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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1915
Page
9
An executive committee meeting for the celebration organization is held at Red Men’s hall to approve final program features. Ladies of the Methodist church plan a rummage sale at the Stowers building on Saturday February 6 from 8 30 am to 6 pm with second hand garments sold cheap.
Reports from Nuevo Laredo say Carrancistas plan another attack on Monterey. Forces concentrate near flat city under Generals Angeles and Madero defend Monterey once held after Saltillo. Coordinated action rumored with Pablo Gongales at Linares and another large force assembling. Details uncertain.
A meeting was held at 42 io Fargo & Co offices yesterday afternoon presided by A Melton of San Antonio. Attendees included RN Sparks cashier, Witore agent, A Dovalina, work sf. ovela, drivers N Veerla and J M McWhorter, a procurement engineer. The discussion focused on improving service and reducing causes for claims.
OD D. Davis of Dolores visits the Hamilton as a guest, with local social circles noting the visit and expected conversations among attendees.
An ordinance drawing meeting notes shows Guenther of New Braunfels in the city and at the Hamilton Jitney service in Laredo. Several names from San Antonio Las Vegas and other cities attend, including Wells Fargo Express officials and guests arriving or in city.
The New Jersey State Association of Overseers of the Poor urged legislative reform to simplify relief for the poor, aiming to ease delays in widow’s pensions and proposing to rename the overseer of the poor role to commissioners of public charities. City council proceedings covered tax lien relief petitions, plaza gardener hire, quit-claim deed negotiations, school playground expansion, jitney regulations, and property assessment questions.
The Police Committee reports on the investigation of Policemen Rodolfo Lopez and Candelario Mendiola following a January 1915 disturbance at 2018 Turbide Street. It finds Lopez off duty, notes no race prejudice, credits Col. Crane’s fairness, and deems the officers disciplined and restored. The council approves the report and pays approved city accounts. meeting adjourns.
Minneapolis Minn Feb 3 Governor Hammond Lieutenant Governor Burnquist and House Speaker Flowers head a list of 198 lawmakers invited to a all members banquet by the Minneapolis Civic and Commerce Association The event excludes political or legislative talk as the legislators tour the University of Minnesota and the Farm School this afternoon.
Associated Press dispatch from Paso, Texas, February 3 reports Villa forces under General Banda crushed Carranza troops south of San Luis Potosi. The pursuit captured artillery, supply trains, and many prisoners from General Benavides’s retreating column.
Associated Press report from Chicago on February 3 notes peace rumors briefly cut wheat to 7 cents but the crop rebounded to a new high of $1.65 and later climbed to $1.66, marking a strong start to trading.
Associated Press reports in Mayburg Pennsylvania that nine men were killed and six wounded when a boarding house exploded and burned today. Fire officials say the blast caused the fatal blaze.
By Associated Press in New York on February 3 the government suit alleging restraint of trade between the United States and South American ports was dissolved as the European war dissolved the combination involved.
London reports Hindenburg's new assault on Warsaw has primarily strained Russian advance lines while defending aims to keep crack troops from the Carpathians. Germans press massed attacks near Warsaw and in Belgium with heavy losses. Russian successes noted in Warsaw and Carpathians, German bombardment near Pilica continues, and a German battalion is said destroyed in the Carpathians. Paris describes a new German river attack in Belgium via rafts, stopped by French forces, with French artillery achieving gains in the Aisne valley and modest progress near Perthes.
Berlin reports today that French assaults near Perthes were repulsed with no notable developments elsewhere on the western front aside from artillery exchanges. East Prussia saw no new action, while Russian attacks north of the Vistula in Poland were repulsed during fighting since February 1 for Wolaszyc and Trowlezka, with Germany holding firm.
Boston February 3. The largest gathering of trotting horsemen in New England will dine tonight at the City Club. Speakers will discuss plans for reviving the old time glory of horse meets in the region.
Alfred Noyes the noted English poet will not be detained in England because of the war but will become visiting professor of English at Princeton this month. The university may offer a military instruction course next term. students have petitioned for it and the course is said to begin this month.
Washington reports that American Ambassador Gerard in Germany notes a drop in American cotton prices from 19 to that occurred with the arrival of cotton steamers and the sale of captured stocks at Amsterdam and Lodz. German mills are operating at about three quarters capacity.
Sanford Florida February 3 The Seminole County Fair opened today and will be an annual event lasting four days with varied attractions and many visitors The principal gathering will be stock men from Florida who meet tomorrow to organize the Florida Live Stock Association Live Stock Day tomorrow features speakers from the Gainesville Experiment Station
New York on February 3 reports daily purchases equivalent to about 250000 bales of cotton futures. These purchases aim to cover spot cotton sales to spinners, signaling strong demand in the textile market.
Farmers around Laredo report heavy lettuce crops this season with large daily outbound shipments by rail and express. The solid head variety dominates, fetching new prices as markets in the area and northward expand demand.
In Keeling West Virginia on February 3 the Ohio river flood has displaced about 10 000 men from work, creating a large temporary layoff as relief and recovery efforts begin.
Mrs. G. C. Dunn of Arnold Pennsylvania reports Chamberlain's Tablets gave relief from stomach trouble and bilious attacks from the first bottle. She says she feels like a different person after using one bottle. For sale by all dealers. Ady.
Austin Texas February 3 The bill limiting female employment to 64 hours a week was favorably reported to the senate. It was amended to permit extra work in cotton and woolen mills and laundries under exceptional conditions. The bill for the Houston plan of taxing unimproved property was favorably reported to the house.
The Farmers Union convention adjourned today with the task of funding the 1915 cotton crop. Officers plan to seek loans from banks to finance the season.
Washington on February 3 reports a Democratic caucus strategy to push the ship purchase bill by ignoring bolting Democrats and replacing them with Progressive Republicans and making the bill agreeable to them.
San Francisco police and detectives plan a city wide network to keep undesirables away from the Exposition crowds. Outposts encircle the city and railways will cooperate while sleuths from across the country screen travelers for known crooks to prevent bumper tourists and polished criminals from entering.
A military report notes the capture of four thousand prisoners and six machine guns amid ongoing operations. Details on location unit and date are not provided in the fragment.
London reports ongoing fighting between British and Turkish forces in Arabia near the head of the Persian Gulf. The clash reflects the regional struggle as the war expands across the Middle East.
Olga Krasilkonoff arrived in Moscow on February 8 wounded and disguised as a man to fight in 19 battles in Poland. She was wounded in the foot, her sex revealed, and she received the Cross of St. George for bravery.
Werner Van Horn, the officer who dynamited the international bridge, has appealed to the German ambassador against extradition to Canada. The appeal is noted from Vanceboro Maine dated February 3.
Washington reports that on February 3 1919 Russia announced that American and other foreign relief expeditions are not permitted to visit German and Austrian prisoners in Siberia.
Notice to the public from J. W. Hopkins offering fresh fish and oysters daily at the southeast corner of the market, with select and extra select oysters by the dozen or hundred and select fish by the pound. No delivery. customers may choose and take goods with them.
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