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Newspaper
San Antonio Sunday Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1902
Page
6
Mr. Harry Adams and Miss Louisa Roubrer jointly celebrated their birthday anniversaries at 614 Victoria Street last evening. Guests enjoyed a pleasant time with Mr Adams’s father providing phonograph selections, refreshments served, and dancing enjoyed by all attendees.
All members of the Electrical Workers Union are requested to gather at the K of P hall at 11 o clock this morning to escort vermins to the depot in honor of late Brother Chas Strobel.
A Texas dispute over bookmaking and pool selling ends in a not guilty ruling after witnesses explain the difference. Attorney General letters discuss whether selling pools triggers occupation tax, with Huey asserting legality of pool-selling distinctions and Huey’s activity not taxable if limited to betting on horse race results.
The Daughters of the Confederacy will stage an entertainment at Ae Hall, 125 W Commerce St, Thursday evening from 5 to 8. A local band will provide music amid decor. Refreshments available for a nominal charge to raise funds for a public work. The event welcomes all for a pleasant evening and support of a good cause.
Wm. Ragland at 415 Soledad street and W. T. Thompson at 410 Quincy street are approved for sewer connections per city records.
Robert Lee Andrews died in San Antonio Texas at 3 30 p m June 21 1902 aged 16 years 9 months son of Thomas Andrews Funeral from 417 Milam street at 5 o'clock p m today Interment City cemetery No 4 friends invited to attend
An old promotional notice touts Carrizo Water as a cure for catarrh of the stomach indigestion constipation and dyspepsia. The copy urges readers to buy from the local druggist a jug of this mineral water and guarantees it matches the representation declaring it the wonder of the 20th century.
C T Milburn to build a two story dwelling on East Locust street at an estimated cost of 2000. W B Hassel to construct a three room cottage on Woodlawn avenue at 3700. Phil Weisbacher to erect a summer house on Hood street at 25.
Charles Stroebel, a lineman for the Electric Light company, died from a skull fracture after a fall from a pole on Losoya Street. His body was taken to Burnett's morgue and prepared for burial. He will be shipped to his former home in Kewashum, Wisconsin. The Electrical Workers' Union donated a floral piece for the casket.
City detectives Womack and Bethel arrested R. C. Robinson, a confessed blacksmith, as he attempted to depart for San Francisco. He allegedly bought household furniture from R. R. Smith at 225 East Commence Street on instalments, sold it with the mortgage unpaid, and fled to avoid the remaining $24 debt. He is jailed awaiting further action.
The Elks may respond to a challenge from the T P A Ballet Girls for a baseball game or series between a team from the Order of the Riks and a Post D team of the Travelers' Protective Association. The Ballet Girls have issued the gauntlet and the Elks are weighing the proposal.
Reilly Bros advertises a sale of all kinds fruit at cheap prices with a promise to provide daily odds and excursion rate figures on fruit in the near future.
Agent Smith of the Humane Society secured two convictions last week for cruelty to animals and filed a charge against a man who skinned a dog alive, with no arrest yet. He placed three children in the Protestant Orphans' Home from harmful surroundings and offers adoptions of boys or girls from ten years down.
Post D of the Travelers Protective Association holds a morning meeting at the Menger hotel. State President C D Helland is in the city and will attend to discuss important matters.
Mr William Dobrowolski and family depart tomorrow by the Southern Pacific bound for Mexico. He will leave his wife and children at Natodaros and proceed alone to Terreon and Saltil lo. On return they will pause at Eagle Pass to oversee his mining and irrigation interests.
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