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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1913
Page
4
Cincinnati Traction Company moved to extend street car service after a partial recovery on the Avondale line. Striker activities aimed to influence a planned afternoon parade, while officials anticipated resumption on other routes.
James Walters of Nashville, who vanished from home thirteen years ago, was informed his father has died in Knoxville, Tennessee, leaving an estate worth thirty thousand dollars.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson is asked by the International Sunshine Society at its fifteenth annual convention in New York to design a special coin to fund education and care for blind babies in the United States. The copper half cent piece, inspired by Danish designs, will be minted. Delegates from nearly every state attend as Cynthia Westover Alden notes seven states have enacted baby blind care laws.
Senator Stephens of Texas introduces a joint resolution at the urging of the universal peace union urging the United States to cede the southeastern Alaska coast strip, 536 miles long and up to 10 miles wide, to Great Britain. The plan asks President Wilson to appoint a commission to study the transfer as a model of mutual concession.
A committee was appointed at a large Mobile Floral and Horticultural Society meeting to choose three judges for the garden contest closing the first week in June. Twenty eight entrants are competing as plans for a November chrysanthemum show take shape. Memorial resolutions honor the late Jacob W. Weiss.
Seventeen names plus additions were reported at a Thursday meeting of the Raphael Semmes Camp United Confederate Veterans. Adjutant Daly urged others to submit their names for the Chattanooga reunion. The United Sons of Confederate Veterans planned a meeting, postpone officers, and consider forming the Price Williams Chapter. A Jefferson Davis birthday celebration is set for June 3, with Me morial Day grave decorating honored by the G A R. Commander T J Savage presided. R F E Daly was secretary.
Six year old Irvin Boone, son of Mrs. T. A. Boone, was instantly killed at the family home on Stewart Avenue when an 18-year-old brother Hardman, while playing with a parlor rifle, accidentally discharged the weapon. The bullet entered the boy's neck at their Atlanta residence.
Chief Mine Inspector C H Nesbitt asks Governor O Neal to add a sixth inspector as Alabama’s coal output now warrants one for every two and a half million tons. Five associate inspectors exist already. Decision awaits governor’s ruling. many applicants seek the post. District inspector W R Ray’s term expired April 30 and may be renewed.
H. H. King, president of the Peoples Penny Savings Bank of Yazoo City, was found guilty in circuit court of seventeen counts for taking deposits while knowing the bank was insolvent. He will be sentenced Saturday. Albert Banks, the bank cashier, faces trial today on similar charges.
Montgomery will host the Horse Shoe Bend celebration in March 1914 marking the 100th anniversary of the 1814 battle at Horse Shoe Bend on the Tallapoosa. The state commission will plan an elaborate program with federal and state troop presence, a new highway from Dadeville to the Bend, and a monument bill in Congress. The commission includes Governor O’Neal and Dr. Thomas M. Owen along with local officials from Tuskegee Dadeville Wedowee and Rockford.
John Cameron of Hoke County admitted guilt through counsel in the killing of Raeford Chief of Police P C Oakes and three others last year. Cameron, described as one of the county's wealthiest men, was reportedly drunk at the time. Sentence not handed down.
J T Sossaman of News Cornelius NC says Bucklen's Arnica Salve helped his serious skin ailment after other remedies failed. Marketed for Burns bruises boils reduces inflammation and soothes. Only 26c recommended by Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
Seventeen million dollars were lost by Kansas farmers last year to chinch bug depredations affecting wheat, oats, and corn. State entomologist G A Dean warned 90 percent survived winter and predicted larger losses unless effective control methods are adopted before early crops mature.
London May 16 The French aviator Marcel C Brindejone des Moulinais landed near London after a 450 mile Bremen to London flight and becomes the first to violate Britain’s permit rule. He pleaded ignorance of regulations and was ordered to post a $200 bond for appearance at judgment.
Hon J B Rylance of Dadeville, a Tallapoosa county representative, said in Montgomery that he opposes an extra legislative session but would attend strictly to business if one occurs. He projected a deadlock on vital issues and doubted any accord could be reached, noting a possible general stalemate. He favored the Jefferson county anti-fee amendment but said a session could not focus solely on that.
Hurtsboro residents plan a joint depot with Central of Georgia and Seaboard Air Line at the town cell intersection. W. J. Baldwin says a petition will be filed with the railroad commission and heard on the first Monday in June, with fifty Hurtsboro citizens and Montgomery business leaders attending. The Central of Georgia depot was previously burned.
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