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SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS: SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1915.
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THE TWO FIRST FREE MILK AND ICE STATIONS
flISHOP SHAW MAKES OFFER TO
BOARD OF HEALTH OF NUM.
HER NEEDED IN WORK.
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Visiting nurses for the corral district
nit*'assured. Probably also are I wo. wo men
sanitary inspectors for city work in gen-
eral. In all likelihood the nurses wiii
begin their work today.
Bishop Shaw of the Catholic Church
made the offer of nurses to the Woman's
Club and to the Board of Health today.
, The bishop said that trained nurses from
♦Santa Rosa Hospital would be supplied,
subject to the directions of the Board of
Health. The offer wai accepted formally
and temporarily last evening by the
Board of Health in regular session at the
City Half. I»r. Charles 1). Dfxdn; presi-
dent of the Board of Health, said there
was urgent need of nurses and that lie
might ask Santa Rosa Hospital lor aid
today.
At the regular session of the Board of
Health last evening fifteen women. from
the Woman's Club were present. They had
two great big important points to urge —
visiting nurses and women sanitary in
spectors. And it was a glad group of
women which went away froui the City
Hall with their hearts' desires practically
realized.
The women put the proposition of the
sanitary inspectors up to the Board of
Health, asking that body-to urge the ap-
pointment of two women with the Com-
missioners next week when they take
over their offices. This, of course, was
ill the action that could be taken, but
.vhen the doctors voted on the motion to
:io this there wasn't a dissenting voice.
MANY SUBJECTS BROUGHT UP.
At this mealing many subjects of vital
importance in the germ-killing. clenn-u!»
campaign were considered. It was pointed
out that the Mexican tortilla makers do
not pretend to observe the first rule of
vanitation or cleanliness in their work
.n many instances. Dr. Dixon said he
has seen these women roll flies up in
the tortillas they were - making, and this
was only one example of such things that
lie mentioned. The sanitary inspectors
have a right to interfere in these matters,
and when the doctor mentioned several
instances of this sort the women, espe-
cially Mrs. .1. C. Griswold. urged that
these were just the kind of cases where
women, and not men inspectors, are
needed.
One physician told of visiting two soda
water factories in the corral district. Soda,
he said, is made and sold here two
bottles for 5 cents, and the product is
manufactured in the worst of insanltarv
surroundings. He said he counted fifteen
flies in one bottlo-of pop, and that the
children of the neighborhood buy this
stuff. There is no way of sterilising the
bottles, which are washed in cold water
w hen empty. Pure Food Inspector P. An
derson was directed to get after these two
places, to shut one down until screens are
placed at the windows and a sterilizer is
obtained, and to close the other place
and not permit the man to make more pop
until he gets other quarters.
The matter of recommending to the City
Commission the establishment of a free
milk station, or more than one. came up.
Dr. Theo Y. Hull favored such a recom-
mendation and I)r. L. L. Shropshire ex-
pressed a desire to go on record as favor-
ing it also. He urged that the board at
this its last meeting of the fiscal year
go on record in support of such a project.
As to the need of nurses in the corrals,
the Wesley Community House is in touch
now with twelve sick children under 2
years of age. As much as anything else, it
is said, hunger is the trouble with them.
Also t lie re are numerous sick mothers,
mothers who haven't enough food and on
whom the surroundings are having the
ffcct of making them listless, weary, with-
out energy.
A member of the Board of Health told
of a father and two children in a corral
in the 1000 block on South Flores Street,
where there is no mother. One of the
children, a boy of 8, goes to school until
*is clothes become too dirty and he is
stopped by the teacher. Then he stays at
bome a day and washes his garments. In
the meantime the father goes to his work
tnd the little '-"..-year old baby Is left to
dig" for itself, there being no one to
:are for it.
Oklahoma Town Fireswept.
HUGO. Okla.. May 28.—-The business dls
trice of Clayton, Okla.. a town of 500 peo-
ple. fifty miles north of here, was de-
stroyed bv fire today with n lqss esti-
mated at $25,000, according to reports here.
