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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
3
A romantic excerpt quotes Henry Van Dyke confessing longing and repentance. It speaks of love's fault and penance, with a plea to share the heart's longing openly while accepting consequences. The speaker vows honesty and devotion.
A compact collection of moral maxims and quotes from Sheridan Seneca Horace and Dryden. The verses urge calm courage in conflict and self control to avoid temper and folly with observations on friendship prudence and virtue.
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the president, is honored with naming the Grover Cleveland school social center the Margaret Wilson Social Center. The idea arose at a neighborhood civic meeting led by Miss Wilson and others, with Mrs Susie Root Rhodes presenting the proposal and the full community endorsing the designation.
The annual national council of the National Society of the Daughters of the 1812 War met in New York City with delegates from chapters across the country. Officers outlined plans for commemorative events and historical preservation projects.
The United Daughters of 1812 convene in New York from April 27 to 30 with headquarters at the Waldorf Astoria. Events include a national officers reception, a New Jersey Dolly Madison costume ball, a banquet for invited delegates, and theatre party. Nondelegate members may attend by paying $2.50 with two weeks notice. National officers to be elected. Mrs. Robert Hall Niles and Miss Emma Webster Powell listed as top candidates.
The Chautauqua Circle met on Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. H. H. Duffee presiding in place of absent president Miss Sallie Withers. Members discussed current events from the Independent Magazine and finished reading Democratic England with a quiz on its last chapters.
A large attendance gathered at Government Street Presbyterian for a Girls Council session. Miss Lottie May Rose presided in Miss Ruth Winter’s absence as reports from districts outlined weekly activities and upcoming plans including trips to Spring Hill Turnerville class formation and a forthcoming musical at Miss Myrtle Tully’s home.
Ruth Winter serves as president with Miss Rose as successor nominee and Miss Myrtle Tully as vice president. The group adopts the motto Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not from Galatians 6 and selects Give off the Best to Your Master as the band’s song.
The Woman's Missionary Society of Koat Street Methodist Church holds an all day meeting Friday March 26 to advance the membership campaign. A substantial lunch will be served at 12 30.
In memory of Sister Sarah the Christ Church Junior Auxiliary rescheduled its regular meeting from Tuesday March 28 to Friday March 26 at 4 pm in the chapter house.
The Montgomery Journal urges public donation of roses and creepers to beautify Mobile. It notes delays due to W B Patterson's death and calls for volunteers to supply and plant flora, including Amelopsis Veitchii on the Madison avenue bridge. It also promotes gardening at back yards and vacant lots for beauty and food, highlighting profits, health, and education for children.
Miss Anna Rhodes is among women interested in the Peace Afternoons series by the School of Mothercraft in New York. Speakers will discuss the peace movement and its link to mothercraft. The program aims at disarmament of nations.
A call to children to nurture a habit of growing things while young, with a proverb about a bent twig shaping a tree. The piece urges everyone to plant something today to foster lifelong appreciation for gardening and nature.
Thursday schedule lists Parliamentary Law Study Club sessions at Cawthon Hotel and Morning Division at Battle House Auditorium both at 10 30 a m. The Mother's Club meets at Settlement Home at 4 p m and the Christ Child Sewing Society holds its annual meeting at McGill Institute at 11 a m.
Friday events list three gatherings with Miss Alba Gower at 3 p m the Friday Afternoon Club with Mrs J M Brown at 3 p m and the Junior Literary Club with Miss Wilma Summersgill at 3 30 p m afternoon division of the Craighead club notes.
Battle House Auditorium events at 4 p m and 7 30 p m for Parliament Law and a luncheon at Mrs Russell Hollinger’s home at 1 30 p m Saturday Shakespeare Club meets with Mrs C J Torrey at 11 o clock A B L S Expression Contest at Harte Auditorium 8 p m
Madison M. McPherson departed for Montgomery on the Peerless. Guests at the Battle House include J A McCah and others from Florida to Alabama. Noted visitors register at St Andrew and Blenville hotels, including Dr. C A Jackson and Dr T D Rowland. Windsor Hotel draws several Miss and Ala residents.
Perry County board of examiners lists graduates finishing the grammar school course in Richton and nearby routes. Diplomas will be awarded Thursday night with a graduation address by Hon H Heidelberg of Leakesville. Field day exercises slated for March 25 and 26, expected to attract a record crowd.
The Kansas supreme court yesterday upheld the state corporation tax law enacted in 1918, ruling the measure constitutional and valid within the state's tax framework.
A report from the Inge Bondurant Sanitarium stated that Dr ER D Bondurant dean of the Medical College at the University of Alabama was slightly improved after being reported critically ill on Wednesday.
Arthur J. Ela of the United States coast and geodetic survey spent the past four days inspecting port conditions at Mobile. He is touring Southern coast cities and departed Thursday for Pensacola for another inspection.
The Louisville and Nashville line restarts Thursday coast excursions from Mobile starting June 3 per agent H C Geron. The weekly train departs 7 a m with all stops both ways and aims to continue the popular seasonal trips to Alabama and Mississippi coastal towns.
Advertises Surgol as a simple solution to gain ten to twenty pounds by aiding digestion and fat absorption. Claims rapid body filling, including cheeks and shoulders, with a money back guarantee from Van Antwerp Drug Co. and local druggists. Warns it may not suit those not seeking weight gain.
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