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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1918
Page
7
Society notices brief events including a dinner dance at the Country Club hosted by Maurine Dyce-Wilbanks under the San Antonio Musical Club with tickets at Thomas Goggan Bros. The concert funds support an endowment for a bed at the American Hospital in Neuilly France. Our Reading Club resumes Mondays at 4 pm at the Woman's Club.
Homeowners urged to seal doors and windows to save coal and stay warm. For full information, contact Steves Sash and Door Co or Ed Steves and Sons Lumber Co for weather stripping services and supplies.
Dr. Porter of First Baptist Church San Antonio plans to leave for Oklahoma City after eight years of service. Members urged reconsideration and offered a salary increase, but he stated he must follow the call. He will depart San Antonio on October 15.
Washington Oct 5 The United States plans to become potash independent from Germany within two years by developing domestic deposits and new processes. Potash will be produced from California brine lakes, Keiper seaweed, alunite, recinite, and by by products from smelters and cement plants, with blast furnaces yielding 5000 to 7000 tons annually. Secretary Lane notes progress by private firms and Interior Department.
Provost Marshal Growder rescinds certain orders but three local draft boards arrange a three day call from October 16 for 1240 negro selectives to Camp Travis. San Antonio and Austin boards plus Prairie View Normal assignments noted. Debate over federal authority continues while training proceeds and questionnaires rush to completion.
Churches list services at Central Baptist Cavalry Baptist Pegues Memorial First Baptist Hillcrest and others. It notes pastors, Sunday school times, sermons, prayer meetings, youth groups, and special events like baptisms and association meetings through October.
A dense listing of service times and church activities for multiple Methodist congregations including Travis Park, Prospect Hill, Denver Heights, West End, Gaurel Heights, South Side, East End, Trinity, Alamo, and Palm Heights. It notes pastors, Sunday school times, senior leaguers, prayer meetings, stewards meetings, and special rally or missionary events, with locations on South Navarre Briuiss Streets and nearby avenues.
A health note promoting morning habit of drinking hot water with a spoonful of limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. Claims toxins enter bloodstream if waste is not eliminated daily and urges internal bathing as essential for well being.
The San Antonio Bible Students of the Associated Bible Students plan two Sunday services at 117 North Flores Street. S. W. Williams will lecture on Gods Ways Higher Than Mans Ways. Bible study sessions and prayer meetings are listed for Tuesday and Friday. Beacon Hill Berran Class invites young men to meet Sunday at 8:50 a.m. at Beacon Hill Baptist Church.
St Murent parish led by Rev J H Quinn OM lists Sunday masses at 6 16 9 9 45 10 30 11 15 and a high mass at 12 00 Special masses for soldiers at 0 46 and masses for visitors and non parishioners at 9 10 30 and 11 15 Children mass at 8 16 followed by catechism Weekday mass times include 8 20 9 50 8 15 and 9 2 Evening services with sermon at 7 45 Night prayers and rosary nightly except Saturday at 7 46 Devotions to St Anthony and the question box on Tuesday at THR pom Stations of the Cross for the souls in purgatory and benediction Friday at 7 46 p m The married ind individuals will receive holy communion in a body at the 7 30 mass and meet Sunday at 1 o'clock p m. Marys
Dr KL V Depew a longtime San Antonio physician becomes major in the medical reserve and will report to Fort Oglethorpe Ga leaving Oct 18 J G Bowler of Fowler Bros Tau Co is named captain in the quartermaster corps and ordered to report to the acting quartermaster general in Washington for duty He will depart Sunday for Washington Fowler was offered a Texas National Guard captaincy but declined guard service while awaiting action on a quartermaster commission in the American army
Sunday services at 11 oclock with a sermon Unreality and a repeat morning service. Sunday school at 9.30 am. Wednesday testimonial meeting at 3 pm. Free reading room and circulating library hours 9 am to 1 pm except Wednesday 8:50 am to 7:50 pm. San Antonio branch meets Sundays 3 pm at Red Men’s Hall 11944 Sal fdnd Street. divine healing meetings Tuesdays 3 pm at 292 Adams Street and prayer meetings Wednesdays 5 pm teaching gospel and healing led by evangelist XII EB Green.
The Church of Christ at 401 Porter Street announces worship at 11 a.m and 7:44 p.m. Pastor W. O. Riles leads the ministry. Bible study is held every Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. Children’s Sunday class meets at 4 a.m. on Thursdays in the church auditorium.
Washington D C Oct 5 190? The army issues commissions for Captains Majors First Lieutenants and Second Lieutenants across the Medical Dental Engineers Cavalry and Signal corps with assignments to Camp Travis Kelly Field Fort Sam Houston and other posts. The report notes officers moving between Fork Riley Camp Travis and Kelly Field and lists district supervisors and inspection duties. A Utah senator falters ill with Spanish influenza.
Church listings show First Church of the Nazarene led by HR Wallin with Sabbath School 9 30 a m and services at 11 00 a m. WFP Twan presides. Provisions for youth meetings and prayer services noted along with other area churches and times.
Readings list multiple churches with Sunday schools and morning and evening worship. Subjects include Divine fellowship and Making Known Our Blessings. Observance of the Lord's Supper and baptisms noted. Aimed at congregations in Ogden, West End, Denver Boulevard, and other local streets.
The Theosophical Society hosts lectures at 3 o clock in Theosophical Hall Swearingen Mevrav Building with topics including Madam Besant in the forties and Theosophy Simplified. Mrs Ethel Haag offers beginners lessons. Open library Thursday midday and Friday evening study sessions inviting the public.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas sent letters to city pastors urging Sunday as Liberty Loan Day. Episcopal churches plan a day of thanksgiving for Allied victories in France, per Bishop William T. Mapes of West Texas. A new pistol swatter is noted as a bizarre wartime device.
Lieut. William J. Webb Jr of Buffalo, in France, aided a German plane’s landing by maneuvering it toward American lines. He captured an Iron Cross from the German pilot, then rejoined his squadron to threaten the craft’s escape and force a safe ground landing.
Rev. A. Riley launches evolutionary sermons at First Congregational Church starting Sunday 11 AM on The First Man. The First Presbyterian and Madison Square Presbyterians hold Rally Day activities and class promotions. Revival plans at South Side Christian begin October. Bishop Ainsworth to be guest at Menger Hotel banquet. city ministers to meet him Tuesday.
The Wood Administration promotes posters urging fruit pit collection to manufacture carbon for gas masks. Posters target fruit stands and grocers, listing acceptable pits such as peach, apricot, prune, olive, cherry, date, butter nut, brazil nut, walnut, and hickory. Leean shells are unwanted. Public call to collect barrels and calls to the Chamber of Commerce for copies.
The Daily Mail reports German and Austrian forces plan a Bulgarian army to hold the railway to Constantinople. Men are drawn from 12 Austrian divisions and German units in Russia, though the divisions are weak in numbers and quality. Germany would use railways and the Black Sea to move troops quickly to Constantinople to block Allied contact with Romania.
Washington announces the following guided men are prisoners in German camps per the roll: Evans Seaville and Green Methuen among others. Names span Massachusetts New York Philadelphia and beyond with many at Giessen Linburg and Darnstadt camps.
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