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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1915
Page
2
The new Alabama revenue law requires a $1000 license tax on trading stamps or related devices. Sellers must file sworn annual returns and may owe 3 percent of gross receipts, with penalties for noncompliance. County license taxes may add up to 50 percent of the state license.
The week of “iTome-Coming” exercises begins at Government Street Methodist Church Monday night with an opening service led by William McLeod. Preparedness will be the address topic, followed by a prayer, solo performances, and hymns as part of a seven day program ending with benediction. Archival note: Hymn No. 55 “Let the Sun Shine” is included.
Vitalitas touted as a universal remedy claims to aid iron deficiency biliousness rheumatism debility and bowel ills. The ad notes widespread use across seas with orders via post and express and urges purchase through Suttons pharmacy and local druggists.
A Riverside Recorder's Court hears tales of probation and prohibition mixed with street mischief. James Finney seeks six months probation as punishment, Jonas Davis and Mary Gater plot a funeral fundraiser that ends in a tango arrest, and Ed Zeller halts a streetcar for a gaggle of misadventures while William Lewis tries to borrow a dollar for a Sunday chicken.
Mobile county corn club boys may introduce a new fertilizer this fall. A prize of 1000 pounds of Arcadian Sulphate of Ammonia from Athens Georgia waits for the Mobile district winner. The program includes a scholarship at the State College of Agriculture with August short course in Alabama and December prize announcements.
A Whistler man arrested by Deputies Ober haus and Sales was arraigned before Judge Chamberlain in the inferior criminal court for violating the prohibition law. He was fined 250 dollars or ninety days, with bond posted at 200 dollars after an appeal was taken. Additional cases included assault and battery, vagrancy and public drunkenness with varied fines and jail terms.
In Clarksdale Mississippi De Witt Hood and Albert Neil planters were shot and likely fatally wounded when attempting to arrest a Negro tenant for the killing of his wife. The suspect later surrendered after a shootout with a sheriff posse, with reports that several other Negroes in the cabin were wounded.
Mount Vernon Ga Sept 27 William Evans a negro yesterday shot and killed his wife near here and fled bearing a photoun. He met W D McNeely and Julian McCoy both whites and shot and wounded them. Both will recover McNeely may lose sight in one eye. It is believed Evans shot the men thinking they sought to capture him. Posses of farmers started after the negro before noon but failed to find him. It is not known why Evans killed his wife.
Richard B. Moore, a Confederate Veteran and Garrity's Battery member from Mobile, died recently at the Kentucky Soldiers' Home after battling cancer. Wounded thrice in the Civil War, he was paroled at Pensacola in 1865. He rests beside his wife in Portland Cemetery near Louisville, with two sons surviving.
Sunday schools in Mobile and the county held Rally Day exercises to mark the end of summer and the start of fall activities. Special programs were presented at several churches.
After two days of illness Mrs Lillian Antoine 85 native of Mobile wife of Peter N Antoine dies at 9 45 AM at home on Cottage Hill She is survived by husband father Robert Swann two children two brothers Edward and Willie Seibert one half brother Razie Swann and other relatives Funeral from Peter S Antoine residence Government and Florida streets Monday at 3 PM and St Peter's Catholic Church at 4 PM Remains interred in Magnolia Cemetery
The funeral for Harris L. McKean who drowned with J Percy Watters in a bayou near Chickasaw took place from 53 St Stephens Road at 9 30 Tuesday morning with Rev B C Glenn officiating. Burial at Pine Crest Cemetery. A separate funeral for Sister Blandine Farrell of the Little Sisters of the Poor occurred Sunday at the chapel with a solemn requiem mass conducted by Rev Doherty and interment in the Catholic cemetery. Six sisters served as pallbearers.
A special committee of the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners will meet after a session to discuss a price for half of the three story Craft building on Church Street adjoining the jail. The panel includes President Iol and Commissioners McFadyen and Whatley and will report a figure to the full board for final action.
Representative Bart B. Chamberlain spoke to the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners at a special session. He cited bills passed during the session that cut government costs and estimated county savings of about $8,000 per year from retrenchment laws.
Frank Jarvis was elected automobile mechanic for the county by the board of revenue and road commissioners at a Monday meeting. Salary set at 100 dollars monthly. Duties include maintaining officials' autos and hauling materials. Watchman vacancy caused by Mr. McKean’s death was postponed. Carl Yeates temporarily fills the soak bin. Lumber bids opened. H. C. Vaughn Lumber Co. won at 19.50 per 1000 feet, fob Mobile Cotton Mill switch. Routine business and road petitions referred to committees.
