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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
11
Census Bureau statistics for April show cotton consumption at 499,772 running bales with foreign cotton. state breakdowns include Cotton states 260,133 and All other states 239,639. April 30 inventories list manufacturing establishments 1,595,792. cotton in hand in mobile area 1,130,426. imports at 32,921. exports 398,215. linters on hand 98,836, and active spindles totaling 31,074,250 across regions.
Notice declares a 1:00 p m May 15 1914 public cash sale of all assets of Malcolm Partin bankruptcy estate except the homestead in Mobile Alabama. Trustee F M Backes to conduct sale at Ervin McAleer office 404 Van Antwerp building. Also dissolution notice for Union Fish and Oyster Company details asset transfer and liabilities between Holcombe and Petty.
In the matter of Percy C Thames a bankrupt adjudication was entered May 13 1914. The first meeting of his creditors will be held May 28 1914 at 2 PM at the referee’s Mobile Alabama office for proof of claims appointment of a trustee and examination of the bankrupt. R T Ervi Referee in Bankruptcy.
Administrator cum testamento annexo appointed May 13 1914 by Judge Price Williams Mobile County Alabama. All persons with claims must present them within legal time or be barred. Clarence Blalack is administrator with Inge & Kirkpatrick attorneys. Plus: L and N excursion to New Orleans May 23 round trip 3.50.
The New Orleans cotton market opened with up moves across months led by November and October. By late morning prices strengthened and the session closed with gains of 11 to 16 points on most contracts, with notable upticks on old and new crop months.
The New York cotton market opens steady with 8 to 8 points gains as firm cables and a favorable census view prompt cautious selling. Liverpool buyers remain active and some yesterday sellers cover. Middling uplands around 13.40c and 13.65c for gulf with 400 bales sold. futures hold steady with May at about 12.94 and July near 12.46.
Liverpool cotton market reports spot prices with good middling at 8.04 pence per lb and middling 7.42, low middling 6.94. Trade shows 10,000 bales sold with 600 bales for speculation and export. Receipts total 23,500 bales. Futures quoted quiet with May 7.04, June 7.04, July-August 6.87, August-September 6.71-12, October-November 6.38, December-January 6.29 1-2, January-February 6.29 1-2.
Mary Taylor and Genevieve Connor, both Black women, quarreled at their Prichard home over a man. Connor was slashed three times with a razor and lies in critical condition at the city hospital. Sheriff Palmer and his son arrested Taylor who faces an assault to commit murder charge.
Lizzie Moulton, described as a negro woman, was arraigned in the Inferior Criminal Court on the charge of assault to murder and held to the City court under a $500 bond. Also noted are fines for Dave Watts, Philip Boykin, Clara Williams, and Gladis Johnson on various charges.
The Alabama Supreme Court refused Albert McNeill's petition for reversal of the Mobile Court of Appeals ruling in the case McNeill versus Munson Steamship Line. The decision stems from Mobile law and equity court proceedings.
Public notice announces bids due Monday June 15 1914 at noon for storm sewer works in Mobile Alabama totaling about 19 500 feet of pipe 6 to 24 inches with 36 manholes 60 inlets and 12 basins. A 1000 bid bond is required and plans may be obtained from the city engineer.
Vigorous buying lifts stocks with Reading and Steel leading. Mexican Petroleum jumps after the Tampico oil flare, while final prices show broad gains across rails, steel, telegraph interests, and utilities. Amalgamated Copper, American Tobacco, Reading, Union Pacific, and United States Steel post notable increases.
In Montgomery on May 14 the Alabama Supreme Court reversed and remanded Randall Wood’s death sentence for murder in Bibb County due to illegal testimony about his sanity. Walter Pryor, a white man from Gadsden, had his death sentence affirmed and will hang June 26 for killing George Quest in 1918 after a dispute with Quest over Pryor’s wife and discharge from the Alabama Power Company.
William Anthony Alexander died Wednesday morning at 13 South Catherine street. His funeral is Friday at 10 from the family residence to We First Baptist Church with Rev J W Phillips in charge. Masonic order and Raphael Semmes Camp veterans guard the burial at Magnolia cemetery. Florence A Smith’s funeral was held Thursday at St Joseph’s Church with requiem mass at 9 30. Interment followed at Magnolia cemetery with pallbearers Joseph A Hynde James P Hunt Jake Rhelm B C Jennett Ed Yeend and Richard Finch.
Miss Bertha Chamblin daughter of Mr and Mrs G A Chamblin died at her home in Dallas Texas after a lingering illness. Native of Mobile she leaves four sisters Mrs Dodson Miss Mabel Chamblin Dallas Mrs Booth of Toledo and Mrs Hawkins of Mobile and five brothers Gabe Robert Stewart of Mobile Wilbur John of Dallas and Bayless of Moline Ill. Interment will be in Dallas Robert Chamblin of Mobile went to Dallas for the funeral.
Funeral services for Julius T. Flock, manager of the Mobile Auto Denver, Colo., were held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. from Roche Burke undertaking parlors. Very Rev. G C Tucker officiated at St Johns Church, with burial at Crest Cemetery as floral tributes were placed. Pallbearers included War ner Hodges Ross and Barnes from the Mobile Auto Company.
Agricultural prices show May and July futures for 14 grain, corn, oats, pork, lard, and rib cuts. Prices move across contracts with figures including May 4, 86 and July 65 to 66 1/2 for corn, oats around 87, pork near 19.90, and lard around 10.07 to 10.30 during the session.
Chicago and St Louis cash grain prices show No 2 red wheat around 96 to 97 cents, No 2 Northern 97 3 4 to 98 3 4, No 2 yellow cork 6 70 cents, oats about 89 1 2 cents, corn No 2 around 72 1 2 to 78 1 2 cents, with various No 2 white and hard wheat quotes and provisions for pork lard ribs. Timothy and clover hay values noted with prices for other fodder.
Savannnah May 14 reports turpentine firms recording 1 172 receipts and rosin firms 2 167 barrels. Quotations list various grades from B at 3.75 80 to M 4.65 and N 6.30 with WG 5.70 and WW 5.75.
May 14 report shows the dollar at 0.886 in London trade with 3.96 pounds. Spelter steadies at 5.20 dollars per ton in London markets with 21 pounds 77 pence. A round trip rate of 3.60 dollars is noted for May 23.
Robert Person of the Southern Settlement and Development Organization arrived in Mobile to inspect lands around Mobile and southern Alabama to select a 5000 person settlement for workers in the canal zone. He toured with George A. Maloney and local representatives, noting the climate and sanitary methods favor a southern location and that most workers prefer the South over the North.
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