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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1915
Page
6
The Young Woman's Christian Association hosts an entertainment event titled How to Keep Young Featuring varied classes from high school drum-bell to business girls drills and Irish Willy routines The winter program ends with swimming slated to open on the 20th followed by tennis and evening exercises in the Raul Gardens.
More than thirty delegates will travel from San Antonio for the Southern Baptist Convention and Woman's Missionary Union sessions in Houston starting Wednesday through May 17. Texas leads in delegate votes with 640 messengers due to $160,000 given to missions. the event marks the sixtieth convention since 1845. Notables include Dr. S J Porter and multiple reverends and their spouses attending Tuesday night departure.
Annual fete at Ste phen F Austin school on Muntall and Macon streets runs 2 to 5 Friday May 14. Booths offer candy cake lemonade and sandwiches with a fish pond attraction and prizes. Mrs F J Finck chairs with committees listed for each booth and program. May 1915. Proposals for a six inch sewer line may be considered via Quartermaster.
Local notices list two ex-service men Janis Thomas ture dyer of 219 West Travis Street and Jose Guadalupe Montez of 426 South Frio Street applying for membership in the Naval Reserve Corps with Recruiting Officer Charles Driver at the recruiting station. Also brief items about meeting notices, plumbing ads, a street assault near South Concho and Matamoros streets, and community notices on humane society officers and yard inspections.
C W Arend a 45 year old former Buffalo building contractor died at 1Dorelock Tuesday morning in San Antonio hospital after an operation. He came to visit his daughter Mrs Thomas Hooth six months ago and had lived in California the past five to six years. Survived by daughter Mrs Thomas Booth and five sons Lester San Antonio Arthur Buffalo Alger Los Angeles Ray Tacoma Theodore El Paso. Body held by Waters Undertaking awaiting funeral plans.
H M Madison a San Antonio joint farm and immigration agent urges late plantings as a way to extend marketability. Potatoes planted in early September near Jourdanton reportedly yielded well by December 24 and stayed good through winter. He plans tests to compare with Colorado and Idaho crops in spring markets.
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