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EMS WOMAN LEAPS SIX STORIES TO DEATH
SISTER-IN-LAW OF FORMER
Let’s ‘Bust’ The Barns In ’26 - Central Texas’ Slogan For New Year
eather
GOVERNOR HOBBY DIES III
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ture.
PLUNGE FROM WINDOW
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
-tee None.
AustinManKilled By Blast
Austin
Short Stories
His daughter, Miss
iy morning.
Venus Of Austin
left for Point
atherine Parker.
ESCAPE DEATH
With Heavy Cold
dent Coolidge was
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luncheon at the Driskill hotel.
measurements most closely cor-
statue of “Miss America,* beauti-
bronze by
fully wrought in
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Ex-Austin. Man Gets Big Office
MIRS AMERICA.
Clarence Saunders Enters Austin
AUSTIN BOY HELD
ATTORNEY FEES
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BAM!
afternoon by auto-
igston.
with him
Sherif Binford took
P
son.
NEW YORK TRAIN KILLS TWO
$00
Quinn, fireman on the passenger
Masons To See Letter Written By Geo. Washington
and' the idenl» of
the standing
The
the newiy ounded shrine.
ed to extort hush money from him
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Pre Dispateh te
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TEMPLH, Feb. 18.—John A. Er-
Don't
Stuatenman.
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Yett Orders* Scandals'
Pictures Off Streets
COUNTY TRAFFIC
COPS OPPOSED
LOT
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SALESMAN SAM
HITS FLORIDA
One Family Rescued
After BeingCovered
Up By Snow.
[ J. W. Parker, whose home was at
OS East 24th street, but who was
teacher in the school at Point
Label, died at that place Wednes-
Austin Lions Name
Committee To Act
In Matter.
He was the father of John A. Er-
hard Jr, Dallas attorney. ...
All
ments
dsy
called.
noted sculptor, and
375.
two tellers from the Channel State
bank, but they failed to identify
them an members of a gang that
robbed the bank in broad daylight
of 88688.
Calvin
Coolldge
ONLN ONe
MORE..
LEFT 1 -
before lodging hie complaint
TEMPLE COTTON MAN DIES.
Ernest Sledge Quizzed
In Bank Robbery.
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Body Of Will Harmon
Badly Mangled
By Explosion.
left Wednesday
mobile for Livin
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Council Pays Cofers
Last $500 Due
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elded that they would bo consid-
•red before action would bo taken.
Feb. 18.—1- -----------
of the erew and passensers on the
Trinidad goverment steamer Ns-
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mining company.
Only 19 of the known dead had
f .——---------- rasthe
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farge tourine car overturned at a
brldke over Villaxe creek on the
Man afield road, south of t own.
11 Persons Die In
Sranish Shin Wreck
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SoLD
Ciarence Saunders. famous as head of the Piggly Wiggly stores. and
later ss the head of a chain of grocery stores under his own name,
will enter the field in Travis county, it was learned at the Lons club
luncheon Thursday.
R F. Howard of Austin, son-In-law of Dr. Frederick Eby here. is to
Austin tem-
peratures (from
7 a. m. Wednes-
day to 7 a. m.
Thursday)!
Maximum, 80.
Minimum, 50.
Average, 65.
Precipitationt
Final payment to Cofer & Cofer,
attorneya, for representing Mayor
W. D. Yett and the present city
council "old guard" members In op-
posing putting Into effect of the
city manager form of government
has been made. Warrant for 1500
rAsnelated Pte Diapateh to Statenmen.1
PORT OF SPAIN. TRINIDAD.
Ute boom have been written. t
now comes the FUN pictured
the comio strip. “SAlesman am
Following Sam Howdy’s adv
tores in "tbs land wbere winter
> almost) always summer." T
Jack Garrett, in the bond busi-
ess in Dallas, and known ss ths
host popular man on the campus,
Fhile in the university. spent yes:
erday with his parents, Judge and
Era. Garrett.
Myron O. Blalock of Marehall, at-
orney. former University of Texas
tudent. brother of ■ Richard Bia-
pek, now president of the univer-
Uty student assembty, was at the
apitol Wednesday.