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San Angelo High Closes.
Special Telorrain to Expr«*g
SAN ANGELO, Tex., May 28.—The grad-
uating exercises of the San Angel* High
School were held here Thursday evening.
The address of the evening was made by
l'rot. Stockton Axson. a member of the
faculty of Rice Institute at Houston. The
,'vadnates of this year are Lela Barfield.
Margaret Clark, Eugene Cochran. Bryan
Davis. Kllet DeBerry. Allard French, Jua
nito tJoodwin, Bryan Harrison. <}ertrude
Heitiler. Ima Hicks. Elizabeth Johnson,
Bess Williams. Krcel King. Mary Ivirk-
patrick, Law Lovelace. Wallace Mason.
Lillian Moore. Walter Ran. Margaret Rob
vrtsou, Frances Rowe, Vernon Shipman,
Mildred Smoote and Emily rimer.
Beaumont Lineman Electrocuted.
BEAT MONT. Tex.. May 28.—J. C. Home,
aged 30, lineman for the Beaumont Electric
Company, was instantly killed this morn
inc by a live wire. He had been sent to
repair storm damage when he picked up
an end of a wire which hung from an
ele'-tric light. Part of the wire was under
liater and he was standing in the water
at the time.
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Freight Train Brakeman Killed.
TEMPLE. Tex., May 28.—W. L. Cooper,
a freight brakemau, aged SM), was crushed
between cars at Copperas Cove, thirty five
miles west of here today, dyiug almost
ii stantly. His widow lives here.
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CALOMEL TODAY
Dose of nasty calomel makes you sick
and you lose m day's
Calomrl »aliT«te»: It's m«r< ur.v. On I -
>mrl acts like dynamite on n ulugfit-n
itver. When calomel comes Into contact
with soar bile It crashes Into It, causing
cramping and nausea.
If yon feel bilious, headachy, constipated
and all knocked ont. Just *0 to your drug-
gist and get a HO cent bottle of IkmIsou s
14wr Tone, which is a harmless vege-
table substitute for dangerous calomel.
Take a spoonful and if it doesn't start
your llwr and straighten you up better
aad quicker than nasty calomel aud With-
out niakinc you sick, you last go back
asd get your money.
tf you take calomel today yon'11 be lick
gad nauseated tomorrow; besides, it mar
m«u vou. while If you take l>odson a
Lint Toae you will wake up ffCJlai.
(teat, fan t£ ambition and ready for work
hanaleaa. pleasant aad safe
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WHY NOT 9
SPECIAL SESSION
MEMBERS OF HOUSE AND SEN-
ATE INDULGE IN HORSEPLAY
TILL AFTER MIDNIGHT.
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K C is pure. K C is health-
ful. It really does make
lighter, nicer biscuits, cakes
and pastry than the old
fashioned single
baking powders.
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No baking powder should sell for more.
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Home of the Citnmllte Sifters, also 011 South San Saba Street end laar the corral district. Early iu the week the Sisters wtl!
begin distributing free milk and ice.
AND DOCTOR READY
TODAY BEGINS DISTRIBUTION AT
WESLEY HOUSE BY WOMAN'S
CLUB—SISTERS NEXT.
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morning and in a systematic, business-
like manner, thus serving the greatest
number with the best results. There were
many women of high social position pres-
ent. :<n<I these were among the first to vol-
unteer for the hardest work, that of .•seek-
ing the sick, locating the suffering fain
ilies ami seeing they are taken eare of.
fhe ill attended and the milk and ice dis-
tributed to them. Mrs. Kdgar A. .Wilson,
a wealthy Monterey (Mexico) woman, who
lias been living some time in San Antonio
since the troublous days after the death
of President Madero, was named chairman
of the committee of inspection, having
charge of this work. Due to her familiar-
ity with the Mexicans and the language, it
is considered an ideal selection, especially
as Mrs. Wilson understands this kind of
work, her philanthropy in Monterey hav-
ing caused her to be beloved among the
very poor.
