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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
5
Telegraphic reports from Austin say draft calls suspended in October are restored as the influenza epidemic abates. The move affects men who were summoned but deferred earlier, with officials reactivating conscription processes in October.
Local boards push rapid classification and exams for September registrants to meet November calls. Illness slows clerical work. Board No. 1 will send two white men to Mabry and later to Travis and Bowie. Board No. 2 assigns one man to Camp Bowie. Board No. 4 prepares deferred negroes for Prairie View Normal. Other calls shift dates in early November. November 6, 11 affected.
Colorado radio operators in San Antonio request friends from home. readers of The Light respond with letters offering companionship to lonely soldiers. The Home Folks column highlights appeals from many states and cities seeking pen pals and social contact for servicemen far from home.
Fragmented text describes a dubious remedy for corns and pain. No clear event, person, or organization is identifiable.
A.Way, surveying Texas cooperation with the government to place returned soldiers on farms through a thirty year payment plan, has received offers of ten tracts ranging from 10 000 to 80 000 acres. The largest lies in the Dimmit county artesian belt while two sizable tracts are near Victoria and Corpus Christi. The Chamber of Commerce supports Welty in the effort as the plan envisions communities with schools and churches built at government expense. Acreage under 10 000 is not eligible.
A vintage advertisement urges readers to apply Ely's Cream Balm inside the nose to relieve catarrh and nasal congestion. It promises quick soothing of swollen membranes, clear air passages, and immediate relief from headaches and stuffed nose.
Multiple obituaries list Allen Leadley 28, wife Annie. Starr Daughtery 25. Dr. Robert Fristoe 69. Mrs. W. G. Hall 40. Mrs. Howard Dale Elliott 24. Mrs. Susie Ussery 128. Tot D. Hargrove 84. Charles Glover 74. David T. Williams. Victor A. Shanks 27. Mrs. A. L. Lasgater. Edwin Renken 26. Mrs. Willie Weide 28. and Will Sherrill. Burials in City Cemetery No. 4, National Cemetery, Mission Burial Park, and others. various service details and undertaker notices included.
The notice records the deaths of Leonard Arthur and another Sherrill family member. Leonard Arthur died Tuesday night and was 8 years old, son of Ali and Ales H. Arthur. He is survived by his parents, a brother Toward W. of Washington DC, and a sister Miss Helen of San Antonio who will accompany the body. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Harpy & McCollum Undertalers and ambulance service at Cr 104 C and Pecan.
Full military honors were given at the Wirse funeral as Lieutenant Alexander Fraser led proceedings. The body was carried from the home to the Masonic Cemetery on a Nissan, while aircraft and phantoms flew over the city and circled the grave as it was lowered, with Captains Harry Roberson and Tho C. McSlaine among the attendees.
Lieut Krasey died at the_Tase Hospital Monday at noon after severe poisoning. He lived in San Antonio with his wife. He leaves a widow and son, his father John A. Weaser, three brothers including Lieut Douglas Fraser and Lieut John A. Fraser Jr., and two sisters Mrs Frank Lewis and Mrs Frank Graham. Pallbearers included Bordeaux officers from the Mechanical Training School at Kelty Field and Raymond Keller, Elmer Abbey, Max Krueger, Ralph Hugo, Capt Genie May Perick among honorary mourners. A quartette from the Kelly Weld Ghee Club performed at the funeral.
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