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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1914
Page
7
The Mobile Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians hosts its annual Thanksgiving smoker and gift party Monday evening at their hall on Jack and Dauphin streets. A crowd is expected as members give away real turkeys and other items to friends.
A marriage license was issued by the probate court on Monday to Charles Henry Dupre and Amelia I Phares.
The November term grand jury for this district organized Monday at noon under Judge H. T. Toulmin. Foreman is T. D. Nettles of United Fruit Company. Jury list includes Eli Armstrong, Oscar Johnson, John E. Deer, Richard L. Green, and others from Mobile, Baldwin, Escambia, Conecuh, Monroe, and Clarke counties. The docket is heavy but not dominated by major cases.
The ways and means committee of the Chamber of Commerce will meet Monday night at 7 30 o clock in the Battle House not in the Cawthon Hotel George A Maloney will deliver an address on Agriculture.
Two year old Raymond Wragg son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Wragg died after a short illness at the family home 506 South Hamilton Street. Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced.
Report by the Manchester Guardian details a deadly riot at the alien detention camp on the Isle of Man. Five prisoners killed and twelve wounded as inmates planned to escape and seize a harbor vessel for passage to a neutral country. The outbreak followed hunger strikes and discontent over food and camp conditions.
A noon Monday gathering of the farm lands committee of the Chamber of Commerce elected Mort L. Bixler as secretary. The chair named subcommittees on cattle hogs sheep poultry dairying finance legislative tick eradication livestock market co operation transportation and entertainment organization and publicity.
In the impeachment proceedings of the Bar of Mobile against attorney Fred W. Bacho Judge Safford Berney refused to dismiss the case but required a duly verified petition within three days. The court upheld security for costs and approved the increased cost figure. The matter concerns alleged double dealing in a land deal involving New Orleans parties and local squatters in Cottage Hill. Radio’s attorney Robert H. Bell argued the case.
A Petrograd dispatch to the Telegraph says Gumbinnen in East Prussia has fallen after a five day battle. Cossacks led a daring charge capturing batteries as German defenders retreated. The town was found half demolished by shell fire and abandoned. Gumbinnen sits 66 miles east-southeast of Koenigsberg, capital of its district with about 15,000 residents.
Desperate fighting continues in Russian Poland and west Flanders with heavy bombardments at Ypres. British aviators attack Friedrichshafen, while Berlin cites Hindenburg’s operações and Polish advance as decisive. Turkish forces near Suez, and a deadly mutiny at the Isle of Man alien camp also reported.
The Chamber of Commerce announces first and second prize jingles from a rat rhyme contest. Winners receive 10 and 5 dollars respectively. names to be revealed at a Ways and Means meeting. The poems urge rat proofing, sealed garbage covers, and a cleaner city to curb plague risk.
Mrs Joseph Fels wife of the late Philadelphia philanthropist spoke to charity workers highlighting global economic and civic distress, noting mass destitution and widening wealth gaps while urging charitable aid and reforms. The talk opened with a discussion of universal economic conditions and was shortened due to her New Orleans engagement.
The Circuit Court with Judge Alston transacted Tuesday business including an order of sale of land for Florence Pump & Lumber Co. v John Joseph, and judgments or actions in Georgia Loan Co. v Spence Newell, Graham & Rush v J B Lyon, and Graham & Rush v Fannie Thompson with garnishees. Follow-up cases listed for Tuesday include Carley & Co. v E C Bassett and others.
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