The Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 18, 1907 Page: 2 of 10
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BAI LINGER LUflBER COflP’Y.
PLANK DOWN
The kind of planks sold at
this lumber yard and you’ll
get gray headed before they
need renewing.
BUY LUMBER HERE
And you won’t have to
■< fancy price
ingle foot you buy. We
; ; y >ur require-
ments on any and save
money on price as well. Dont
forget, but buy here.
maoufaoturon «f
PILL*.
CBERY PKTMML.
3 Do you like it? Then why
be contented with it? Have
to be ? Oh, no I Just put on
Ayer’s Hair Vigor and have
long, thick hair; soft, even
hair; beautiful hair, without a
single gray line in it. Have a
little pride. Keep young just
as long as you can.
“ I am fifty-«even yean old, and until re-
cently my hair w«i very gray. But in a few
weeks Ayer’s Hair Vigor restored the natural
color to my hair so now there is not a gray
hair to be seen.” —J. W. HAK8ON, Boulder
Creek, Cal.
yVe Deliver The Goods
Pure resh Groceries & Feed Staff of all Kinds
COTTON BUYERS
MVlS-FflflGHEH & co
BALLINGER
TEXAS
Not Just “Any Old Kind’’ of Goods,
BUT
bears both kinds of fruits th
how thin,
Coleman Nursery
O. D. Battle
Coleman, Texas.
j Jones, Walton & Co
| SELL
You Lose If Don’t See Us Before buying Hardware.
Jones, Walton&Co
to US
about
heard
are short of
certificate of
and get your
hang on to it
fully
are
They
ware
it is
them h >w
they g->
moral old
make up
fl
fl
fl
Mr
Buyer, call and see our Mr. Mil-
ler the cotton buyer before you
sell.
owed for
money to
This ar-
a vailable.
Fruit and Ornamental Trees. Rose and
Ornamental Trees a specialty. : : :
If you think of attending a
business college, it would be well
to write the METROPOLITAN
BUSINESS COLLEGE, Dallas,
Texas for full information. The
METROPOLITAN is known
everywhere as one of the fore
most business colleges of the
South—its leadership in Texas is
unquestioned. tf
COTTON WAREHOUSE
AT BALLINGER
Good for the Blues.
Is your appetite on a vacation, yoir ~*
energy absent, and everything else our
’ If so, you had better
; now. Sim-
!. A. Doose, President. D. M. Baker, Vice Pres, and Cashier,
Sam Baker, Asst. Cashier.
passed a law prohibiting saloons
a Columbia, the site of the Stated
University. According to the'
anti argument such an act will •
encourage blind tigers and lower
the standard of morality. Evi
dently the legislature of that
state belives that saloons are an
injury to an educational town.
Tonics. It will make you eat all you
‘ want to pay for. Try it he
>»it and hear yourself la ug h’ again
Miss Zadie Royalty returned
Tuesday from a trip to Stamford
where she attended a meeting
of the delegates of the Ladies
Home Mission Societies of
this conference district.
Horses examined free by Dr
Jackson. Visits Ballinger once
Miss Zenobia Francis left her route and that the proper place
school this morning to go to for the warehouse in Runnels
town and buy a bottle of Hoop- county, is Ballinger. It is now
er’s Tetter Cure to relieve her no longer the part of wisdom to
sore aching feet. Guaranteed hesitate on the top rail of unde-
by Walker Drug Co. cision and if the farmers of Run-
Stoughton Wagons
K. C. Buggies
Sanders Disc Plows
Lone Star Cultivators
Rock Island Planters
I.H.C. Gasoline Engines
cision and if the farmers of Run-
nels county mean to do anything
but deal in hot air and pipe
dreams the time is now ripe for
them to get up on their hind feet
and “build warehouses or lie
down like a shivering dog and
let opportunities pass that they
may not again ever have.
