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Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Aug 20, 1952

Page

8

For Rent and For Sale Classified Snippet

Classified fragment listing multiple rentals and sales items across Trinity Decatur Hartselle Somerville area. Includes four room houses with utilities, one two room cabin, mules and wagon, farm equipment, hunting hound puppies, rolls of bog wire, Cook peaches, Farmall tractor and local contact details.

W. C. Puckett Neel Decatur-Moulton Road J. N. Lee Hartselle Flint Amen

Cotton crop recovery and boll weevil watch advised

After recent rains cotton in the county shows new growth and fruit. Cool damp weather favors cotton insects, so monitor for boll weevil and worm damage. If 20 to 25 percent infestation occurs, apply 12 to 15 pounds of poison per acre and continue checks after each application.

Youth Day Observed at Fifth Street Baptist Church

Two young boy preachers from Huntsville filled Rev Baughers appointment at Fifth Street Baptist Church Huntsville Sunday morning and evening Don Stevens and Don Atkinson spoke from Matt 2811 Youth Day featured with the young people in charge Guests included Mrs Pattie Lyle and others Visitors from other points attended Sunday evening services and Jimmie Bartee received medical attention for a foot laceration

Fifth Street Baptist Church Huntsville Baugher Don Stevens Don Atkinson Pattie Lyle Somerville Glover Carroll Modie Lyle Decatur Winfrey Eunice Lemon Omer Elders Fred Beam Norfolk Virginia Beam Johnnie Lou Hough Redstone Arsenal Kay Edmondson Edmondson Wichita Falls Texas Joe Black State Highway Department Margerum Ala Vera Walter Mary Joe Williams Jimmie Bartee James Bartee

Continuous mining machine ends cycle in mining method

A continuous mining machine completes one cycle encompassing cutting drilling blasting and loading as the traditional four steps of mechanized coal mining.

Local News From Jones Chapel and Nearby Areas

Pvt James Brown and Pfc Auston Fincher on furlough visit relatives in the area. Mrs Emma Butler and families visit Birmingham. Rev Tommie Thompson and family from Georgia hosted by local families. Sunday dinner guests included multiple servicemen and families. Prayer meeting at the Baptist Church led by Brother Virgil Chumbly. Bible School closed with good attendance and a picnic for children.

James Brown U. S. Army Emma Butler Birmingham Ira Glover Missionary Grove Pfc Auston Fincher Lawrence Oklahoma Dellis Brown Floyd Rodgers Marvin Bryant Ted White Manuel Leola Bowden Tommie Thompson Georgia Joe Thompson T. A. House of Addison Bud Williamson Hollis Cupp Decatur The Baptist Church Virgil Chumbly Bible School

Boys Town in Indo China Aims to Aid 1000 War Orphans

In Hahoi headquarters city, the Catholic run Cite du Christ Roi shelters boys from Vietminh and French forces. Father Paul Seitz hopes the institution can house 1,000 orphans, with 450 currently in residence.

Hanolf Indo-China Hahoi Cite Christ Paul Seitz Paris Foreign Missions

Drought Not Ruining Wiley Farm Despite North Alabama Drouth

Oren Wiley of Speake Community Lawrence County practices conservation farming to weather the drouth. His 69 acre farm yields 45 bushels of corn per acre and cotton at about a bale per acre. He uses vetch Caley peas hogging stalks and promotes soil organic matter with deep rooted sericea lespedeza and permanent pastures.

Drouth Oren Wiley Wiley Joe Cleland Soil Conservation Service Wiley Farm SCS North Alabama Lawrence County

Wedding and community notes from Morgan County

Sunday school and church attendance noted at Rock Creek. Miss Flossie Oden wed Forest Pate of Decatur and will live in Decatur. Kay Sparkman of Decatur visits the Hamiltons in Decatur. Janet Self Inez West Loy Nell Bryan injured in a car wreck. Peggy Sue Bryan uninjured. Mary Dana Latham returns from Birmingham. Reva Lewis visits Decatur. sister Mrs A B Bradford in Hanceville.

