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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1925
Page
5
Readable notices cover Methodist and Baptist class meetings at 9:30 each Sunday with social sessions, plus a Chappelle flag and Bible presentation at Chickasaw School. A Halloween party, dances, and a Kiwanis theater production are planned with details on hosts, prizes, and chaperones.
Mrs. Joe Benson returns from Selma after the death of Mrs. Phillips. Miss Maggie Matthews visits Grove Hill relatives and returns with Mrs. J S Heidelberg and Mrs. A V Clubba. Mrs. Lappington, guest of her mother Mrs. J G Woods, traveled home by Mrs. Heidelberg's car. Mrs. Matthew Cody and guest Mrs. C B Powell of Birmingham return from Pensacola with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stewart. Judge C E McCall of Montgomery visits Mobile brother Dr. D T McCall. Mrs. D L Hightower of Union comes to Mobile to be with her sister under local specialists care. Mrs. Clarke Thornton of Mobile attends Pastorians meeting.
Willis Johnson 30 is dead in Birmingham. I W Reynolds 28 is jailed for murder after a shooting at the Rolds home. Reynolds says he killed Johnson over his wife’s affections. Mrs Reynolds reports Johnson and Reynolds confronted on the porch then in a bedroom where three shots were fired. Aimed at the two year old failed. The killing occurred as a mistrial was declared in a separate slaying case.
Dr. R. G. Broderick, director of the San Leandro hospital, California, was elected president of the American Hospital Association at the twenty-seventh annual convention. Resolutions for continued and expanded work to improve hospital control and accomplishments were voted unanimously. Other officers include Dr. Wal ter H. Conley first vice president Miss Blanche N. Fuller second vice president William W. Kennay third vice president and Asa S. Bacon treasurer.
German ambassador Herr von Hoesch delivered Berlin’s reply to the allied note accusing Germany of fails in disarmament. Briand sent the document to the council of ambassadors for immediate consideration, noting actions already taken and deadlines including November 15 and further work post that date amid Cologne evacuation questions.
The German nationalist party voted that Locarno conference results were not acceptable. While MPs see cabinet resignations looming, party floor leader Count Von Weistarp urged waiting for the final party decision at Sunday's meeting.
The League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission postponed until February its examination of a French report on Syria. It seeks precise information on recent outbreaks and will convene a special session in February to review the mandate amid revolts against French rule.
Mrs Laura Terry Moore wife of J Terry Moore of Pensacola Florida died at a local infirmary Friday night at 8 30 o clock. Roche Mortuary sent her body to Pensacola by Louisville and Nashville for burial at 12 42 this afternoon. She is survived by her husband one son Marcus P Moore one daughter Mary Locklin Moore three brothers B H Stallworth Monroeville McDuffie Stallworth and M P Stallworth Pineapple Ala and one sister Katie Belle Stallworth of her Ala.
The funeral for Mrs. Nancy Mcintosh Fairley was conducted by Rev W A Alexander of Central Presbyterian at her home 951 Springhill avenue. Burial followed in the family cemetery at Benndale Mississippi with Rev Dr Ingram of Moss Point officiating at the grave.
Fragmented OCR lists many names across couples and families including White-Richard, Brandt, George Lee Williams, Amelia Walkley, Julia Bepeever, Nancy McIntosh, Eloise Gibson, James Geary, Edward C. and Pearl Hu, Naomi Hushes, John A. and Yee G. B., Anna Finch, Joseph Greer, Henry R. and Mpanite Tan Ao etc. The item appears as a compiled reader notice with numerous personal names and paired entries.
McMullen spent last week in Mobile with eye treatment in New Orleans a month ago. Mrs. Fulford of New Orleans visited her parents the A. Wade family. Mr and Mrs P J Bryars and family moved from Lee street to Mobile and will reside in Oakdale. The T J Petersons and family will occupy the former J H Stallings home on the Boulevard and Lee street.
The Children’s Week program will be presented at the Methodist church Sunday night at seven. The ladies of St Bridget’s parish plan a tacky review at the old school building on Wednesday November 4. Lester Harford returned from Meridian Mississippi after attending the Rattroyd Clerks convention. The Senior B Y P A meeting is at the church Sunday at six. Rev M J Barnes will hold services at Toulminville Baptist church Sunday at eleven morning and seven evening.
The Prichard Council J. D. of U A will raise a flag at Chickasaw School Sunday at 3 PM. They plan to present the school with a new national flag and supply each room with a Bible for daily opening exercises. James E. Chappelle and a Chickasaw representative will organize patriotic numbers. Epworth League meets Sunday at the church.
Federal recognition of the 15th aero squadron of the Arkansas National Guard would lead to an airport at Little Rock and air mail service for the state. Lieut Fred Nelson approved the 66 acre lease near the intermediate air depot two miles east of the city, with the chamber of commerce handling the option for ten years. General Wayne and Governor Terral accepted the arrangement after a conference with local business leaders.
Debris cleared and traffic restored on the N C and St L line near Ringgold Georgia after the Dixie Flyer wreck. The fourth wreck of the line involving the passenger train caused no casualties as the engine crashed into a freight train. crews leaped to safety and two freight cars plus a caboose derailed.
London reports preparations are complete for the withdrawal of the British army of occupation from Cologne. The order will come only if war conditions warrant, but Cologne is expected to be evacuated before year’s end.
In Lawrenceburg Tennessee the laymen of the Central Tennessee conference M E church voted Friday afternoon 18 to 0 for unification. Ministers vote to follow this afternoon. The conference also voted to memorialize the general conference for an enabling act to permit merging with the Holstein conference.
New York Oct 24 AP Gilbert E Jones vice president of the Guaranty Company of New York and president of the Bond Club died after an appendicitis operation. He was among Wall Streets youngest bankers and represented the Guaranty Company in bond flotations for the Van Sweringens Nickel Plate project and was noted as an expert on railroad financing.
A terrific gale swept the northeast coast of Newfoundland during the night. Reports indicate many fishing vessels could not weather the storm with resulting loss of life or gear.
In Sofia on October 23 the French minister M. Dard signed a bilateral commercial agreement granting France most favored nation status and extending the Neuilly treaty economic clauses. The pact strengthens Franco Bulgarian trade and economic ties.
In Peking the customs conference is set to open next Monday despite a note from Fu Pei Fu urging postponement until a more representative government forms. Wu Peifu threatens a broadcast, but foreign delegates and provisional governments remain confident.
In Alexandria Louisiana Alfred Martina 20 killed his mother Mary Martina with a heavy club after neighbors heard screams. Martina a former patient at the state hospital for the insane was discharged about a year ago and is jailed as authorities label the crime brutal and motiveless with the mother Rose Martina dying from injuries.
Charles Marcet, resident of the Tenth ward, has been made a member of the Mobile police force and assigned to a late watch. Local officials announced the appointment.
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