The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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THE DAILY LEDGER
CmScsren Cry for Fletcher’s
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I he greatest of
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st'cries
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(Continued from Ye
SYNOPSIS.
EIGHTH INSTALLMENT
THE RACE FOR RIGHT OF WAY
Watch the Fords Go By.
Watch the Fords Go By,
the construction
to
to this official, already
Makes nungry
Will Jackson
People Happy
the
Rank T ooli hues
Stubbs
the black-
Effective Janusry ICtb, 1913
but what
Satui'da v.
Harwell Motor Co
Ballinger, Texas
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SATURJA
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Spike, Seagrue, himself,
the office of the local
that Helen took
to a Las Vegas
real-
“All
the
kul-
rnu
mile
W. N .Gray of South Ballinger
was among the business visitors
in Ballinger Saturday afternoon.
F. M. ami S. T Woods, of the
Mud Creek country and Henry
Evans of Talpa, were transact-
ing business in Ballinger Monday.
Q. Victor Miller left Saturday
afternoon for Temple and points
in South Texas to look after legal
business a few days-
J. C. Farmer, of the irrigated
farm down the river, passed thru
Ballinger Saturday en route to
points in New Mexico.
was among the business
in Ballinger Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. East left
Saturday for Dublin, where they
will spend the summer, and
East will return here nexi fall
buy cotton again.
Little Helen Holmes,
eral Holmes, railroad
from imminent danger
Hobart Nicholson and Charlit
Boyd left Monday for points east
on an oil prospecting trip.
<LThe financial resources of the Fed-
. eral government are exemplified in
New YorK by the activities within
this magnificent building at the head
of Wall Street.
much the same way the financial
resources of this community are ex-
emplified by the work and activities
of this banh.
<^Our deposits represent the thrift and
prosperity of the people of the com-
munity, and they also represent the
confidence of the public in the safety
and responsibility of this institution.
<^Our wish is that all of the people of
the community may be numbered
among those whose savings are
growing with us. The saving habit is
your best insurance policy for the
years to come.
<£ Start a bank account with us today.
What to do with Spike after he had
turned over his first leaf in the book
of gratitude proved a difficulty for
Helen. Rut it seemed to her the first
thing to be attempted was to get him
well away from Seagrues influence.
Seagrue, with the ample backing at
his disposal, had established an elabo-
rate construction camp well out on
the desert, where he coupled with hia
railroad building enterprise as much
of fraudulent deceit and force as he
dare display toward Rhinelander and
the men in the Copper Range & Tide-
water construction work. The prize
for which both roads were playing
In the tremendous effort of each to
get ahead of the other was a sub-
stantial one, and Seagrue was never
called to account at his headquarters
for his strategy in
trenches.
On the morning
Spike dewn street
clothing store, had him fitted out with
new clothes and provided him with
some pocket money, Seagrue was on
his way over to his camp, accom-
panied by the two strong-arms,
known by no more respectable names
than Rill and Lug. He saw Helen on
the street with Spike and watched the
two for a moment. Dispatching Bill
then to the garage for his motor car
and bidding Lug. on his life, not to
lose sight of
hastened to
sheriff.
Explaining
made complacent by generous of-
ferings, that he had on his hands a
contract laborer who was trying to
Jump his job, he engaged his promise
of vigorous co-operation to bring
Spike to time. •
Seagrue led the way with him to
machine, which Rill had brought
and, getting in with the sheriff,
drove toward the station. Helen
returned with Spike to the office,
had paid for a railroad ticket
W. L. llamhright, of the Win-
ters country and A. D. and R. 1*. I
Taylor of the Norton country,
were among the business visitors
in Ballinger Monday.
from
Carlsbad Saturday afternoon
vote, and to visit home folks
few days.
^Hungry people are happy as a lark when they eat
our groceries, because the quality s in what they
eat.
Mr.
to
^Christmas cheer last for a few days and then fades
away.
<Our Grocery cheer last throughout the year, and
never fades, and it is all in what you eat.
Rev. E. R. Sanford left Monday
morning to visit his parents at
Warn a few days and will attend
the laymen's meeting at Fort
Worth Thursday ami Friday be-
fore returning home.
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Joe Mitchell and W. G. Allen
of Wingate, J. Sam Hall, M. C.
