San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-15
HEARD AROUND TOWN.

duck does to water.
Owners of suburban additions
should offer liberal premium for
tarantulas.
The LIGHT can congratulate
Mr.. Klieforth, in getting his job
He has a soft snap on the city. .
A half dozen artesian wells bored
in the neighborhood of the Yantis
well at West End, would supply
the whole of San Antonio with the
finest water in the world.
San Antonio makes the finest
beer in the world, but wants a
large, first class retail grocery
| store.
The alderman from the Third
ward will please introduce a reso-
luton in the city council compell-
ing owners of property to chop
down the weeds and brush.
A birthday celebration occurred
at the Frank Krisch residence,
near "Midway," yesterday after
noon.
The water main on Castro street
should be extended across the
creek, where it will accommodate
s or 10 families.
Alderman Joe Beckmann's pole
ordinance will be worth about $780,
600 year to the city, and should
be unanimously adopted.
1t looks little queer to a fellow
up tree to hear him talk and
blow on the outside, and at the
meeting is dumb as an oyster.
Alderman Joe Beckman is keep
ing an eye on the corporations, and
did not do any Figuring" on the
City Printing Jobs.
Blackberries that cost about 60
cents a water bucket full are re-
tailed at 10 cents a handful.
Plenty of room for live grocery
store.
1t will cost the city but a very
small sum to publish a list of de-
linquent taxpayers in the LIGHT.
Show them up, officials and all
alike, and demand payment.
l.. P. Peck keeps his head cool
now in straw hat. He has got so
much business now that he doesn't
hear the fire alarm ring.
San Antonio is still open for a
large first-class retail grocery store,
run by a live Hebrew, with no
moss on his back.
Mike Goggan feels as happy as
little boy in his first pants, in his
fine new store on Houston street.
His brother "John" another popu-
lar member of the firm is in town
today.
Butter that costs wholesale, Is
and 20 cents pound, is retailed at
30 to 90 cents. Plenty of room for
first-class grocery store in San
Antonio.
A large, first-class market
building in San Antonio, would
save the citizens a great deal of
money in a year, and give them an
opportunity of buying meats and
country produce fit to eat.
The LIGHT as a taxpayer of this
city is not asking "personal" favors
of it's public servants; it only asks
and demands what is right and
just.
A little negro boy was severely
bitten by tarantula at West End
few days ago. His life was saved
by the timely use Of hartshorn and
a bottle of whisky.
In dry goods stores and furniture
stores, San Antonio leads all the
towns in Texas, but is woefully de-
ficient, in not having a decent
market house, or a complete gro
Gerry store.
Marshall Druse with his force
has done some good work chop
ping down brush on Prospect
hill. He is invited to move toward
West End with his gang.
If the city would require the
large property owners and corpora
tions to pay taxes in the same pro-
portion as the owners of little
homesteads, there would be no
need Of voting for bonds of any
kind.
San Antonio is in the center Of
the finest cattle country in the
world, but has the poorest, meanest
and toughest beef in the union, all
because we have not got a decent
market house.
Adjudged Insane.