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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1911
Page
4
Floral pageant planners announce 14 floats and decorated carriages for a grand battle of flowers. A parade expert will supervise trimming as Carnival leaders prepare reports, coronation, and queen selection with a March 10 Alamo Order meeting and a April 20 coronation.
The B Y P U of the Calvary Baptist church to meet tomorrow on the topic Making Our Calling and Election Sure with Miss Katie Gibson as leader. The program includes Rock of Ages, Rom 8 29 Rom 12 1 scripture lesson and songs I Am Thine O Lord Take My Life and Let It Be. Mrs R D McGee and Mrs Cagle speak on knowing Him who called us and God’s promises to spur diligence.
The Daily Light Tour of the World reports Srinagar Kashmir as a land of shawls scenery and romance. It notes Kashmiri goats supply wool for Cashmere shawls and praises the Aryan Kashmiri race while outlining a daring ascent over Himalayan passes to the roof of the world.
Belvin and Cameron streets E F Walter grocery and 403 Crosby street William Lange grocery robbed in daytime by two youths Charles Green and Earnest Hazel. One drew attention while the other entered unseen to tap cash registers stealing $4 at Lange and $8 at Walter, both named in arrest records by City Detective Will Green.
Kansas City dispatch reports that about forty railroad passenger conductors may face federal grand jury indictments over alleged “knocking down” fares. The Globe Security Company is said to have backed bonds for implicated men as witnesses have testified. The case, tied to violations of the interstate commerce act, centers on reduced fares given to known passengers.
G Flury filed a petition in district court alleging his then wife Agnes Flury had him jailed on a false aggravated assault charge and coerced him to deed six acres of homestead property fronting McKinley avenue to secure release. He states a divorce followed on February 18 1911 and that he signed under duress believing the deed void.
Former City Engineer John D. Rullmann argues against placing a new city cemetery on the sewer farm near the Medina river, urging San Antonio to favor purification plants and incinerators instead, while condemning the proposed name Mission Cemetery as inappropriate and odoriferous.
George H. Beringer, 20, a student at A and M, died from pneumonia after an abscess operation in San Antonio. He had recently been discharged and died weeks before interment, survived by parents and a brother. William H. Ritche, local railroad clerk, died of heart trouble at a city hospital. His body is held on Losoya Street pending a brother’s arrival from Canada.
William F. Adams a deserter from Company I Thirteenth United States infantry surrendered to a patrolman in Iola Kansas after offering a $60 for a meal and accepting a $50 reward for his arrest. Adams fled Fort Leavenworth in November 1997 and had not eaten for three days. George W. Thomas a Chicago and Alton passenger agent visited Dallas yesterday.
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