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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1913
Page
5
A large San Antonio contingent, including U C T and T P A members, travels to Boerne for the Kendall County Fair featuring a traveling baseball game versus the Boerne club. Hudson products and tarpon prize news anchor a day of local business and automotive highlights.
Mrs Gray hosts a dance at Fort Sam Houston with Miss Alice Gray Miss Olive Gray and guest Miss A Baird of Fort Myer. An informal party honors Miss Bes sie Houston of Floresville and Miss Grace Rudisill of Texarkana. Mr and Mrs Charles E Hammond hold a Country Club dance for their daughter Miss Mary Hammond.
The Travel Festival by Lyman H. Howe ends tonight at the Grand Opera House. The reviewer praises a two and a half hour world tour offering travel enlightenment without discomfort, asserting it widens minds more than many dramas or musicals.
Mrs L O Rudisill and children return to Texarkana after visiting Mr and Mrs Edward M Goldstein. Miss Bessie Houston from Floresville visits Miss Hor tense Goldstein. Dr and Mrs John V Spring host a lawn dancing party at Field stones Salado for granddaughter Edna Hopper with many guests. Auction bridge season opens with Mrs Gonzales Bingham and guests. prizes go to several locals.
August Bernhard of the Citizens Auto Company underwent an appendectomy at the P and 8 Hospital last night. He is reported to be recovering and doing well this morning.
H A White, Southern representative for the Thomas B Jeffries Co, is in the city for several days. W L Orth of Yoakum Buick arrives and drives out in a new Buick B 25 touring. Woodward Carriage Co receives Hupmobile runabouts. A E Staacke reports the sale of a Studebaker Six to L E Bartlett. W H Pray of Baker Electric arrives to plan large electric truck installations. E E Shropshire of Lockhart enters a Buick 19 for Hays County Fair racing. S E and W R Johnson of Floresville and A L Hail of Port Lavaca visit Labadie Auto, drive Maxwell 35 touring cars home at noon.
A shipment of 1914 Reps Its is expected at Citizens' Auto Company salesrooms later this month. Ernest Stahl a Marion agent toured the city this morning to view the 1914 line. Dr J E Fulcher of Blanco arrived yesterday and drove home in a new Buick Model B 25 touring car.
An old health note warns that adenoids develop from successive colds in babies and young children and harm their development. It urges parents to prevent colds and throat irritations and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a cure. Fischer Drug Co. Adyv.
The Ty Bell sisters from France known as the Human Butterflies present a new aerial act with Ringling Brothers this year. Other novelties include Huling's two trained seal troupes and the Rooney family riders, plus a feature with Carlos Caesaro the iron head performer.
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general strengthener aiding liver function malaria resistance appetite and digestion. It also urges customers to look for sausage with a tin tag for freshness, with a display in the Grand Opera House lobby by Union Meat Company.
Richard Carle's merry musical gambol "Mary's Lamb" with Don McGrath plays the Grand next Wednesday and Thursday with a matinee on Thursday. A refined musical comedy on tour with fifteen musical numbers and a large chorus of pretty girls and metropolitan stars guaranteeing a polished production.
Friday's Royal theater bill topped the usual fare with Mrs. Fiske in Tess of the D Urbervilles. Today's program adds two reel feature The Land of Dead Things by Broncho Company Love Me Love My Dog a true love story by Apollo star cast and Dan Grogan's Ghost a Biograph Company comedy.
Massachusetts team held lead from the first stage with a world record 595 and won the Sadler trophy match with 1721 points. New Jersey Marine Corps team finished second in the silhouette events, with infantry and other NJ units placing among top teams as veterans and old guard matches were won by Company C, Fourth Regiment, NJ. General Bird Spencer was elected president of the American Association of International Riflemen.
Charters were issued to Seymour Gas and Oil Company of Seymour Baylor county with 6500 capital stock. Midway Creamery Company of Arlington with 10000 capital stock. Pendleton Water Company of Pendleton Bell county with 4000 capital stock. Swedish Free Church of Melvin McCulloch county with no capital stock. San Antonio Kennel Club of San Antonio with no capital stock. Mexican Club of Houston with no capital stock. Incorporators named for each entity.
An advertisement for Foley Kidney Pills claims to cure obstinate kidney and bladder trouble, rheumatism and lumbago by removing the cause. The copy emphasizes honest curative medicine and urges readers to try the product from Fischer Co.
Mr and Mrs L J Boyle and their children of Seguin and Mrs M C Van Eman with her young son spent yesterday at the Boerne fair.
An old advertisement notes Iook Shrimp frog legs and gulf trout along with black bass Spanish mackerel and MoPano offerings at the River Side Restaurant, with KC meats featured as part of the menu.
Advices from St Johns N F report the engagement of Marie Peary daughter of Rear Admiral Peary to Donald McMillan who joined Peary on his polar dash. Peary called Marie the snowbird of the Esquimaux as the first white child born farther north than any other. Her mother was the first white woman to winter with an Arctic expedition. Orginization: Union Meat Company.
Miss Leonora Hanes hosted an all day birthday celebration for Mrs H J Holmes. A noon dinner preceded games with prizes awarded to Miss Alice Stone and Emil Zietzmann. Ice cream and cake followed in the afternoon with many relatives and friends in attendance.
At a state banking board meeting a certificate of authority to operate in Texas was issued to the Guaranty State Bank of Ashland Upshur county with capital stock of 10000. William D. Boyd serves as president and Harry J. Smith as cashier.
Secretary Wilson dispatches Ethelbert Stewart chief clerk of the Bureau of Labor to Denver Colorado to act as mediator in the looming coal miners strike.
Advertises Foley Kidney Pills claiming to end rheumatism by curing weak kidneys. The copy asserts the pills build up the kidneys restore function and purge uric acid crystals from blood and body with a strong claim of permanent relief. Fischer Drug Co is listed as the outlet.
Austin reports the Court of Criminal Appeals faces its largest docket ever with 185 cases to submit before the October term. Of these, 153 were filed during vacation and 32 carried over from the last term, plus about 40 motions for rehearing awaiting action. The backlog could prevent completion through the winter term as cases cover nearly every crime category.
An advertisement urges readers with kidney trouble to use Foley Kidney Pills from Filecher Drug Co. It promises restored kidney and bladder action, health, and strength after treatment.
The cost of living increase prompts Wellesley College to raise residence charges from 275 to 325 dollars per year, making total tuition and board 500 dollars for all new students entering in September 1918 and thereafter. Registration lists over 1400 students.
Bishop Adkins said the Central Texas Methodist conference will meet in Temple on November 5 6, replacing the former date of November 12 after consulting with all presiding elders. The announcement came during the Methodist educational commission gathering in Fort Worth.
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