The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. [8], No. 295, Ed. 1 Monday, December 29, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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BALLINGER, RUNNELS COUN PY, TEXAS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1913.
BALLINGER TEACHER REV. CARTER LEAVES FOUND DEAD WITH
PRINCESS THEATRE
Here’s To You.
WILL LEAVE SOON
FOR NEW HOME
SKULL FRACTURED
TONIGHT
Picture Program
"Fathers and Mothers Bank,
MAIL NOT NORMAL YET.
SCHOOL OPENED TODAY.
store.
TRAP DRUMMER ADDED .
NOTICE OF STOCK.
dmission 10c
in 1912 for the same period by sev.
ment will be reinforced by
A
said one of the mail boys eral hundred thousand bales. In
from everywhere, sent by per- 1912 prior to Dee. 13, 12,439,036
in
these days except to pay debts."
Ballinger 29-5d 29w
two
past
We want your job work.
this week at The Globe
29-3td very pleasant visit
visit to her parents.
6 ANNOUNCEMENT 1914
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Your friends.
anilk of [
THE
ationna
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in this part of the state for the before moving here. Many rural
past several years. He will g»t a families have moved here to place
are not surprised that the au or-
ities at San Marcos sought hemout
and called her to tin place.
Pictures that
cure the “Blues”
Sam Brookshire, of Benoit, was
looking after business affairs in
Ballinger Monday.
linger while sineerlyregrey
lose her here, know her rm
: I churches,
entl
A Merry Christmas to you all —
Whether Customer or not.
May cheerfulness and happiness
And gladness be your lot.
And if you’re not our customer
We add this wish right here
That you'll enrole yourself with us
Within the coming year.
01 I PICTURE
• 30 DAYS OLD.
where he spent Christmas
with relatives and friends.
TT ABSTRACT
- COMPANY
and Accurate
Work.
show-goers.
I Don’t fail to order you a pair
: of $5.50 trousers for only
Princess Theatre Wil Add nrap
Drummer to Its Musical -
partment After tie Firs’ ’
627,410 bales of cotton. In 1912,
An-i siderably smaller than Saturday' there had been ginned prior to the
same date, 4.368,915 bales, count-
the proportion to the regular busi- ing round as half bales and exelud-
The Farmers S- Merchants
===== State Bank s==
To Our Friends and Customers.
ISSUES REPORT ON
COTTON GINNING
f Help You Make the "High Cost of Living” cost you
.ss during 1914.
CHAS. S MILLED
President
Heavy Volume of Mail Still Works
Clerks—Expected to Slump
Soon.
sons who unexpectedly re ived bales had been ginned, and
presents from Ballinger people, 1913, 12.923,606 bales.
No one sends New Year presents _______.____
Insurance placed with us
is safe—we write it right
BALLINGER INSURANCE *
AGENCY.
N. W. Gustavus returned home complete set of traps in time and their children in the
Sunday afternoon from San An- assist the piano player of the schools within the
gelo, where he spent Christmas theatre wonderfully in dispensing, months.
will his wife and baby there on a the newest of music for Ballinger
fitness for the postion am_her
worthiness of the onor, an so
the next few days for her . new slow, Ariz., where he will take city, with six distinct fractures in
work. ; - jeharge of a church, the back of his skull, any one of
| The following telegram wa s re-' At the morning services of the which would have been sufficient
ceived by Mrs. Mayfield in re gard Methodist Church Sunday, an in to have caused death. His clothes
to her position at the state normal, vitation was decided upon and is were burned from off the body,
from C. E. Evans, president o f the sued by the authorities of the local A purse containing $100 in cur-
San Marcos State Normal: church, to Rev. Carter ami his con reney and 65 cents in silver was
•‘Position as primary critic tea gregation to visit the Methodist found behind the counter near the
cher tendered you Subject tor ap- Church that evening. Rev. Carter spot where Parker is supposed to
proval of president of board of agreed to preach his farewell ser have first fallen. The cash drawer
( regents. 1 expect inmediate ap- men in the Methodist Church and was apparently untouched. An
• proval. Notify me if accept ance with his coagre gation and the Me- iron casting weighing about five
| by Friday night or Saturday i norn thodist congregation occupied the pounds shaped like a club with
ing. Be in San Mores about Jan. large building last evening,
1st. Letter follows."
We take great pleasure ia announcing tc you that our calendars for the year 1914 will be ready for distribution from January 3rd, to January 10th, 1914. Not a
highly expensive calendar but one, neat, serviceable and artistic, reproduced from the original painting "At Sunaown" by Geo. Howell Gay.
You have often heard the remark “calendars dor’t pay," but we believe “calendars do pay” in that they are highly appreciated by our many friendsand custom-
ers being an advertisement so attractive and useful tlat it does not seem to be an advertisement.
We are going to ask every person receiving i calendar to registe in a book conveniently arranged, thereby indicating to us that you appreciate same and will
% it a place on the wall of your office or hone.
