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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1912
Page
10
Advertising note for a shirtwaist dance hosted by the Highland Shooting Club on Sunday June 9 with music by Artzt. Also a Pay-Read display ad advised in Sunday morning papers for information regarding pay as you enter car, from San Antonio Traction Co.
A stitched-together town page notes events at Wigwam and Prinz's hall on June 8 with dances at Muth's garden on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. A raid on East Commerce street led to twenty five arrests for vagrancy by Captain Sam Cook and city detectives.
Local items include discussion of road drag plans by A W Withers of Stockdale and a San Antonio meeting with A. W. Withers. Rail offices will close Saturdays in summer. Social events include a Dixie Social club dance and a Shamrock shirtwaist dance at Electric park. Bishop E D Mouton to speak at Laurel Heights Church on Christ’s Authority.
A meeting of the United Commercial Travelers is set for tonight in their rooms at the St Anthony. Ten candidates will be initiated and policies of the organization will be discussed.
George T. Botsford and Fred Davison serve as officers at the San Antonio Humane Society located at 324 Hicks Building with contact numbers for nights and Sundays. An additional application to J. W. Warren, president of the highway division, is noted to obtain drag plans.
United States Marshal Eugene Nolte and Deputies John L. Dibreff and Lawrence Anderson will depart Sunday morning for Austin to attend the June term of the district court which opens Monday.
Henry Huett a carpenter fell at a new house on North street yesterday afternoon breaking his leg and was taken to a local hospital where the fracture was set. In a separate case the West Texas Bank & Trust won against E G Hicks and William C Lott for 795 plus interest after a district court jury verdict deciding commission on a real estate sale.
The Wig Wam theater offers a double feature night with popular titles attracting patrons from nearby towns. Audience reports say families and teens enjoy affordable admission as the lot fills for the late show.
The Texas railroad commission asks the attorney general for guidance on a contract between the Cotton Belt and the Lufkin Land and Lumber company. The lumber firm provides its own motive power and cars to haul logs on the railroad’s tracks from forest to mills.
The San Antonio Uvalde and Gulf railroad has reached the Medina river twelve miles from the city. A temporary piling bridge will halt track work for three to four weeks before the line pushes to Pleasanton by August. Construction crews operate to Fowlerton with grading and Frio river bridge work advancing. Depot at San Jose to begin next week as first station on the new line.
Leon Chapuis, longtime war department clerk in Washington, transfers to Department of Texas and will be stationed at Fort Sam Houston. He describes a tedious trip through flooded lower Louisiana where tracks were submerged for miles and trains ran late with poor provisioning. Chapuis calls such conditions unacceptable, comparing to European standards, and notes his transfer was due to ill health.
Austin June 8 Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Bill rules anti rebating and anti discrimination laws cover life fire health and accident lines and by extension all insurance businesses transacted in Texas including general casualty and automobile. Question from J H Onion of San Antonio about bonds for different individuals answered: no discrimination allowed.
Pearsall Land and Irrigation Company of San Antonio filed its charter in the Texas state department. Capital stock is 100000 dollars in 1000 shares of 100 dollars each. The firm plans to build dams and lakes for irrigation using 6993 acres in Frio county valued at 140000 dollars. Incorporators include W. C. Haynes and George.
M. Clifton and G. B. Gouger of San Antonio join J. H. Bain of Stockdale and W. W. McCrory of Edna as the directorate.
Formal confirmation of the Knights of Columbus of Refugio will be held in Corpus Christi on Sunday with 40 candidates. The San Antonio council aids in installation alongside Corpus Christi and Victoria councils. Rev. John Hanley of Austin preaches the sermon. A banquet for 400 follows. Over 100 Corpus Christi knights travel by special car for the services.
H C Fraughon of Robertson county and ex Confederate soldier collapsed while testifying in a Nashville courtroom in a suit over alienation of affections. He died within minutes as the defense witness in a case brought by his niece's husband.
The El Campo independent school district census reports 252 White males and 247 White females, 19 Black males and 18 Black females, total 636 children. The teaching staff rose to nine, crowding moved two grades to another building, and plans exist for a new brick school across town.
May monthly report shows 109 more inmates in Texas state prisons on May 31, totaling 3755 on June 1. During May 156 were received, five re captures, 52 discharged, 26 pardoned, 10 escaped, six died, one delivered to a sheriff, and one paroled. Of prisoners, 2665 were employed in state forces.
Special to The Light from Kerrville Texas reports farmers threshing grain. Oats average 35 to 38 bushels per acre and wheat about 15. Corn needs rain. showers have fallen but are not enough to improve forage crops. yield hinges on rain in the next ten days.
District Judge Calhoun rules the litigation against the Texas Sanitarium of Llano is terminated and orders the sanitarium sold on the first Tuesday in August. A private sale may occur meanwhile. The case titled Mrs. B. A. Rountree vs. Texas Sanitarium has lingered in Fifty-third District Court. Staacke Bros. announce arrival of a wagon lot for bakery laundry and deliveries at low prices.
Los Angeles ad club secretary Garne Curran says Los Angeles will push for the 1915 convention while San Antonio advertisers head a plan to assemble a Texas special train. William Moore White reports favorable support from other Texas ad clubs for a pony wage special traveling from San Antonio to Baltimore via New Orleans, to keep Texas in the limelight.
J D Jackson of Alpine vice president of the Texas Cattle Raisers association is en route to Fort Worth for a meeting of the executive committee. He says plans for the new annual convention to be held in El Paso will be among items considered by the committee.
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