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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1909
Page
3
Names and origins appear as Mr. T Stapleton Crosby Ashford J W McIntyre from various towns visit the city. Miss Kave Mattiett returned from Albany. Mrs Sale and Miss Ida Reid visiting Abbeville. Other locals like W L Lee from Columbia and J P Rodney from Ashford noted in attendance or travel.
Mrs H C Forester visits Montgomery and Farnsdale and Dothan while Mr J Bayne hosts friends. Duth topics in Tampa and a town spell of illness keep residents mobile. A trip along St Andrews Bay is suggested as a social outing for prominent locals and their guests.
Residents and visitors listed from Mev to Auburg arrive in the city, with reminders to subscribe and change routes. Local church ladies plan an Apron Sale at the Singer Sewing Machine Office to benefit the Headland Avenue Baptist Church Building. Some misprints mention weekly subscriptions and a public notice to help with household aprons for nurses and cooks.
On Friday evening at eight thirty Mina Strickland invited a number of friends to celebrate her sixteenth birthday after a game of stealing partners introduced by Miss Hattie Mae Sellers.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt will return to Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay for the winter and plans to sail for America about November 1. She previously intended to stay in Europe and travel the Nile in the spring but later changes keep the family stateside this season. The Roosevelts, with three children, will spend time at Miss Carew’s villa near Rome and visit France before resuming U.S. residence.
A nine year old writes to Governor Smith begging mercy for his father Louis Millic ons of Port Gaim es who faced the gallows. The governor commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment, citing case merits and the appeal from the child and his sister Etta.
Cards and pencils were used to carry on conversations during the gathering. Refreshments and punch were served as guests, including Miss Pitgkland and petite maids in empire dresses, admired by many presents and well wishes from attendees.
The notice lists tobacco lots including Brown Mule at $3 per box and mentions other gool grades selling for $1.50 per box, with sign-off by FJ Weathers.
During a Saturday dinner on the courthouse lawn labels prepared to feed many, a man canvassed attendees to learn how many would eat the meat. He found about one in ten men and fewer women liked it, concluding the event failed to feed a crowd with items they wouldn’t eat at home.
Uncle Henry Clayton spars in Congress on the tariff bill saying its text is not yet written and it is being crafted by a Rhode Island senator known for tobacco chewing. The chair rebukes him for commenting on another chamber while Clayton ends by noting excessive caution as guiding rule.
A painting by the Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad shows a young woman in a bathing suit near the Central depot. Some criticize the design as ill fit or out of balance while others defend it as a small civic gesture. The painter and chief ramrod WF McClellan face no direct response yet. The piece prompts readers to support the town with simple, positive words.
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