The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1914 Page: 1 of 12
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Bennett Abstract Company
Prompt and Accurate
Work.
THE BANNER-LEDGER
Insurance placed with ub
is sate for we write it right
Ballinger Insurance Agency
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BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUN TV, TElAS, FRIDAY OCTOBER 2, 1914.
NUMBER 50
CARLOAD MOON BROS. BUGGIES, PHEATONS AND
SURRIES just placed on exhibition at our store
Van Pelt, Kirk & Mack
*4 year old child lost
ALL NIGHT NEAR TALPA
6.000,000 Men
TALPA, Tex., Sept. 30.-
the four-year-old girl of
.Mearl,
J. T.
picking cotton, and left tin* twin j
children and a smaller child at i
t • i ., e ’the wagon in the cotton patch. Ill
Lewis, and one ot a pair ot t\mus, , ^ .. ... • ,
» was al>out lour-th:rty yesterday
was found b\ a seal clung pait\ afternoon when the little girl.j
south of Talpa at nine-thirty this ^i,>arl, was missed from the wagon1
morning, after being lost since by the older children, who gave1
four o’clock yesterday after- the alarm and the scare!' started.
noon. Just before night the child's
The child was out doors all bonnet was found about half mile
night, and was found near the from the wagon ami at a point
ranch of W. L. Cook, little the where she crawled under a wire
worse from the night’s exposure fence. Later her tracks were
and fright. When found the ehild found about one mile from the
■was two miles and a half from
where it was lost yesterday.
Sorrow srtieken and distressed
Eastern War
GERMANS MUST TAKE
ANTWERP FOR MILITARY
REASONS, SAY ENGLISH
Theatre in 6 Battles
LOSES FINGERS
AT OIL MILL
more than 200 people formed a
searching party that were out all
night looking for the lost child,
and at at early hour this morning
the crowd began to increase and
people were coming in in response
to call sent to Ballinger and
Coleman for help, and there was
rejoicing when the news rapidly
spread that the child had been
found. \
It is supposed that the child
was lost while trying to go to the
other children in the cotton patch.
A sister fifteen years old and
■wagon, and leading towards a
very rough country where there
were a number of streams and
rank undergrowth and the search
ing party almost gave up, not ex-
pecting to find the child alive.
The child could give hut little
account of how it spent the night
out in the cold, but indicated by
its talk that it was frightened and
went to sleep in the grass.
Little Mearl’s mother died only
a few months ago, and the older
children carried the little ones to
the field with them, and left
them to play around the wagon.
Bumps and scratches about the
child’s fa^e indicated that it wan-
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brother twelve years old wereidered in the dark and fell down.
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JALLINGER MAN
SAFE IN AUSTRIA
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The first news to reach Ballin-
ger from Jku Ilonig since Mr.
llonig sailed from New York for
Austria Hungaria early last July
was reecived in a letter to II.
Gieseeke this week
SAYS PEACE WILL
NOT BE SETTLED
AT ZACATECAS
lly United /*/•(«.
VIENNA, Oct. 1.—Four oi-gantic battles are being waged in
the Eastern Theatre of War.
Two sieges are also in progress
Six million men are represented
million Germans and Austrians are b;
sians.
This was the Official Statement
ing. It was declared that no de-cisiv
anywhere.
Two of the great battles are in ]
ier of Prussia. It is there that the
tween the two great armies massed.
Two Russian armies are today i
capturing a number of the smaller ai
go. The Russians have Krosno after i
part of the Austrians and Germans 1
The two towns are being bes^gei
the latter still holding out against thi
Russians. The Austrians in both plai
though they are outnumbered.
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"NY. (’. Adams from east of Ihe
city four miles, was transacting
business in Ballinger Wedncday
and says lie is well supplir I with
hands and is getting on1 about
two bales a day.
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win
the
We
ati\
lial
K. E. Kemp, a member of the
night shift at the Ballinger Cot-
ton Oil Co., had the misfortune
lose all four of the fingers on
left hand, when his hand was
ght in the cake former as he
; at work in the press room
ut seven o’cloek Wednesday
•ning.