Judge O. S. Lattimore to Harria
bardner: "The only thing I don't
Fish for Austin In 1926 is that the
oetors and lawyers will have a
reat deal of business."
I Mies Ruth Nuckols Wednesday
horning Inerected Travis county
arm women’s kitchens in ths bet-
er kitchen contest now on.
I A Comanche county tribe is the
bewest organisation on the campus
if the university. Members sre all
from Comanche county.
I Walter Simma: “I don't know
lny baneball new, a-tall, but I know
fm sure having trouble finding fish
lo buy for my market."
I George MeNeeley of Texarkana
k hero on business with the city
Fommiasion in regard to opening of
kids for a new fire engine.
I Hum H. Cumminge of Denieon
kan here Wednesday before the
pourt of criminal appeals arguing
L case.
possibinty that the 'unidentified
bodies were those of persons list-
today as the trio who ran from the
scene of the automobile wreck
Tuesday night in which two young
women were injured. one werlousty.
Two of the boys gave their ages as
16 and the third aa 81.
Miss Mary Bentley, fl. one of
ceivea his education in the public
schools of Austin and in the unl-
versity where he took his taw de-
gree. Up to the time of the war,
he was an attorney in El Paso,
Texas, after he left here, and on
returning from France he continued
his professlon in Los AIngeles.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Richardson
of 1111 West Sixth street are the
parents of the recent appointee. W.
H. Richardson Jr. of the Richard-
son Hardware company is his ons
brother, and he has two sisters.
Mrs. H. B. Hil, now residing in
South America, and Mra N. E.
FItsgerald of Knoxville, Tennessee.
Mother Of Christy
Mathewson Dies
Tenne—e. ___
Loss Of Water On
Rio Grande Mystery
Causes lot an enormous loss of
wster In the flow of the Rio Grande
between Eagle Pass and Laredo are
being sought by C. t Ellsworth of
Austin, district engineer of the
United States Geological survey.
Ellsworth and his asststants in
a motor boat are travelling the 150
miles between Eagle Pass and La-
redo. stopping every few miles to
measure volume of the flow. A. h-
Dunlap, a member of the atat:
board of water engineers, declared
the alarming loss in the flow had
been noted for a number of years,
and that Ellsworth and his party
are engaged in an undertaking that
may be worth millions of dollars to
owners of irrigated lands along the
Rio Grande valley.
Bids On New Fire
Pumper Received
parimo, perished when the steamer
was sunk in a collislon with the
T amport and Holt liner Vandyck in -
•the harbor here yesteray. a train.
Opposition to the invasion of the
city limits by county motorcyole
officers, and in the methods of
these officers in enforcing speeding
laws in the Del Valle precinct by
arresting motorists in Austin and
sending them to Del Valle to pay
THREE OTHERS Contest To Discover DEATH TOLL IN Pres. Coolidge
- - - - SLIDE GROWS Goes To Bed
F. L. Orman, who was called to
Jallas to attend the funeral of his
rother, S. H. Orman, who died
torn injuries received in an auto*
nobile accident, continues his stay
ecause of the critical illness of his
bother's widow, Mrs. S. H. Orman.
so Instrumental in strengthening
fines, was voiced by the Austin
theatre, will conduct a contest to
determine who is the Austin
' young woman whose figure com-
pares most closely with that of
Fay Lanphier, who won the title
of “Miss America” at Atlantic
City last year.
To enter the contest, all one has
to do is take her own measure-
ments and send the figures to
The Statesman Venus Contest
Editor. The young woman whose
husandeh “er.uanrshumngonrom A LionsiclubThursday.in theweekly
After Auto Wreck
tAwoetated Pre Diwpateh to Rut—••!
FORT WORTH, Feb. 1«.—Three
S
Mey
equal number of persons missing
waa the toll early today of the
avalanche that overwhelmed the
Highland Boy mining camp in Sap
Gulch near here, yesterday.
Officials directing Ae search of
the scrambled ruins of a score of
buildings, ons a three-story frame
boarding place housing 50 persons,
expressed the belief that in the
neighborhood of 70 lives had been
lost.
