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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1932
Page
3
Just Around Home items report multiple Thanksgiving visits across five Tennessee Valley counties. Families like Kennedy, Thomas, Chunn, McNally, Terrill and others shared meals and attended local events at Lacey's Spring and Woodland Mills while school programs and family gatherings occurred around Huntsville Decatur and Hartselle.
Miss Pauline Johnson is confined to her home with flu. Miss Vera Lamon spent Thanksgiving with her parents in Chapel Hill. Melvin Lake is in bed with a relapse of whooping cough. Hartselle Decatur football game attended at Benson Field. Germany fears von Schleicher as potential chancellor amid Thanksgiving talk. Neighbor updates include Kyle Johnson moving to Basham, Mrs C L Thompson hosting, and smokehouse use in cold weather for hog storage.
Market rundown from the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries covers today’s receipts and prices for carrots corn bran shorts flour cotton seed cotton onions grapefruit Johnson hay Timothy alfalfa and more. Poultry and eggs show unchanged quotes with a weak market while fruit and vegetables list sweet potatoes Irish potatoes turnips and mustard prices.
Rock Creek News announces a pie supper for Saturday night December 3 featuring a guess cake a pretty girl cake and an ugly man cake with all invited Attendance at school remains high with 90 38 percent for the first month Local social notes mention visits among residents including Mrs Leona Smith the McKee and Self families and others with several aunts uncles and cousins listed among the attendees
Mr and Mrs Jonathan McCutch eon and Birmingham relatives spent the latter part of last week with W L McCutcheon and family. Paul Luker and Harold Goff of Birmingham joined Thanksgiving with J F Luker family. Erby Lockwell and Decatur relatives visited their parents in Mount Tabor.
Puzzle clues mix biblical pronoun washing device and other entries across and down with many abbreviations. Readable fragments include terms like Persia meadow equality and dreadfully to guess, with several archaic abbreviations and foreign terms interspersed.
Reynolds resumes his world cruise aboard a Havana yacht after a death in the family linked to tobacco wealth. The deaths cited include his brother Richard Reynolds and younger brother Smith, husband of Libby Holman, with other local notices about residents and farm life in Decatur and nearby areas.
E Ryan and family are noted attendees. Mary Sue Black visited school teacher Mrs Bertha McKee. Lillie Mae and Louise McCutcheon joined Mt Zion singing. Box supper raised 11.75 with Lathem Brastelle winning prett y girl cake and Howard Whitten ugly man cake. Several families hosted visits and a Thanksgiving ball game in Decatur drew many locals. Next Sunday hosts a regular monthly singing inviting all with song books.
Landersville Alabama residents and visitors include Mrs Foster Gavin and Mrs W P Parham of Russellville. Miss Mary Clyde Garner of Moulton. Rev J H Hill and wife with Mrs Wright of Decatur. family and friends visitations and illnesses noted. Local figures attend funerals and visits, with flu illness reported among residents.
The Junior and Senior B Y. P. U. hosted a Thanksgiving social at New Hope church. About 32 attended a banquet styled event with autumn decor. Funds raised were to fund installing electric lights. Guests included Rev. and Mrs. Charlie Cobb and others.
Miss Gladys McCaig has returned home after an extended visit with relatives in Nashville. She was accompanied by her aunt Mrs. Clarence Denton of Nashville, who was called by the illness of her father Mr. William McCaig. Misses John Richter Erskine Boyd and Jimmy Means all of Cullman were in the community Sun.
Physicians recommend Calotabs as a nausealess calomel compound to break up colds overnight and relieve congestion. One or two tabs at bedtime with milk or water purify the system, curb coughs, restore appetite, and allow normal eating the next day. Sold in 10¢ and 76¢ packages at drug stores.
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