The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-25
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| w. T. Raines left last night for his
| home in DeFuniak. after spending
| some time in Pensacola.
7 The funeral of Mrs Margaret Steph-
ems will be held at the residence, 119
West zarragossa street. at 3 o'clock
Saturday afternoon. Burial will be
! in st. Johns cemetery.
| Charles B. Hervey, manager Of the
| San Carlos hotel, left last night for
California and other western states.
| He will be joined enroute by Mrs.
Hervey and they will be away fec two
months.
/ Daily meetings of the board of
| equalization, held at the city hall, will
be discontinued August 1. At that
time an estimation OF the annual bud
get for the next fiscal year will be-
gin.
| Persons selling or giving tobacco to
minors will be prosecuted Probation
Officer Pinney announced yesterday.
A number of complaints have been
made by parents that tobacco is being
sold to boys who are not Fl years of
age.
| Miss Agnes Neva McKinna will give
| a talk on general health conditions in
Moline tonight. She has been invited
by the Moline city council to explain
/ the movement in the county for bet
ter physical conditions for school
i children.
| The local police department has
been notified by the authorities at
Marion Junction, Ala. to keep a look
out for a Ford car. which was stolen
from that city on the night Of July II.
A reward of $50 is offered for the re-
| covery of the car.
| City Attorney John B. Jones is ex-
pected to return today from Tallahas-
see, where he represented the city in
the arguments Thursday in the sani-
tary law contest case of r. NJ. Cary
versus the city of Pensacola
Friends of William Ray Henderson,
u. s. N, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Henderson, of 216 East Zarragossa
| street, will be interested to learn of
| his arrival in the city. He is now
stationed at Mare Island, Cal, and
will return to the west coast in about
/ three weeks
The Pearl River Valley Railroad
Company has requested Sheriff Van
| Pelt to mold in custody B. Norwood.
| of Nicholson, Miss, who is charged
with having mis-appropriated a pay
roll of $3o7.so. of which all but $3.50
was recovered.
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wood-block paving. laid in 1911, has
been condemned by workmen on the
job who are laying the new solid con-
crete paving on Garden, from A to D
| streets. A mass of crumbling concrete
was brought into the city hall yester-
day as evidence.
The entrance to the Joseph B. Lock-
ey grammar school will be placed In
good condition by the hardening of C
| street from Belmont to Garden. Num-
erous complaints have been made by
persons of the school in this regard
and yesterday George H. Hinrichs,
commissioner of streets and public
works, had a force of men on the job.
Large crowds Of people are expect
ed to take advantage of an outing
| Sunday and visit the many places of
| interest here. Trips will be made to
! the gulf beach, life saving station, the
Road Inn Pavilion and other points
Capt. Edmundson is repairing and
! painting anew a number of his fleet
Of launches.
Construction Of the $4,000 filling
| station which the Standard Oil Co. |
will put up at the site of the old Es-
ic Cd
within a short time. The land was
| recently purchased from the Lakeview
Property company at a total cost of
$1,000. the site selling at $40 a front
foot.
b. F. Francisco, former student
aviator. who was recently commits
stoned special deputy sheriff by or
der of Gov. Cats and who figured
in number of sensational cases. has
gone to his home in New Jersey.
where he will remain. Naming of a
successor to Francisco is not contem-
plated. it was stated in the office of
the county solicitor yesterday
The get-together club of the Wood
| men circle will hold a meeting this
afternoon from $3.50 until o'clock, at
| the residence of Mrs. Karen Nelson.
1909 North Davis street Those who
| wish to come are instructed to leave
| the car at Davis and Brainard streets ,
The ladies who are members of this
club are specializing on sewing, as
well as taking part in other activities
Refreshments will be served.
The case Of Mrs. Ed Sheppard, re-
arrested after her vindication in the
court of record where she was chare-
ed with manslaughter following the
death of Mrs. Mary McGinn Walker.
on the charge of manslaughter in
connection with the death of an nm