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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1925
Page
12
Community clubs in Pensacola and nearby towns report a busy slate of meetings and events. The Young Players Orchestra rehearses at Jesse Ir win piano shop. dances and club gatherings are scheduled at Kingtor and Christchurch venues. notable talks cover child welfare and Greek Chinese music studies. a wedding notice and Biloxi day trip round out the hobby and social updates.
Miss Frances Dean Reynolds plans a Auburn trip for the opening then returns Sunday night. Agnes Cawthon visits Mr. and Mrs. Patton in Montgomery. Mrs. Thomas M. McMillan returns from Philadelphia and resettles on Ann and Selma streets. Drew Douglas, Jacksonville to Mobile, visits this week. Mrs. Joseph Winslow of New Orleans visits Mobile on St Joseph street. L. M. Dobbins and son from Amarillo are in Mobile visiting family. Mrs. Bruce Robbins of Falco and her children visit relatives in Mobile. Burnside of Mobile guests Robert Cunningham's sister in Meridian. Verne McAllister to arrive from Antwerp aboard the steamship Afoundria Saturday.
The funeral of Mrs Nancy McIntosh Fairley widow of John Fairley was held at 8 o'clock Friday morning from the family home 951 Springhill avenue. The body was sent to Benn dale Ala for burial. She died Thursday after a long illness born in Vernal Greene county Miss She was daughter of the late John R B McIntosh and Rachel McInnis and had lived in Mobile twelve years She is survived by four daughters three sons seven grandchildren one brother and one sister
The Junior Intermediate Union held an engaging meeting with a feature talk by Mrs. J. A. Palmes of Mobile on Our Light In This Big World. She linked hearts as the powerhouse with God providing the power.
Prichard Camp No. 8823 R N of A will hold its regular meeting in Cochran Hall on Monday October 26 at 7 30 p m Important business for members will be conducted W T Hearndon has returned from a motor trip to Poplarville Bearl Ray of Uhiah Ala is visiting his sister Mrs Lon Kelley John Persons of Mississippi has returned to Prichard to visit Mr E C Persons Miss Clara Frost leaves for Coffeeville Ala to visit friends Mr and Mrs Earl Landes of Oakdale Mrs Laurence Winberg of Fairhope Ala and Mr H F Landes of Mobile were guests of Mr and Mrs N D Landes for Mr H F Landes birthday celebration he is 86 years old.
The Bethany Baptist Sunday School executive committee plans a town canvass in Whistler to boost membership. A sub committee will be appointed to assist, with John N. Tew as chairman and other members listed. Visitors Ellen Delaune and daughter Louis Delaune Shea are returning home after visiting. they will stop in Biloxi to visit Jessie Mallette.
Omaha officials say no word from the Stirling New Guinea expedition that left Omaha at 3 15 Thursday afternoon en route to San Francisco. The plane and four crewmen aimed to reach Cheyenne by dusk but neither sight nor information has been found after checking emergency fields along the mail route. The mission sought to study a pygmy race in the interior of Dutch New Guinea.
Thomas Augustus Towers, first officer of the Canadian Pacific liner Melita, was arraigned in Southampton on a charge of murdering Capt. Arthur Haywood Clews while the ship lay at Antwerp. Towers was remanded for one week and showed no reaction to the charge.
Washington October 23. Mrs Mabel Willebrandt assistant attorney general in charge of prohibition enforcement declared in an address before the National Council of Congregational Churches that the idea serving and drinking liquor is stylish will be a difficult task.
London dispatch notes rumors of an imminent engagement announcement for Prince Olaf of Norway to a prominent London society girl. It also covers Parisian fashion delays over silk duties, a Duchess of Roxburghe customs case, and proposals for a cats license fee in Scotland with a collar idea for London cats.
Four men robbed a pool room run by Johnny Dundee and Phil Krug in East Newark New Jersey taking about 4500 dollars from fifty patrons. They missed five thousand dollars hidden behind a radiator as three gunmen moved through the crowd and a lookout guarded the door.
Cyril Walker, winner of the 1924 open national golf title, has handed in his resignation to the Englewood Golf Club in New Jersey. The move takes effect January 1 after five years of service, with no announced destination for his future.
Mrs Julia Lillian Tacon Thurber wife of H W Thurber was buried Thursday afternoon in Magnolia cemetery after a 3 30 funeral at the home 152 Macy Street Services were held at St Johns Episcopal church at 4 oclock with Rev Gardiner C Tucker rector officiating Interment followed at Magnolia pallbearers included H S Kal R G Holberg J F Prigge D Lang A J Helter John Lamey Hugh King and Dr Frederic
Jean Douglass Williams aged 114 months died in Atlanta Wednesday night. She was the only child of Mr and Mrs Clark Taylor Williams. Grandmother Mrs Bert L Douglass left for Griffin to attend the funeral. Interment plans uncertain due to incomplete text.
Insects possess six legs and three body parts, while spiders have eight legs. Spiders belong to the order Zz neida despite resembling arachnids.
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