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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 19204 •
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M’WRIGHT DEVISES PUN
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CITY WILL SPEND OVER
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Rain which began falling in Austin
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the Navy League; and he is a life mem-
ber of the American Defense Society.
One of Major Littlefield’s donations
to the University of Texas was the
Wrenn Library, which cost in cold cash
OVER AN INCH OF
RAIN IN AUSTIN
Ask for
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CASES ON CITY DOCKET
were made by one motorcycle squad
on the Lake Worth road Sunday. The
number might have been forty-one,
but one motorist made a successful
dash for freedom while being escorted
to the city jail.
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put together, was found in-a trunk In
a Fort Worth hotel early Monday
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More than forty autoists were sched-
uled to appear before a Fort Worth
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of traffic rulations. All the arrests
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Made from native herbs that grow
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When the publication known as
“Texas—The Country and Its Men"
—was given to the public of the South- ■ Qualities Removed. New
land by L. E. Daniell, the latter had " -F
the following to say of Major Uttle-
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Three traffic cases were disminsed
Wednesday morning by Police Judge
A. L. Love upon motion of Assistant
City Attorney W. J. Crider, while two
others were postponed to Wednesday's
session of the city police court. The
esse of a negro boy charged with ma-
liclous mischief was transferred to the
juvenile court.
Most of the traffic cases now com-
ing before the court are in connec-
tion with the running of nutomobiles
with cutouts open or without the re-
quired number of lights. Activities of
motorcycle policemen In an effort to
reduce speeding have been successful,
and the court record shows a decrens-
Ing number of speeding cases each
week
ute for his good deeds well done, and
the following was truthfully written:
Tribute on Retirement.
In the retirement of Major George W.
Littlefield from the regency of the Uni-
versity, the institution loses a man
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CUUMCUP
Shakey’s University of Texas orches-
tra furnished the music that trans-
ferred the Texas Rotary special
into a “palace of harmony** according
■to a dispatch from Fort Worth. The
dispatch says: “Jazz reigns, while glee
hails the gang, and everybody is out
for a good time.” The baggage car
Fwas used as a dance hall by the Ro-
tarians on the trip.
t A i» r1 Maj. Littlefield Celebrates
Texas News Bnefs| 78th Anniversary of Blrth
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field:
George Littlefield, eldest son of
Fleming and sildrer Littlefield. was
born in Panola Couny, Mias, June 21,
1842.
His father was a native of Tennes-
see: his mother of the State of Georgia.
Hl. mother was Misss Mlired T. Satter-
white who married first John H.
White, by whom she had six children
five boys and one gIrL Mr. White died
in 1838. In 1841 the widow married
Fleming Littlefield. a cotton planter
who immigrated to Texas in the fall
of 1850, settling on the rich land of
the Guadalupe valley fifteen miles
above the town of Gonzales, where
he soon after had several hundred
acres under cultivation.
Fleming and Mildred Littlefield had
four children, George being the oldest.
The others were Mildred M., who
married Theo. E. Harrel; Fleming who
died in Infancy, and Wm. P. now a
resident of New Mexico.
When the family settled In Gon-
sales county, it was a new country.
Schools were scarce and the father
employed a competent tutor to in-
struct the children. In 1812 after a
protiheted illness his father died of
pneumnoniq and was buried with Ma-
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morning. The empty half
jars, and one fillea with i
whiskey were Mined. '
“de- nauseated" calomel
The remains of John J. Terrell
reached Austin yesterday at 2:18. and
the funeral will take place from 'the
residence, 207 W. 21st St., this after-
noon at 6 o'clock. Interment Oakwood
cemetery.
E. C. Bartholomew. There was a little
rain at various times during the night,
it seems, but the first and last down-
pours were by far the hardest, the last
one being over at 3 o’clock.
No general reports were secured con-
cerning the rain, which is believed to
indicate it was not very general.
