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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1929
Page
4
Graf Zeppelin with a crew including Capt Ernst Lehmann departed from its hangar at 11 10 p m New York time heading for the Rhine. The 18 hour flight aims to pass over major German cities with passengers aboard as it resumes wartime routes.
Ed S Mears Jr is being enrolled in the Texas Military Institute with his parents and other Menard ranch youths present. The piece recalls cattle sheep and goat ranch life near Kerr County with anecdotes on dogs and roundup methods, plus a Civil War reminiscence about families split by Union and Confederate loyalties and a wartime homefront episode.
Hart McCormick district clerks Dr Neil Campbell tax collector and Alfonso Newsom Jr sheriff saw salary boosts approved by county commissioners. McCormick office raised Garvin A Logan 205 dollars monthly Alfred W Harris 225 Fred Walters 275 with clerks up to 3200 and others to 175. Peters chief deputy under Sheriff Newton up to 275 monthly deputies in charge of districts 37 and 94 up to 200 and two assistants to 175 per month.
The scouts hold their annual get-together at Hoy Scout headquarters at 7 p.m. Monday. Four scouts who just returned from the jamboree in England will speak about their experiences. N James, son of Rev. W. B. James of San Antonio, returns after 18 months away as a cable operator touring Shanghai and Yokohama to resume electrical engineering studies.
Judge W B Anderson plans to be present as the Thirty seventh District Court opens on October 7. He spent the summer recess in his courthouse chamber studying law and welcoming visitors, while also following baseball, praising national and American leagues over the Texas league. The former bail player from San Antonio recalled his days with the Broncon and the Blues.
The DC Daughters of America adopted a resolution urging a federal education department with a cabinet secretary. They endorsed the Capper-Robinson bill to transfer the Bureau of Education from the Interior Department to a new federal department.
Beethoven Maennechor will select officers for the coming year at a Friday board meeting. At Tuesday’s session, 14 directors were chosen: Fritz Hchile Robert Pensinger Herman Schlierer Henry Weilbacher John Ostrow Charles TP Schulze H Hakelbers Willie Hahn Alfred Schaefer Chix Etter Paul J Hetting Alfred W Frohde 2 Raba. Alfred Schaefer will direct the chorus this season.
Mrs Fr Sanford of Fort Sam Houston was elected treasurer of the Christian Endeavor union at the weekly Firet United Presbyterian church gathering. She succeeds Charles Spears who resigned to enter college. W A Morris spoke on The Constitution of the United States during Constitution Week. Reports from committees and Mrs Sanford on the state convention at Houston were presented.
Funeral services for Mrs Hildzaireth Bread 64 of 104 Mullen Street will be held Friday at 9 am at St Anne's Catholic Church Rev Fathers Patrick Feeney and Leo Murphy officiating. She leaves husband Alfred Shail a daughter Esther Davin and five sons Thomas Davin E Davin O Davin and Corneling all of San Antonio and Dublin native wife of Stead who died Wednesday afternoon.
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