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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1917
Page
8
The Department of Justice in Washington holds that a man liable to penitentiary terms may be considered inadmissible as a public charge. In a San Antonio case a foreign restaurant owner who married a Texas miscegenation statute defendant may be expelled if convicted and jailed.
Linden Ind June 20 A fire swept Kirkpatrick a village of 400 after a Clover Leaf Railroad oil train wreck in the center of town. Seven cars exploded causing one man to be fatally burned and several narrow escapes reported.
Contracts for 3,567,200 pairs of socks awarded to eighteen firms following knit goods committee recommendations. Average price about 18 cents per cotton sock and 28 cents per woolen sock.
Norway has discovered extensive titanium iron ore deposits and a new $1,000,000 company has been formed to exploit them.
In Society Wednesday Night Major and Mrs Sterling Price Adams host Miss Birdie Elizabeth Coleman Miss Sarah Kleberg Miss Ada Johnson and Miss Margaret Cantwell. Daughters of Isabella meet at Knights of Columbus hall. Catholic Woman's Association holds a reception at the clubhouse. Thursday Ladies Aid Society meets at 2 pm in San Pedro Park. Woman's Pan-Hellenic Association hosts luncheon at the Country Club for returning college girls. WCTU meets at 3:30 pm at the Gunter.
Dr. Arthur Henry De Long of Gallup New Mexico and Eleanor Noonan wed at First Baptist Church at 10 am Wednesday. The ceremony featured violin and singing by local musicians and was followed by a motor trip to Illinois Indiana and Iowa before settling in Gallup.
Mrs John Ross Whisenant hosts the Wednesday Bridge Club at the Carolina tea rooms with members including Mesdames William Church H P Drought Jr John Alexander James E Meredith Sykes Harry Hartwell John W Goode George Brackenridge Peeler and the hostess Miss Minette Thompson of Houston visits Miss Pearl Zilker. Luther League meets 8 p m Thursday in St Johns Lutheran Churchyard with games and refreshments. Miss Pansy Lawdon visits Miss Dorothy Swearingen. Mrs Walter Wilcox and Miss Dorothy Wilcox and Miss Ruth Pennybacker of Austin are guests of Mrs Dan Sullivan for the weekend. Knights of Columbus host a dance honoring minstrel show participants. Mr and Mrs Nic Behles leave for Donner Springs Kan to visit relatives in Chicago and St Louis. Country Club opens new home for summer activities with daily hours 8 a m to 12 p m. special breakfast Sundays 8:30-10:30, special supper Sundays 7-9, golf lunch Saturdays and Sundays 12-2:30. Tuesdays titled Women’s Day with golf tennis swimming and cards.
Mrs Walton D Hood and her daughter Gladys are visiting Mrs L R Schrimsher of Gonzales during a maternal home tour and social calls in the county.
Fifty five men indicted over alleged Farmers' and Laborers' Protective Association actions were moved from Dallas to San Angelo Texas for trial. Seventeen remain jailed, others free on bond. Trials set to be announced. indictments allege resistance to draft registration by force if needed.
The American Railroad Association said New York on June 20 that the national shortage of freight cars had fallen by about one third since May 1 when the railroad war board took charge. The decline is credited to prompt reactions by shippers and railroads to the board s efficiency suggestions on using equipment more effectively.
Countess Eleanor Patterson Gizycka formerly Miss Eleanor Madill Patterson of Chicago testified all day in her divorce suit against Count Josef on a Russian estate. Judge Charles M. Thomson announced he was satisfied she should receive the decree.
Federal agents in Chicago have begun tabulating all marriage licenses issued since the war declaration. The effort aims to determine if marriages form bases for exemption claims in registration records. Five thousand licenses were issued the week of the declaration.
Col. John S. S. Bell former chief of the federal secret service bureau in Washington died in Newark yesterday. The death of Col. William Cody Buffalo Bill, whom Bell had worked with on the plains and in business, reportedly affected him.
The 238000 Boy Scouts of America who sold last week on behalf of the Liberty Loan turned in subscriptions totaling 15480350 pledged by about 125000 individuals, announced by James West chief scout executive.
Washington June 20 Red Cross drive enters its third day aiming for 100 million dollars in war relief pledges. Officials say early totals exceed reported figures with large gifts anticipated including a potential 10 million dollar single donation for tuberculosis aid in France. Cities report substantial sums as committees race to solicit funds.
The figures show local and state grant or funding totals for multiple cities and states. City totals include New Orleans 337000 and Memphis 32000, with others like Denver 165000 Nashville 43000 Wichita 41000 Des Moines Allentown and Memphis 32000 each. State totals list Arkansas 6000 Louisiana 168000 Missouri 772000 Oklahoma 111000 Texas 71000.
All preliminaries are set for a Red Cross benefit concert on July 2 at the San Marcos Baptist Tabernacle. San Marcos Choral Club hosts with Emmett G. Rountree directing, sixty voices in a patriotic program designed to inspire pride and support the war effort.
Ten committees are conducting an agricultural survey in Austin Texas. Officials report active study into crop yields and market prospects with updates expected later this week.
Raleigh Georgia user W A Mc Rea writes Foley Cathartic Tablets cleanse the system thoroughly without gripe or hurt and are wonderfully different and more pleasant than any other pill. Sold by A M Fischer.
An Austin Travis County drive aims to raise 7000000? No, 70000000? The report says a goal of 100 million for Red Cross work with eight of ten teams reporting. First day receipts show 11625.50 as the effort continues this week and is expected to meet the target.
Gulf Refining Company contributed five thousand dollars to the Red Cross Campaign through the local committee in Port Arthur Texas on June 20.
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