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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
8 HURT IN {. |.
WAR OVER
LIQUOR

Eight persons. one OF whom is cx-
pectcd to die. are in the city Jail
and the Robert Il. Green Hospital,
after a dance battle Sunday night 1T
Il ranch near Elmendorf, where dane
crs attempted to hijack five men If
their load of liquor. which was TO
have been sold at the entertainment.
Though victorious, the bootlcggeis
were all suffering with minor knife
wounds when they came to the 20
lice station TO report the affair.
Two brothers, who live near the vii
lage between the Legunda and Hide
brandt roads and who were the hosts
of the. dance, are at the Robert Il.
Green Hospital, seriously wounded. \
ranch hand employed by the pair, also
is at the hospital. wounded.
One of the brothers, the most scri.
ously wounded casualty of the knife
aud pistol battle, is shot through the
left side of his neck and is partly
paralyzed from the wound. He may
die, hospital attendants say.
The other host, his body mass Of
knife wounds, is seriously wounded in
the right leg; while the employe also
is suffering with severe knife wounds.
OF the five in Jail, three are broth
crs. who also reside near Elmendorf.
lCnntinncd On pnSc TMnl
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
GOVERNMENT HALTS
SHARP DOWNFALL
OF FRENCH FRANC

PARIS, Oct. 2G.-R)-Thc drop
in the franc was brought to a sharp
halt today by government interven-
ton in the market and grave warn
ing to spectators in the form of
criminal proceedings opened by the
minister of justice against unnamed
parties for illicit expectation of cap
ital.
Finance Minister Caillaux allowed
the franc to reach % to the dollar
before deciding TO make use Of the
Morgan loan, having, according to in
formation around the Bourse, caught
some French bankers largely short of
francs on foreign exchanges, princi-
pally Amsterdam.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
CIVIC LEADERS
To DISCUSS
PARKWAY

Representative of 80 civic and in
dustrial clubs of the city will meet
Monday night at the Mcnger Hotel to
put under way the movement to keep
business from encroaching upon the
sacred ground of the Alamo.
The movement has rs a direct mo-
tive the purchase of ground directly
south of the Alamo, now occupied BY
n business house and making it over
into a park.
Sponsored by the Alamo Mission
Chapter, Daughters of the Republic OF
Texas, and thc San Antonio Conserya-
ton Society, all of the leading clubs
Of the city were invited to join the
movement.
Monday an encouraging response
had been received from the clubs in
vitcd, according to Miss Abba Ellis.
Several hundred persons are expected
to be present at the meeting, which
will begin at S o'clock Monday night.
The meeting will be presided over
by Mrs. Alexander Boynton, vice pres
ident of the Alamo Mission Chap
ter.
Gutzon Borglum. famous sculptor,
Judge Sidney J. Brooks. and Mrs. +.
o. Van Horn will make addresses deal
ing with various phases Of the en-
deayor.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
MAYOR FIRST
To REMIT
FUNDS
Jack Burke Awaits Word
From Lawyer Before
Returning Money.

Following judgment rendered
against him on an agreed statement If
facts, in Seventy-third District Court,
Mayor John W. Tobin Monday paid
into the county treasury $4,000 which
had been retained by him as excess
fees during his tenure Of the sheriff
office. This is the first payment to
be made in suits against present anil
former county officials in which judy
mcnt of approximately 100000 is
sought.
County Clerk Jack X. Burke,
against whom judgment for approx
matcly $4,000 was rendered recently,
is ready to pay this amount as soon
as his attorney advises him to do so,
he declared.
Friendly suits we're instituted sew
eral years ago when, because of coz
flict in Interpretation of the excess
fee statutes, the county and office
holders both laid claim TO certain
excess fees. Suits against County Col
lector John A. Bitter and County
Clerk Burke were taken to the higher
courts as test cases.
Mayor Tobin at the time said he
was ready to pay as soon as the courts
decided the question. Hence his nc
ton today.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
Ignite Mines Add
To Wealth offs. A.
Lincohs Ghost
StQrtles
San Antonians

