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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1925
Page
4
Miss Elizabeth Mayers, an instructor, reports at the Lions Club weekly luncheon that eighteen foreign born persons attended a city school program. The report cites cooperation with the state department of education.
The board of revenue and road commission authorized James Shelton to purchase new orange trees to replace frost killed stock at the County Farm in Irvington. A report showed 900 trees dead and about 4100 living, with two thirds lost.
Twelve men and six women attend the school with two unable to speak English. Classes meet three times weekly at Barton Academy. Lions Club rejects an advertising project for Mobile via moving pictures unless the Chamber of Commerce undertakes it. A musical program featured Mrs. Eileen Sutton Miss Ethel Edwards and Mrs. Carl Klinge.
Washington dispatch reports Third Assistant Postmaster General Robert E Edgar warns against short paid mail for Christmas and New Year greetings urging prepayment to preserve dignity. The note accompanies coverage of county road inspections with the board planning Friday inspections in southern and western districts, northern areas having been checked last week.
Federal officers seized hundreds of cases of liquor from the schooner Agnes Louise and found a five gallon keg in the city dump as part of their wrecking program. The liquor had been hauled to the Warehouse and stored for months before the bottles were smashed at the dump.
Informal Ceenen and various mat ters joined a luncheon hour of the Optimist Club yesterday at the We Then Hotel. No business was transacted. Charles Marston presided in the absence of Dr. BE Dreaper, president.
The report cites the Bryan Darrow trial babies named Evolution Eve and Lution, state college building contracts in Raleigh, and a 200000 project. Arkansas forestry survey targets waste from cut timber with potential gains up to 30 million board feet. Cotton ginnings drop in Faulkner county, Florida. Knoxville police chase ends as a teen returns with a baby stroller. Alabama reports sweet potato weevil losses in Baldwin County exceeding 200000 for the year with planned farmer education programs.
Joseph E. Sheedy resigns as vice president in charge of European operations after meetings with the Shipping Board. President Crowley has accepted the resignation effective immediately. Brickenbrack, previously senior European director, also arrived, with reports of ongoing disagreements and a possible dismissal order.
A body found in Bayou Sarc is identified as Solomon Andrews known as Sor shum after he jumped into the stream to flee a liquor raid. Bert Ellis W E B Cochran and Will Ellis were arrested in the raid and suspected of locating the body. About 86 gallons of liquor were seized by officers.
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