Ballinger Daily Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 238, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 12, 1929 Page: 3 of 4
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THE BALLINGER LEDGER
By James Adam
By Charles A. Smith
(Interuational News Staff Correspondent) low.
on the Boulder Dam project
BOND ISSUES WILL GO BIG
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for
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out in the desert lands, miles from
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SATURDAY SPECIALS
19c
10 lbs. POTATOES
WASHING POWDER, Royal Lemon,
18c
large box
No. 2 KUNER BEANS, (Green or Wax),
- 12c
per can
"Boulder Dam" lots which. because tape Their money—life s savings
Kuner’s Quart Jar PICKLES (Sliced)
25c
for
2 lb. box PEACHES (Blue Ribbon) 34c
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$1.65
(See Our Window Display)
EAST TEXAS YAMS, (Fine as you ever
4c
saw), per lb.
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Austin, Texas.
Jan 12, 1929.
iorteom -
me short
Dollars, which amount is long past
due and unpaid, and that defend-
ant J E Kinsey has failed and
refused and still fails and refuses
to pay the same or any part there-
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even
take an office in America to en-
courage the flow of tourists.
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3-1b. can 1869 COFFEE
One Beautiful PITCHER
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Community Natural Gas Co.
No Home is Modern Without Automatic Gas Hot Water Service”
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Britain After
Bigger Part of
Tourist Trade
Noel Penn
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Las Vegs
They tell
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Ballinger Chapter No
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Many Family 'Trees
Produce Good
Timber
W B Halley
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visitors entered France. Only 412,-
000 foreign visitors came to Brit-
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building, you are playing a
big joke on yourself.
cold tablets and cough med-
that will stop that c ld now
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Ballinger Chapter Nii 266
Order of Eastern Star
Regular meetings Second Monday
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of said well
being !. at
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Fred Liverman and Miss Annic
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and avert further sickne
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an acr now b . iging $250 t $ 100 Single ton
papers and here referred to The
plaintiff in said Cro - N tion Oil
in most instances -has gone into
real estate with the hope of "clean-
ing up" with the boom Many are
described as "land poor" but in
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$10,320.90 on
Farm demonstration week in the
wheeler county district during 1928
resulted in a profit or saving of
acres are open to development as
I the town grows right now most of
J it is highly speculative.
There are reputable real estate
Einzi e -
Pmes “* U « -ia . eE
of. said account being
showing the dates and
(International News Staff Correspondent)
Prices of
City Grocery
"The Store with a Snappy Service"
: : PHONES : :
ain during the same period
“I aim at securing at least $150- '
property have sky-
dairy cattle. swil •
on and being filed in the court
LAS VEGAS, Ne v, aJn. 12 Las Ed Clark, president of the first
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Citation by Publication
The State of Texas
To tiie Sheriff or any Constable
of Runnels County. Greeting:
You are heerby commanded to
summons J f. Kingey. whose resi-
dence is unknown .to appear at
the next regular term of the Dis-
trict ( ourt of Runnels County,
Texas, to be held at the courthouse
thereof in the City of Bullinger
on the fifth Monday after the first
and ('t pe w i
Te ■ p!: intifr
desert close by has spent his entire Americans and other foreigners
lue- .----- . . . . . • how nice it would be to spend a
of their location, will probably
never be benefited by the project
These lots, practically worthless
for development were sold "off the
STOP THAT
I support from all quarters," he i
stated. Last year 1,800,000 foreign BRO. DOSS SAYS HOPES
4,
Las Vegas Goes
Land Crazy as
Dam Boom Hits
ami development, and the center
of activity at present is in real
estate.
The last two years has seen high
pressure realty promoters from
Los Angeles and elsewhere appear-
ing here and buying up land
far into the sand dunes Salesmen,
glib o tongue. enthusiastically pro-
claim these lots potential gold
mines.
In California the state real es-
tate commissioner put a stop to the
sale by unscrupulous promoters of
Oil Well Su
—
Slight colds are not, generally, )
dangerous in themselves but most ,
often are signals of more serious
illne . s not to be lightly regarded
W • have many highly endorsed
the city and th? dam site .
Purchased very cheaply, much of ; life here and has been closely as-
it has been mapped into sub-divi- ‘sociated with the growth of the few weeks in England every year
sions now called "annexes," addi- town which for the last seven
tions” and whatnot, and is beingjyears has sat back and basked
e $20 a foot
in the b i i:
oughfare, is marked up at 830 000.
"Dirt cheap” says the owner.
Real estate operators contend
that land values are not inflated at
present; and that there has been
no appreciable difference in prices
in the last few months They say
that present prices are justified by
the Boulder Dam boom conditions
Some even claim property is too ,
Why not supply your HEATING NEEDS with high-grade, mod-
ern. approved Heaters at priceswhich cannot be duplicated any-
Broun, county agent He reports
that 518 farms adopted improved
practices in poultry alone
But G( M D LI MRER does
not cost any more, and we
run prove it.
