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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1913
Page
5
Police report a sharp drop in court reopenings since Judge Lowther adopted a suspended sentence plan. The method suspends punishment during good behavior, with heavy fines for relapses, and has kept offenders from returning to court. Chronic offenders avoid familiar districts, and daily court dockets have falling sharply.
Notice urges customers to ask for sausage with a tin tag to ensure freshness and wholesomeness and points to a display in the lobby of the Grand Opera House by Union Meat Company.
The annual rural carrier report shows 86 892 pieces of mail carried on nine rural routes from the San Antonio post office for July 1 1912 to June 30 1913. Routes including South Heights and Alamo freights handle nearly twice as much as others, with route totals listed and money order business totaling 13185.36.
The Young Women's Christian Association formed a basketball team after an enthusiastic meeting at the association building. Captains will be chosen after the first game on Wednesday, with possibilities of a league and match play. coaches include Mr. Wheeler of the YMC A. New members listed include Alma Shafer Neilie Shafer Mattie Lee Mahan Pearl Flannigan C Burris Eddie Gates Buelah Green Juby Southard Ada Southard Borum Mary Herring Swazey and Kate Wilhelm. A separate note mentions a world leading oil tank steamer completion in England for Mexican trade with 15 500 ton capacity.
District Attorney W. C. Linden said defense attorneys can schedule speedy trials for the August special term of the Thirty-seventh District Criminal Court before Judge Anderson closes the term. Linden notes Governor Colquitt intends to urge changes to criminal laws at the upcoming legislative special session addressing discrepancies between the indeterminate sentence act and the suspended sentence act. He cites a mismatch that prevents many defendants from using suspended sentence while the indeterminate law would require longer mandatory terms.
Dc E Schoff of a Kansas City paper firm visited San Antonio after reading about a proposed bond issue. He left his old job, founded the San Antonio Paper Company, planning to invest over 30000 dollars and open by August 1 with a full stock of printing and wrapping paper, ink, twine, and related supplies. The firm, allied with Omaha and Kansas City suppliers, leases the 619 621 West Commerce street building and aims to supply local printers quickly, reducing freight costs.
Co C Crumrein of the Alamo Film Company travels East to buy full studio equipment for a moving picture plant. The Texas Tattler weekly will be circulated featuring current events and Texas scenery, with drama pictures and scenarios from eastern and western firms arriving.
The city engineer and council discuss a 1913 Denver Boulevard paving estimate of 24 718 dollars. The long document includes a handwritten note signed by Pan coast and details unit prices for concrete and earthwork.
In New York during the peak summer drinking season the city implements a fingerprinting plan for all those convicted of intoxication. Magistrates report a shortage of print experts but over forty drunks underwent the new process. Prints will be filed in the police court to distinguish professionals from amateurs and may lead to workhouse or home for inebriates admission.
Trade advertisement touts Granitord and Granocrete as economical pavement solutions branded as The Economical Pavements and The Modern Pavements by Adv. The notice markets durable surfaces for roads and walkways.
The suit to invalidate Sir John Murray Scott’s will, alleging undue influence, resumed in London with Lady Sackville on the witness stand. The audience was largely female, including wives of cabinet ministers and judges, as Sir Samuel Thomas Evans presided.
Movie owners and the city censor board will hold a conference to prevent blocking aisles and ensure every spectator has a seat. The owners agreed to the conference and await a date. Riebe Undertaking Co. advertises auto ambulance service at 211 E Commerce, Fort Worth.
Seven suits charging illegal collection of water meter rents were filed today in Justice Ben Fisks Court. Each plaintiff seeks seven dollars and fifty cents plus ten dollars damages against the San Antonio Water Supply Company in similar actions.
Four deaths occurred in Cleveland as temperatures hit 90 at noon. Since the heat wave began on June 20, sixty babies have died, highlighting a growing casualty toll from the high heat.
The Texas Bar Association session in Corpus Christi heard Judge W S Holman present a reform report. The committee proposed eight changes to appellate and district courts and urged a special 1914 legislative call to enact the measures.
Chief of Police Lancaster approved Alderman Steves plan to provide a shooting gallery for the police department for regular pistol practice. Officers praise the idea, with some already using country expeditions and River Avenue grounds for target work. The piece notes the value of practice for handling pistols and recounts a recent misfire at a dog case to illustrate training needs.
Juan Lopez pleaded guilty to stealing a horse and rig he believed his own. District Attorney W. C. Linden will move to set aside the judgment if an investigation shows the Mexican man acted in ignorance and had no legal counsel, arguing no one should be jailed without knowing rights.
Judge C A Wilcox in Austin grants a temporary injunction in the state case against the Dallas Garten Verein restraining the club and officers from dispensing intoxicating liquors to members or others. The decision finds the club lacks authority under its charter to sell liquor, marking a test case and a blow to social clubs state wide.
President A. R. Ponder of the San Antonio Uvalde and Gulf says the road is open from San Antonio to Crystal City and LaPryor and will operate to Carrizo Springs tomorrow. Flood damage was light at Crystal City with track repaired, while near Uvalde two bridge spans were washed away but the line to Crystal City LaPryor and Carrizo Springs remains operational.
Washington July 3 The local Chamber of Commerce efforts to press a federal law banning veal slaughter for interstate shipment win endorsements from organizations nationwide. The plan seeks to prohibit killing steers under three years and cows under six to boost beef cattle supply and ease the high cost of living.
London July 3 Justice Joyce ruled Miss Gwyneth Bebb cannot practice as a solicitor in England. He held that prior to 1843 women were disqualified by sex and subsequent laws show no intent to change that, ending her action against the law society.
Mrs. David Sommers her mother Mrs. Alberta Drey and her two young daughters ages 5 years and 7 months were killed when the automobile they rode in skidded over an embankment near Creve Coeur Lake. Sommers was noted as a social leader in St. Louis. An unrelated hotel advertisement about Corpus Beach Hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas follows.
The engagement of Miss Jessie Wilson to Francis B. Sayre is announced, making her the 13th White House bride in a lineage tied to President Wilson. Historical note recalls past White House weddings from 1811 through 1906, counting twelve prior nuptials and noting the 1886 Cleveland marriage as the only White House ceremony by a president.
Francis Bowes Sayre, engaged to Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, has worked with the district attorney’s office for about a year as an apprentice. He will join the prosecutor’s staff as soon as admitted to the bar, which is expected this month, according to Mr. Whitman.
W. C. Walters in Columbia jail had Habeas Corpus denied to block his extradition to Louisiana on kidnapping charges linked to the disappearance of Robert Dunbar from Opelousas. Walters plans to appeal, via his attorneys, the circuit court decision issued in Poplarville Mississippi.
Five children of W. A. Hays aged from nine months to eleven years perished when an overheated stove caused a blaze in their Valencia home. Parents were away tending cows at a distant pasture.
In San Antonio engineers and investors meet with W L Church to discuss a Guadalupe river hydro electric project near Seguin and an Austin to San Antonio interurban line via Seguin and Lockhart with a branch to Houston. Brown of Orange and Abbott of Seguin discuss but avoid specifics.
Albert N. Thompson, cashier for the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, was arrested yesterday and charged with theft totaling $6000. Two complaints allege $2100 stolen from the same railway and $3900 from the Missouri Kansas and Texas railway. The complaints were sworn by Assistant District Attorney Joseph Graham and Thompson waived examination, being remanded in bond of $7650 for each case.
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