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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 04, 1885

Page

4

Town tour notes mark sheets and events in San Antonio

Reporters gather town items from Sheets ads to public notices. Market prices at Sheets and new goods are advertised. Bruni begins duties as Market Master. Local bands and a Cavalry concert in Travis Park are noted. Court cases include a fine for adultery. Cinderella operetta, masquerade, gun club meeting, and a wedding are listed among community notices. Street work on Main Street bridge continues and mud clearance proceeds on North Flores Acequia.

Bruni San Antonio Rifles Eighth Cavalry Band Travis Park Buffalo Houston Street Recorder's Court Scholz First Presbyterian Church J.W. Neil Margaret Bartlett Beaumont F. Beaumont Jr Joseph E. Johnson Austin Alamo Lodge No. 30 Independent Order Good Templars East Houston Street North Flores Acequia San Pedro North Flores Street

Cleveland Man Dies in Laredo TB Case

Gustav E. Young of Cleveland Ohio went to Laredo on Saturday January 31 for health reasons and died there on February 1 from tuberculosis. Rev J C Young father of the deceased residing in Cleveland has been notified.

Gustav E. Young Cleveland Ohio Laredo J. C. Young

Wedding of Mr Joe Johnston and Miss Maggie Beaumont

The wedding occurred at First Presbyterian Church with an audience in attendance. The bride wore a gray cashmere traveling dress trimmed in velvet and the couple planned a visit to relatives before returning to San Antonio. A second item notes a farm sale near Moore Paw on the International railroad with improvements and livestock offered.

Joe Johnston Tenio Electric Light Works City Maggie Beaumont Telépie Exchange F. Beaumont St Antonio National Bank First Presbyterians San Ani Moorepaw International Mameniel T. Fe Johnson Lient

City Council Debates Water Works Purchase and Officers

The City Council session covers proposed ownership of the water works, election of City Treasurer and City Attorney, and reports from committees. Mayor Callaghan presides as Aldermen vote on Newton for City Attorney amid a protest speech from Alderman Bolton and discuss financing, street repairs, and waterworks purchase timing.

Callaghan Gallagher Bolton French Smye Ford Herff Muench Cardenas G. Newton H. E. Vernor Newton Lockwood Clerk Julius Braunnagel P. W. Johns Braunnagel C. B. Mullaly H. D. Kampmann Kampmann Belknap National Bank Wagner Tenth Street Schreiner South Garden Street Jalor Kwood Ninth Street Avenue D Austin Street J. F. Elliott Texas New Orleans Gallacher Commerce Street Frio Street International Railroad Ward Gones Gas and Water Committee Committee On Public Buildings Council Hnor San Antonio Waterworks Company Sam Laqairia

San Antonio Ordinance Bans Certain Establishments as Nuisances

An 1885 ordinance amendment prohibits shooting galleries, roller rinks, breweries, foundries, blacksmith shops, tanneries, livery stables and similar establishments within city limits, declaring them nuisances with a daily fine of up to $100 after notice to remove. Also notes steamship travel rates from San Antonio to European ports and local hay sale at Alamo Plaza.

City of San Antonio E. P. Craypon H. Frewen Europe Union Steamship Ticket Office West Commerce Street Bremen Antwerp Hamburg Liverpool

Local ads highlight sales and goods from Sheets and Pancoast & Sons

San Antonio merchants advertise sewing machines Wheeler & Wilson No 8 and low prices at Sheets Pancoast & Sons also promote Morleys Two Bit Cough Syrup Creole Female Tonic and jewelry auctions. Masquerade ball tickets at Peter Jonas Garden and a drug store holiday assortment. Turner Baldwin auctioning watches and diamonds.

East Commerce Street Wright’s Palmer’s Lundborg Colgate’s Lubin’s Peter Jonas’ Garden Messrs Turner & Baldwin Main Plaza Sim Hart Cigar Texas Turner & BaLochy

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