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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
MARRIAGE RUSH
. STARTS WITH
SPRING

The annual epidemic of June Fever
Is raging. Countless lovelorn SWANS
and shcbas have become victims of
the incipient epidemic, which is ex-
pected to increase in intensity as the
romantic month draws nearer.
"The marriage bug seems to be
working overtime earlier than usual
this year." Thad Smith, deputy coun-
ty clerk in charge Of marriage licenses
declared Monday afternoon as he
wrote out the seventeenth license of
the day.
''There is always rush to marry
around the first Of june" Mr.. Smith
said, "but the rush is gaining momen-
tum earlier this year about two weeks
ahead of time. Now here we have
written II licenses today, and the aft
ernoon not half gone. That number
will probably be increased to 20 or
more before closing time.
"If the records for June proper
show the same increase that the pre-
June period is showing this year, all
records in Be1ar county stand to be
broken"
p An average Of II licenses have been
issued each day this year, Mr.. Smith
declared.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
M0NGREL PUP
RESCUED BY
SAMARITAN
Ragged Dog Appreciates
Treatment for Itching
MaIady.

Teaching by example is one Of the
practices of Miss Lucy Smithers,
executive secretary of the San An
tonic Child Protective and Humane
society, who Monday taught the les
son to two negro porters at the city
hall that setting aside last week for
kindness to animals does not mean
to let them suffer the rest Of the
year.
Leaving the city hall Monday
morning with a ragged pup Of quite
obvious pot pourri ancestry in her
wake, Miss Smithers was approached
by janitor of the building who
tipped his hat politely and inquired
"Lawsy, Miss Smithers, of all dc
dogs you could of had, how does it
come you all takes a shine to dat
houn?" he asked.
Its a long story, Nose" Miss
Smithers said, but briefly it's like
this. We have been trying to teach
kindness to animals and to do that
we must learn the lesson first our
selves.
Now this dog, when 1 first found
him, had the mango and I'm sure
itched just as much as any pedigreed
pekinese. / cured him and now !
find that he eats soup bone with
the same relish as the finest bench
dog. So after all he's dog just like
all the rest,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
CLASP LEADS
To HOSPITAL

Manuel Aguirre, 126 Grenet street,
decided Tuesday he would be moro
careful with whom he shakes hands
Extending his hand in friendly
greeting to an acquaintance on West
Commerce street resulted in serious
injury to Aguirre when the man he
greeted jerked him forward and into
the blade of a large knife.
The assailant was oyertaken by
Detectives Kohr and 1.-Two after a
chase of several blocks. Aguirre was
taken to the Robert r. Green Memoir.
ial hospital, where Tuesday his con-
dition was reported improved.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
ARID FIESTA,
POLICE COAL

Celebration of the Fiesta de San
Jacipto will be dry" if 24-hour raids
by prohibition agents and city detec-
tives may be taken as an indication.
Five trips to places near where the
carnival shows are in operation net
ted four arrests, and the destruction
of several hundred bottles Of beer.
Houses on South Laredo, East
Commerce, South Walters, Palestine
and Guadalupe streets were raided.
The largest seizure was on Laredo
street, where % pints of whiskey and
III bottles of beer were found.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
immigration Heads
Finish Border Tour

Captain William Hansen, immigra-
ton authority for this district, with
Supervisor Harris of the border pa-
troll, have just returned from a
minute inspection Of all Mexican boil
der points. Captain Hansen reports
conditions favorable. Mr.. Harris will
leave Immediately for the western
part Of the country.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Latin American Air
Students HOnOred

Eleven flying cadets attending
Brooks and Kelly Fields as. repre-
sentatives form several Latin-Ameri-
can countries, Monday were guests
at a luncheon of the Pan-American
Roundtable, at the Gunter Hotel.
Brigadier General Paul B. Malone,
commander of the Second Division,
and members of his staff also were
guests of honor at the luncheon.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Burglars Get Tires,
Rocker From Porch

The burglar who entered the home
e. Joe Cassiana, 1006 South Medina
street, played a mean trick, detec'
tiyes declared Tuesday.
Two tires for Cassiana's automobile
were stolen, according TO his report.
And then to add touch Of irony to
The burglary, a new oak rocker for
the front porch was hauled away.
A key was used OH the front door
to gain entrance.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Negro Minstrel
! Target Of. Bottle