Frank A. Wardlaw. superintend-
ent of the Utah-Delaware Mining
company, which operates the High-
land Boy workings, made up a list
of 29 missing persons, which in-
! eluded only the owners and lessees
। of houses destroyed. He was un-
able to say how many other per-
sons might have lived in the cab-
ins, although it is known that some
alien boarders not employed by the
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satraspttenuncnedteniotowultstrinr Three Youths Held
the young women. Is still uncon-
scious and chances for her recov- [Associated Press Dispateh to Statesman.l
ery are considered doubtful. Miss
Hasel Tinney wee only slightlv in-
hired in the accident. in which r
the Chamber of Commerce as a t , ;
club was voted, as well as $60
as the club’s part in sending Travis
county club boys and girls to the
state contests at the Dallas air.
After considerable debate a com-
m it tee composed of Bob Lyles, Lee
Thrift, Al Devinney and Howard
Bull was named to confer with au-
thorities of the Blind Institute la
regard to the Lions club putting on
musical programs there for the
(Continued On Psge Eight.)
Water Department
Report Accepted
The report of Water and Power
Commissioner C. N. Avery for the
month of January. 1926, was ac-
cepted by th. city couneli Thura-
The report showea 9799 water
meters, HIS light meters and 885
power metera uned during the
month.
Receipt, for the month were $60.-
564.33 while the disbursements were
but 888,888 61.
Reiterating that there was no
cause for alarm or any relapse in
the president's condition. Secretary
Sanders said Mr. Coolidge had de-
cided to remain in bed in the hope
that the cold could be controlled.
First effect, of lllnesa were in
evidence Tuesday night when the
president, at the last moment, de-
cided not to attend a dinner given
in hla and Mrs. Coolidge’s honor at
the home of Secretary Davin of the
war department. Yesterday, after
a brief turn at hi. desk. engage-
ment, were cancelled and he re-
tired to the white house to rent.
Later, however, he returned to his
office for an hour’s work and after-
wards took a short stroll around the
white house grounds.
Major James F. Coupal, the pres-
ident’s physician, is in attendance.
Mr. Coolidge, from time to time
has taken treatment from a Wash-
ington nose specialist, but of late
has not appeared to be bothered in
this respect. ________
SCRANTON, Pa.. Feb. 18— Mra.
Gilbert B Mathewison, 70. mother
» of the late Christy Mathewson of
* baseban fame. died today at her
home In Factoryville near here.
Mra. Matheweon became ill last Oc-
tober soon after ths death of her
Austin and Central Texast To-
night fair, cold-
sr; Friday fair,
rising tempera-
Methods Opposed.
Members of tffe club voted to
have a committee draw a resolu-
tion and to appear before proper
authorities in regard to the praC-
tices of motor cops. It waa made
clear at Ue meeting that Ue club
stands for law enforcement but
that it does not spprove Us me-
thods used by Del Valle precinct
officers in arresting persons within
the city limits of Austin in order
to "secure the $4.80 fee from such
fine,” John Cofer. Eddie Cravens
and C. D. Jessup were named on the
committee t draft the resolution
expressing the sentiment ot ths
club. .
Thursday’s program for Austin
Lions was again jammed with en-
tertainment and business. Rev. F. 9
Roesner, pastor of St. Martin s
Lutheran church, who had been
scheduled to address the club, post-
poning his speech until a later dat.
J. W. Chapman, song leader, opened
the program by leading Ue club in
several songs, with Miss Katherine
Whitten at Ue piano.
♦ ♦ —
Doo Wields Gavel.
B. F. Rowe assumed the pres!-
dent s gavel for a tew minutes in
the absence of President Harris
Brush. After a short statement he
passed the gavel to Dr. A. W. Grif-
fith. who wielded it with enthus-
iasm during the remainder of the
meeting
President Griffith then called on
Secretary Horace Barnhart to give
a report from the directors of the
club. The recommendation of the
directors that the Llons club join
over the nation during the last year, vgutha, aryested.b datnsttrea
eath reached the family, but
Lacked Point Isabel after her fa-
Ler’s death. She will arrive► to
kustin Friday morning with the
ody and funeral arrangements will
e announced later.
