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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1913
Page
7
About two million lady bugs escaped in Chicago when an International Refrigeration Exposition employee forgot to close an icebound refrigerator at the stock yards amphitheatre. The insects, shipped from California to combat fruit scale, revived in warm air and flew away.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange may take part in the Mobile cotton case before a special examiner in Mobile on October 20. John A. Smith of the exchange is handling the matter and is expected to reach a decision within a few days.
Williamson plans a Mobile home with the Hollomans at Flo Claire while Miss Mabel Lee Windham is visiting Northport relatives. George Fearn arrives from a New England motor trip with his daughter Mrs. W. K. Syson and party. Earl Norris Floyd to visit Meridian for the weekend with Mrs. Floyd and the Rushes in Mobile. Mrs. Curry heads to Tuscaloosa for winter. Ben Walker Curry in Alabama law. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Dozier honeymoon in Mobile en route to Thomasville. M. T. C. Dance a Gala Event Tonight at German Relief Hall showcases the turkey trot and other lively dances.
Rehearsals for the tableaux to be staged at the Lyric in October will be held today at German Relief Hall at 5 pm and 7 30 pm. Mrs Harry Donald and Lt Barlow returned from Fort Morgan as guests of their daughter and Mrs Edwin Barlow. Mothers' Club met at Settlement Home with 14 present and four guests. officers will be elected next Thursday at 3 30 pm.
The Settlement Home has started a day nursery for children aged six months to ten years. Mothers must work due to widowhood or a disabled husband. A five cent daily fee is charged. Deaconess hands the children to a full day caregiver. Yesterday several mothers used the creche service.
Crichton event features tableaux and a Trinity Social Club benefit musical at Odd Fellow's Hall tonight. Refreshments offered and all are invited. Miss Mary Daughdrill returned home from a two month trip to north Alabama. Little Miss Julia Marie Brown hosted thirteen friends at 61 Dunham Street for her thirteenth birthday with pink and white theme, music, games, and gifts. attendees included Marie Jacobson Emma Lou Jacobson Julia Griffin Marguerite Averyt Orline Mobley Mamie Mobley Muriel Negus Josephine Watson Virginia Ballard Nellie Reinhardt Pauline Scott Annie Hare Thelma Duff and others.
Home Economics Club requests lodging options for Congress visitors. Classified by room class A to D with private baths or basic facilities and suggested prices from 0.50 to 2.50 dollars per night. Contact details include Chamber of Commerce and a block chairman to secure accommodations for multiple persons.
Next Monday and Tuesday September 29 30 the ladies of the Home Economics Club will canvas the residence portion of the city to ascertain rooms for visitors to the Southern Commercial Congress meeting here October 26 27 28 29 It is expected at least ten thousand visitors will come and hotel space will be insufficient so many rooms will be needed the club hopes residents will assist Mobile authorities solicit rooms.
Anita Delchamp Willie May Delchamp Genleve Eaton Blanch Davis Ruth Nathan Anette Dulaney Sarah Seymour are named in a published obituary notice listing family members and survivors with locations and relations. The notice records relations and associated family members connected to the deceased.
The St Joseph’s Catholic Association hosted a Wednesday evening dance at their Bayou Street hall. A large crowd enjoyed punch and music from the orchestra as the event drew a cheerful, well-dressed crowd. The group plans informal dances every two weeks.
The event will honor the Panama canal opening with attendance by the U S president and cabinet members, state governors, and South American representatives. Mobile ladies are asked to provide rooms for visiting dignitaries and to accept a modest charge listed on a classified card.
A mob freed Joe Richardson from a county jail in Litchfield and hanged him from a tree in the public square after he was accused of assaulting Ree Goff, an eleven year old girl, on Tuesday near the county. Richardson, said to be from Nashville, was captured at about 1 am and his body remained suspended in the square the next morning.
Vienna today Emperor Francis Joseph received in audience the new United States ambassador Frederick Penfield of New York who presented his credentials and the letters of recall of retiring ambassador Richard C. Kerens.
Associated Press reports Hewlett Worthem, a Black parcel post carrier in Atlanta, is jailed on postal robbery charges after inspectors found over $1,000 in parcel post matter at his home.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Houston announces a department reorganization. L. M. Estabrook becomes chief of the Bureau of Statistics replacing Victor H. Olmstead who is transferred. R. M. Reese is made chief clerk and W. F. Callander becomes private secretary.
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