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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1916
Page
5
The county tax equalization board meets to hear complaints and adjust assessments on recently revalued property. Mrs. Annie Luttrell leads dressmaking services for the season offering dresses skirts and waists. Ullman Bros.
Omega flour stands at the head of all flour and has lasted over seventy five years without tarnishing its high reputation. Orris Flour is recognized as the very best flour produced.
Cotton quotes at 12 3 4 cents in the local market with no sales recorded. An Orris flour advertisement urges buyers to use the best Orris, claiming quality that has stood the test for four decades.
William Fox presents Miss Nance O Neil in The Witch a film adaptation of Victorias Sardou The Sorcerere set in Mexico directed by Frank Powell with lavish color and romance. The Savoy screens tomorrow.
An advertisement touts an electric self propelled floor surfacing machine that can restore old floors and improve new ones. It promises smoother, level results with no high or low spots and claims to be cheaper than hand finishing. The copy mentions contact details for J. Moore and R. Moore Cavnet Macer.
Troop Two from Anniston returns after two weeks at Camp Waldrop near Morrisville. The boys report good health and hard earned tans after daily strenuous exercise and an enjoyable camp experience.
The obituary recalls Judge Randolph of Anniston who served on the city school board for seventeen years and as United States commissioner for the district from about 1893 until his death. He was postmaster for four years and led the Grand Army of the Republic in Alabama. Survived by wife and six children, his funeral is at Grace Episcopal Church with burial in Hillside cemetery. Pallbearers named: R. Herts, A. Drayton Sproull, A. P. Atee, J. L. Winkle, George Cater.
Chief Lon Phillips declares the city better than since its founding. Judge Creen notes the police docket is the lightest in the city’s history with only two arrests for drunkenness in two weeks, both by transients from Gadsden. No whiskey in Anniston and tigers tied to bootlegging appear extinct.
The scene grows with more militia companies as the inquiry continues. Judge A B Foster of Troy, assigned by the twentieth circuit, arrives with outside judges to ensure state power behind efforts to locate Judge Lawler’s murderers. Funeral services for Judge Lawler are held at First Methodist Church with many attendees unable to enter. The body lies at Maple Hill Cemetery near Monte Sano.
An Anniston labor union telegram urges Alabama Power to relocate its general offices from Birmingham to Anniston citing local investment and community benefits. Kenyon, company manager, has been tied to the New York visit and a possible Chamber of Commerce barbecue with President James Mitchell as guest.
A quiet elegant Roman wedding joined Miss Inez Mott McCraw of Oxford and Mr. John Young of Clinton South Carolina on June 15 at Mr and Mrs Jesse N McGhee’s Rome Georgia home. The ceremony was conducted by Dr G G Syd er with a reception to follow. The couple will reside in Clinton South Carolina after a two week auto trip.
The Woman's Missionary Union of the Baptist church led the Sunday evening service with a May meeting program titled My Money and Missions. Leaders read scripture, sang, and discussed Individual Giving and Systematic Proportionate Giving, concluding with The Deacon's Tenth.
Headquar ters for Jank Anniston Alabama offers to buy scrap iron broken automobiles scrap copper brass rubber grain bags rags bones paper stock and all other jank. Sunshine and Levinson phone 897 Anniston Alabama.
S Sunstine and Levinson advertise purchase of magazines newspapers and all kinds of waste paper targeting schools libraries banks and offices. They urge institutions to sell their surplus print material to the firm.
Calhoun county will furnish two infantry companies with Oxford and Piedmont as the only units in the section. The Piedmont company joins the Fourth Infantry, with Weyn C Turner, formerly a clerk in the Aniston post office, as second lieutenant.
Map shows Austro German forces withdrawing in Bukovina as Russian advances push westward about twenty five miles to Demidovka. Rivers Bhyr and Atypa crossed in several places while the front lines and Brasov’s attack directions are depicted for May.
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