Max Bickler, Austin’s Major
toople, is teeming with ideas that
e received from the untmitable Will
Eogers, who appeared in Austin
[uesday night. "I think he waa
[ery good, and hts- humor is of a
Fpe that Austin seldom gets a
[hance to hear." Bickler said
Vednesday morning.
I Berry Whitaker, Austin’s leading
log fancier, is busy guarding seven
flooded fox-terrier "pups” that
lave been added to his collection
it pedigreed dogs, and which, he
kys, will follow right in Ue foot-
lops of Uelr sire and take off
Conors in the shows within Ue
text year or two.
■ The Young Men'e Business league
leasts s long list of attendance
■rises including gifts from Buford
Esll and Edgar Hall of Ue Hyde
fork Floral company, Mert Guyer
If the Queen theatre. Garnet Lewis
It Ue American Cleaners and Dyers
Eid J. H. Parker of the Parker
ervice station.
I No successor ha, been named for
■falter Jannert. director of the Aus-
Bn Athletic club, who is re-entering
Ie real estate game in San An-
Ento. Will Caswell has called a
Leeting of directors for Thursday
afternoon to consider the matter.
I That Seventh street ravine is
Boon to be no more. City workmen
Fhursday were at work repairing
be sink in the pavement between
Eongress and Brazos on Seventh
Fhich has caused misery to many
Lutolsts.
of stores under Ue motto "Clarence
Saunders. Sole Owner of My Name."
The stores have been scattered all
tAmmoelated r— Dlepateh te Statesmen
HOUSTON, Feb. 11. — Having
failed to connect them with Mon-1
day’s robbery of Ue Channel State
bank here. Sheriff T. A. Binford is j
holding two men and a boy arrested
at Livingston Wednesday for in-
vestigation.
The trio gave their names to the!
sheriff as W. T. Adams, U. of
Madisonville, Texast C. H. Livings-
ton. 19, of Comanche, Okla., and
Emeet Sledge, 16, of Austin, Texas.
They were arrested by Sheriff K.
D. Holliday of Polk county on sts-
piclon. Holliday immediately noti-
fied Sheriff Binford, and the tetter
were can-
•ngage-
for the
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Bergdoll Claims
Hush Money Asked
IA-eetated Pr- Diapaten to StateemeI
MOBBACH. Germany, Feb 18
Grover Bergdoll, American draft
THE Scottish Rite bodies of
- Austin hold s document that
will evince particular interest
during the week that has been
deslgnated for a statewide cele-
bration of George Washington’s
birthday, this document being a
letter written by George Wash-
ington himself—the only one in
htstory who served as Grand
Master of his lodge while in
office.
This letter was given to the
Shrine by Mrs. Wm. R Clark of
New York, three years ago. It
wan In the posnenston of her
father, Dr. Chas. B. Morse, up to
his death in 1002, who was for
many years clerk of the supreme
SISTER-IN-LAW OF
FORMER GOVERNOR.
LAasoclated Presa Dlpateh to Statesmmam.1
DALLAS, Feb. 18.—Mrs. Sadie
Hobby, who fell to her death from
the window of a sanitarium in Bat-
tle Creek test night, was prominent
in social and club affairs here. Her
husband is a brother of former
Governor William P. Hobby. She
had been ill for some time from
nervous trouble but lately had ap-
peared much improved. Before her
marriage she was Miss Sarah Fran-
ces Webb, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Y. Webb.
Mn. Hobby was a native of Min-
den, La., and was educated in New
Orleans and Dallas. She was in-
terested in athletic pursuits and
was a member of several golf clubs,
the Dallas Athletic club, and was
a member of the swimming com-
mittee of the Dallas YWCA.
She had been in the Battle Creek
sanitarium about four weeks. Her
his bed, suffering
from what white
house officials
said was s heavy
cold.
valued at
bankers' meeting at Houston, where
he was notified of her death. He
left for St Louis where be expect-
ed to join Mrs. Webb today.
Trial Of Story
Again Postponed
TAmoelate4 Prem Dispateh to Statesman-
GAINESVILLE. Feb. IS.— The
trial of Nathan A. Story. Denton
county farmer, on a charge of mur-
der in connection with the killing
of Fred Crain near Krum some
months ago, was postponed today
because of the illness of three state
witnesses. The case will.be reset
st the next term of district court.
