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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1920
Page
9
Monday’s Daily lists sewing jobs for Mrs. W. A. Thomas at 2311 Washington, plumbing ads for W. J. Miller and Juarez Plumbing, auto shocks for $15 at Crescent Garage, oil field updates from Benavides, Realty and Cotter realty listings, and local Fourth of July observations noting dust suppression, weather, and crowd scenes at Martin Plaza and the border crossing with Nuevo Laredo attendance at a Thirty-seventh Infantry band concert.
Mayor L Villegas announces bids for the Laredo sewerage system. Bids due July 6 1920 by 6 pm with a $5000 certified check. Plans on file in City Secretary's office. Council will open bids at 8 pm July 6 1920. City reserves right to reject all bids.
A large crowd watched the Fourth of July baseball game at Aviation Field. It featured a pitchers battle between Bob Essing for the American Legion and Burgess for Pearsall. Laredo won 3 to 1 after a tight contest with minimal errors. The same teams were set to play again that afternoon at 4 on the same field.
At a Nexas legislature special session eleven new notaries public for Webb county were appointed ten from Laredo and one from Torrecillas. County Clerk Rodriguez mailed notices for appointees to call on him and qualify. The named notaries are K F Dryden Frank Y Hill Paul S Hill Mrs F H Ligarde Alden B Muller M S Ryan Amador Sanchez Carl Utterback A L Vidaurri Sam A Westbrook of Laredo and J B Neal of Torrecillas. These join notaries from the regular session with two year commissions.
William S. Hart stars as Black Deering in The Toll Gate a frontier melodrama from Hart’s company. The film released by Paramount Arteratt debuts at the Strand Theatre for two days with a plot of betrayal pursuit and a final surrender aided by an understanding sheriff at the Mexican border.
A brief item notes Jennie urging Hollis to try Rocky Mountain Tea from Herrera's Pharmacy due to a warning about danger. The ad-like fragment mentions the price of five cents and promotes immediate action.
After a sultry Fourth of July, a cool evening drew crowds to the city to attend a Thirty-seventh Infantry Band concert at Martin Plaza. By 9 o clock the plaza was a mass of humanity as a special patriotic program, arranged by Director Co. and Everlof, thrilled attendees with a strong army band performance.
A Fourth of July thunderstorm swept Laredo and nearby regions Saturday evening, then returned Sunday at 3 a.m. bringing strong winds, thunder, lightning and rain. Nearly an inch fell in Laredo, heavier rain northward, moisture boosting the cotton crop in good condition with indications of a very large yield.
Society editor notes the Sunbeam Band of the Baptist Church will assemble at the church at 4 o clock in the afternoon. The Mirflam Chapter No 86 Order of the Baptist Sisterhood parts meet at Masonic Hall at 8 o'clock in the evening.
Local notes recount many moves and visits. Selected, Mr. Bismark Pope leaves for Corpus Christi on business while families travel to Cotulla, Uvalde, Kerrville, and San Antonio for social and church events. A July 1920 wedding unites Elsie Werner and Harry McKinley Einery at St. Peters.
The bride wore taupe georgette crepe with a spray bouquet of brideroses and ferns. Mrs Albert Offer wore brown georgette crepe with pink Killarney roses. Miss Eva Scratchley in black and white taffeta carried pink roses. Mrs Wilhelmina Werner wore black chiffon. A wedding breakfast followed at the Hamilton Hotel. The couple plan a home at 920 Santa Maria Avenue after August first.
The State of Texas commands the sheriff or a constable to summon P. A. Ord and unknown heirs to appear at Webb County District Court in Laredo for the No. 5264 case filed June 3 1920 by Eduardo Vasquez. The suit concerns land Block 236 in the Eastern Division, enclosure and adverse possession for over ten years, with a return date the fifth Monday after the first Monday in September 1920.
Last week showed slight improvements in the Federal Reserve System with the cash to deposits and circulating notes ratio rising from 43 to 44.5 percent, the highest since January. New York Clearing House banks did not see parallel gains as Treasury withdrawals and debt redemptions trimmed reserves, while rediscounts fell over 230 million due to Treasury actions. The report notes a six week decline in loans, suggesting progress in liquidating nonessential borrowing and potential deflationary gains if rediscounts are sustained.
