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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1917
Page
8
Miss Viola Holchak hosted a Wednesday evening gathering in West End with bunco prizes awarded to Miss Doris Tolbert Mr Harris and Frank Savell. Guests included Miss Doris Tolbert Miss Lottie Tolbert Genilla Hedges and others.
Marvel Rinehold Lucille Rinehold Mrs Frank Savell Ridley Holle man Frank Pahlmann Charles Wight Mr Harris Lyle Moeckel Robert McBride Mr and Mrs H O Rinehold Mrs C K Holchak and Miss Frieda Holchak appear in a community notices listing names for a local event or legal filing.
Mrs Basse entertained the Daisy Card Club at 229 Madison Street on Thursday afternoon with a six course dinner. Prizes for high five were awarded to Mesdames G Huntress L Spahn Jr and C Hanzal. Those present included M Buratovich F Colosia G H Phillips Ed Gutzeit Alex Uhl L Spahn Jr L Spahn Sr G Huntress O Hanzal Peter O'Brien A E Schmitt and Martin Rakowitz.
Oscar Newton aged 25 died at his sister Mrs. F. S. Herron's home in Seguin yesterday morning. Born and raised in the county, Newton spent several years in the United States army.
Seguin Texas February 16 The lifeless body of young farmer Beyer was found in a creek pool about eight miles southwest of Seguin. The coroner has not determined the cause of death.
A small package of Hamburg Breast Tea marketed as Hamburger Brust Thee is recommended by pharmacists. A spoonful steeped in boiling water and strained is advised to drink for breaking a cold, easing congestion, and loosening bowels. Described as inexpensive, vegetable, and harmless.
Society notes show officers and ladies of Fort Sam Houston hosting a black and white hop in the post gymnasium. Morrill High School P T A holds an 8 o'clock community meeting. Westminster League of Pine Street Presbyterian Church hosts an 8 o'clock Sunday school room event. San Antonio Club presents a dansants series starting Saturday. Menger Bailey Merienda runs 4 to 6 p.m. Graduate Kindergartners’ Club hosts a house warming at George Leroy Brown kindergarten from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. B Minor Musical Club meets at 3 p.m. in the Woman’s Club with Agnes Kray leading.
Circle No 2 hosts the Saturday market at Miss Caro Franklin’s home with Mesdames Ned Mcellhenny J H Weymouth G P Trimble Henry M Aubrey H T Voorhies A Roos W W Van Voorhis John Molesworth W P Scrivener Carrite McIlhenny Laura Lee Dorsey assisting. The Dean Richardson auxiliary of St Mark’s hosted a Thursday benefit at Mrs Edward M Goldstein’s home with a large assisting group. Thrift Day observed by Self-Culture Club at Gunter East Cafe with talks on saving mental and physical energy and thrift in schools. Central Christian Church to present The Old Peabody Pew at the church Friday Feb 23.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the YMCA entertainedThursday afternoon and evening at Mrs James Boyd McCampbell's home Decorations featured palms cut flowers and flags Assisting in welcoming guests were Mrs McCampbell and others from the auxiliary
Mrs Jennie Butler of 428 Eleventh Street credits Tanlac with restoring her health after years of stomach trouble headaches and digestive distress She reports improved appetite weight gain and no headaches since starting Tanlac She urges other sufferers to try it Wagner's Drug Store San Antonio and E J H Meier sell Tanlac under a special representative.
Dorothy McCampbell and Thomas Mce Campbell dressed as Martha and George Washington for a tea in a dining room filled with red carnations red tapers and a large American flag. Mrs F L Hillyer and Mrs Winchester Kelso wore colonial costumes as they managed tea services while numerous auxiliary members assisted in receiving guests across rooms. Marguerite Pittinger who had stayed with Major Sterling Price Adams' family departed for Washington DC, and Mrs John Henry Read Jr returned from Brownsville to join Captain Read at Fort Sam Houston's Cavalry post quarters.
Miss Olive Erkel travels from Houston to attend Miss Grace McClannahan's afternoon party and the Wright-Chitm wedding in the evening. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw arrives April 5 to lecture at Beethoven Hall as guest of Miss Brackenridge, accompanied by Miss Lucy Anthony. Mr and Mrs Lester Strawn and Mrs Martha J McDaniel of Moberly, Missouri, are wintering at 320 Avenue C.
Bankers from across the state gather in San Antonio for the Second District Bankers Association convention at the St Anthony Hotel. Nearly 200 delegates expected with addresses on Federal Reserve Act amendments and banking issues, plus a midnight special train to Galveston.
Granulated sugar 14 pounds for 1.00 with other purchases. Best hams 28c, breakfast bacon 24c, picnic hams 18c, pure lard 20c, fresh eggs 37 1 2c. Peas corn kraut homing two large tins 25c, red kidney beans 10c per tin. Cash only. no price rises. Nichols Gro Co 209 Ave C Ph Cr 61.
Seguin Texas reports corn planting to begin as ground dries after recent rains. The season promises higher feed crop acreage this year, though most new land will still go to cotton. Early gardens suffered from last week's severe freeze, with lettuce, beets, carrots, radishes and cabbage damaged.
San Francisco authorities uncover an international opium smuggling ring based in Mexico City with links to Shanghai Honolulu Chicago and New York. Over a year more than 30 000 cases were shipped to Mexico and staged for eastern U S markets. Two men a Mexican and a Chinese are held as Treasury agents raid a Chinatown store and Justus Wardell calls for cross border cooperation to prosecute outside U S jurisdiction.
Six hundred thousand scouts nationwide are ordered by the national council to be ready for active service in case of war. They will render aid to the sick and injured and cooperate with relief agencies.
Alexandre Ri bot, the French minister of finance, asked the Chamber of Deputies to appropriate 9,574,000,000 francs for the government's expenditures in the second quarter. The request is 900,000,000 francs more than the first quarter appropriations.
Charters filed include the S. Halff Memorial Fund in San Antonio with a $50 000 trust, and Collier Hendricks Company in Wichita Falls with 20000 capital. Featherston Drug Company at Cleburne lists 10000 stock. incorporators named. Dissolutions filed for Backus Street Improvement Company of Paducah and W F Ryder Lumber Company of Beaumont.
Three Black men Leslie Fairley Harrison Gibson and Henry Hall were hanged today at White Sulphur Springs Montana after being convicted of killing and robbing Michael Freeman on a freight train last October.
Governor Manning signs the optometry act making South Carolina the thirty ninth state with such a law. A similar Texas bill has been introduced amid opposition from several sources.
Recruiting headquarters in Chicago issued a call to G A R posts in Wisconsin Illinois and Michigan urging veterans to help boost army enlistments. They were asked to wear their old uniforms to stimulate interest.
Jesus Pias a 14 year old Villa prisoner captured in the Columbus raid and sole survivor of his band arrived in Deming and was taken to Albuquerque to enter an orphan asylum today.
New York reports detective Ami de Polignano, three years undercover as a bookmaker, claims to have unmasked a pony syndicate profiting from daily Italian lottery draws. He alleges twenty one murders tied to poli quarrels and names agents who manage operations across cigar stores and cities.
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