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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1932
Page
8
The first joint quarterly conference in this district will convene Monday evening at 7 30 in the First Methodist church. Representatives from the First Central Methodist and Oak Street Methodist churches will attend and a social hour will follow.
Newly elected officers of the Limestone county post of the American Legion will be installed this evening at the regular meeting in Athens. Several local Legionnaires plan to attend the installation.
Big congregations attend revival services this week at Bethel Baptist church. Rev. M. B. Smith of Nashville Tenn delivers fine messages to the people. Frank T. Smith leads music with Dewey Yeager from Nashville adding musical features for the remaining services.
E B Soper receiver of the First National Bank at Hartselle and at Decatur is on a two week vacation trip to his old home in Iowa.
W H Ennis visited Moulton on business. Numerous social gatherings marked the week with guests from Decatur Athens Georgia and nearby towns. A church schedule lists Methodist and Baptist services and a B P U session inviting all.
Senator Kelley introduces measures to cut daily expenses for senators and representatives to $2.00, saving the state about $280 weekly during sessions. Proposals include reducing probate judge fees, trimming appellate and circuit court salaries, and abolishing the tax collector and assessor offices in favor of county tax commissioners. The plan, effective Sept 30 after an election, aims to save over half a million dollars yearly from school tax collection fees.
Seven hundred Cullman county farmers approved field inspections of their sweet potato crops this year. Inspections by the state department of agriculture will cover 1,800 acres. County Agent R. M. Reaves praised the plan as boosting production with little extra cost.
Persons born on this day would make tasteful finished musicians and seek to lead the band, according to the column. The text hints at leadership ambitions and refined musical taste guiding career paths.
M. L. Robertson longtime Cullman mayor has announced his candidacy for reelection in the municipal election on September 19. Robertson says he is running on his record and public service.
Rev. Ernest N. Hart studying in Chicago will return to Decatur in about two weeks and resume preaching at Westminster Presbyterian Church on the first Sunday in September. In his absence visiting ministers fill the pulpit.
A clinic for crippled children will be held at Sheffield on August 19. Child welfare agencies from various counties are cooperating on the effort.
Miss Wilma Sue Shears of Trinity is recuperating from a recent operation performed at Benevolent hospital.
Johnny Mack Brown headlines the film The Vanishing Frontier at the Princess theater. Evalyn Knapp Zazu Pitts and Raymond Hatton star with J Farrell MacDonald in a tale set in California under martial law after Mexico ceded the territory. Brown plays a bandolero who robs the rich to aid the poor and falls for Knapp amid dramatic events.
Rev. A. H. Nabors who conducted revival services at Wilton Alabama will return to Decatur Saturday and fill the pulpit at the Central Methodist Church on Sunday at both hours of worship. The Wilton service has been very successful.
Rainfall here today totaled six hundredths of an inch for the 24 hour period ending at seven o'clock.
The weather bureau records a high of 97 and a low of 74 for the 24 hour period ending at 7 am today. Conditions reflect typical late summer patterns with no precipitation noted in the report.
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