This is the third time it has been
continued bince being tranaferred
here from Denton county on motion
of District Judge R. Pearman.
HOUSTON SELLS BOGGESS
IA-oclated Prem Dinpateh to
HOUSTON, Feb. 18.- Lynton
Boggess, a Waco boy /who has been
plsying third base for the Houston
Buffs off snd on for the last two
seasons, has been sold outright to
the Syracuse club of the Interna-
tional league.
to the attorneys totaled 31,000, mak-
ing the total amount paid out of
the general contingent fund $1,500.
The warrant issurd Wednesday
bore the notation: "Balance due for
legal services upon final determina-
tion obligation in the matter of
Charles B. Cook vs. W. D. Tett,
mayor, et al; and W. D. Tett st al.,
vs. Charles B. Cook, et at*
1 GASOLINE PUMPS.
Permission was wanted by the
city council Thursday to R. L.
Rather of the Willard Battery sta-
tion to install three gasoline pumps
with underground tanks at the cor-
ner of East Fifth and San Jacinto
streets, following the acceptance et
the report of the safety committee,
which is composed of R. F. Rock-
wood. W. E See holm and C."E
Leonard,
Will B. Harmon, Austin ranch-
man. 508 West 31% street, was
killed in a blasting accident near
Dripping Springs Thursday morn-
ing shortly sfter » o’clock. Pre-
mature explosion of a charge of
dynamite 'used in ble sting stumps
caused Mr. Harmon:s death, accord-
ing to a report given to The Austin
Statesman by members of Mr. Har-
mon’s family.
♦ ♦ ♦
Three Others Escape
with cases to sll the federal cour’s
of the country.
Mr. Richardson was reared in
Austin, having come here with hie
family when a small boy. Hs re-
The Austin man with three other
men of the Dripping Springs com-
munity, was engaged in clearing
a new ground near Mount Varner
when the accident occurred. He
left the home of his brother, Harve
Harmon, early Thursday morning,
and was idled by the dynamite
blast a abort time later. It was
stated. With Mr. Harmon at the
time of the accident were Harold
Darnete, Basil Darnett and Pave
Watkins. The body was badly
mangled by the heavy hlastane
dynamite, reports from Dripping
springs said.
Funeral Hold Up
Mr. Harmon’s body was being
held at . the Mount Varna farm
pending the arrival of relatives,
and the completion of funeral ar-
rangements. It was atated. Mr..Har:
mon was a Mason, member of Hill
City Lodge No. 458. SurvivinK rob
atlves include three dausihters. Miss
. Valentine and Miss Qulda Harmon
d of Austin. Mrs. B. MeAnees of Aus-
" tin. and a son, Oscar Harmon of
bel when news of his sudden
Second prize will entitle ths
winner to be the Majestie’s spon-
sor in the coming ball by the
Stone Mountain Memorial coin
organization, as well as a three
months' pass to the Majestic, end
third prize will be 15 cash.
Entries should be made not
later than 8 o'clock Monday after-
noon.
J. C. Lynch has returned from s
rusinesa trip to New York where
is purchased spring goods for the
L C. Lynch store.
Ocoee Caget “I’m going te eek
'or my money back. Some one
iwiped my butter at the Exchange
letter itmeir te an acknowledgment
of the president of an address
that was delivered on his phe-
nomenal activities during the
war, and in it he writes: “To
hsvs been, in any degree, an In-
strument in the hands of Provi-
dence, to promote order and
union, and erect upon a strong
foundation the true principles of
government is only to hsve
chared with many othera in a la-
bour. the result of which, let us
hope, will prove through the eges
a banetuary for brothers and a
lodge for the virtues."
The program that will be pre.
scoted by UM anaonie bodies et
WASHINGTON
Feb. 18.— Presi-
Austin during this celebration
week, starting st 7:80 o’clock
Friday night. te as follows:
Invocation, Rev. A. L Aulick.
Purpose of the meeting ex-
plained by E. J. Smith, worship-
ful master of Hill City lodge.
"America," sung by the Ma-
sons.
