The Austin American (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 209, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1922 Page: 2 of 22
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tomorrow at the
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That the breaking year
may bring you much hap-
piness and prosperity, is our
sincere wish
city and our nation.
COLEMAN BANK CLOSES
TO EFFECT CONSOLIDATION
from * train her, for repairs.
HIJACKERSROBAUTO
States marshal The case will come
up before the federal grand jury at
the January term. January 23
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pletion of an in’
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yesterday
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the administrator of
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An inerease of approximately $7,-
000 over last year's business was
realized by the Austin postoffice
during the year just closed, accord-
ing to estimates furnished by Chas.
E Huddleston, assistant postmas-
ter, late Saturday afternoon.
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GRAPE STREET HOMES
IN ABILENE BURNED
E. P. WILMOT. President ,
WM H. FOLTS, Vice-President
JOHN H. CHILES. Vice-President
MORRIS HIRSHFELD, Vice-President
T. H. DAVIS, Vice-President
C M. BARTHOLOMEW, Cashier
S B ROBERDEAU, Assistant Cashier
LEFFLER CORBITT. Assistant Cashier
unanimously by the council.
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ad rebuilding of all makes of pianos%4
Leed Permanently loCated in Austin
I R. A. PPEIFER I
William G. Bell. recorder. The Rod
Cross, Oder of Malta and Order
of the Temple will be conferred
upon the following at the conclave,
the recorder announced: Tellie B
Sanders, Alex M. Moore. Edwin O.
Lundgren and Otto E Arbuckle of
Elgin. Swen E. Bergstrom of Round
1 Rock, and Andrew H. Gomillion of
Dale
leased under ISOO bond Saturday ;
afternoon by Roy C. Archer. United .
May your best resolutions be realiny our
citv grow greater and better and may Wecome
better citizens, is our wish when we sa
me to hand you the check I did in
further recognition of the obliga-
tions I feel under to you and your
splendid corps of firemen."
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and with it come many opport uni tiesa all to
accomplish great things, to improve Qes, our
FREE SEWERAGE IN EFFECT
Free sewerage long demanded by
many Austin citizens and the sub-
ject of an equal number of cam-
paign promises becomes effective 1
today a sthe result of the raise in
water and light rates voted by the j
Austin cHy coune ll on December 9
An ordinance abolishing sewer col-
lections was submitted last Thurs-
ri
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porary/loss of memory due to 112-
ne^t' members of the family of
deorge MeGonigle, Sr., who disap-
peared from e party of deer hunt-
ers near here Tuesday and who. ac-
cording to latest reports, was seen
in Houston Wednesday morning, to-
day arranged to broadcast descrip-
tions of the merchant and exporter.
J. E. Rogers, passenger train con-
ductor, said MeGonigle rode on his
train to Houston Wednesday morn-
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ATLANTIC CITY. N. J, Dec. 31—
Director of Pubtie Safety Cuthbert
announced today that plain clothes
detetives would be sttion tonight
ladda every mte and cabaret to en-
force a dry New Year's Eve Dry
pocket bar, he saia, would not be
cloed, pending the com-
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—A female
elephant shot by th, late Theodore
Rooseveit, a calf killed by hie son,
Kermit, and a young buli that had
nearly crushea the Ute out of Carl
E Aeley betore betng ehot dead by
a fallow hunter, are th, most plc
turesque specimene of dig gam
• buntin la th, elephant studio that
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county left this afternoon for Teras
for pagers for the return of Mont
Berg. oyalton. Cal, banker, who
I is chraged with embezzlement, ac-
cording to advices received today
at the office of Governor Stephens.
States commissioner, on a charge , •
islana, according to the announce-
ment received by the local secre-
tFh. examination to be hela this
month will be the first of Its kind
held in Austin tn over a year Mr
MEW Y" 1 GOETH
W. L. GILFILLAN I FOLTS
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CLEBURNE WHISKY HAUL
IS ALMOST A RECORD
Amedinted y,—
CLEBURNR, Tez, Doc 11 —Ona
of the largest whiskey haul. In thia
mection was made today when th,
sheritra department wlwd a car-
load of the liquor consigne4 to Dal-
la, troun Pharr, Tex., on th, Mexi-
can border. Th, conmigment was
billed as broom corn and wan din-
overed when th, car w„ removea
We wish to thank all of
our friends and customers
for all business entrusted to
us during the past year.
