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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1917
Page
10
The Medina Valley Irrigation Company reports owners claim above Medina dam satisfied with no reservoir value disputes. Legal entanglements are reduced and prospects for early start of constructive work at Medina dam appear favorable as litigation lessens.
Federal Court decrees will finalize six agreements paying landowners above the dam for submerged property. Medina Dam Irrigation Co and owners settled Haley verdict of 6016. Reservoir value issue was excluded, focusing on actual land value for farming or grazing. Litigation remains over land below the diversion dam and cross jurisdiction between Federal and Fifty seventh District courts. About 60 000 acres await irrigation below the dam.
Bids for Post Avenue improvement show two main choices. Western Paving proposes reinforced concrete base with bitumen topping at 1.57 per sq yd using trap rock. Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company offers reinforced concrete base with half inch rock asphalt topping at 1.474% per sq yd using flint gravel. Commissioner expects a durable surface for a busy route linking River Avenue with driveways.
Houston attorney Norman G. Kittrell sent a ten page circular to every senator and representative urging that liquor and beer be considered separately in prohibition votes. He argues this separation would let voters choose each merit on its own and predicts ratification of a constitutional amendment if adopted. The letter also reached Texas legislators as Congress debated prohibition in the District of Columbia.
San Antonio is highlighted as a top summer belt destination and a popular tourist center in the Chicago Record Herald Guide to American Winter Resorts. The Chamber of Commerce tourist department received a well-illustrated booklet. Beatrice Stevens writes a San Antonio feature in the February issue of Southern Women's Magazine.
A vintage ad claims Laxative Bromo Quinine relieves headaches and nervousness with tonic and laxative effects. It asserts only one Bromo Quinine exists and features E. W. Grove on the box, priced 25 cents.
County Tax Collector John A Bitter reports a rush of prospective voters at the office with more than 1000 poll taxes expected to be paid before the 1917 deadline. Two extra windows opened and a crowd filled halls as 500 receipts were issued by late morning.
San Antonio officials study revising the traffic ordinance to curb delays on downtown streets. With autos topping 12 000 citywide, proposals include removing 20 minute parking on Houston and Commerce and limiting downtown parking to one hour. Mayor Brown favors targeted limits. Commissioner Uhr supports rerouting jitneys to Travis or Commerce to speed transit and ease Houston street blockages.
Julia Knoblock 87, a Germany native who lived in Castroville 62 years, died at 12 39 Sunday. Survived by daughter Ida Tehas of San Antonio and four sons Gus Koelig Lacoste Otto Koelig Devine Louis and Henry Koelig San Antonio, 24 grandchildren. Funeral 3 PM Monday from home. Lutheran cemetery burial.
Pauline Poss aged 48 died Sunday at a local hospital. Native of San Antonio she lived in Bulverde and is survived by husband Joseph Poss, three daughters Maria and Lillie Poss and Eddie Orth, two sons Alfred and Udo Poss, a sister Johanna Denger and a brother Otto Wadenthal. Body sent to Bulverde for burial by Riebe Un eres Company.
Sealed proposals due 11 a m February 13 1917 for enlarging the hospital kitchen and constructing a Nurse Corps Dormitory at Fort Sam Houston Texas with plumbing wiring fixtures and related work. Applications to Captain Charles Abel Constructing Quartermaster Adv.
A fragment frames John returning home after a long journey in a mono plane. He cites getting caught in an airhole and being unable to escape for an extended period. The dialogue hints at a science fiction setting and a personal travel delay.
Chicago resident J. A. Wendell at the St. Anthony Hotel says many locals are canceling Florida and California hotel reservations to winter in San Antonio. He and wife plan to stay in Los Angeles in February and winter here next year, calling it a first visit and noting the city as a winter resort. Wendell also met John L. Strohm of Alamo Heights during a weekend excursion.
Carlo Fischer, renowned cellist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, expressed interest in Brackenridge Park and related zoo developments, signaling a potential collaboration between the arts and city attractions.
A Minneapolis Tribune article lauds Brackenridge Park noting the sunken garden zoo and rock formations enhance the recreation complex. It highlights a municipal golf course yet to be lengthened to 18 holes and praises stone fireplaces and al fresco tables, drawing comparisons with Minneapolis parks.
The San Antonio Gas & Electric gallery will host a ceremony on Willita street at 4 PM Tuesday to unveil a tablet marking a Texas history milestone. The Texas History Association will place the tablet noting General Cos signed capitulation to Texans who, with Milam and Johnson, took San Antonio on December 9, 183. The building now houses the San Antonio Water Supply Company.
Gran Quivera directors will meet at the Travis Club this evening at 6 45 to discuss organizing Fiesta San Jacinto duties. The group oversees the king's portion of the festival and plans a prominent role in the burlesque parade held on the final night of Fiesta week.
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