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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
3
Montgomery May 15 Special The attorney general will begin impeachment proceedings against J B Lyons probate judge of Lee county after grand jury recommendations alleging misuse of county funds and drunkenness.
In May, Miron Ford, a Black youth, faced grand larceny charges from Dr. Adams. the case continued to Saturday. Lumberman at 902 Vernment Street discharged for passenge dispatch. Charles Phillips fined $10 or 20 days for passing a street car. Judge Edington reduced due to wagon status. Smith Hunter fined $50 and costs for auto use without permission after taking a car at the ball park. fender damaged on return. W. F. Telshaw discharged on license promise. Jitney driver Laurence C. Hughes jailed for passing a street car with discharging passengers. trial set for Saturday.
Wheelerville residents learned that Miss Hattie Lane and friends Missese and Jennie Fincher have returned from Mobile Infirmary where they were critically ill with typhoid fever. Mrs. Sarah Johnson was laid to rest at Wheelerville cemetery in Spring Hill.
Heavy rainfall during the prior week cheered local farmers. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs William Turner. mother ill but expected to recover soon. Wesley Sisson Jr made a business trip to Mobile. Town hall dance Saturday night hosted by Charlie Holk and Lyman Babcock featured musicians Arthur Holk and Walter Paulson.
Three guests Miss Mamie Quill Miss Marie Gillette and Miss Eulalie Robinson brightened Miss Tapia home for the weekend Rev J S Lambert and Mrs Lambert with daughter Margaret visited Daphne on Sunday May 9 and Rev Lambert preached both services Rev G R Hurlbutt and Gus Kanabe were returning to camp on the gulf a slow rain began Monday afternoon and continued overnight reviving vegetation across the area
The Oakdale Baptist church hosted a welcome program for new members of the young people's branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The program featured songs by a quartette, readings, addresses, recitations, and the plea The Saloon Must Die. Refreshments followed.
Camden Alabama. The Camden Music Study Club presented a charming program at the school auditorium on Monday night with a decorated stage, featuring piano duets, vocal solos, violin pieces, and choral numbers. Several local residents attended and extra social notes follow including visits and community events.
An article by Prof. Frederico H. Stoneburn from 1915 detailing practical, economical ways to produce and supply green foods for poultry. It covers the health benefits, yolk color impact, and cost considerations of using fresh or dried clover, alfalfa, grasses, and young greens, with guidance for different farming scales and free-range flocks.
Poultry keepers split into two camps market egg and meat production versus breeding and showing high quality specimens. Red Pyle Game Bantams pose a challenge with strict weight limits and show standards, while offering aesthetic appeal and engaging breeding puzzles for English origins and American breeders alike.
The article discusses feeding yarded fowls with green foods from grass lawn clippings and home garden crops. It covers the double yard system, crops like alfalfa, rye and vetch, mangolds, cabbage, and sprouted oats, plus how to sprout oats and protect growing greens with frames.
Little planning at this season of the year will enable the poultry grower to provide a steady supply of green food in some acceptable form. And it pays.
New Orleans reports manager John Dobbs has corrected an early error by reacquiring pitcher Jim Gudger from Mobile in exchange for Second Baseman Carl Flick. Gudger, once with Pensacola, later starred in the Cotton States League, boosting a pitching staff viewed as the league’s strength before the trade renewed optimism in New Orleans.
Ed Walsh a Chicago American League pitcher, whose training season was interrupted by a severe grippe, left Los Angeles for Chicago on Friday. He said he was feeling great and needed only a little more strength.
The administratrix Blanche M Dempsey announces letters of administration were granted on April 30 1915 by Judge Price Williams of the Mobile County Alabama Probate Court. Creditors must present claims within the lawful period or be barred. William Cowley is the attorney.
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