ROSNER’S
ANNUAL
JANUARY
Clearance
Sale
meet in the rooms of th, chai
bar of commerce Thuroday •»«
tea. January 11 forth. purposa
outlining plane for the orsanizau
of a Travis county fair avoda
with the object of an annual co
fair, according to Bam Sparis. P
idem of the Travin county I
Mock and Poultry show. Tha nJ
Ing has been set for 220.05
and all business men. farmem J
other, are urged to be on hanas
Purdin, and the body of a man
they velieved to be H. W. Sigsby,
shot to death in Mrs. Purdin’s home
and found Purdin on the kitchen
floor with a gas tube in his mouth.
Purdin was taken to a hospital in
a critical condition.
A note was found in the house in-
dicatin that Purdin had gone there
day by Mayor Yett and passed
Tucker McLin. negro.
SABINAL POSTMASTER 2
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__not carry "hip liquor.’
“Don’t ask your waiter to bring
you anything with a ‘kick’ in it
“Do not accept the invitation of
“Z^tM^uirPHnd-
iville, in police court yesterday, that
police could not search homes of
persona without search warrants,
the police received orders to make
arrests without warrants, a
* Fire First Salve
An initial salvo at liquor law vio-
lators was fired today when prohi-
bition agents confiscated 640 gal-
lons of beer in a truck the driver of
which said he had obtained the wet
goods from the Keeley Brewing
Company , a Chicago concern.
ATLANTIC CITY ENTERS
IN DESERT CARAVAN
less than two weeks ago to the ef- |
feet that all newly appointed post- t
masters must attend a training,
school at a central accounting of- l
fice to acquaint themselves with
the rudiments of their duties, the
new postmaster at Sabinal spent
two days in the training school at
the Austin postoffice last week, ac-
coring to C harles E. Huddleston,
assistant postmaster.
NEGRO ARRESTED FOR
HAVING MASH ON HAND
now on hand will
papers within the
you see the quotatio
the fact that up to
REAL SALE..
SACRAMENTO. Cal. Dec 31 —
ien, farmers
other* will
Qeorge L Olea, eocennie mayor-
atoot who takes offloa at midnight
lull an open letter to the
We roast our
buy old or poo
A JIS donation to th, fireman’s
relief fund and a tetter of thank,
was received Saturday by Fite
Chief C. L Woodward from Robert
E Cofer. Austin lawyer, for the
efficient work done by the fire
depm-tment in extingutehing a fire
at Mr Cofer’a home on hristmas
day. The letter. addressed to Chief
Woodward- is ax follow,:
•I want to thank you. and through
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McAlester coal co.
Eatablished im
DEEP SHAFT MaALESTER
-.J my best to protect myself and
got wotned but I think I was jus-
tified in doing what I did.”
ted to
BROWNWOOD, Tex. Dec. 31—
The First National Bank at Cole-
man. Ju miles west of hers, closed
its doors last night with a state-
ment that it would suspend busi-
ness pending consolidation with the
Coleman National Bank The Frst
cently circulated in regard to ac-
tivities of the federal farm bureau
In the disposition of cotton placed
In its hands in the pool Gur Hill,
district supervisor of the Texas
farm bureau, produced a letter
which he received recentlv from
Edgar L. Iaawhon of Williamson
county denying the statement be-
ing circulated. The rumor was be-
ing spread Mr HUI said, to the
erfpet that Mr Iaawhon recently
placed a consignment of cotton in
the hand of the farm bureak’and
had never received payment Mor his
product or any notice of its receipt "
In his letter Mr Iawhon said that I
he "did not sign the cotton con- j
COFER SENDS
of possessing a quntity of mash /
fit for distillation. MeLin was ar- 1 l
rested eariy in the, aternoon by ; y
P A Lockhart, deputy United f
Associated Press.
