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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1913
Page
5
Society by a famous watermelon patch welcomed Misses Regina Altice Pearl Schwarz Rose Laney Kittie Holloway and Messrs Aneth Reed Max Lavelie and Adolph Erickson in a noted social gathering.
Thought for the Day recalls a quiet pre dawn scene as the crescent moon is seen from a window at five thirty. Birds twitter and the east light grows, revealing a delicious outdoor hour when nature is fully alive and joyful.
A party from Mobile travels to Pulaski Virginia to spend the summer in the mountains. Mrs. Stanley Herndon and Miss Lucy Herndon leave today and will meet Miss Rebecca Herndon in Montgomery after her visit to Miss Mary Cunningham in Augusta Georgia. The group will be joined by Mrs. Rollin Broughton in Letohatchie Alabama, Mrs. Beverly Wilson and children in Birmingham tomorrow, and Mrs. Davis and her son.
A summer toboggan party near Mobile entertained Mrs. Glennon and her guests. Attendees included Miss Kate Sharman, Virginia McCreary, Agnes Fowlkes, Glen McKenzie, Mary Emma Creary, and Birmingham residents Mrs. Norwood Richard, Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Joy. Also present were Chicago visitors T. E. Woodruff, A. G. Bancroft, Emory and Hayden Brooks, and Sulli van and Bee.
The July meeting of the Home Economics Club will be held this afternoon at 5 p m in the parlor of the Battle House. Important business will be transacted. June meeting was postponed to entertain Mrs Birdie Robinson, a noted worker in home economic causes.
Yesterday ended a delightful house party at Crary Alabama hosted by Miss Etta Lord a Barton class of 1912 graduate who summers at a spacious country home. Guests enjoyed generous country fare and cheerful fellowship in a rural setting.
Advertisements for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praise its effectiveness during Change of Life and for various women in Streator Philadelphia San Francisco and beyond. The Mobile Infirmary Association meets this afternoon while local social notes report residents and visitors from Mobile to Coden and Point Clear and trips to Demopolis.
Mr. Charles Fry now of New York visited Point Clear for a weekend trip with his uncle Luther Fry. He spent time with his mother Mrs. Thomas Fry and his sisters, enjoying the gulf coast resort before Mr. Fry left for Gulf Port with Mrs. Fry and Miss Ethel Fry.
The infant child of Dr. and Mrs. Adrian Taylor died on July 6 and was laid to rest at sea. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Taylor, the doctors’ parents, arrived in Vancouver after seven years of missionary work in China to meet the home comers. A wide circle of relatives and friends extend sympathy.
Miss Hilda Druhan and her brother John left for Dothan Alabama to join a house party hosted by Miss Elsie May Roland. John will stay ten days while Hilda plans a larger August house party on the eastern shore with the hostess accompanying her home. Miss Cage visits Mobile as a noted U D C organizer and Gulf City's chapter driving force.
A lawn party is held this afternoon at 106 South Conception Street the home of Mrs J R Courtney from four to seven o clock Proceeds go to the Ladies of Charity a charitable organization.
The piece highlights William James Sidis a 13 year old Harvard math prodigy and Edward Hardy a five year old NYU language prodigy. It notes their fathers professors Boris Sidis at Harvard and an NYU instructor, with mothers holding medical and legal degrees. It discusses whether math or language offers greater mental development.
Dr and Mrs J Tunstall Inge host after a weekend at Coden. Mr and Mrs W B Inge and daughter Mrs J R Goodle of Greensboro visit, with Goodlee continuing home. J R Goodloe and sister Gladys return from Battles, guests of the Inges. Mrs R Holberg and children visit Mrs A M Cohen at the San Carlos in Pensacola.
The Knights and Ladies of Security stage a baby show with three entry classes and free entry. Prizes go to under one year, one to two years, and two to three years. The event on Tuesday also features a wrestling match Arthur Phillips versus Charles Todd and a repeat of the successful playlet A Ghost In a Pawn Shop. Moving pictures and band concerts conclude the program with proceeds aiding Dayton flood sufferers.
The Joint Rivers and Harbors Committee will meet soon to discuss requesting a hearing on improving the upper Tombigbee River. Horace Turner says the action follows disapproval of the plan and will serve as a protest. Colonel A F Flagler, US engineer, is expected to be asked for the rehearing as previously done in the Birmingham canal case.
Spectators on the Muskingum river watched William Kauf and Charles Raschen attempt to cross a swollen stream in a rowboat after a cloudburst. Raschen drowned when the boat capsized. Kauf was rescued.
A new permanent remedy for building trades strikes is being drawn up by employers and workers in Chicago. The proposed agreement would require both sides to confer with a joint arbitration committee before calling a strike or declaring a lockout, aiming to prevent work stoppages and keep major construction moving.
About four thousand applicants are expected to take the state teachers examinations starting Monday across Alabama counties. The three day exams will be supervised by county superintendents with all counties except one sending estimates. P W Hodges secretary of the state examining board mailed questions to every superintendent.
C H Billingsley chief of the state pure food department leaves Montgomery for Winfield to inspect a shipment of rotten seed hulls from Memphis. He will then visit Jasper Tuscumbia Sheffield Florence and Decatur to inspect further feeds as part of a campaign against underweight and impure feedstuffs.
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