"Ideate and Purposes of Am-
sonry." Dr. George Green.
"George Washington, the Man
and the Mason," J. H. Hart.
Invocation. Rev. Mr. Aulick.
Musical numbers bavs been ar-
ranged which will include a vocal
soil! by Mra. Louise Reuter and
a quartet composed of Manoms.
Hull. De Viney. Griffiths and
Horner.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1926.
(Amoelatea Puen Dipateh to Statesman 1
WATERTOWN, N. Y. Feb. 18.-
..nMPan; "memSr: Two men were killed today when
W anU Prsoneermon’ere a New York Central pngseneer train
ran head-on into a freight train
near Caster Lake station. The dead
are W. Bell, engineer, and J. C.
BINGHAM, Utah. Feb. 18.—
hard Sr. 81. prominent Temple -----------.
cotton man, died here last night, cumie appears daily
Rev. M. J. Allen has rsturned to eaken on Ino •u -------
Is home in Austin from Kingsland gention of Mayor Yett It was de.
here he conducted a series of 5 ffc-, 4a would be consid-
eetings in the Methodist church.
*3"**
respond to those of "Miss
America” will be adjudged ___ - — .—---
Austtn's Venus and will recetve • dbeen identified sliiT fWerv
head the Saunders stores in Travis
county, and has secured the Saun-
ders franchise. It was announced at
the luncheon, when Mr. Howard was
introduced. The Travis county
stores will be operated under the
name of the Howard Stores, Inc.
Clarence Saunders lost control of
ths Piggly Wiggly stores in s nerles
of sensational stock manipulations
MATOR W. D. YETT Thursday
-L Instructed Chief of Police J.
N. Littlepage to hsve the pic-
tures ndvertising George White’s
"Scandals.” which have heen
placed on Austin street corners
in the burinesn district, removed,
"because the streets may not-be
used as advertising space.”
"The pictures themselves are
all right." the mayor said, "and
are no more nude than the or-
dinary person in swimming, but
If we allow the pictures to be
placed on the streets by these
people we will be smothered with
demands from other persons
aeeklng this method of adver-
tising."
ed as missing and believed dead.
On that basis, With only 35 missing,
the final death toll would be in the
neighborhood of 53.
♦ ♦ ♦
Family Rescued Alive
The rescue workers, numbering
more than 50. were spurred on in
their : ttack upon the debris by the
finding slive of Jimmy MacDonald
and his wife, owners of the board-
ing house, after more than 14 hours’
Imprisonment under the wreckage.
A miner heard their faint cries
coming through the snow and splin-
tered timbers. Calling for aid, he
dug and chopped his way to them.
Both were conscious. MacDonald,
with a badly injured hip. had bur-
r zed his way a distance of sev-
eral feet to his wife, who was
pinned to the wreckage by a tim-
ber over her left arm, which was
broken, y
Every effort thus far has been
bent toward recovering those bur-
led beneath the debris snd succor-
ing tfe injured survivors and those
who have been made homeless. The
slide began two miles from the lit-
tle settlement more than a mile
above sea Iavel in the Oqutrrh
mountains, when the freshly fallen
snow slipped from its resting place
on sn earlier fall that had become
crusted. As it zig-zagged Its wsy
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Petray have
noved from 808 West 22%’
o 808 Lotend street. South Auntn.
A. D. Boone; “It takes a foot
nmera to ennp a picture of the
owboys’ bucking flivver.”
Harry Notem “Harris Bell to the
worst men in Auotin about break-
ng appolntmentn."
Sid Pomey: “We Open a keg of
islls over at the Walter Tips com-
winy every day."
M. M. Crane, former attorney
general, who resides in Dallas, Is In
kustin Thursday.
Harrie Belli “Harry Nolan will
never keep an oppolntment"
E. T. Manlovet “Business to good
tor thio period of the year.”
"Mias Mery Moody of Taylor to
visiting her brother, Dan Moody.
George Armiated, a resident of
Houston, to here today.
Major John C. Towrs of Houe-
Ion le In Auolln.
