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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1912
Page
10
Houston Tex May 18 The Associated Press reports Southern Commercial Secretaries resumed sessions this morning with a program of papers and discussion. Election of officers and next meeting place likely not decided before the night session.
Kohr teaches dancing at Electric Park and Exposition Park offers open air entertainment. Free band concerts and a great soprano soloist headline each evening. Admission free with a baggage transfer office listed. R Hudson heads to Mexico to discuss rail tie ups while Dollard returns from Laredo with onion shipment business for the MKT railroad.
Bexar County Humane Society officers listed with contact numbers. Dancing and free concerts advertised at Exposition Park with soprano solos. Habeas corpus cases postponed in criminal court against Ernesto Gonzales Martinez and a highway robbery suspect. Various medical and professional listings including osteopathy, dentistry, and urgent social notices. Eagles to meet May 22. Dance at Muth's Garden and a Wigwam show titled Coming of Columbus.
Special to the Light reports the Texas Department of Insurance and Banking issued a certificate of authority for Amarillo National Life Insurance Company to operate in Texas for the current year. The item also includes miscellaneous local notices and advertisements about medications, wagons, and services.
In Louisville on May 18 the Presbyterian general assembly received a report by the Sabbath observance committee. It decries Sunday sport and says nine tenths of those entering prison began with Sabbath breaking. It urges employers to safeguard workers’ rest days and criticizes Washington for lax Sabbath observance. An overture suggests renaming the freemen’s board to the board of missions for negro evangelization.
Two Taft and Roosevelt conventions formed in Burnet for the Fourteenth district with separate chairmen Julius Oppenheimer and John W. Vann. Delegates from San Antonio Lampasas Fredericksburg Brownwood Burnet chose Taft and Roosevelt lists while Texas party leaders claim seating will be settled by the national convention.
Gonzales Tex May 18 Eight graduates were named Misses Gayle Cone Essye Gurinsky Tommie Ella Wooly Ida Frances Schlick and Bachelors Rob ert H Walker Jr Martin Fouts Douglass Lawley Sidney S Griffin Rev Thomas Gregory of Uvalde gave the address and L C Brenner presented diplomas Douglass N Lawley won the scholarship. Kidney health testimonial from Foley Kidney Pills advert by Edwards King Drug Co.
Beeville Texas stockholders of the Beeville Cottonseed Oil Mill company elected directors J. W. Brown Mrs. A C Jones B W Klipstein J B Hensley and J Beagley at a May 18 meeting. They then chose J W Brown as president Mrs A C Jones as vice president B W Klipstein secretary and treasurer J B Hensley superintendent and T C Burger manager.
Former Representative John T. Briscoe of Devine Medina county travels to Austin for state business and observes steady progress on the Medina dam construction across the Medina River.
Poteet Texas May 18 poles are being set for a new telephone exchange placed by J Walker McAllister. It will be ready for business within 30 days and will serve both business and residential areas, providing direct connection to San Antonio.
The Martin farm well, one mile east of Poteet, now under control, yields about 2000 gallons per minute making it the biggest in the area. William Wuensch drilled another large well on the Sigmund farm five miles from town, expected to irrigate a 160 acre tract. A sale of carriages and phaetons at low prices is announced by Staacke Bros. Vaudeville opens at Electric Park on Sunday May 19.
Cora Miles wife of Frank Miles who was hanged by a mob in Shreveport for writing an insulting note to a white woman filed suit in Baton Rouge against a local insurance firm seeking redress. The case centers on whether lynching can be considered an accident.
Advertisement offers a so called recipe for weak kidneys and many ailments. It promises quick recovery and free distribution if readers mail a request to A. BE. Robinson in Detroit. The text claims the recipe uses pure harmless remedies and can cure at home.
In a petition the wife states her husband was found hanging from a tree limb behind the baseball park with a rope around his neck. She notes a $400 policy carried by the husband. The document does not claim lynching.
The charter of the Texas Bank and Trust Company of El Paso was filed in the state department with a capital stock of 100 000 dollars. The shares are 100 dollars each. The corporation will engage in trust business. Incorporators include Lee H. Orendorff H P Jackson F M Murchison Cyrus H Jones James P Vance O C Coles Soli Berg and Henry Seggerman all of El Paso.
The Masonic hall in Potert Texas will be completed and ready for occupancy early next week. It is a two story building with a large storey room on the first floor and the lodge room on the second floor. The W O W hall will be of similar construction and should be ready by July 1.
The attorney general's department approved a $150,000 Corpus Christi permanent street improvement bond issue with 5 percent interest, maturing in 40 years with a 20 year option. It also approved $100,000 Austin County Road District No 1 bonds at 5 percent, maturing in 40 years with a five year option. both issues were registered in the state department.
Charles V. Johnson chief clerk in the department of insurance and banking returned from Waco where he attended the grand lodge Knights of Pythias meeting. He has been assistant grand keeper of records and seal for ten years and was named to the post again. He described the session as very interesting and well attended.
Minneapolis May 18 The fourth ballot for bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church produced no election. Cities under episcopacy consideration include Atlanta Detroit Kansas City Pittsburgh and Helena with residences likely to be recommended.
Goliad Texas May 18 At a meeting of the Goliad High school board last night the following teachers were re elected Professor Cox principal Miss Leigh of Huntsville first assistant Miss Thippen seventh grade Miss Barnes Cuero primary grade
Lockhart Texas May 18 a reduction of 11 cents is allowed on the Lockhart key rate following a recommendation by Assistant State Actuary of Insurance Monroe. A further 20 cent rate cut will be permitted if the boiler room of the water works plant is enclosed in cement or brick.
Ueroy Thacker of Watertown says eight years of rheumatism vanished after using three bottles of Foley Kidney Pills. He recommends the remedy and cites Edwards King Drug Co as the place to obtain it.
At the State Humane Society annual meeting in Austin former Governor Joseph D. Sayers was elected president. Other officers named include B. F. Kingsley as honorary president from San Antonio, O. B. Colquitt as first and Olive H. Bler as secretary. The charter amendment allows forming new societies in other cities. An advisory committee will pursue humane legislation.
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