tonic for Poultry state that has almost 100 per cent
that have been exposed to blood representation of all departments acres
sucking inserts For sale and in the state . already up n it was butted to a the black belt ! Texas is as sur
guaranteed by Currie Produce Co ...... depth of nearly a foot When this ly • be a despoiled area as some
9-w4 S4d TWO BALLINGER BOYS
LAND IN FRANCE-
creased from eight acres to ten employ Continuing these unwise
and the cotton that was unnatural and needless methods
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BOY SCOUTS ENJOY j 1
NIGHT CAMP ON RIVER Walker
Thirteen boy belonging t o
troop 30, accompanied by Scout-
McWhirter and Phillip
two Ballinger boys
landed in France • this week
will remain
four months
there for the
and
next
ERV
The youths went to
master K V Northington en- Houston about two. months ago
joved a night on the Colorado and took employment on an
River FYiday night The lads ocean liner sailing about six
met at the home of the scout- weeks ago While in Europe the
master and hiked to the river young men intend to visit many
west of the city near the na- of the principal cities .
tional guard rifle range All boys •
were in camp by 6 30 and every- j w E Meaders returned Eri-
one took part in pitching tents day from Houston, where he had
and cooking supper been at the bedside of his daugh-
After the meal was eaten and ter, Mrs. will Stuart, who under-
all details done, the boys were went an operation recently Mrs
Meaders remained in Houston
lated them by the scoutmaster I with her daughter, who still is in
At 11:00 p m taps was soundeda serious condition
and all boys retired First call _______•
was sounded at 4:30 a m and The total winnings of the race-
the camp E horse Zev were 272,088
Several boys returned to town ui
a car with their leader after
breakfast while others remained
at the camp until after dinner,
spending the time searching for
Indian relics By 4:00 p ni Sat-
urday all Scouts were at home
tired, but having had a very en-
joyable time
THIS WA Y
remained
in
Houston
Our method of keeping our prices within
the reach of the family of every family we
serve, is a very simple one
We mark our merchandise in plain fig
ures, and let the family make an uninfluenced
selection, deciding for themselves what the
cost shall be
HIGGINBOTHAM
FUNERAL HOME
60 PARK AVE
/ one
1248
Makes You
When you get y Feel Like
red-blood-cci bag P 1
to norm al, that sluggish Tourseli
let down feeling ack of Adain
appetite skin troubles 5
disappear You should get
made from
vegetable
ily assimi-
ed. All drag stores sell
SS in tw sizes Ask
: the arger sire It is
ore econ mical
STARGAS
.Vakes the kitchen
the "Show room" of the house!
IRGASux
are proud ! the
* v like to 5ho
king, lighting
uton rating
and ironing
Nature Thought of
Everything
Nature thought of everything when
the human body » ui ma le W Len the
body is about to became rill, nature *
planned danger signal warn 1
Thus, if our children grind their teet
when they sleep, or lack appetite or
suffer from abdominal pains, or itdi
about the nose and fing ry we th il 1
know that they may have contracted
worms. Then: 11 wi are win •
bottle of White’s Cream Vere
safely and surely expel the worms The
we avoid the danger of very ► on
trouble. White’s Cream V ermiture costs
caly 35c a bottle, and can be bought from
Weeks Drug Store
W. E. MIDDLETON STARTS
NEW HOME ON TENTH ST.
W E Middleton has begun con-
struction of a new home on his
lots on Tenth Street Hu old
home has been wrecked, the lum- ,
ber sorted and the foundation
staked off for a new home The
new residence will be modern in
every particular.
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Virginia Kerr, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. J. E. Kerr, is seriously
ill at her home OB Eighth Street.
She was reported to be resting
better late Monday afternoon.
% < hot NTRIE, M D
PELLAGRA « rkiA
It you have many of the following
symptoms, I have the remedy, no mat
ter what your trouble has been diag-
nosed Nervousness, stomac h trouble,
less of weight, loss of sleep sore mouth,
hurting in back nl head, shoulders or
back, peculiar swimming in head,
frothy like phlegm in throat, passing
of mucous from the bowels (especially
after taking purgative), burning feet,
vellow IM brown skin, burning or itch-
ing skin, rash on hands, face and arme
resembling sunburn, chronic constipa-
tion, (sometimes alternating with di-
arrhora), copper or metallic taste,ek in 1
sensitive to sun heat, forgetfulness,
despondency, thoughts that you might
lose your mind, gums red and falling
away from the teeth, general weakness,
ara. i"s MeE"
toms, have taken all Kinds of medicine,
and are still sick, I especially want YOU
to write for my FREE booklet, queer
tionnaire, and diagnosis.
W. C. Rountree, M. D., BOX 1450
Dept. T-A. Austin, Tonne
1
veryone the
FOR SALE
John Deere Model D Tractor
Fordson Tractor
No. 6 Double Suction Centrifugal Pump
with Foot Valve and Pipe.
1 No. 19 Bowsher Horse Power Feed Mil
1 14 h. p. Waterloo Stationary Engine
We also have several cultivators planters etc used, for
sale cheap
Crowther Supply Co;
Inn Angelo, Texas
nk . turns on the faucet
..and stands proudly by
STARGAS■
FQL IPMENT
IS SOLD ON.
Convenient
I TERMS ...
beyond the
mains.
COMMUNITY NATURAL GAS COMPANY
Ballinger, Texas
STARGAS STARTS WHERE GAS MAINS STOP
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The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. [37], Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1930, newspaper, May 30, 1930; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1695467/m1/3/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.