ATHENS, Dec. 31.— Several Am-
erican professors of the orphanage
at Perindja, about 20 miles from
Constantinople, are declared by the
Athenian newspaper Yrguir of
Constantinople to have been carried
off by the Turkish nationalists, says
a Constantinople dispatch
The fats of the deported Ameri-
cans. adds tbs newspaper, is not
known.
vires are only estimates, Mr Hud-
dleston said, and the final check on
the year’s business will likely re-
veal a more substantial increase.
Season’s Rush Cleared.
The heads of the Austin post-
office are especially well pleased
with the Christmas business done
through the local office. During
the Christmas rush there was an
increase of approximately 10 per
. cent in the Christmas .business over
the same period a year ago. Mr.
Huddleston said.
The total business for the year----—e ----.
1921 wm estimated by the assistant’to. get hte clothe, and Eouns. the
postmaster shortly before the close j other, man there. The note.sad:. i
at business Saturday afternoon at I "They ■ tried to kin me ane !
$260,000. The total for 1920 was IA
approximately 8253,000. These tig- 5 1
Pennmytvania and Ar^snsas
ANTHRACITE
you your splendid fire department,
for the splendid work done in sup-
pressing the tire at my residence i ing.
on Christmas day, thus turning |
what speedily was developing into,
a disastrous firs into a compara- :
lively small los. No better work
could have been done, and my wife
I and'l . appreciate it very much in-
deed While I thanked you and the
I men in person, still I feel like add-
' ing to that this written testimony.
Frthermore, it was a pleasure to
MUNICIPAL CONTROL
OF FRISCO TRACTION
SAID TO BE SUCCESS
Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31.— San
Francisco’s municipal street rail-
ways. since their inauguration in
1912, have yielded returns of $16,-
601,077, an excess of $5,856,358 over
operating costs, according to an-
nouncement by the board of public
works. The line has charged a 5-
cent fare ever since it was organ-
ized.
PP Againnt
Eied nportam
townm i as
xmr Arthur Lun
mon county r
rconneet a pen (
guniL the 'farm,
hin prntent agnin
"Thim in the "
brie" — • "When
"n are making
wnf for all"T
anrluding man."
COMES LATE IN MONTH AMERICAN PROFESSORS IN,
TURKEY SPIRITED AWAY
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19,500 BAGS OF SUGAR
IN FIRST HOUSTON CARGO
Associated Press.
HOUSTON. Tex., Dec 31— Work
of unloading the Danish steamer
Herald, which brought 19,500 bags
of sugar from-Cuba consigned to the
0JEQ,
NEW SILVER DOLLARS
Anseelate Presa.
WASHINGTON Dec 31 —The
new silver dollar of the 1921 design
the peace dollar-- will be ready for
distribution Tuesday, it was naid
today at the treasury. Coinage of
the new dollar is being rushed eby
the Philadelphia mint, officiala eaid
The first dollar of the new series
GAS TUBE IN MOUTH
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A—risttod Press.
PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 31.—Po- I
lice today found the body of the
divorced wife of Charles Wesley
affair is being given under'the bus- - \
pices of the Parent-Teachers asso- •
elation of the school for the benefit €
of the patrons and friends of the 2
school. a
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hbeneity. Dr
on th.
"area -H •
ome
zmonanine in
ne mid “Th
Apsecisted Prase.
BRow}SVILLE, Tex, Dec. 31—
Feari ngthat he has suffered tem-
------------.---— ---- - taneously in twenty-one other
National is the oldest bank at Cole- Texas and six towns in Lou-
man with a capital, surplus and - - - - - -• ---------
profits of $25 1,000 and deposits of
about $500,000,
uPnoKuknnen
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€orps
ABILENE, Tex, Dec, 31— A fir*
believed to have started from a de-
fective electric wire last night de-
stroyed thro* residences on Grape
street, with a total estimated loss of
$15,000.
Geue sold More than appl-
cants are expected to be on hand.