Music is supposed to have charms
Ia ouiet wild beasts, sootbe ssvages
and do other things.
Tunes dispensed By negro min
strel on West Houston street possessed
none of those faculties, however, and
one-legged eI-soldier, as the assail'
ant was described to police, gave vent
to his wrath by hurting a bottle at
the darkey.
The negro moved himself and banjo
out Of the way and the bottle crashed
through a window to tailor shop at
AS West Houston street.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Negro Waiter Held
on Liquor Charge

"what is your occupation?" asked
Police Sergeant William F. Me
Mclaughlin Of negro prisoner he
WAS booking.
"I'se a waituh, subj" replied the
darkey. f..
"Fron the looks Of this card you
must be bartender" quotb the
sarge" as he read that the negro was
being held for violation Of the .probi-
bition act.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Jr. G. of G. to Hear
Kelly Commander

Colonel C. c. Culver, commander
of Kelly Field and Colonel Fl. A.
White, judge advocate Of the Eighth
Corps Area, will be The principal
speakers at the regular meeting Of
the Junior Chamber of Commerce at
the st. Anthony Hotel ballroom at
6 :15 p. m. Tuesday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
TORRENTS
FLOW AGAIN !.
IN NEW TALE
Of TEXAS |
San Antonio Woman Pens
Unusual Story After
> Years of Research. :
By BESS CARROLL

Have you ever heard of the lost
rivers of Texas?
At San Antonio's eastern gateway
there rs place where water lilies once
grew--and alligators-while Indians
pushed their canoes toward the buff
falo range or the enemy campfire. A
lost river, now-just one of the stories
that are told. along with other un-
written history. in book of Texas
folklore soon TO be published in San
Antonio.
FACTS SALVAGED.
The Rising and Setting of the Lone
Star Republic" book of unrecorded
stories of pioneer life. will be on the
press in June.
And Miss Matte Jackson, AIS Del.
mar street, will have salvaged from
crumbling frontier homes and from
the tales of passing old-timers much
of the fact and fiction that the pio-
neer and the cowboy and the soldier
have weaved into their own story Of
Texas.
Miss Jackson is a relative of big
Foot" Wallace and Of Andrew Jack
son, and her people were Texas pio-
necrs. Her grandfather was the first
American to die in Wilson county
her father the first white man to buy
marriage license there. Having
been associated with frontiersmen and
their folklore since she was little
girl, she has been gathering material
first hand for Is years. She has some
rare old pictures of earliest times.
PIONEERS WORK TOLD.
Memoirs from G. W. Rose, who tells
an intimate story of the battle of San
Jacinto, are contained in the history.
Rose tells how the Texas troops went
into battle to the strains of ''oh, won't
you come into the bower that I have
made for you?"
And Mrs. Job Clifton, mother OF
Mrs. ]. f. King of the Texas prison
board, tells how pioneer women made
their dyes-red and pink from boiled
prickly pear apples, green from peach
tree bark and leaves with alum to set
the color). and brown from pecan
leaves, bark and buds. She also de-
scribes the gathering of indigo weeds
and the process by which blueing was
made at home. H..
RED.HAIRED PUZzIER.
An interesting example of the folk
lore contained in the book is a story
of Wilson county, of the last Indian
raid. The Indians captured red
headed man during the fracas, and it
was the first Titian-haired individual
they had ever seen. They took tbs
man in question (who was : leading
citizen'') to the Cibolo creek and tried
to wash the red out Of his hair, think
ing it was war-paint.
When it wouldn't come out they
danced an Indian qusdrills to keep
away the evil spirits that they were
sure must be affecting their pale-face
captive. .....
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
2 Theft Suspects
CAPTURED in Chase

After spectacular race through
the town, two men, who are be-
lieved to have stolen the automobile Of
A. D. Buchanan, "Y" dormitory resi-
dent, Sunday, were captured by the
sheriff of La Grange, according to
word received here Tuesday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
WATER IN DEMAND

Lord, Lord, the number Ct water
pitchers l have filled in my time.
When 1 think about it, it makes my
back ache. A room clerk had to be
sort of a tough hombre in those days.
for after the cowboys had made the
rounds of the saloons, they were apt to
be in fractions mood"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Woman Released
on $500 Theft Bail

