The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 262, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. VIII.
NUMBER 262
NEW LIQUOR LAW
JOHN McFARLAND DEAD.
CAUSES TANGLE
About the most brazen attempt
ever made to swindle was that per- are in the habit of taking their
the
this week by an itinerant woman, new liquor law. have little idea
and death eame as a relief to his
Deceased was nearly 69 years "n
Picture Program
office just as in the past, by mak-
in front of us, and as Villa hadn’t
we
verify the statement made in let- FIFTH SUNDAY MEET-
ING AT BETHEL
leave Ballinger without securing
of
Admission 10c
invited.
HOW @e Stak
worthless lion of the new law and its effects
This soon became noised around says:
Business.
eame in from the west she board- users, but who nevertheless keep
ed the train for greener fields.
Mrs. W. B. Dunlap left Thurs-
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450
WE WILL WELCOME
AND KEEP YOU SOME DAY
O. ATp-"s"
Make Our Bank your Bank
“Fathers and Mothers Bank.”
thought we might get one under
our house by mistake. This is my
ters sent out by the mail order
liquor houses, and the local agent
at Ballinger has been notified that
under certain conditions liquor
could be shipped into dry terri-
tory, a loophole having been dis
the Allison law.
The Wells Fargo head office has
also sent out notices which seem to
A Baptist Fifth Sunday meet-
ing will convene at the Bethel
church ten miles south of Ballin.
70
2
"THE MISSING WIT-
NESS” — Thanhouser 2
reel feature.
‘A CHIP OFF THE OLD
,LOCK."—Keystone Com-
edy.
ducting the services at the home
of the deceased.
NOT * PICTURE
OVER 30 DAYS OLD.
The Opportunity of Proving
to You the Benefits and
Advantages of Form-
ing Relations With
1 *
% own.
eO • 9711
oud
701
day morning for Brownwood, fruit cake and eggnog. Some, how
where she went to spend the day ever, have ordered for drinking
with friends, and was joined by purposes, four casks of beer hay.
IF YOU PUT MONEY IN THE Bank
NOW IT WILL GROW INTO A FORTUNE
BOLD ATTEMPT
MADE TO SWINDLE
of the to the beyond, where suffering
mail order Liquor houses, received cannot follow him.
Insurance placed with us
is safe-we write it right
BALLINGER INSURANCE
AGENCY.
. , , , I Farland died at his home in West
Very few people, even those who End Wednesday night. November
I 19th, at nine o'clock.
ed.
Tonight and Friday unsettled.
LADY WRITES ABOUT
JUAREZ RATTLES
BENNETT ABSTRACT
COMPANY
Prompt and Accurate
Work.
. ner on the ground on Friday and
stand for such heavy checking. A fidavits or without them until the Saturday. Everybody is cordially
short time before train time it be-question is settled.
The First National Bank
Of Ballinger
The Farmers & Merchants
===== State Bank s==
Every Night is
Good Picture
Night at the
Princess Theater
This is especially
so under the
regime of the
King of Enter-
tainers, the Mu-
tual Program.
as being practically
city. The woman arrived on the eral idea prevails that it complete-
nethirty train from San Angelo ly stopped the shipment of liquor
* 8 \ mate Illes suffering. All that loving hands,
and departed on the four-thirty, * • 1 i ■ kind nechbors and skilled as
, . tion was raised, however, when a 4€ Eunor and si-
tram. She spent a good part of number of parties, whose names igl eians could do failed to stay the
the time between the two trains in some mysterious way, found their, hand of death, and he has passed
an effort to borrow $75, offering way on the mailing list of the to the beyond, where suffering
as securely for the loan a diamond mail order Liquor houses, received cannot follow him. _____
cash, and she was compelled to
liquor in their homes, have real-
ized that they must order quick
or do without their Christmas
who spent several hours in the what the text of it is.
with diamonds or were short in
The following account of the
battle which took place at Juarez,
just across from El Paso, last
week, is told in a letter from Mrs.
Jessie latchell to her brothers J.
R. and W. II. Spaulding, of Abi-
lene. The letter appeared today
in the Abilene Reporter:
At Home, Nov. 17, 1913.
My Dear Brothers:
We should have written you
sooner, but ’really haven’t had an
opport unity till today. We didn’t
across to El Paso till Satur-
the much needed aid. Some
After an illness of more than a
week, during which time his con-
dition was such that his death was
expected at an ytime, John Me.
will become effective November
18th.
The above statement is absolutely true. You are
spending not alone the money but the FUTURE of that
money. That money you are now spending would some
day make a goodly sum which would insure you COM-
FORT IN YOUR OLD AGE or protect your FAMILY
should you die.
____gan to look encouraging for the The thirsty of the Brownwood
' . .————- | diamond peddler, and the dia- town took no chances and provid
Rev. Fred ( arter went to San monds were submitted to a local ed for the approaching drouth by
Angelo Thursday to attend a Dis- jeweler for inspection. The jewel- laying in a supply, and the Brwn-
trict convention ot the t hristian er very promptly pronounced them wood Bulletin in making men-
church. He will return home Fri-
day afternoon. ..
