Award Contract for Paving Sheds on River Front
At a special city meeting on Monday the paving contract for the municipal steel sheds on the river front with concrete was awarded to F. G. Proudfoot, the lowest bid at 79 cents per square yard. An appropriation of $5,000 funds starting work on about 6,000 square yards, one third of the sheds’ floor area, with ten bidders total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. G. Proudfoot
Proudfoot
Kooiman & Co
GA. Chamblin
Jett Brothers Contracting Co. Sullivan
Long & Hagerty
C. P. Powers & Son
J. H. Fleming & Co
E. J. Raub, Barter & Bailey
C. Hylan & Co
New Orleans
Hauser to Serve Three Months in Jail
Jacob J. Hauser, Plateau merchant convicted of violating prohibition, was sentenced to three months at hard labor but will not go to the county road gangs. County physician Marion J. Inge certified he is unable to perform hard labor, leaving the case to county commissioners to order confinement in the county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob J. Hauser
Marion J. Inge
City Wins Auto License Case Overdue Fees
The city won a three year legal battle to collect automobile license fees from Horace Turner. Carl Holzborn, register in chancery, delivered a $19.40 payment covering the license plus interest back to 1910. The suit challenged earlier jurisdiction and upheld the chancery court relief when no adequate remedy at law existed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Turner
Carl Holzborn
Register In Chancery
Turner
Supreme Court
Court of Justice of the Peace
F. W. Hermann
Chancery Court
Bocene
City hospital annex and remodel bids sought
City commissioners will open bids at noon May 21 for the annex to the city hospital and remodeling of the main building at Broad St Anthony Jefferson and Congress. Drawings and specs available at Stone Brothers architects office. The $50,000 project is funded in this year’s budget to improve the hospital as a charity institution and clinical facilities for medicine at the University of Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hospital
Broad
St. Anthony
Jefferson
Congress Street
Stone Brothers
University of Alabama
New County Engineer Reports to the Board
Fay McClure the newly appointed county highway engineer reported to the board of county commissioners at the regular weekly meeting. He arrived in Mobile Monday from Albuquerque New Mexico and will spend the next week acquainting himself with office details. His home is Washington D C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay McClure
A. W. Paige
United States
Mobile
Alberquerque
New Mexico
Board of County Commissioners
Bank of Mobile
Washington, D. C
Mary's Lane
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
John T. Bauer
Lucile and Irma Sold at Auction by U S Marshal
The motor boats Lucile and Irma, once run in the Eastern shore bay service by Captain John A. Welch, were sold at auction before the custom house. Major James K. Glennon bought Lucile for 2000 dollars and W P Minnich purchased Irma for 1000 dollars. Apollo, now in Eastern shore service, is expected to begin use soon. The sale followed a district court order after Captain Welch entered bankruptcy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucile
Irma
Eastern Shore Bay
John A. Welch
Custom House
United States
G. K. Beans
James K. Glennon
Point Clear
Bay Steamship Cmpany
Pleasure Bay
James A. Carney
Lajcile
Bay
W. P. Minnich
Fairhope
Bay Steamship
Apollo
Welch
United States District Court
Weleh
Notable Officials to Address Mobile Dairy Meeting
Dr. Carl T. Alsberg, chief of the federal bureau of chemistry, will attend and speak at the Association of Dairy Food and Drug Officials meeting in Mobile June 16 20. Dr. Oscar Dowling of Shreveport plans to attend and discuss sanitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Carl T. Alsberg
Federal Bureau of Chemistry
H. W. Wiley
C. H. Billingsey
Association of Dairy Food and Drug Officials
United States
Mobile
Oscar Dowling
Shreveport
New Orleans
Americans Study Farmers Credits at Rome Lovin Cup
The American commission on European agricultural co operation and farmers credits opened meetings in Rome. German Hungarian Austrian French and Belgian delegates reported. David Lubin of Sacramento received a silver loving cup but declined it, directing the honor to Rafael Cappelli and the International Institute of Agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
American Commission For the Study
United States
Europe
American Commission
David Lubin
Sacramento
Cal
Lubin
International Institute of Agriculture
Italy
Rafaele Cappelli
Marquis Cappelli
County Board Rejects Bids for Material Gravel on Mary's Lane
Bids to furnish gravel for Marys Lane were opened and rejected as too high. Toulmin Son offered 95 cents per ton clay gravel, Jackson Sand and Gravel 1.12 for clay gravel, 1.24 for screened gravel, Southern Fuel and Material 1.15, Cement Products protested pipe sites, engineer to report best material. Board discussed bridge, road, and slag rate issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brannan
Pooley Road
Howell’s Ferry Road
Moffat Road
R. J. Wells
Grand Bay
Franklin Creek
Union Church
Wells
Union Church Settlement
Cement Products Company
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
Birmingham
Mobile
