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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1911
Page
12
The observance of Ash Wednesday marks the penitential season of Lent beginning March 1 this year. Clergy urge self examination and prayer as social life slows, while church activities and Easter preparations intensify. Meanwhile, social events continue with afternoons of tea, receptions, and club gatherings featuring Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Waelder, Miss Lamb, and numerous local hosts hosting guests and formalities.
Advertises cures for catarrh rawk ing and spitting bad breath with B B B Cures. Blood Balm Company of Atlanta offers free samples and testimonials of wonderful cures. Druggists charge $1.00 per bottle. Available through Owl Drug Co. in San Antonio.
Cards announce the marriage of Mrs Eva T Brough to Dwight Edward Potter with home at 417 King William Street. Mrs Frank Paschal hosted a luncheon for her daughter Mrs George R Sanders of Pearsall at the Mexicana cafe. Cas si hall hosted a Tuesday Musical club auxiliary chorus reception with over 400 in attendance and a formal parlor gathering after. Mrs Harvey L Sivete and Mrs Edwin Lamm led the punch service with club jóvenes assisting.
Members of the San Antonio Turns Verein and guests enjoyed a three hour Grand Kommers during Lent. The Bingville Bugle Brass Band performed while the King of the Kammerns staged comic “pinches.” Comedian Kaufman and several acts sparked laughter, and a staged arrest, a mock lynching, and a lighthearted punishment closed the lively evening.
Fourth Court reverses and remands Sap railway versus J M Chittim after finding lower court failed to instruct jurors on data nee coming to cattle transport. Jury awarded 2000 to plaintiff for care lapses. appeals court cites livestock deaths and injuries from jarring en route from San Antonio to Paloma. Multiple cases noted with motions and rulings across Texas courts.
The governor Colquitt will receive an invitation next month to visit Sen Antonio as guest of the San Antonio Soaring Carnival association. A delegation led by Atine Fe Ayres, John B. Carrington, and W. G. Rigeley will proceed this afternoon to formally extend the invitation.
A lively Grand attraction features a dramatization of George Barr McCutcheon’s romance The show travels from Chicago’s Studebaker Theatre to Minneapolis with lavish scenery and bright costumes. A star cast including Flora Chalue and Paul Gilmore delivers romance laughter and spectacle through a series of counterplots and scenic effects. The Mummy and the Humming Bird is noted as a competing musical attraction drawing praise for its acting and production values.
A garbled list of building permit entries across multiple streets including Mone claca trot El Paso street Trinity Street and Por lor street. It lists permit actions such as new structures repairs additions vacated alterations and tent ventures with varied monetary values from $10 to $2000 and names like M.S. Millian hourera and Antonio Cauatia.
Announcement today that the great evangelist George R. Stuart will lead a citywide inmeeting in San Antonio from April 6 to 19. The 16 day gathering will be co operative with all local evangelical churches and follow United States Customs House notices. Stuart, once partner of Bam Jones, was dubbed the greatest evangelist in America. The event is at Park Methodist Church with broad city church cooperation.
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