The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22
Advertiser Bureau

Mobile, Nov. 21 For the week ended to-day the export | record in the customs office showed the | Following: Norwegian steamship for Puerto Cor tex. 1000 feet lumber. Value $la. Norwegian steamship Belvernon for | Bocas del Toro 70 drums naphtha. Val | ue s640. American steamship Rio Grande ftG New York. 1900 bales cotton. 100000 feet | lumber, 175 packages merchandise. Norwegian steamship Habil for Puerto | Cortez. general merchandise. Value $7S | British steamship Rosefeld for Bremen, | B035 bales cotton. weight 4,210340 pounds; l 23.3ss feet pine lumber. 24.70O feet sawn pine timber. Value of cargo, $462,21S American schooner l.. N. Dantzler for | Frontero; 17,7s2 feet lumber. and general | cargo. | Norwegian steamship Fort Morgan for | Bocas del Toro; 15.oO0 feet lumber, 60 bar | rels four, general merchandise. Value | x.s57. British schooner Union for Grand Cay mer. lS000 feet lumber. 20 barrels four, | general cargo. Value sss2 Exports to Cuba for the week were: Norwegian steamship Truma for Cien- fuegos with miscellaneous cargo, valued at ss2.a65. Norwegian steamship Dazbjorg for Ha-
 
 675. British schooner Helen E. Kenny with lumber cargo. valued at $5,es6. Imports for the week were: Norwegian steamship Bellvernon from Bocas del Toro; 15.ooo punches bananas.
 German steamship Consul Horn from Hamburg; 5000 bags potash; 9 lots crude kainit. Norwegian steamship Fort Morgan from Bocas del Toro, 15,73S punches ban anas.
 Norwegian steamship Agnes from Blue- fields. 10O0o punches bananas. 20 hides.
 Norwegian steamship Helen from Blue fields, 4.4i3 punches bananas.
 American steamship Rio Grande from New York. 9,2oo packages merchandise.
 Cuban steamship Mobila from Havana, 16 crates fruit
 Norwegian steamship Bratten from Puerto Cortez, 10000 punches bananas.
 American schooner A. E. Elzy from Frontera. 275 mahogany logs.
 Norwegian steamship Alva from Pr0- gresso, $500 bales sisal. A lemon measuring 19 inches in circum- ference and weighing one pound, fifteen ounces. was brought to the city today from Shell Beach. the home of JosephLos- sing. on West Fowl river, this County. where it was raised by Mir. Lossing. The
 
 one of number grown on a tree in Mir. Lossings yard, a photograph of the tree and fruit being shown by the gentleman who is one of the wealthiest citizens of South Mobile County. The lemons grown | in the tree mentioned are of exceptionally line flavor and palatable- to a marked de- gree. News was received here this morning of the accidental killing near Escatawpa, Ala, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, about 55 miles north of here of a most exemplary young man. Rebort Pullen, Jr.. son of Robert Pullen. a merchant at Escatawpa, with friends. went bird hunt ing yesterday. Through a cause impossi- ble to learn, Pullen's gun went of. the entire charge entering the body and kill ing him. Deceased was we'll known in his vicinity and in Mobile and profound sympathy is expressed here for the be- reaved family in the untimely death of the young man.
 Marriage licenses were issued out of the Probate Court to the following white couples this week: Thomas w. Davis and Verriell Pierce; Edward M. Robin son and Olive l.. Barker; John P. Walk CT and Katie M. Skally; Jos eph J. Prouse and Agnes M. Day: Robert E. Lutz and Elizabeth M. Zwei- niger. George E. Glover and Mary F. Burke, William D. Martin and Maggie E. Cronin, Philip Barado and Therese Babre q. B. Judge and Annie J. Rose. Harold E. Booth and Katie Rice. Eleven licenses were issued to negro couples during the week.
 The building boom took a new lease on life this week and permits were issued for a number of cottages in the resident por- tions of the city. Those who sought and secured permits for new buildings were Mrs. Elizabeth Conry, one-story cottage on Texas, near Charles; Mrs. Greenwood, two one-story cottages, Tynell Street and Glennon Avenue; George E. Sage, one story frame on Congress, near Cuba; John F. Doherty. one-story cottage on FL mira Street and Rapier Avenue
 At o'clock this morning fire was dis covered in the two-story brick building No. S5S Dauphin street. opposite the Cathedral, and a general alarm was turned in. The entire building, however. was gutted. The Locke Stationery Com pany occupied the lower floor. while the upper one was used as a dwelling AL most the entire contents of both floors was destroyed. The loss could not be learned. The property was owned by Mrs. Turner.
 The third engineer of the Cuban steam ship Mobiia. sustained a fracture of the ankles. known in surgical parlance as a 'Potts' fracture. A cylinder head weigh ing 600 pounds fell on his ankles. a rope having broken in a pulley as the head was being raised into position.
 The United States Circuit and District Court, Toulmin, Judge. will convene Mon day at noon, at which time the United States grand jury will be empanelled.
 John Metcalfe, travelling passenger agent of the Louisville and Nashville at Mont gomery, is in Mobile today.
 Mobile Society News.
 Two handsome dinner parties distin- guished Friday morning from it's less eventful fellows That given by Mir and Mrs. Luce to Miss Irwin has already been mentioned. The other dinner was given by MT. and Mrs. Howard Stanton the occasion being Mrs Stanton's birth day. MT. Stanton is connected with the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Rail- road, and he and his charming wife comparative strangers in the city, but short as their stay they have made many warm friends Their guests on this occasion were Mir. and Mrs Joseph Rich, MT. and Mrs. F. E. Dewey, Mrs lthett Goode, Mir. Henry Hamilton of New York, Mir. c. B. Thames and MT. and Mrs. W. A. stanton. Dr. Goode and MT. W. H. Mcintosh were called from the city unexpectedly, and were unable to be present. The dinner was served in a faVorite room at Klosky's converted by