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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1915
Page
16
Society items from Ala Mre to Escatawpa and Salitpa detail visits reunions and parties. Residents visit relatives in Selma Mobile Pensacola and Louisville Ky while Mississippians travel to Daphne and Daphne celebrations. Birthday events include Beatrice Beatrice and tunner Springs gatherings with guests from Marion Junction Dixon’s Mill and Natchez.
Severe wind damaged crops in this section on Tuesday while a protracted meeting is planned to begin at Rest Church on Saturday night the second Sunday in July. Willie Clarke was taken to Montgomery for an appendectomy last Saturday and was accompanied by his father. J D Shipp reported losing a large mule Wednesday. Mrs Susan Lynam’s health has been failing and she has been housebound for some time.
Mrs. Marvin Beer of Grand Bay, Alabama, has returned.
An advertisement proclaims GETS IT as a painless simple cure for corns and callouses. It contrasts the method with painful tools and treatments, claiming immediate relief once applied. The product is sold by druggists everywhere or can be mailed from Chicago.
The engagement of Miss Olive Wyndham, noted actress and sister of Janet Beecher, to W Kirkpatrick Brice, son of the late U. S. Senator Calvin S Brice of Ohio, has been announced. Brice is a prominent lawyer and club member. It is expected Wyndham may retire from the stage after marriage. wedding date TBA.
Readable snippets show Ruth Ledig visiting Maude Jones in town from New Orleans. Louise Colorado and her children from Vernon called on friends Tuesday. Elma Hudson of Mobile returned home after visiting her sister. Mrs H E Rabby went back to Mobile after visiting her sister. Willie Knapp came home after weeks at Healing Springs for health. G S Houlditch and mother returned to Selma after visiting J J Nichols. Carley of Mobile visited Miss Flossie Jones Sunday. Bob Nichols of Mobile, a Southern Express employee, visited his parents Sunday.
Lucedale Mississippi personal notes list visitors and residents: Maude Reeves from Bogue Chitto assisted Mrs. J. R. Parker in county demonstrations. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson of Princeton Kentucky visited R. O. Embry. L. C. Helms left for the coast. Lella Helms returned from five weeks at Hattiesburg Normal College. Helen Kennedy spent a day in Bexley with J. G. Leatherbury. J. art spent time in Moss Point on business. Annie Gresham of Montrose visited Mildred Eley. B. J. Peters returned from Hattiesburg after six weeks. Mrs. Evans and baby from Monroe Louisiana to stay with her mother Mrs. Hayles. A. E. Olan and O. F. Moss were in Merrill on business.
Miss Louise Rawls of Mobile arrives Thursday to visit her sister Mrs W R Leon. Frank Cox returns from the north for a few weeks with his family before another trip. Dr Moody, formerly of Waynesboro, plans to reside in Deer Park and open an office in the W O W building. A group of five railroad inspectors tours the Mobile and Ohio line. The Fourth is quiet with rain showers delaying plans. Station Agent Glisson moves into the former J S Johnson cottage, a prime Deer Park corner lot becoming a hoped for attractive home.
Hassel Calloway stood in for his brother on the Fort Morgan outside pilot boat this week while Edward Ewing of Orange Beach vacationed with relatives in Palmetto Beach. The Grace Ellena excursion was scrubbed by heavy rain, and several residents including Steve Calloway and Julius Strong traveled to Mobile for various visits and repairs. A ball game against Bon Secour ended 6 to 0 with the visiting team in Mobile.
Bay Minette Ala July 10 The city waterworks was placed in working condition today and merchants are using it in their stores. The water is excellent and pressure satisfactory. Water plugs were tested and all were in good order. Electric lights will soon be in use with minor details left to finish.
Ocean Springs Mississippi July 10 special plans to harness one artesian well to another in a pump station touted as among the world's most unique. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad previously sunk a 1400 foot well whose water contained organic matter making it unfit for steam. Engineers propose interconnecting the wells to generate a pump and cut monthly railroad costs by about one hundred dollars.
Alan John Trione returns home from the infirmary after a stay of two or three weeks. Claud Andrews and sister Rose of Mobile visit relatives here. Rev Ray and Master Brooks Speer of Daphne visit friends this week. Alec Trione leaves for Illinois. Miss Hattie Andrews of Evergreen visits her brother Sim Andrews. Maggie and Exie Myrick of Mobile spend the Fourth here. Roy Newport and Guy Newport of Robertsdale visit relatives this week. Rev Ray of Daphne will preach here the second Sunday at 3 30. Vivian McGill returns to Mobile after visiting her parents. Estel Creamer and family of Robertsdale spend late week here.
CHUNCHULA PERSONALS in Chunchula Alabama report a family gathering at R L Millers home last Saturday with relatives present and dancing. An item notes the marriage of Miss Mamie Gil last Tuesday.
Alan John Evers Repton and Miss Sallie Hinson of Bermuda quietly married at the bride’s home on Wednesday. Mrs. Sarah Dean visiting daughter Mrs. R. L. Brooks in Pensacola. Mrs. George Smith, formerly Miss Andrews of Peterman, after visit...
A fragment mentions Prickly Heat baby powder used for Pirk NEA chafing irritation. Details are unclear but suggest a consumer product irritation or recall note.
Auburn Alabama Polytechnic Institute announces the next session opening Wednesday September 1918. It lists departments across engineering civil electrical mechanical chemical mining architecture metallurgy agricultural sciences horticulture animal husbandry botany entomology chemistry pharmacy history mathematics languages physics astronomy economics psychology education veterinary medicine and more. Free tuition offered to Alabama residents with non resident rate of twenty dollars. For catalogue address C Thach president Auburn Alabama.
A Victorian style note promotes Violet Ammonia as enhancing bath pleasure and summer comfort. It claims the bath water and skin feel are transformed and recommends keeping it in every well equipped bathroom. The price is given as £0 6.
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