Taylor, Win. Forbus. J. M. Os-
born and J. M. Jennings of Nor-
ton, were among the visitors in
Ballinger first Monday-
Ostertag came
Economy—in 1 w first cost and small
cost to operate an 1 maintain. Strength
— ability to stand u ' under the hardest
sort of use. Siiiiplic.u —a plain, sturdy
motor in a wondei! : iy trong ai d light
car. ( asy for anyone to run and care for.
I lie Ford car—your necesi-ity. Tour-
ing Car $440; Runabout $390; Coupelet
$590; Town Car $640; Sedan $740 f. o. b
Detroit. On dhj lay and sale at
Helen Understood the Necessity for
Prompt Action.
weather-beaten pioneer who bore the
name of Cassidy, and his comfortable
cottage obstructed both surveys.
The advent of two railroads building
neck and neck across the desert
through the little town had naturally
stirred every inhabitant of it to a high
pitch of excitement. Small wonder
that Cassidy s head had become in
rome degree confused as to values,
and by the time Rhinelander got
around to see the bronzed pioneer
with a check for two thousand dollars
—the price first put upon the property
by its veteran owner—valuations had
risen and Cassidy declared that he
would sell for ten thousand dollars
and not_a cent less.
(Continued Tommorow.)
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and wk'fT; L
in u o for over 30 years, lias borne the hl--.uii
and has been made tmdei* h!
soual supervision since its in
Allow no one to deceive you 1
AU Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good3? ar
Experiments that trifle with and enilangei the hea
Infants and Children—Experience against Ux^erL
Mrs. M. J. Green, who lives
with her son, R. F. Green, the
dairyman, left Saturday after-
noon to visit her sister in Corry-
ell county for a few weeks.
Sam Boyer of the New Home
Schwartz
of the
can send you to the chair; man—do
you know that?”
Seagrue lost none of his composure.
He returned Spike’s angry look undis-
turbed: “Do you know what will hap-
pen when you do?” he asked in even
tones. ‘After they lift me out of it
they'll lift you in fcr the next shock.
Spike. When you're ready to commit
'suicide, I’m ready to go to the straps
ahead of you or after you—that's as
the hc-riff may prefer. But until that
moment comes Spike"—a threatening
int< nation made itself felt within the
studied utterance—“until that moment,
Spike, you will take your orders from
me—understand?’’
Spike looked gloomily down at the
ticket he held in his hand. He
ized he was utterly helpless,
right,” he said gruffly.
Seagrue shook hands with the
iff as he followed Spike across the
platform. “1 don’t think I’ll have any
mor<> trouble with him." he said in an
undi rtone. “Thank you just the same,
sheriff.”
With the rival construction crews,
matters were reaching a somewhat
critical stage in their race. Both the
Colorado & Coast and the Copper j
Range & Tidewater companies had
reached the limits of the city of Las ,
Vegas, where, owing to the topogra-
phy of the country as well as to the j
difficulties of getting through the
town, possible rights of way were ex-
ceedingly scarce. A section almost ;
immediately in front now of both con- ,
struction gangs was occupied by a
Bill
had
she
which was to carry him to the city,
where, she believed, freed from Sea-
grues contaminating influence, Spike
would have a chance to get back ou
his feet.
Spike, in a comfortable frame of
mind, was locking down at the ticket
in his hand and reflecting what an ex-
traordinary friend Helen had been,
and how considerately she had treated
him, when a quiet voice at his elbow
spoke just two words into his ear:
"Hello, Spike!”
Spike, who lived, as it were, at all
times over a powder magazine of tho
unexpected, started a little as he
turned to look into the composed gray
eyes of Seagrue. He stood a moment
bound by their spell.
Seagrue s face was lighted only by a
pleasant smile. "Where you going.
Spike?" he asked in friendly fashion.
He looked about him with indecision.
of Gen-
rescued
on a scenic rail-
road by George Storm, a newsboy. Grown
to young womanhood. Helen saves Sturm,
now a fireman, her father, and his friends
Amos Rhinelander, financier, and Robert
Seagrue. promoter, from a threatened col-
lision. Safebreakers « mployed by Seagrue
stea! General Holmes’ survey plans of the
cut-off 'ine for the Tidewater, fatally
wound the general and es< ape. Her fa-
ther’s estate badly involved by his death.
Helen goes to work on the Tidewater.
Helen re'-overs the survey plans froi*> Sea-
grue, and though they are taken from her,
finds an accidentally made proof of the
survey blueprint. £torm is employed by
Rhinelander. Spike and his confederate
safebreakers steal Rhinelander’s pay roll
money. Helen pursues and. with a police-
man’s aid. captures two of them and re-
covers the money. Spike, befriended by
Helen, In his turn saves her and
right-of-way contracts when Seagrue
naps her.
