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Newspaper

The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Apr 11, 1915

Page

12

Home Garden Association Cultivates Vacant Lots to Employ Unemployed

The Home Garden Association reports 147 applicants enrolled and uses vacant city lots to train and employ unemployed residents. Five teams plow, harrow, fertilize, and fence lots with donated tools and seeds. Prizes from Gulf Coast Fair and the Association reward best gardens. Demonstration plots for schools and charities expand the program with 75 cents per day for workers and no land usage charges.

Home Garden Associa I. Q. Norton Pitation Secre Rooms E Cunningham Hardware Company ey-Cavanagh Hardware Co Einacker Brothers van Antwerp Drug & Seed American Seed & Implement Co Southeast Corner Water Dauphin Streets Conover & Rutherford St. Francis St Geo. A. Maloney Association Home Garden Association Ta Ce H. Gabriel Old Shell Road Reed Avenue Gilbert Messrs J. K. Glennon C. M. Coffin Aubrey Boyles Philadelphia

Acre Lots Near Rail Line Offer Ocean County Frontrunner

Five minutes from salt or fresh water fishing, four miles from iCoden, on Dau kin Island development, proposed Shore road electric line will pass property. Lots cleared plowed planted to cowpeas. Ideal for fruit garden or poultry farm with restricted three acres per person. Community building and income not guaranteed. terms to refined, responsible buyers.

iCoden Daukin Island

Community Notes From Deer Park Alabama Aglow With Spring Events

Local visitors pass through Deer Park on various business and social calls. Milicent Best hosts a birthday dinner while Miss Best joins Irene Shanholtzer Davie Richardson and others in a School Improvement Club play, followed by dancing. Easter egg hunts delight Deer Park Methodist Sunday school children as Quitman Turner leads early egg finds.

Deer Park Ala Ben O'Daniels Exshee Mobile and Ohio Guy Turner Early Baxter Vinegar Bend Grimes Chatom Sigert Mobile Mobile and Ohio Railroad Henderson Milicent Best John Beshel Prichard W. R. Leon Walter Hamil School Improvement Club Young Peoples’ Dramatic Club Millicent Best Irene Shanholtzer Davie Richardson R. C.stanford Eben Rawls Harold Best R. C. Stanford

Reverend Adames Describes Picture Play in Mobile

In Jackson Alabama on April 10 special report says Rev S A Adams led chapel and described a fine picture play in Mobile. Mr Charlie Primm is in Grove Hill on business. Agricultural School girls may sell vegetables from their plot to raise funds for Sunday school.

Jackson Ala S. A. Adams Mobile Charlie Primm Grove Hill Agricultural School

Theodore Alabama Church and Community Notices

Rev George W Carpenter filled a Sunday night pulpit as Rev C D Berry attended due to schedule. A social at the home of Mr and Mrs H M Whiten drew many. A play by Theodore school is planned for next Thursday at the W O W Hall with notable local attendees listed.

H. W. Bolton Walker Theodore Baptist Church Cc. C. Rowell Rowell R. E. Spragg Mann Ala Mobile Ohio Chas. Sumerlin Dothan H. M. Whiten Misses Hattle Carrie Gertie Avil Bolton Inez Emith Vera Stella Benjamin Grace Louise Pollard Naome Campbell Mary Burfett Mordacai Roberts Esther Ruth Horn Mary Sadie Purvis Dora Jackson Messrs Dr. Walker J. W. Cook U. S. Fincher P. W. Fincher Andrew Owen Henry Pollard P. Gray S. A. Anderson J. H L. Anderson Gaylord

Hines and Neely Wed In Toulinville Rites

George Otto Hines and Miss Bertha Marie Neely wed in Toulinville on a Wednesday night. They received cut glass and silver gifts and plan a bungalow on Davis Avenue near Charles Rosette’s store.

George Otto Hines Bertha Marie Neely Robert Neely Davis Avenue Charles Rosette C. M. Lingle Anna B. Hail Woman's Christian Temperance Union First Baptist Church Study Club Joe Stone Mobile Ethel Giddings T. M. Smith

Fraternal groups plan meetings and initiate members in Mobile

The report details Woodmen of the World Maple Camp No. 5 activities with new members and a year-end financial snapshot. It notes plans for a general Woodman Day celebration, a Pickwickian Club meeting, and new initiations in Maccabees and Knights of Security, plus updated officers and upcoming events across several fraternal bodies in Mobile.