YOUNGSTOWN, O, Dec. 31—-
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ASYLUM COLORADO TO
HOLD MONDAY CONCLAVE
A called conclave of the Asylum
Colorado Commandery, ' No. 4,
Knights Templar, will b hld at
the Masonic Temple. WesA Seventh
and Colorado streets, beginning at
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mune trum
endea, the
peach i..
milled the aitficulty of proving
ownership of liquor found on ta-
bies, but asserted the teak wm eas-
ter if anyone wm aught in the act
of pouring it out.
THEY PREPARED FOR
TWO WEEKS IN CHICAGO
Azsociated Press.
CHICAGO Dec. 31.—Two weeks of
preparation by Chief of Police
Charles Fitzmorris to "make Chi-
cago so dry it squeaks” culminated
tonight when 5,000 policemen, bol-
stered by scores of prohibition
agents, went in search of liquor law
violators.
The zero hour came as the old
year faded and was preceded by a
barrage of warnings and notices by
Chief Fitzmorris that New Years
Eve was to be the dry eel in Chicago
history.
Rules For New Year
Rules of conduct for thousands of
midnight merry'-makers as laid
down by Chief Fitzmorris were
WACO. Tex.. Dec 31--A. J Dos-
sett. M. secretary snd general man-
ager of the Exporters and Traders
Compress and Warehouse Company
here, died early this morning la a
Temple hospital He had been in
the hospital since Dec. 4 and had
undergone an operation
FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE
A civil service examination to fill
all federal clerical positions, with
the exception of postoffice posi-
tions, will be held in the auditorium
of the senior high school Saturday
morning January 28. Adolph Geue,
secretary of the local civil service
board, so announced Saturday The
examinations will be held simul-
Another Year Has ne
orid today in which
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—Call for
the condition of national banks as
of the latter part of this month will
be issued early next week by Comp-
troller of the Currency Crissinger, it
was indicated today at the treasury.
Under the law, officials explained,
five such calls are made annually,
and four only have been made this
year The comptroller, however, is
allowed five days of the new year in
which to issue ths final call.
LAST MEETING OF YEAR
The city council meeting of 1921 I
was held Saturday afternoon for
the awarding of a few bids not de-
cided on by council members at the
regular meeting Thursday. The
contract for drugs and prescriptions
was awarded Graham Drug com-
pany; sweet milk, buttermilk and
butter to Bryant’s creamery, and
meat and vegetables to Ulit’s meat :
market. >
Associated Preas.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31— Possi-
bility of a new policy to be followed
in fighting the boll weevil as a re-
sult of the national conference on
agriculture, soon to be called by
Secretary Wallace, was suggested
today in official quarters. The con-
ference. it was said, undoubtedly
would name a committee on cotton
a hich would consider ways and
means of more effectively combat-
ting the boll weevil.
Crops to be produced in sections
of the cotton states where the wee-
vil is so numerous as to make
growing of cotton financially im-
possible are expected to form part
of the discussion.
have util Jan. 7 to "ove up. drink
up. pack up and move or behave ’
Tomorrow, Oles stated he will a-
dress the city pollcemen and "give
them hell."
FRED BEAUVAIS COMES
TO MONTREAL SATURDAY
Associated Prasa.
MONTREAL Dec 31. — Ere
Beauvais. Indian guide, named as
0-respondent in the Stillman di-
vorce case arrived today from Que-
bec and will be available when the
Ixaminatlon of Canadian witnesses
begins Jan. 11. Beauvais stated
emphatically that while in Quebec
he had not conversed with Mrs.
Anne U. Stillman or her counsel,
who reached there yesterday .on the
way to Grand Anse, to line up wit-
nesses to combat charges of inti-
macy between her and Beauvais.
DRIVER IN NORTH TEXAS,
vonT WORTH. T,x. Dec. »l —
L.. Faubion, of Shreveport. La., mo-
tor leg from Wichita Falls to Fort
Worth last night, was meized by hi-
jackers two miles north of this city
at S a m., bound and thrown fromn
his machine, robbed of his autome
, bile and 91 IT Hi cash, he reported to
f police early this morning
WAIT FOR
POLICE ON WATCH M
GEORGETOWN HI -JAG
THINK WENT OTHR
The Austin police dep
kept fruitless vigil Friday hW
Saturday in an effort to appb
three holdup men who held
ciizen of Georgetown lat^H
a iter noon and escaped in a
toward this city. All roadsis
into the -city from the diret
Georgetown were watchedw
for the three men, but no auz
were apprehended.
