Kendall County Fair Program Issued for Boerne Event
The eighth Kendall County Fair will be held in Boerne on September 12 and 13 with special rail rates and trains. Events include horse racing goat shearing broncho riding and various boys contests. The 60 acre Herff estate site is being developed for future fairs. Association officers are H O Adler president C A Herff vice president H R Hart secretary and H J Vogt treasurer.
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Ferdinand Herff
Boerne
Kendall Coun
Kendall County Fair Association
H. O. Adler
C. A. Herff
H. R. Hart
H. J. Vogt
City Plan Committee Reviews Progress in San Antonio
City plan committee members met in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium to outline work by city planner Myron H. West and to present findings to the public improvements committee of the city council. They discussed progress on a preliminary city plan and sought information on Texas cities' planning efforts, sending letters to Dallas Houston Fort Worth and Galveston for status updates.
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Chamber of Commerce
Myron H. West
San Antonio
West
City Plan Committee
Texas
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
Galveston
Crowd hears concert at Coliseum grounds
About 3000 people attended the Third Field Artillery band concert last night and praised each selection. Directors of the Coliseum League plan new features and expect the next entertainment to be A Night in Dixie by Confederate veterans.
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Coliseum
Third Field Artillery Band
Dixie
Coliseum League
Charters Issued For Several Texas Firms
Austin August 21 charters issued for Park Farm Oil Company of Beaumont with 10000 dollars capital stock and incorporators W C Keith T H Hunter Jr and George D Anderson. Potter Sloan O Donahue Company of Texas of Houston with 10000 dollars capital stock and incorporators C H Speights E F Ligon and W s Hunt. Watford Printing Company of Lufkin with 6000 dollars capital stock and incorporators J H Kurth G E Watford and J H Gibson. Frost Lumber Company of Kellys Angelina county with 6000 dollars capital stock and incorporators J H Kurth S W Henderson and Eli Wiener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E. Watford
J. H. Gibson
Frost Lumber Company
Kellys
Angelina County
Capital
J. H. Kurth
W. Hienderson
Eli Wiener
San Antonio approves 822000 school budget with pay raises
The board adopted an 822600 budget for 1913 14 including a 30000 rise in teachers salaries tied to a merit system. Principals and superintendent receive higher raises while 12 month pay is reintroduced for teachers. Business agent Paul Schultz gets 600 extra monthly. Extensive improvements and heating work funded.
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San Antonio
Harris
Lukin
Paul Schultz
Schultz
Atlee B. Ayres
Guy le Stourgeon
Buffalo
W. J. Knox
W. D. Williams
Marshall Johnson
I. M. Halberh
Brackenridge High School
Terrell
Finance Committee
Five Teachers Resign and Board Hears Site Petition
Resignations from five teachers were adopted Miss Net tie Williams Edna Fisher Jennie Wright Nell Beal and Lillian Hart grove. A Roosevelt Subdivision Improvement Club petition urged Highland Park school location at Marshall and Riggs streets or a new plot between Pine and Hackberry. No decision. board adjourned to 2 p m for routine business and rule adoption.
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Nettie Williams
Edna Fisher
Jennie Wright
Nell Beal
Brackenridge
Lillian Hartgrove
Roosevelt Subdivision Improvement Club
Marlborough
Rosemere
Witte
Highland Park School
Marshall and
Rigsbee
Pine and
Hackberry
May veto appropriation blocks witness pay in Texas
Governor Weinert announced a veto of the $100,000 annual item for paying witnesses in felony cases residing in the county of the prosecution. The move makes the miscellaneous appropriations act effectively inoperative though the witness fees are still owed, with no funds to pay them and a deficiency appropriation likely in the next Legislature.
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Austin
Tex
Weinert
Secretar Weinert
Ray Goes to Washington on Vacation from Texas Comptroller
Worthy Ray, chief clerk of the liquor permit end of the comptroller’s department in Austin, has gone to Washington D C for vacation. He says he will not be a candidate for comptroller in the next general election despite friends urging him to run.
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Ray
Washington
Austin
Tex
Worthy Ray
Liquor Permi
Comptroller’s Department
Washington, D. C
Ray Sait
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Austin, Tex
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Joske
Joske Book Dept
Mary Cary
Bosher
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