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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1912
Page
5
Articles of incorporation for the San Benito and Rio Grande Valley Interurban Railway were filed in Austin after attorney general approval. The $600,000 capital stock line targets 200 miles in Cameron and Hidalgo counties with multiple branches, headquartered at San Benito.
Riebe Undertaking Co operates an auto ambulance service at 221 KE Com. Phone listed at $41.
Memorial services were held in the Corpus Christi high school to honor Miss Belle Patrick, a Dublin Texas teacher drowned June 22 in the Gulf. The Corpus Christi Normal faculty and students attended and adopted resolutions deploring her death and praising Earl Rackley of Devine Texas for rescuing two other young women from the gulf.
Secretary Blake of the Commercial club reports from Galveston that the steamer Pilot Boy was bought by W. A. Guyton of Galveston at the trustees sale. The vessel will run between Corpus Christi and Galveston starting July 10 with semi weekly trips to help move the 1912 cotton harvest from Nueces and neighboring counties.
Flora McDaniel age 22 daughter of J H McDaniel a noted local stockman died at 4 am Thursday after several weeks illness at the family home She was a graduate of San Antonio Female College and taught music at Floresville high school last term
The New Braunfels city council held multiple meetings to tackle water supply and street excavation and macadamizing on Seguin Church and Garden streets. F G Blumberg resigned and Ed Rohde became street committee chairman. Mexican laborers on South Seguin street halted work, demanding higher pay from $1.25 to $1.50 per day.
Col. G. C. Brewster United States marshal arrived from Galveston to secure temporary quarters for the Corpus branch of the federal court. With Secretary Blake of the Commercial club he inspected proposals and will submit a report to Washington after evaluating options for at least one year until the new federal building is ready.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended until October 29 the proposed baggage size limits and free allowance changes for all U S railroads and steamship lines. The rule would have reduced free baggage and raised excess baggage charges starting July 1.
Marion Texas residents voted on incorporation on June 27 with 20 in favor and 41 against. Voters saw no clear benefit to incorporation.
Marion Texas reports a bumper new corn crop with many carloads shipped in recent days. Cotton fields are in full bloom and growing strongly, marking a healthy agricultural season for the area.
Flint Witte hosts an evening party at West French Place for Mr and Mrs Perry J Lewis. Miss Louise Wolford hosts a watermelon party at Crofton Avenue in the afternoon.
Miss Margaret Polk of Durango street hosted a five hundred party yesterday afternoon for Miss Anna Guthrie of San Diego Cal. Four tables of players competed with prizes including a brass swinging basket and a pink cushion. Guest prize was The Ghost Book and score cards were dainty Japanese fans.
Mr and Mrs L E Mays entertained guests at a five hundred party on Locust street to honor Miss Bessie Mays of Denison. The decorated house featured sunflowers and ferns with punch bowl adornments. Attending were Mays Lucy Hamilton Anna May Hamilton Nellie Hickey Pauline Scholz Maud Torbert Helen Thompson Ray Kline Belle Berger Adelaide Coleman of St. Louis Mark Postlewaite Earl McCleun Ralph Weber George Harris L M King Mesdames Postlewaite L Stewart R W Aldrich J H Lieber and Knight of Chicago.
Mr and Mrs Leon C Pinn entertained last evening at their Commerce street home to mark their first wedding anniversary. Attendants at their wedding were the guests, and the house was decorated with daisies while punch and ices were served.
Miss Beatrice Mills entertained a house party of her girl friends at Summit Place last evening with a lawn picnic in their honor. An additional number of guests attended and enjoyed a hay ride later in the evening.
San Francisco delegates of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs consider a suffrage resolution. Mrs. W W Bains of Texas pressures action, while others fear convention division. Louisiana suggests refer to clubs for 1914 vote. Delegates report progress on industrial and social reform and advocate women factory inspectors.
Mesdames J. K. Dowerof C. T. Blank C. T. Curtis and daughter Miss Pauline embark on a western itinerary visiting Denver Salt Lake City Portland Los Angeles San Francisco and the Grand canyon.
A list of solos duets and readings performed at a home recital on Mesquite Street featuring Misses McAllister Jordan Turner Turner Yantis Sasser Davis Hearne and others with works by Streabog Mack Sartorio Friml Cadman Vanderbeck and Wacks among others.
