Ballinger Daily Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 2, 1920 Page: 1 of 4
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Ballinger Daily Ledger
VOLUME XV
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IN FAVORITE CONTEST
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A Gusher
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4 //cr the
water, free road service, sell gas
to see us or
Phone 650
lake
Castor Tire and
r<»r hale <hily at
Battery Co
Y'se I/edgrr Cliuwifiodi.
' Ip. tent
aterinent
the court
A lliiidof I
You need a Good Took
toRebuihl Your Strength
TRENTON, N. J., March 2.—
Governor Edwards today signod
the bill which allows manufacture
2. No import
lune been dit
LEGION IS
DEMANDING
ACTION NOW
Spring hats < >f correct style r
Duality reflecting the wear<
Turk ’>
Mac
Weeks
Drug Store
FflMCS 12 Md 13
Wilson Writes
Adriatic Letter
a fresh shipment of
Nunnally's and Mary
Garden Gandies.
liter,
the s
Essay Contest
in Health Crusade
We sell Miller Tires
USL Batteries,
Repair Radiators
Do Tire Vulcanizing
and sell accessories
Should a gusher come in, in
Runnels county would your car be
ready to make the trip?
these will run the tot il up to
'to 3.000, .Many voters will
[participate in the primary
If you have a “sweet
tooth” you can’t fill it
with anything better
than the above mention-
ed candies.
BOSTON, March 2 — Complete
; returns from sixty-four towns in
the annual election held yester-
day m this state, shows that
thirty-three of the towns which
previously had voted for dry meas
uros, ’registered heavily for *wet'
candidates
over one of the burners of
stove with an idea of heating
It’s a big part of our bus:
to keep cars in running order.
MARRIAGE CLERK
HAS DULL MONTH
I > < 'oult.-r, of Ballinger
BALLINGER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1920
An early Spring is an absolute
necessity to the old suit. Mini: •
apolis Journal.
Investigation is said to
leotivineed officers that the
bees, in their flight from
I before daylight Saturday.
Made I v Roths< hild and worn
H govs dtessers since 1K59.
which !■' e contestants can
their votes ami no time
among
torni.il
Mo.bi
•d III Te\a
n Ileal
'll of the state i.i 1919 and
.is now being comllleted ill hull
dreds of schools in the Lone Star
.State t' is year The value of this
.health education among (he ‘kid
.dies’ will be discussed by the es-
say writers.
Texas Chamber of Commerce
ask its Kott members whether
not. tfliey favor Mexican labor
Texas for agricultural purposes.
A ballot will 1>e sent out to-
• day to the membership asking for
a vote on the following questions:
"‘Shall the Federal immigration
Li.ws be so amended as to permit
the importation into the United
States of Mexican labor t .♦ meet
satisfactorily the demands of
Texas? Shall your Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce undertake this
activity ns the representative of
the membership and business in-
terests of Texas ’”
NEW JERSEY
WHEN SHIP WILL BE WET
HITS SAND AFTER WAR
in the Democratic primary on
July* Hist. The total Voting
strength of tfle county is a little
less than 3,000, there being 2'a."
Because an estimated one fifth
of Texas farms that were in culti-
vation in 1919 will lie idle in 1920
for lack of labor and avowing 'hat
Mexican labor is the only avail-
able and quick menns of relief the
will
oi-
in
mg been placed at approximate!'
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HALIFAX March 2.—S-tver.
people drowned and several oth-
others were injured when the
Icyland liner, Bohemian broke and sale of beverages containing
in two on the sand The vessel three and one-half percent alco-
The bill will be inoperative
yesterday, and efforts to re.tcue until the end of the war.
issued to wom.-n in this county
I by the tax collector, there are
about lift women in ti.e county
W d<i -’s in Runnels co.mty
msiderablx during the
it was fully ten 'minutes after lhe,,.(| j , overalls, First estimate, of
firemen arrived on the scene l-e-'fhe value of bond, taken proved
fore the hose could b<‘ laid and a excessive, the figures later la
stream of water played <m th
this
av counts for
ROWENA GIRL LEADS
imp S. it b I >,i!.
Al'ies. no doubt, concluded
it w;is cheaper to let the
- keep i 'onstaatinople than
the cost of having it dis-
• d < oliimhiis Ilispatch
>3.2"O with iiisurnn....... tli>
house and s.'iOO Insurance on th.
furniture Only a few article,
were .saved from rhe hotis., ... .
wed were granted
com
■ i t th 22 for January. This
ng off shows that the rush
■ ■.lit / rhe return of the boys
i France has about run its
,,m| ciipi<| is taking a vn-
In a vetu short time the oil
ploded throwing flames to
parts of the loom and sett
tire to the walls in many places. direction after going a few mill
An alarm was seat in and the fire
department rushed to the scene.
TRADING ON
FIRST MONDAY
ng wa
the livestock
400 WOMEN VOTERS
IN RUNNELS COUNTY
According to an estimate made
WASHINGTON, March
President Wilson has coral)
his latest note to the British
French premiers dealing with
Adriatic situation. It is not ex-
pected that the note will be for-
warded to the premiers before
Wednesday night, givin? the
president '"ttg tu a.'venu it in any
way that he should see fit
Money talks all language, hat
has almost quit speaking tierman.
—Greenvine Piedmont.
ask'd to determine whether
I <• e;i l-JIenbog. n. a 21 veal
BURNING GRASS MAY
KILL PECAN
Sweatness
De Facto
LABOR SHORTAGE IS IISES KEROSENE FOR WOMAN SUSPECT
FELT ON FARMS WATER; HOUSE BURNS IN BANS ROBBERY
t cir par.-nt, M
Wilmeth.
Mi .• I M
a bucket filled with PLANO, Male)
for a bucket of wat "t't development.
in an explosion can, .closed in the sear. , for two ban
-lit. .. I. I . *1 < 1 .. 1*1...... . •
2''th
All th- fi.nds rais-d n ti
..lign will be used m pa
the printing of t .• rura
..tiual. which promise, t
ing the destruction by fire of the dits who looted the Plano Nat-
residence of L. B Coulter on X ioiial bank and shot and killed G
Mai.i street early Sunday nmrii- W Rye, tt night watchman, her
ing. Mr. <'oiiltei ’s sou lighted an i i^atuid ,v Special officers w.-r.
oil stove iu the kihtheii and seemg (closeted in the looted bank all
a lard bucket tilled with wli.it day yesterday, white search for
he thought was water placed it i ti e outl.i.ws continued in sev eui
■ pi lie. | n ‘mm
Mr l-’.i!!, ,t.it
WASHINGTON March 2 —The
American Legion served notice on
the House ways and means com
mittee today, making known ks
plans to force immediate action
tiirr ,ou legislation to aid ex-sen, e went ashore off Sambro Point hoi
; C,| their automobile in a wesiei|\ Franklin Dolics, National Com-
■[south instead of continuing sou|h t-'tnder of the Legion, declared
. ward toward Dill.-s a- first » that the Legion had waited long
.. ...................... ’ hfvcfl It is also uiH|t*rsfo<M| t
f.-et of hose owing to the location certain articles I.‘ft in the nan. enough for Congress to act and
that the ex service men had wait
ed with patience, and the organi-
zation would now exert its power/
for immediate action -i
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Sledge, A. W. Ballinger Daily Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 2, 1920, newspaper, March 2, 1920; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184420/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.