Hagan
Chamber of Commerce
Mary's Lane
Green
Toulmin & Son
Southern Fuel and Material Company
Jackson Sand and Gravel Company
Alabama Land Congress
City Briefs and Local Appointments
Mrs. A D Purfoy remains seriously injured after a fatal accident near Wilmer. she is resting in the Mobile Infirmary. A committee of one hundred plans to organize Monday night at Medical Society Hall and seek affiliation with a national group. O M Otts, recently sworn as a notary by Governor O Neal, filed bond in probate court. Four men proceed to Montgomery for the Knights of Columbus state meeting led by F D Kohn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D. Purfoy
Wilmer
Medical Society Hall
O. M. Otts
O'Neal
Thomas A.yeend
James King
William Cowley
Matt Mahomer, Jr
Montgomery
Knights of Columbus
F. D. Kohn
Funeral Notices for Jackson Evelly Swift in 1913
Funeral details for James Claude Jackson Mary M Evelly and Ira Austin Swift Sr. show deaths on May 11 12 1913.Services from 612 Congress street 658 Delaware street and Park avenue Crichton to St Patrick St Vincent and Magnolia Cemetery with interments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
James Claude
Margaret
William Jackson
Congress Street
St. Patrick's Church
Swift
Ira Austin Swift
Park Avenue
Spring Hill Avenue
Crichton
Magnolia Cemetery
Immigrant Denied Entry Over Contagious Disease Claim
Cyril Pentley a Black seaman from St. Croix was refused admission to the United States by Mobile immigration officials due to a contagious disease. He arrived in Mobile aboard the schooner Clara Davis and sought entry to join relatives in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyril Pentley
St. Croix
Rebels Threaten Matamoras Siege at Noon Sighted
Constitutionalists were near Matamoras across the Rio Grande from Brownsville as federal defenders held entrenched positions with four machine guns. General Lucio Blanco demanded surrender and warned of an attack within twelve hours, while Major Esteban Ramos invited the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Brownsville
Texas
Matamoras
Lucio Blanco
Estaban Ramos
Ramos
No Case Against Richard Liquor Co Discharged
Richard Liquor Company owners E. E. Richard and R. G. Richard were discharged after a Monday hearing before US Commissioner Richard Jones Jr. on a charge of failing to keep Form 52 records for liquor receipts and dispositions. Harold Scott, deputy internal revenue collector, initiated the complaint in Montgomery. A U S attorney Alex Howard indicated possible further federal action and grand jury submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. E. Richard
R. G. Richard
Richard Liquor Company
United States
Richard Jones, Jr
Internal Revenue
Harold Scott
Montgomery
Mobile
Richard Company
U.S
Alex. Howard
Courts in session for guardians and removals cases
Chancery Court with Hon. Thomas H. Smith presiding lists motions for guardian ad litem for minor Nauborne Wilker son to compromise lands for 25 dollars, and amendments in T. B. Pace v. Oliver et al. Also petitions to remove disabilities of non age and related suits. special chancellor Judge Crawford presiding. Call for Tuesday includes Pace v Oliver, Barney v ce, Glennon v etc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chancery Court
Thomas H. Smith
James K. Glenon
Madison Tillman
J. W. Tharp
Nauborne Wilkerson
T. B. Pace
P. W. Oliver and Co
Ida Garland
Wiley Mitchell
Ellie Bressnehan
George FE. Crawford
W. S. Broderick
Als
Andrew Pickens
P. W. Oliver
Salie N. Barney
T. B. Ce
James K. Glennon
Customs Boats Sold At Auction In Fort Morgan
The launch Senator and a yawl used by the customs service at Fort Morgan were sold at auction before the customs house. Henry L. Stoutz bought the Senator while Captain C. S. Bodden purchased the yawl, both at fair prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Morgan
Custom House
Henry L. Stoutz
C. S. Bodden
Customs Service
Morgan
Civilians and Privates Held on Serious Charge
Nogales May 12 Cal Wright Nogales city marshal Jack Williams a bartender and two private US soldiers were arrested by military authorities charged with planning to steal ammunition from the cavalry camp and the railway warehouse to sell it to insurgents in Sonora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Nogales
Ariz
Cal Wright
Jack Williams
United States
Sonora
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City Commission
Hauser
Dreamland Theatre
Leon D. Brooks
Mgr
Lamb and Lamb
George A. Mack
Jennie Gladstone
Brice and
Brazee
Normandy
City
NEW County
Imperial Sanitary Laundry
Jas
K. Ae
Minnich
Drs. Alsberg and Dowling
Food and Drug
St. Joseph and
State Streets
Parkis
Perry
Ohio
St. Stephens Road
Bauer
Poor Asylum
Cohen
Beach Front
Gaillard
Hammel's
Hammel’s
Benge
York
Maj. Ramos
Richard Liquor CO
J. M. DesRochers
Monterey St
Geez D
Uy. G
Bijou Theatre
Washington Park
Vitagraph
Tom Powers
Florence Turner
Leo Delaney
Desert
Essanay
MR. Boob
Selig
Pathe
Fatty
Kalem
John E. Brennan
Ruth Roland
Cinders
George Stanley
Clarence
Mae Hotely
Pathe Play
Pathe Weekly
the Wanderer
John Steppling
Beverly Bayne
Hoyt
Tenderfoot
Biograph
Bingles
Flora Finch
Harry T. Morey
Edison
Chas Ogle
Mary Fuller
Harold Lockwood
Kathryn Williams
Billy Mason
Ruth Hennessy
Carlyle Blackwell
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