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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1911
Page
9
Mrs John Bodenmiller hosted a china shower for Miss Louise Walsh a bride elect in October. The event featured Japanese decorations and guests wore kimonos with refreshments served.
Miss Christi Moore entertains the Gamma Kappa Chi sorority at 3 30 o clock at her residence 217 Elmira street. Hon and Mrs Daniel Watson of San Marcos hosted a picnic supper and fish fry on the San Marcos river Saturday evening with guests Mr and Mrs John Brackenridge of Austin Mrs E S Lepper of San Antonio Messrs McKay and Reid and the host and hostess.
Cards from Mrs. Eva L. Vaughn announce the September 7 wedding of Miss Florence Eugenia Vaughn and Alexander Shondo Szafir of Beaumont. Vaughn, formerly of San Antonio, has many friends awaiting word.
A Waurika Oklahoma woman says Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health after seven years of female troubles and insomnia. A Huntington Massachusetts case credits the remedy with saving a life from nervous prostration. The notice urges others with difficult cases to try the product for relief from inflammation ulcers displacements fibroid issues and related symptoms.
Mr and Mrs R Keilman announce the marriage of their daughter Ruby to Robert R Streich of San Antonio. The ceremony is set for Wednesday morning September 20 at 9 o clock at St Marys church.
The Free Clinic will meet Thursday at 10 30 in the parlors of the International club. Miss Emma Gutzeit of East Mistletoe avenue returned Saturday from Europe after spending the entire summer there.
Miss Christi Moore hosted a Gamma Kappa Chi gathering at her Elmira Street home this afternoon. Guests played 500 and enjoyed refreshments, including Flora Briggs Margaret Braswell Eleanor Barclay Constance Ball Evelyn Haile Lillian Edwards Bernice Duggan Josephine McAnnis Judith Rogers Zaleme Pettus plus Pauline Cungus Eva Harper and Forest Richardson of Asherton.
Orders received by Maj. A W Yates depot quartermaster Fort Sam Houston authorize moving baggage personal effects horses mules and one machine gun platoon of the Tenth Infantry to New Orleans. The shipment sails September 18 with animals and impedimenta inspected there and transferred to the liner Colon sailing to Panama.
The combined county and state tax rate for 1911 will be 64 1 2 cents, up 12 1 2 cents from last year. State tax rate increases drive the rise while county rates remain unchanged. The commissioners planned to fix the rate but delayed a formal order, awaiting a later session after road inspection travel. The county assessor has used the old rate pending official action and was told to proceed by the court.
Bret Lee faced police court action for speeding an automobile through the Nolan street subway at about 30 to 35 mph and was fined $10 by the court.
Mrs. John H. Fes p of New York hosted the season’s closing reception at Narragansett Pier R I Labor Day night. The Casino affair drew more than 500 society leaders from across the country, marking the largest gathering of the year.
Three dwellings were damaged in last night fires totaling about 5500. A cottage at 122 Casa Blanca occupied by J. F. Lackey and family was largely destroyed. an arson motive is suspected. Fires also damaged 401 Hood street owned by Jacob Schurch and 604 Marshall street owned by B Butler. A nearby tree on Avenue C near Tenth Street was also ablaze.
Mrs Owen Oliver of New York City asks Police Chief Frank Newnam to locate her son John Owen Oliver 17 who left New York for San Antonio in early July and has not been heard from since. The chief confirms no trace and provides the description five feet ten inches tall dark grey eyes dark thick hair and a recent operation.
Nadine Face Powder touts a soft velvety orange tone that lasts until washed off. It is touted as purified by a new process and harmless as water. The product claims to prevent sunburn and discolorations with shades including White, Flesh, Pink, and Brunettes. Manufactured by National Toilet Company Paris with a 50 cent price.
A large San Antonio crowd filled the Grand for the opening of the show season. The Kinema color pictures of the coronation impressed with coloring and realism and offered a vivid parade pageant. The Kinemacolor process proved a success with notable red in British uniforms.
A well pleased audience enjoyed a varied program at the Royal theater Sunday night. Professor Eaton’s dogs Pauline and Kid performed with notable intelligence, responding to telephone commands from the rear, while Blaisdell and Webster, Eddie and Deda Davis, Jack Davis, and Collins and Elliott contributed engaging acts with singing, dancing, and humor.
Deputies investigated a reported attempt to damage the rails of a passenger train near a Mission area. A man tampered with a fish plate on the outside rail of a curve near a culvert, removing three nuts but causing no collision as the Corpus Christi bound train passed at full speed. Authorities continued the probe late into the afternoon.
Southern cotton exchanges were represented at a Memphis meeting to consider rules for spot cotton sales, supervision of weights at American spinning centers, and to decide methods and places for arbitration meetings.
The Pedro Salazar pistol purchase case was called for a 2 o'clock trial this afternoon after a postponement to allow the government to secure more witnesses. Citizens seeking seats in the Jewish synagogue at Aubrey and Gibson streets were advised they could obtain tickets from Jake Karotkin at 318 West Commerce Street.
Advertisement lists fall draperies and nets for windows doors and transoms in white ivory and beige with prices from 17 1 2 cents to 1 75 per yard. It features Linen Taffetas Jacquards Ivory Cloth Bungalow Cloth Savoy Cloth Cretonnes Etamines Ionian Alladin Aurora Madras and overhangings in many patterns priced 65 cents to 1 50 per yard.
Emil Knudsen, a paralyzed carpenter, builds a new home with effort while his family struggles. After a fire, a court confession reveals he may have caused it, but he admits smoking and the blame shifts. Eriksen and Ingeborg urge forgiveness as Emil faces his future and love.
In Waxahachie Texas on September 11 Carry Anderson, a Black man, was brought into the city by car from near Lone Cedar in Ellis County to escape threats of violence.
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