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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1915
Page
9
Directors offer Gulf Coast Fair stock to broaden the exposition annual event with mobility projects. The backers state the plan aims to advance mobile and surrounding sections, outlining the situation and subscription details.
John C. OConnell chairman urges renewed stock sale for the Gulf Coast Fair as Mobile’s major business asset and community booster. He notes the fair’s proven value, immediate regional impact, and seeks public support to fund the 1916 event and future growth.
The Gulf Coast Fair board of twenty one directors and about one hundred prominent residents plan a three day city canvass this week to sell more stock to raise about 25000 dollars. They aim to fund new buildings livestock facilities and grandstand extensions to boost next year's fair and reduce deficit by increasing subscriptions from current holders and new buyers.
All Florida plans a solid delegation to the big convention. Jacksonville favors a Georgia roads route branch to Palatka for the people of the East Coast, and will add a number of representatives sent here.
A telegram from Pensacola Florida dated December 5 1915 to The Mobile Item reports forty cars already listed for the Mobile Old Spanish Trail convention with hopes that the total may reach fifty. W M Herrider signs the message.
Florida north Florida Good Roads Club endorses the Old Spanish Trail from Mobile through Tallahassee to Jacksonville with a Lake City to Palatka branch to serve the south and east coast. The Lake City resolution urges a near straight route through the state and signals a strong mobilization for the December Mobile convention.
White Thomas Alexander Johnston and Pauline Burke Sheldon received licenses and Ruffin Morgan and Delia Johnson were also issued licenses in the probate court on Saturday.
A riverfront scene turns comical as a drunken fish bites empty hooks near a sewer mouth spilling $7,000 worth of whisky into Mobile police headquarters. Detectives destroyed 1,245 gallons seized from New Orleans bound cargo, pouring out bottles and breaking them as rats scavenge afterward.
Fourth Division representatives of the Southern Wholesale Dry Goods Association gathered in Mobile on Saturday at the Gulf Fishing and Hunting Club for a business session followed by a seafood feast and Satsumas. Members from Nashville Birmingham Selma New Orleans and Mobile attended with a long roster of dry goods firm names and executives.
A mass meeting to endorse the state bond issue will be held at the Lyric Theatre Monday at 7 30 p m with M J McDer mott of the Bank of Mobile as chairman Maurice Forchheimer serves as secretary and 150 prominent Mobilian vicepresidents have been named. The program features 23 speakers led by Joel W Goldsby Jacob D Bloch Bart B Chamberlain George J Sullivan Thomas M Stevens and others presenting brief addresses on the bond issue.
Horace Turner announces delegates to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress meeting in Washington December 8 to 10. The list includes John T. Cochrane P W Maer Albert P Bush W E P Wilson and H G Barclay.
Wilmer B E Miles of West Blockton Alabama had been jailed since August 28 on a white slave act charge. He asked to stay in jail until Saturday as his warmth and food beat what he would find outside. Miles, 44, was arrested in Brewton and held for the Mobile grand jury after a Birmingham hearing. The case involves Leonora Hayes, then 18, who claimed Miles took her across several states and lived with him as his wife.
The good roads meeting, moved from Thomasville to Jackson Alabama, will now occur Monday December 18 due to prior engagements of Governor Charles Henderson and State Highway Engineer Kellar. The session aims to arrange a bridge over the Tombigbee River at Jackson and to improve roads in Clarke and Washington counties with Governor Henderson backing the Jackson highway project for Alabama.
Mobile officers in new uniforms will be inspected by Chief Van Liew at 6:30 PM at department headquarters. Lieutenants Farmer and Dorlon and Sergeants Schreiner and Lincoln will attend in full dress. the chief will not wear a uniform. Two patrolmen, Ben Burch and Walter Mabry, are suspended pending investigation. Sergeant Lincoln could not locate them Thursday night.
Dr O F E Winberg president of the Gulf Coast Horticultural Society Silverhill Alabama received a governor letter inviting him to attend the Satsuma Day celebration on December 9. Charles Henderson expresses pleasure at the governor's planned presence and notes citrus fruit growing benefits Alabama's economy.
Cotton freight costs push shipments from the Southeast toward New York and Boston for Liverpool service. North Texas to New Orleans costs 42 1 2 cents while to New York is 72 1 2 cents rail. total via New Orleans to Liverpool exceeds the New York route, creating a 20 cent per 100 pounds disadvantage for Gulf ports. Cotton men see no remedy, blaming water carriers and war cargo demands lowering Gulf rates. New Orleans traders seek adjustment as rates move against Mobile and Gulf ports.
Governor Henderson will deliver an address as an impressive opening pageant parade forms, hailed as the most significant event in the citrus industry along the Gulf Coast. Sheltering precautions are stated for December 9 red letter date in this historic celebration.
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