The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-25
THE NEWS OF MOBILE
NEW ORLEANS JESUIT ALUMNI IN
 MOBILE.
Farce Hundred Persons Arrive on ( Special Train and Visit the
 Spring HiIl College
 Other News

Mobile. May The meeting of the Alabama Commercial and lndustrial Association: which was to have been held here In June, has been postponed until later date.
 The members Of the Mobile Typo graphical Unlon will hold memorial services at their lot in Magnolia Gem etery next Sunday. Rev. Edmonds Bennett will conduct the services.
 The jury in the case of the M. J. & K. c. Rai1foad vs. Sarah Sutton in the Circuit Court. was locked up at o'clock yesterday aftern oon and at the same hour today had not rendered verdict.
 This Is a suit in sjectment and in- wolves the title to | piece of land on the river front at Choctaw Point--tfe same land the United States sued for recently In the United states District Court and lost. Sarah Sutton is a re- gro and claims the land by adverse possession. The Government claimed it as a light house reservation. The point from which the original survey start ed was "a stake In the bay at the point of land" The stake was washed away a generation ago, and there Is now no trace of the original point Of land. The government contended that the foun- daticn of the light house remained and from that endeAvored to prove that the land in dispute was a part of the res ervation. The defense contended that the piling was not a part of the old light house but the foundation of an old mill. The governme ent lost in the United States Court and now the M. J. K. c. Railroad, which holds q lease on, government property, is trying to get possession through the State courta
 The New Orleans Jesuit Alumni As. soeiation, numbering about 300 per sons. reached Mobile on a special train at 12:30 today and proceeded at once to Spring Hill College on special cars which were awaiting them.
 At the College they were welcomed by President Twelfayer and other mem bere of the faculty and were given the liberty of the grounds and institution. They were entertained at dinner at tho College and In the afternoon witnessed . baseball and other colleEe athletics They left for New Orleans at 8 D. m.
 The firSt public debate Of The Forum q debating society attached to, the T. M. c. A., resulted In a victory for the affirmative on the question: Resolved, That i've commissioners elected at large should have complete control of the city government of Mobile"
 The debate was held last night in he auditorium and was not concluded until late hour. The debaters were: Afifrmative. Erwin Tucker and Nj. A. E1a3f0r' nS8NtiNe, Alex AoWard and O. c. Hess Judge Afford presided and Hon. John Craft. pr. Scale Harris and Mir. J. Gatllard Hamilton. acted aS judges. I-l,y =
 That Mobile real estate has frot. de. ? preeiated on account of the money squeeze is evidenced by c transfer made E late yesterday afternoon by D. O. Harris and wife to William Lindsey of the property at 10e St. Francis Street for the sum of S3o,oo0. The property was purchased by Mir. Harris a little over year ago for $27,00o.
 Next Sunday will be Childrens' For clgn Mission Day In all the Presbyte. rian Sunday Schools in the unlted States. Special programs have been prepaTed by the Mobile scheois and ttA collections wdll be entirely devoted to foreign missions. 4.
 Mrs. N. F. Durant came over hron, Bromley this morning and speut tatA day with relatives in Mobile, Ynalxtnr the trip anross the delta in a privaAe |. launch. 1. The sttendanee at the leading s,vn- day Schools today was: St. Frasoin Street Methodist, 2s5;. ccyernr,a ent Street Presbyterian. 2os; St Franois Street Baptist. 247