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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1915
Page
7
A plan to establish a shooting preserve on Mackay Island advances with a negotiated purchase valued around 460 000 dollars for the property. Local officials and the owner discuss the potential use and public access considerations.
An advertisement promises rapid relief from rheumatism with Sloan's Liniment. It notes quick penetration to the inflamed spot, soothing heat and soreness in joints and muscles and urges a 25 cent bottle from any druggist with a satisfaction guarantee.
Ex governor J Frank Hanly spoke at German Relief Hall and Harte Auditorium detailing his organizing of the Flying Squadron of prohibition advocates. He toured 49 states and 250 cities with Oliver W Stewart and others, declaring hatred of liquor and urging enrollment in the anti liquor movement.
Frank Mountain 40, who had been unable to work after ill health and tuberculosis, shot himself in Foley Alabama late Tuesday. He left letters to his hosts and to a doctor, and was later found by the landlady in a pool of blood. Survived by a brother and sister in Minneapolis, his body to be shipped there.
Robinsonville Ala March 10 Mr and Mrs J C Gulley hosted a youth gathering at their home Friday night. Guests included Bernice Robinson Sarah Burgess Anna Mae Kearley Escoe Hale Troutman Johnnie and Zola Salter Dock and Bodie Robinson Burgess Sug Clem Kearley Fearn Eugene Jordan and others. Music and singing delighted attendees and the evening closed warmly.
Willie Wilson alias Devil escaped from a police station Tuesday morning and fought Tom Fairley at Madison and Conception around 6 PM. Fairley was injured and Wilson fled toward an uncertain fate as authorities pursue him. The Swiss government received $115,000 raised by Swiss citizens in the United States and Costa Rica to cover increased expenses.
A new Gulf Coast Growers Exchange movement was inaugurated by citrus interests in Mobile County to coordinate handling and marketing. A committee chaired by S A LeBlanc and secretary L Kilmer will promote the exchange, with extensive local and regional supporters. The plan calls for Alabama incorporation and subsidiary groups in Mobile and Baldwin counties and in Harrison and Jackson counties Mississippi, with charter papers to be filed soon.
Dr. George R. Norman of Jefferson county was found guilty by a Montgomery county jury of burglary linked to a January medical examination fraud. Key testimony cited Dr. W. M. Avery who paid Norman to substitute a corrected paper and promised shielding in exchange for cooperation. Norman remanded to jail. sentencing to follow. Also, Kelly Adams, former capitol janitor, was found guilty of burglary in the same medical scandal.
Paris reports E N Breitung of New York owner of the steamer Dacia protests seizure by maritime authorities. He has engaged Paul Govare, president of the French Association of Maritime to defend his interests with cost to ton from Galveston.
London March 10 The house of commons approved government power to take over control of the entire engineering trade to organize war munitions. The measure grants control of war materials deemed usable for the war effort to ensure steady supplies as the army and navy expand. Critics warned of drastic government scope over industry.
A wartime notice reports German submarines sinking three steamships. The Tangistan was struck near Scarborough at 12:30 AM on March 1. the Tangistan crew of 17 survived. The Thant h was sunk at 6 AM on March 9 with all aboard lost. The Princess Victoria was torpedoed off Liverpool at 9 AM on March 9. her 34 crew members were saved.
In a chaotic courthouse brief Judge Berney presides as demurrers to multiple counts are sustained in a case involving Samson Tabby Works and others. Other actions include A Fowlkes vs Floyd with plaintiff’s dismissal and a verdict for Steinnley in a chemist matter.
Shippers face 26 degree protection needs for 86 hour shipments moving north. Forecasts show 36 degree conditions across east and west regions. The Tombigbee and its branches are expected to fall over the next two days with slight changes at Demopolis. Alabama rainfall noted.
A high barometer area covers the nation from the Rockies to the Atlantic, weakening but still dominant. Temperatures reach freezing in the northern mountains and extend south to Oklahoma, with precipitation in the west gulf and north Pacific regions. Mobile can expect generally fair weather tonight and Thursday, with little temperature change.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey as a quick relief for whooping cough, easing mucous and throat irritation. It also mentions a spring tonic and cautions families with children to keep the remedy on hand. An estate notice from Mobile County Probate Court grants administration of Alfred Waldauer's estate to the undersigned on March 6, 1915.
Mobile delegates travel to Montgomery for Alabama Educational Association session. The agenda covers industrial education literacy and community organization with speeches by W F Feagin C C Thach and Dr P P Claxton. The program lists opening invocations and musical interludes with tentative times and speakers.
Four Mobile Rotarians visited Pensacola for the launch of a new Rotary club in Pensacola known as Gopher ville. Messrs William H Monk Jr, William H Armbrecht, V H Reynolds and Jack M Ponder attended the Monday night ceremony. Charles Mann, former Pensacola resident, influenced the effort and the club of five members formed with regular weekly meetings to follow.
The case of Buy A ly charged with selling milk not up to standard was called in recorder court Tuesday and continued to March 12. A warrant for P helly a dairyman of Tottle Avenue for the same offense was sworn by city bacteriologist Dr H P Warren. The case was listed for continuation on March 12.
Kirby McMahen of Birmingham is in town on business for C. M McMahen Company. He is here to supervise garden truck purchases and reports a recent deal at Atmore for 20 000 bushels of Irish potatoes, one of the largest in years.
Notice of mortgage default and impending sale under power of sale. Abel and Sallie V. Rogers hold the mortgage secured by property in Mobile County on October 8, 1907, recorded in Book 61, page 94. Sale will occur at the Mobile County Courthouse front door on Thursday April 11 at 12 o clock noon, with boundaries along Chestnut and Cleveland streets to the fifty foot back line.
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