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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1916
Page
3
Pat J. Lyons issues Arbor Day proclamation designating February 22 as Arbor Day in Mobile. Citizens urged to plant live oaks along sidewalks, maintain tree lines, and care for new growth with city cooperation. Home Economics Club backs planting in private, vacant lots as well. Done January 29, 1916.
Fairhope plans to issue and sell a $13,000 bond at par after a January 10 vote. F H Herdrich dies at home from pneumonia. burial in Fairhope Cemetery follows a Friday funeral. The town hosts colony officers election next Thursday with E G Gass expected to become secretary. Several visitors and associates arrive for local events and Army liaison work.
The column lists social visits and events in East Fairhope including guests from Glen dale Cincinnati Madison and St Louis. It notes a reception for Rev L S Gilmer and Mrs Gilmer, a wedding of Herbert Stapleton and Diamond Lowell, a baby birth, a church programs and a voter mass meeting at Wheeler Hall with county highway work beginning between Fairhope and Zunders.
Letters from St Petersburg and Mobile push to include El Centro California and St. Petersburg Florida in the Old Spanish Trail movement. Pacific coast clubs and actors plan publicity tours and fund raising for highway promotion while Ocean Springs and neighboring counties organize local work and signaling for river bridge projects.
Roberta Harris Winn outlines a busy year for the Alabama Folklore Committee under the Alabama Association of Teachers of English. The group aims to collect ballads sayings idioms and sermons from mountaineers and rural communities to preserve folklore before it vanishes. The committee plans extensive and intensive work and will meet in Birmingham April 6-8 at the Tutwiler hotel during the Alabama Educational Association meeting.
President Louis J. Adler announced the Alabama Travelers' Association 1916 committees after the January convention in Mobile. Executive committee includes Adler Plaisance and ex-presidents McVoy and Bates. Standing panels cover Railroads, Legislative, Livery and Garage, Good Roads, Waterways, and Membership with numerous city and state representatives.
The first program of the Older Boys conference auxiliary to the Alabama Sunday School Association opened at First Presbyterian church in Selma with a welcome service. About 125 boys attended. Miss Freda Rose and Sam F. Hobbs directed the work, while John L. Alexander led discussions. A park and gym session at the Y M C A followed, and a large banquet capped the day.
Financial snapshot for Mobile County in 1915 detailing receipts from taxes and licenses, transfers, and miscellaneous incomes alongside major expenditures. Key items include 1915 and 1914 taxes, probate and sheriff revenues, road funds, jail and courthouse costs, salaries, utilities, and agency disbursements with a net cash balance and year-end totals.
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