A woman charged with theft from
person, waived preliminary hearing
in Justice of the Peace Louis Boltz's
court Tuesday and was released I'M
der $500 bond.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Southton Boy, l6
Reported Missing

Police have been asked to locate
Pritchard Cox. 16-year-old Southton
boy who has been missing from his
home since April 10.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
G, of G. Will Name
Manager Shortly

A secretary-manage for the Cham
Der of Commerce will be selected We'd
nesday afternoon at it's board of d.
rectors meeting from approximately
so applicants.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Strange Prowler
Eudes Searchers

Search for the mysterious prowler
who for two nights has loitered in
the vicinity of Mulberry and Main
avenues, was unsuccessful again Tues
day. Police still are in the, dark rs
to his identity.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Plane Victims Body
Sent Home for Burial

The body of Herman Wegner, %,
killed when struck by an airplane
propeller at Stinson field Sunday, has
been sent to American Falls, Idaho,
for intsEmenE g
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
Make Things Easy for the Plain
People to Buy Car, Wizards
Advice. ~
Sharing With Public.

Suppose industry, through efficiency and ap-
proved service able to reduce costs to the
gives the benefits of its improvements to its customers
article cost dollar less to produce than formerly
dollar off the price charged the By that
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
SLEPT IN SPURS

All, me-" ruminates he. Never
comes a Saturday night but what ]
don't bark back to the time when
wild piroutin' cowboys used to come
to town. (Of course Saturday night
was the big night with the hired
hands,. Monday morning always
found us patching sheets. Those
punchers would just naturally forget
themselves so far as to sleep on our
clean sheets with their high-heeled
boots and spurs"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
COWBOYS RIP
BEDS No MORE

If you pine for the old days and
lament over the fact that things amt
like they used to me-" don't take your
troubles to a hotel man. You won't
find sympathy in that quarter.
r. E. Menger, room clerk at the
Gunter hotel is now about TO broad.
cast on the hotel business, past and
present.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20
A Splendid
Investment

For the present as well as
well as the future, is TO i~-est
in a home Of your own. IL
will prove a money maker as
well as home TO you. Think
instead of getting a rent receipt
each month you will be getting
a receipt on a home of your
own.
Read the Classified and Dis
play real estate ads Of The
Light. There you win find
all the best bargains in San
Antonio homes offered you.
Next week is Better Homes
Week and San Antonio real
estate men are going to offer
many features that will prove
most interesting to you. Read
The Light next Sunday. and
get all the details.
Light Classified
CT. 4577
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-20

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New Britain herald., 1926-11-26

Darrow and Marion Zaleski, for wards, and John Matulis and Sow ka, guards, he only lost a forward. William Darrow, by graduation. He will have neat player in Al Hav- lick, first substitute on last years team. to fill in at the vacancy if the team needs a forward. It is said that the injured knee of Me Grath will necessitate his shifting from center to forward. In that case either Jimmy Scully or Fred die Saunders Of the substitute team may be used at the pivot position.
 Some of last years second string which will make a bid for positions are Bromberg. Zehrer. Morin, Al Zaleski, Landiuo, Mercy, Claire. Fengler. Michael Grip. a freshman and brother of John Grip. is a strong candidate for a position on the team.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26
WOMEN JURORS IN
 TRIAL COLLAPSE
Overcome With Emotion in
 "Ste!la MariS'' Case