Mrs. Lon Mapes, of the Pony
creek country, was here Thurs
' day to see her daughter, Mrs.
Fritts and family, off on the
‘train. She was accompanied by
v her son and daughter.
Mr. Dunlap Wednesday evening ing been received at one express
and they went to Comanche for a office this morning, and this beer
- Mo. e Unsettled Weather Predict- visit. Walter Cordill is looking af came from Kansas City, with an
for the lumber yard in place of express of $6.00 per cask, or five
Mr. Dunlap during the latter’s ab- cents per bottle. The new law
CAPTURED LIVE BEAR.
Spokane, Wash. Nov. 20.—Cap
luring a 100 pound black hear
with a lariat and bring the animal
alive a distance of 150 miles in an
automobile was the feat performed
by G. E. Riegel, manager of a
Spokane taxicab company, and
Bert Sparrow. The two men wer
hunting near Leavenworth, in
cntral Washington, and their dogs
treed the bear. Riegel prepared,
to shoot him, but agreed to per.
mit Sparrow to try to capture the
animal alive. While Sparrow went
to camp for a rope, Rjegel and the
dogs kept the bear in the tree.
Climbing a tree near the bear’s
retreat, Sparrow succeeded in
throwing a noose over the beast ‘s
head. After that it was an easy
matter to choke bruin into insen-
sibility and back him out to the
party’s automobile died securely
on the back of a horse. The bear
refused to eat for several days, but
hunger finally throttled his pride
Mr. MeFarland was stricken
bracelet.
Attired iiA a blue suit, wearing a
i large hat to match, the woman, a
medium blonde, presented rather
an attractive appearance. She
tord a story of how she had be-
came stranded out on the shores
of a cold cruel world, stating that
her home was in Chicago, and that
she was trying to make her way
in the world by selling music. She
applied to perhaps a dozen differ-
ent parties for the loan, including
the three local banks, and offering
to leave as a security for the
money her diamond bracelet,
which she claimed cost $150, and
was a real bargain at that price.
Unfortunately for the young wom-
an those to whom she applied for
the loan were either over supplied
petrated here on Wednesday of morning toddy, have read
he Daily Ledger.
BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUNTY, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 20 1913.
with paralysis ot the brain more
The gen- than a week ago, and he never
rallied from his sudden illness.
ger on Thursday night before the
covered in the new statute. Just fifth Sunday in this month. A
how the provision permitting par splendid program has been ar-
ties to receive booze tor their pri- ranged and a number of promin-
the boys were most tenderly af- vate use will work is not clear to ent preachers will deliver ser
, fected by the sympathetic appeals the agents, and it may not hold mons during the three days Fri
of the intinerant, and would no good when put to the test in the day, Saturday and Sunday. Ar.
, doubt have invested in a diamond courts. The agent at Ballinger rangements are being made to
bad it not been for the fact that states that he is taking no chances hold all days meetings with din-
their bank account would not and will not deliver liquor on af
ing an affidavit that it would be Thursday afternoon and the re-
used- for personal use only, and mains intered in the Ballinger
would not be used in violation of cemetery. Rev. E. W. Wells con- had time to police the city,
PRINCESS THEATRE
TONIGHT
You’ll Have Cause to Be Thankful on Thanksgiving VAN DII T VIDV AMR BA API/
Day, If You Order Your Groceries From Our Store VAN ILL I j NilIA AND MAUA
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a and there was nothing doing for The recent law was one of the
J. E. McAuley, of the Maveriek the would-be swindling intiner-most drastic ever passed by the
er try, passed through Ballinger ant, and she gathered up her bag- Texas Legislature, and many citi-
Wemesday en route to Austin on gage and joined by a man who zens who are not regular whiskey
letters and advertising matter
this week, stating that the new old. He was numbered among the’day night and intended to send
.shipping law did not cut them off earliest settlers of this county.l you a night letter that we were
from supply, provided liquor was He lost his first wife several years safe but just decided you were not
for personal use only. The liquor ago, and married again. His see- uneasy and would write when
houses informed the parties receive ond wife survives him, and the had time. The only thing which
ing the letters that they could get the sympathy of friends go out to ran us out; there was a fellow
their liquor through the express her in the sad hours of death. I coming to the fence with his
The funeral servises were held bombs in his hand and said they
were intended for the house just
fourth experience in running
with the children, so just decided
yesterday that bomb under you
was about as good as to die by
degrees from packing a few cloth-
es and running to El Paso, wear-
ing both children and myself out.
I am so tired of it but who can see
the end!
I suppose some of our exper-
iences would interest you more
just now than telling the United
States what to do.
Villa began firing at 2:15 Sat-
urday morning and came as a
"thief in the night." No one had
the remotest idea he was nearer
than Chihuahua, as he had besieg-
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 262, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1913, newspaper, November 20, 1913; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694689/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.