J. C. Mahaffy Clifford Beavers Betty Decatur Flossie Oden Forest Pate Kay .Sparkman W. B. Hamilton Janet Self Inez West Loy Nell Bryan Peggy Sue Bryan Mary Dana Latham Jimmy Latham Birmingham Reva Lewis A. B. Bradford Hanceville Peggy

Population boom in Belgian Congo as whites surge past 66 thousand

The Belgian Congo shows a booming white population with more than 8,000 foreigners in residence and a 14 percent rise in 1951 from 57,930 to 66,078. Native population remains around 12 million while Americans number 1,048 in the colony. Jean Bryan is working in Decatur. Eston Lewis, Decatur, stayed with his parents William and Mrs. Lewis last Wednesday night.

Leopoldville Belgian Congo Congo Jean Bryan Decatur Eston Lewis William Lewis

Revival ends with three additions at Morgan Cedar Creek

Community notes report Sgt Gerald Holloway visiting from Georgia with his family as part of the revival closure. Velma Whitley of Columbia and Lula Foote visit ill relative. John Ratliff Foote returns to Gadsden after visiting. William Smallwood visits from near Birmingham. James Harvel and Allen Brazell families travel from Sylacauga and Ohio respectively. Local residents attend services and a business meeting is planned to elect a pastor and officers.

Gerald Holloway Georgia Edmond Holloway Velma Whitley Columbia Tenn Lula Foote John Ratliff Foote Gadsden William Smallwood Birmingham E. W. Henry James Harvel Sylacauga Allen Brazell Ohio Gary Holmes Emma Brewer F. S. Holmes

County agents urge pasture and grazing crop plans for Morgan County

Morgan County expects its largest grazing feed and soil improvement crop acreages this fall and winter says L T Wagnon County Agent. Temporary grazing crops Crimson clover rye grass oats and vetch mixtures are detailed with seeding timing fertilization and top dressing advice for ready grazing and soil health at the County Agent's Office in Hartselle Alabama.

Morgan County L. T. Wagnon Hartselle Alabama

Hartselle Man Is Elected To Office

H N Bryant of Bessemer Alabama was elected president of the Alabama half of the Alabama Mississippi Food Lockers Association at its convention in Meridian Mississippi. Other officers named include M A Bush of Hartselle first vice president Buddy Crawford of Abbeville second vice president and Eric Brook of Montgomery secretary.

Meridian Miss H. N. Bryant Bessemer Ala Alabama Alabama- Mississippi Food Lockers Association M. A. Bush Hartselle Buddy Crawford Abbeville Eric Brook Montgomery

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Farmers Exchange A. KL. Echols Hartselie Wright Josephine J. D. Moore Bale Gentie Danville B. M. Nunn Rt. 1 Baileyton Nunnelly Rt i Morocco Florence Bailey Hill Crimson Clover Casey Peas Clyde Crawford Huntsville and Guntersvile Pass Union Hill Fred Overs Cotaco Trinity Wallace Meadows Ri i Athens P. Breeding M. J. Ferguson Orchard Priceville Finley Island Ernest Lowery Moulton Highway County Line Jersey George W. Hill White Rock Ed Poteet Ollie W. King de Lowery Rt. 3 Decatur-Moukou Poland China Hampshire Phil Mitchell Butch Mitchell Danville Road O. G. Woods Ri. 2 Famous Cook Union Hill School Carl Prancis Eggel Arena Aioli Elberta Cain Road W. Smith P. C. Davis Church St. N.W Decatur, Ala Morgan, Lawrence and Limestone Counties Paul Lacey’s Spring Augusta Alabama Flour Mills Decatur, Alabama Cullman County Jones Chapel Eron White Rock Creek J. F. Tanner Cain and Wells St Olie Holmes Pues SION Hartselle Man B. Frank Chenault Grant St A & M Laundry and Dry Cleaners Corner First Avenue and Lee St Purina Turner Coal & Grain CO Checkerboard Store Moulton Street Continental Lint Cleaners Farmers Gin Co W. Wilson Ave Canal St
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