San .Antonians downtown Sun
day afternoon saw ghost
through the murk o. the drilling
rain.
lie passed slowly down HOus-
ton street, a tall, gaunt figure in
black, his sOmbre costume topped
by high hat Of the COS, an old
fashioned umbrella held over his
head.
Those who were near enough
TO see, testified that he was the
living embodiment Of Abraham
Lincoln, with the typical Lin
coin beard, the kindly Lincoln
nouih, the bushy eyebrows, and
the same dark, tender eyes.
lie passed into the jefferson
Hotel.
Two colored bell-boys caught
one look at the apparition, and
fell TO their knees, their faces al
most white.
The greeter managed to swal-
low the lump in his throat as he
recognized George G. Billings,
the man who starred in the Life
of Abraham Lincoln"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
CITY FATHERS MAKE
SAN ANTONIO RIVER
DESIRABLE FOR FISH

Fish in the San Antonio river were
assured a more desirable home Non
day.
Commissioner Of Parks Ray Lam
bert announced that gasoline filling
stations must equip their establish
merits with grease traps.
This will prevent oil and grease
from washing into the river after
rains.
Four city employees will aid tao Ess
stations in the installation Of the
traps, Mr.. Lambert said.
The request will become an order
when an ordinance being prepared by
the city attorneys office is completed.
II will be passed by the city com
mission as soon as possible
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
GALES FELICITATES
PAM FOR RESULT OF
NEW DEBT FARLEY
By Universal Seryice

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 2G.-Prcsi-
dent Gales has exchanged congratula
tory messages with Thomas W. La
mont ON the new agreement on the ma
tional debt.
President Gales has also given out
a message for publication to the Mex
lean people in which he pays high
tribute to Secretary of the Treasury
PAM for "his ability and sincere ef
forts for the good of the republic
President Gales says he hopes that
under this new agreement the Mexican
government will find it possible TO dis
charge its obligations.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
AUDITORIUM.
PLANS HIT
AS Fl RE
MENACE
Commissioner Says Child
Worth More Than All
Buildings.

Declaring that "the life of
one child is more valuable.
than every building in San
Antonio," Fire and Police
Commissioner Phil Wright
Monday said he will do everything in
bis power TO prevent the erection of
the South Side Junior High School
under the present plans. Building OF
the auditorium on the second floor, he
asserted. with cafeteria and kitchen
underneath, constitutes fire hazard
which the city cannot permit.
Commissioner Wright will oppose
approval of the plans when petit
ton. signed by the architects, comes
up for action at the city commission
meeting Monday afternoon.
SEEK APPROVAL.
lis petition, signed by Ayres aud
Ayres and Phelps and Devices, archi-
tccts, asks approval of the new junior
high school plans on the theory that
1.-THE new auditorium, Masonic tenn
pie, every church assembly hall in
San Antonio has been built with some
violation of the city building CODE
"Thesc assertions" Commissioner
Wright declared, "are grossly untrue.
The architects are trying to evade the
issue. The school won't be put up as
planned if it is in my power to stop
it,"
The main objection, Commissioner
Wright said, is that the auditorium is
to be placed on the second floor, with
a cafeteria and kitchen beneath 1t.
MUST CHANGE PLANS.
ain case of a fire or panic" Com
missioner Wright said, anything
might happen. One child's life is
worth more than every building in San
Antonio"
State Fire Marshal Timmins, in q
letter to City Attorney Joe Ryan, Com
missioner Wright said, has recommends
ed that all audtoriums be placed on
the ground floor of buildings, and that
no basement be permitted under them.
Although it will be expensive to
change the plans, Commissioner Wright
said. he will insist that this be done
rs n safety measure.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
STUDENTS KILLED
AS CAR OVERTURNS

LAFAYETTE. Ind, Oct. 26.-UP
Miss Dorothy Smith of Kempton, Ind,
and Herbert 7. Chase Of Wenatchec,
WASH, Purdue University students,
were killed when an automobile in
which they were returning from a
dance, overturned Sunday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
NAVAL S-5I PROBE
PUTS OFF SESSION

BOSTON, Oct. 26.-LP)-Failure Of
Captain George II. Diehl of the steam
er City of Rome, to arrive in Boston
with his vessel today caused postpone
ment of the naval court of inquirys
hearing into the sinking Of the sub
marine SOL by the Savannah line
ship.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
BURNED TO DEATH.

