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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1911
Page
3
Contestants may send new yearly subscriptions as secured. A club of 24 dollars yields a 150 000 vote bonus. Two prizes of 75 dollars in furniture awarded to top collectors, one to outside city and one to San Antonio, announced after the contest closes.
About 5000 attendees at Beethoven hall filled the closing session with spontaneous applause despite a ban. The jubilee featured tableaux of missionary areas and pageants with nationalities from China to Mexico. San Antonio churches donated $9708.75 for foreign missions and $3000 was quietly raised during the two days of the jubilee.
The High School Ciceronian Literary Society met yesterday at 3 05. Preston Brooks argued Texas should adopt compulsory education to age 16 while Lloyd Taylor argued against. Judges Mc Fadden and Schnitzer ruled for the negative with Patterson as critic. An extemp debate on inter class contests favored the affirmative with Huson and Taylor for, Schnitzer and McFadden opposing.
The San Antonio charity game by National Association pitchers netted 1203 dollars last Saturday. The funds will be split evenly among Associated Charities Protestant Orphans Home and Catholic Orphanage with 401 dollars each. A St Anthony hotel event honored players and supporters with Mrs Frank Paschal as chairwoman and other officers named.
Matagorda County plans two drainage districts No 2 and No 4 to drain about 60000 acres of rice land. Bonds total 27950 for district 2 and 103669 for district 4. After drainage the land should be worth 150 to 200 dollars per acre. County attorney RR Lewis notes this is just the start and locals increasingly see drainage as profitable.
The railroad commission will meet on December 12 to consider a proposed readjustment of rates for sunflower seed in carloads or less transported by railroads within Texas. The proposal aims to add sunflower seed to grain rate classifications or set sunflower seed at 150 percent of grain rates in carloads and less.
A farmer named Gus Hamann aged 40 was found dead on the road north of Austin while traveling home to Pflugerville. Investigation indicates he likely fell from his wagon during the journey from Austin.
The victim is said to have fallen from a wagon, breaking neck vertebrae. Friends hint at possible foul play, noting he left Austin with a Black man. A further inquiry may follow. Ad for Imperial tires claims 40 percent savings by F. T. Parks & Co. in Austin.
J W Burton president and A B Spencer vice president of Crosbyton & South Plains Railroad consult with the railroad commission to issue 1 000 000 in bonds for extensions. The line now runs Crosbyton to Lubbock forty miles with planned east to Spur seventy miles and northwest to Plainview about fifty five miles linking Spur with Stamford & Northwestern.
Governor O’Neal of Alabama lists 62 county chairmen to implement the New Orleans conference cotton plan. Commissioner Kane announces 30,000 bulletins printed with the October plan for distribution to farmers institutes bankers and others across the state.
The Austin plumbers strike involving twenty workers may end after a joint meeting between local master plumbers and the Plumbers' Union. Half the strikers have returned to work as talks progress toward a wage scale increase with some modifications expected.
Austin Texas November 25. With a ten thousand dollar yearly appropriation by the last legislature for the farmers institute work the commissioner of agriculture expects at least 1000 well organized institutes in the state by August 31 1912. About 500 exist now most organized under the present administration.
The Chicago Historical Society plans to preserve voices of prominent Chicago figures after a suggestion sparked by an Oak Park club's hearing of voices from men long dead. Over fifty names have been proposed and more are expected as plans advance at the December 6 meeting.
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