The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-06-01
LOCAL DOTS.

-"Spread the Light"
The city is fast filling up with visitors.
The visitors to the Volksfest are arriving.
Fine weather is predicted for the Volks-
fest.
Commerce street begins to bloom like a
rose.
"A revision of our city ordinances is in Or
der.
San Antonio will be in its holiday dress
the rest of the week.
The telephone wires interfere with the
decoration of our streets.
The last hours of preparation for the
Volksfest are the busiest.
The people, is the great wonder 10 be OBJ
served during the Volksfest.
To see and be seen is the great object
| to be attained at the Volksfest.
The Autter of flags from house-tops gives
the city holiday appearance.
Col. Littlefeld, of Gonzales, and Mr.. A.
Jones, are quartered at Hords hotel.
Ben. Hilbronner, the smiling drummer OF
Jos. Dreyfus & Co., New Orleans, is taking
in the Volksfest.
Wanted, to buy good milk COW. APP
ply to Mrs. c. Cullen, at the old Gilbeau
place, west of San Pedro.
Misses Lula and Addie Ford, daughters
of COL Ford, of Austin. are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Eager, Alamo street.
George Brockman could not withstand
the solicitation of the sweet ones and has con-
cluded to remain until Saturday.
| &C. F. Whitney, solicitor of the Texas
Mexican railroad and Pinckney Jones, the
we'll known attorney, are registered at Hords.
| If the crowds Of people who visit our city
during the Volksfest are comfortably housed
and we'll fed, it will add greatly to their pleas
ant impressions of the Alamo city.
In the window of Bell & Bros. will be
found small velvet tablet, on which is ar.
ranged the word WELCOME" and it is so nea,
and effective as to attract general attention.
MIR. John Reynolds, of the adjutant gen.
erals Office, asks US to state that he is not the
person of that name who recently had an in.
terview with the recorder to explain why he
was drunk.
We are requested to state that any ne,
cash balance remaining from the proceeds OF
the Volksfest will be apportioned equally
among the German English" and free
schools of this city.
There is young Englishman named
White. at the poor house, who is recovering
from an illness, for whom light employment
is solicited. Any person who can help him
will please communicate with MIR. Symington,
at the poor house.
Stretched across Commerce street from
Hertzbergs' to Cohen's and Rockingham S
stores is a line of evergreen from which is sus.
pended large letters made of evergreens,
forming the word "welcome."
"A portly San Antonian had ordered fine
suit of clothes of leading tailoring establish
ment of Chicago, and called day or so after
wards to inquire if his suit was dom, when he
received the diplomatic reply: THE suit ish
not done, but de pill ish made out" He had
| to pay in advance.
r. w. Gentry, the prominent sheep man
of Sedalia, Mo-, has arrived at Hord's hotel.
He is the secretary of the state board Of agri-
culture, and Of the wool growers association
there, and comes armed with credentials from
Governor Crittenden and President Laws, OF
the Missouri State University.
"A runaway occurred on Houston street,
yesterday afternoon. A heavy grey horse be-
longing to A. B. Frank, had broken loose
somewhere on the avenues, and dashing along
with the express wagon to which it was hitched,
in attempting to cut short at turning at the
corner of Houston and Navarro streets, caught
up with the huge sidewalk corner.
1T was the republicans who ordered Io,-
600 of Upson's tariff speech, not the DEM
ocrats. Upson's speech is good campaign