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Newspaper
Mobile Tribune
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1918
Page
18
The Pleasure Bay steamer will depart Sunday at 9 am for points across the bay. It announces that all round trip ticket buyers will be assured a return home Sunday night, even if two trips are needed. Stops include Battles, Fairhope and Magnolia Beach.
At Lyons Park the Fourth celebration includes water sports at 4 pm with judges and ribbons, then a boys' baseball game and mixed athletic events. Miss Austill Miss Miller and Miss Johnston organize for the War Camp Community Service with Y M C A staff coaching drills. Bayou Street and Franklin Street playgrounds also plan youth activities and a community sing with parents invited to participate.
The Camp Shelby 113th Infantry Band will perform in Mobile on July 3 and 4. They appear at Bienvite Square, the Lyric Theatre mass meeting, and a dance at Monroe Park for servicemen and the Patriotic League girls. Other community events include Soldiers and Sailors Club entertainments, canteen activities, and a Gulfport Elks Home club opening for soldiers and sailors.
A detailed column outlines arrangements for the Fourth of July festivities, including parade routes, staging areas, safety measures, program timings, and participant responsibilities, signaling a coordinated community event.
The Model Welding and Black smithing Company demonstrates the oxy acetylene system saving metal on fuel oil tanks by welding riveted seams. President M B Scholtes and Captain E V Pickley showcase uses on rivers Alabama Warrior Tombigbee Ten s aw. Government officials monitor extend ed repair and installation work amid front line needs.
In Mobile the United Cigar Store leads with girl soda jerkeresses as a drawing card at a new soda fountain. A glow of gendered labor and wartime duty threads through the piece, noting workers in shops and a looming choice of work or fighting as July 1 approaches.
Members of Mobile Sunday School Association District No 2 are called to meet at 3 pm Sunday with the Prichard Sunday school contingent. The second district includes Prichard Whistler Mertz Plateau Wheelerville Crichton Toulminville and Meyers Memorial.
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