Judge Carsner Of Victoria Chosen West Texas Moderator
At the West Texas presbytery meeting in Victoria Judge C S Carsner was elected to succeed Rev G W Black as moderator and D E Brown of San Marcos as temporary clerk. Visiting pastors will preach at city churches with reports on missionary work and sessions set for Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbytery
West Texas
Westminster Presbyterian Church
C.S. Carsner
Victoria
G. W. Black
Laredo
D. E. Brown
San Marcos
Henry Austin
Weatherford
Corpus Christi
C. H. Raines
J. A. Black
Kansas City
First Presbyterian
J. B. Hudson
E. H. Hudson
Beeville
E. M. Monroe
Edna
Tex
Utica Presbyterian Church
M. Erickson
Japan
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
H. F. Williams
Nashville
Tenn
H. S. Paisley
First United Presbyterian Church
B. D. Kenedy
Seguin
G. B. Stricker
Presbyterian
Presbytery of
J. R. Paisley
Refugio
Death by Own Action On Tulsa Farm
J. P. Peters, an aged bachelor and recluse near Tulsa, Oklahoma, killed himself on his farm eight miles east of the city. Neighbors found his body in the cellar after he drank strychnine. A crudely written note on the well box said Come into cellar, I'm dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
J. P. Peters
Here
Peters
Fire destroys LA Times Mirror warehouse blaze
A blaze at 762 66 San Fernando street in Los Angeles caused about 100000 in damage. The fire spread from rubbish on the ground floor to the second and third floors, reaching the roof and leaving only the ground floor walls. Assistant Fire Chief O'Donnell said the fire was incendiary in origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
San Fernando Street
Los Angeles Times Mirror Company
Alameda Street
O’donnell
Excellent program for inter-denominational Sunday school workers convenes in San Antonio
A week from tomorrow a three-way inter-denominational district convention meets at Travis Park church with national reputation lecturers. Speakers include Mr and Mrs Wiggins, William A Brown of Chicago, John C Carmen of Colorado, Mrs James D Allen of Kentucky, Mrs H W Hoon of Taylor, and Joseph Luther Blankenship from Chicago. Delegates hail from Atascosa Bandera Bexar Bee Brewster Caldwell Comal Colorado Dimmitt Edwards Fayette Frio Gillespie Gonzales Guadalupe Hays Jeff Davis Karnes Kendall Kimble Kerr La Salle Lavaca Maverick Medina Presidio Terrell Val Verde Uvalde Webb Wilson Zavalla Zapata De Witt Kinney McMullen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis Park
W. Wiggins
San Antonio
Mriggins
Texas Association
Wiggins
Home Department
Dallas
William A. Brown
Chicsago
John C. Carmen
Colorado
James D. Allen
Kentucky
H. W. Hoon
Taylor
Hoon
Joseph Luther Blankenship
Chicago
Moody Institute
Atascosa
Bandera
Bexar
Bee
Brewster
Caldwell
Comal
Dimmitt
Edwards
Fayette
Frio
Gillespie
Gonzales
Guadalupe
Hays
Jeff Davis
Karnes
Kendall
Kimble
Kerr
la Sallé
Lavaca
Maverick
Medina
Presidio
Terrell
Val Verde
Uvalde
Webb
Wilson
Zavalla
Zapata
de Witt
Kinney
McMullen
Customs Men Hold Goulds Baggage and Jewels at New York Pier
Frank Gould his wife and her sisters Hettie Maybelle and Tillie Kelly arrived Friday to find all personal baggage and part of Mrs Goulds jewelry valued at 406000 held by customs officials. Gould hired counsel seeking court ruling to define his travel status. The pier attache ordered strict confiscation forcing Mrs Gould to leave the dock without a night robe and Mr Gould to surrender a linen collar despite branded shirts. After a night of delays the couple chose to pursue the issue in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Gould
Hettie
Maybelle
Tillie Kelly
Mrs. Gould
Mr. Gould
New York City
Gould
Mormon Narrow Escape Amid Mexican Rebel Attacks
A Mormon settlement recounts raids by rebels who damaged churches and orchards, injured and threatened residents, and looted sacred items. A youth, Brutario Costa, was tortured while guards searched for hidden Mormons. leaders fled as violence spiked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brutario Costa
Joseph
Costa
San Antonio Traction to Lay New Steel on East Commerce Street
The San Antonio Traction company will employ about 100 workers to uproot street car tracks on East Commerce Street between Alamo Street and the Southern Pacific depot. Work will proceed in two-block sections using cut-over switches to minimize traffic disruption. Rails will be replaced on a concrete roadbed with steel and modern construction methods. Completion is expected in about two months, then work will move to South Alamo Street from Garden Street to the SP depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio Traction Company
East Commerce Street
Alamo Street
Southern Pacific
Courtney
East Commerce
Traction ‘Company
South Alamo
Garden Street
Sap Depot
Farmers harvest sixth alfalfa crop in Rio Grande valley
Rio Grande valley farmers report a sixth alfalfa crop this season due to frequent heavy rains. The six cuttings exceed the prior record and mark a phenomenal season for ranchers in the lower valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Paso
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
Predict Fame for Youthful Sculptor Louis Rodriguez
