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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1916
Page
5
Alice Wooten, described in the report as a negress, was held in police court on a murder charge for a knife fight that killed Alfred Collins. The case was postponed to February 18. both parties were cited on assault and battery and the man died Friday night at the city hospital.
Captain and Mrs. Bradley Stone visit Mrs. T. O. Stone as the Yoke Bearers Sewing Circle meets there. A teens party at 906 Washington Ave features a string band and a parade of attendees. Rebecca Barnett hosts a reaffirming music social with games and dancing the next night.
The Barraca Class of the Crichton Baptist Church met at W. P. Roberts residence on Item avenue with large attendance and discussion. Next meeting set for Carl Hample home in Park Place. Also notes on Miss Sophie Werneth and Leo Marsh marriage surprise and police raid on Our Alley and Franklin Street finds gin bottles but no claimants.
Whistler Alabama church notices list services for Methodist Baptist Episcopal and Pentacostal congregations with 9:30 Sunday school hours, 11 am worship, and 7 pm evening services. Related community events include canning club planning, school visits, lodge meetings, and plans for anniversaries and dances with local leaders and attendees named.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Comic Cow Boys held an oyster supper Thursday night noted as a unique affair. Hat pins replaced forks and the event proceeded by unanimous vote with no seasoning of the oysters.
An isolated, humorous report describes a Ladies Auxiliary oyster supper barring male Comic Cow Boys, serving multiple oyster dishes, and concluding with a pompous business meeting. A Pine Level guest asks how to muzzle a horse, and a resignation is announced, ending with a race-tinged remark about white men in business.
Mrs G D Booth of Laurel Mississippi arrived in Mobile to stay until Tuesday morning as a guest of Mrs Julius T Wright at the YWCA. She is a Laurel director and south central field committee member active in association work and helped establish it there. The YWCA invites all members to the weekly Thursday through February at the association building from 4 to 6 with hosts inviting guests, old and new, to a warm reception. A Tommy in France writes home noting life in the trenches improved only by neighbors across the line.
Nellie B. Lynch and husband sell lots 6 28 29 block A in Barr's subdivision Citronelle for $1 and other valuable considerations. Harry L. Deans sells 365 feet from the northwest corner Houston street and Hunter avenue to Louie B. Beauchamp for $600. D R Burgess sells southwest corner Hamilton and St Francis streets to John Craft for $3 000. Thomas Colling sells 90 feet east of the northeast corner Baltimore and Ross streets to Ignatz Schnotale for $500. Citronelle Livestock and Turpentine Co sells section 383 township 2 north range 2 west to H W Macon for $1 and other valuable considerations. Patterson couple sell lots 1 2 block 2 D P Moores subdivision Laurendine tract for $60. Leah B Parker sells section 38 township 7 south range 3 west to A M Crenshaw for $1 and other valuable considerations. W I Munn and wife sell lot 12 block 16 Mechem Sage second subdivision LaFargue tracts to E H Bixler for $831. Mary B Werneth sells north side Stone street between Cleveland and Fourth to Bertha Sossaman for $250. L S Wolf sells section 14 township 7 south west to L W Wolf for $1 and other valuable considerations. Mannie Fikes sells lot 14 square 7 of the tract to Margaret R for $1 and other valuable considerations. L S Wolf sells to Addie E B Nelson for $1 love and affection. John D Meador auctioneer sells lot 12 block 16 of LaFargue Place to W Munn for $95.
The Your City committee plans a Wednesday tour across the river to Ollinger and Bruce shipyard. Chairman G. Espalla Jr. says guests meet at 8 at the foot of Eslava Street. Expected turnout rivals last week’s Mobile Gas inspection.
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