The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-02
Advertiser Bureau.

Advertiser Bureau, Mobile, Sept. l.. with the beginning of the new pusi- ness year today in spite of unpleasant surrroundings. Mobiles business people are in good spirits Anticipating an
 unusual increase of business: iocai, n terstate and foreign and with no rear of contamination in the city from the scourge now visited upon her sister cities. Pensacola and New Orleans, as well as smaller places in radius or ibo miles. they are making extensive preparations.
 are vacant and the demand for resi- dences is unusually large for the sea son November 1 is moving day Tn Mobile and. with that date two months away there has been a great rush TOT residences and business houses. Mo bile.s era of prosperity is at hand, say business people who are in position to speak
 Hon, Thomas. H. Carr. Mayor of Montgomery enjoys large acduaint- ance in Mobile and the news. through The Advertiser this morning of his very precarious condition, was received ~'h sincere regret. I Mrs. T. F. Thornton. sister of Mont romery's Mayor, and an esteemed Mo- bilian, has gone to his bedside.  Tonight in the public hall at Whist Ter the Altruistics, a social organization of ladies of that little city,, had
 most delightful open meeting. which
 was we'll attended. A number of Mo- bilians were present.
 It was known as Labor Day"
 meeting. Gaillard Hamilton of this
 city was the principal speaker. He
 chose as his subject Industrial Peace Al Al fn- structive and entertaining. Speeches
 were also made by Professor N R.
 Baker, Assistant Superintendent of the Mobile County Public Schools, Master
 Mechanic Enright of the Mobile and
 Ohio shops. and Samuel Wisdom.
 Assistant Superintendent N. R. Baker
 of the Mobile County Public Schools
 returned today from an extended tour
 of inspection of county schools.
 4 large amount of work is being done
 on county schools under his supervision
 preparatory to the coming school term.
 Additions are being made to the Spring
 Hill, Kentucky Street and Whistler
 buildings, ten schoolhouses are being
 painted inside. the one at Boothes Is
 being remodeled and the new building
 at Alabama Port is nearing comple-
 ton.
 Professo.. Baker stated that tho
 
 gressing most favorably. Only sixteen permits were issued out of the offfce of the city engineer for the month of August. Of these two were for new brick buildings. eleven
 for new frame buildings and three for repairs to frame buildings. The total
 amount of these Improvements was
 placed at $1s.032 This was far below
 the figures for the same month last year, tho amount being $50,000.
 Tn this connection, however, 1t Is not inopportune to state that nearly half million dollars worth of Improvements are going on just now in the city. City Clerk P. B. Owen was very | busily engaged today in paying of city
 employees. More than si5.ooo was paid out. s- Mrs Guy HartweH, who has been spending a while most pleasantly with
 her relatives in Chicago and the West, has returned home, much to the delight
 of her many friends here.
 Dr. W. H. Sanders. State Health oni- eer. arrived in Mobile just after mid | night, coming here from Flomaton on yesterday and went to Flomaton to see ! If the proper quarantine restrictions
 were being maintained against Pensa- | cola. He stated to The Advertiser rep resentative that he found every pre-
 caution had been maintained and was | being maintained and he had no appre-
 hension, from Pensacola, of danger whatsoever
 | He stated that he had visited the
 north end of the State before coming ! to Flomaton and had found conditions
 most satisfactory. He remarked em- phatically that he did not know of a
 single suspicious case of any kind in | the entire State. He will remain here | over tomorrow.
 John Strand. a white man, was ar-
 rested this morning by Deputies Patch
 and Tom Powers on a warrant charg-
 ing abandonment of family. | Strands wife alleged that he had
 broken up the furniture in the house
 and left her and his three children , without food or means.
 The Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners, sitting as a Board of Equalization, met at noon today, con- | cluded its work and adjourned sine
 die. In the matter of the increase of | taxation against certain lands at
 Theodore, Tax Commissioner Friend
 withdrew his request for an increase of
 assessment. which was granted.
 George Culver, representing the Lyons syndicate. owners of thousands | of acres of land in this section, is in | Mobile Mir. Culver this spring plant | ed 10000 barrels of oysters in Grand Bay for his company and is now nego- tiating to erect and operate a canning
 factory on the coast near Grand Bay.