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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1911
Page
3
Texas comptroller reports 1911 wealth at 2 515 632 745 a rise of 128 660 146 from 1910. Acreage 161 245 302 acres valued 1 067 049 206 up 39 425 394. Cattle hogs sheep goats and other assets shift in value and number across farms banks and rail lines in the yearly summary.
Colquitt receives invitation from The Peace Banquet general committee for December 30 at the Waldorf Astoria. Notable attendees include Woodrow Wilson and Judge Harmon with U S Senator Towne as toastmaster. Invitation extended by Dr Samuel Bell Thomas, formerly of Texas. The governor may not attend.
The Interstate Commerce Commission reaffirmed its order cutting freight rates on California lemons from $1.15 to $1.00 per 100 pounds. The long-running dispute since 1902 pits American growers against foreign competition and railroads, touching Sicily and marking a clash with the new Commerce Court.
Immediately after the holidays Chairman Mayfield and Engineer Parker of the railroad commission will inspect Cotton Belt extensions including Stephenville North & South Texas railway. The line from Gatesville to Comanche and onward to Hamilton is awaiting bond approval exceeding 1 million dollars. Progress includes a $16,000 Hamilton depot and a $20,000 passenger depot at Comanche.
Five officers above the rank of major have been ordered before retiring boards as part of the army pruning program. They include Col William L. Pitcher Fort McDowell Calif Col William P. Evans Fort Leavenworth Kans Lieut Col James A Goodin Seventh infantry Army and Navy General Hospital Hot Springs Ark Major Wendell L. Simpson Fifteenth infantry New York City and Major William H. Brooks Medical Corps Fort McDowell Calif. Several officers in the Philippines are also slated for retiring board action.
Washington dispatch reports Charles W. Morse will wait for the army medical board return from Atlanta to learn their verdict. Officials say delivery to the War Department is unlikely before tomorrow afternoon and the report will then be promptly forwarded to the White House for the president's action.
A deaf mute couple married in Knoxville at a quiet home ceremony officiated by a deaf minister using sign language. The bride Miss Cecilia C. Ketrone and her partner united without music or attendance of a choir.
Judge Lane says Assistant Attorney General C. E. Lane will cease answering individual legal questions. Only questions from state or county officials will receive attention. He warns the practice strains his time and mail and may require extra lawyers to supply free advice.
A Texas railroad commission notice schedules a January 9 hearing on Lovelace on the Katy for separate waiting rooms for white and negro passengers. The same day the commission will consider a proposed gravel rate readjustment from Columbus to Houston set at 60 cents per ton.
Miss Fannie E. Goodrich, attached to the warrant bureau of the comptroller's department in Austin, resigns effective immediately to work as a stenographer for a Corpus Christi law firm. James J. Scruggs of Elgin is appointed by Comptroller Lane to fill the vacancy.
The attorney general's department approves the deed transferring the Confederate Woman's Home from the United Daughters of the Confederacy to Texas for $1 and other valuable considerations. General William R. Hamby chairs the board that accepted the transfer, ending the prior controversy.
Admiral Dewey envisions peace with the United States pursuing four new battleships each year to secure its foreign relations and national strength.
Jakie Turner a 16 year old colored youth is jailed in Halletsville Texas on a burglary charge alleging he broke into Selma Bennett’s private residence and took a pistol and household goods all of which were recovered and identified He had been arraigned last year for a similar offense but was discharged due to his age and small size.
The Methodist church in Yoakum Texas held its first quarterly conference yesterday evening with Rev. J M Alexander presiding. Live stewards were present and church business was transacted. Delegates chosen to attend the Palacios district conference in March include KE 8 Winfree Si Goode and Davis Williamson. Alternates Baldwin and W H Bradford were named.
Captain R L Pollard secretary of the state insurance board is at his ranch in Uvalde county. Upon his return at the first of the year the board will take up the application of several new schedules of insurance rates as cities are re rated.
Dr Fielding, specialist in urinary skin blood and nervous diseases. 4th floor Hicks Building. Hours 9 to 12 and 2 to 4. Sundays 9 to 12.
The bride of William B Lovell and officiating minister Rev J W Michaels a Southern Baptist missionary to deaf people of the south. The Lovells will make their home in Nashville.
Jake Jansel and Zusi Lifshitz, both Russian Jews, express strong anti Russia sentiment to a deputy clerk of the concrete courts. Jansel, a young merchant, Lifshitz, a long time peddler, cite Russian oppression and admire Uncle Sam's abrogation of the treaty with Russia.
O A Zumwalt of Columbus visits the Maverick hotel and recalls its prominence as the souths best appointed. He notes his father stopped there thirty five years ago as cowboys rode the streets and cattle lined the ground now on the city outskirts.
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