This question has been discuss-
ed long enough. If the farmers
of this county could collect one
cent a word for all that has been
said, a warehouse could be built
covering the whole town of Bal-
linger. The farmers of the
county, a large percent, of them
claim that Ballinger merchants
have not shown them the proper
courtesy. They have resented
in no unmistakable tones what
they consider this discourtesy.
But this is not the point at issue.
It is not a matter of organizing
a mutual admiration society. It
is a matter of business. Ic would
be, from my viewpoint, a very
weak point for the farmer to let
some trivial remark made by a
pig headed merchant keep them
from warehousing their cotton at
our county seat. The open hand-
ed and open hearted level head-
ed merchants do not endorse the
slurs, if indeed there have been
any, cast at the man called Mr.
Hayseed. It is time now, gen-
tlemen, for us to get our heads
out of the clouds, cling to the
soil, lay sentiment flat down, ig-
nore predjudice as a scourge, and
build warehouses, It is acknowl-
edged by our wisest heads to be
the very wisest course to persue.
When cotton is bulked in large
lots and kept dry and clean un-
der a nice cover it goes without
saying that large buyers will
come and give the top price for
it. Suppose that warehouses
were built, and they are being
built, all along the “Chicken
branch” of the Santa Fe R. R.
from Temple to San Angelo at
every important point. There
are perhaps a round dozen good
towns on this tap and if a thous-
and bales of cotton were stored
in each of these towns it is easy ,
as sinning to see that there would ;
be twelve thousand bales. Would pockets of your old jeans than
it not appeal to the large buyer? you would to dump it on the
It must be confessed by all think- ground or peddle it on the streets
ing people that this is the most ■ to men who say “I’ll give you
plausable plan. | thus and so.” It is going to be
I am glad that we now have “What will you take”?
substantial evidence that. Ballin-1 Your Uncle Johnnie,
ger sees the importance of this i
splendid move and stands ready I
to meet the farmers on half way
ground. There is no longer any
excuse on the part of the farm-
ers since one of the strongest ■
hanking institutions in the coun-
ty has expressed a hearty will-
ingness to assist them along
these lines,
from the first that a
cent of the farmers
their land and had no
invest in warehouses,
gument is not longer
The banks propose to accept cer-
tificates of shareholders as collat-
eral and advance money on the
;ame, so no man can
dead poverty. It is up
vVhat are we going to do
;? Some of you have
that question before. Dont you
think it is time we were “put-
ting up” or “shutting up? There
are but two courses that can be
>ersued. We must stand like
aen and fight with both fists for
le prestige we have won, or go
way back, sit our helpless car-
asces down on the old dilapidat-
I). C. Alton, of Cleburne. Tex-
as. jumped from his seat, caused
by a thought that Herbton cured ■
his wife’s- eeble health, and he |
ran d*> a drug store to buy
a b' mself. Guaranteed
by .rdTKer Drug Co.
No Need of Scratching.
Other afflictions may be more pain-
ful, but none more annoying than many
forms of itching trouble. The quickest
and most reliable remedy for itching
diseases of any character is Hunt’s
Cure. One application relieves—one
box guaranteed to cure.
WANTED;—Young men to
perpare for immediate Railway
Telegraph Service. Only few
months time required and situa-
tions sure. Can't supply de-
mand for operators. Write for
particulars.
Dallas Telegraph College.
417 Main St, Dallas Texas.
cause we do not suppose he has j a month,
thought about the matter enough j • i u x x ,
, to make up his mind. but if he VflD°" , .hot wa‘er whe1n
'should ask for the office he will VanPelt.& Klrk are selling cool-
ffiid this section of the state solid iers 80 c eap' “
for him—Brownwood Bulletin. i We transfer Household good
. —.___ deliver hulls and meal in any
A xvrnnb ™ c- ak o quantity or Seed Meal 10c per
! A wreck on the Southern Pac- Phone 120 c j LynnP&
If you dont’ aboL,t &r‘ people and wounded
ieepiany others. The train was
and l°aded with Shriners returning
from a trip to Los Angeles.
