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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1913
Page
3
The Prospect Hill Civic and Sanitary Club urged a more efficient city sanitary inspection with training for inspectors, resident ward familiarity, and support for women inspectors when feasible. They discussed chicken fence issues, tougher sign rules, and drafted ordinances to strengthen sanitation while pushing for sidewalks, crossings, street lighting, and better streets.
An advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs to treat children's indigestion and bowel issues. It claims the fruit laxative cleanses sour bile and waste, restoring health within hours. It warns to insist on the genuine product by the California Fig Syrup Company and to beware counterfeit versions.
The annual reports for the fiscal year ending May 31 1913 detail San Antonio school property valued near one million dollars and show 1 762 053 instructional days, 15 122 total enrollment, 9147 promoted and 185 graduated from high school. Forty four hundred and fourteen teachers were listed including 43 male and 371 female, with 22 supervising principals and four supervisors. Thirty five agricultural students, 1369 domestic science and 1437 other special studies. Thirty schools operated with some enlargements since.
The Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin docketed three new cases. Mrs Nettie Murgatroyd of Bexar county was fined fifty dollars and jailed ten days for keeping a disorderly house. E Jones of Wichita county faces five years in the penitentiary for pandering. Charley Carter of Eastland county seeks a sentence from two to fifteen years for assault to murder under the new indeterminate sentence law.
The women of Austin will cooperate in building good roads in Travis county. A big barbecue is planned for November 5 with the Young Men's Business Club and officials to support the Fiskville road improvement.
The city council voted 11 to 1 to adopt lighting standards along Commerce street with maintenance for one year and two thirds of costs covered by abutting property owners. A follow on pledge to extend the system to other streets was approved, with merchants expected to contribute as needed. The measure cut the number of lights to 61 or 52 and reduced the maintenance contract to two years then to one year.
The article notes a street extension right of way through a South Flores street property with back taxes remitted. The ordinance passed under suspension of the rules. Alderman Chapa called up the traffic ordinance, with Alderman Fincham recommending referral to the city attorney.
The Scottish gathering by Clan MacDuff of the Order of Scottish Clans and Thistle Lodge with Daughters of Scotia will be held tomorrow at the Coliseum grounds after three postponements. Afternoon Scots games begin at 2 30 with prizes from local firms. evening program features songs dances and readings led by Rev. Hugh McLellan and performers including Lucile McDonald Robert McDonald Marguerite Voight and John Thompson.
Austin Texas October 14 Mark Logan Amarillo attorney visits state agencies to discuss development of a newly exploited gas field in Potter County near Amarillo. He reports large natural gas quantities and plans underway to develop the field.
Hubbard City mayor W. Q. Bowman met in Austin to secure attorney general approval for a $20,000 bond issue. Proceeds will fund a new Hubbard City High School building project.
In Coburg Germany October 14 the Dowager Duchess Maria of Saxe Coburg Gotha denied reports that Princess Elizabeth of Romania is betrothed to Crown Prince George of Greece stating the prince and princess have never met.
In South Bend Indiana on October 14 police arrested nine youths aged 14 to 18 forming a robbery gang. Two girls confessed and authorities say they plotted thefts for months with loot over 1000 dollars stored in barns and a dugout.
Three regional highway associations plan a Pearsall meeting day on October 30 with sessions at 11 AM 2 PM and 3 30 PM. Key figures Dr E Colp Mason Maney and A Fischer map the Nueces Valley route from Uvalde to Corpus Christi and push federal aid for Brownsville to Del Rio.
The body of Adolphus Busch millionaire brewer of St Louis, who died in Germany last week, was transported to America by his family on the steamship Kron Prinz Wilhelm. The vessel departed from Bremerhaven this morning bound for New York.
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