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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1915
Page
13
The Bayou La Batre column lists local visits to Mobile and nearby towns, mentions illnesses and improving conditions, and reports on community members such as the Smee family, Bowden, Rush, and Crenshaw. It notes a planned game between Mobile and the Albas and a trip by Harl Smee.
Vinegar Bend Alabama reports a rainy week with hail and strong winds. The Sunday school gathering at the Baptist church is planned for the fifth Sunday of the month. Local residents note arrivals and returns including Mrs. Rogers from Miss., Mrs. a and Mr. and Mrs. with a mother visiting, and several trips to New Orleans and Mobile.
Attention housekeepers delivers fresh bread daily for twenty five days at one dollar. STAR BAKERY 610 Dauphin St. Home phone 1.
The Improved Order of Red Men announces the twenty eighth Great Sun session to convene in Birmingham on May 25 1915 with headquarters at the Empire Hotel and Fraternal Hall. Officials urge members to attend and notes plans for a one day session to save funds. Also covers Moose and Knights of Security activities and upcoming events in Mobile including excursions and installations.
The organization will hold its regular monthly meeting in its new quarters this November in the modern area of America.
Miss Rebecca Cochran visited Greenville friends before heading to Eufaula. Mr and Mrs LaVerne Peagler and son returned to Anniston from Greenville. Miss Genie Powell stayed with Miss Willie Johnson in Brewton. Rev BE Stewart visited his mother Mrs J T Broughton. Major T W Peagler attended a Birmingham bankers meeting. The Progressive Club hosted Federation Day with Dean Loveridge as speaker and a reception for over a hundred guests.
Henry Hubbard marked his 87th birthday on May 10 as friends from Ohio sent congratulatory letters and postcards. Visitors included Brace of Worcester Ohio and el oenes J A Hubbard. Mrs Sophia Mancier plans to sell household goods and move to Laurel Mississippi next week.
Reports from Mexia Ala note Mr. E. E. Herman rapidly improving after a dire illness that left him near death for most of a week. Mr. H. T. Adams, stricken with appendicitis and pneumonia, is also improving and expected to return home this week from Selma Alabama where he received treatment.
Y M B A Hall at Jackson and Dauphin streets hosts a Tuesday night gathering on May 18. Six candidates will travel through the forest and an important report from headquarters will be read. The entertainment committee plans a surprise for neighbors and Escort Jacobs promises a members treat. The hall will be formally christened after appropriate exercises.
A social event at Lower Peach Tree honored Selma with attendees including Misses Henrietta Irby Jessie Lee and Messrs Walter and Willie Stripling John King Mabry Dozier Joe Irby M C Stabler and Miss Lacy A Stabler. Mrs F E Poole visited Grove Hill then returned home after a few days with her parents.
The Mobile to Dauphin Island rail line is about two thirds graded to Cedar Point, promising a one hour thirty minute trip when finished. Visitors on the island include Dr. and Mrs. D. E. Mitchell and daughter Elizabeth from Lebanon Tennessee and Mr. B J Learned and Miss Julia Learn of Chicago, plus several Mobile residents on Sunday such as Mr. and Mrs. J Hearin and others including Mr. C Taylor and Mrs Taylor and Mr. W H Sanford Jr.
Services were held in the new Catholic church at Suvadas near Escatawpa with Father Smythen of Whistler delivering the sermon. The church is to be dedicated on the twentieth in the presence of the bishop. The Escatawpa ball team lost its Saturday game to Seaboard. Local visits include Robert Platt of Vinegar Bend and Bob Campbell returning to Leakesville. Mothers Day observances drew a large Baptist church crowd and Leon Williams showed improvement after illness. Clyde and Lola Lane visited in the Williams community.
The verdict favors Goodrich Tire and its Fair-List prices as the company emphasizes mileage, ease, comfort, and economy. It argues every tire user buys mileage service and that Goodrich concentrates all energy and efficiency to deliver the least cost per mile.
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