The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 283, Ed. 1 Monday, December 15, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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HE DAIL
.EDGER
BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUN TY, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEM BER 15, 1913.
VOL. VIII.
NUMBER 283
Van Pelt, Kirk & Mack
MUCH CLOTHING FOR
RED GROS
FLOOD SUFFERS
SALES TO DATE |
At the request of certain local
merchants County Attorney Shep-relief fund for the flood sufferers
tory :
Picture Program
It Fills Itself
ger 2328 pounds of clothing and on the committee of your Sunday
simple thumb pressure L ikc This
shipped to the following points:
?>
ton.
667 ounds to J. N. Baylor at year will reach half a million dol-
Texas will come up with
lars.
Navasota.
Walker Drug Co.
MOVING TO PONY CREEK.
27,000
Admission 10c
I Monday.
WRITING TO SANTA CLAUS
made up into clothing and sold
help.
customers.
vs. State, 11 Lea Tenn.
‘In 20 Cve 1367, groceries were
visit them, and we have decided to
The officers and teachers of the
Weather Forecast.
WE WILL WELCOME
APa
Make Our Bank Your Bank
THE FIRSTNATIONAL BANK
Of Ballinger
“Fathers and Mothers Bank.”
business visitors in Ballinger on
Monday.
mas.
On the last Sunday in this year
ply, making a total of
seals for ‘hat town.
New
the
goods
stores.
children in the primary depart
ment will be promoted.
for #15.50.
. Texarkana sold the first supply
of seals and ordered another sup-
contributed both money and eloth-
ing. and a fund is now being rais-
Since publishing the children’s
letters to Santa Claus in the Daily
W’m. Lehr, one of the promi-
ment Rowena citizens, was shak-
ing hands with Ballinger friends
NOT A PICTURE
OVER 30 DAYS OLD.
, chandise as are usually kept in
| such stores as are called dry goods
THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT
YOUR HOME IS WITH A
Bank Account - THE BEST
WAY TO GET A HOME IS TO PUT
Your Money in the BANK- our Bank is
A SAFE HOME FOR YOUR MONEY • Pre
Mutual Pictures are
Mutually beneficial to
our patrons of discern-
ment and ourselves. The
Mutual Program is ac-
knowledged to be and is,
the last word in all that
is best in Motion Pic-
tures.
The Opportunity of Proving
to You the Benefits and
Advantages of Form-
ing Relations With
primary department of the Eighth
street Presbyterian Sunday school
Holiday Shopping is Made a Pleasure In
Our Store. We Have the Goods
Just the gift
for John!"
Coming — Next Friday
Night—Mary Pickford in
the “Bishop’s Carriage"-
A Drama in Five Reels
our merchant.
The work is being pushed all
54 HDDR LAW
EFFECTS BALLINGEF
and grocery stores.' street I resbyterian Sunday :n1001
- You are therefore advised that have decided to give the children
Insurance placed with us
is safe—we write it right
BALLINGER INSURANCE
AGENCY.
THE VETERAN POLICE
HORSE
Two Parts.
Thanhauser
in grocery stores.
''Yours very truly.
ANOTHER PICTURE
SHOW FOR BALLINGER.
CURRENT EVENTS
Mutual
BENNETT ABSTRACT
COMPANY
Prompt and Accurate
Work.
herd called on the Attorney Gen- made the last shipment of clothing
eral for an opinion regarding the to the central committee Monday
effect of the 54 hours law in Cash contributions are being re
town’s the size of Ballinger. The
following letter is self-explana-
Monday morning, and the report :
shows that Ballinger people have .
purchased up to this time 2204 of !
The Farmers & Merchants
===== State Bank =====
. upon orders of their
Ledger Saturday we have received Murray
several letters from other children. 019 010
1 - A - 10, 2 1.
who are anxious that Santa ( laws
in dollars and cents the amount of
damage done to property. The
"B. F. LOONEY,
“Attorney General.”'the primary department will hold
_____________________their annual promotion exercises
- at which time a number of the
of goods which they have pur-ed here which will be sent. Our
chased outside of the State, andicitizens deserve credit for their
It is reported that Ballinger is
to have another moving picture
show.
S. A. B. Hamilton has rented
the Miller building and will use
the stand between the Tedal
"'Barber Shop and Gilliam s Tailor
Shop. We understand hhat he
will open for business about the
first of the year. "FFEI
wired to the proper authorities
where it will be distributed out the little stickers. The committed j
* defined to be a ' term which may
issue another Santa ( laus paper include all such goods and mer-
next Saturday. All the children
According to the latest press re-
ports the total number of lives lost Ballinger cannot afford to behind
runs above the 200 mark, and in the use of the little stamps,
there are districts yet to be heard Ten thousand stamps have been
from. It is impossible to estimate sold in Taylor, Texas.
