Local Branch of National Security League Formed
Nearly twenty Mobile citizens met at the Chamber of Commerce to organize the Mobile branch of the National Security League. Temporary officers were chosen and a second meeting set for January 14 1916 at the Cawthon Hotel to establish a permanent group. William B. Brewster outlined plans for citizen soldier training and expanded naval and army forces, criticizing pacifist positions and urging preparedness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
National Security League
Cawthon Hotel
Joel W. Goldsby
S. P. Gaillard
A. L. Keener
M. J. McDermott
William B. Brewster
William Jennings Bryan
Henry Ford
Europe
Congress
Henderson
Montgomery
Alabama
League
Brewster
Army
Navy
New York City
Pacific
Panama Canal
Hawaiian Islands
America
Wilson
Lumber Trade Keeps Brisk Amid Holiday Slump
Lumber business remains brisk despite holidays signaling a dull period. No large contracts in the past week, but demand from the interior stays strong and exports could rise if ocean tonnage were available.
Mail regulations on sending perishables and greetings
The article advises shippers to follow postal rules for holiday packages. It covers packing to prevent breakage, permitted greetings on wrappers, weight limits, crate packing, inspection access, labeling perishable items, sender and recipient address placement, and optional special delivery for perishables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parcel Post
Mail Service
New Deals Made to Carry Alabama Coal to Orleans Market
Alabama and New Orleans interests plan large scale coal transport from Alabama mines to the Louisiana port via Mobile and Mississippi Sound. Adler and McCormack families consolidate coal outfits to fund extensive barge operations, with towboat plans and mobile facilities. Tennessee Coal & Iron sails power barges for the Alabama & New Orleans Transportation Co. Also, county farm demonstrator Maloney mails circulars on hog cholera symptoms and prevention to residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Orleans
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mobile
Mississippi Sound
Adlers
Alabama Fuel & Iron Company
Corona Coal & Iron Company
McCormacks
Pratt Consolidated Coal Company
Whiteman
Carney
Pratt Company
de Bardeleben Coal Company
Birmingham
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company
Alabama & New Orleans Transportation Company
George A. Maloney
Prohibition Violations Bring Heavy Fines in Mobile County
Willie Murray a negro storekeeper of Plateau was fined 400 dollars and costs and imprisoned six months twenty days hard labor for violating the prohibition law. Other defendants include Leo Broadus fined 50 dollars for selling beer, and Clarence Blalack fined 50 dollars with costs. Police found whisky and beer at 267 South Hamilton street. Prohibition cases against Blalack Hamp Edwards and Ed Coleman were continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Murray
Plateau
Murray
Oberhaus
Soles
Bernstein
Mobile County
Fritz Thompson
Bibb County
Clarke
Jack Courtney
Broadus
Leo Broadus
Sales
Holt Road
Clarence Blalack
Hamp Edwards
Ed Coleman
A. Bruce Etheridge
Josh McCloud
O. J. Semmes
McCloud
Knox
Franklin Streets
Nichols
Jim Nichols
Chamberlain
South
Hamilton Street
Police to Host Grand Ball in Mobile
The Mobile Police Relief Association will host a grand ball on Thursday February 24 at German Relief hall with a prize for the best dancing couple. Committee members named are Lucien E. Lutz chairman John H. Bressingham secretary and treasurer Levine Bauer J W Murphy and William Renauld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Police
Mobile Police Relief Association
Lucien E. Lutz
John H. Bressingham
Levine Bauer
J. W. Murphy
William Renauld
Marriage Licenses Issued By Probate Court Saturday
The probate court issued marriage licenses Saturday for White Wesley A Bailey and Ruth O Walker, William Robert Pulley and Lillian M Gilbert. Also listed were Edward Sampson and Josephine Rembert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley A. Bailey
Ruth O. Walker
William Robert Pulley
Lillian M. Gilbert
Edward Sampson
Josephine Rembert
Big Mobile Chamber meeting to vote on by laws changes
All Mobile Chamber of Commerce members are urged to attend a Monday 7:30 PM meeting at the Cawthon hotel to consider changes to the constitution and by laws. Key topics include the plural vote system director authority officer election representation and monthly meetings. A storm delayed the session but attendance is expected to be high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Cawthon Hotel
Chamber
J. Leslie Taylor
Ways and Means
Postoffice Screens At Mobile Build Contract Signed
L J Mahle of the E T Burrowes Company reports contracts let by Wise Granite and Construction Company for screens of the Mobile postoffice building. Total cost listed as 1312 dollars, a sizable outlay for screening the structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.J. Mahle
E. T. Burrowes Company
Portland
Maine
Wise Granite and Construction Company
Mobile Postoffice
Owens Plans Christmas Dinner for Mobile's Poor
Rev. A F Owens a noted Mobile minister and Selma University tutor leads the thirty fourth annual Christmas feast for inmates at City Hospital Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor Maternity Home Boys Detention Home County Poor Asylum and Colored Old Folks Home. He works to raise funds with $112 left from Thanksgiving plus $100 needed. Donations include 344 loaves from Smiths Bakery 344 pies and twelve bunches of bananas from Hubbard Zemurray Company. He will be away Monday for Mt Meigs Reformatory trustees duties and return Tuesday to finish arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Owens