ST. LOUIS. Oct. 26.-Rs-At.
tempting TO enliven a slowly burning
fire in a stove by pouring on con
oil, Joseph Stuebe, 50, was fatally
burned here today. The contents OF
the can exploded, the flames cnvelop.
ing his clothing.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26
CHEAP COAL.
AbOUNDS IN
TEXAS
Comal Power Plant to Use
1000 Tons of Fuel
Each Week.

Ignite, Texas worthless fuel Is
coming into its own.
And. as Ignite takes its place with
oil and gas as a source of power. San
Antonio finds itself the center of an
other industrial development-coal
mining.
This prediction is literally express
ed by business men Of the city fol
lowing the decision of engineers of
the Comal Power company plant,
under construction at New Braunfels,
to use Ignite in preference to water
power
The New Braunfcls power plant.
which will have an initial development
of 10000 horsepower. will use 1000
tons of Ignite each week, according
to I'd Kifer, vice president and gen
eral manager.
The coal will be mined at either
of the three fields at Lytlc, Bastrop
or Rocbdalc.
STEhDIES MARKET.
With the opening Of the plant, Mr..
Kifcr said. and an assured consump-
ton Of 2000 tons a week Mt the start,
the Ignite market will be stabilized
for the first time.
The industrial Importance of a
steady demand for Ignite is import
ant, according to business men of
the city who see in the mining de-
velopment a phase of San Antonio's
potcntialities of unlimited possibilities
In the past, it is said, the demand
for Ignite has not only been very
small, but has also been so unsteady
that the few operating mines have
only been worked part time.
With the discovery of the new pull
verizing process which puts Ignite on
a par with the best of Goals and crude
oil. it is said, one of the states most
extensive resources has been tapped.
PLENTIFUL SUPPLY.
Much Of the state, and particularly
the part in the vicinity of San An
tonic. contains vast deposits Of lig-
mite.
With the engineers of the New
Braunfels plant as pathfindcrs, it is
predicted Ignite will be used more
and more until its development brings
millions of dollars into this part Of
the country.
Ignite in the past has been con-
sidcrcd practically worthless. Large
deposits of it, easily mined, have re-
manned untouched. Ignite is a coal of
very poor quality, composed of large
percentage of water and impurities.
Burned as regular coal in stokers.
Ignite develops but 5000 B. T. us
per pound while the better grades of
coal develop between $4,000 and
1900.
By putting the coal through a proc
ess of pulveTization, and drying it was
found that Ignite could be blown into
boilers. developing high power at a
minimum cost.
Another advantage of Ignite is that
plants equipped to use it in the pull
verified form can also use natural gas
or oil without 5eing remodeled.
The New Braunfels plant, whici
n.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

JUDGE GARY, as conservative as
~ the Ten Commandments promises
magnificently greater prosperity. Chi
cago is building, growing as never
before. In a thousand places there
are a thousand booms.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

Continued On Page Two.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

CONSIDER that spot taken so
~ much for granted, New York
City.
Ask a citizen 1000 miles from New
York what he knows about Queens"
or "The Bronx" He will know lit
tie or nothing.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

THAT grammar" suited the peo-
1 pie of Jersey City. They got
coal.
And in a few days Mayor Hague
will elect a Democratic governor of
New Jersey, further demonstrating
the efficiency Of his kind Of gram
mar.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

DUT Queens and Bronx, little bor-
- oughs tucked away in Greater
New York, are each one bigger in
population than los Angeles.
And the yearly increase in New
York's population is more than three
times the total population Of mar
velous Miami. Don't forget New
York is adding up Uncle Sans valu-
nhla assets.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

n ER. RATHBONE, vice chairman
IvE of the National Surety COM
n,nr sor. u;t'o n 60 OO0 O00
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

