Ballinger Daily Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 280, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 4, 1924 Page: 1 of 4
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Ballinger Daily Ledger
VOLUME 16 NUMBER 2s0
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300 LIVES ARE LOST
Hotbeds
IN FIRE; 700 INJURED
USE OFFICE IN DEAL
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part ment
.1 Bur ■ f of tl e department
star I that Melean
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BIG HAIL STORM
AT CORSICANA
titles held b
The report going
that it is a violation of the law to
b
stand t
vestigating committee.
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1919 the law firm of
nd • sfat । were members was
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nsidered
ndit oil
the mi
and due to I •<
strange rs
home, and <|
VETRANS DROP
Run
Miss I. is W Mar i
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m ' red t San An
Sam Gray of Bronte, was a v is-
(By Associated Press)
ONE WEEK ONLY
SPECIAL FOR
Read This!
Western Electric Iron
LADIES ONLY
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!or
Tuesday A Wednesday
See our window display.
$3.95
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Conte in
(By Assocfated Press)
WASIINGTON,
Cap Shape
Any Color
For $1.00
Ballinger Electric Co.
Saadn-
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Phone7
Bth Street
Phomes12and13.
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these men have all been
to serve on the board, .
send
once
WHILE AT BEDSIDE
OF INJURED SON
W ere
W ho
•while here ordered The
Ledger to his address.
backed by 55 Years
trical Experience.
circulars
program
program
apPar
point
charity
it now
but
to
he
duty
that
our
at
Do You Shave
Yourself?
fort unate
midst
Special to The Ledger:
MILES. Marek I
11 st
Hess
within
begin
Seven hundred others were
jured in the fire and panics.
and see this wonderful iron
and let us show you some of
its superiqr features.
leaps from planes at a Ini'll alti-
tude, etc.
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ci de
Lean.
niting
stantly
iron
f Elec-
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his
oils,
J. Y. Pearce
Drug Co.
W It ne
ate •
was
t of
year
and
uru
The
cen
tha
to
ook
. - . . . ’•rappie,
. nel or other cat fish in '
RAILROADS ASK I C C
TO MODIFY ORDER
NOMINEES FOR
SCHOOL TRUSTEES
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here on any date the merchants
fix, visit every town in Runnels
and towns in adjoining counties.
care for them the best
ck,
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92 HOME DESTROYED
Safety Razors
25c to 510
amsbowi^h
G HAIR NET
mlugeinilad
Save SOc
12 Gainsborough Single
Noah Hair Neta
oil burner was used exploded, ig
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railroads I
( ‘ommerce
M. Barbee came in from Eldo-
rado Monday afternoon to spend a
few days with Ballinger kinfolks
and friends. •
in their planes. scatter
adyertising the flying
here, and put on a
mb-.- '
--la: ‘
Be - '
proposed, be chosen from among
the citizenship of the city.
BALLINGER, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCI 4, 1921.
above ages, as well as provisions
trict have requested that they be
given a place on the board, ami
Clarence. Routh has been named
Rev. Doss represents the section
of the district South of the river.
to e
. w a
Pre,
DR WEST S TOOTH
BRUSH
e
of fish is prohibited.
Runnels count\ is also one o
: "!:L
them to the City Hall at
They will be delivered to
Monday ’
Wazon
"{
died in panies as a result of a fire
which swept Chow Tsun, an im
portant town in the provinee of
Shantung, last Friday, according
to belated reports from the holo-
caust compiled to date.
the rounds
law against
Southerly in one
A......rding to the man's story .
he was at one time in good eir-
cumstanees but was overcome by
misfortune, ami left with the six
M \doo said
Eight) nine first class
asked the Interstate
put up to him many times.
March 4
eludes wing walking, parachute
st..ml today in the Senate oil
eommittee hearing.
clock
A w.<
Insure your teeth, and
help to insure your health,
for 50c with
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WASIIINGTON, March 4 —
which they say will draw a big
crowd, for a very reasonable sum, months.of March and April.
