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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1944
Page
3
Auction style ad offers cut flowers Gladi olios Snapdragons and baby ahne and Sevon wine press with prices for one dozen roses and two dozen snapdragons. Also lists three rooms unfurnished to rent near Hart selle on Route 1 with contact Mrs Ed Harris A 30.
Morgan county cotton farmers are urged to pick dry cotton free of trash before weather damage and separate high from low quality. The campaign by the National Cotton Council and War Food Administration aims to boost strict middling or better grades, supporting premium payments and the war effort.
A mixed list of livestock, seed, tools, and land offerings from Decatur to Somerville in a 1945 rural classifieds column. Entries include selling Jersey cows, Duroc pigs, Poland China pigs, a bicycle, a stove burner, a mowing machine, Hairy Vetch seed, crimson clover seed, oats, and land for sale or rent. buyers seek trailers and farm improvements. stray alert for a brindle bulldog near Danville. contact names include J Nethery Belle Mina Wayne Couey G M Peek Alvin Eubanks P H Clark A H Poole Sarah Evans J Horace Russell L E Oden Mrs Kyle Kley John E B Smith Wiley Hardwick with several Route and locality references across Athens Hartselle Somerville Decatur Vine mont and Vinemont.
1st Lt. William L. Matchette Jr a student officer at Courtland RAF pilot school recounts a December 25 raid over Weiner Neustadt Austria his B 17 navigator engine trouble and bomber crew survival After this 49th mission he earned the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf Clusters and took part in famed first raids on Germany Rome and Greece supporting Salerno Beachhead Matchette hails from Allentown Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Howard Billings left Friday for Asheville North Carolina and will settle there. Several local residents visited, including Mrs J W Freeman and children, Mrs C C Cooke and Lola, Mrs Howard Allen and family, and Mr Buford Mason and daughter. Baptismal services at Smith Creek drew six candidates for church membership. Local trips included C N Walker from Sulphur Springs Texas visiting Guy Walker's family and Rev J S Martin's business run to Hartselle. Mrs Grady Maxwell returns from Decatur to recover from an infected hand.
A Sacred Harp singing is scheduled for Sunday at Plainview school five miles east of Hartselle. G L Hopper, secretary of the committee, announced the event which will run all day with dinner on the grounds and the public is invited.
Captain John R. Chapman a 17 month Army medical veteran in England now at Courtland notes bicycle accidents in blackout marked camps exceed combat injuries. He cites darkness and bike use between camouflaged sites as causing skinned shins and minor injuries and mentions a difficult handlebar brake. He compares English hospital work with Courtland and cites higher upper respiratory infections in England due to a virus with natural immunity developing in about three months. Chapman served with the 8th Air Force 96th Bomb Group and treated British officers and enlisted men.
In Lawrence County farmers report a decent corn and cotton yield. Local service members return from duty with honorable discharges, including W O James D Smith and Pvt Nolen Beck. Families host and visit relatives, church events plan baptisms, and residents note pasts in Black Ground area.
Pvt. Buel Hale returns from a ten day furlough to his camp. Baptist revival closes with 34 new members. Dewey White goes to the armed forces. Winford Hale reported wounded in action in France. Numerous local visits and family gatherings noted. Next Sunday features a singing event.
OPA district director Joe Short announced that the September value for creamery butter remains 16 red points per pound, despite an earlier printed chart showing 20. Later data indicate monthly consumption will not exceed 95 million pounds, so stores will post a slip correcting the chart over the 20 figure. Country butter stays at four points in the North Alabama district due to market conditions.
Pitt Tyson Maner of Montgomery Alabama was named finance chairman of the 1944 democratic campaign in Alabama. Maner formerly led the Young Democrats of America and was announced by Edwin W Pauley the Democratic National Committee treasurer.
Special war food assistant Mr. Dobbs reports Morgan county cheese milk production rising each month from February through July, except for one decline. March to July figures rise from 306,594 to 508,765 pounds, reflecting good farmer effort amid hot dry summer conditions.
The list records that Thelma Praytor of Battle Ground spent last week with her sister and family including Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Blackwood and Mitchell. Emogene Anders of Birmingham visited relatives here. Marvin Kilpatrick and son Jimmie of Texas visited Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bailey and others in the area. Martha Ellen Howse of Birmingham spent the weekend with her parents and grandparents, while several relatives were called to Roy Penn's bedside in Decatur General Hospital. Various families from Danville Winds Jasper Winds Battleground and surrounding areas gathered as guests of Lige Blackwood and daughter Louise Saturday.
The Decatur United Charities board held a brief regular meeting Tuesday afternoon. Reports were received and discussion touched the upcoming campaign that will be merged with the annual Alabama War Chest appeal.
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