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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
6
The Schober Ice and Brewing Co on Josephina Street will dismantle and offer for sale immediate delivery of ice making machines boilers bottles bottling machinery wooden and enameled storage tanks motors steam pumps and other appliances. For prices and details contact P O Box 871 or phone Travis 632.
Mrs. Robert McGown and the War Camp Community Service seek donations to furnish the old International Hotel hall for about 100 soldiers guarding medical supplies. They need chairs, a piano or violinists, games, reading material, and other living room items. Contact Fred I. Barnes at the Chandler building or call Crockett S254.
The final payment by subscribers to the 4 percent third Liberty Loan Bonds is due on or before August 24 1918 at the bank where the subscription was made. All subscribers are urged to give this matter prompt attention.
The San Antonio Square Deal Association pledges to curb profiteering with civilian and military pressure. Two merchants are on probation, and a military police presence may deter nonconforming businesses. The group also moves to standardize soda prices, rents, and transport fares amid complaints about unfair rates.
Major Barton W. Perry, among the oldest chaplains in the Southern Department, will depart Friday morning for Port Hamilton New York to take up new duties. He served at Fort Sam Houston for over nine years with the Third Field Artillery now in France and was recently cleared by a retiring board for duty. He earlier supervised the Gift Chapel at Fort Sam Houston and served on the Mexican border with his regiment in 1916, 1917, and later at Fort Sill Oklahoma.
General Pershing reports numerous KIA casualties including lieutenants and sergeants from many states and cities such as El Paso Ohio Chicago Jersey City and Philadelphia. The list names scores of Corporals Privates and others, with many hometowns and states, detailing a broad national toll.
The report lists killed in action Lieut. Carleton Burr of Boston and Lieut. William A. Mack of Holyoke, with other fallen and wounded from various locations. Includes Pvt Bay St Louis Miss and several soldiers from Texas and nearby states among the wounded and undetermined statuses.
Texua Actina former Mexican interior minister who resigned during the Queretaro constitutional convention and fled to San Antonio has returned with his family to Mexico City. Acuna shows strong pro-nily tendencies and it is reported he will likely take a prominent position under Carrance.
A Sunday evening patriotic and religious meeting will be held at 8 o clock in Camp Travis No 73. French society leaders and Darrell D Erskine organize the program. Mayor Bell will open and Alfred Lanner will serve as permanent chairman. Judge W S 13 will deliver the address with a musical program by Alicia Petitelere Merle Rowland and others. Special guests include French officers, the American French Alliance, French Mutual Aid Society, the War Camp Community Service board and committee members. The public is invited to attend.
The City Club meeting at the Gunter Hotel drew record attendance as Maj. Jack Burke spoke on the Square Deal and merchant soldier relations. He urged curbing fraud against soldiers, compared local prices to California, and proposed adopting a cost price plus ten percent model. George Campbell of Guaranty State Bank was elected a member.
An Army sergeant alleged to be a deserter from Fort McClevian Ali has been recaptured after escaping confinement five times. He will be brought to Port Sam Houston for confinement. He seized multiple vehicles and posed as a lieutenant before being overpowered and returned to Corpus Christi.
Triseo Arredondo, formerly a confidential agent for Carmoza in Washington, is dispatched from Madrid to Mexico City to assume the Mexican foreign relations department, replacing General Candido as minister to Spain.
In a Madrid exchange Arredondo will be succeeded by Isidore Fabela due to Aguilar’s ill health. The notice mentions changes in local leadership with no further details. Additionally the U S Treasury reports 64 million silver dollars melted into bullion and exported to India, 48 million in silver certificates withdrawn and destroyed, 426 million silver dollars on hand, 390 million in silver certificates outstanding, and new federal reserve notes to replace withdrawn silver certificates.
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