Dr. Mary c\ Harper will be the physi-
cian overseeing the work, Under her car*
the sick will he treated, the milk prepared
etc., and the babies weighed. The Nathan
Straus plan iu this respect win "oc fol-
lowed, as the full details of the Straus
methods arc in possession of the women
ami have been studied. A trained nurse,
Miss Case. who has had experience in
other cities In exactly this kind of work,
will be with Or. Harper at Wesley House.
A PRACTICAL SYSTEM.
Pamphlets in Spanish setting forth for
the benefit of the mothers in the simplest
lamruage directions for the care «»f babies,
will be printed. Milk cards will iJso be
printed. These cards will read:
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS FI ND.
Public Health Milk Clinic.
Name Date of birth
Address
Endorsed by
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per Hoard of Health.
At the top of the card will be printed the
days of the month under the caption P. M.
At the but torn of the card the days uuder
the caption A. M. As the card I* presented
for milk it will be punched on that date,
morning or afternoon, as the case may be.
The following committees were ap-
pointed :
Milk: Mrs. Clyde Corrigan, chairman:
Miss Adina De Zavala. Mrs. ,1. L. Browne.
let; Mm. O. M. Pnrnswortk, ehnlinil;
Mrs. A. H. Word en, Mrs. Lewis Krams
Deck.
Refrigerators: Mrs. W. L. Dunne an 1
Mrs. t». M. Fa ma worth.
Inspection: Mrs. Edgar A. Wilson,
ehuirman; Mrs. Florida 8narpe, Mrs. Henry
Wofford. Mrs. Maxwell A. kilvert. Mrs. T.
J. Nye. Miss Esther Pcre*.
Circulars to mothers «in Soanish) : Miss
EiumS Pirie and Mrs. O. M. rarusworth.
Atuouk the member* of the. Woman's
Club who launched the life saving work
Mass Meeting Sunday Afternoon;
Called by the Board of Health
A PUBLIC mass meeting will be held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock to
consider the insanitary conditions in the corral districts and dis-
cuss the ultimate results of the corral ordinance that in all likelihood will
come before the City Council Monday. This announcement was made
yesterday by Dr. Charles D. Dixon, president of the Board of Health. At
what place the gathering will be held had not been decided at a late hour
last night., but probably it will be at the Majestic Theater.
There will be a number of speakers, laymen, as well as physicitns
and others. Possible features which should be included in a housing or-
dinance probably will be discussed, as well as general insanitary condi-
tions in the city.
It is desired that everyone who can do so, turn out to the gathering,
so that a big, live, compelling public sentiment can be worked up lor a
sound set of housing laws and for eradicating undesirable insanitary fea-
tures.
at the meeting yesterday are: Mrs. J. R.
Sprague and the following officers and
directors: Mrs. H. P. Drought. Mrs. A. R.
Thomas. Mrs. W. A. Daniel. Mrs. T. J.
Nye, Mrs. George H. Badger. Mr* William
L. Dunne. Mrs. Milton Hllem, Mlns Mary
Bryant. Mrs. Frank llicks. Mrs. A. H. W«*r-
den, Mrs. Leroy S. Bates. Mrs. .loweph
Octzwiller. Mrs. Rena Green. Mrs. W R
McMillan. Mrs. Conrad ScbasHP. Mrs. O. M.
FarnsWorth, Mrs. George Powell. Mr*. W.
P. McCarty, Mrs. Lewis Kratn« Beck.
Mrs. Clyde Corrtgan. Mrs. Frederick 8.
Murphey. Miss Adina De Zavala. Mrs.
J. Noyes Evans, Mrs.. Kdgar Allen Wtl
•oa, Mrs. H. B. Wofford. Miss Emma Pirie,
Mrs. S. P. Skinner. Mrs. J. L. Browne.
The committees lost no time iu getting
to work. Society women proceeded to the
corrals, taking hold of their tasks with
an enthusiasm that recked not of delicate
summer gowus iu the filth and stench
of the alleys and hovels. They hunted
up the sick and took names and addresses.