LONDON Jan 12 Britain is to the idea nine months. duce visitors to spend a larger
make a determined bid to secure 1 have received overwhelming part of their vacation in Britain..
in each month at 7:30 p. m.
All members urged to attend
Visitors always welcome.
GRIFFIE ATKINS, W. M.
Stated Meettngs o»
Tuesday ot Each
Month
i Brothern Invited
Noel Penn
W M
Supply Compai. , claiming a
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and poultry according to T
KTRAIN
) DRUG CO•1% '
Jame Po - Williams and Mis
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rid ..bout 1500 feet of
Monday in January. 1929. the I Vegas, little city of big det ains has state bank in which the Union
e «ing the mi) day of Feb-,gone “land crazy" as it awaits the Pacific railroad is the largest of
ruaey. 1929, then and there to actual beginning
answer 1st Amended Answer and
Inside the limits of '!
which runs . ive miles east a
and t hee ’ milt s nt rth .
Daniels
Smith and Miss Mozelle
Any time you try
tighten up on the cost
lumber for your home
inch ':
10 inch
us. d in
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without the purchasers—or Boulder Dam they see a great get-
the real estate salesmen for ' rich-quick opportunity.
of construction the stockholders, tells you other- nur Amerlcar tounst'tratketo
wise. . —
C Europe
Land values are away too high
rocketed due to anticipated growth - they’re exhorbitant there's noth- She Is to advertise her attrac-
ing here now to warrant such ' tions systematically through a new
“Of course if some one comes national organization backed by 000 a year for five years Already Daily Ledger
along and buys a piece of proper-,he government leaders of Indus- I have been promised $40 000 from; Please send me The Daily Led-
ty for $30,000 and puts up a first 1 4 PU m65; various sources We shall adver- ger Enclosed is check for $1.00.
class commercial hotel, which is ( F aun red, D! Captain Douglas tise the attractions of Britain, in Trust the proposed bond issues will
badly needed, and makes money, Hacking, the young and vigorous every possible way, and we may go over big
then that land is worth the price head of ’be department of over-
Many of the tracts thus acauir- But values today are not normal in seas trade a scheme is to be put
. 1. oi me tracts ‘nu5 acuur . . .. into effect whereby 150,000 pounds
ed is “wildcat" land, located far , my opinion ‘ ".1
Clark, born and raised in the will be spent annually in telling
Co.
oil we i ca i
ano upon tn
i interest
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and up
ess d 'I ict
I f you don t giv e v our
house good bones it 11 like
ly shake itself to pieces
with structural rheumatism
we st : W'. .
uth, [ Cl l
Hester
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--- Ballinger Council No ,
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V474 Regular stated meet
\ ' I ings held on 2nd Fri
1 ___J day in each month
Members requested to attend
Visiting companions cordially in
that matter -ever seeing them
“Why when I first saw what I
had been selling 1 blushed in
shame,” admitted one salesman,
who came here from Oakland,
Calif., to be on the ground, looking
for new prospects after the state
ban had hit his firm's activities
there
But not all land in the Las Vegas
area is wildcat Thousands of
men here, who control desert land i Domascio C Fuentes and Miss
itemized.1 close in to tiie city They are sell- Rebecca Phelps.
amounts ing undeveloped land without piped ! J ff Harris and Miss Edna Hardy
of each sale and the credits there- water or sewage facilities at $10 Don Edmiaston and Miss Nell
a front foot on the outsltirts of Laxson
Willingham well
a twenty-nine
as plaintif is
REMEMBER JANUARY ONLY
the lateness of the Winter Season, and rather than carry these
surplus stocks in our Warehouses until next Fail. Wt have decided
to offer them to our Customers at Greatly Reduced Prices.
Our Stocks include the RAY-GLO AND BRILLIANT FIRE
During January weofferevery Heating I nit in < r Stocks at 2(1
Percent DISCOUNT FROM REGULAR PRI( E.
lodge No MI
A A M
informed by A C Willingham, and
being a part of block 25 of the
Domin . > Diaz Sur 523 in Runnels
County Texas Plaintiff. oil Well
Supply Company, asks for estab-
lishmi i t of its debt for th • fore-
closure <>f its mechanic's material-
mans and constitutional lien, and
that its hen be held prior and su-
perior to any right, title or interest
being asserted by plaintiff or the
other defendants fol vl costs of
court and general relief
Y u . re commanded to so sum-
mon su h defendant, 'J E Kinsey'
and to serve this citation by mak-
ing publication of tins citation
once each week for four consecu-
tive weeks previous to the return
hereof in some newspaper publish-
ed in your county. but if there be
no newspaper published in said
county, then, in any newspaper
published in the nearest county
where a newspaper is published
Herein fail not, but have you
before the said court on the first
day of the next term thereof this
writ with your return thereon,
showing how you have executed the
same
Witness Georgia Singletary Clerk
of the District Court of Runnels
County, Texas
Given under my hand and seal
of said court in the City of Ballin
ger this the 12th day of January.
