The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1916 Page: 5 of 6
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You Need a Tonic
There are times in every woman’s life when she
needs a tonic to help her over the hard places.
When that time comes to you, you know what tonic
to take--Cardui, the woman’s tonic. Cardui is com-
posed of purely vegetable ingredients, which act
gent'y, yet surely, on the weakened womanly organs,
and helps build them back to strength and health.
It has benefited thousands and thousands of weak,
ailing women in its past half century of wonderful
success, and it will do the same for you.
You can’t make a mistake in taking
CARDUI
The Woman’s Tonic
Miss Amelia Wilson, R. F. D. No. 4, Alma, Ark.,
says: “I think Cardui is the greatest medicine on earth,
for women. Before I began to take Cardui, 1 was
so weak and nervous, ami had such awitil dizzy
spells and a poor appetite. Now I feel as well and
as strops as 1 ever did, and can cat most anything.”
Begin taking Cardui today. Sold by all dealers.
Has Helped Thousands.
To Every Little
Girl in Ballinger
(GWEEWGS
<We are booking orders for Christmas
and New Year cards, same to be de-
livered when you want them. In order
to get good service and make sure of
delivery all orders must be in by Dec. 21
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*7. Jn,
^ Printing and Engraving is our business,
n We have the finest line of samples ever
shown in this city. Our solicitor is
ready to call on you and will come at
vour pleasure.
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YffTelephone number 27 and call for him.
llWe guarantee the lowest prices.
The IBaBUfiinigeir
Printing Co.
—
CLEANING
PRESSING
AND
REPAIRING
Cordially yours
MAN ARRESTED FOR
CREMATING HIMSELF
oHi-
here
crime
only yours will be a dear little one. And
best of all, for each of the five little girls
who make the neatest, prettiest dresses
with a FREE McCall Doll Pattern there
is a PRIZE—a beautiful new doll with
real hair! Isn’t that just lovely? The
cloth you use will not matter a bit—ging-
hams, silk, or a piece from a warm last
Winter dress will do. You must cut your
doll’s dress exactly like the McCall Doli
Pattern; and we will expect you to take
neat little stitches, just as though you
were a big girl making a dress for your-
self. Ask mother or some grown-up to
come with you for the FREE McCall Doll
Pattern we shall have waiting for you.
Come early, won’t you? The FREE Mc-
Call Doll Patterns will be given to the
first 500 little girls who call on us. Re-
member, if you try for a prize your doll’s
< hie of the best pieces of detec-
tive work done here in many years
was brought to a dose Tuesday
afternoon, when Deputy Sheriff
Arch Johnson of Castro county
and a well known insuarnce detec-
tive arrested J. Albert Morgan in
We are going to give 500 little giris
something very lovely for their dolls.
Guess what? You never could, so we shall
tell you. A really, truly McCall Pattern
J. A. Morgan, who is supposed
to have burned to death when his
home was destroyed by fire in
Castro county on the night of
November 6th, was arrested in
Sweetwater yesterday and carried
back to Plainview to answer to a
charge of arson. The case is one of
the most sensational ones ever
IHE Texas Wonder _*res kidray anc,
bladder troubles, dissolves gravel, cure*
diabetes, wedk and ianie backs, rheuma-
. —i _ii '-regulttrities of the kidneys and
h men and women. If not sold
nst. will be sent by mail on re-
•ne small bottle is two months’
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l ot of $1.______ ■____
lament and seldom fails to perfect a cure,
lend for testimonials from this and other
ltates.,'Dr. E.,W. Hall. 2V26 Olive Street;
it Louis. Mo. Sold by druggist*.—Adv. e
brought to light in the criminal
history of Hie plains country. The
Sweetwater Reporter in giving an
account of the arrest of Morgan
o'clock Tuesday night when* offi-
cer Arch Johnson left with him
over the Santa I’e for Dimmitt,
the county seal of ('astro county,
await trial.
According to the story of the
. officers, who had charge of the
case all the lime and who finally
i succeeded in arresting him
I Tuesday afternoon. Morgan
' eused of a most hideous
I which in substance is about as fol.
lows:
Some time ago Morgan and his
wife with their two small child-
ren lived in a small house on a
ranch in Castro county, which is
some sixty miles west of Tulia.
Morgan and his wife entered in-
to a conspiracy to defraud the in-
surance companies out of the poli-
cies he was carrying on his own
life. Five weeks ago Tuesday
Sulak Ballinger. Texas
Phone 97
t also there for the sake of getting
♦ the day's mail before the hour of
• closing arrived. When he cnler-
* cd the building the officers began
to close up on him and Deputy
I Sheriff Arch Johnson pushed his
I way through the crowd to near
". where Morgan stood and, drawing
! his gun, ordered him to “hands
[up.” Those in the building not
'understanding what was going on
■soon made their way out al the
front door, while the other
I cers went to the assistance of the
Deputy Sheriff who still had his
man in charge. .Morgan was dis
armed and carried to the count'.
of a pistol.
The officers, assisted by the lo-
cal officers, had been here since
Sunday looking for Morgan, who
had come here from Castro county
where he is accused of burning his
own home some weeks ago.
