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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1916
Page
5
Charlies D. Haig reports his watch was taken Sunday afternoon outside the Gulf Coast Fair grounds. Chief G M Van Liew urges vigilance as detectives join the police detail at the fair and asks the public not to delay protecting jewelry.
The fair grounds host a new swine exhibit featuring top Gulf Coast Duroc Jerseys Poland-China Berkshire Tamworth and other breeds. Notable breeders include Fred C. Hall Bay Minette A J Schellinger Semmes Funk Brothers Chunchula Tom J. Riley Lloyd Station and J. Lloyd Abbott.
The fair will use two new 50 by 80 foot buildings to shelter small herds of fine cattle and superior hog stock. Last year’s cattle and hog exhibits were in a large tent, but the new facilities aim for comfortable accommodations rivaling southern fairs. The plant includes the Agricultural and Liberal Arts Buildings, three new structures, a grandstand, and stables for 150 horses.
The passage explains how cyclones form wind patterns that veer to the right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern. It notes rivers eroding right-hand banks more and mentions trains and cars tending to the right. A thought experiment with poles and cannons illustrates the veering motion on a rotating globe.
Tuscaloosa lawyers L J Snow and Wiether Rice visiting Mobile on Louisville and Nashville business. Assistant General Freight Agent J W Hunter of Southern Railway in Mobile for several days, staying at the Cawthon Hotel. C C Frye of Sagua Cuba visiting Mobile on business, staying at the Battle House. Gulf Coast Fair guests include J S Goodin and W F Bruner of Georgia Ala and J D McLaurin of Meridian Mississippi. Mrs G Fred Fletcher of Pittsburgh and Mrs W S Hosford of Jackson Mississippi, owners of thoroughbred show horses, here for the fair at the Battle House. Lieutenant Edward Nelson of the government steamer Bache, Norfolk Virginia, on a thirty day vacation with Mrs Nelson visiting her parents Mr and Mrs George B Dure.
Mr. Adolph Arp a German native died Saturday after a several weeks illness at a local infirmary. He moved to Mobile last August from Meridian Mississippi where he managed parks. Arp a horticulturist of notable ability is survived by his widow two sons Otto Arp of Sioux City Iowa and Adolph Arp of Des Moines Iowa two daughters Tillie Arp and Ella Arp both of Meridian plus other relatives. The funeral will be Tuesday conducted by the Masonic fraternity. Arp was a member of the Woodmen of the World.
Dr Charles William Moore is mourned in a Saturday service led by Rev L H Chappelle at Broad Street Methodist Church after a service at Roche Burke parlors. Burial followed at Magnolia cemetery with floral tributes and pallbearers George Helter Edward Cogburn J J Heiter G W Arras I C Boyle. Maple Camp No 6 Woodmen of the World sent a delegation. A second obituary notes Lula F Johansen aged 40 died Sunday at 10 10 pm after a week illness. She leaves husband two daughters three sons and father Erwin Goff with siblings Mrs George Glasa and Mrs William Martin. Burial set for Magnolia cemetery Tuesday afternoon.
Catherine Kermeen Mestry aged four years three months daughter of William D and Maud Bancroft McKinstry dies at 111 Rapier Avenue after a long illness. Fletcher Fryar aged 26 native of Nashville Tennessee dies at the family home in Oakdale after several weeks illness. Fryar came to Mobile eight years ago and resided here. He is survived by his widow and other relatives.
Chancery court before noon orders service by mail on a minor through his mother in the Malcolm Oates v William H Oates matter. Lulu Alexander v Jessie Alexander testimony ordered published based on pleadings and proof.
Italian minister to Greece told King Constantine that northern Epirus occupation does not alter the ultimate status of Epirus, to be settled at a postwar peace conference. He said Italian troops replaced Greek forces to guard the entente army’s left wing.
The Motion Picture Patents Company seeks to interpret the Clayton act and apply it to patent monopolies in licensing moving picture machines. The Supreme Court granted review of a lower court dismissal of the suit alleging wrongful use of a licensed machine with unapproved forms by the moving picture trust.
Ben McKee of Gadsden is on trial in Montgomery federal court charged with complicity in the June 1915 Louisville and Nashville train No. 27 robbery at Greenville. Accomplices Henry Grady Webb and Jeff Harrison are named. Webb is at large while Harrison serves time in Atlanta for another robbery.
A renewal of heavy liquidation pushed January cotton contracts down by 2.25 a bale from Saturday’s close. The drop follows reports of slackening spot demand and shipping concerns, yet officials say these factors don’t fully explain the market break.
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