Brewer Succeeds Barnes In Community Service
C I Brewer, long associated with the war camp community service, will become executive secretary this week, relieving Fred B Barnes for work with the national board. Barnes will likely undertake a nationwide speaking tour to support a forthcoming financial campaign for the service.
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C. I. Brewer
War Camp Commuunity Service
Fred B. Barnes
National Board of the Service
Barnes
United States
War Department Commission
Leavenworth
Junction
Kan
San Antonio
War Camp Service
Brewer
University of Missouri
Vanceety
Wisconsin
Ater
B. 3. Johnson
National Commission
Johnson
War Comu
New England
Six Million San Antonio Quota Set For Liberty Loan
San Antonio will be asked to buy six million dollars of the next Liberty Loan. A city meeting to fix the local quota will be held Thursday afternoon at the Chamber of Commerce. The national target is expected to be billions, with San Antonio assigned six million. The call was issued by W W Collier, county chairman, and the Liberty Loan committee includes J W Berreta chair, Frank Groos, Lewis, F H Cunningham, Mrs Playd McGown, A V P Ciarrett, and Geare C Wolfe green.
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San
Court Martial Trial Notes From Camp Review
A Camp court martial reviewed two cases involving soldiers from the 19th Infantry and the 165th Depot Brigade. One man faced desertion and other charges, was found guilty on some specifications, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment with a suspended dishonorable discharge. another pleaded guilty to thefts and absence without leave, receiving twenty years imprisonment with a suspended dishonorable discharge.
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G. Eusley
19Th Infantry
Rnd
Travis
Minthhouse
Mort Crockett
Lex
Ardhense
Nnt
Albert Sappington
Pany
165Th Depot
Brigde
H Com
Eight Men Injured In Car Accidents In City
Eight men were injured after a series of crashes between Monday night and Tuesday morning near Houston St and St Marys St. Three suffered serious internal injuries. several others escaped with minor bruises. Victims include James J Murrah and Edward McCloskey who were taken to Robert T Green Memorial Hospital. A 17 year old employee Harvey Tones was arrested for careless driving. Police also booked W R Parker for negligent operation of a vehicle. An overturned jitney on Austin St involved Ollie Cornelius and two other drivers. A separate collision at Market and Navarro Streets endangered Alfred Taylor’s son and Frank Staley, with ice and debris scattered after a rear collision.
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Luesday
James J. Murrah
Janehtran
Jol Mast Ashby Cruce
Edward McCloskey
Uvalde Street
Houston
St. Mary's
Cornellas
Burleson Stree
W. R. Parker
Ollie Cornelius
Austin Street
Cavanaugh
Mission Tea and Fuel Company
Market
Navarro
War Department inspection tour visits San Antonio
Mrs Elsie G Crosby district head of the War Department Commission on Camp Activities spent Sunday and Monday in San Antonio en route to Fort Worth and Oklahoma on a tour of inspection. She recently returned from Deming New Mexico and El Paso Texas.
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Elsie G. Crosby
The
War Apartment Commission
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Oklahoma
Deming
N. M
el Caso
Mrs Gustave Persyn 88 dies at Cupples Road
Mrs Gustave Persyn nee Celeste Verstuyff age 88 died at her Cupples Road home Monday in San Antonio. She is survived by her husband three children Rene Dorean and Bertha three brothers and a sister Covsin Maurits Cesar Verstuyff and Mrs Charles Persyn all of San Antonio her father and four aunts in Belgium. Funeral from the residence Wednesday at 9 am conducted by St John Berckmans Church with burial in St Joseph Cemetery pallbearers Ad Vaeton Joe Van Den Hende Ben Roggeman Pol Michiels Camiel Vauters and J B Wauters.
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Stave Persyn
eMrs
Gustave Persyn
Celeste Verstuyff
Cupples Road
Rene
Dorean
Bertha
Covsin
Maurits
Cesar Verstuyff
Charles Persyn
San Antonio
Belgium
St. John Berckman’s Church
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Ad Vaeton
Joe van den Hende
Ben Roggeman
Pol Michiels
Camiecl Vauters
J. B. Wauters
Porter Lorisig Funeral Director Ad Notice
Funeral director advertisement lists Porter Lorisig at 200 Jefferson Street and Pearce Robinson Undertaking Company with ambulance and motor equipment services at corner Avenue and Pecan. Also references Hagg and McCollum Undertakers.
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Porter Lorisg
Funec
Jefferson St
Adv
Pearce-Robinson
Ak Soledad St
Hagg & McCollum
May Divide Fish Best In Wake Of Houston Fisheries Meet
An August 14 Houston fisheries meeting may divide the coast into six zones for wholesale and retail price interpretation. A central committee will oversee industry development and legislative needs such as tax exemptions for fishers, with zones spanning Brownsville Corpus Christi Port Aransas Aransas Vasy Seadrift Port O Conner Port Lavaca Palacios Matagorda Freeport Galveston Houston Port Arthur Sabine Pass.
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Houston
Lexus
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
Port Aransas
Aranss
Vasy
Rockport
Seadrift
Port O'Conner
Port Lavaca
Palacios
Matagorda
Freeport
Galveston
Port Arthur
Sabine Pass
Six Captains of Fourteenth Cavalry Promoted to Majors
Six captains from the Fourteenth Cavalry have been promoted to majors and will command trains in new divisions. Majors Blackburn Wall Ally Dwan William H. Dempsey Eon F. Graham of the 209th Cavalry rise to lieutenant colonel and will lead a divisional train. Lieut Col John Boniface, with the South Cavalry at Douglas Arizona, promoted to colonel and assigned to Camp Mead.
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Fourteenth Cavary
Blackburn Wall
Rho. Dwan
William’ H. Dempsey
Eonf. Graham
209Th Cavalry
John 4. Boniface
South Cavalry
Douglas
Ariz
Southern Department
Camp Mead
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