'lie*day shift goes to work at
an o’clock, and it was just a
minutes before time for
up to go off duty when the ac-
ent that cost him his fingers
urred. The machine that
iglit his fingers is the one that
ins the cotton seed meal into
es just before it is carried to
» press that mashes the oil
'm the meal.
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the young man was carried to
• Halley & Love sanitarium,
l lie is doing as well as a
ient could do under Ihe
nstanees.
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fly United Prc.**
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—Ac-
cording to men who are making
a close study of the Mexican situ-
at ion which has suddenly arisen,
Mr. Honig left Ballinger aboutjs declared "here bv some of
them that if the Villa-1 ’arran/.a
peace conference' is to be held to-
day at Zacatecas, they will be un-
able to settle the differences im-j
mediately. An armistice, it is'
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•the first of July for the purpose
of going to his obi home at Csab,
Hungaria. to wind up some busi-
ness in the settlement of an estate
that he was interested in. He
made the trip safely, and arrived • pointed out, may be declared
in Austria jus, about the time that j|j(. chieftains,
war Was declared in that eoun-j __
try.
The letter received by Mr. Gie-
secke this week was dated at Ber-
lin, Germany, Sept. 4th. The let-
ter was brief, Mr. llonig stating
that he could not write much. lie
made no mention of the war or of
conditions in that country. He
stated that he had succeeded in
getting his business fixed up and
had gotten as far as Berlin when
he was turned hack to (.sab, linn- will Im* arranged but at the
garia. He asked Mr. Gieseeke to sain<. time they insist that the
send him £200. Mr. Gieseeke is, only wav to insure such is the
making an effort to get the money absolute removal of General Car-
Z AC AT EC AS, Sept. 30.—Gen-
eral Villa is eonfering by tele-
graph with 'the Carranza peace!
commission at Aguag Calientes, in J
an endeavor to arrange a peace J
conference between the tv.o chief-j
tains.
General Villa and his staff ar-
rived in this cit.v last night. In
statements made today, all are
confident that a peaceful settle-
to, Mr. llonig, but this is no easy ranza
Fending the coming conference. I
°* General Villa lias ordered his
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task. Through the Farmers
Merchants Bank the matter
sending the money was taken up; generals who invaded Carranza
with the consul at Galveston, and , territory to suspend operations
the Hungarian consul stated that; 11()f leliiuiuisli their present
he could suggest no way to send I positions.
the money, and refered the bankj The movement of Villa’s troops
to the New York Bank. (from Chihauhua continues.
From the letter it is presumed
that Mr. Ilonig is ready and anxi
oils to get back to Ballinger. 11 is
letter came unsealed and lie in
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The
constitutionalist junta in this city
is convinced that the General Vil-
s m~4
structed Mr. Giesecge not to sen 11 la and General Carranza split will
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letter in writting to him.
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WILSON THREATENS
WITHDRAW TROOPS
FROM COLORADO
be healed shortly.
The complete capitulation of
Carranza to Villa’s demands will
be the solution of the problem
Vvhich is worrying the Mexican of
ficials located here. Carranza, ac-1
cording to reports this morning,!
will retire as first chief and can
didate for the presidency. His
probable successor will be Fernano
Caldron, an advocate of Villa’s
policy.
The G. 1
Parker Amusemt
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For the Benefit of W. O.
September 30th t<
A-
AGAIN GUARDIN6
LAREDO BRIDGE
H'j UniUd Prcw
LONDON, Oct. 1.—The poss-
ession of Antwerp is declared by
military experts in this city, to
be an absolute military necessity
for the Germans. If the Germans
are pushed back from the north-
ern frontier of France, they will
fall back on Antwerp and use the
fortifications of the city, in the
event they are successful in
reducing the city.
Grave doubts prevail here
whether Antwerp ea i withstand
the Germans’ biggest siege guns.
It is stated here by i*eliable
military experts 'that if Antwerp
can hold out several weeks, the
Allies may raise the siege by
pushing the Germans farther back
into Belgium.
Forts are
Stormed
WASHINGTON, Sept.
President Wilson intends to with-
draw the federal troops from Col-i
orado unless the coal operators in
•that state accept his proposed
three-weeks’ truce. This is the in-
formation learned today from re-j
liable sources in official circles.
