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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1932
Page
8
A collection of handwritten Christmas requests from Decatur children listing desired gifts such as tricycles dolls trains and toy vehicles. Each child asks Santa to remember siblings and other family and to consider less fortunate children during the holiday season.
A compilation of Christmas wish notes from young children in Courtland Danville Moulton and surrounding Alabama towns. The letters request dolls doll beds toy trains trucks marbles scooters wagons rocking chairs cookware and fruits nuts and candy along with mentions of family members and schools.
Congress convenes with Speaker John N Garner and Vice President Charles Curtis presiding. Despite strong shifts toward modification and repeal, many lame ducks are expected to oppose the modification proposal.
Lillian Mortimer presents the four act drama Happy Valley in the Austinville school auditorium at 7 15 pm Saturday. Polly leaves her husband with a country girl as the gang pursues them and the master of Happy Valley falls for Polly. The bad egg is captured and the lovers find happiness amid a cast including a spinster, a hired girl, a scared youth and Bowery accented townsfolk. Sponsored by the Austinville Methodist church young peoples department.
Police report a Nashville fire insurance agency wire stating the Ford V8 coupe held here is the property of a Murfreesboro firm. Insurance records show motor and license numbers matching the car and an Erthman-Wilson Motor Company representative from Murfreesboro is expected to arrive to claim it.
The Central Public Speaking Club at Central High School invites all students to join. The group meets each morning in the east basement and seeks new members to ask about participation and activities.
Mrs Rose Burger 29 and her six month old child died after she drew two other children from their beds tied their feet with rope and jumped into a cistern near their home with the infant and her five year old daughter Virginia The father Fred Burger awakened by a scream rescued Virginia from the cistern The event followed the death of the mother’s father leaving the family in distress
The rural comedy Deacon Dubbs will be staged this evening at 7 30 o clock at the First Ward school under the P T A and Mizpah chapter No 19 Eastern Star. Cast includes Barnes Ross as Deacon Dobbs Julian McNeese Amos Coleman Stanley Dunaway as Rawdon Crowley Thomas Brooks Major Moses McNutt Howard McCullough Rose Rawleigh Miss Philipina Popover Billy Moye Trixie Coleman Yennie Yenson Nell Lawhorn Daphne Norwood with 4 specialties between acts.
No fire alarms have been registered in Decatur since December 3. The six day rest follows a series of blazes believed to have set a local record, though damage was limited. From December 1 to December 3, the departments made 16 runs.
The group lists Grace Watson Cecil Chandler Phil Baugh LaVern Chandler Eugene Haynes among members interested in joining. The club recently elected officers: President Pat Jeffries Vice President Phil Baugh Secretary Glifford Smith Treasurer Wyndall Terry Scribe Robert Pruitt.
The annual audit of the Chamber of Commerce books is finished and will be presented at the organization’s annual meeting Monday evening. Auditors were Roy C. Billings of Tennessee Valley Bank and T. E. Williams of Morgan County National Bank.
Four white men were arraigned in police court this morning on charges of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Fines of 13.60 were assessed against three men while the fourth received a street sentence of 15 days.
President elect Franklin D Roosevelt rests rarely as visitors crowd the Little White House in Warm Springs Georgia. In a runabout he is pictured with Breckenridge Long Senator John S Cohen Senator W George and Admiral Cary T Grayson as he returns to Albany earlier than expected.
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