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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1928
Page
2
A fragmentary report notes a school club SEO meeting. It references steering by a junior college teacher and a monthly cadence on the third Tuesday. A resolution adopted by the association is mentioned, along with a listed charter and chair designation.
Funeral services for Mrs. Swearingen will be held in Pasadena with city officials and community members attending. The obituary mentions Mrs. Eaves of the lace and lists several local figures including Moffine, Mrs. Moffett, and Dr. Nelson among those connected to the senior college.
Col Terbert A White announces Kiwanis club committees for the year start. Officers include White as president with Beekman, Crecelius, Lankford and others. Committees cover agriculture, business standards, education, finance, public affairs, reception, underprivileged child work, personnel, inter-club relations, vocational guidance, and sick committee. Names listed include Engel, Haselstein, Ochs, Beekman, Ring, Sorrell, Stanford, Rodger, Venable, Applewhite, Buel, Gill, Howell, Gurven, Newton, Caldwell, Parr, Wills, and others.
In Houston, Franciso Gonzales, 45, a bank depositor for thirty years, planned to move his funds to another bank. While en route, two Mexicans stopped him and, after talking, he found his cash replaced by a rolled newspaper they had slipped into his pocket, a theft carried out during the confrontation.
Russian emissaries of the government spent a week in Colorado sugar beet districts to study methods and machinery for beet sugar production. They will recommend improvements if the system gains their approval. The note references 1,400,000 metric tons of beet sugar produced in the last generation.
Mrs Jane Holmes and Henry C Lilly her brother from Serde Vetta Mexico reunite at Holmes home after 47 years split. Lilly arrived from Mexico where he worked as a farmer. The siblings separated in Illinois when Holmes wed and Lilly left to seek his fortune.
Street Commissioner Paul Guerie removes the dps from seven road sections after a Junior Chamber of Commerce request citing auto accident danger where surfaces were excessively slippery. President Youngs Crook announced the action. The party is back from a visit with Mrs. J. Bensley at Beeville.
President Youngs Crook, WW. A. Baetz, and Arthur G. Handul plan to travel from San Antonio on February 31 to Layton Ohio to represent the Junior Chamber of Commerce at a meet. They will finalize plans for the national convention set for June 12 to 16 in this city, en route joining junior chamber members from Dallas Tulsa Oklahoma and St Louis. The conference occurs February 4 and 5.
Lima Ohio July report identifies 87 year old Willi Bowdie as the oldest Bible student in the nation. Bowdie began Sunday school 64 years ago and has attended regularly, illustrating a long lifelong religious study. A separate Ferndale Washington note records large blackberries and bananas grown by N. Blook, with several bites noted.
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