Farmers and business men alike,
commenting on the downpour, express-
ed a hope that no general rain has
fallen nor will fall for some time yet.
as the present growth of crops, as can
be witnessed by merely a short drive
to the country, promise one of the big-
gest yields ever produced in practically
all portions of Texas beard from.
Commissioner Harry L. Haynes Is-
sued a call Wednesday for bids for
supplies to the various departments
of the city hall for the six-month per-
iod beginning July L Bids will be
accepted up to 12 o'clock noon of Mon-
day June 28, he announced.
Supplies needed by the city and (or
which bids are being asked are as
follows:
Feed for livestosck owned by the
sanitary, street. and fire departments.
Cement and lumber for the various
departments.
Printing of city oridnance and other
notices.
Undertaking service for white and
colored paupers.
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for all kidney, bladder and pros-
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to slowing health! Price $1.20 at
all druggists.
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morning, and generally ailing, these are
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take care of your health.
Four persons tn every ten are need-
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When you see thin and fretful people:
or those who are anaemic, pale, frail,
oft deepondent or lacking in energy,
you may look for the need of certain
elements that make for a strong con-
stitution.
Some people, after relying upon prep-
arations composed chiefly of salts, qui-
nine, drastic drags. iron, calomel. cod
liver oil, etc., wonder why they find
no benefit That Is easily explained
by the fact that such persons need the
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potent essential to health, and con-
tained in Bitro-phosphate, the famous
health preparation. Now obtainable
everywhere.
The right thing for you to do is make
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at once. It is not a patent medicine:
the formula is prescribed by many
physicians for the ailments and weak-
nesses mentioned above.
With every box of BItro-Phosphato
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. Arrangements for entertaining the
State convention of postoffice clerks
to be held July 4 and 6 at Fort Worth
- have been completed, it is announced.
Delegates will tour the city in auto-
mobiles, take a trip to Lake Worth,
and be the recipients of a banquet
served by the Fort Worth Chamber of
Commerce and postoffice employes.
"dhlef of Police Porter, of Waco, has
issued a decree that all weeds in that
city must go. “Such patches are dam-
aging to the pride of the city, are
(breeding places for flies, bugs and mo-
quitoes, and are generally unsightly,**
i according to the chief’s ideas on the
subject.
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During the great war, though suffer-
wh^ W^J^ght^nto the 2ustness nrigtomm“*usgfrcrsrsua"tegsas”t
the board, a man wRoS busines Judg- Ao. bAspeonaain 808,000.05
menu Involving millions, were founded worth of Liberty Bonds, he contributed
on faets and learned in the hard school neariy 119,000.00 to the American Red
of experience... ... . . I Cross; he is enrolled as a founder of
Major Littlefield is a man who has - - .....- —
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In reply to the argument of owners
of vacant lots in the city of Austin
that they are unable to comply with
the city ordinance requiring that rub-
bush and weeds be removed on ac-
count of the shortage of labor. City
Sanitary Inspector A. Y. McWrIght
has announced that he will obtain
workmen for any persons who notify
him of their needs. The inspector
agrees to obtain laborers, who will re-
port to the property owners for instruc-
tion in connection with the cleaning up
of the vacant lots. The laborers must
be paid for their services by the own-
ers o fthe lots, he says.
By Associated Press.
PARIS, June 23.—The jewels of the
late Gaby Deslys, the famous French
dancer and actress who died last Feb-
ruary, were placed on exhibition here
today preliminary to their sale on June
28 for the benefit of the poor of the
city of Marseilles as provided in Mlle.
Deslys' will.
Acoring to connoissers, the collec-
tion comprise the finest assortment
of pearls ever seen in Paris. Although
diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds
and other precious stones are ade-
quately represented, they are not quite
so coinspicious, the dancer’s hobby be-
ing pearls.
One necklace contains 56 pearls val-
ued at several million francs and
there are two pendant pearls weighing
109 grammes each, being absolutely the
same in size and weight Another
pearl, black in color .weighs 140 gram-
mes, while there are seven other pearls
weighing from 70 to 100 grammes each.
