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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1914
Page
6
March events across the community include D A R and Graded Union chapter gatherings, a Polyhymnia Circle music study, a fairy tale themed gathering by Mrs Gates moving to Pittsburgh, and a Grafonda lecture on the opera Aida with performances, plus a D A R and Parlor Circle notes at Memorial and venues in Battle Creek and Spring Hill.
Forty two children participated in a well arranged Longfellow program at the Protestant Asylum on West Friday. They decorated the chapel in patriotic colors and performed The Psalm of Life with harmony. After the concert, the children served ice cream and cake, then gathered at a long refectory table to feast joyfully. Mrs Earle Norris Floyd and daughter Madeleine have returned to Meridian from visiting Mrs Rush. Ottile Weber left for Christian to spend a month with relative Mrs Becker from Milwaukee.
Washington March 19. Rumor that Suss Margaret Wilson daughter of the president will marry Boyd Fisher New York engineer and settlement worker has been emphatically denied at the White House and by Fisher. Society says engagement announced before Miss Dieanor's wedding to Secretary McAdoo.
David Holt, head of the Alabama Convict Improvement Association, praised Captain Reuben F. Kolb as the only governor candidate promising reform of convict labor. He urged moving convicts from mines and lumber camps to farms or roads, noting abuses during the Comet era and historical use during the 1907 Birmingham strike. The Mobile journalist and speaker is slated to address Citronelle’s Chautauqua auditorium Thursday night.
The composer Verdi traveled to Egypt where he enjoyed splendid hospitality from the Khedive. The voyage inspired him as he crafted music that captured grand harmonies and the opera’s pageantry of sound and scene.
The annual lawn party to benefit the church home will be held Friday May 1 at the home 2068 Warren Street.
St Marys Asylum hosts its annual Easter egg hunt on Monday April 13 at the Conti street asylum. A sale of needlework accompanies the event and the Franklin street wing will formally open. Alumni and friends are invited with a special surprise planned for them.
Miss Ethel Browne hosted an old time tea yesterday afternoon from 3 to 6 30 with fortune readings from tea leaves. Mrs S B Browne and Mrs James Lawrence assisted, entertaining eleven girls including Marguerite Veusnasak deme Bridgeman of New York Lucile Rush Olivia Duggan Power Wilson Hattie Duggan Marguerite Ivulich Brookie Poetz Atta Henriette Tacon and others as fortunes were read amid old regime tea cakes and amber beer from a brass kettle.
L. G. Adams of Adams Machinery says a typographical error misstated the Buick standing start run. He asserts the Buick reached 45 miles per hour in 20 seconds, not 30, and plans a Cadillac Buick oil consumption test if feasible.
Miss Sue Rainer leaves Mrs. Seale Harris in Meridian after visiting Elba Alabama. Mrs. R. C. Gordon visits sister Mrs. J. W. Beeson in Meridian. Mrs. S. Py Williamson returns from Atlanta. Mn H. F. Kerr now lives in Mobile and starts housekeeping in an Armbrecht bungalow on Tuttle avenue.
A quiet ceremony marked the marriage Thursday afternoon of Walter Edward Martin and Marie Regina Johnson. Marie Regina Johnson is described as the niece of James Pistole. The wedding took place in a subdued setting with family and close friends in attendance.
Farmers around Laine Mississippi busy with spring crops and shipping vegetables to Mobile and other markets. Irish potatoes cabbage planted, frost did not hurt fruit. Strawberries are beginning to ripen nicely and a large crop is expected.
At a Fairhope meeting of the People's Railroad Company officers were elected: E. B. Gaston as president, O. S. E. Winberg as vice president, D. G. Johnson as secretary, and William McIntosh as treasurer. The firm is laying fourteen miles of track from Fairhope to Robertsdale, and directors inspected progress with satisfaction.
At 4 o clock in St Mary's Church Rev Fr T J Eaton officiated a wedding held quietly due to illness in the bride's family. The bride Miss Johnson wore blue taffeta and carried white carnations. The couple will live with the bride's uncle Mr Pistole at 107 St Stephen's road.
Prominent Louisiana lawyer E B A O Sullivan seeks 60000 in damages under the federal civil rights act after claims a Jefferson parish justice of the peace and a deputy sheriff cut off his beard during an election day scuffle in 1908. Louisiana courts ruled state statute of limitations applies, but the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court to determine applicability to federal claims.
General Jose E M Hernandez arrived from Porto Rico after consultations with Venezuelan revolutionary leaders. He is expected to travel to Port of Spain to invade Venezuela in April. Reports say revolution details were settled at a San Juan conference.
Entertainment planned by the Oakdale School Improvement Association and the Women's Business Club is postponed to Friday March 27 due to the death of Mrs. A. P. Berrey, mother of Oakdale principal Miss Ethel Berry.
The Mobile Bar endorses Judge Edward deGraffenried to succeed himself as Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. The signatories praise his experience on the Court of Appeals and prior service, call him a Democrat of high integrity, and urge voters to support his candidacy.
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