Maidstone. Eng, Nov. 26 LPl-The Stella Maris" murder trial was dramatically interrupted today when one of the two women jurors. over wrought by the testimony, suffered an emotional collapse.
 Alphonse r. A. Smith, the social ly prominent defendant, accused Of murdering his friend, John T. Der ham at the Smith villa, stella Maris" last August 12. was on the stand.
 With streaming eyes he related how he had written love letter to his wife just before the tragedy, which the prosecution charges re- suited from intense jealousy over Derham's attentions to Mrs. Smith.
 Women among the spectators sobbed q. he told his story. Then suddenly one ot the women in the jury box screamed agonizingly and tainted. Court was suspended until she could recover.
 The prosecution concluded the outltne of Its case this morning, and Smith, sprucely dressed, with a sprlg of white heather in his lapel for luck, took the stand. AS he began his story upon which his life hangs, Derham's widow. a pathetic figure Tn black, entered into the court room and took a seat in the rear.
 Smith related that he was born in Canada Che is a grandson of the late Hugh Ryan, Canadian railway bulid- er) and that he first met his wife m 1918. Emotionally he told or ms love for her and the three babies that came to them.
 A year ago he met Derham. ana they became intimate friends. Then Derham stol, his wife. Smith, iran tic, began drinking. but found no so- lace and finally bought a reVolFer' with inc sole idea. he said, Of com hitting suicide.
 However. his wife promised 10 abandon Derham. and the smiths resumed marital relations. Snl'n wrote his wife a letter saying that he had been in hell. but that she had given him a glimpse of heaven. It was at this point in the testimony that the woman juror collapsed.
 Smith said he found, however. that Derham and his wife were contin- uing their improper love relations. Then came the tragic night Tn Au- gust. Smith swore that he intended to commit suicide. but that Derham was accidentally shot in the struggle.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26

the tunnel with no chance of being recovered until the flood recedes and the water can be pumped from the bore.
 The downpour was general in the San Francisco Bay district. flooding streets and basements. stopping street cars and automobiles and turning sewers into geysers. San Francisco observers reported A of an inch of rain fell in thirteen minutes, setting what is believed to be record for precipitation there.
 One San Francisco man was hurt when a truck, skidding in the blind ing rain, struck him. and two girls were nearly drowned when the auto- mobile in which they were riding overturned casting them into a miniature lake. Another machine was buried when it was caught in a landslide.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26
CENTRAL ILLINOIS
 HAS GANG WARFARE
Machine Guns and Buckshot
 Used in Fight

Harrisburg, III, Nov. o6 LP-The reasons for Thanksgiving Day dyna- hitting and attacks with machine guns and buckshot in Central Ili- nois were obscure today. Virgil Hundsacker, a coal miner, twice the target of enemy attacks, was in a critical condition.
 The first attack upon Hundsacker came early in the morning when his home was dynamited while he and his family slept inside. No one was injured, but the house was badly damaged. The second attack came last night when a touring car con- taining four men overlook a coupe in which Hundsacker his father-in- poured a stream of machine gun fire into the vehicle.
 Hundsacker was shot four times, most of the missiles taking effect in the upper part of his body. Albert Robinson. his father-in-law, was shot once in the leg. while Milburn Vinson. the other member of the party, was uninjured. The four were returning to their homes here from a visit to neighboring coal mines, where all are employed.
 Officers searching Hundsacker's automobile. found that he had arm- ed after the early morning attack cn his home. The officers confis- cated machine gun. two rifles and q revolver which were in the ma chine.
 A bombardment of the store of Sam Ripperdam, a half mile from the scene of last nights affray, con- stituted the other chapter of the Thanksgiving day turmoil. Ripper dam received a superficial injury from buckshot when he discovered five men attempting to enter his store and fired upon them.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26
CHICAGO IS READY
 FOR GRID BATTLE
(Continued from preceding page)

(Continued from preceding page) some 10000 more persons assigned to police duty, concessions, or ushers tasks within the huge stadium. It will be the biggest throng ever to see football game, and the biggest with the exception of the Dempsey Tunney fight crowd ever to see an American sporting event. The gate receipts of sS00,000 will set another football record. A third will be hung up by the meeting here of the Army and Navy football teams, who never have played west of the Alleghenies
 Today's program included arrival of the student bodies at 9 a. m., the army in five special trains over the New York Central. and the Navy in nine trains over the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania.
 The luncheon at noon for the cadest follows the parade of both student bodies to their hotels. At 2 o'clock the two schools parade down Michigan Boulevard to the stadinia for dedication ceremonies at 3. Then the reception, and at o'clock the dinner dance.
 Mayor Dever sounded the city's welcome in this statement:
 Chicago extends a cordial vel come to the Army and Navy on this, their first appearance as an organ ized part of our military forces in Chicago. It has been a fine achieve ment for the government to send these forces to the great middle vest Chicago hopes that all our visitors may have happy stay with us"
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26
HIGH SCHOOL QUINTET
 TO PLAY THREE GAMES
Red and Gold Basketball rive to Have Four Veterans on the
 Floor This Season.