Louis Rodriguez, a 19 year old San Antonio youth, shows rising talent as a sculptor and clay worker. His bust of former Mayor Bryan Callaghan, created after hours, draws praise for technical potential and artistic ability. His sketches and models have earned attention at International fairs, Navarro School, and Zirkel's marble yard where he works as carver and letterer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Rodriguez
San Antonio
Bryan Callaghan
Young Rodriguez
Morales Street
Navarro
Pecos Street
Zirkel’s
Callaghan
Rodriguez
Exposition Hall
Navarro’ School
W. J. Knox
Gifts Sent to Sherman Street Baby Draw Community Support
Mrs. Sadie Haley of Associated Charities thanks donors who contributed for the Sherman street baby born last week amid poverty and illness. Contributions came from Ian Palmer, Rev J T Hutchinson and wife, Dan Lewis for his daughter Marion Frances, and two anonymous donors with a tiny pink pair of shoes marked for the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Street
Sadie Haley
Associated Charities
Ian Palmer
J. T. Hutchinson
Dan Lewis
Marion Frances
Dam across Willow creek completed near Smithville
The Southwestern Concrete company finished a concrete dam across Willow creek on Verger Hill’s farm near Smithville Texas. The project creates a lake about a mile long intended for irrigation and will be stocked with fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithville
Tex
Southwestern Concrete Company
Willow Creek
Verger Hill
Fall Opening Of Courts And New Grand Jury In Bexar County
The appellate and district courts reopen Monday for fall terms, extending into next June. Judges Anderson Camp Seeligson and Birkhead preside over the Thirty-seventh Forty-fifth Fifty-seventh and Seventy-third districts as a new grand jury is sworn to probe crimes since June and review about 250 felonious cases from justice courts. Judge Anderson will handle criminal dockets, aided by new assistant district attorney Nelson Lytle, while Civil Court dockets are crowded. The Alamo restoration case, from last year, awaits adjudication in Judge Camp's court after a halt by injunction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William 8. Anderson
J. L. Camp
Arthur W. Seeligson
Claude V. Birkhead
Ben Fisk
Justice Umscheid
Bexar County
Anderson
Criminal Court
I. C. Baker
Nelson Lytle
J. F. Carl
Colquitt
Clint G. Brown
Baker
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Alamo
Sherman Ordered to Keep Out of Politics
Utica New York October 5 Vice President Sherman is seriously ill and forbidden from taking part in politics. He suffers a heart condition that may worsen without rest. Dr E H Peck warns of possible fatal dilation. He returned from Grove Beach Connecticut with Elihu Root visiting for a brief conference.
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Utica
N. Y
Sherman
E. H. Peck
Grove Beach
Conn
Elihu Root
Dr. Peck
Labor Leader John Mitchell to Speak at Beethoven Hall
John Mitchell, first vice president of the American Federation of Labor, will lecture at Beethoven hall Friday evening under the San Antonio Trades Council. He will discuss The Philosophy Purposes and Ideals of the Trade Union Movement and Industrial Accidents with focus on prevention and compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Federation of Labor
Beethoven Hall
John Mitchell
San Antonio
Trades Council
Mitchell
Illinois
Bexar County Boosts Wilson-Marshall Fund Drive
Democratic fund contributions surge as Bexar county supporters donate to the national campaign via the Wilson-Marshall club. Marshall Hicks reports funds forwarded to National Committeeman Cato Sells, with local receipts around four thousand dollars and further pledges and subscriptions totaling over a thousand more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cato
Marshall Hicks
Wilson-Marshall Club
Cato Sells
Bexar County
Colquitt
National Fund
Hicks
Ira Kircheville
Perry
J. Lewis
John Seehorne
Thomas Murphy
Thomas West
W. A. Wilson
Frank H. Bushick
Alvin L. Huth
EB. C. Wandell
T. F. Stewart
C. Baker
G. O. Brown
Edward Dwyer
Edward M. Tighe
Robert M. Harris
John Murray
Dave Meyer
Paul Steffler
W. L. Hoefgen
John V. Huntress
Edward M. Rivas
R. L. Edwards
Anthony A. Morin
R. B. Minor
C. M. Chambers
W. E. Simpson
J._.M. Oldham
J. I. Crisp
T. Morris
George Surkey
Nit Davis
J. S&s
J. “. Aldridge
Pearsall
National Committee
George D. Armistead
Houston
Half of Hall Ranch Sold for 42000 to Elgin Pair
A 3000 acre tract nine miles from Pleasanton changes hands for 42000. W H Rivers and E B Poth of Elgin Tex bought the property from M W White who brokered the deal. The buyers plan subdividing into small tracts for colonists, mainly Germans, with another 300 acres still in negotiation by other buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall Ranch
Pleasanton
M. W. White
W. H. Rivers
E. B. Poth
Elgin
Tex
Atascosa County
Hall
Crant Fills Vacancies on Oklahoma Board of Education
Governor Cruce named Rev. C. C. Welch of Ardmore and D. J. Johnson of Oklahoma City to fill vacancies on the state board of education after removals. Ira L. Cain of Muskogee had been appointed previously. The removed members refuse to recognize Cruce's authority.
