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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1911

Page

8

Directors to Confer With Chamber on Town Development

Commercial revivalist Lewis D. Sampson impressed Publicity league directors with town development ideas at a recent meeting and was invited to confer with chamber directors at 4 30 this afternoon. Attendees included Reutzel, Wolff, Hart, Conroy, Conness, Biggar, Hutchins, Wester, Knox, Saur, King, Smith, Carrington, and Leel.

Chamber of Commerce Publicity League Lewis D. Sampson Frederick Reutzel Jake

Real Estate Section Planned for San Antonio Exposition

Real estate editors announce an eight to ten page special section in December covering San Antonio life from a real estate perspective. Articles will spotlight the gateway to Mexico industries recreation education religion and the army post social and business aspects with statistics valuations taxation and development photos of offices hotels apartment houses factories and more.

San Antonio Real Estate Exchange the Exchange San Antonio Mexico E. C. Mills C. 8. Fowler J. P. Withers Lloyd Spencer C. G. Norton Ray M. Mackay Army Post Frederick Terrell Charles M. Roberts Immigration Commission S. Townsend J. Herbert Compton Kenneth Wimner George Altgelt Texas John Richey W. A. McDuffee T. N. Smith H. C. King Co. O. Austin

Western Texas irrigation dam signals desert farms bloom

Government irrigation expert William L. Rockwell reports a monumental reinforced concrete dam near Marfa in Brewster county will store about 7 billion gallons to irrigate around 100 000 acres along the Orient railway. He notes the far western Texas lands may rival any region in productivity with irrigation.

Texas William L. Rockwell Rockwell Oklahoma Marfa Brewster County Alamitos Creek Orient Railway el Paso County Rio Grande Valley Elephant Butte Fort Stockton Pecos River Orient Hale Lubbock Floyd Deaf Smith Swisher Hale County Mr. Rockwell Edicine Bluff Creek Fort Sill

Lawton irrigation plan targets 25000 fertile acres

Hunters delivered several deer along with a large turnout of ducks and quail at Laredo. J B DaCamara, agent for the International Great Northern railroad, reported the season's largest buck at 190 pounds. In Cuero Petrio de Leon shot and killed Louia Arreo, blocking a marriage to his sister.

Laredo Tex J. B. DaCamara International & Great Northern Railroad HE Associated Press Cuero Petrio de Leon Louia Arreo de Leon

Five years for man slaughter in fatal July 5 family case

A jury convictes A Ford, a Black man, of man slaughter for the July 5 fatality of his father. He receives a sentence of five years in the penitentiary. Defense claims the golf stick strike was to protect his mother from an attacker, not murder, and notes a non fatal gun discharge by another party member. The trial occurred in the forty seventh district court yesterday afternoon.

Foley Belvidere Ill E. A. Kelly Edwards King Drug Co A. Ford Tve Forty-Seventh Noto Larsson

Wounded hunter wounded in Seguin hills

Clarence Larsson was painfully wounded late yesterday afternoon while deer hunting in the hills south of Seguin, Texas. An alarm at night describes the terror of croup for households and recommends Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a remedy.

Seguin Tex Clarence Larsson Here Enti Croup Foley H. W. Carseness Alweys e.”—Edwards King Drug Co

Tobacco Warehouses Transferred to Liggett & Myers

The American Tobacco Company moved yesterday its mammoth Lexington tobacco warehouses to Liggett & Myers of St. Louis as part of a post decision reorganization plan. The facilities are described as among the largest in the South.

Associated Press Lexington Supreme Court Dcision American Tobacco Copany Liggett & Meyers Company St. Louis

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