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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1915
Page
3
A lyrical excerpt quotes Margueritte A Cantrell and Wordsworth as a poetic reflection on love. The lines describe love lifting gloom to starry heights and light, nature, and hope becoming united with the beloved. The piece blends romantic imagery with classical references and ends with a note on tender thoughts and angels.
A reflection on friendship praises the gifts and costs of true companionship. It notes that friends may praise or rebuke but remain trusted, and that enduring understanding requires forbearance and sacrifice. The piece ends with a call to trust friendship and mutual fidelity.
A Nashville social note announces the engagement of 38 nia Creary and Lt Edwin K Smith Coast Artillery Corps U S Army with plans for a wedding on April 7. The couple’s local ties and popularity are highlighted as many friends and relatives look forward to the marriage.
Local talent presents the Colonial Minstrels on April 10 as a season feature. Performances include In the Far Fast vocal selections by Ella and Myrtle Tully, a quartet with McMillan Gaines Lavelle Little Arnold Sisson Brown Nelson Nect, songs from The Sunshine Girl with Marie Richard and Hunter, Pygmalion Galatea featuring Gladys Tompkins, Sylvia Ballet by Marie Shaffer, Bertha Patterson in ballet scenes, and Vera Williams among the cast.
A luncheon at the Tutwiler Friday honored Mrs. Richard Clarke of New York. Attending were her daughter Mrs. Carl Seals and Mrs. John W. Tomlinson along with Mrs. F. Y. Anderson.
The Virginian Pilot notes the marriage of Miss Lucille Overall of MobHe to Virginius Arnold of Waverly Virginia. Arnold is described as a prominent young attorney and son of the late Judge Richard Arnold, with sisters Mrs. Henry W Seabury and Mrs. Arthur Wilkins of the city.
The Grace Bester Bible Class met Monday at 4 p m at Mrs T McMillan's home. Mrs R V Taylor delivered an engaging talk and read Miss Groodgette's address on The Prophecy of the Bible and How It Is Being Fulfilled.
Friends learn Bennie Forchheimer returns home from the University of Pennsylvania to spend Easter with his father Maurice W Forchheimer in New York calls away. Also noted are travelers Mrs H S Walker returning from Montgomery and Mr and Mrs Burdick visiting the city from Peston West Virginia.
The notices recount Mrs Smylie hosting her sister Miss Lula Rush in Mobile and Miss Sara Cawhon Jones planning to return home from the Con vent of Visitation to spend Easter with the Jones family. Mrs C E Barley and son Edgar depart for Chicago after six weeks here, staying with Mrs J Tyler Turner on Dauphin Street. Mrs P G Holden leaves for Birmingham to join Prof Holden and hints at buying a Mobile area home after a recent campaign visit by crop diversification experts.
Sewing Club meets at 2 30 p m with Mrs W H Tolbert. Junior Band of Christ Child Society assembles at Mobile Public Library at 4 pm to finalize arrangements for April 22 garden party. YWCA education committee meets at 4 with Mrs Alston Yuille. Craighead Parliamentary Law Club holds monthly governing board meeting at 4 in Battle House parlor. Clara Schumann Club rehearses singers orchestra and piano for Beethoven Ninth at Smith Piano House at 7 pm.
The Ladies' Aid Society sponsors an Easter egg hunt on April 1 in the afternoon with no April fool tricks. Prizes include a big white rabbit and a white guinea pig. Home made candies and ice cream will be served along with other kiddie pleasures.
A Easter egg hunt organized by the Angels Sodality will be held on the grounds of St Mary's Asylum on Conti Street Easter Monday afternoon. Proceeds will fund an Easter dinner for the orphan girls.
On Tuesday evening April 6 at Trinity parish house Mr Roderick MacKenzie will present an illustrated lecture on Benares the Secret City of India. The lecturer himself is the photographer providing authentic images.
A meeting of the Interdenominational Chairman will be held with Mrs Jack Ross at her residence on Wednesday at 4 p.m. The notice records the time and host but provides no further agenda details.
Snow fell in Nashville and Clarksville with a cold north wind. By 9 a.m. the thermometer dropped from 83 degrees and the precipitation was intensifying, signaling a possible heavy accumulation over the region.
The Mt Vernon Alabama School Improvement Association staged a Friday night entertainment that drew a large crowd and received praise for the recitations by Misses Kern and McAndrews. Local residents and visitors shared weekend hospitality and news of visits and travel through the area.
