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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1912
Page
3
Dr Frederick Bowen of Madison Square Presbyterian argues in a message on Christian citizenship that those who neglect poll tax should be barred from citizenship. He cites Matthew 17 24 and stresses taxation funds public improvements police and schools and honest civic duty.
The Tuesday Musical club meets tomorrow at 3 30 PM at 521 West Macon Street with Mrs Krams Beck giving a musically illustrated talk. Dr Edgar J Banks will lecture at Carnegie Hall January 16 and 17 on Arabia the Desert and the Bedouins and Turkey the Sultan and His People. The Travis Park Methodist Church Woman's Missionary Society meets tomorrow at 3 30 PM in the Philathea rooms for a field review and new year plans. Twenty questions on the heart will be given and a True Happiness Scripture lesson led by Mrs C C Straughan. Officers for the year are listed including Mrs E C Nichols honorary president and Mrs C C Straughan president. A DAR appeal urges chapters to send yearbooks and appoint patriotic education and welfare chairs for the state committee, calling for immediate response so the yearbook can be compiled and printed and Dallas seeks a strong representative conference next fall.
Ad promoting Pape's Cold Compound asserts it ends grippe and cold symptoms within two to three doses, with no quinine and three years of research cost. It promises relief from headache fever sneezing stuffed nose sore throat and rheumatic pains, selling at 26 cents.
Katherine M. Joseph editor signs off on all future communications for publication. Office line 176 is old, new 1369, home 2862 for contact and editorial coordination.
Mrs W K Ewing hosts five hundred in the afternoon for Rebecca Patton and Katherine Dyer of Pennsylvania at West Craig Place. Mrs W W Lipscomb offers five o clock tea for Anna Maxwell and Etta Jones of New York City. Forrest Reed hosts the Monday Afternoon Bridge Club. Self Culture Club meets in the afternoon with Mrs R G Callahan. Our Reading Club gathers at the club house. Gibbons Literary Club meets at the Knights of Columbus hall.
Mrs Joseph Cusack of the lower post will entertain the Lower Post Five Hundred club tomorrow after noon. Eight tables of players are expected to compete in the event.
Albert Braun, a Chicago specialty company manager, says he will eat nothing until his wife returns. He has been deserted for about forty eight hours after she left a note saying she felt she was a hindrance to his success. The couple, married less than a year, had just learned of a salary raise.
Advanced pupils of Miss Caro Franklin will give a recital at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the club house with Mrs. Miller Ressing and Mrs. Edward Sachs assisting. Guests of Mrs. Otto Koehler include Mrs. W. N. Garrels of St. Louis and Mrs. Arthur Issleid of Leipsic. Mrs. Hal Howard and Miss Juanita Hopkins have returned from Hot Springs. A card party will be held Wednesday by the San Antonio Turn Verein. Travis Park church Missionary society meets at 3:30 with a program led by Mrs. William Will. Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Benn of Dayton are guests at Hot Wells hotel. Mrs. W. W. Lipscomb hosts a 5 o'clock tea for Misses Jones of New York, with fifty attendees and floral decorations. Mrs. W. K. Ewing hosts a five hundred party for Misses Rebecca Patton and Katherine Dyer of Pennsylvania, with ferns and plants in the decor.
The Baptist Women Workers of the Southwest Texas Baptist Women's Auxiliary gather at 9:30 tomorrow morning at the First Baptist church. An executive board business session follows a full program with greetings from San Antonio and Corpus Christi chapters and plans for 1912.
The record notes prizes awarded to successful players at a card event. Christ Church Parish Aid society plans a 10 o clock Wednesday morning meeting at East Mistletoe Avenue with Mrs. E J Buckingham. Mrs. Forrest Reed hosted the Monday Afternoon Card club at Dallas street with four bridge tables. attendees listed include Mesdames Sutherland Kenney Skinner Burns Nye Herndon Till Long plus guests Moody Martindale Houston Jr Dunning and Misses Kenney Peck and Dulmadge Hattie Davis Delia Davis. A salad course was served.
A social will be given at the home of Mrs. Fannon at 124 East Theo Avenue tomorrow evening by members of Ingleside Methodist Church.
A Saturday evening banquet at the Mexican restaurant was given by the Beta chapter of the Pi Delta Chi fraternity followed by a theater party to see the Man on the Box. Attendees included Jack Johnson, George Miller, Otto Pullman, Buck Corley, Alfred Kilgore, Gerald Ferguson, Gustave Pagenstecher, Owas Brown, F. Maury Maverick, Julius P. Barclay, Herschel P.
Bold claim advertising the Hot Springs Liver Buttons as tiny workers that unclog the liver and purge poisons from the body. The copy asserts wide fame among Hot Springs visitors and promises relief from constipation torpid liver upset stomach headaches dizziness and nervousness. Available for 25 cents per box with mail orders from Hot Springs Chemical Co. Springs Ark.
A roster of individuals including William Matthews, William Church, Charles R. Stone, Rique Reagan, Lloyd Bass, Gad dis Bass, Rupert Graham, Rupert Rock and William Thomas appears in a local notice, detailing participants or members in a community group.
On January 16 and 17 Dr J Banks explorer and Orientalist presents the first two Orienta lectures at Carnegie Hall Arabia Desert and the Bedouins and the Sultan and His People Whistler's Painting will be the subject of the free art lecture at Carnegie Hall next Thursday evening January 18
Swift and Company reported fresh beef sales in San Antonio for the week ending Saturday January 13 averaging 7.55 cents per pound.
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