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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1918
Page
6
A Delta Gamma chapter plans initiation at the Briggs ranch with J. J. Jamison to be initiated. The club will also discuss patriotic events and devote time to Red Cross work in its gathering.
London describes cavalry training from barbed wire and entanglements to kneeling and lying prone for riders. Horses learn to pull up from a gallop, endure rifle fire, and become familiar with swords, bayonets, and machine-gun fire as troops push through enemy defenses.
Beginning Sunday September 1 the Nineteenth Infantry Band will give weekly concerts at the Fort Sam Houston bandstand led by Edward A Walloway. The opening program includes Sousa marches classical selections and sacred numbers with a running list of works and titles.
Paris July 28 Associated Press Correspondence reports that over 2 million American expeditionary forces are deemed the most moral army. Medical officers credit vigorous work programs and diversified camp recreations, libraries, recreation halls, and moral education for low vice rates and positive conduct.
The notice details grand opening and weekly schedules for multiple churches. It lists services at Sunday Hillcrest Baptist South Flores and Elsie streets Calvary Baptist North Pine and Mays Streets Central Christian Church and others with times for Sunday school, preaching, youth groups, prayer meetings, and special masses at St Marys Catholic Church and Our Lady of Sorrows.
The page lists multiple church activities across San Antonio including services, Sunday schools, and pastor details. Congregations such as Zion Apostolic Church, St. John Evangelical Lutheran, Grace English Evangelical Lutheran, St. Paul Missouri Synod, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran, and Trinity Methodist share schedules, sermon topics, and special meetings. It details pastors, meeting times, educational programs, and social activities across various blocks and streets.
Se J We Countermine of Des Moines will preach at the general Protestant services at Past Chapel Lindsey morn at 7 0 45 o clock in a series of notable sermons arranged by Chaplain C C Bateman of the Fourteenth cavalry Will preside at the service Rev CL Wesley Weddell will occupy the pulpit at Travis Park Methodist Church Sunday Rev Mistr Wesley will attend and administer the Lord s Supper with special music Travis Park quartet participates The Matison Square Presbyterian Church resumes autumn work Sept 1 with Dr Wintfield preaching both morning and evening Rev Thomas S Tatts returns to preach at both services at the Morose Baptist Church Rev A Riley to speak on The Second Coming of Christ at the Wood Community Church He notes no doctrines but facts of history and experience Berean Class meeting at Orewood Sunday training at 2 00 with Mrs Wo Ro Smith Rev George W Sheaford Will preach at First Baptist on Sunday morning due to Porter s absence A sacred concert and short sermon by Rev T C Long conclude the day
Local faith groups including Missionary Alliance and Westminster Presbyterian outline Sunday worship across Parsons Street and surrounding avenues. Readers are invited to morning services, Christian Endeavor, and special evening gatherings with labor-representative attendance encouraged at Prospect Hill and Transete churches.
Rome reports the final debate on foreign policy as the press quotes a diplomat with American and European ties. The statement says America aims to liberate and aid oppressed peoples, supports Italy's Adriatic position, and insists only belligerents participate in peace talks while neutrals learn who has shed blood in the struggle.
The San Antonio Musical lab hosts a Saturday evening program in the social hall of the community house with Miss Alice Holman in charge. Guests include Miss Felicia Cleveland and Miss Lucey Banks, musicians Margery Benton Cook Robert E. Mitchell and Anthony Ponaillo among performers with piano accompaniments by Miss Tawitte Manville Gray. Officers and enlisted men are welcome.
Seventy two soldiers were made citizens of the United States at Camp Travis. The naturalization ceremony occurred Friday morning at the Young Men's Christian Association building No. 29 before Judge Duval West of the Federal Court of the Western Texas district. Examiners M. J. Anthony and B. R. Henderson and Deputy Clerk Lr Campbell were present. The group included Russians, Austrians, Greeks, Norwegians, Romanians, Swedes, Bulgarians, Danes, Italians and Spaniards among others.
Stravick pastor leads Sunday school at east sixth ward with assistant superintendent Francis and a morning sermon by the pastor. Young people meet at 7 pm and West End Presbyterian Church lists services, classes, and midweek prayer. Other items note junior and senior Christian Endeavor events and a soldiers’ cock Friday evening.
Regular Friday night services at Synagogue Agudas Achim with Saturday morning and midnight Sabbath services on August 01. Absent details, the note mentions absolution prayers and annual sabbath preparations for the Jewish New Year.
Noorwik Alaska natives respond to a Red Cross appeal for wild goose feathers for French hospitals. They prepare to hunt geese for meat and plumage, traveling with reindeer to nesting grounds near Noorwik in the tundra near Point Barrow.
An official Ni thimind convict bound for France arrived in Stockholm on Aug. 30 claiming that German forces suppress Isthonian national life. He alleges censorship of newspapers, Germanization of education, and forbidding Eshtonian music.
Pittsburg reports circus owner John Ringling and University of Louvain official Edmond Sen discuss using African elephants to replace mules and horses killed at fronts. They note elephants could be tamed and shipped to Europe, with one elephant equaling 26 horses in work.
A historic note describes using an African elephant to carry timber from forests in the Congo. The text claims elephants are used for plowing and farm work, and to lift beams and girders for building construction as Europe plans reconstruction.
Special military training for officers civil servants businessmen teachers and students within draft ages will resume daily at Veacocks School from September 2 under regular army officers. Phone Crockett 510 for enrollment rates 1 per month fade
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