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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
7
Austin observes San Jacinto day with minimal celebration as the volunteer fire department faces a move to become a paid organization. An election on the proposition is coming soon. The state house stayed closed and many businesses closed part of the day.
Local counsel await a Supreme Court option after the Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed Judge Maxey and named Floyd McGown as receiver for the San Antonio Land and Irrigation Co. A Monday hearing before Judge Minor will hear damage claims from landowners downstream of the Medina river diversion, with bond conditions to cover damages to be determined.
Representatives from Gonzales Wilson Atascosa Bexar and San Antonio will compete at Main Avenue High School at 9 AM Saturday for district honors in debate senior and junior declamation and spelling under the University Interscholastic League. About fifty candidates are expected.
The C. A. Wortham shows return to San Antonio for Fiesta week signaling the 1916 season. Twenty shows are split among Alamo Main and Military plazas with acts including John T. Bachman animal show Arabian Nights a preparedness exhibit an electrical naval display Toyland and the Pike's Peak dance hall recreating days of 49.
A meeting of San Antonio hardware employees will meet in the Gunter hotel basement Sunday at 9 am to organize a Hardware Club. Officers and directors will be elected and a bylaws committee appointed. About 125 employees have shown intent to join. Charles M. Brousseau leads the effort.
The Palette and Brush Society of San Antonio will stage its second exhibit in the Gunter hotel ballroom on May 1 and 2. Hundreds of original works in oils, water colors and pastels will be shown, with plans to tour Houston Dallas Fort Worth Waco and Austin. Proceeds will fund a permanent San Antonio art gallery for students and artists. Noted artists include Jose Arpa Yom Brown Leo Cotton Eleonor Onderdonk Julian Onderdonk Kk Onderdonk Eugenia Price Ernest Raba Rolla Taylor Henry Moody and Francisco del Marmol whose San Antonio death was recent.
Judge P L A Siegly appointed by a London barrister and three American consuls to take testimony for Peerless Motor Car Company in a suit by Henry S Chapman of Cleveland for commissions on an $8,000,000 British war trucks order. Trial set for June 5.
A Sovereign Cigarette crew arrived in San Antonio on Thursday and set up on busy corners to display the product. They carried photographs of the Sovereign factory, touted as highly sanitary and modern, as Alfred W. McCann of the New York Globe praised its standards.
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