At Nashville City Hospital Eugene Higginbotham, 28, a blacksmith, remains alive with two breast wounds and a severed windpipe after fatally stabbing his wife Irene Earhart Higginbotham at their home. Police say jealousy prompted the attack and that he attempted suicide following the murder.
A new skirt is modeled closely after garments from ancient times, paired with a real empire bodice to echo historic silhouettes. The ensemble highlights period authenticity and fashion continuity.
May Manton describes a straight Empire style skirt that can pair with a fitted bodice or be worn over a hoop. Net fabrics are favored with various silks and crepes. crepes offer strong shapes and color options. A net gown trimmed with roses creates a dainty effect suitable for dancing or afternoon wear.
Mechanics Lodge No. 69 LO C F to meet at 7 pm in Carr hall. Grove baseball beat Grove 10 to 9 Sunday. Rev J D Anderson to hold Meyers Memorial church services Wednesday 7 30 pm. Open cattlemen meeting in Mobile April 3 in courthouse grand jury room urged by J F Simmons. News of births visits and local happenings including a 10 lb baby boy born to Mr and Mrs C O Walker and workers at Mobile and Ohio shops returning home.
Local youths played a bail game between Monroeville and Excel with Jones Mill players on Excel. A seventh grade exam saw twenty applicants at Jones Mill School led by Mrs Bowden. Sunday school and missionary day drew a large crowd with a brief program. The Jones Mill commencement starts April 2 with a concert by Miss Alva Shell and a sermon by Rev Ellison, followed by a Ninth Grade class exercise Tuesday night. Various local appointments, visits, illness, and social events are noted including the Jeddo Sunday school convention and town prayer services.
St Stephens Alabama records a Friday school closure as Professor Mathew Adams returns to Lower Peach Tree. Local pupils express satisfaction with a productive year. Various residents visit or travel, including Miss Mamie Long and Miss Ruth Davis, with health updates on Mr Pitman and Mrs Pitman.
Dr Matthew Brewster releases Passion Week timetable for Christ Episcopal church listing morning and evening prayer litany and communion services from Tuesday to Easter Day plus Good Friday three hour service and an Easter Eve and children’s festival. New Orleans British steamship Glensbiel, grounded near the Mississippi mouth, was floated and sent to sea.
Mrs M A Hutchison, age 81, says Vinci tonic rebuilt her strength appetite and fought nervousness. The cod liver and iron tonic without oil is advertised as a safe remedy for run down weak devitalized conditions and chronic illnesses available through Wells one neers Inc. and at drug stores.
Rose Helen Kaiser tells Miss Rae Tanzer that an unseen Oliver Osborne may be the same man who exonerated James W Osborne. She supplied Tanzer’s lawyers with a letter from Oliver Osborne and said she believes the Boston Osborne and the New York figure are the same.
The Greek steamer Nefeli, en route from Spezia to Delaware breakwater in ballast, is adrift east of Bermuda with no coal. The Nefeli, 2476 tons net and 370 feet long, was sighted by the steamer Marchioness of Pute on March 14 after failing to tow her. The Marchioness abandoned the charge after three line snaps and returned to Bermuda to refuel.
President Wilson stated the American note regarding the British order in Council was practically complete and would be sent to London within the next twenty four hours.
H C Taylor clears a fifteen acre addition to his Kushla farm. La Fina Dairy adds a three unit milking machine. Mrs E S Lathrop visits Mobile family. Mrs J S Ferguson returns from Mobile. Herman Becker plans Japanese kudza forage trials on an acre. A mule disappeared and was found dead of starvation. L C Clarke clears 25 acres on Lott road and pauses spring work. Short Horn bulls purchased by Mobile Chamber of Commerce now in Kushla at La Fina Dairy, with one local and two en route to designated communities.
Prichard Alabama notes show Missionary Society of the Methodists meeting at Robert Carswell's residence Thursday afternoon. Social items include Mrs Rosa Porter visiting St Louis and Mrs J M Weldy and son ill, while Mrs Martha Anderson visits from Jay Alabama. Local visits mention Messrs Randle Gilpin Julius Jones and others in Prichard and Houston.
The Paris city council plans a grand fair with major French commercial and industrial bodies to rival the Leipzig exposition in Germany. It aims to secure trade for France and its allies that has previously flowed to Germany.
A lone spot on earth yields the remor able mineral stratum Vitalitas. The mound in flat Texas is the sole source with deep extending strata. Vitalitas is claimed to cure indigestion rheumatism nervous debility catarrhal troubles and other derangements of organs and blood. Sutton's aid store sells it with druggists carrying the product.
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