• The fivers propose to stage their' The fish and game laws are
stunts'in town, or in the air dir made, to apply in different ways
ectly over the town, and not go in diferent sections of the state,
out in the country to give the 1 here is a
show. The pr posed program in- ''ass, white perch.
suppport them
at 4:00 o'clock this morning, and
four continued for quite a while. Part
sub- of the American legation build
Bal- ing collapsed but the American, "
n. minister and an American patiter m. Has Sir Motherless
of any character, should
nels county is one of the thirty- homes or orphanages
seven counties in which the sale that he has had the
ent! almost reached the
selling little children to look after and
ehan provide for He refuses to enter-
thirty- tain any thought of separating
■ ■......"......"......FORBES CHARGES
Kead Ledger 'wants” eoluma
Doheny, but the Montana senator
While they said he informed Doheny that he
were in femple watching at the ouldn’t appear to use his offi-
bedside of their 16 year old soil. eial position for profit.
Neil, perhaps permanent; S. uator Walsh said that th*
5) , if not f it ally injured in a fall purpi - of the negotiations of-
here during the snow last week, f, red him was apparently to ham-
Mr ami Mrs .It Mel mnald ! st per the work of the oil commits
their h me and contents by fire tee
here Saturday night about eight . -___
A stranger, sick and discour
aged, struggling to hold together
Commission today to modify its
order for the installation of auto
matic control devices. The rail
roads requested that a part of the
requirements exacted of the
roads by the commission in its
order be set aside entirely and
that the effective date of others
be delayed.
It is a move towards good
health ( leans inside, out-
side and between the teeth
is,g ■
■ :
I cook stove in which an Mrs
has worked at different jobs in
am mg Ballinger
f declares that it is his
nt of the department
at m dollar per ;
Elegant line of Shaving
Creams, Shaving Sticks, and
Shaving Powders. Men’s
Talcum Powders, and Lot-
ions that help to make a
good shave a pleasant pas-
time.
that in
which he
Banner- the counties in which it is a vio-
lation of the law to catch bass ean, "and I am going
and erappie during the months of them together and l
March and April Nothing is
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said in the law against catching
catfish, or other kinds of fish.
Naturally it would be presumed
that persons fishing are required
under the law to return to the
water immediat e l y the fish
eaught which are protected byl
the law.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Brown and
Mesdames .1 D Douglass and W
B Halley visited San Angelo Tues-
day. Mr. Brown went over on
business while the ladies took ad (
vantage of the opportunity to see
"The Covered Wagon
M Donald family, who were
mg for tile baby and other child
ren while the parents were away
with their injured -'ll, stepped
outside of the house fol a few mill
Let us figure your Elec
trwal meds we can save
you money.
( all and let us demon
st rate to you the value of
this brush
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$2,5 0 ’ l. " " ' ins if •
T"0 i Mr and Mrs M Donald •
' i ried their s on t . Ballinge r.
X lav examinat "'is were
st. n . nfirmed while
1 ' s stand that Me-
a - • d agent of the
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special Senate veterans' commit
tee. it was announced today by
Senator Reed, chairman of the
committee.
I The committee will leave the
matter in the hands of the fed
oral court as Forbes and Thomp
son have been indicted for the
charges which the committee had
under investigation.
The question of electing
school trustees will soon be
mitted to the voters of the
linger Independent District,
board is composed of seven, but and their families escaped unin-
three of the members hold over jured. There were no injuries to
for another year, having I...... any Americans reported in San
elected last year under the rule Jose.
of electing three one year and Communication with neighbor-'
four the next. Those holding ing cities is cut off.
over are Dr. W. B Halley, Rev. --
W. H. Doss, and W. E. Middle- WASIIINGTON, March 1
ton. Those, whose .terms, areA "very severe'' earthquake,
about to expire are W . ( . > nn. about two thousand miles from
J. M .Simmons, N. k. I' reeman Washington, and in a
and R. J. Wheeler. direction, was recorded today on
The following names were
handed in to The Ledger Tiles .
agreed to do so, if elected. The
rural part of the district North of 1
Elm Creek and East of town has "u, "1 I
never been represented on the to keep ThekedE
board, and the patrons of the , for another } ear.
