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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1915
Page
3
Washington Aug 19 allied governments in principle declare cotton contraband of war. Announcement date and proclamation details are being considered. Officials at the British embassy said the move aims to support prices and ease planter hardships once the declaration is published.
Miss May Genevieve Southard wed Edwin Arthur Carstens in Oakdale Baptist church in a ceremony led by Rev. G W McRae. Guests wore yellow and white, with a large bridal party, music by Misses Georgia Sterling and Myrtle De Lohme, and gifts from Oakdale church and A T and N railroad officials. The couple plans a joint home on Florida street after September.
Rev J W Fraser presiding elder of the Mobile district will oversee the Whistler Methodist church third quarterly conference this Thursday night. Paymaster William Demony and assistant paid July wages at the shops, largest payday since resuming operations in the car department. Locomotive department still on half time as July work ended. Miss Grace Brasell and Stella Smith visited Eight Mile Station with Marie Seabury. Joe Emanuel and William Finnegan returned from Eight Mile Station. Mrs J Sammons and sister Sao for Elba Ala traveled with Mr Sammons returning from Creola. Earl Gaston visiting friends. Mr and Mrs Carroll Hartley returned from Creola.
Senator Hartwell's bill to issue 150000 for rural public schools won Senate approval. If House OKs, the measure goes to voters. funds would build new country schools and repair older ones, aiding districts like Spring Hill Crichton Grand Bay Theodore.
Captain Pat J. Lyons will continue as Mobile city commissioner for three more years with no opposition. Petition deadlines set to September 6 for the upcoming election, and opponents who hoped to shift the date to May 1916 were disappointed.
Willie Williams age 20 and Manuel Robinson age 15, both described as negroes, were arrested by Deputy Sheriff A Z Oberhaus on theft charges for taking and using mules without consent. The complaint is from John White of St Stephen's road whose business place alleges daily mule riding by the pair.
George Williams held to city court under $250 bond for grand larceny after stealing a case of eggs from Warley Fruit and Produce Company on Commerce Street. A firm member detained him until police arrived. bond remained unposted. Also reports on ABA women membership talk, Mrs Wedig’s death in New Orleans, two voluntary bankruptcies, and a cold check case.
Weather notes from Mobile describe Friday showers after a heat wave with highs near 90s to 110 in distant locations. Reports mention a mischievous weather predictor and a mobile girl pranking her family by faking a wedding, prompting clothing preparations before she revealed it as a joke.
Ruby Harrison faced the inferior criminal court on a vagrancy charge and requested a jury trial. She was released on a $250 bond. Earlier she refused to testify as a witness against Brooks Murray in a prohibition case, though part of the party present when beer allegedly was sold.
Tidewater Securities and other firms record transfers to Joseph H. Anderson and F. E. Matson in Dauphin Island and Citronelle, with prices ranging from 10 to 300 dollars for multiple lots. A miscellaneous column follows about safety, education, and social quotes.
Officials and attorneys from the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Railroad met with Chauncey H. Murphey, secretary of the bondholders committee, after a $2,763,220 purchase. Attendees included M. G. Bogue T. J. Marshall J. N. Flowers and Joseph C. Rich with H. M. Hood and O Dwyer. No details on reorganization were released.
The Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners in special session ordered H. Gabriel to reopen the public Ridge or Old Hamilton road by November 15 after he closed it and planted trees on the former driveway. Attorneys for protesters spoke against reopening. The board also authorized buying a Jeffrys automobile road truck for 3350 and elected Owen S. Williamson and Jim Kennedy as county truck chauffeurs.
Leon McKean Henry Williams and Charles Bates faced Recorder Edington on charges of possessing more liquor than allowed. Each was fined 500 with 140 days jail option after 73 half pint and 21 pint bottles were found hidden under flooring during a raid by Detective Harris. Bonds set at 500. Bates involved in the theft sequence witnessed by police.
Mrs H B Carney files in circuit court for 5000 against Mobile light and Railroad Co claiming injuries July 25 1915 when a street car door closed on her left hand at Dauphin and Royal. She says the incident permanently disfigured her and reduced her ability to earn a living.
Harry Stewart was bound over to the city court on burglary charges after being caught in the act at the Hardwood Dimension Company office on Magazine Point by Chickasabogue Creek Friday night. Judge Chamberlain held the inferior criminal court proceeding Thursday morning and set bond at 250 dollars.
Mrs Maggie B Covington aged 66 dies at 366 South Hamilton after a week illness. She native to Baldwin county and spent 50 years in Mobile. Survived by son W M Covington and grandson Monroe F Burton, two brothers W L Stapleton and Calvin Stapleton. Funeral Friday afternoon Magnolia cemetery. Also burial of Dr James F Harrison Wednesday at 4 PM from 150 St Joseph street with Knights of Pythias pallbearers and burial at Magnolia cemetery.
The United Fruit Company steamer Corinto cleared for Belize with general cargo. The Honduran Bodo docked with 15 000 banana bunches. Roseway anchored in the lower bay awaiting seas. Pacific cleared from New Orleans for Mobile with Munson Line cargo for South America. Berlin expected from New Orleans for Cuban ports. Three banana cargoes slated next week: Bluefields on the 23rd Amelia on the 26th Fort Morgan on the 27th.
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