Through the hot sunshine they wended
their way from house to bouse aad corral
to corral.
Others went out to obtain what was
needed to start the work at Weslej House
this morning. First came the item of a
large icebox to hold the milk.
11. S. Affleck, for (i. A. Stowers, do-
nated a brand new $40 icebox with a
capacity of 100 quarts of milk ami he
sent It last evening over to the house with
the message to call on Stowers tor any-
thing else wanted. N, H. King of the
Klnu Furniture Company also oifared as-
sistance.
o. M. Farnsworth donated another great
icebox, which goes to the Carmelite Sisters'
milk and ice station.
There is no gas at Wesley House. The
milk must be pasteurised, which means
It must be heated. Mrs. Sprague called
on the Household Furniture Company and
was told" to pick any kind of a gasoline
stove she wanted with the compliments
of the company.
Then there came the call for gasoline.
William Stelnhardt of the Crockett Auto-
mobile Company, just as soon as he learned
what Mrs. Sprague desired, said: "I'll
be Kind to furnish all you want. I'll send
you over five gallons at once.'*
S. B. Welter of the Newton, Weller k
Wagner Company whs approached by Mrs.
Farnsworth with the request for a big
boiler for heating purposes. ' Done!" ex-
claimed Mr. Weller. "I'm ' glsd to help
you iu any way possible.'*
The San Antonio Drug Company gave
the weighing machine to weigh th« babies.
Wherever the ladles went they found
the way made smooth for them. Smiles
and handshakes and pleased expressions at
being able to help met them everywhere
from the big, generous men who knew of
their work. .
WHAT THREE WOMEN DID
So 'this morning everything will be in
readiness and the first distribution of
milk and ice will begin.
one of the touching incidents of the con-
tributions made yesterday was when Mrs.
<"on Milburn. Mrs. E. O. Evans and XIrs.
W. L. Matlock turned over to the Wom-
an's Club IKS Several years ago these
ladies were actively engaged in fostering
a project to establish a child's hospital.
The time wasn't ripe. Although tney can-
vassed steadily they collected but $118.
The money has been lying In t>ank. Yes-
terday they decided that here was a
pressing need; that thar coo Id Jo mo bet-
ter than give |HH to Ihe Woman's Club,
the other fib urthe baby eta*
"It's wonderful," sighed Mrs. Sprague
last night. "The women have responded
with an enthusiasm that is beautiful—no
other word describes it. They are going
into this with more vim and enthusiasm
even than they evince in taking up the
winter's club work."
Here is a sample of the letters received
by The Express enclosing contributions:
"Enclosed find check for the free milk
fund. 1 am glad such a movement has
been started and consider it a privilege
to contribute. MRS. B. F. STOl'T.*'
At a meeting of the Board of Missions
at Wesley House iaat evening the follow-
ing resolutions were adopted:
WILL GLADLY CO OPERATE.
"Whereas, The San Antonio Woman's
Board of Mission* «»f the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South is a pioneer in the field
of helpful endeavor for the moral, intel
lectual, industrial and sanitary uplift of
the poor people tn the Mexican district of
this city, and have established the Wesley
Community Home as a center of our opera*
tions; and
"Whereas, We hare in that institution
schools, day and night, where the children
of these poor people are not only taught,
but In* many cases clothed and fed; and
"Whereas, Methodist people are never
beggars nor, as a rule, objects of the
charity of any individual or institution, the
work of our Community Home has b«*en
done In the interest of people other than
Methodists, and in the interests of human
lty. regardless of race, color, political >r
ecclesiastical relations, so that our plant
is not a recruiting station for the church
to wnlch we belong, but a general refuge
for all alike. Therefore be It
"Resolved, by tlie Woman's Board of
City Missions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South in and for the city of Ssn
Antonio. That we believe our Community
Home should have the sympathy and en-
dorsement of the people or this city at
large, and that charitably disposed per-
sons of every name and order who wish
their benevolence wisely and conscien-
tiously appropriated should do so through
the officers of this Institution; and be !t
further
Resolved, That as we have a free soup
kitchen, where many poor people In thi*
community get the only semblance of a
decent repast and by means of the clothes
we furnish them get the only show of
decent dre-=s. that our people at large
should help us with such supplies as they
can, that we may be able to enlarge the
circle of our benevolence; and be it fur
ther
"Resolved. That we endorse the course of
the San Antonio Express in its brsve and
valorous effort to better the sanitary con-
ditions in the neighborhood of our Com-
munity Home, and for its bold and fearless
advocacy of a cleaner and better city from
every standpoint whatsoever.