The officers had been on his
trail for two days, but as Morgin
I is considered a very dangerous
man every precaution was taken
to avoid all necessary danger in
making 1be arrest.
It was thought by the officers
that Morgan would come to 1he
post office for his mail after the -1
o’clock Santa Fe mail bad been
put ii]) and al! plans were made
I for his arrest in case he did. Just
, I at six o dock he entered the post
♦ (office building from the front
♦ (door, the lobby of the buildhig be-
• C. P. SHEPHERD
• ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
• and
• NOTARY PUBLIC
• General Practice
• Collections and rent property
• handled. Office upstairs in C. A.
• Doose Building. Ballinger, Tex.
• Phone 60
.Our cleaning and pressing de-
partment is the best in the city.
of our work is guaranteed to
be first class When your suit,
silk dress, sweater, portiers, rugs,
gloves, satin or kid slippers, etc.
j-JH cleaning phone 97 and we
vMTl call. Free auto delivery.
* DAILY LEDGER
ly after the fire started and t .;•(?
Rev. Thos. Dawson passed thru
Ballinger Wednesday en route to
his home in Mills county, from a
visit tn the Winters country.
Rev. R. IL Rives left Thursday
morning for Brownwood to look
after his church work a feu days.
' "s ga’herid together and bin
•cd willi (he Masonic ritual. Peo-
■l.e said her I / st and was a met i-
<er of the Masonic order, where-
upon tic charred boms of what
This occurred about 7 o’clock
! night and as the house
near any other house, no one
ed to see the fire.
I lc remedy handy,
throat, tight idlest
coughs pre sure
mire than $6(1(1 ami presented to
o r ami her two orphan children?
The y idow soon began (o’ ar-
•rnge for collecting 1 !,»• insurmicr
•arri< <| bv her husband who, wn .
The wile told how her husband
had gone back in the burning
milding to save what of the house-
hold goods he could and had been
That same good old pure rib-
bon cane syrup is on sale at our
store again this season. Just re-
ceived car direct from the farm.
E. A. J canes & Co. 12-.)td2tw
<wo sma.i children, appeared al a
neighbor's house one mile and a
halt away and sc med to be in
Wv> are glud to see Arthur
Smith in town Thursday after
n seige of 28 days past with ty-
coiigtsfed lungs and stop the
cough. Its antiseptic pine bnls-
iins heal amt soothe. For croup,
v- ho< phi/ i- ugh and chonie bron-
chial troubles try Dr. Bell’s Pine
>' 1 hue . At all Druggists. 2oc.
W'ntcr Brings Colds To Children
A child rarely goes through the
" hole winter without n cold, and
every mother should have a relia-
Fever, sore
and crimpy
symptoms. A
dose of |)r Bell's Pil e Tar Holier
Free
A good linen handkerchief and
a perfume sprinkler bottle free
with the purchase of one ounce of
, 'I'll ELM A perfume, at the regular
price of $1.(10. Thelma is one of
the choice domestic perfumes with
an unusual fragrance and lasting
quality. This offer is a means of
I having it known more thoroly.
(The Walker Drug Co. 13-3td
In lu r confession last Satli-dny
before the ( astro grand jury, Mrs.
Morgan completely turned traitor
ed that the insurance amounted t >
nothing like $10,000, a rather
large sum for a mini in medium
Iiiuineia Icireimistanees.
The insurance •• iinpanii < he
gan to investigate the causes of
his death and the community be-
eonie suspici' Ils. The whole lower
•mJ of (’asti'o county soon became
aroused am| !•< gan to ask tlm <|iies-
tioii whether the bones found in
the burned building were those of
I " missing man or s< me animal.
(hi l.,ivt Saturday the grand jury
1 the county ordered the remains
f the dead body exhumed and
'night the remainder of a calf! examined by five leading physi-l
Which Jlorg in had killed and had I • ai.s of Hide and Deaf Smith conn!
eaten a part of was brought into'ties. After the examination had?
the little house in wl.i h the fam-jheen completed they found the ■
ily lived and fire set to Hie build- charred bones to be that of an ani-
ing which was soon consumed-[ mat other than a man.
at .Mrs. .Morgan was then summon-'
was not ed before the grand jury where,
it is said, she made a complete eon
I fession of the whole crime.
I he insurance companies put
their finest detective on the work
and he and the sheriff’s force of.
t ;d county got busy. They struck i
a trail of him at once leading to-
ward Sweet water. After notify-
ing local officers they reached
here Sunday and worked night i
and day < n the case until the ar-
rest was made uesday afternoon.
Morgan is twenty-seven years
old andof medium size. After his'
arrest and before leaving with the!
o 'ire's lor his Imino to stand trial
he confessed to the crime of which
' ssnry informat ion leading up to I
his quirk arrest.
She told them her husband had
conic to Sweetwater, where she
"communicating with by ad-
dressing his letters to Mrs. Lizzie
(«reen.
E V ERV BODV
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 14, 1916, newspaper, December 14, 1916; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1178454/m1/5/?rotate=180: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.