(Children Must Present Order from Parents. Calendars Cannot Be Mailed.)
This calendar is brt a token of our interest in you, a grasp by the hand, as it were, the getting a bit closer to our individual customers and friends and we extend
to you these souvenirs as a slight token of our sincere appreciation of your good will and patronage.
We are saving a copy especially for you and we want you tocall in person at our Bank and we will be pleased to present it to you. Be assured of the continued
. interest we have in you, of ourconstant endervor to make your business dealings with us more pleasant, more agreeable, more profitable. We never stop, we never
it, always trying to improve, to raise the standard cf our Bank and to gain your continued favor through the channel of “Square Dealing."
— - P With sincere thanks for the many favors rendered us during the past year and with best wishes for Health, Happiness and Prosperity to you and yours for all the
future, we are
erimson stains and with several
Rev. Carter had been in Ballin- strands of hair clinging to it, was
Mrs. Mayfield wasone of Ba Ilin- ger for the past several months formed where it had been placed on
ger’s most giftd teae hers and had gained a number of the end of the counter near tlie
and the promotion hs been sig- friends in this city, lle was ex body.
nal one for her. Thisis a po tion tremely well liked by many who Parker slept in a eurtained-off
to be aspired to by tachersthe Imew him, and his resignation as room in the back of his store. It
first rank, and the offer of it Tame pastor of the Christian Church’ was his custom to wait on trade at
, to Mrs. Malfield al, unsol filed was regretted by not only his con ' all times of the night, but it was
and unexpected. They ople o
“VICTORY.”
A stupendous produc-
tion in five reels. A war
drama by the Victory
Film Co. This picture was
made with the aid of the
United States Navy and
includes in its dramatis
Personae many officials
of high rank. The clever
interweaving of a love
story with a spectacular
educational feature.
Mrs. Lilia Mayfiel will leave' Rev. Fred S. Carter, pastor for Temple, Tex. Dec. 29.—H. L
within a few days to become pri- the past several months of the Parker, 48 and a bachelor, a man
1 mary critic teacher in the . San Christian Church of this city without a known enemy and a
Marcos State Normal. The tele- preached his farewell sermon last man who had never been known
gram received by Mrs. May-field evening at the Methodist Church, to have a love affair, was found
asks that she be in San Marcos and left with his wife early this dead Sunday morning at 8 o'clock
i about Jan. 1st, and it is very pro- ‘morning for Brownwood, from on the floor of his store at Heiden-
, bable that she wil leave w itniu which place he will go to Win- theimer, a small town near this
Albert W. Woods, manager of
the West Texas Telephone Co.
who spent the holidays with rela- L. L. Walker, of the Spring
fives at Jefferson, Texas, return- Hill neighborhood, was among
$3.85 ed home Sunday and reports a the business visitors in Ballinger
t Monday.
E manager of the Ballinger theatre, whom came to take advantage of purpose of electing the Board of
J. W. Powell returnee The drummer is one of the best in excellent schools located here Directors for the ensuing year and
nday,at noon from West Texas having played in Pole- These pupils will be started off in any other business that might
man, I rownwrod, and other titres the classes to which they belonged come before it
, _ matter that was mailed late by'of 1912 or that of 1911, when 3,-
AI schools in the city egaa up- HOLDERS MEETING people who never do things on 862,143 bales were ginned. The
on their last half of the1913-1914 - ( time. About the first of the year number of bales ginned in the cot-
session this morning. Many new The annual meeting of the Stock there will be extra large business ton growing states, however, for
faces were seen in some of the low holders of the Ballinger State in the local office, : ording to this year prior to December 13th
After the first of the yea Githe er grades of the public schools, Bank amyl Tuust t'o. of Ballinger, information furnished by the exceeded the amount grown in
Princess Theatre s musical djeart the children having been started Texas will meet at the Banking clerks Packages will blow
' ' a to school after the holidays. Quite House of said bank in Ballinger, here."
trap drummer, according to the a number of new families lave Texas, on Tuesday, January 13
announcement of Roy Re der. moved into Bellinger, some of 1914 at 10 o’clock A . M for the
cess. The mail which is arriving; ing linters. The number of bales
now say the postal clerks, is is considerably smaller than that
. . . . - —: The amount of mail handled According to a preliminary re.
sli gregation but by many of other, said he never allowed a stranger thru the local postoffice had not port of the Department of Com-
to enter his store at night, unless, today dropped to normal condi- merce, there had been ginned in
ie, Parker, was armed. Officers tions. The amount that passed Texas prior to December 13th, 3,-
found one of Parker’s revolvers nil through the local office was con-
der his pillow, fully loaded. .......................
After Holiday Attendance is other loaded gun was found in a and ......lay, but it is still’out of
Greater Than Before Christ- show case near the .......of
mas.
NUMBER290 he
Van Pelt, Kirk & Mack
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Sledge, A. W. The Daily Ledger. (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. [8], No. 295, Ed. 1 Monday, December 29, 1913, newspaper, December 29, 1913; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694723/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.