A D 1929
(J E< RG! A SINGLETARY
Clerk of the District Court of
Runnels County, Texas
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l ‘ ik . 1,
as part of their annual vacation, i ‘.'Every possible encouragement
Already the scheme has the sup- and support will be given by the
port of the English railroad and government to the scheme The
steamship companies, the principal services of 164 commercial repre-
hotels of London and the provinces, sentatives of the department of
the theatre proprietors and . the overseas trade will be available, for
great stores of the country. instance.
In a statement outlining the “We also aim at having a cen-
scope of the scheme, Captain Hack- tral information office in London
ing told International News Serv- and officials aboard all transatlan-
ice that he had been working on tic liners, who will endeavor to in-
INVENTORY
Lawrenceburg, Ky — "At a time in
my life, when my health was under-
going a serious change," says Mrs.
J. C Ray, who lives near here. "I
found Cardui to be of the greatest
benefit to me. I was seriously Ul
for about two months, and for sev-
eral months I was not well My
nerves were all unstrung I could
not bear the least noise around me.
I could not sleep.
"My head ached until it seemed
as if it would burst. My feet and
limbs swelled dreadfully I frit
tired all the tune When I was up.
I dragged around the house, but
most of the time I spent on the bed
"I got Cardui and began taking it
regularly. Very soon I could see
that it was helping me. I began to
sleep better and eat more. The
awful nervousness got better.
"When I had finished the first
bottle. I was much better than I
had been for many weeks I was
so encouraged that I kept right on
Before very long I was doing all
my housework and was feeling quite
well.”
Thousands of other women have
been helped by Cardui after long
suffering from weakness and ner-
pipe < asing being
2600 feet of 65/8
sold to gullible investors in other1’1 the sun waiting for the dam
states Land has been staked out project to materialize.
Practically every indivdual prop 1
erty owner in Las Vegas is in the
real estate' business in a small way
While the rest of the country has
indulged in wild stock speculation,
the people hen* are too far remov-
ed from the ticker and its tell-tale
Cross-action filed in said court on
the 12th day of January, 1929 the
file No of which is 3508 In said
Answer and Cross-action the Oil
Well Supply Company is plaintiff
and the National Drilling Company.
Royal Petroleum Company. Conti-
nental Supply Co, C M Cope,
H. L. Griswold, J E Kinsey, E M
Howard. A C Willingham. L A
Willingham. E J Shepherd, Harry
Cannon, Harrison Thomas, J R
Hash, Nathan Wood, E J. Berg and
O H Dement are defendants, and
in the original suit numbered on
the docket 3508 Ira Swartz is
plaintiff and the National Drilling
Company, Royal Petroleum Com-
pany. Oil Well Supply Company,
Continental Supply Company. C M
Cope. E M Howard, A C Willing-
ham, L A Willingham, E J Shep-
herd. Harry Cannon, Harrison
Thomas, J R Hash. Nathan Wood,
E J Berg and G H Dement are
defendants; said original petition
having been filed in the District
Court at Runnels County, Texas,
on the 11th day of August A D
1928. the cause of action which
Oil Well Supply Company alleges
in said cross-action is as follows:
Suit on a sworn itemized account
for goods, wares and merchandise
sold by the Oil Well Supply Com-
pany to defendant J E Kinsey
during the years 1927 and 1928 in
tiie principal sum of Forty-four
Hundred Eighty-six & 10 100
<$4486 10' Dollars, there being a
credit of Nineteen Hundred Eleven
& 1 100, leaving a balance due
thereon of Twenty-five Hundred
Seventy-five & 9 100 $2575 09'
casing: said casing being and contains
SPACE HEATERS anil you haveawiderangetoselect from. The
prices are plainly marked, -lust choose the heater you desire;
deduct 20 Percent FROM I HF. M ARKED PRK E and it will be
unnels County,
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* MARRIAGE LICENSES •
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T Bernard and Miss Arlee Day
W G Green and Miss Rosa
Worthington.
Lawrence Lankford and Miss
Christine Scott.
Shelburne Greenhill and Miss
Dona Nunley
Rastas Gideon and Miss Katie I
Cannon.
Martiniano Rodriguez and Miss
Juana Moga
A SERIOUS CHANGE g
Kentucky Lady Was Seriously ”
III for Months But Was F
Finally Relieved By
Cardui.
of similar propt i , that 1 Mai- C pe
ago 1d at s50 ’ $70! Dee Bolin 1 and Miss Clara
hej i i;
We find that we have a surplus of Heating Equi mt nt. owing to
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