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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1916
Page
8
The YWCA publicity committee met at the association cafeteria for lunch to map winter outreach. Chair Mrs A B Weakley led the session seeking ideas to keep the work visible and invite public participation in promoting a healthy civic life.
The document lists officers and attendees of a conference in Little Rock Arkansas including Mesdames Weakley Jontz Blien Savage Richardson and others. It states a secretary will depart in December for Buenos Aires to run the Argentine department aiding Spanish speaking girls.
AP correspondence from London relays a British soldier in France recounting a tale of the front trenches. Saxon camp had a singing Paul until quiet allowed a German caller to request a song, prompting a barrage of guttural curses and the line You cated Paul yesterday.
Boy Scout troop No. 4 hosted Scout Commissioner H L Marmion and Scout Executive W C Quaiff at a Mexican supper and lawn party Thursday night at the Vance ranch north of San Antonio. A general scout encampment is planned September 14 to 17 at a Salado river site two miles beyond Camp Cecil A Lyon, in a grove of pecan trees with a swimming pool nearby and access to artesian wells. Fresh dairy products will be supplied by nearby ranches.
A rosy faced boy answers a teacher about George Washington. He correctly identifies him as the first president of the country and says Washington was remarkable because he told the truth.
Slowpay indignantly accuses the tailor of omitting pockets in his trousers. The tailor replies that his account suggested Slowpay never had anything to put in them, delivering a dry historical joke in Harper's Weekly style.
A Society A reception in honor of Arthur Claassen, back from New York, was held in the Menger Hotel ballroom by the Mozart Society. The program featured a string of songs and solos by noted performers, with Mrs. Eugene Staffel and O. J. Fox on piano. The guest list included members of the Beethoven Maennerchor and San Antonio Musical Club, plus many local families and prominent figures, with chaperoned trips and upcoming social events noted.
Specials Saturday announce 14 pounds sugar for 1 dollar best hams at 24 cents breakfast bacon 24 cents fine creamery butter 30 cents bread two for a cent and three for 19 cents. Cash. We save you money. Nichols Grocery Co. Ph. Cr. 51, 209 Ave, City.
A British aeroplane was lost in a raid yesterday over St. Denis in Belgium, 30 miles southeast of Brussels, with an official statement noting another naval aircraft downing a hostile kite balloon near Westende amid heavy anti aircraft fire. The pilot returned safely. Tax Rolls Not Signed in Texas. Only 50 counties have submitted tax rolls to the comptroller by September 8, McMullen County first with 1916 valuation of 2.76 million. Bexar County leading with 110.21 million.
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