Cowiptaneseed Saarts Ches Serge Thursa Rodney K. Brandon Mobile Lodge No. 321 J. A. Bondthaler Mooseheart Woodmen of the World Maple Camp No. 5 Charles H. Delhoe Board of Managers Maple Camp Ed K. Cogburn Mobile George R. Longhurst P. E. Loeffnler H. W. Cunningham Charles H. Delhomme P. C. Boyle Forest Camp Woodmen Pickwickian Club H. F. Crawford W. P. Ludvigsen Pickwickian Club Armory Hall Maccabees Knights of the Maccabees Frank O. Croy Birmingham Phillipe Trimmer E.B. Weidon Alabama L. of Security Mobile Council Knights and Ladies of Security O. S. Pistole Two Hundred Thousand George L. Clinton L. of Security of Minette Bay Minette Council Ladies of Security

Revival of Fantasma at the Empire with Hanlon Bros

The Edison five part production Fantasma brings Prince Arthur and Princess Lena to the Empire Theatre Wednesday. Queen Fantasma aids their love while Zamaliel the demon seeks control. Pico the clown provides comic light as the lovers sail toward happiness in a magical stage fantasy suitable for children and adults.

Hanlon Bros the Empire Edison Fantasma Good and Light Pico Arthur Empire Theatre George Hanlon Jr Princess Miss Marie le Manna Prince Edwin Clark Zamaliel W. T. Carleton

Empire Theatre Week Encore Features Crowd In Front

A packed Empire Theatre weekly schedule offers daily showcases. The Siren's Reign stars Alice Hollister Marty Millarde and Anna Nilsson in three acts today with Norma Talmadge in Janet of the Chorus. five cent admission. Lubin features Monday and Friday. Tuesday brings Runaway June Hazards of Helen and Hearst Selig News Pictorial. Wednesday shows Fantasma. Thursday shows Lady of the Snows and Capturing a Cook. Saturday Beverly Bayne with An Opal Ring and Sophie’s Fighting Spirit.

Empire Theatre Alice Hollister Marty Millarde Anna Nilsson Norma Talmadge Vitagraph Janet Empire Today Helen Hearst-Selig News Pictorial Hanlon Brothers James Morrison Dorothy Kelly Beverly Bayne Beverly, Bayne Essanay Victor Patel Margaret Joslin Sophie

Sarah Bernhardt Stars in Camille Friday at the Crown

Crown Theatre highlights include Sarah Bernhardt in Camille Friday with the Divine Sarah famed for her recent leg amputation in France. Other features this week include The Little Band of Gold with Ford Sterling Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand and The Gilded Fool starring William Farnum.

Sarah Bernhardt Crown Theatre Ford Sterling Roscoe Arbuckle Mabel Normand William Farnum Woman's Offrage Association of America Mobile Laura Sawyer Camille Sarah France

Southern Railway Freight Depot At Royal Street Excels In Equipment

The new freight depot at the head of Royal street, occupied March 22, boasts a 20 000 square foot concrete floor on 8 000 pilings and a 460 foot concrete platform. It includes a 1010 foot fire proof warehouse, a loading yard for forty cars simultaneously, complete lighting, eight 000 capacity scales, a 300 000 pound car scale, fire plugs, automatic doors, and steel office lockers.

Southern Railway Royal Street W. P. Webb Webb

Magnolia Springs notes wrap up term and social events

Magnolia Springs reaches end of the 1914-15 Underwood school term. Miss Winnie Kirby will stay through April before returning to northern Alabama. Local dances and farewells mark the close, with Miss Linda Smith leaving for Columbus, Ga. and visitors from Chicago, Ill. also noted.

Magnolia Springs Ala John Lock Carl Denver Colo Underwood Winnie Kirby Alabama Town Hall Hilda Tillie St. Louis Magnolia George Morton J. D. Morton Wesley Sisson Mobile Claudine Sisson New York City Witt Linda Smith Miss Smith Columbus Mrs. Then Chicago Ill Babcock

Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic strengthens system

Old Standard tonic grove s tasteless chill tonic claims to drive out malaria and build up the body. Marketed as a true tonic and appetiser for both adults and children. Price 50 cents.

Grove

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On Home Garden Association Perc Munn & CO F Street Washington, D Charles Hervey Douglass Robert LeRoy Douglass NEW Officers Mobile Lodge Dewitte C. Gordon Mobile Lodge 321 Loyal Order of Moose James M. King Breaith Pee First National Bank Federal Reserve Theodore Toulminville Mechanics’ Relief Association Board of Trustees Thomas Conboy Montgomery Fraternal Order of Orioles Order of Orioles H. L. Moody Dauphin Street United States Buffalo N. Y Moody Mobile Dry Goods Salesmen’s Association A. M. Schmidt Knights of Pythias Pythian Fairhope Wicinity Castle Hall Fairhope Lodge No Grang L. G. Waldrop Anniston James A. Carney Pythians of Albert D. Bloch Henry Ledebur J. J. Murray J. M. Pilcher Our Ladies Mayer W. Aldridge Nellie Slosson Fairhope Lodge A. H. Mershon Hugh Lowell J. Gilmore Elof Tuveson J. Massey Ralph Keller Jean Lawrence B. Fisher Marmaduke Dyson Monroe D. Bloch N. C. Tew Rescue’ Lodge No Lubin Lillie Leslie Miss Leslie G. M. Anderson Marguerite Clayton Southern RY Lyric Theatre Florence Turner South Royal Street
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