Oscar Smith, jailed again for brass theft, marks third incarceration on the charge. He escaped Mt Meiggs reformatory earlier, was arrested in Mobile, and fled during juvenile court arraignment. Police recaptured him Sunday and anticipate return to the reformatory. Panama Canal reports forty three vessels tied up after last week’s earth slide delaying passage.
A Rotterdam dispatch reports German forces in Belgium pulled into the defense with new troops rushed to the firing line and frontier posts stripped of guards as Allied pressure increases. London newspapers celebrate Allied successes, noting casualties and editorial relief at moves that show German lines faltering.
Paris reports a nation hopeful over reports of a possible major offensive after a month of bombardment. Military observers caution that the 20 000 German prisoners and 50 000 to 60 000 losses cited may reflect current actions rather than a full scale plan.
The Telegraaf correspondent reports heavy fighting in Flanders with tremendous gunfire. Wagons ferry supplies and a flood of wounded to Roulerg, Cortemark fills with improvised beds as villagers brace for further events across the front.
Five prisoners from Speigner prison camp, part of the baseball team, escaped from a returning wagon near Wetumka while guards fired at them. The wagon halted as the escape occurred and the fugitives vanished into nearby woods.
Three battleships the Wisconsin the Ohio and the Missouri are to be shifted from the first line fleet to the reserve due to a shortage of trained sailors. The Ohio and Missouri date from 1900 and Wisconsin from 1897, reflecting manpower needs for new dreadnoughts.
Eighty passengers on a Southern Pacific Mexican train were set ablaze in a hay-filled car by Yaqui Indians near Torres Sonora after derailing the train. About sixty attackers reportedly deserted from a Mexican faction. twenty passengers were accounted for. No Americans were on board. Torres lies seventy miles north of Guaymas. Also noted is a policy change allowing U.S. citizens to mail liquids internationally via parcel post.
A fragmented OCR list shows vessels in port and docking facilities including Amsterdams and American ships. Entries mention Anchorn Laguna Co Mills Coniscliffe and Georgia Gilkey among others at Oakland and New York docks with multiple ports noted for repair and docking. The text also references schooners barkentines and various docks such as Ollinger Bruce and Gulf Dry Docks with repair work ongoing.
A list of ships with tonnage and routes includes Bark Carolina from Havana to Moragues Lumber Co and Steamship Pathfinder from New York to Porto Rican Line. Other entries name Bark Alex Lawrence to master at Liverpool, Bark Oaklands to master at Havre, and schooners Perceler and Daniel Bailey with destinations Antilla and Boston respectively. Also listed are Steamer Anna to Australia for Walsh Stevedoring, Mavisbrook to Gulf States Ship's Co, Viator to Chamelecon Line, Corinthia to Horace Turner & Co, Kylemhor to Mobile Liners, Fort Morgan to United Fruit Co, and Procyon for orders in Liverpool and related ports.
Bayou La Batre attracted twenty five motoring parties Sunday with soda water in the bottle served from a roadside shack. Motorists from Mobile Grand Bay Irvington and nearby areas praised the coast and urged a properly equipped resort hotel with fishing boats to boost tourism. Road work is underway but locals say Bayou La Batre lacks entertainment and accommodations to match its natural beauty.
A Mobile column wryly notes ongoing mosquito-laden nor east winds, irksome heat, and unsettled Caribbean weather. Colonel Ashhenberger’s forecast promises no relief as residents fortify homes against buzzing swarms and a restless season.
A man who lent his car and home to a friend witnessed betrayal as the guest, who had saved eggs for a future setting, ate the valuable eggs. The tale ends with a forecast of fair weather tonight and Tuesday.
Three cargoes arrive as Verona and Endeavor the Georgia Gilkey unloads 1200 bales sisal at Pier 6. Fort Morgan is expected in port tonight or tomorrow. Tarpon and Viator also docking with passengers and freight. Josey and Sabine sail for South American and UK ports. Cooper set for timber return cargo from Cuba.
Special programs are set for Star Mission Day on Sunday in the Southern Baptist convention. Sunday schools will conduct exercises guided by the Sunday school board and state secretaries. The aims include reaching every scholar and church member, improving the Sunday school, and boosting offerings for state missions in Alabama.
Several hundred people gathered for the final open air service of the summer in Bienville Square. Rev. L. H. Chapelle of Dauphin Way Baptist Church led the meeting with a sermon titled Christ's Contribution to Civilization. About 1,000 attended.
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