The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-27
Advertiser Bureau.

| MODile, NOV. 70. The city has the usual holiday appear ance today because of ia general observ- ance of Thanksgiving All of the large retail and wholesale houses were closed. Perhaps the prettiest sight observed during the day was in Duncan Place where the magnificent silk flag, presented | to Mobile by Colonel William Butler Dun- can, flew proudly from the steel flag starr. There was sufficient breeze to keep the and every one cast their eyes upward to view the sight.
 | In the several churches of the city reli- gious services were held and the attend ance at all was very large despite the stiff wind from the north which blew exceedingly cold.
 At the county aims house and city hos pital. Rev. A; F. Owen. coiored min citizen, served his twenty-second annual dinner to the inmates of these institu- tions. The races had their separate tables. as usual. and turkey. oysters. fruit Owen inaugurated these dinners twenty | two years ago, obtaining the funds by contributions from the many business
 men and other liberal citizens of Mobile. His dinners today were on parity with those of other days gone bye. At the county jail Sheriff Powers served an extra dinner for the county prisoners, Many lovers of fishing and hunting left | ing for the many noted grounds and some | who retured had excellent showings or propitious for good fishing though the wind was little high for birds.
 Information received this morning: from l Washington was that the remains cf Mrs. E. L. Russell would reach Mobile Satur, | day morning. Details of the funeral and the time wifi be arranged later. General Manager c. g. Clarke of the Mobile ana | G. ka1 tn tomorrow morning and arrange for the funeral.
 found gloom over all who learned or her 1 sad and untimely demise at that late hour. and this morning expressions or regret were heard on all sides ana espe- cially among those who knew the esti, mabie woman personally. At the genera genera, offices of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad 1 the feeling of sadness at the great loss to Colonel Russell was very pronounced. | The third annual dinner of the Mis-. | sionary Circle or the Kings Daughters, of I Government Street Presbyterian Cnurch was served in the Sunday school room l of the church at ? o'clock this evening and nearly 800 of the poor ,caa children rSa os tables were arranged in the shape or a Greek Cross, flowers, beautiful and well arranged, forming the decoration. | On the tables were liberal dishes, neap- ed high with toothsome turkey. salads. meats, fruits, cakes, nuts and conIections. | Mesdames E. E. Wagar and irwin Bur gett and Misses Dyche, Carr, Robinson
 Billups. Lake, MeLachian' Tayio[r; r,or micare snd Floyd, were among those who maoe the affair such d success.
 One of the happiest incidents of thanks l giving day was the nob4e work of Frank York, a cobbler, doing business at NO: | Spring Hill Avenue. York this mornine distributed among 200 poor children of ms Ineighporhood nuts, candy and fruit IT bags, This afternoon he spread an old fashioned thanksgiving dinner Tn ms shops. serving thirty persons unable tc provide themselves.
 Four years ago York with only 3 cents fed a 'hobo." This was his first effort The next year he fed six persons, the third year twenty and his effort today was or and says he learned this method of do ing good from his T.
 G. E. Wagner conductor of electric cal No. 16, on the Government Street line was arrested at 2:3J o'clock this afternoon by Sergeant Schreiner, at Conti and Roya on complaint of Chief Case, who tele. phoned headquarters to arrest the mar for violating the "separation' ol dinance As a result the car, with seven passen gers, was held so long that the line wal blocked and several cars beh. nd it stop ped, inconveniencing the public and de
 
 which is the main one of the system Wagner was bonded by the company al
 soon as information was obtained.
 The oyster trade for Thanksgiving here
 was somewhat handicapped through the failure of the employers and shucKers to
 reach an agreement as to price for shucking the bivalves. The shuckers
 made 6 demand some time ago for an in- crease of two cents per hundred for open ing oysters and the employers declined
 to meet the demand. While there was
 no dearth In the local supply there was
 some shortage in the foreign shipments w. w. Jones, special agent of the State, left here this afternoon for Pratt City where he took with him four prison
 of the City Court, all of whom will dd time in the mines for the State as iol- lows: Isom Johnson, murder; lie time Britton Young, assault to murder; six der; i've years. Walter Jackson, grand larceny; one year and one day.
 A large number of members of Mobile Lodge No. 10S, B. P. o. E., availed them
 selves of the opportunity to visit Alabama Port one of the new summer and winter resorts of this county, on Mobile Bay, anc
 left here at o'clock this morning on
 special train over the Bay Shore Rail
 road. This train had been arranged fol by the Alabama Post Yacht Club. whose guests the Elks were for the entire day. c. E. Acree, marshal of Merrill. Miss. } was arrested this afternoon by Polio amal
 Adams on a charge of carrying concealed
 weapons At the station Acree was fount ] to have a number of warrants for persons on his person, showing his position. H.
 gave bond.
 ; Mobile Society News.
 1 The Country Grub was doubtless tn | in OT Of if. today
 The news of the mixed foursome handi
 cap attracted large number of specta
 tors and aroused the fighting blood O the players, so that for some hours th
 frozen field was the theatre for a vel
 fought battle of good comrades. Tn 1 nairinp of the players was by lot ant