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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
6
The excerpt echoes Longfellow lines about seas and fate as a poet contemplates storms and drift. An informal party at Mrs N L Vickers home brightens a dark afternoon, contrasting gloom with warm welcome. The text blends verse fragments with a social scene.
A Mrs J D Powell of Odessa Florida recounts recovery from weakness and blindness spells after using Cardus tonic. The item also notes a church card party and social events including a bridal prelude, bridge club plans, and various local notices.
Local column lists residents returning from travels and visits. Revered John W. Dunne of St. Matthew's returns from New York after a four week stay. Others include Mrs. Yuille from Citronelle, Kailins and Dr. Phillips to Theodore for Baptist Convention, and families visiting Andalusia, El Paso, Van Buren, Vinegar Bend, Birmingham, Meridian, Emmitsburg, and Dearborn.
Calendar Thursday lists Story Telling Hour Lyons Park and class times from 3 30 to 5 30 pm Mothers Club at Settlement Home Card Party and Hosiery Shower at 4 pm Friday features Craighead Parliamentary Law Club meetings Lawn Party at St Matthew's Choir sale for Russell School garments and Maternity Home benefit Dance Knights of Columbus Hill Saturday shows Mobile Branch Southern Association College Women and Shakespeare Club at specified times
Miss Mildred Colliton heiress of Williamite Connecticut marries by proxy Lieutenant Leslie Montagu Cowan of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Cowan dies in French trenches. Colliton sails to Jamaica to wed the new commander of the Jamaican alien detention camp, the proxy’s man.
The article lists multiple residents and guests visiting or returning from trips. Ed Bernheimer and family in New York City host relatives after a stay in the Adirondack region. Mrs. Harry Haverman and Vera Claire tour the East by auto, visiting North Monterey street relatives. Other notes mention visits to Chicago, Galveston, and Port Deposit with various families and health recoveries.
The Toulminville Methodist church holds a 7 30 prayer meeting led by Rev D G Register and Sunday school teachers plan an organizing meeting. The Junior Missionary Society shifts its mite box event to Saturday night while the Teenage Bible class meets Friday with Mrs S G Sims. The Toulminville School opens Friday with enrollment activities. A weathered storm damaged none but brought rain improving gardens.
Local items report Spencer Crump of Collins Mississippi visiting Mr and Mrs M S Walker in Oakdale. Mrs S E Holt and son Samuel returned from Spaunton Virginia. Grace Morrison visited Susie Mobley in Whistler. D Lechard and D Sprengile hosted guests on Parham Street. Griff Sims from Toulminville visited Gulf Crest with A E Crabtree family. Claudia Davis spent a day in Citronelle with E B Coverstone. Malcolm Miller from Chunchula spent time with the George family. Holiness baptizing drew a large crowd. Pansines listed: Isham Tillman Jr Mrs G Yoder Mrs Mattie Moore and Mrs.
Walter Davis A. O. George and their children visited T. R. George at Sun- Sayine Remors. The group spent the day busy with various tasks and chores, sharing time together.
Ruth Porter returns from a visit with her sister in Theodore. A. M. Yost is reported convalescent. P G DeWitt invites girls to enroll in needle work classes Friday afternoon from 3 to 5 at her home. Mr. and Mrs J L Slay travel to Theodore via Mobile and Ohio line.
The Fourth District of Mobile County Sunday School Association will hold its late quarterly convention Friday night October 1 at Dauphin Way Methodist church starting 7 30. Officers and department superintendents were elected for the year and plans for the year discussed at the Y M C A with a large attendance anticipated.
Mobile druggists advertise Miona with a money back guarantee if it fails to relieve indigestion and related symptoms. The tablet form is praised for rapid, lasting relief and is sold by Van Antwerp Drug Corporation and other Mobile druggists.
Frank Holland of Dallas praises Mobile bays and Grants Pass as superior to California’s Avalon fishing. He extols tarpon and sea bass sport around Mississippi Sound and Grants Pass, plans a Mobile fishing party next year, and notes lower travel costs than California. Depreciation remark closes the column.
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