San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-22

son, at THIS ONCE. O-zl-ot
Wanted at once, competent skirt
and waist makers at Nine. Dreyfus,
209 Alamo plaza. st
Judge Noonan will call the mo-
ton docket promptly at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
The average nightly drilling of
the Belknap Rifles consumes from
three to four hours.
Special meeting of the Joker club
tonight at o'clock. All members are
urged to be present; non-attendants
will be fined.
Candy and crackers are represented
at the Hotel Maverick in this city in
the persons Of E. p. Jackson and II.
s. Cooke, of st. Louis.
-Messrs. H. d. 'Kampmann, Louis
Gerstley, of Philadelphia, and n.
Mackey went out to the Calaveras
brick yards this morning.
Fire company No. 2 has engine
trial this evening at $3.50 o'clock in
stead of tomorrow night. The date of
the trial was wrong as given the re-
porter.
The public schools will close May
30th in observance of Memorial Day.
The mayor has said it.
The Fashion theatre is doing
good business this week, and giving a
dollar show for % cents.
Track laying from Sinner to Con
zales has commenced on the 5. A. 2 +,
and the rails will be laid to Gonzales
in about 30 days.
Robert l.. Benson leaves San An
tonic today in pursuit of his new call.
ing, "the drummer" Mr.. Benson's
numerous friends predict fer him sue
cess in his new vocation.
COMMITTEES of ladies, three for
each ward. have been appointed by
the &. A. r. to canvass the city for
flowers for memorial day, and also to
assist in the arrangements for the
celebration.
-Messrs. George and Fred Jagge
and Eli Arnaud announce their de-
parture for Europe on the 18th, next
Saturday.
Police authorities are notified Of
the prowlings of frame peddling
tramp who infests the suburbs and
outswears Flanders when no pur-
chases are made.
Mrs. l.. M. HadIey has been ap-
pointed by the Grand Lodge of Cali
fornia Eastern Star Commissioner for
Texas. Her credentials are elegantly
engrossed on parchment. 1t is well
deserved honor and a fine compli-
| ment.
F. J. Van Bibber has filed suit in
the district court for $40, 900 damages
against the City of San Antonio for
injuries caused, as he claims, by de-
fective crosswalk and an accumula-
ton of mud. His hip was broken by
the fall he sustained.
The horses of the Lone Star brew
cry that ran away Monday afternoon
! from Krisch's hall saloon were tied,
but broke their hitching when the
street sprinkler came along and
| frightened them. 1t will start nearly
every horse to have cold water thrown
suddenly upon them.
To Aid. Rog: The LIGHT employs
more carrier boys, and pays them
more wages than any paper now or
ever published in San Antonio.
/ The meeting of the Ministers as
ISOLATION at the rooms of the Young
Mems Christian association this
morning, adjourned to meet again at
the same place at II o'clock tomorrow
| Thursday morning. All pastors are
requested to be present.
Steve Hodgins, a clerk at the
Arkansas Pass freight office, fell off an
Alamo street car yesterday evening
and narrowly escaped being run over
| by heavy wagon. 1t is said Steve
was looking at pretty girl when 1t
happened.
Round trip tickets for one fare
good from date of sale to May 3lst
way May 26, q, and %, to Birming'
ham and return, to enable the public
to attend the great sale of town lok
which opens there on May 2Sth. This
is the boom town of Texas.
Nothing was done in the district
court this morning except the receiv'
ing OF the report Of the grand jury
and discharging of that body.
"A divorce suit on the grounds o.
abandonment, has been filed in the
district court by Martha Parvir
against Hosea Parvin.
louisiana and Bergeron, of the
Elite saloon, have leased the store
now occupied by Mr.. Sim Hart, OF
Main plaza and Soledad street, and
will put in cigar store and sample
| room.
On newspaper circulation the
LIGHT refers Alderman Rogers tc
Geo. P. Rowell & Co., American
newspaper directory, also to directory