San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-03
zoo GOVERNORS
ROW Barred
BY ANTICS
Moody Lion Expected to
Start Fireworks on
Air Program.

Roasting over the gridiron of the
Three Elephanteers, several members
of the zoo family out at Breckenridge
Park will furnish entertainment for
radio fans and school children at the
Elephantics over VICAR at s O'Clock
Friday night.
1t is planned to bring in a flood
tide of votes from all schools to see
who wins this weeks contest, and par
ents and friends of the schools are
urged to stand by and support their
favorites when the votes start coming
over the telephone.
"GOvERNOR- PRESENT.
+ Visitors in the studio at the Ele-
phantics will be Mrs. Elephant, the
governor of the zoo; Mr.. Elephant,
her husband and advisor: Mr.. Lion, a
moody fellow, who is charged with get
ting ready to run for governor at
Park; Mr.. Camel, well known pub
Usher, and member of the board OF re-
eents of the rabbit nursery, and Pat
Ridge, funny bird, former governor
of the zoo.
Flaming Youth, the reporter for the
Elephantics Bugle, will try TO sift the
facts of the row that has arisen over
the contract let TO build a sidewalk
from the monkey cage to the ostrich
pound.
HARRIS STILL IN RACE.
Votes for the Elephantics are COM
hg in right along now. Master Ser
rsant Charles S. Meloney of Kelly
Field sends in so votes for the Harris
school in the name of his daughters,
Dorothy and Virginia Meloney, and
says: "Tell some of the Harris crowd
b. give a little help" That's a good
idea. Sergeant Meloney has taken
Harris school from the bottom of the
list and put them up into fifth place,
with only 100 votes separating them
ssom first place.
q Then Mary Elizabeth Felthouse sent
ia five votes for the Page school. Mrs
Leon c. Wulfe sent in ten votes for
Breckenridge and Verna Southland one
vote for the South Siders.
Louise Brogan, the standby OF the
Edgar Allan Poe school, sent In ten
votes for her school and Elizabeth Har-
rell sent in five votes for the High
land Park school.
CIRCUS TO PARADE.
Out at the Thomas Nelson Page
school all of the students are head
over heels in work getting ready for the
big circus Friday afternoon and even
ing. The entire personnel will parade
down the center of the city, making
the loop and then go back TO the cir
Gus grounds across from Beethoven hall
on South Alamo street.
At the Westmoorland program over
VICAR Wednesday night another one
of those Wild outbursts Of voting start
ed. Although Westmoorland school
hasn't been in the contest, they were
put in it Wednesday night and they
have q good chance to win the first
prize If they will get out and work.
GIRLS CHEER VOTERS.
Miss Zenaida johnson, 416 North
Laredo street, started the fireworks BY
phoning in five votes for Westnoor-
land. Then Il. /. CRANE sent in ten
votes for the school and Mr.. Euhl sent
in ten, both in care of Wagners drug
store No. i.
But the surprise came when the
sdinkey street car man" phoned in two
votes for Westmoorland and the ehO-
raj club and octette gave three cheers.
G. X. Clover, station hospital, sent in
ten votes.
If these persons will mail and bring
ten cents for each vote to the Elephant
Editor, Westmoorland will be put in
the contest with the usual start OF
votes that the other schools were given.
During the Elephantics Harry Burk-
halter and his one-piece orchestra viii
furnish the music, with Wallace Bren-
nan for internission solos during the
.-.airorn