Three games will be played by the New Britain High school basketball team before the Christmas vacation, according to information received today. The opening game of the season will see the state champions of last year in a battle with a pri- vate school team. This will be played Saturday, December 4th. On December 11th, New Britain will go to Hartford to play St. Thomas sem mary and on December 17th Wea- yer High school will send team here.
 Coach George NJ. Cassidy will have four of last years five veter- an regulars to form a team. Of last years team. which consisted Of Frank McGrath, center; Hamilton
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26
TEN MEN DIE WHEN
 TUNNEL IS FLOODED
Bursting Dam Lets Loose Wall
 Of Water in California

Martinez, Cal, Nov. 266 LP>-Ten men met sudden death in the Con- tra Costa hills last night when san Pablo creek, swollen by a heavy rain, burst a temporary dam and sent a torrent of water rushing into q tunnel In which they were work ing.
 The workmen. a shift boss and nine laborers. had not chance for their lives, They were working in the far end Of the bore. 2,2O0 feet from the entrance, and the flood, coming with barely an instant's warning, engulfed them.
 The victims bodies still are in
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26
Uses Alcohol, So His
 Compensation Is Cut

Bridgeport Nov. 26 N)-Because he indulged in alcoholic stimulant. Frank Hubisek of Danbury had his compensation award cut down 25 per cent under ruling made today by Compensation Commissioner F.. T. Buckingham.
 Hubisek was employed in the sig ing department of the Lemme Hat company and contracted mercurial poisoning in August, 1925. He was given proper medical treatment and paid compensation. Commissioner Buckingham finds that the use of alcoholic stimulants interferes with the recovery of persons suffering with mercurial poisoning and finds that the claimant had iudulged in the stimulants at various times and that this had interferred with his re- coyery to the extent of 25 per cent.
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26
FLASHES OF LIFE; AMERICANS ARE
 PAYING WAR DEBTS OF EUROPEANS
By The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press,
 Bcrlin-The chief reason for Americas prosperity as given by Ambassador Schurman: They work harder than any people except the Chinese and Hindus. He so told a Thanksgiving Day audience, saying also that American tourists were paying Europe's war debts.
 Washington-A holiday seems to mean work in some high places. MT. Mellon visited the White House. MT. Coolidge labored on his next message to congress.
 Paris-"The right of any nation to keep any other nation under bond for two generations" is Qucs- toned by the Rev. Joseph Wilson Cochran, pastor of the American church. Saying this at a Thanks giving service which Ambassador Herrick attended, he continued: If I dreamed that any such tragedy
 
 sing. America. Sweet Land of Lib- erty,' but I believe America won't allow the stars on her flag to change to dollar marks"
 London-There's regular pea soup fog here now. So thick that it hid Ambassador Houghton from the view of some other Americans at a Thanksgiving dinner It moistened the Americans, too. though perhaps something else helped.
 New York--Gas on Thanksgiving broke all records. This does not re- fer to oratory. Statistics of the American Gas Association show that during the noon hour on turkey day there is greater use of gas fuel than on any other day in the year.
 Washington-A myth about super poison gas is exploded by Major General Fries, He thinks those used in the Great War are probably about as effective as any which may be discovered in the future.
 London-A tribute to the Greeks by Premier Baldwin: But for them We would all of us have been dark skinned people with long noses.' He was referring 10 the Battle of Mar athon.
 Springfield. Mass. President Marsh of Boston university is an optimist. He denounced Knights of the Kloudy kountenance" who think the country is going to the dogs.
 Paris-Isadora Duncan Is home less. Her residence in the fashion, able suburb of Ncuilly. auctoncd because of an unpaid debt Of 10000 francs, brought 31o,O00.
 New York-Rudy Valentino still loves Winifred Hudnut, she insists She's just back from abroad with q description Of astral messag gcs'' re- ceived from the husband she di- vorced. There are no other wom- en in his life now" and he Is try ing to become a legitimate actor of the astral plane.' And she is writ ing q book about it.
 Washington - Divorces are in craaSing more rapidly than mar
New Britain herald., 1926-11-26

Bridgeport Unless s12o, 1000 state application for addition to Sea Side sauatorium is used by July, 1927, it reverts to state, says Chairman Ma her Of state tuberculosis commis- sion.