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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1912
Page
5
Several Mothers' clubs across Travis County held afternoon meetings with programs, lectures, and reports. Delegates were chosen for the Congress of Mothers convention on January 18 and 19 to organize the fifth district.
Miss Mary Maverick gave a vocal with Mrs McNeel Johnson and Freeborn as hostesses. The Texas British Woman's club met at Mrs Biggs home on Compton avenue Harlandale. They plan quarterly evening meetings and will next convene on the first Wednesday in February at Mrs Thompson 625 Nolan Street.
Walter P. Reese of Reese and Morgan cotton brokers Natchez shot himself in the head early today. He died about noon after a stroke of paralysis several months earlier and declining health. A porter found him at 7 with a revolver nearby. a letter to his partner may explain the act.
Katherine M. Joseph announces new contact details for publication including old phone 176 new 1359 and home 2862 to reach the editor at the office with updated lines.
Officers and ladies of the Third Cavalry host an evening reception in the officers club rooms at Fort Sam Houston. An Art Study class with Mrs. O. Skinner meets in the afternoon. Luncheon by the Tuesday Musical Club at St. Anthony Hotel. Chasing dish supper at the Country Club. Children of the American Revolution meet with Miss Bernice Duggan. Twelfth Night revel by the Shakespeare Club at the Baskin sisters’ home.
A busy evening of card games and luncheons at Dwyer avenue hosts Mr. and Mrs. E E Hillie and many guests. Box party at the Plaza for Miss Sadie Gaines and Miss Genevieve Bogel. Leap year dance at Fort Sam Houston features sparklers and an army navy event. Recital at Miss Meta Hertwig's home highlights Rubenstein. Dinners and box parties populate Camp street West Craig place and Main avenue. A reception at Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church welcomes Rev O P Wright and Mrs Wright with addresses and music.
Crown Princess Cecelia and her son Prince Ferdinand receive hundreds of congratulatory telegrams from around the globe following the birth of another son. This is the fourth child born to Crown Princess Cecelia and Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm. Before marriage she was Duchess Cecelia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Dr A Sophian partner of Rockefeller Institute expert joins Dallas physicians in a campaign against meningitis advocating personal cleanliness over street disinfectants. He backs school closures, home placards for cases, and a city wide survey to study every case while warning against unscientific serum use though mortality has fallen to 20–30 percent from 80 percent.
Teague Texas January 6 President Taft via Secretary Hilles declines to name newborn triplets born to Mrs A K Stanley saying parents or personal friends should choose names Gov Colquitt also responds noting a newspaper request to Taft and Roosevelt with suggested names Helen Taft Stanley Hadith Roosevelt Stanley and Bill Taft for the boy
Special to the Light from Austin notes that banks statewide are cashing state warrants for employes of eleemosynary institutions without discount as the state returns to a cash basis. The comptroller previously issued warrants individually due to discounts, but banks report they will cash all warrants at full value, enabling full monthly payroll cashing at the institution’s bank location.
The Light offers Webster’s New Illustrated Dictionary in a compact volume with definitions usage and grammar plus charts statistics and hundreds of illustrations. Readers can obtain a copy by collecting six coupons and paying a handling charge, gaining an encyclopedia and almanac in one.
Supreme Court Justice Morschauser issued a writ of habeas corpus to Bloomingdale asylum directing authorities to produce Mrs Ida von Claussen Honan in court next Monday. She alleges her confinement results from a foul conspiracy and claims she can prove her mental equilibrium.
San Antonio Boy Scouts plan a supper at the Y building tonight about 7 o clock. They will prepare their own meal featuring roast beef and potatoes. After dinner the band will discuss a future demonstration of scout stunts from their repertoire.
A brass sheet painting titled Holy Family, dated 754 and valued at 30000 dollars, is at the center of a surrogate's court case in New York. The painting forms the entire estate of Mrs. Carmela Garufi Irato with her husband alleging Julius Winter, the appraiser, took it for appraisal and kept it. Winter says the painting was given to him for services rendered.
Former vice president Charles Warren Fairbanks arrives in Chicago with Colonel Henry Watterson David J Foster and Miss Jane Addams. They will attend a Hamilton club reception and later address a meeting promoting peace treaties now pending.
In Havana the secretary of public works selected the after turret and its guns from the Maine wreck for a monument, following U.S. Congress action. In Highland Illinois a four month old postal savings bank reports only one depositor who withdrew a dollar, amid a town of about two thousand.
Mrs. John D. Spaight died from burns suffered while rescuing her daughter as clothes ignited from a stove. Her husband was severely burned in the same incident.
An exhibit by the city health department to open at the city club building shows that in 1911 Chicago recorded 32,800 deaths with about 40 percent from preventable diseases. It notes one in five babies died and that 80 percent of infant deaths were preventable, urging payment of the poll tax.
Leon Kendall of the Kokernot area east of Gonzales was thrown from his horse while returning home from the city. He struck his head and was unconscious for a period but later regained enough to be moved to his residence.
Between fifty and seventy five supporters of the commission form of government met at Moose hall to reorganize the old Commission Government league elected officers plan a mass meeting in ten days and discuss raising a poll tax fund to back lawmakers who favor a new city charter. T L Conroy was named permanent chairman and Victor Beze secretary. A committee was set to fix a mass meeting date and launch a drive to collect poll taxes to reach five thousand votes. The group aimed to mobilize precinct workers and telephone voters to pay promptly with Conroy Richardson and others prominent in the discussion.
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