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Crant
Oklahoma City
Cruce
Rev
C. C. Weith
Ardmore
D. J. Johnson
State Board of Education
Ira Ll. Cain
Muskogee
Governor Commutes Negro's Sentence to Life Imprisonment
Oklahoma City Oct 5 governor Cruce commuted Dan Anderson of Wagoner county a negro sentenced to hang for the murder of John Vanney to life imprisonment due to scruples against capital punishment. River side Restaurant advertises meals 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MA City
Okla
Cruce
Dan’ Anderson
Wagoner County
John Vanney
Women Continue Work in Wilson Marshall Campaign
Under Mrs. Carlos Bee the Woman's Wilson Marshall campaign committee kept soliciting for the national campaign fund. Since the last donation report the committee received gifts from Mrs. W. S. Fly five dollars Mrs. John Sehorn one dollar Mrs. J. H. Moore one dollar Mrs. A. T. Beauregard one dollar Miss Beauregard one dollar a friend two dollars fifty cents and another friend two dollars fifty cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlos Bee
Wilson-Marshall
National Campaign Fund
W. S. Fly
John Sehorn
J. H. Moore
A. T. Beauregard
Harlandae Hot Sulphur Baths Promised Cure
Advertisement claims HARLANDALE HOT SULPHUR BATHS cure acute stomach trouble and suggests taking Hariandsje as part of the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlandale
Hariandsje
Bullet Ends Life of Be Jage Selig
Selig, a long-time East Side figure linked to the Rosenthal case, is shot dead after a confrontation on Fourteenth Street. Davidson, who claims self defense, says Selig attacked him for money but police doubt there was only that motive. Selig had connections to prominent gunmen and gambling figures and faced multiple suspicions since 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selig
Davidson
Fourteenth Street
Thirteenth Street
Peekskill
New York
Big Jack
East Side
Jack Rose
Harry Wallon
Sam Paul
Bridgey Webber
Rosenthal
Underworld
Metropole
Becker
New Books at Carnegie Library Receives Wide Range
The Carnegie library lists many new arrivals including Schubert Fifty Songs, Architectural Drawing Plates, The English Staircase, Paper Lloyd, Land of Pardons, Electricians Manual, Passing of the Shereefian Empire, Bacillus of La Life, Domestic Art Text Book, Wanderings in South America, Plant Life and Evolution, The New Salesmanship, Lectures on Art, A Few Familiar Flowers, Art of the Vienna Galleries, Musical Amateur, The Basket Maker, Memoirs of Theodore Thomas, and more. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ad follows offering a digestive tonic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie Library
Schubert
Mathewson
Walters
Godfrey
Rich
Paper Lloyd
Braz
Hortsmann
Electricians Manual
Ashmead
Douglas
Bacillus
Ingalls
Hartley
Santiago
Waterton
South America
Campbell
Lindgren
New Salesmanship
Moody
Morley
Preyer
Vienna
Schauffler
Stanford
Phillips
Ross
Thompson
Trybom
Bowie
Rose
Adele
Turner
Thomas
Theodore Thomas
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Judge Carsner
Newmoderator
Oklahoma
Los Angeles Times
Tutt’s
Kaiser
Crown Prince
Kaiser Wilhelm
Frederick
Germany
Reichstag
Hood
Looqgest OH Gourts
Grand Jury
Riverside Restaurant
Bullet
Bl Jage' Selig
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