B. M. King of Houlton to in Aue-
Bldo on fire engines were, read
at the city council meeting Thurs-
day and both Charles SUmp. rep-
resenting the Seagrave company _______
and A. J. Goetz, representing the was isaue Wednesday to the law
American LaFrance company, no- firm and receipted for by John D.
scribed their engines. The Bea- Coter.
grave company bid offered a model previous warrants issued as fees
780 triple combustion, six cylinder,
180 horse power pumper, hose and
chemical engine for 818,000, and the
American LaFrance company bid
offered a six cylinder, triple com-
bination pumper, hose and chemical
engine for 312.500. No action was
taken on the bids and at the sug-
Austin’s Venus is going to be
discovered.
The Austin Statesman, in con-
junction with the Majestic
dodger, in his preltminary exaraina- onAmeriene re"upent koma“nna has
" aryiaed.itmntoriru-rot lota
who brought the charges, attempt- Eorie LtJut the Florida real ...
" to nItor huh money from him FACTS about the Florida real
' LA-soeiated Prem Dispeteh to Statenman-]
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Feb. 18.—Mrs. Sadie Hobby, 88, wife at
Edwin Hobby, Dallas investment banker, leaped from the sixth floor of a
sanitarium here to her death yesterday afternoon. The coroner stated a
tendency to exaggerate small worries caused the woman to make the
leap. Mrs. J. W. Webb, her mother, had been nursing her. Hobby hav-
ing returned to Dallas on business.
Edwin Hobby is a brother of W. P. Hobby, former governor of Texas.
Thirty-five known dead, with an confined today to
Nows has Just been received by the relatives of Julian A. Richardson
of Los Angeles, formerly of Austin, that hs has been appointed assistant
United States district attorney, and will be for the present attached
to the district attorney’s office In Los Angeles. This position entaUs
the’ prosecution of all mail fraud cases, and puts M. Richardson in
charge of tha mail fraud division,1 — ' -
court of Texas, snd who found-
ed snd named the Ben Hur
Shrine, serving st ons Ums an
potentate of the temple. On the
reveres side of the totter is found
"Presented by wintam H. Adams,
G. L. of Pa. A. Y. M., Philadel-
phia. Pa.." and •'Presented to
Bro. C. B. Morse 32nd degree.
Galveston, Texas, by Fred Web-
ber. a3rd. Oct ». ’81." The let-
ter was in a delicate state of
preservation but has been framed
and is much prized by the Ma-
sonic bodies here
The Washinton society and
eaverat Individuate In New York
have been very much interented
in getting this document, but
Mra Clark chose to present it to
Uto ode "her bar father "a"
MISS AMERICA’S FIGURES.
Height ........5 feet 6 Inches
Neck .......... inches
Arm ...........10 inches
Waist 28% inches
Hips ..........27% inches
Thigh .........20 inches
Calf ........— 13%2 inches
Ankle .........8 inches
Weight ........ pounds
Bust ........—34 inches
Ths figures above represent
the measurements of Fsy Lamp:
hier, (Amerjcan Venus) who won
the title of Miss America test
year st ths Atlantic City Bathing
Beauty contest.
Second Oldest Daily Newspaper in Texas Established Aug. 1, 1871
Italy Bids For French
Aid In Next War
ra.melated Press Diapateh to Statesman-
ROME, Feb. 18. — "Italy and
France have every reason to be al-
lies rather than enemies. In the in-
evitable war which everyone de-
precates but which la already pre-
dictable by so many nigne" de-
clarea LImpero, extreme tancist pa-
per, today in denying charges by
enator De Kerguezec that Italy la
embarking upon the largest of all
naval construction programs.
Aerial Ambulance
Burns With Patient
(A^stoS Pr.. Dtpateh to Statemman.1
CASABLANCA. French Morocco.
Feb. 18.—An airplane ambulance
bearing a native wounded soldler. to
ths honpital here from the Rirrtan
sone fell In flames today near
Kanba des Tadia. The pilot
mechanician, surgeon snd patient
were bbfned to death
PHILADELPHIA—Coolidg, boy-
hood anecdote by Ernent C. Car-
penter of New Haven, once his
school master: Mother Coolidge
suggested much noap and water
when Calvin came home dirty one
day. "Wen." said Calvin. Tvo
known people to get drowned in
l water," "
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