Beaumont June 29. E J Emerson local manager for an eastern syndicate says four preliminary surveys for the electric interurban railway between Beaumont and Port Arthur will be completed within two weeks by the surveying corps now in the field.
A car veered into a ditch on a curve on the Fort Worth road between Handly and Arlington injuring W. B. Davis of Dallas, who is believed fatally hurt. Dr. M. P. Milton of Chicago was slightly injured. Davis was brought back to Dallas this afternoon after the accident that occurred while he was returning from Fort Worth.
W H Sabens a private from Fort Myer shot and killed Ada Haynes in Washington last August. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree and his sentence was suspended pending appeal. Sabens killed the woman and attempted suicide after a quarrel.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway's proposed freight rate advance of about three cents per hundred pounds from July 1 to October 9. The action affects class freight rates in the cited period.
Mrs Pennybacker leads a Texas field endowment report and endowment plans with sessions on Industrial and Social Conditions and Household Economy. A musicale anchors the afternoon with Charles A Prosser addressing vocational education needs and guidance for women.
Denver June 29 The progressive party of Colorado was incorporated to back Theodore Roosevelt or another progressive for president. Its organizers include Ben B Lindsey E P Costigan and Philip S Vanisen The aims include electing delegates to a national progressive convention and forming a ticket for the state election.
Bert Schadt, a German aviator, died in Mulihnhausen while testing a military aeroplane. He reportedly curved sharply at a height of about 250 yards and the craft crashed, killing him.
Governor Colquitt will tour Texas delivering speeches at Elkhart Pales tine Tyler Athens Ker ens Corsicana Bruceville Moody Rogers Belton Killeen Temple Rockwall Greenville Farmersville from July 1 to July 6 with specific start times listed for each location.
R Coon an attorney from San Antonio and congressional candidate arrived in Austin on personal business. He said the Leon Cardenas Martinez Jr. papers are before the U S Supreme Court and a decision may take time. Coon represents Martinez, condemned to death for the murder of Miss Emma Brown in Pecos.
The adjutant general's department announced the resignation of Bryant Collins of Dallas as second lieutenant of Company Third Infantry, Dallas, Texas National Guard. The resignation is effective as of June 29.
We provide doctors, day or night. Prescriptions filled at Bexar Drug Co. and if necessary, accommodations at any hospital in city for 3 cents day. Phone or write for further information. Our plan same as railroad, AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASS'N, Swearingen Bidg.
Thompson, 50, a railway conductor on the Mexican and Gulf line from Monterey to San Antonio, died Wednesday night. His body is held at Sloan and Hagg awaiting direction from a brother in Ohio. Robinson, 52, died yesterday at 112 Matagorda street after a brief illness. She was born in London and survived by three daughters and a sister. Funeral at 5 PM from the home under Ala mo lodge No. 34, Royal Achates, with Rev. Philip Cook presiding. burial at cemetery No. 3.
Mrs Lucy South 69 died yesterday at the home of her son M G South 910 Mason Street after a lingering illness. native of Alabama she came from Los Angeles three months ago. Survived by four sons M G M T South of San Antonio A A South of Springfield M J South of Memphis Tenn and one daughter Mrs T E Kansburg of St Paul Minn Funeral set for 3 pm Monday from the son’s home with interment in Mission Burial Park.
John I. Kleiber of Brownsville Texas lost a $125 purse from his coat while getting a shave at a barber shop on East Houston street. Eldridge Farmer, a barber shop porter, is jailed after an affidavit charges theft in Justice Umscheid's court.
Miss Margaret Rink of McKeesport plans to visit Texas to wed a cowboy after receiving ranch land advertisements from R. H. Wester Co. She hopes several friends join, praising open plains life, but her father opposes the plan and she says she will go without his consent.
The Bexar County Farmers Institute convenes in the chamber of commerce auditorium at 4 p.m. An address by a state agricultural department member on Diversification will frame the session. Members will review real estate division questions and discuss them.
Dr Robert Carroll, noted Hebrew scholar, appears at Beethoven hall Sunday afternoon at 3 p m. The event titled Where Are the Dead addresses questions of immortality and religious inquiry. Presented by A Collman, plumber of 415 Main Ave.
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