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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1915
Page
4
News service report from a Mobile Alabama bureau notes circulation figures for the Mobile Item Company. The item details distribution and agency data across the region.
Mobile hosts a busy week as the Mobile District conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South gathers in the city along with delegates from Odd Fellows lodges. Daughters of Rebekah meet in Odd Fellows hall tonight and bankers from Group 7 of the Alabama Bankers Association convene tomorrow.
The Mobile Register says the Friday mass meeting at German Relief Hall will focus on financial relief and bond issues to aid Alabama, not on the liquor question. It urges Democrats to support Governor Henderson and unity, noting many Henderson friends in Mobile County and stressing cooperation over discord.
A fragmentary note warns that Crichton suffered a fire and cites a previous disastrous blaze. It urges nearby suburbs to bolster fire protection and public duty to defend communities against destruction.
Atria growers in Mobile county organize into two citrus corporations as steps toward cooperation. The Item notes the risk of friction with multiple nearby groups but urges broadminded unity under a central exchange to strengthen shipments and ensure growers receive fair dues from their output.
The South is developing its cattle sector with Mississippi shipments from Lucedale to East St. Louis and a K. C. Lumber Company purchase of Hereford heifers. Mobile expects three thousand cattle from South Florida to fatten for Sumter county markets, signaling wider Alabama growth.
Local call to support Alabama rural canning clubs urging readers to buy home produced canned goods. Emphasizes moral encouragement, market expansion for garden products, and superior handling and freshness of home product items. Encourages patronizing community club products to boost output and morale.
In Gulfport Mississippi on April 7 the circuit court jury ruled for Captain Gause in the Handsboro marshal dispute. The verdict proclaims him marshal again, succeeding W A Loposser who won Handsboro’s office in last November’s town primary by twenty five to twenty three. Gause had served ten years as marshal and his supporters are pleased. The suit claimed illegal votes in Loposser’s election.
The Gulf Coast Horticultural Society will hold its annual meeting in the Harte auditorium at the Y M C A on April 27 and 28. President W H Reynolds announced there will be annual reports papers read illustrated lectures and election of officers.
Lecturer J E Toomey of Mobile Council 666 calls adjourned K O C Boosters session for Thursday at 7 30 p m on St Joseph street. Right Rev Edward P Allen bishop of Mobile will attend and deliver an address with talks on the good of the order. Musical entertainment planned and refreshments to follow the session. Strong attendance expected from members.
In Honolulu on April 7 the tugs Navajo and Intrepid secured a solid hold on the submarine F-4 with a two and a half inch cable. The line was transferred to the dredge Gaylord, and plans call for four cables to be attached, two fore and two aft of the diver, before raising the submarine with pontoon scows nearing completion by week’s end. The scows can lift 520 tons in total.
In Montgomery on April 7 Special Kk. R. DeFuniak of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad testified before the commission in Mobile Chamber of Commerce charg es that higher rates under tariff rule 2229 violate the rate agreement. He will resume today as the hearing likely extends for several days.
The Alabama Supreme Court heard oral argument on an anti liquor advertising case appealed from Mobile city court. The Mobile Item challenges the law similar to recent rulings in Montgomery and Birmingham. The state won prior Mobile and Chapman rulings. Birmingham and Montgomery decisions favored the state, with Miller ruling unconstitutionally.
Theo Lacy, former chief clerk of the state convict department, serving ten years for embezzlement, was denied a rehearing by the court of appeals. The court issued rulings on many applications and about twenty decisions. Lacy’s case was decided months ago and may go to the supreme court on a writ of certiorari.
A revolutionary movement started in Esteli by Liberal party members. Government troops were sent to crush it and to prevent revolts elsewhere. Except for Esteli the country is quiet. The Liberal executive council is said to have no connection with the revolt.
The Methodist Episcopal church conference for New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland and Virginia opens in Washington with over three hundred in attendance. Sessions last seven days. Election officers are the main business on opening day and Secretary Bryan is expected to address the gathering Thursday night.
Fifteen hundred men who had been refused further relief by Vancouver city council attacked restaurants and fruit stands. Police arrested five men and a mounted force dispersed the crowd. details indicate a stormy scene in Vancouver on an April 7 report.
John Hamilton argues that his club attendance shows interest in his social circle and that married life shifts focus. Isabel questions the change and the couple faces tension as he returns to his old life at the club, while friends note a common postmarriage pull back to prior habits.
Dr and Mrs R Van Iderstine of Loxley attend Baldwin county medical board meeting in Fairhope. Ed Long family from South BendInd arrive and plan to settle, renting a house until a farm is purchased. Clean-Up Week at Organic High School sees students and teachers tidy streets, burn trash, and plan waste paper receptacles. Library Association holds annual meeting at Dr E C Slasgow home with officers elected and library growth noted. Twenty four members and 4,000 volumes mark the library’s impact on residents and winter visitors.
Amusements notes hail George Kleine's Du Barry as a superb six reel adaptation with lavish costumes and scenery. Mrs. Leslie Carter headlines a renowned cast, praised for dramatic acting and a tightly told six thousand foot narrative shown at the Empire. Lubin Stars tomorrow feature Ethel Clayton in The Unmarried Husband.
A 75 000 dollar adaptation of the novel Atlantis plays today at the Crown Theatre with an all star cast. It features a dramatic shipwreck and six thrilling parts. Tomorrow’s feature is Mrs of the Cabbage Patch based on Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch and Lovely Mary with Peters and Beattiz Michelena in a famous opera pairing.
W. Reynalds hosts E. C. Rauth of St. Louis secretary of the National Association of Talking Machine Jobbers during a Southern visit. Rauth plans a continent spanning trip to the San Francisco Exposition in July and urges jobbers to join the large procession.
Officers named include James T. Burns as president O P McEvoy as vice president John J Sullivan records secretary John M Clark financial secretary O Bush land examining keeper Dr John Charles Medicus physician Morris Joseph chairman relief committee Henry Williamson custodian. Membership listed as 275 with a fine street in the home area of Royal Dauphin and Conti.
Milwaukee residents vote on the wet or dry question across nearly one hundred Wisconsin cities towns and villages. The hottest campaign unfolds in Madison Janesville Beloit and Superior as citizens weigh local alcohol rules amid a volatile election day atmosphere.
The annual Group 1 Alabama Bankers Association convention will be in Mobile with a Thursday auto outing touring South Mobile citrus groves, a Thursday banquet at the Cawthon Hotel Vineya, and several addresses by J B Fike, J Leslie Taylor, and George A Maloney. The business session occurs Friday.
George E. Murrell horticultural agent of the Southern Railway urged planting shrubs and trees along sidewalks and lawns during a Mobile Floral and Horticultural Society meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night.
The Mobile Item notes Wilton Weiss Willie Hughes Dorothy Griffith and Joseph Kelly born in April ages 9 10 11 and 13 respectively. It invites them to a birthday picture party at the Empire Theatre this afternoon with tickets mailed and asks other April birthdays to send full names addresses and birthdates to the Children’s Editor at the Mobile Item at least two days before their birthday.
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