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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1935
Page
9
Morgan county 4 H club girls depart Sunday for a three day encampment at Vinemont. Beginning at 1 pm Sunday a bus will stop at Moulton Heights Trinity Austinville and Priceville schools to pick up passengers. The encampment runs through Wednesday.
The Mt Tabor Ree Sg rally at Pettit's pasture featured music baseball and a banner presentation by Ebien Rowe. Proceeds from the June 19 picnic fund the club house with Nell Prince returning from Auburn and local families hosting gatherings. A seven foot four inch coach whip snake was killed near town by Roy Moore Paul Ryan and D H Reeves. Miss Rubye Lucker visits Gadcden while Rev J H Chitwood preaches at 2 pm Sunday at the local Methodist church.
Extra guards paced the Miles City courthouse grounds to deter threats against a Black man named George Criner accused of killing Officer James Fraser, wounding Police Chief James Sullivan, and injuring a woman. Criner faced the charges as crowds dispersed after a bid to search his home failed.
J H Geisse a department of commerce pilot took off from Montgomery at 840 am in his tailless airplane after a demonstration for Maxwell field officers. The small low priced craft aimed at easy flight landed here after a flight from Shreveport and was bound for Atlanta at about 90 miles per hour on a coast to coast test.
Athens was chosen to host the 1936 convention of the grand lodge of Alabama Odd Fellows. The selection was made at the Selma convention by a 48 to 9 vote. A petition from over five hundred Athens citizens urged the gathering, expected to bring more than three hundred delegates, to the city on the second Tuesday in August.
Euzelle Wiley, the town cat catcher paid 50 cents per cat, caught 40 cats last week and asked for $20. The township committee deemed the activity costly and voted to abolish the position, though Wiley keeps his dog catcher role.
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