All the pearls were selected and
matched with exquisite taste.
tions which were crystalized in a stren-
uous and dramatic school of experience
—L the life of a Texas Ranger in
Texas pioneer days, and that of ranch-
man when the cattle ranged unfenced.
Such a life as this produced a char-
acter which would eventually express
itself in community life thereafter
wherever he lived.
"Sympathetic citizenship" might apt-
ly be applied as his attribute with
respect to the faculty and student body.
Major Littlefield’s first gift to the
University of Texas was the Littlefield
Fund for Southern History—a history
he has helped to make as a soldier in
that brave band of Texas fighters, Ter-
ry's Texas Rangers—a history he has
seen twisted and turned by ignorance
away from the ideals of the South. He
has given generously, and is still giving,
that letters, records, and papers may be
brought forth from musty nooks to
prove to the world that the ideal for
which the South fought showed—
“Nor purer sword let braver band.
Nor braver bled for a brighter land.
Nor brighter land had a cause so
The Texas Roadbuilders' Association
began its semi-annual meeting here
today, with leading engineers and road
builders from various portions of the
state in attendance. The association
will be in session today and tomorrow,
and is being presided over by R. V.
Glenn, vice president.
At today’s session three interesting
and instructive addresses were deliv-
ered. J. M. Howe, county engineer of
Harris county, spoke on "Shell Roads,
Methods and Cost of Maintenance**
Charles A. Clark, district engineer of
the Portland Cement Association, de-
livered an address on "Recent Practice
in Concrete Construction." while Coun-
ty Engineer J. M. Isbell of Wichita
county delivered an address on "Coun-
ty Bidding in Their Highway Work.”
The visitors will be tendered a moon-
light excursion on Lake Austin this
evening, which includes dancing and
a luncheon. There are several inter-
esting addresses to be delivered tomor-
row.
In response to a telegram of inquiry
from G. E. Martin, chief detective of
the Austin police force, to 1. A. Lyons,
chief of police at La kb diaries. La.,
for a deseription of Victor Godfrey, al-
leged forger who escaped from the
Iake Charles jail last Sunday, the for-
mer received a reply Wednesday night
giving a full description of the man.
Godfrey is alleged to have forged
checks in Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas.
Houston, San Antonio and Galveston.
The description follows:
"Victor Godfrey, alias E. H. Cox,
alias John T. Murphy, is 5 feet 6 inches
tall, weighs 110 pounds, and is 28 or
24 years old. He is naturally dark
complexioned, but his skin is bleached
from confinement He has dark hair,
sharp, dark eyes, protruding forehead,
small features and small hands. He
was wearing a ruby ring at the time
of his escape.”
>250,000.00. besides the setting; a bit
of interior decoration, dignified and
elegant, the finest specimen of its kind
in the South, upon which no one has
been able to estimate the cost, and he
keeps silent This library alone is of
untold value to Texas because of its
rare and costly treasures of the book
world. Scholars will come here from
other continents to see the books of
this wonderful collection.
Major Littlefield is a man typical of
Texas. He came here in the pioneer
da ya living through three wars; he
engaged as a mere boy, in carrying on
the business of his widowed mother’s
plantation; then when reverses came,
he gathered cattle and took them across
the old trail to Kansas, when he began
the fortune that has grown with every
year of his life; later he went into the
banking business in Austin. Experi-
enced as he is in the three big enter-
prises of Texas, agriculture, stock rais-
ing, and banking, he has business judg-
ment of rare power.
He organised The American Na-
tional Bank of Austin in 1890 with a
capital of >100,000.00. He is the only
man who was with the bank when it
was organised. His title now is
“Chairman of the Board.” The small
bank on East Sixth street has devel-
oped into the skyscraper on Austin’s
principal corner, and the capitalisation
has grown to 1700,000.00, with resources
over $10,000,000.00. . , , .