Stopching eczema quick relief claim promotes Zemo by E. W. Rose Co Cleveland Ohio bottle sizes 35c and 1.00. Healing begins at application and promises removal of eczema tetter pimples rash blackheads and similar skin diseases. Also notes a Masons lodge notice Laredo Council No 123 Stated convocation July 5 with recorder John Colman.
Tis medicine always wins the good opinion if not the praise of those who use it. Try it when you have need of such a remedy.
The Democratic convention enters its ninth session and the twenty third ballot shows no material change in the stalemate. Cox leads with 426 votes, McAdoo 364, Palmer 181, while Ring Lardner and Irvin Cobb pick up a few scattered votes amid ongoing deadlock.
Allied and German delegates met in Spa Belgium today for twenty minutes and adjourned till tomorrow. Croix Belgian premier presided and outlined the agenda including disarmament reparations and war crimes trials. Fehrenbach German envoy expressed approval and said he came to the conference to implement the Versailles treaty.
Pearl Wight prominent Southern businessman and once receiver for the Texas and Pacific railroad died in New Orleans at age 76. The Associated Press reported the death on a July day.
In Chengtu on July 6 authorities faced urgent appeals from foreign firms as bands of robbers, largely deserters from local troops, intensified attacks on trade routes in Szechuen. Mail, goods, and caravans were seized on the main Chung king to Chengtu highway, with a leader shot after demanding safe passage for pay. A Chengtu missionary noted ruinous delays and costs for Americans awaiting clothing shipments diverted by thefts.
Today in Chicago a grand ceremony celebrates Lake Pryor centennial events with a military and naval parade in Portland and a Maine state centennial. In Salt Lake City the National Piincation Association opens its general session with a welcome by Governor Bamberger of Utah.
Nazimova headlines the Rialto feature Stronger Than Death for the Glorious Fourth. The great Russian actress draws crowded houses, and the Rialto again screens the famed film today, highlighting Nazimova as a singular talent in cinema.
In San Francisco delegates enter the twenty third ballot with the nominee still unresolved. Leaders stay silent while managers mock surrender talk, each camp fighting to hold votes in a triangular war of attrition as delegates grow restless and aim to return home.
President Wilson spent the Fourth of July quietly at the White House. He read Independence Day proclamations from Premier Miller and other French and foreign leaders and received news of the national convention.
Associated Press reports eight killed twelve seriously injured and ten minor injuries when a Katy freight train collided with a carnival company special in the Atoka yards Sunday night. Among the dead are Mrs Myrtie Duke and baby of Greenville Texas Vexna George tunt of Belton Texas and Mrs McLanahan of Dallas. J W fluise of Tyler Texas received internal injuries.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN The proper dress for business women will be a subject for discussion at the second annual convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs to be held at St. Paul in July. Frances McConnell, age 19, daughter of a Methodist bishop, has received the master’s degree from the University of Denver, the youngest student ever to graduate there. Mrs. Nathan Straus has donated jewels worth £20,000 to the Zionist Organization of America for developing medical and health services in Palestine.
The Pennsylvan ia system shopmen strike set for July 6 was postponed indefinitely after a conference led by Harry Jeffry. He said the decision placed public welfare above disputed principles and hopes for a satisfactory adjustment by the railroad vice president.
A roster of prominent politicians and lawyers from several states including A Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania James M Cox of Ohio Carter Glass of Virginia John W Davis of West Virginia Arnolfd McL Simmons of North Carolina James W Gerard of New York Robert L Owen of Oklahoma Edwin T Meredith of Iowa William J Bryan of Nebraska Gilbert M Hitchcock of Nebraska Edward J Edwards of New Jersey profiles highlights their careers and current roles in public service and national affairs.
The United States Weather Bureau forecast from New Orleans is carried by The Times via the Telephone Co. The Fort McIntosh observations cover the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. today, with no report available for today’s conditions.
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