A ND consider Henry Ford, another
"A asset. His output Of cars is
now 1900 n day and by November 1,
his factories expect to go on a
5000 basis.
II Ford only made profit OF
$50 a car on the 5000 cars, his net
income would be S450,000 a day,
enough to support any family of
tree.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-26

HHACARIO PERLAS is dead at
IVA Manila, aged 152 years and 1
month, according to church records.
He was born in July, 1913, three
years before the Declaration of INDIE
pcndence was written, and lived to
know the grandchildren of his own
grandchildren. It was n wonderful
old age, but many have lived more
in one hour than Macario Perlas
lived in his 152 years.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-06-25
PETITIONS FOR REMOVAL
ROAD ENGINEER

Petitions have been filed with the
County Court signed by several hun
bred citizens of the county asking
the Court to remove the Road En-
gineer, r. X. Johnson, giving "inef-
ficiency" as one of the main reasons
for his removal. The Court has set
Wednesday, July 1st, to take evidence
and will call upon the petitioners to
bring in the proofs for the removal.
Up to the present time no one has
been designated to succeed Mr.
Johnson, in case the Court finds suf-
ficient reasons to remove him.
Some rumors have it Mr.. Humphreys
Of Philippi will be given the place,
while others will ask some hustling
wide-awake experienced road man to
take chargeiof the County Road Work
and hire engineers as they are need
ed to do the mechanical work.
1t is to be regretted that this dis
satisfaction has arisen, and it is
hoped that the situation viii lbe clear
ed to the extent that the taxpayers
can be assured Of their money being
spent judiciously.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-06-25
BELINCTON WILL
HAVE T0NSIL CLINIC

The Barbour County Health Assoc
iation will hold health clinic on
Monday, July 9th, in the second floor
apartment of the Thornhill Building
in Belington, commencing at 8 A. M.
and continuing throughout the day.
This clinic is for the purpose of op-
Grating upon such children as may be
suffering with enlarged or diseased
tonsils and adednoids DR.. O. S. Crib
Bic of Clarksburg, will be the oper-
ating surgeon and will be ably assist
ed by several competent physicians,
nurses and local ladies. The rooms
viii be we'll equipped with cots and
all necessary hospital needs and per-
feet arrangements will be made for
the care of each child. Only a pill
lew need be brought by each patient.
This is an opportunity which
should not be overlooked by parents
having children whose throats need
such attention. Medical science has
learned that numerous serious dis
eases and physical ailments, as well
as mental and bodily backwardness
in children can be traced directly to
diseased threats. Parents are urged
to avail themselves of this splendid
chance to give their children the
benefit Of this clinic.
Arrangements for entering the
children must be made as soon as
possible through Miss Eunice T. Mum
son, School Nurse, Philippi. Do not
forget the date and place Monday,
July 6th.,-Thornhill building, Be-
lington.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-06-25

JUNIOR HAS A RUNAWAY

The town of Junior is all astir ov-
err what is purported to be run-a
way in which Worth B. Wilson and
Maud G. Jones are the principals.
It appears that Maud Jones, the wife
of Moze Jones, left Tuesday after
noon to parts unknown, then Worth
Wilson who is married and has
grand children living, strikes out
supposing to follow. Maud Jones
has a general store in the town but
she leaves this all to her husband,
Moze, but when he finds the papers
are not drawn up properly, strikes
out also on the lookout for Maud to
get her to sign the proper documents.
He thinks he will find her with
some relatives near Morgantown.
Chickens sometimes come home to
roost, but in this case no chickens
have come home.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-06-25
CHAUTAUQUA OPENS
PROGRAM TODAY