Mobile
Selma University
City Hospital
Little Sisters of the Poor
Boys’ Detention Home
County Poor Asylum
Colored Old Folks Home
A. F. Owen
Owens
Oweng
Gordon Smith
Smith's Bakery
Ashbel Hubbard
Hubbard- Zemurray Company
Mt. Meigs Reformatory
Alabama
False Pretenses Charged to Foster
Foster arrested Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Pierce on a warrant from the Inferior criminal court charging him with obtaining money by false pretenses. He allegedly told George Brincat a bank had funds and obtained a turkey worth 1.35 dollars and six chickens worth 4 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Foster
Pierce
Inferior Criminal Court
Foster
George Brincat
Chas. Hayssen
Henry Hayssen
Mobile
Hougston
Nashville
Charles W. Hayssen
Charle W. Hayssen
Toulminville
Willie Pryor
Albert H. Turner
Moses Bernstein
Pryor
Criminal Court
Divorce Suit Filed by Lizzie Dunn in Law and Equity Court
Lizzie Dunn files for divorce from Walter Dunn in the law and equity court citing inhuman treatment. They wed in Mobile on October 29, 1902, separated May 1906, remarried, and lived together until December 15. She seeks divorce, alimony, and a restraining order to bar him from handling certain bank funds in city banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Dunn
Law and Equity
Walter Dunn
Mobile
Old Spanish Trail Dedication Day Set for January 21
Historic dedication marks the Old Spanish Trail event on January 21 with public ceremonies and community celebrations planned across multiple venues. Organizers invite regional residents to participate in the commemorative program.
Old Spanish Trail Dedication Day Planned Across Gulf Coast
The Old Spanish Trail Association aims to dedicate Old Spanish Trail on January 21, 1916 with Mobile and Tampa involvement. Thousands of schoolchildren from Tampa to New Orleans will plant trees and flowers along four states. The plan includes film coverage and a mobilization from Mobile led by Superintendent S. S Murphy and Mobile board president Harry T Hartwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tampa
Fla
New Orleans
Gulf Coast
S. 8S. Murphy
Mobile Public Schools
Harry T. Hartwell
Board of Education of
Mobile
United States
Atlantic
Miami
Florida Peninsula
West Gulf
Florida
America
J. G. Brown
Fox Lake
Illinois
Trail Association
W. M. Herrider
Pensacola
State Boards of Directors
J. M. Calhoun
Marianna
Moton Favored for Tuskegee Principal Post
A Tuskegee Institute committee will meet in New York to name a successor to Booker T. Washington. Emmett J. Scott or Major R. R. Moton are candidates with Southern backers leaning Scott and Northern backers Moton. Dr. A F Owens argues Moton will unite the board and boost the endowment by about 3 million dollars. In Mobile Carrie Brooks a white woman was found dead at home. coroner investigates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
New York
Emmett J. Scott
R. R. Moton
Hampton Institute
Hampton
Tuskegee
Scott
Moton
A. F. Owens
Owens
Seth Low
South
Carrie Brooks
Cedar and
St. Louis
George H. Thomas
Mobile
New Bridge Over Tombigbee Advances Alabama Route
W D Harrigan of Scotch Lumber Co says the Tombigbee river bridge is assured and the Mobile route through the state is favored. He pledged 10000 dollars toward the bridge with similar from Co W Zimmerman, loans guaranteed by Warren and Clarke counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
W. D. Harrigan
Scotch Lumber Company
Fulton
Jackson
Tombigbes River
Mr. Harrigan
Tennessee River
Alabama
Harrigan
White Way
W. Zimmerman
Tombigbee River
Was
Clarke
Wton
Clarke Counties
Ence
Aiabaima
Prendergast Freed in Forgery Case Clearing Record
Notary Frank Prendergast was freed after Recorder Edington ruled insufficient evidence to bind him over on forgery charges. The case stemmed from a prohibition law violation, a week after Prendergast was acquitted of a related perjury charge from the same origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Prendergast
Notary Public
Edington
Prendergast
Tug Mary L. Wittich to pay $415.90 for beacon damage
Judge Toulmin in the U S district court ruled the tug Mary L. Wittich must pay 415.90 damages for fouling a beacon in the channel while towing the schooner C. W. Mills to sea months ago. The libel against the schooner was dismissed, and Captain T L Cook was cleared of responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toulmin
United States District Court
Mary L. Wittich
C. W. Mills
T. L. Cook
Mobile Man Dr Meyer Elkin Dies at 83 in Hartford
Dr Meyer Elkin longtime Temple Beth Israel Hartford rabbi emeritus died after twenty five years of active service. He was 83 and his death marks the passing of a leading Jewish instructor and religious worker. Rabbi Henry W Etelson, Mobile native, fills his pulpit after Elkin retirement. Elkin leaves a daughter Mrs Jenne Tusch of New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyer Elkin
Hartford
Conn
Religious Workers of America
Elkin
Temple Beth Israel
Cie
Henry W. Etelson
Mobile
America
Jenne Tusch
New Orleans
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Lague Call
Fect
For National Defense
Secretary Brewster
Merry Christ
C. Ofc
Cawthon
Tuskegee Head
Tombigbee
Washington and Clarke
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