E. Baumer, one of the promin-
| ent grocery merchants of
Mrs Hobbs, of Chicago, who
had been visiting he rsister, Mrs
J. \V. Clampitt ami family the
past week or two left Sunday af-
ternoon to visit at Houston ami
other point in the state before re-
turning home.
Tinker or Thinker—Which?
“Get an Overland ”
O'Kelley & Walton.
daughter
man, is
Horace McKinley of Miles,
came over Sunday afternoon to
visit relatives a n <1 Ballinger
friends a day or two.
Farmers and Merchants State Bank
Ballinger. Texas
The Bank that Helps You Do Things
Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Wigle left
Miles. Sunday afteniobn on a short visit
isitors to Houston ami Galveston.
^When dad pays the hill he, too, is some happy, ai d
his satisfaction is over the price.
^Fact is, they just flood the whole family with cheer
because they are fine to eat, easy to c >ok. and
stimulating to a degree.
<Can you beat it?
Shoes Warned.
it Wendorf's Busy Shoe Shop
Work done, by the Champion
<hoe finishing machine, soles sew
ed on in quick time. Come to se<
IK.
THE JACKSON DAIRY
WILL JACKSON, Proprietor.
Will deliver milk to any part of the city
Good Milk, Good Service, Prompt Delivers.
A Share of Your Patronage Solicited
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil.
r;orie, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant,
contains neither Opium, Morphiao nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
ami allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it
lias been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething’ Tfou /js and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Dowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend*
How To Cure Colds.
A vol. i exposure ami drafts. Eat
I right. Take Dr. King's New Dis
Icovery. it is prepared from
i far, healing balsams and
I laxatives. Dr. King's New
cowry kill sand expels the
germs, soothes the irritated throat
[ami allays inflammation, li
heals the mucous membrane.
.‘Search as you will, you cannot
How to Prevent Croup.
When the child is subject to at-
tacks of croup, see to it that he
eats a light evening meal, as an
overloaded stomach may bring on
an atta?k, also watch for the first
symptom—hoarseness, and give
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as
soon as the child becomes horse.
Obtainable Everywhere.
SUB-TREASURY, WALL ST.,OH SITE OF . .
CITY HALL WHERE WAS 11 NG TON TOOK THE ’ I
OATH Of OFFICE AS FIRST PRESIDENT. !J
neighborhood, C.e W.
and Marshall Stovall
Crews country, J. D. Reynolds
and Bert Fletcher of the Maverick
country, C. R. Smith of the
Valley creek country and J. L.
Stephens, of Coke county, were
looking after business affairs in
Ballinger Monday.
GENUINE CASTOR!A ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
grue beckoning to the sheriff to cornu
>ver front tiie machine.
Seagrue, meantime, put his hand in
his pocket. From it be drew a worn
little pamphlet, and affecting careful
deliberation, held it in his hand before
Spike’s wavering eyes, in
faced type on the cover a name and
description were printed,
Spike saw staring at him were the fig-
ures and the words:
“$500.00 REWARD!”
Hnt to.Spike that one line of .type
meant infinitely more than it couid
mean to any other man.
Seagrue watched closely the chang-
ing expressions on the hunted crim-
inal’s face; he was even quiet and
pleasant in his demeanor as he mut-
tered: “You shouldn't try to leave me,
Spike. At least, not until I say you
n.ay go.”
Seajrrue,” Snifro p’^-'^t hifsed. “I
To all Patrons of The Leach Auto Works
I intend Io keep tfnploV?d a very limited amount of work-
men and bv so doing, conduct a Quality Service Station only.
Can take c *re of any high-class tenchical job requiring
•kiIlo"h.?ato!it'hesh<oparequ>ring allot my time ami the extra
cost orUeeti.ma, I am discontinuing the monthly account
system. Please govern yourself accordingly.
Yours Truly
H. M. LEACH
H. L. WENDORP
dtf Hutchings Ave
Frank II tiffin::
tn and :
the Bony creek
count i
shopping in Ball
in ger S.-,
A. 11. Schtieidt
•r, of ti
country, ipirthwi
st of |
was transact hit,-
business
linger Saturday.
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, March 6, 1916, newspaper, March 6, 1916; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1172484/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.