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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1952
Page
5
Sale notice for a nearly new one row John Deere picker model 101 listed by N. W Bradly Belle Mina. Device used only a few days and offered at a substantial discount to buyers. Contact A-13 for details
A miscellany of local happenings includes Mrs. Arlene Livley honored at a Mrs. Jack Sharp shower with gifts and refreshments at Mrs. Leander Allens on August 6. Various residents attended revival meetings at Antioch and New Friendship churches. A Guy Walker led a nearby singing school with about fifty students. Families shared weekends with relatives in Priceville Decatur and Oregon, while others hosted dinners and visited kin in Decatur.
The revival began Sunday August 10 at Providence Baptist Church with Rev. Coffee leading daily services through the week. Local social notes record visits by the Thompson, Parker, Masterson, Carpenter, Landsdell and Summers families, plus health updates on Mrs. Claude Masterson and young Linda Kay Parker. Agrarian notes provide outdated farming tips and hog guidance, ending with a call to contact the County Agents Office for more information.
Classified notices seek a male shepherd for home, two large families to harvest 1000 acres cotton with good houses, day nursing jobs with references, pure Fescue seed and crimson clover for sale, and a unique wet duck offer. Contacts include William P Fowler Somerville near Florette Tanner M Murphree Moulton Hartse and F W Briscoe DeKalb area.
A vacationing dentist from Erie Pennsylvania operated yesterday to repair a severe arm wound of Ernie Ladouceur a 45 year old fishing camp operator at Big Moose Lake sixty miles north of Ottawa River town. The guide was struck by a broken fan blade from a small gasoline engine and was flown out to Fort Coulonge. The dentist used a fishhook as a needle and fishing line as sutures and fed the tendons with whiskey and headache pills as emergency anesthesia.
A classified item lists for sale several large pine trees with contact Mrs ad King on Route 1 and phone 2387 M. Another line advertises a five room house for rent with contact I. M. Murphrée on Beeler farm meat copper lat.
A 25 year old chemist, Allen Schmidt, awoke to find his rayon trousers on fire aboard a crowded rush hour bus. He suffered second degree burns and was taken to a hospital. A female passenger was burned, and another was injured in the panic. Police retrieved the trousers for laboratory testing to determine the cause.
Three quarrelling boys and 36 dozen eggs stored in a garage for delivery by a dairy salesman were broken in a scuffle. By the police arrival, Mrs. Edith Rockwell said there were no whole eggs left and damage was estimated at 36 dollars.
Birmingham Slag Co CIO workers ended a work stoppage after a tentative pact mediated by Federal Labor Conciliator John Andress. United Steelworkers of America members were to vote on ratification at 10 a.m. today.
In Morgan County the drought and heat threaten pastures crops cotton and gardens. The call urges rapid actions to produce grazing and feed crops and vegetables, protect beef dairy and hog programs, and offset cotton cash losses. Suggestions include cutting and silaging corn, rapid cotton harvesting, saving roughage, early soil prep, late fall and winter seedings of crimson clover ryegrass oats vetch ryegrass and other forages, and nitrogen top-dressing for improved hay and grazing.
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