"Resolved. That we call upon ail minis-
ters and Christian people of all denuasi-
A1STIN, Tex., May 29. With uo
quorum in either brunch, the first
called session of the Tiilrty-foiiith
Legislature adjourned without date at
VIA! o'clock this morning. Congres-
sional redisricting died with the ses-
sion, despite heroic efforts to put a
bill through. Several other measures of
State-wide importance went a similar
route.
The last of toe free conference re-
ports on appropriation bills was not
adopted in the House until after 31
o'clock aud more than an hour's delay
was entailed in Its enrolling. The Sen
ate marked time and put on a passing
show fur hours.
Staff Special to The Express.
AUSTIN, Tex., May 28.—Continuous
vaudeville was substituted for legislation
In both branches of the Legislature early
tonight, and at 11 o'clock there was slim
prospects of sine die adjournment of the
first called session utitil after midnight.
The delay was due to the slowness of the
House in adopting the free conference re-
port of the miscellaneous section of ttic
general appropriation bill, and in an effort
on the part of the free conference on con-
gressional redisricting to devise a bill
satisfactory to a majority of both
branches. The redisricting bill re-
ported by tMe Tree inference this morning
was adopted by the Senate, but failed in
the House late today when, by a vote of
tlO to 54, it was recommitted to confer-
ence.
The vaudeville entertainment began In
the Senate at N o'clock and in the lower
branch a couple of hours later. Every-
body who could be cajoled into doing so
made a speech, and some who could not
qualify for a few remarks of an entertain-
ing character had either to sing of de-
claim. All sorts of legislative Jokes were
perpetrated and the usual grist of nonsen-
sical resolutions introduced and read. The
floors of both houses w^re crowded aud
the galleries well patronized, and all agreed
that the show was worth the price.
CLARK PRESIDENT PRO TEM.
Dr. I. E. Clark, Senator from Fayette
County, was elected President pro temporg
ad interim late in the afternoon. The
nominating speech was made by Senator
Hudspeth, who rescrlbed the doctor as "a
man with a heart as big as his body," and
whose "bold John Hancock to bills can-
not be deciphered by anyone but himself."
Me concluded: "I do honor to myself and
to tills Senate by helping to bestow the
honor on the Senator from Schulenburg."
Dr. Clark Is an anti. but the pros sup-
ported him to a man. and he was elected
unanimously. The seconding speeches on
the part of the pros were made by Sena-
tors Townsend and Lattiiuore, while Bai-
ley of DeWitt added a few complimentary
remarks from the other side.
in accepting Dr. Clark told the Senators
that. In case the Lieutenant Governor
should lenve the state on a bridal tour and
the Governor should go to San Francisco
lie would be called upon to fill the Gov-
ernor's chair. "If any of you should get
into trouble in the event I become acting
Governor. 1 don't want you to go to the
Board of Pardons, but come straight to
me." the new presiding officer concluded.
Dr. Clark presided most of the time at
tonight's session and was strict in the en-
nations to give us% their sympathy and
support, inasmuch as we are workers—
common workers- for the general good.
"Resolved. That we will gladly co operate
with the City Board of Health and other
agencies calculated to ameliorate the pres-
ent condition of those for whom we have
labored so long and for whom we rejoice
to labor in the name of him who 'went
about doing good!'
"MRS. R. L BALL.