sehool in that part of the dis ' ---------
‘■ailed to the
lav by the Sen-
i i by E B. McLean, pub-
■ the Wash ington Post.
rs Liter, the witness said,
uli 1,: )1
•mp inv
tamed .Hi injury which paralyzrd
him fn m li si oul lers d' w n, and an
he is st ill in a ser ions • ml.' i n
on Thirteenth Street, with scant
the seismograph at Georgetown [ hedding. the children are
. dry with ti,.. request that they be’ ............torr, seismologist,clad, and otherwin" are in
published as men who have said that the shocks began at B is a case whi-h should
agreed to serve on the school 5 :1: o‛, -lock this morning and (.1 1. "i. people
board if elected; .1. M Simmons. t|.| in progress t 7 no i i n
-Clarence Routh, Alfred crazer,“lock.m..... prognssat . Ballinger, ami on- win h ......Id
and W. B. Currie. It is said that .
WASHINGTON. March 1
keep No investigation of the findings
alter of the Chicago grand jury which
”, indicted C R Forbes a nd|. I W I
---- Thompson will be made by the
Mary It iekstein, speci a l
for the Department of Jus-
and auth • of the "Mary”
mesage sent to E. B. Me-
was called to the witness
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 4. —
Senator Walsh. demoerat, of
Montana, chief prosecutor in the
oil inquiry, refused in December
t enter into any oil transactions
w ill E L. Doheny. it was di*,
closed today.
"It might be ' squeamishness"
on my part," Senator Walsh told
tl ' department of
' nt I - father VV .is not em-
ploy • d on the deal
) it ’ M \doo said 11 it Me-
! i is . . . . --..---I
WASIIINGTON. March 4 —
: . M \ son of William
the whele he
1larn ri was re;
Mr and Mrs Das d Gt. gory.
• 11 vv i ■ m t hat M itehel Pal-
no ittorney general in the Wil-
son administration, represented
\ B Fill ami ilarry Sinclair.
This was why the publisher
wanted ! in ’ approve the state-
n nt w • I Palmer prepared for
tin comm it e last December,
Me doo s.l id
seven counties in Texas.
t ■ ■ St andard /
erta " oil tlav .
S sent to the Se“
"lent Coolidge.
ami today The gr !
cov er.-d vv ' . hail stones t!
I
WANTS TO STAGE A , , ,
FLYING STUNT HEREcateh fish during the months of and the
. . March, April and May, has dis-
Jack Petty, representing the turbed some of the descendants i
Kindred Aviators, was in the city,”’ isaac Walton, and caused in
Tuesday discussing with commer- uiry to be made at the county
cial leaders a plan for putting on. attorney s ottwe
a flying stunt here soon. The' 1 have looked up the law gov-
Kindred flyers propose to come erning fishing, said ! ounty At ri"' . <i r n i
- ’ - torney Shepherd Tuesday, and I I he} spent the fall picking
failed to find any law prohibiting'hm. and saved up a little money,
the catching of certain kindsjbut the father contracted the
of fish, but it is a violation of! Hu. is aff’eted with asthma, and
the law to sell fish, and it is also Jie says himself that the two
a violation of the law to catch "ailments do not work well to
bass and crappie during the gether
- . out irme d on the
so under any eircumstances,' ,
said the father, who appears to with their injured son, stepped Mrs Bue kste in testified that
be devoted to his motherless chil ' mutside of t he hous for a few min some words had been omitted
The family is domiciled dien. utes,andwhenthey returned the frum the Marv" telegram
room of a shell of a shaek Drifting around in a " f rom ! were not abet ent 1 ' . ' " wh r chan • ed the "entire mean-
pillar to post wav of living, and ‘ 7 he flam b,lusi ne W h n shown the original
king wherev. r i;......uld finali , . ’ bedr " ' Mrs. Euck-
cm d the ball). I he o <■! uldiren stein said w it she intended to
Were attending an entertainment in her message was that
in the । iblie - hool building only in . ries were being made "re-
about two I undr. d yards aw av. ga ding Melean being a special
Sts
but ..