Opening with plantation scene,
the jackson Jubilee Singers will offer
popular musical production on
chautauqua's closing night, June 20.
Stage settings and appropriate cos
tuning will be used to advantage in
the first part of their program, while
the latter half will be devoted to
negro spirituals, southern songs and
plantation melodies,
Among the most popular songs to
be presented by the Jackson Jubilees
will be group of spirituals includ-
ing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Bye and Bye, roll, Jordon, Rolf
and "Come out Of the Wilderness
The ever popular "Rear Dem Bells"
will be offered along with "Hand Me
Down the Silver Trumpet" when
the Moon Swings Low. Listen to
the Lambs, Its So High and
Ding Dong Bells"
In the Jubilee Company is a male
quartet that always is good for a
bushel of encores.
Among the other headline features
of chautauqua are the comedy-drama
"Adam and Eva; the Nipple Con-
cert Company; Sidney Landon, inn
personator of great literary men; the
Betty Booth Company in a musical
and dramatic entertainment; f.. r.
Root with his 10000 bees; AL Baker,
with junior speciality consisting Of
magic, ventriloquism and humor; the
McVicker Symphonic Quartet of
Chicago; Edward Tomlinson and
Ada Ward, popular lecturers. Chau-
tauqua dates are June 25 to 20 in
elusive.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-06-25
adam AND EVA"
Is COMING SAT.

Adam and Eva are coming to chau-
tauqua. The apple will be there,
too.
Although the comedy-drama sche-
duled for Saturday Evening has moth
to do with the Garden of Eden, it
carries a fruitful lesson.
This play which enjoyed long runs
at the National Theater in Chicago
and at the Longacre Theater in New
York, explains how MASTERS become
producers in typical American fam
lily. It relates how the butterflies of
fashion learn to use their gaudy
wings at useful tasks. 1t tells how
young men, content to spong off ia
Their, learn the JOY of making an hon
est living when necessity demands
that they decide between work and
hunger
Adam and Eva" points out that
the seemingly worthless youth Of
America, often spoiled with too much
money and doting parents, J. usually
are made of good stuff and will work
if they have to. 1t is full of delic-
iously funny situations, and will a
rouse the question of whether or not
fathers and their families can adj
vantageous take occasional vaca-
tions from each other.
A New York cast will present the
play in Belington as part of the
chautauqua program announced for
June to 1929 inclusive.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-06-25
THE CASH STORES

Philippi has ten Cash Stores and
Belington has two. Every merchant,
in some stage of the game, express
es the hope that there should be a
law passed against credit accounts,
thus making everything on cash bas-
is. Now, there will never be any
law of that kind passed, and the only
way to get away from crediting and
selling on account is for each in
dividual merchant to put his store
on cash basis. The shrewd buyer
prefers to buy from Cash Store be-
cause he knows he is not helping to
pay for some bad accounts, and in
the end he saves money by paying
cash. The merchant, naturally, can
sell cheaper, and give better service,
by the cash method The ease of
mind that a merchant has when he
closes his daily work is without price,
knowing that he either has the mon
ey or the goods. The fellow who
acts the merchant and banker, too,
will soon find he loans too much out
on accounts that are bad risks, think
ing only of the sales and profits, and
too little of the pay days.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-06-25
WEST VIRGINIA GAS TAX

CHARLESTON, w. Va, June 90
Gasoline tax rates in the various
states have been compiled by the
State Road Commission, including
new enactments by legislatures up
toJune 1, 1925. The list follows
No gasoline tax-Illinois, Massa-
chusetts, New York, New Jersey, and
Rhode Island-Five.
One Cent-Connecticut, North Da-
kota, and Texas-Three
Two Cents.-Agabama California,
Colorda, Delaware, District of Col
umbia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,
Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Montana, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ver-
mont, Washington, and WISCONSIN,
Twenty.
Two and one-half cents-W Wyoming
One.
Three Cents-Arizona, Florida,
Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Kentucky,
Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Ok
essee, and Virginia Fourteen.
lahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tenn
Three and one-half cents Utah
and West Virginia-Two.
-Four cents-Arkansas, Nevada,
and North Carolina-Three
Five cents-South Carolina-One
The West Virginia rate Of 81
cents a gallon, the Commission points
out, is a road toll of seven thirty
seconds of a cent per mile. The West
Virginia average automobile license
constitutes a road toll of six twenty
ffths of cent per mile. The total
Of both gasoline tax and automobile
license constitutes a road toll of
forty-six hundreths, or not quite half
a cent per mile.
The average saving which an i'm
proved road effects for a motor We
hicle, has been given by the u. S.
Bureau of Public Roads as three and
and six-tenths cents per mile.