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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1911
Page
5
Public notice states communications for publication must bear the sender name Katherine M Joseph editor Office old phone 176 new 1359 home 2862 and directs proper contact for submission.
Riverside Tennis Club to meet at 5 PM on Crofton Avenue court for a 2 hour session as part of local club activities. participants include all Avoca club members and attendees.
Mr and Mrs D W Carrol entertained Thursday afternoon at 3121 West Commerce Street for their daughter Thelma Lurline celebrating her tenth birthday. Guests included Zelpha Coulter who won first prize and Viola Cook who garnered the booby prize.
Miss Katherine Dozier and Orrin De Salme married Thursday evening by Rev. T. V. Neal at the bride’s mother’s home 1623 San Luis street. They reside in San Antonio and will live on Garza street. The Woman’s Missionary Jubilee executive committee met at Travis Park church to plan a mid September mass meeting and to set dates for a Texas tour. Committee members M J Bliem A C Dauchey Chris Dulling and James Crider will arrange dates and programs. The meeting date was changed due to the Baptist state convention and Baptist women workers silver anniversary in Waco in November. Secretaries will contact the southern extension committee in Nashville to seek new dates.
Carl Hahn resumes classes in Piano and Theory starting Saturday September 2. Appointments available morning before 9 and 11 at the Beethoven All studio.
Antonio Gomez de la Cortina of Mexico City assumed duties as Mexican consul at Brownsville on September 1 replacing Dr. M Barrogan who has held the post for years Barrogan was offered the consul generalship of Honduras but declined due to local interests
Special to the Light from Yoakum Texas reports farmers from across the state gathering for the Mount Zion association, a Negro organization. Cotton pickers abandoned fields to attend the meeting and, after adjournment, farmers expect to hire more pickers.
An advertisement claims Pape's Diapepsin digests food instantly and cures indigestion and related stomach woes. It touts five minute relief, no sour risings, belching, gas, or nausea, and urges readers to buy a 50 cent case from their pharmacist for rapid comfort.
Mrs Elmer Ellsworth Black chair of the Propaganda committee of the American Peace and Arbitration league of New York arrives with her daughter Dorothy after three months abroad. She spoke in London as vice president of the Universal Peace congress on Americas role in world relations. She attended the Canadian Municipal convention in Quebec and will go to Rome as a delegate to the World Peace congress.
District Deputy Grand Master G E Knauff and fifteen members of San Antonio Lodge No 11 instituted a Kerrville I O O F lodge. Officers elected include Dr A F Thigpen noble grand and J H Long secretary with several appointive officers named. The Kerrville Odd Fellows hosted visitors with a supper after the ceremony.
August 1911 brought record heat with a mean temperature of 86.2, the highest since 1901 in parts of the nation. Rainfall was scarce at 0.48 inches, and 13 days exceeded 100 degrees as humidity peaked at 100 percent on August 24 in San Antonio.
Dr. F. S. White, superintendent of the Southwestern insane asylum, says inmates read current magazines and papers with keen appreciation. Some write on important questions of the day, including an article titled Bryan on Democracy. A delivery wagon collects magazines at Burns' drug store on Houston street, and the superintendent asks the public to continue supplying reading material.
The Holy Redeemer School at East End will be blessed at 5 PM by Rt. Rev. J. W. Shaw D D bishop of the city. A large crowd is expected with invited members of St. Vincent de Paul society and the Knights of Columbus. After the service a social and supper follow with refreshment stands and brass band music.
Daniel E. Garrison Jr., 42, a member of a prominent St. Louis family, shot himself at the Waldorf Astoria while awaiting his fiancee in Europe. He left letters to his father and his fiancée urging acceptance and reminding him he could not marry in his ill state.
New York readers note renewed attention to the unsolved two year old Elsie Siegel murder after immigration agents raid a Hyboken restaurant and arrest Gee Gow. Police reportedly hold an important clue as investigations resume.
Miss Virginia McCormick of Huntsville Alabama has doubled her gift of five thousand dollars for a hospital at the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Normal Alabama. Her mother Mrs Mattie Fowler McCormick of Chicago increases her gift for a girls trade building from twelve thousand to nineteen thousand dollars.
J. W. Allison of Ennis Texas stayed at the St Anthony hotel in San Antonio yesterday. He met with cotton seed oil men to discuss this year’s business outlook and to push immediate mill construction to handle the expected large seed supply.
A charity visit by The Light’s Flower Mission brings a Danish born former slave trader and seaman, now a long time resident, to receive roses. He recalls Civil War duties, the Monitor and Merrimac duel, and praises kindness that helps aging residents sail through hard times.
Grace Benson publicizes a beauty prescription claimed to ad equal results for hands and arms. The plan involves Kulux Compound, witch hazel, and water in specific bottles with nightly and morning applications. The interview emphasizes harmlessness and no hair growth, and suggests applying to the neck when needed.
Schedule lists arrivals and departures for multiple trains. It includes numbers 245 241 7 236 9 246 10 8 242 11 6 44 42 146 and service to Houston New Orleans Galveston Dallas Fort Worth Waco Kerrville coast towns and north with times ranging from early morning to late evening.
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