I w
them as long as I can possibly d
Mrs. Hatton Laxson, Misses
Georgia Singletary, Susie Sharp
and Bess Corbet visited San An
gelo Tuesday and attended the
theatre to see "The Covered
Wagon."’
be holding f - W 1. t ■ S |
M Ado... was
“P;i where he will have to depend on
ofcharity to help him. He declares
Ballinger, ami on.- which would that he has never asked for aid,
no doubt touch the svmpatheHe although in some places the
chord 1,1 the hardest hearted, if ple have been go d to them
and have! C. C. Lollar. of the Marie conn bro ught face «" fac‛ with the says if he ean keep his healti
try, was in the city Mond 13 on facts ami conditions surround ng and get w rk i, can get bv. but
business and left the necessary in-the unfortunatea he is rapidly reaching tie three
ducements at the printing office According to the man s state core point in life, and is phy- i
ter coming to him me nt, his wife "went visitin' ally unfit to labor in a manner
three years ago. ami never re- nere-sary to supply the bare ne
turned, and he said that the cessit . s for his six children, to
. .... children ate better oft without . , not ine ot thesehoolingthes
I AW GKgDAIA her.’ At the time their mother .honl have The, are not in
LA" UUVLKIIIKU deserted them, the youngest child ......... now
was a babv of one vear. and the , ,
FISHING HERE aarau"an "mii
five. nine, fen, eleven and . . .... ,
, , . i.i runiry. il there be such a thing
t"eive: four girls and two boys, e ,
,, ,, , .... for them. app al- Ilo man wants
i he eldest is a gill of twelve ..
, work He has a team aid wagon
1 he two bovs are nine and eleven , ... , ,
.. .. 1 c I he children need elothes and i
ther three girls are four. .,
e provisions roriumit.lv then are
five and ten. .. , . ... ,
, ii . -ii i apparenti v in good hralth. h.iv
I he oldest girl has been * • >, i i .i ,
.. , . । ! ine all had the measles a few
.mother to the other children. .
... i iii r months ago and were nursed thru
raising the babv. and looking af .. . .
1211 • . । .i e .. the scige by their father
ter the children, while the father . ,, . ,, ,,
Here is the call to Ballinger
people: Thoxe wishing to on
tribute clothing, including shoes,
stockings, underwear and outer
garments for children of the
ab 'it agent f
Mr. justice
t ar Mrs k
W Let e on t ■ ,. w
made, L. ar W a
while five of the members, it is!
The < ov < n d
(By Associated Press)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, March
4.—A series of earthquakes, the
strongest felt here in twenty-five
years, damaged fully onehalf of
the buildings in this city this
morning and caused a number of
1 casualties.
The quakes were first observed
itor in Ballinger Monday and
in some plact san inting
toot deep
Ileavy rain fl !• d th' streets
the ball being a on pat ■ i I > a
heavy downpour of rain
his family of six motherless child
ren. recently drifted lilt" Ba!
daughter. Mrs ' B Meh im-
The only electric
nship ceased. Then
n retained him again in
feared t hat l - vv ill t ' i
the illness w hic h. ' is b
fering from for n
Wcek l le IS al H ‘ m
TSING TAO. i'hina. March 1 -I EARTH TREMORS
Three hundred persons were!
burned to death, suffocat'd or
all I
4
WANHINGTON, March 4 —
X i' • - nof Samuel Knight, of
- an Frar - . tabe special gov-
'■ ounsel "tigation tr
determine ene dity of t
William
(By \ iated l‘n st (
cokSi \W. Mani I A •
-V ere Lail slot UI Visit' d • I si
The loss i- estimated at
Xa a ' auvsage uznum2“d
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2. - * Ao
i-
Upon ad v . of t he l ia ilinge -
on I. • w as eat rie l to T«'
box fell in the snow and sus
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Sledge, A. W. Ballinger Daily Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 280, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 4, 1924, newspaper, March 4, 1924; Ballinger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1694829/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.