The local police departmen
notified of the holdup aboul
oclock Friday afternoon ant
mediately set out a watch ■
men. Fairly accurate descri
were furnished of the trio an
poliee are certain that the hl
era did not come thia way. I
tract and never shipped any cotton i
tn the farm bureau "
FIRE DAMAGES GARAGE
Fire of undetermined origin dam-
aged a garage in the rear of the
renldenc of a c seiders at 1002
Eva »treet in South Au,tin Satur:
Aay afternoon >o the extent of about
$56 Th, fire deparment extin-
gulshed the names before they had
gained butticlent headway .
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Aneiated Pre-
EXRORTERAM"SSAVE LOST BOLF WEEVIL
MEMORY, FAMILY SAYS
THE PRESEN
entirely. The bu
dised along model
All officers who served as execu-
tives of the Travis county farm
bureau during the year just closed
were re-elected to the same offices
for the ensuing year with the ex-
ception of the office of secretary,
treasurer at the annual meeting 9,
that organization in the rooms of
the chamber of commerce Saturday
afternoon. Topics of interest to the
farmers of the county were dis-
cussed following the election of of-
ficers for 1922. Between thirty and
forty farmers, their wives and oth-
ers attended the meeting.
Officers Re-Elected
The following officers were re-
elected to fill the. same posttions
occupied in the organization during
1921: President, John A. Hill; vice
president, J. S. Boothe: directors.
August Foster and C. F. Nauert;
Mrs George Fetter was elected
secretary-treasurer of the farm
bureau for the coming ysar.
Among the other important busi-
ness matters disposed of ad, the
meeting was the selection of’two
delegates to the state convention of
the Texas farm bureau federation
tn be held in Dallas three days, be-
ginning Wednesday. January 4, and
the completion of arrangements
the purchase of blackleg vaccine
for Travis county farmers st a re-
duced coat through the bureau
C. F. Nauert and E V Giles were
chosen as delegates from the Tra-
vis county brganization.
Sam Sparks, president of the Tra“
via county live stock and poultry
shows, announced to the farmers
present the meeting to be held on
Thursday night. January-12. for the
purpose of organising a permanent
? fair association in this county. Mr
Sparks pointed out the value of
the proposed organisation of a
county fair and urged all of the
farmers present to be on hand for
the meeting Thursday night of next
week. He asked for pledges of at-
tendance and about thirty farmers
pledged themselves to attend
Deny Cotton Rumor
in order to correct a rumor re-
Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Dec 31—Presi-
dent Obregon has requested the As-
sociated Press to convey his per-
sonal New Year's greetings to
President Harding and the Ameri-
can people.
During an interview today, he de-
clared that the Mexican government
felt gratified to send greetings to all
nations and peoples who maintain
relations with Mexico.
During his talk with the corres-
pondents on general subjects, the
chief executive lamented the recent
disorders and casualties in the
chamber of deputies. He said,
however, that "fights inside the
chambers are tamer than open field
battles’’
MRS. G. C. WILSON DIES
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Ann Wilson, wife of G. O. Wilson,
who died at 1 o’clock Thursday aft-
ernoon at the family residence, 311
East Twenty-fourth street, will be
conducted from the South Austin
chapel at 9 o'clock Monday morn-
ing The Rev. Father Ross will o-
Relate. The funeral services will
be under the direction of V. O.
Weed, undertaker Mrs. Wilson is
survived by her husband and eight
children.
A “get -acquainted" social affair 4
will be given at the Hornsby-Dun-
lap school Monday evening. ac- •,*
cording to announcement made on • o3
Saturday afternoon by Miss Lucile 3.
Manor teat her in the schoo! The ’ “4
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The Austin American (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 209, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1922, newspaper, January 1, 1922; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1465404/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .