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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1911
Page
5
Edar Lodge No. 211 holds a special session at Temple Beth-El to initiate a class of twenty and hear delegates' report from Hot Springs.
The Eagles lodge offers room rentals four nights a week at 102 East Houston Avenue, providing a local meeting and lodging option for groups and events.
Rev W W Watts, pastor of Tabernacle Methodist Houston, delivered the commencement address to San Antonio Female College pupils. He urged immediate progress from Numbers 1 11 30 with the line Let us go up at once and possess it. The talk inspired soon starting business careers. Dr Fairfield moved to Gibbs building and old phone 1268. Dr Chas K Garming osteopathic physician at 204 Gunter building old phone 3439. Garden States hacks cabs and high class livery phones 212. Civil Service Examinations announced for May 24 25 in various departments. information posted in federal building.
Ads invite attendance at a People's party grand rally at 8 p m at the corner of Fredericksburg road and North Flores street with speakers F W Church Judge Buckley and W Burnett. A W O W prize dance at Turner hall Tuesday at 2 tickets 25 cents. Montefiore Benevolent Society annual meeting May 2 at 8 in Harmony hall led by G A C Hallf and Isidore Strauss.
The Trinity Methodist Episcopal revival at Avenue C and Pecan Street grows daily. Pastor George E. Nies preached in the morning, with Rev. R. P. Waters leading services at 3 30 p m and 8 p m, continuing daily at 3 30 and 8 o clock.
Assistant District Attorney J F Carl spent Sunday at Lockhart on private business and returned to attend the opening of criminal court in the Thirty-seventh District. A damage suit, Mrs D A Head versus The San Antonio Traction Company for 25000 dollars, is before the jury in the Forty-fifth District court. Mrs Head was injured December 26, 1909, in a derailment of a street car on Alamo Heights.
Beaumont hotel proprietor C A Hageman of the Crossway hotel in Beaumont is at the St Anthony in San Antonio for several days. He reports good conditions in Beaumont and an unusually prosperous year ahead.
Visiting San Antonio friends C. M. Gordon and wife and Mrs. F. L. Price of Dilley Texas are at the St Anthony and will visit with numerous friends in the city for several days.
Mr and Mrs Owen F Johnson of London are stopping at the St Anthony in San Antonio for a few days. They will continue their pleasure tour of America and may travel to Mexico.
Lieut. Col. C. D. Terrett arrives in San Antonio to rejoin his regiment, the Seventeenth, now in camp at Fort Sam Houston. He has fully recovered from a recent illness and is accompanied by Mrs. Terrett.
The King Pattison Drug Company announces a move to a new home at East Houston Street and Alamo Plaza. T. Alvan Luter will run the prescription department, assuring stock is new and offers exactly what doctors order as concern for reliable service grows.
A San Antonio city health notice warns of heavy spring rains causing weeds and standing water that breed mosquitoes. Citizens should clean premises, seal barrels with kerosene, disinfect cesspools, remove weeds, and use mosquito bars and screens. Signed by W. Burg, M. D., City Health Officer.
Dr C B Hyde indicted for murder of Col Charles H Swope appeared for arraignment in Kansas City Missouri criminal court but illness of county prosecutor Virgil Conkling caused postponement until May 16.
The national congress of mothers and parents teachers associations met in Washington on May 1 to discuss the relation of the church to child welfare. Topics included The church as a social kindergarten and efforts to educate parents in child welfare and immigrant child welfare.
The twenty second national congress of the Sons of the American Revolution opened in Louisville Kentucky for a three day session. Descendants of revolutionary figures from nearly every state attended. William A Marble of New York City served as president general and presided.
Samuel P. Benbrook, a prominent American criminologist, will lecture at the Crown theater on Houston Street Wednesday through Friday evenings. The talks cover The Criminal, Prison Conditions, and The Detection and Cure of Crime. He recently spoke in Fort Worth before 11 000 attendees and earned commendations from the mayor and police chief. After each lecture he will present highlights from The Ballad of the Reading Gaol while dressed as a British convict guard.
Delegates to the international plague conference in Mukden arrived in Pekin and were received by the emperor. They will be entertained before returning home. Reports on investigations suggest the pneumonic plague can be controlled and resolutions declare discontinuance of railway traffic in the future due to the disease was inadvisable.
In Bar sur Aube France several thousand wine growers demonstrated and tried to form a procession. Dragoons attempting to bar the way were attacked a colonel and troopers were unhorsed and trampled. Rioters were injured and order was restored late in the evening.
Corral, Mexico viceroy, sails from Santander on the Espagne bound for St Nazaire France. He reached Santander on April 26 and, if departing Spain, planned to pass through Paris.
TOKIO Count Kabura stated in an interview that no cabinet change is planned. Rumors of an imminent resignation have unsettled the government and proven annoying to officials.
Fez faces a famine threat as the city grows quiet and provisions dwindle. The report notes no immediate relief and highlights growing concern among residents about scarce food supplies and rising prices.
Report notes further attacks by rebels and growing dissensions within their ranks as the conflict escalates.
President Fallieres arrived in Paris after a fortnight’s visit to the French protectorate and regency of Tunis in Africa.
The American big game hunter Paul J. Rainey and his party have achieved unusual success in the Southern Gwaso Nyire river district, about 100 miles southwest.
The synodal council of the Canton of Grises voted to admit women to pastorates after considering an application from a woman described as a German naturalized American seeking authority to serve.
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