Ot cotton is Ihe antis of Navaru ccunty
Every have filed a petition to have a
prohibition election pulled off.
1 he antis there do not seem to
hold the same opinion as most of ■
those somewhere exese as the,
latter accuse the pros of wanting
to stir up strife by advocating
such election in anti countries.
ed s tool of donothing and sing
|0w base. I dont believe the
best farmers of one of the best
counties in one of the best states
in the union will do such a thing.
My experience with the solid
citizenship of the rural districts
of Runnels county is that when
they set their level heads to go
through thick and thin, it doesn’t
matter a little bit to
thick or
through. Once these
monarchs of the soil
their minds they go through if il
takes off the hair. This writer
heard one of these sturdy farm-
ers say that he would furnish a
part of the hair and I am
persuaded that “there
others.” They will rally,
may differ as to where the
house is located, but when
seen that it is for the greatest
good to the greate t number,
they will walk over like men of
' principle nut a strong shoulder
i to the wheel and roll—roll to
beat the dickens and blessing
are your noble head, brother,
when they begin to roll and
some old gray headed war horse |. . * w" w,v ‘Juuwlcr“ <-----
raises the war cry? “Heave, oh! j1 *lcaccu,led Bear Santa Barbara Bro.
heave,” you are going to see | Calif on^the 12th inst. killing
something doing. I
I’ll swallow my breath.
your eye on the indicator
1 let us not only watch but work
The warehousing
no longer an experiment. F
house that pooled its cotton last
i year got eleven cents and up.
Now, gentlemen, let us get busy.
■There is more in marketing
than there is in making. There
are more ways to make a living
than by bowing the empty head
and bending the pliant hinges of
the knee. Let every loyal man
| go after stock in the Farmers
Cotton Warehouse and go after
it like he had faith in it and in
himself. If you
funds take your
stock to the bank
money on it and
like a bull dog. It will draw a
dividend and cause you to get a
cent a pound more for your cot-
ton.
Now, boys, if you think I am
wrong on the location, say so and
give your reasons. Please dont
jump on me. Jump on the sub
ject in hand. I am not hunting
any fight. I dont believe in
“the big stick.” The farmers
have no time for bickering and
backbiting, Ballinger is the place.
Cotton from South of Ballinger
and East and West and lots of
it from some of the county up
the creeks to the North will go
to Ballinger in spite of h-11 and
highwater. The thing to do is
to house it, keep it nice and
clean and dry to prevent what
the spinner calls “country dam-
I age” and you are going to put at
I least $5.00 a bale more in the
children’s hose, spoons, and but-
ter knives, bread knives, lady’s
slippers, post cards, open letters
needles, belts, cloth samples, j
pricelist books, clocks, rubber
stamps, checker sets, harps, gui- ReMrt, Jotaie ..j (
tar screws, brass locks, watch ni . .. ... ,
chains, paper fasteners, razors, Plate for Co,lon WarehMSe."
fountain pens, dra’tsman’s in- Mr. Corntassel, blissfully green
struments, food, electro cuts, his native fields, is waking up
sewing machine foot, bead brace from his Rip Van Winkle dream to
i lets, books, typewriter ribbons, the realization that the proper
For Judge of Third Supreme Judicial Dis. | Weatherford is said to ha1
trict, tree which bears plums one
Judge Joe Adkins of Brady and Peaches the next.-That'S
was in the city this morning, and nothing! Ballinger has a tree tha£
in a discussion of politise with a bears both kinds of fruits th
Bulletin man mentioned Judge same year.
John W. Goodwin as good timber
for Judge of Third Supreme Judi-
cial District. He said that aside
from qualifications, which
Advertised Letter List
May II 1907
Allen Mrs. J. E.
