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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
3
Fearing conscription large numbers of young Mexicans left Luling last night for Mexican points, leaving farms without laborers to cultivate them. Some farms are left without any tenant at all, leaving crops unattended and farmers hard hit by the sudden exodus.
Large cotton and corn fields need urgent labor. If relief is not found, farmers will be unable to cultivate about half of their growing crops.
The State Highway Commission has not filled the secretary position. It is believed the post was offered to D. E. Colp of San Antonio, secretary of the State Good Roads Association, who declined, saying the salary would not justify leaving his current work.
Lead sale notice from Ed Steves & Sons offering Carter White lead at 12.00 dollars per 100 pounds with smaller sizes at usual advances. Advertised as a special sale with standard terms.
Miss Louise Bridges a Caldwell County school teacher became the first woman in Luling to subscribe to the Liberty Loan bond fund. She bought $150 in bonds paid entirely in cash from her savings and did so yesterday.
Judge J F Carl of San Antonio secretary of the State Council of Defense completes arrangements to open council headquarters at the capitol in Austin. He will not be in charge but a committee member will be present most times. The quarters serve visiting members for meetings and to stay in touch with the executive department and other state units.
A Texas notices listing multiple charter filings includes Big Lump Lignite Company in Rockdale with 4000 capital stock and incorporators H. C. Mayer EB. B. Phillips and Cc. K. Stribling. Cotton Stalk Fiber Company in Dallas with 30000 stock and Z. E. Marvin C. J. De Woody and C. H. Connell. Damm City Oil Company in Houston with 75000 stock and W. T. Mulcahy W. P. Mulcahy and H. H. Sweat. Denison Hospital in Denison with 5000 stock and P. H. Tobin T. A. Murphy and W. B. Munson Jr.. The Equipment Company in El Paso with 4000 stock and Don Rathbun W. E. Mix and C. W. Croon. Grady Oil and Gas Company in Crockett with 75000 stock and R. D. Freeman M. T. Pierce J. A. Staples and others. Sociedad Teatro Washington in Brownsville with 10000 stock and Manuel Garcia Trevino Matamoros F. W. Seabury and Marcellus Kleberg. Elk Auto Supply Company in El Paso with 20000 stock. dissolution certificates for Flexible Lawn Mower Blade Company San Angelo Lone Star Film Company Dallas Physicians' & Surgeons' Hospital Association Denison Red Cross Drug Store Stephenville Sylvester Lumber Company Dallas Texas Sheet Iron & Culvert Works Beaumont.
Dr. A. N. Champion of Luling has been admitted to the Reserve Medical Corps after an internship at City Hospital in Cleveland. He is ordered to report for immediate duty at the naval training station in Great Lakes Illinois.
Governor Ferguson vetoed four items in the departmental bill and disapproved no items in the judiciary and deficiency bills. He struck 10,000 for state data on farm products, 10,000 for agriculture data, 2,500 for Pure Food Department fees, and 9,000 for Mexican war veterans pensions due to duplication. He approved the text book commission plan and summarized two fiscal years of department appropriations with detailed totals.
A list of department budgets and totals shows amounts for 1918 and 1919 across agencies including Game Fish and Oyster Commission. Live Stock and Sanitary Commission. State Mining Board. Pure Food Commission. Attorney General’s Department. Department of Education. Treasury. Comptroller. General Land Office. Railroad Commission. Department of Agriculture. Board of Water Engineers. Warehouse and Marketing Deeds. State Reclamation Department. The summed totals reported are 1 765 128 7 for 1918 and 1 643 175 76 for 1912 figures.
Oklahoma presents its first contribution to Statuary Hall with a Sequoyah statue unveiled in the Capitol. Governor Williams and Speaker Clark spoke. Miss Ahnawake Hastings unveiled the figure. Sequoyah, also George Guess, created a 35 character Cherokee syllabary in 1821.
Advertisement notes a sale price of 12.09 dollars per 100 pounds offered by Smaller & Sons. The brief listing emphasizes bulk pricing and a dealer name for potential buyers.
Washington June 6 Colonel Biddle will be relieved by Professor Samuel E Gilman to be superintendent of the Stary academy succeeding Colonel Biddle who has commanded the Sixth regiment engineers for service in Dranes.
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