First religious service at Neo-Byzantine Greek Orthodox Church at Ann Street (Yesterday’s News)

13/11/2011

Editor’s Note: These are excerpts from past editions of the Press-Register.

1861:
• “BENEFIT OF MONS. GILLES. — The time of [this benefit] has been fixed for Friday night next. The object is a highly meritorious one. Mons. Gilles’ valuable services have been rendered without money and without price on numerous occasions for the several months past, during which … so many dramatic and musical entertainments have been produced for the benefit of our soldiers, their families and the destitute generally….
“The preparations for the Concert, we understand, are on the fullest scale that the present condition of the city will afford.”

Sunday, Nov. 12, 1911:
• “Citronelle, Ala. — The early winter tourist season was most auspiciously inaugurated by a reception and ball at the New Hygeia Hotel on Friday evening, November 10, given to mark the reopening of this well known hostelry recently … improved throughout by R.R. Moyers. Over 500 invitations were issued and the spacious corridors and reception rooms were thronged.
“In the ball room the entrancing strains of the waltz and two-step beguiled the merry hours away.”
• “As an argument in favor of Mobile’s climate, Mr. E.E. Posey has sent The Register several specimens of large figs, which he plucked from trees growing in the yard of his home on the Government street loop.
“The fruit is of the Brunswick variety, and apparently as healthy as the next kind. Some of the figs are as much as two inches in diameter, but lack nothing in sweetness and flavor.”

Sunday, Nov. 12, 1936:
• “Speaking to an Armistice Day gathering at the Battle House Wednesday morning, Mason F. Goodloe, president of the Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce, compared the United States to a ‘lone wolf’ seeking peace at a time when world conditions resembled a ‘keg of dynamite with a short fuse.'”
• “Mr. and Mrs. George Newburn were among those who drove to Birmingham from Mobile to attend the Alabama-Tulane game and to be the guests of Mrs. Newburn’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Dee.”
• “A rainfall amounting to .63 inches cheered Mobile county farmers Wednesday.”
Sunday, Nov. 12, 1961:
• “A first religious service will be held this morning in the imposing new Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation at Ann and Azalea Sts.
“Construction of the Neo-Byzantine structure witih its big dome has been completed but considerable interior work remains to be done.”
• “Prichard was once an agricultural center. It grew early crops to ship north. And Prichard, like many other locations in Mobile county, had pecan orchards. Many of these big trees still stand throughout the city and especially in ithe downtown section.”

Compiled by Cammie East Cowan

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