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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 23, 1912

Page

5

San Antonio social notes include society visits and club events

Katherine M. Joseph reports on the San Antonio German club box party at the Plaza with supper at St Anthony after the performance. Dr W E Provines and Miss Osceola Heard visit Provines’s mother in Laurel Heights. C W Bennett hosts Misses Juliette and Mabel Flory in Minneapolis with a musicale. Various local residents travel to Austin and tours of Europe noted, plus G A R and church events and social gatherings.

San Antonio Plaza St. Anthony W. E. Provines Albuquerque, N. M Osceola Heard W. J. J. Heard Refugio Tex L. C. Provines Huisache Avenue Laurel Heights Juliette Mabel Flory C. W. Bennett Minneapolis, Minn

Taft Allows Religious Garb in Indian Schools for New Hires

President Taft upheld a plan allowing current teachers in Indian schools to wear religious garb while denying the privilege to new hires. The move reverses Commissioner Valentine’s ban and stresses lack of consultation with Secretary Fisher and the president.

Washington Fisher Valentine Taft Interior Department

The Smart Set to Open at Grand Opera House Next Weekend

The acclaimed musical comedy The Smart Set, led by Salem Tutt Whitney with Homer Tutt Blanche Thompson and a cast of forty, debuts at the Grand Opera House next Saturday and Sunday including a Sunday matinee. The production features a large singing and dancing chorus and the headline Darktown Politician as the new season offering.

Grand Opera House Salem Tutt Whitney Homer Tutt Blanche Thompson Mr. Whitney

San Antonio School Board Reports Yearly Balance

The San Antonio school board reports a year balance of 139,379.45 with total receipts 189,883 and expenditures 50,503.55. For August the month shows a balance as expenditures 9,723.83 and receipts 10,144.97. state per capita allowance 5,780.90 was the largest August receipt and school furniture and apparatus 2,854 was the top expense. Estimated yearly receipts 457,800 and expenditures 440,760 predict a year end balance of 17,040.

San Antonio School Board Paul Scholz Treasury

Protect Birds Backed by Justice Department Report

Washington September 25. The department of justice issued a report declaring fly catchers kink birds phoebes and other birds that prey on wasps bees ants grasshoppers caterpillars flies and bugs do more good than harm. Farmers should protect these birds.

Washington, D. C Department of Justice

New Books Received at Carnegie Library

Carnegie library lists receive a range of titles across art, gardening, design, crafts, and language. Notable items include What England Can Teach Us About Gardening, Indians and the Wild West, The Family Food, The Soil Solution, Hand Work in Wood, and The English Staircase among others.

Carnegie Library Baldrey Miller England Bantock Williams Webner Draper America Dunn O'Donnell Cameron Wright Cuba Gould Gregory Meyer Noyes Moore Howell Godfrey Ross Clarke Lewis Jacques Carens Kester Huneker Franz Liszt Morley Mach

Entertains With Shower for Miss Rose Norton

Miss Margarite Dolan hosted a miscellaneous shower for Rose Norton who is to marry in October. Guests included Rose Norton Agnes Lockwood Nettie Lockwood Annie Pollock Emma Caldwell Blanche Smith Mary May Gertrude Buckley Edith Buckley Cecilia Smith Ada Shepherd Blondie Grover Johnnie Dolan Blanche Watzlawsick Rose Danysch Marguerite Dolan and Miss Marvin Parker.

Margarite Dolan Rose Norton Blanche Watzlawsick Blanche Smith Agnes Lockwood Nettie Lockwood Annie Pollock Emma Caldwell Mary May Gertrude Buckley Edith Buckley Cecilia Smith

Edith Brown Hosts G F Club Tea at Crosby Street

G F Club gathering at Miss Edith Brown’s Crosby Street home featured contests with Elizabeth Sellinger and Annie Bodie winning first prizes, Lena Myers and Gatie Blackman taking consolation prizes. Attendees included Bessie and Lena Meyers, Frances Novich, Jennie Wilson, Rose Tolumsky, Metha Wolf, Freda Karotkin, Martha Levy, Tillie Hahn, Anna Bodice. Refreshments were served.

G. F. Club Edith Brown Crosby Street Elizabeth Sellinger Annie Bodie Lena Myers Gatie Blackman Bessie Lena Meyers Frances Novich Jennie Wilson Rose Tolumsky Metha Wolf Freda Karotkin Martha Levy Tillie Hahn Anna Bodice

Turnverein Ladies Plan Card Party at Turner Hall

The Ladies' section of the San Antonio Turnverein will hold a card party at 3 30 o'clock Thursday afternoon at Turner hall.

D. F. Stanley Odd Fellows’ Hall San Antonio

Increase in Cotton Receipts in Taylor and Gonzales

Local cotton receipts surpassed 18 000 bales by Saturday with 690 bales of new crop. Total since August 1 reached 18 623 in Taylor Texas while Gonzales reports about 12 500 bales to date, about 1 560 more than last year, with crop estimates around two thirds gathered.

Taylor Tex Gonzales

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