Bonner John
Broadway Edd
Butler Mrs. Alice
Burleson J. W.
Frischbach Fred
Freeman Mrs. H. H.
Graves L. E.
Harris C. H.
Hurst Nerr
Johnson Miss Bessie
Johnson C. A.
Kinney Mrs. Toney
Lamb J. C.
Knight Mrs. Lulia
Scott Luther W.
Stone Mrs. W. B.
Walkup L, B.
Weddinton < ’. W.
Varboroug William
Texas Johnson Grass Seed
Exterminating Co.
irom qualifications, which no of ..Whack?„ Ifso you had better
man would for a minute dispute take something and take it i„_. ~~ -
in Judge Goodwin, the west is mon s’ Sarsaparilla is the King of'
justly entitled to name the man ,~
fur this place and that it could (T'y?"lJtLpay for’ .?? k
be done if the demand was made- •
He further said that a better
man could not be found and that
the prize was well worth the ef-
fort to Judge Goodwin and his
friends.
The Bulletin has not interview-
judge Goodwin as to the proba-
bility of his making the race, be-
Fort Worth authorities served
\ notice on the street beggar that
I they must go and it said they
1 are now moving to towns where
I the climate is more beneficial to
I people of that class.
Miller Mercantile Co, Agt.,
It has been argued Live Oak, and Mill Flour, Cotton
The First National Bank.
(Established in 1886)
Capital Stock $50,000.00
Undivided Profits $15,000.00.
Safe, Reliable and Conservative. Your Patronage Solicited.
■— DIRECTORS —
C. A. Doose D. M. Baker Sam Baker
R. K. Wylie Dr. W. W. Fowler.
BALLINGER,.....TEXAS.
* mgMuz, J()E
Phone 212 TRANSFER LINE.
For the Moving of Mercantile Freights,
Household Goods, Pianos, Organs, ete.
HANDLE and DELIVERS COAL TO ALD
PARTS CITY.
I give my personal and best attention to all
business entrusted to me and guarantee sat-
isfaction. J J j j j j jt j. jk
Uni Mow/ List I* Can
Equal to the old curiosity shop
is; the department at the post
office where valuables and money
found loose in the mails, are
kept. Every week the railway
mail service turns over to the
postmaster the goods and money
which have been found by postal
ckrxs over the division. The
postmaster retains the lot for
thiTcC months awaiting owners,
and if not called for within that cran^s handles, trusses pocket and only proper way to market
time it Is then up to the owners mirrors- — Fort Worth Star. cotton and maintain a stable and
to apply to the dead letter offieei ... _ ~~ .. . | uniforn> 'a by the warehouse
at Washington. No one apply-
ing for the articles, they are sold
in Washington at public auction,
and the money is turned into the
general fund.
Instead of procuring a money
order and sending paper through
the mails, many people simply
place loose money in an envelope
with a letter, and as a result nine
times out of ten the money is
lost. In assorting the mail the
clerks necessarily jerk the letters
and if loose money is on the in-
side it will invariably cut through
During the months of February
and March a total of $50.78 was
turned in by the mail cleaks on
the eleventh division. Almost
all of the money was in small
pieces, the total number of coins
beirg 107. During the two
months 180 articles other than
money were also found by the j
clerks. In April the postoffice1
department received from the |
railway mail service as lost mon-
ey, $48.43. The amounts vary
from 1 cent on up to $4.05. Sev-
enty-one articles were found,
among them being the following:
Pocket knives, key bead neck-
laces, combs, eye glasses, brace-; _ _ _ ,
lets, gold rings, cushion covers, , E: L- RasFry( who own? sTe.
v. -i i j • i • i land near Winters reports that
blue pencils, lead sinkers, jevyel- the recent rajn near that place
ry, picture lessons, medicine, last week saved a fine oat crop.
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Sledge, A. W. The Banner-Leader. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 18, 1907, newspaper, May 18, 1907; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1181571/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.