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A BUSINESS CHANGE.
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CHIHUAHUA, Sept. 2!*. Pare,
den has been occupied by .">(tl)() of
Villa’s strongest men.
Zacatecas surrendered to Gen-
eral Villa’s army without fight-
ing.
The Carranza delegation is in
force at Saltillo and Aguas Cal-
ientes.
The movement of General Villa
on the tater cities has already
commenced, it is reported here.
It is stated here, supposedly
Car
There has been a deal closed
whereby Elmer Sheppard pur-
chases the interest of M. D. Chas-jwith authority, that General
tain & Co., insurance agency. Mr. j ranza is trying to arrange
Sheppard will continue to run the! armistice with General Villa,
business at the same office. T he i
style of the new business will be
E. Sheppard & Co., and the new
firm takes charge on October 1st.
an
Carter on the
special,” which
here.
“cotton
passed
picker's
through
.AREDO. Sept. 30.—Upon re-!
,’ing orders from the United
tes war department, tlie in-
cry which has been in this!
lias re-established guard at
international bridge. Cavalry
* •, on patrol for a distance of
i fifty miles in each direction,
order that filibustering might
prevented. •
in
lie
PART OF TOWRNAI
IS DECLARED’TO
BE IN BLAZES
Tiy Unitr/l I’rcMM
ANTWERP, Oct. 1.—The Ger-
mans continue their bombard-
ment on the outer forts of this
city. All the larger guns, those
similar to the immense siege guns
which reduced Liege, are being
stationed and made ready for the
siege. Already the work of at-
tempting to demolish the outer
forts is underway. It is declared
here that the guns are the largest
ever seen in Belgium except at
the siege of Liege.
It is offic1ally stated that the
German’s shells have so far only
clipped the stones of the forts.
It Is not believed by the officers
in the city that a breach will
be caused in the line of fortifica-
tions around Antwerp.
It is also officially announced
that the Belg^ns are slowly re-
tiring from Termonde where they
have made a desperate resistance
against the Germans.
p^00 Balloon Ascension Sat-
urday Afternoon Oct. 3
Uu Uniti tt p .-*••
LONDON. Oct. 1.—The Ger-
mans have fired a part of Tour-
nai in Belgium, after the citizens
of that city failed to pay a war
tax in the Germans amounting to
$400,0( III.
Today the Germans are bom-
barding Lierre and Hevst
Antwerp.
PAPAL SECRETARY
HAS APPENDICITIS
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\N. A. Wi lls, of the Wingate
country, was i.mong the business appendicitis. llis condition
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ROME. Oet. 1.—The pupal sec-
retary of State. Cardinal Ferrata,
was today suddenly stricken with
visitors in Ballinger Tuesday. ] critical.
Dr
Bell of Winters had, busi-
ness in Ballinger a few hours
Tuesday.
J. N. Biz/.ell of. Winter, waa
< riming the business visitors in
j Ballinger Monday uienioon.
Russian General Thinks
He Will Eat Turkey Dinner
In Capital of Germany
lly United Piit*
PETROGRAD. Sept. M.-WHh j t^oPporuTmty'of m'kin^eS
heavy reinforcements the Ger- j selections for their children**
mans are today battling wrth home, in the way of toy° for
Christmas.
General Rennenkampf’s strong
Russian army which is stationed
beetwen the Niemen River
and the Prussian front ier.
In a dispatch to this city the Rus-
sian general expresses confidence
that his army will defeat the
strong German force despite the
fact that the latter has received
reinforcements.
Rennenkampf is today quoted
as declaring that the Russians
It is declared here that Kaiser
Wilhelm's stock faim on which
is located many fine pedegTeed
animals of the German emperor
is confiscated by ihe Russian
government. The farm is near
Rominten and it is the sporting
estate of the German Kaiser. The
fine animals on the place are re-
ported to have been distributed to
the Russian breeders living in the
j will take Christmas dinner in vicinity of the estat i
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Sledge, A. W. The Banner-Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1914, newspaper, October 2, 1914; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1138214/m1/1/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.