The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-03
THE NEWS OF MOBILE
Advertiser Bureau.

 movement among the retail business houses of Mobile took place at o'clock this afternoon. Almost every one of the large retail houses dis l missed their clerks and employees. closed their doors and the result was a Sunday appearance in the down. town district This with the Saturday holf- holiday of the banks. wholesale houses and general office of the rail- road companies, will give all employees the benefit of a half day once a week | for recreation and pleasure.
 Those who advocated the Saturday half holiday for retail houses, declare themselves as perfectly satisfied with the present conditions. but hope, by the arrival of June next year, to have
 the half-holiday on Saturday instead of Friday.
 Despite the fact that the warm weather period is on Mobile continues to go onward in Improvements. While the immense City Bank and Trust Company building. the St. Andrews Hotel. Cawthon Hotel, Pythian Castle hall and H. T. Inge apartment house are in course of erection in the down. town district. permits having been is- sued for these some time since. the l indications, are that skilled labor will find plenty to do all summer. | A summary of the building permits
 for the month of May, compiled in the 1 office of City Engineer Towle shows
 total of thirty-three permits for the
 erection of new buildings and repair
 of old ones, divided as follows: New buildings Cost. l Three brick. 3. .. .. .. .. .$26S,000 | Nineteent frame. 21,525 Repairs
 FlVe prlch''' '' '' '' '''''' aSn V',yU Six frame.... .'.' 4,OSO
 Total. .. .. .. ........ ..$Soo.s15
 City Engineer Towle expressed the | opinion that the total of improve ments for the year. if the present ra- tio for five months is kept up, will
 reach nearly. if nor quite $2,0oO,O00.
 The Mobile board of health has on hand a movement looking to the re- questing of the general council of the city to provide an ordinance requiring the appointment of milk inspector.
 The question was agitated some years
 ago and Mayor Lyons referred to the
 matter in his annual message but nothing has been done. A petition has
 been started. many dairymen signing 1t, calling attention of the board of health to the matter, and 1t is relia- lbly stated the board will call attention
 of the council to the importance of the
 matter.
 Past sachem Branch E. Barlow of
 Tuscahoma Tribe, No. 69, l. O. R. M,
 this morning receIved from Great
 Sachem E. D. Corker of Eufaula, in
 the great council of Alabama. his com mission as deputy Great Sacnem for
 the hunting grounds of Mobile and
 Whistler. Heretofore there were two deputies. Past Sachem c. D. Will loughby for Mobile and Past Sachem Tn E. Clarke for Whistler. Tribes men here rendered Past Sachem Bar ] How congratulations today on the hon.
 or conferred upon him
 Secretary Harte of the Young Mems Christian Association states this af- ternoon that $5,000 in cash had been
 turned in from yesterdays canvass for s the fund to liquidate the debt on the r association building and large n amount subscribed by card which he 0 had been unable to compute. He ex- l. pressed satisfaction at the result of = the canvass and intimated that the l canvass would be continued with the | view of securing sufficient funds to . wipe out the debt on the building. l Councilman Max Michael left this I morning for New orleans. where he ] goes in search of information relative to insurance rates there.
 3 He did not give an intimation oi Q his intentions where the information r is received, but 1t is surmlsed he will use 1t for a good purpose fin behalf of those who pay insurance rates in Mobile.
 The many friends of City Clerk R.
 B. owen, Jr.. will be pleased to know he will be able to come to his office 2 about Tuesday of next week. T Some time since, while on an cleo. |, Itric, call a fragment of an oyster shel 7 got in Mir. owens eye. IL was ex'