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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
5
The fifteenth annual King's Daughters and Sons convention closes in Biloxi at the White House. Activities include devotions by Rev. E C Brink and an address by Mrs Anthony Evans on Margaret Bottome settlement work.
Mobile County Sunday School Association aims for national first class status after winning state Front Line County honors. A May 11 luncheon at 6 45 in the Rotary room of the Cawthon Hotel will feature D H Marbury and Leon Palmer to motivate workers. W A Middleton will act as toastmaster with James L Cawthon Frank W Evans and R L Howell directing the event.
Prichard reports include Pippin of Bienville Hotel on business visits, Dorothy Schock visiting relatives, and Epworth League sociable planned at Prichard Methodist church. Deputies captured two negro burglars, Charles Wade and John Lopez, at J W Butterley Co store. School Improvement Association met to fund library installation as Harry Fountain leaves for Centerville and Frank Moorehead returns to Mobile.
A 20 year old woman, previously reporting herself as 16, was placed under arrest after a delegation of women offered assistance at the police department. She returned to the resort as authorities consider an investigation with help from local ladies.
John Shider of the National Housing Association told a Mobile audience that every resident deserves proper housing. He cited dangers of tenement life in big cities and showed slides on sanitary housing, noting Savannah leads in housing conditions. The talk, under the Chamber of Commerce committee, followed by a Rotary club meeting.
The state railroad commission opened a hearing on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad petition to raise coal rates from mines in the Birmingham district to Jefferson county points. Witness W. Lamb of Louisville, assistant comptroller for L and N, was the only witness examined.
Partial recoveries from yesterday's late selling appeared early in the trading day on the New York stock exchange. Major steels like Bethlehem and United States Steel rose briefly, but readings swung as weakness returned in Reading and the broad list declined on light offerings.
Cash grain and provisions show Wheat No 2 red at 1.59 to 1.60, No 2 hard 1.59 1/2 to 1.60 1/2, Corn No 2 yellow 77 1/2 to 78, Oats No 2 white 54 3/8 to 51 5/8, Rye No 2 1.20 1/2, Barley 73 19c. Hay Tin 03.50 12.75. Provisions Pork 17.90, Lard 10.05, Libs 10.25 10.62. Market figures for Wheat Lard and Ribs shown with open and close values and various month contracts.
New Orleans May 6 poor cables and heavy selling caused early losses of 8 to 10 points. Demand later steadied and prices climbed 15 points from the lows by afternoon with rumors Italy declared war on Austria boosting buying. Spot quiet at 12 points off. Closed with a net decline of 14 to 16 points.
New York traders opened with declines of 11 to 16 points in old crop months and 2 to 5 points in new crop positions before Wall Street buyers pushed prices near last night’s close. Spot cotton steady at 10.05 with 150 bales sold. futures closed essentially unchanged amid uneven swings and local selling.
Cotton spot quiet and prices weak with good middling at 5.60 and middling at 4.24. Bales traded 8 000 for speculation and export, receipts 15 000. Futures closed easy on near positions and steady on distant with May-June 6.20 and May-June 6.71 for later spreads.
Turpentine firm receipts 519 casks and rosin firm receipts 2 615 barrels reported in Savannah Georgia on May 6. Prices listed for grades B through WW range from 3.25 to 5.70 with multiple mid ranges. Market activity noted with firmings in several grades and substantial receipts across both turpentine and rosin.
Three men were wounded in a schooner confrontation near Ocean Springs Mississippi on May 6. Minnie Matfield led a mob along Bipft Creek shouting a racial slur before opening fire. Joe Eli was shot and Captain Peppie was seriously wounded and likely to die after being taken to New Orleans.
In Montgomery Alabama Governor Henderson signs final papers authorizing a one million dollar loan from a New York bank. About five hundred ninety thousand dollars will be available immediately to ease state finances and cover two months overdue teachers salaries. A separate public notice warns Conrad Heinz to claim his dog guitar suitcase and clothes or they will be sold on May 17 1916 from 265 St Emanuel St.
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