"President City Mission Board.
"MRS. CLAUD J. CARTER.
"Chairman Housing Committee.
"MRS. HARRY HUST,
"Vice President City Mission Board."
forcernent of the "Schulenburg rules," and
that accounted for much of the vaudeville
iu the upper branch.
Talk of another extra session immedi-
ately following this one ceased altogether
tonight but t lie re is reasonable certainty
of one being called before the end of the
year to deal with the prison system and
other Important matters. Governor Fer-
guson sent Ids final message to the Legis-
lature tonight as follows:
GOVERNOR'S FINAL MESSAGE.
"To the Thirty-fourth Legislature in
Called Session: I beg to advise that I
have no other matters to submit for your
present, consideration.
"However, I do take occasion to reiterate
inv cordial thanks to the individual and
collective membership of this Legislature
for their continued co-operation in the
passage of those laws which have for their
purpose and effect the betterment of man
kind, especially those pertaining to popu-
lar education.
•i Vave learned to appreciate the per-
sonal acquaintance of the membership of
the Legislature generally: and I can truth-
full v say that, notwithstanding the strenu-
ous' times and situations which have con-
fronted us, I entertain for every member
of both houses nothing but the kindest
feeling and regards. Respectfully sub-
"JAMES H. FERGUSON, ,
"Governor of Texas."
The chief work of the session and the
thing for which the Legislature was in
voked primarily was the passage of the
general appropriation bills for the ad-
ministration of the affairs of the State for
the ensuing biennial period.
HUGE APPROPRIATIONS.
The grand total of the appropriation
bills is $1I,S84,5CT, approximately, divided
u.i follows: ^
For the judiciary, $2,163,602: for the
eleemosynary institutions, $1,049,460; for
educational institutions, $4,504,106; for mis-
cellaneous claims against the State, $097,-'
007; for the departments of state, $3,169,-
In addition to these large amounts the
following items are carried iu separate
bills: For rural school aid, $1,006,000;
to pay current expenses of the prison sys-
tem, $465,000; to build a new blind insti-
tute, $300,000; to purchase land in Wash-
ington County on which stood the first
Capitol of Texas, $10,000.
This, together with some smaller items,
brings the total of the various amounts
appropriated at the current session up to
the great sum of $10,700,000, approximately.
Bills enacted in the regular session carried
appropriations totaling about $1,40U,000.
This Increases the financial work of the
Thirtv-fourth Legislature to the aggregate
of $18,000,000 to be taken care of by the
taxpayers of Texas.
MEANS BIG TAX RATE.
This means a State tax rate of approxi-
mately 27 cents for general revenue pur-
poses.' or the highest in the history of tne
State, according to deductions made by
Senator Cowell, chairman of the Finance
Committee of the upper branch. The high-
est tax rate heretofore levied in Texas for
general revenue purposes was 2.1 cents.
Two vears ago Governor Colquitt pruned
the general appropriations down to $12,-
000,000, approximately, and this in part, at
least, explains the great aggregate the
present Legislature was prevailed upon to
appropriate. The aggregate would have
been almost a million dollars greater if the
outstanding indebtedness against the
prison system had been taken care of. and
another ' million might have been added
to liquidate in-county witness fees in
felony case?.
Nobody can foretell what Governor Fer-
guson will do with the appropriation bills.
Friends of the various departments and
State institutions contend that only urgent
necessities have been provided for and
therefore to trim any of the appropriations
will be a crippling process. It is being
urged that the boosting of the tax rate is
the most serious element In this connection
that the Governor will have to ponder.
In a speech before the Senate tonight C.
C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General,'
in discussing the accomplishments of the
session, pronounced the bill carrying $1,-
000,000 iu aid of the rural schools one of
the greatest pieces of constructive legisla
tlon ever enacted in Texas or any other
State.
In the current session fifty-seven bills
were introduced in the Senate and seventy-
three in the House, and probably two-
thirds of them were of a purely local char-
acter. Approximately half the 'measures
Introduced were enacted finally and sent
to the Governor for approval.
IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED.
The more important measures enacted,
in addition to the appropriation bills, are:
Bill appropriating $1,000,000 in aid of ru-
ral schools; bill appropriating $.">00,000 to
build a new Blind institute: Galveston dry
dock bill; bill regulating the business o?
co-operative savings and contract loan
companies; interurban consolidation bill;
hilt placing dock and channel companies
under the Railroad Commission in the is-
suance of stocks and bonds; bill requiring
posting notices of sale of real estate under
deeds of trust for a period of two weeks;
increasing the pay of jail guards iu cities
of 40,000 or over; bill relieving the Sugar
laud Railroad from constructing track iu
Fort Bend County ; bill creating a commis-
sion to investigate Inequalities oi property
renditions for taxes in the several coun-
ties; bill providing for the appointment of
special agents to collect the insurance tax;
bill authorizing the purchase by the Stato
of the site of the first Texas canltol in
Washington County; bill re-enacting the
"butcher law"; bill granting paid firemen
iu cities of 25,000 population or over one
day's vacation each week: bill declaring
prairie dogs a common nuisance and pro-
viding for their destruction at the expense
of land owners; bill extending the time for
paying principal on sales of land belong-
ing to the common school and other funds;
bill validating all common school districts
heretofore created; bill providing for re-
demption by the owner of laud heretofore
or that may hereafter by sold by the State
for taxes.
Important legislation that, failed includes
the Gibson insurance bill; the administra-
tion bill limiting the interest rate to be
charged on farm loans by life Insurance
companies doing business in Texas to 7
per cent; the State highway and county
highway department bills; amendments to
the warehouse law: bill amending the law
creating three additional normal schools:
bill providing for the placing of a slab of
Texas granite in the Washington National
Monument; the McNealus resolution pro-
viding for the calling of a constitutional
convention.
Probably a third of the bills passed dealt
with Independent school districts, county
road laws and the time of holding court in
various districts.
Uvalde Masons Elect.
Special Telegram to The Express.
UVALDE. Tex., May 28.—The following
Masonic officers have been elected for the
ensuing year:
Fort Inge Council W. A. Manguni, T. I.
M.; N. B. Pulllam, D. I. M.; B. .1. Moore,
P. 1. IV, Percy Hector, treasurer; O. A.
Gardner. R; William Evans, C. G.; B. J.
Moore, C. C.; J. E. Phillips, S.
Fort Inge Chapter, It. A. M. W. A. Man-
gum, H. P.: F. M. Moore, K.; A1 Mills,
scribe; Percy Hector, treasurer; J. E. Phil-
ips, G.; N. B. Pulllain, C. H.: William
Evans. It. C.; A1 Manguni, master third
veil; B. J. Moore, master second veil; J. J,
Stroman. master first veil.
Uvalde Lodge, A. F. and A. M.—H. P.
Hornby. W. M.; B. .1. Moore. S. W.; E. .1.
Stroman. J. \V.: .1. C. McBride, secretary;
George E. Brashear, treasurer; W. A.
Jones, T.
Agnes Chapter, O. E. S.—Mrs. May Neil-
man, W. M.; F. S. Weaver, W. I".: .Tania
Stroman, A. M.; Mrs. Nina McBride, C.;
Miss Zoe Bunting, A. S.; Bertie Griner, sec-
retary; W. A. .Tones, treasurer.
All the above officials will be installed
June 24 at a joint installation.
Falfurrias O. R S. Entertains.
Special Telegram to The Express.
FALFURRIAS, Tex.. May 28.---Thursday
evening Falfurrias Chapter No. 146, Order
of the Eastern Star, had as its guest Mrs.
Stella M. Vodrle, deputy worthy grand
matron of Texas. Supper was served in
the Masonic Ilall and covers were laid for
thirty. The table was bountifully laden
and beautifully decorated with flowers and
the colors of the order. After supper the
evening was spent in a pleasant social
intercourse, and in a school of instruction
led by the distinguished visitor.
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