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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
5
Dr M Katz will lecture tonight at 8 in the Moose building for the Jewish Literary circle on The Awakening of Judaism in Germany. Katz, a German university graduate, has accepted a pulpit in this city. Eagle lodge room rentals four nights weekly. apply 102 East Houston.
James Braid endorses Allen's Foot-Ease for foot comfort and relief from soreness blisters and fatigue. Widely used by golfers at Augusta Pinehurst and Palm Beach this spring. Powder shaken into shoes prevents soreness and swelling sold everywhere 25c substitute not accepted.
The Methodist Episcopal church expands from the Young People's Alliance and Oxford league as it aims to boost organized service. Elk Lodge No 35 Knights of Pythias holds a regular meeting at Castle Hall on Market and Navarro with eight candidates eligible for the first rank. Marquez found not guilty on vagancy charge after police court hearing. Morales case postponed.
Walter Haines and a Black man were jailed on vagrancy charges after alleged theft of wine from a saloon. The case was ordered transferred to the county. Grover Chatman, 16, was fined five dollars in police court on a vagrancy charge after his mother testified he could not be controlled and had tried to run away.
Beginning Monday May 15 the county criminal court will hear two weeks of criminal trials followed by one week of appeal cases from the corporation court and then another week of original criminal cases.
Deputy Sheriffs Charles Stevens and J W Galbraith arrested a young white man sought in Lockhart for horse theft. Sheriff Franks pursued the prisoner and returned on a late morning train. Light Want Ads offer quick sale or rental options with affordable multi run rates and phone payment.
Arrangements are underway to bring members of the International Cattlemen Association to San Antonio for the international fair next fall. The gathering is expected to draw many cattlemen, including numerous Mexican attendees seeking stock purchases to improve their ranch herds.
Bishop E D Mouton of the Methodist Episcopal south postpones his May 12 lecture on Mexico at Travis Park Methodist church to May 19 with stereopticon views announced by Pastor V A Godbey. Tomorrow evening the church's institutional department in Harmony hall hosts the usual entertainment open to the public. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised for blood purity and strength.
The sixteenth annual commence ment exercises at Peacock Military Academy will be held tomorrow afternoon with Harvard style proceedings led by Professor Peacock at 8 o'clock. The program includes graduating exercises, a full school drill, boxing fencing and wrestling, plus gun club clay pigeon shooting. The event is open to the public and expected to draw a record crowd.
Prohibitionists met in Nelson's hall Center Point Texas and organized the Center Point statewide Prohibition club. Officers and three committees were elected and meetings set for biweekly Fridays as Kerr County organizes for statewide prohibition with Kerrville as the only wet town.
The firm Behles and Boclhauwe, architects, is associated with 228 West Commerce Street.
The Grand features Indira in a blood stopping climax dance with a venomous snake from which the audience rises in applause. Royal Royal & Romain open the Royal bill as artistic acrobats, praised as the best act of its kind in the city. Next week adds four vaudeville turns, plus moving pictures with The Wades, Biff and De Arno, and the Boccaccio Trio.
New pictures and an act debut at the Star today. Webster and Mack replace Barnes and Edwins on the first half of the week while the Great Lawrence company remains for the last half. An extra strong comedy pictur e The Runaway Automobile and pictures Max Goes Skiing and The Big Scoop round out the bill.
Exposition Park unveils a hair-raising giant dip figure 8 and spiral coaster, touted as the second largest in the United States and guaranteed safe. The park’s new theater hosts the Orpheum Musical Comedy company starting Sunday night with The Yankee Liar, featuring headliners, a large chorus, ample scenery, and twice weekly bill changes. The open-sided roofed venue promises cool comfort on hot nights.
Delegates from thirty-two states and territories and Canada attend the annual convention in Memphis. Morning sessions hear committee reports while afternoon sessions present officers reports. Chicago St Louis Buffalo and Boston seek the next meeting site and key resolutions focus on lumber inspection and measurement rules.
The advertisement promotes Mother's Friend an oily external emulsion by Bradfield Regulator Co Atlanta Ga. It claims to ease the discomforts of pregnancy prepare the system for labor and aid recovery after birth. It offers a free informative book for expectant mothers.
In New York May 11 Cardinal Gibbons received at the Catholic club as six torch bearing pages escorted him to a grand ball room. The jubilee marked his ordination anniversary and his elevation to cardinal. Archbishop Farley Dowling and Cannon spoke, praising liberty with government protection and civic duty amid Catholic church growth in America reaching 15 million members with 13 archbishops and 97 bishops.
Willie Goodwin a former Ninth Cavalry member from Fort Sam Houston faced 24 forgery charges with a potential 288 year total if convicted on all. He was sentenced to two years for one count after a trial in which he allegedly forged the name of Captain H A Sievert on checks. Sol Saper testified that Goodwin passed a $25 bad check. Twenty three indictments remain forthcoming as the state plans further prosecutions.
George Herington a soldier is charged with hiring a horse and buggy from LeComptes stable and attempting to sell the animal. A habeas corpus hearing is set for tomorrow in the Thirty-seventh district court after his counsel filed the application. He allegedly rode about fifteen miles before stopping, then tried to dicker to sell the horse when spotted by a passerby who notified the sheriff.
Port Lavaca hosts the Texas press association in session as San Antonio representatives plan to secure the 1912 convention. Secretary John B. Carrington W W Walling and local papers will lobby editors to meet in the state capital city and arrange stylish entertainment if chosen. Possible opposition unclear but active effort underway.
The drive to set up White Man's primaries for Lockhart city elections has been halted after a ruling. The matter is now with printers in Austin for final handling.
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