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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
6
New York price rises hit food and clothing. housewives report budget-free spending as the cost of living climbs. Greenwich Village residents say most keep no accounts or budgets while coping with higher prices for meat eggs and vegetables. Social notes include parties, church guilds, and local visits in Mobile and Pensacola society.
Poem fragment prices neighborly virtue as a rose clad vine on a neighbor’s property. The speaker, citing labor and cost by another, claims shared joy and asks why selfishness persists when beauty is grown for all to see.
The Home Economics Club raises funds for Bienville Square band concerts through an upcoming benefit dance at the Battle House. Also a Birmingham youth, Miss Ashton, acts opposite Henry Walthall in a film, praised for a natural Southern girl portrayal amid studio work.
A local party led by Joe Baker Norman Ollinger Leroy Batson and Howard Shramm fished and shrimped on a recent trip to Fish River and are back in Fairhope. Others returning to town last week include Robert Spotswood Louis Baumhauer Norman Pittman Leo Reed and Walter Mitchell. Edna Lewis enjoyed summer at her sister Mrs. C A Clarke in Coden and hosted visitors including Mrs. C T I Riker of Anniston. Brothers 68 and Mobile visitors Mrs E Toenes and Miss Lillian Toenes visited Mrs. J T Nyganseck in Pensacola before returning home.
A 9:30 a.m. ceremony at 870 Dauphin Way united Miss Alice Mendel Bostwick and Mr. Robert Ashton Otis. Rev. Plummer officiated. They depart for Pensacola then Bay St. Joe to establish residence. Attendants included Miss Avis Cato. best man was Mr. Hempstead.
New York report notes a rise in infantile paralysis cases with 89 new infections compared to 73 yesterday and 22 deaths versus 32, marking a continuing uptick in daily cases for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. An official confidence that the epidemic was under control has been shaken by the latest figures.
Miss Irene Huett cut the consolation musical toy and presented the honoree with a pink and white bath towel edged with pink crochet. Huett wore a two toned blue georgette gown and made a pretty picture.
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