The first seal at Austin was
purchased by the Rotary Club
This section provides in part as
follows:
'No female shall be em-
ployed in any manufacturing
or mercantile institution en-
gaged in the manufacture of
• clothing, shirts, overalls,
jumpers, or ladies garments
or anty mercantile establish-
ment for more than fifty-
four hours during any one
week."
"A mercantile institution or es
tablishment is a place where mer-
chandise is bought or sold. The
term mercandise is very extended
in its meaning, and may include
every article of traffic, whether
foreign or domestic, which is pro-
perly embraced in a commercial
regulation. A merchant i s one
whose business it is to buy and
sell merchandise, not incidentally
or occasionally, but habitually.
The term merchant has been held
to include a person who keeps and
| sells groceries. Cove vs. Com-
monwealth, 8 Dana (Ky.) 31, 32
It has been held to include per-
sons who keep or handle a stock
i The committee in charge of the
1431 pounds of clothing to II.
V. Cummings at Hearne, Texas, over the country, and it is ex
130 pounds to the mayor of Bel- peeted that the total amount real
ized from the sale of the seals this
Every year has its winter. Every life has its winter.
YOURS IS COMING. Have a home to get into when
the winter of the year comes, and the winter of your
life comes. When you bank your money you can buy
ahome. With a bank account you can protect your
home. Have money in the bank, anyhow: it makes
your CREDIT better. It is safe in our bank.
bedditig and t hat this had been s hool or by getting 1 hem from : in 4 seconds by one
who wish to write Santa Clans a
letter are requested to have the
letters in the Ledger office by
Thursday night. It is not neces-
sary for those who have already
written Santa to write again.
her share of the seals used and
in the opinion of this Department a Christmas tree, and arrange
the Act known as the fifty-four ments are being made to entertain
hour law applies to female clerks the little ones in the primary de-
working in dry goods stores and partment with a tree on the af-
ternoon of the day before Christ-
VanNess Lewis, J. M. Bizzle
and Morgan Humphrey, of Win-
ters, were among the business vis-
itors in the city Monday.
to those who have lost everything have over 5000 seals left and it
Tonight cloudy and Tuesday
warmer.
EIGHTH STREET SUNDAY
SCHOOL TO HAVE A
CHRISTMAS TREE
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gerhardt of
the Crews country, were inter-
viewing Santa Claus in Ballinger
Monday and while here Mr.
Gerhardt had the Banner-Led-
er sent to his daughter, at San
Angelo, for the next 12 months.
"December 12, 1913.
“HIon, C. P. Shepherd,
“County Attorney,
“Ballinger, Texas.
“Dear Sir:- in your communi
cation of the 2nd inst., you sub-
mit the following question:
Is Section 1. Chapter 175,
I General Laws of the 33rd
Legislature, applicable to
female clerks working in dry
PRINCESS THEATRE
TONIGHT
reived, ic’d this amount will be
in Ballinger reported that the and a number of the local busi-
local express company had ac-ness houses are handling them,
cepted for shipment from Ballin You can help the cause by calling
perhaps there is no town in ’Texas
that contributed as great amount
of clothing. Other places have
waters of the Brazos and Colora-
do et near the gulf forming a
.raging stream 36 miles wide and
covering portions of Fort Bend.
Wharton, and other counties. The
water reached the highest point in
the hist ry of the state. It will re-
quire years of time to replace the
property loss, as houses must be
rebuilt, farms restocked and rail-
roads rebuilt.
Ballinger eole very liberally con-
tributed of their clothing. and
they had by the high waters that is to be hoped that every one will ! .
hav, swept the Brazos and Colo ; be sold before the next weekly re. ! Handsome, practical,
U . 1 ii’ I he can use tn his
rado bottoms in South Texas. | port. Every Sunday school in I work every day."
N. F. Norris, in charge of the Ballinger has a committee that 1
collecting of clothing and bedding is handling the sale of the stamps i (=%
f Self-Filling
6 Fountain Pen
stores and grocery
Sam F. Woods of the
Dome country, was among
Mrs. Senar and household
goods passed through Ballinger
Monday, moving on route to the
Pony Creek neighborhood where
they will make their home the
ensuing year. The good citizent of
the New Home country moved her
household goods for her and
among the number who so kind-
ly gave their time and wagons
were. Messrs. R. B. Ingle, Bill
Coul, Adams and Washington
These good people always look af-
ter the wants of the widows and
orphans in their neighborhood.
In handsome Christmas
boxes. Exchangeable
after Christmas if point
doesn't suit.
(. The various committees in
charge of the sales of Red Cross !
Seals made a report on the num 1
ber of the little stamps sold up to
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 283, Ed. 1 Monday, December 15, 1913, newspaper, December 15, 1913; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694711/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carnegie Library of Ballinger.