The genial, courteous "Major” will
lways be held in high esteem by the
faculty and student body of the Uni-
versity of Texas.
A Second Acknowledge.
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1 Pullman cars bearing Austin and
TWichita Falls Shriners en route to the
Portland, Ore., council spent several
(hours in Amarillo last week. While the
train was in the yards fifty members
of the Austin and Wichita Falls bands
paraded the streets of Amarillo, playing
popular music.
Waco Qetectives say that indications
point to an organized cabal or “fence”
'for making away with stolen cars in
Texas, They say that any kind of car,
however, except a Ford, may be located
with comparattve ease. “When a Ford
car is stolen it seems to fade away en-
Hirely." .______
'Til bet a five-spot on the boxer In
the red trunks." an enthusiast remarked
to the man sitting next him at a bout
in Dallas Sunday. "II bet my police
badge against IL" the man sitting next
Bun replied. It is not recorded that the
Mt was accepted.
Nor cause a Chief like Lee."
It was in this same spirit he donated
$40,000.00 for the Jefferson Davis mon-
ument on the Davis Homestead in Ken-
tucky. His latest gift to the University
is a Memorial Arch, not yet erected,
commemorating Southern history
whose cost will be in the neighborhood
of $300,000,00.
A warrant for 8108,052.50 was issued
Wednesday morning by City Clerk Joe
Hornsby to D. H. Garey, city treasur-
er. This sum of money, to be drawn
Irom the city’s interest and sinking
fund, will be used in redeeming certain
aerial bonds coming due on July 1,
and in payment of interest o napproxi-
mately $2,000,000 of the city’s out-
standing bonds.
In addition to this the city will pay
839,000 only 1 In taking up 33 of the
old water and light refunding bonds
as well as 3500 for Interest on 7 sewer
certificates. This latter expense, tot-
aling 333,500 will be carried out of the
wate rand light department’s earnings
fund.
sonic rites as a Royal Arch Mason In
the family burial grounds on the plan-
tation. His widow continued the cot-
ton planting business, and being recog-
nized as an excellent business woman
meet with success and continued to
increase her property, up to the Civil
War in 1881.
During the war her home and purse
were always open to the Confederate
cause. At the close of the war Mrs.
Littlefield liberated 200 slaves. She
died at Gonzales June 8, 1880.
George was sent to school at Gon-
zales when twelve years old for two
years. He then entered Baylor Uni-
versity at Independence in Washing-
ton where he remained 10 years.
In 1858 he was called home to assist
his mother in some busines matters
and at that early age showed evidence
of characteristics which have since
made him famous in commercial life.
He remained at home until the out
break of the Civil War. At the age
of 19 he enlisted in Isham G. Jones
Co., of B F. Terry’s Regiment.
On Monday, June 21, 1320, Major Geo.
W. Lttletield, one of the leading citi-
zens of Texas, and who has for several
years fostered and nurtured Austin's
interests approximately the same as he
has his own, observed in a quiet man-
ner the anniversary of his natal day.
He was seventy-eight years of age on
Monday and at that time a number of
hie nearest friends called to visit him
for at least a short time and congrat-
ulate him not only because it was his
birth anniversary, but because of the
fact his years have been spent so use-
fully, hie directions to men of his age
as well as younger ones have always
been to a higher course of duty, be-
cause he has done for Austin and her
citizenry so many noble deeds, especi-
ally for the last thirty years, while be- ,
tore that time he was one of the stal- 1
wart and proeressive builders of Texas,
whose deeds and philanthropic teachings
have left lasting impression upon all
with whom he baa come In contact.
What Others Believe.
When Major Lttletiela resigned as a
regent of the State University, it was
with deep regret that his resignation
was accepted. A recognised writer was
selected to produce an article to bei
printed in the Longhorn Magazine, of'
State University, that might extend to
Major Littlefield at least a partial trib:
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