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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1919
Page
2
Austin Texas Governor Hobby issues a proclamation summoning the Thirty-Sixth Legislature to meet at 10 a.m. on Monday June 28 in a second called session to consider appropriations for state government and public service for the 1919 21 fiscal years.
Governor Hobby named a wide slate of Texans to the state child welfare commission including Tom Finty Jr of Dallas and Elmer Scott of Dallas. The senate finance committee also finished a two year judiciary appropriations bill totaling 2,139,750 dollars with salaries and fees set for officers witnesses judges clerks and attorneys.
Washington and Texas ports are freed from supervision by District Director Billups in New Orleans. Deputy Director J. J. Davis, acting for the Shipping Board at Galveston, now has full power to contact the Shipping Board on Texas port interests. Ships will be allocated in larger numbers with longer notice and prompt assignment to operators at Galveston and other Texas ports.
The Cap Finisterre from Brest brings a large number of troops and 61 brides including Mrs Alfred G Kreuger wife of Lt Kreuger 152d Infantry Gabrielle G Lynn wife of Pvt Mantie Lynn Salado Tex Philomene Tomast wife of Sgt William Tomast 111th Sanitary Train and Marguerite Willms wife of Gus E Willms HQ troop 86th Division Esser Tex.
E N Maulky of Sherman Texas was elected president at the concluding session of the annual convention in Portland Oregon The Travelers Protective Association of America also selected Portland as the next meeting city for its 1930 gathering.
A Texas oil well four miles north of Hastland in Eastland county named the Perkins well is flowing at a rate of 10000 barrels per day.
The Texas Press Association closed its Fortieth Convention in San Antonio with officers chosen for the next year and Houston named to host 1920. Sam Fore Jr. became president. John Estes Cooke. Sam P. Harden. C F Lehmann. Clarence B E Gilmore. Mrs Francis Sutherland. R W Barry. Judd Mortimer Lewis. Jos O Boehmer. W L West elected to the executive committee. Houston narrowly won the 1920 convention vote over Corpus Christi, after Corpus Christi led on the first ballot and Mineral Wells also ran.
United States forces crossed into Juarez and surrounding areas near El Paso to halt Villa rebels. General Erwin stated the move was not an invasion and that no strong resistance from Carranza or Villa forces was expected. About 3600 troops crossed within ten minutes of the order, with units from the 24th Infantry and Cavalry regiments taking part.
Complete returns from the May 24 constitutional amendment election in Texas show Prohibition for 158,982 against 138,907 a majority for 20,075 Suffrage for 140,911 against 165,940 a majority against 95,029 Governor salary increase for 108,803 against 194,570 a majority against 85,767 Home ownership for 150,813 against 151,782 a majority against 969 Moore and Upton counties did not hold elections.
British officers Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown landed on the Irish coast after a 16 hour 12 minute nonstop flight from St Johns Newfoundland marking the first time the Atlantic Ocean was crossed without a stop in a Vickers Vimy airplane.
Ten thousand people gather on the Capitol steps to protest prohibition while Samuel Gompers, AFL president and wet spokesman, testifies before the Senate judiciary committee that widespread discontent may follow if beer is not legalized for workers.
Honor Roll lists Texas servicemen who died or were wounded, captured, or missing in Europe. Names include Pvt Emil Horlica Cameron and Pvt David E McMahan Buffalo Gap among many others from towns such as Beaumont, Brenham, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Laredo.
The twenty fifth annual convention in Galveston elected J A Underwood of Honey Grove as president and treasurer R F Crow of Houston as vice president and Major Robert Gibson of Dallas as secretary. Dr W B Bizzell of A and M College delivered the feature address on postwar reconstructions and the need for fair pricing and margins for farmers and stockmen.
Lou Sapp, defendant in the Sapp brothers case, released on bond by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after a venue shift from Angelina County. Arrested in Beaumont on March 13, 1915, with B E Sapp following killings near Big Thicket in Hardin County. Sentenced 20 years in Angelina County. appeal overturned. case moved to Ellis County but no trial.
The 24th Infantry, 1675 men, arrived in El Paso from Columbus New Mexico on Thursday under Colonel Arthur Hadsall. One entire battalion remains stationed at Columbus.
The United States has secured retention of Ellington Field near Houston as a permanent rig field, ensuring continued military and industrial use for aerospace activities and related operations.
Houston reports Texas wheat yields will exceed earlier May estimates with about 35.323 million bushels expected from over 2 million acres. At 17.27 bushels per acre and $2.26 per bushel the state could see nearly $80.1 million in gross returns and about $40 million in net profits for farmers.
Austin figures a $96,000 check from G A Taft, general manager of the American Railway Express for the Southwestern district, is not accepted by the controller who says the tax due Texas is about $140,000. The dispute stems from the amount of gross receipts tax and follows AG guidance.
Atlantic City N J reconstruction convention of the American Federation of Labor adopted a resolution denouncing wartime prohibition. It urged exemption of 2 percent beer from the eighteenth amendment and from the wartime prohibition measure effective July 1.
Treasury special investigating committee reports nationwide use of narcotics for non medical purposes has steadily increased over four years despite vigorous federal enforcement. Final report released Saturday details growing illicit consumption and enforcement challenges.
General Aguilar, son in law of President Gamat, arrived in Washington to seek American help in admitting Mexico to the League of Nations according to reports from Mexico City.
Delegates representing more than three million American workers at the Atlantic City meeting condemn radical agitators and pledge to address reconstruction problems crucial to organized labor.
Eastland Texas. The Mid-Kansas Oil Company struggles to harness its gasser on the P. J. Harrell lease two miles north of the Perkins well. The well continues to produce about 50,000,000 feet of dry gas each day.
Shreveport interest rises as Polly No 2 by Depositors Oil and Gas Co completes in Red River Parish section 7 12 10 with an estimated capacity around 1500 barrels.
Dallas will host the Texas Christian Endeavor Union in 1920 the award being decided by the council Friday at the close of the session.
In Laredo Texas report, two hundred Mexican government troops were killed or injured when a railway train bound for Chihuahua ran off a sunk track north of Aguas Calientes on Friday. They were traveling to Chihuahua when the disaster occurred.
Fire swept the Yildiz Kiosk palace in Constantinople today, destroying the residence of the sultan. No further details on casualties or cause are provided in the dispatch.
A Tolstoy excerpt envisions a future when human unity replaces national barriers and love's trumpet summons the banner of brotherhood and freedom to rise over a united world.
A Kansas City Star humorous excerpt recounts Gap Johnson greeting an acquaintance and bragging of misfortunes and household mishaps, including illness in his family, a near-miss with lightning, a broken arm, a car shot at, and a swap for a running horse amid tales of six pups per hound.
A hurried boy rushes down a hill asking a stranger if they have seen his father. The man replies he does not know the boy's father, who then looks at him with round eyes and flushed cheeks, insisting the speaker should recognize his dad.
Retired Philadelphia lawyer famed for lengthy speeches faced a six hour closing argument. An opposing attorney sent a note inviting him to the hotel for a bumpers of rare old Bourbon. The orator paused, read the note, and departed with his hat and bag.
A social ponderance questions who would perform labor if universal wealth existed. The piece muses on economic roles and the value of work, hinting at societal balance and fairness norms.
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