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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1914
Page
12
A fleeting roster of property deals and transfers cites numerous parcels in Mobile and nearby areas. Names such as Delany, Berry, and Van Leon appear with prices from 1 to 20,000 dollars, covering lots, blocks, and tracts across several subdivisions and sections.
The Mobile Rifles drill team, led by Captain John A. Mahon, assembled at the Armory Hall for Judge Price Williams’s funeral. The unit, with storied service from 1836 onward, recounts battles, prizes, and reorganizations including Woodruff, DuMont, and other officers, plus later Spanish American War muster at Camp Johnston.
A sequence of land transfers and deeds lists deals between Maranda F Sturtivant and Frank C Sturtivant for 32 1 2 acres in section 10, M M Eichelberger to H M Foshee for lots 1-6 in Ozone, Irvington Land Co to B Buell for lot 18 in Irvington, and other transfers totaling 1 dollar with parcels described by section and township. The New Welcome Baptist Church and United Order of Benefits engage in a 10 dollar transfer for a 1 4 acre in section 23. Additional transfers occur between Will Mosely, Mark Brown, Charlies W Lee, and H S Hoover involving east and north halves of northeast quarters and related properties, with Mill Co involvement to secure a lien.
Price Williams Jr. entered into rest February 26 1914 at 6 45 p m Friends of the family are requested to attend his funeral from the family home 257 St Anthony street this Sunday afternoon at 3 30 o clock and from St John s Episcopal church at 3 80 o clock Interment in Magnolia cemetery
The community is invited to attend funeral services for Price Williams Jr from St Johns Church on Sunday March 1 1914 at 3 30 pm. Members of the Can t Get Away Club and McInnis Lodge Odd Fellows join to honor the deceased with processions from 267 St Anthony Street and 257 St Anthony area to St Johns Episcopal Church and Magnolia cemetery.
Members of Mobile Lodge No. 108 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will gather at the home Sunday at 2 p m to attend the funeral of their late brother and past seated ruler Price Williams Jr. Attest secretary M G Macias signs the notice.
Captain J Haynie of the Clarke County Tribune lauds the Mobile fair and the plan for a permanent annual event. He praises Clift Williams Mort Bixler and a committee of 100 for their reliability and experience. The piece predicts incalculable benefits for Mobile area landowners and land sales from cut over lands as exhibitors attract buyers from the North and Northwest.
Ida Davis was arrested Saturday night by Deputy Sheriff Dennis Lynch on charges of assaulting Walter Davis with a pistol. She remained in the county jail in default of bond.
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