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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1947
Page
8
A collection of rural listings includes rental offers for 44 acres near Bethel and 40 acre cotton crops, plus sales of mules, a Farmall tractor, farm tools, apparel, bulbs, chickens, and milk cow. Also notices for rent and trade of household items and livestock.
A dense list of rural classifieds trades and sales including tractors chickens goats puppies trucks and milking odds with names and routes across Danville Parkville Hartselle Somerville Somerville and Lacon reflecting a neighborhood swap market. Buyers and sellers like Silas Schaub Albert R King Billy Boles and Roy Griffith advertise farm equipment livestock and household items with prices and contact locations along Decatur Moulton Danville and surrounding routes.
Rogersville hosted a three day Dixie Red Fox Club event with over 100 fox hounds entered in the Bench Show. Hi-Doctor, a famed Walker hound from Florida, drew strong chatter as owners bragged of its bloodline. The Beach Show opened under Judge John H. Allen with Bernard Rice aiding, as hunters from Limestone Lauderdale Lawrence and Morgan entered dogs for a crowded warehouse event. The Dixie Red Fox Club, formed five years ago in Athens, aims to preserve the sport of chasing Reynold the Red Fox with four hunts and suppers annually and more than 200 members, led by President L. H. Nelson and other officers.
J R Bates of Ebenezer cuts ditch banks during bad weather for April plowout of sericea. Sericea used for terrace water disposal and hay by mowing. Barney Nunnelly of Ryan Hulace praises kudzu grazing with 8 cows and 2 mules since October. Wright of Hartselle and Dillehay of Priceville finished terrace racing before the weather. lines surveyed by Soil Conservation Service.
The National Labor Relations Board reinstated a charge of refusing to bargain in good faith against the AFL International Typographical Union. The charge had been dismissed December 9 by NLRB trial examiner Arthur Leff, who cited use of the wrong Taft Hartley act section in the nationwide case brought by the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
F. McMeans JL. C. Corum Clarence Gordon J. H. Phillips appear in a historical ledger. The fragment lists individuals likely related to a local organization or record, with no additional context provided.
H C Hochbaum of the U S Department of Agriculture urged 20 million home gardens at Freedom Garden conferences in Atlanta and New Orleans to produce eight million tons of vegetables. He said gardens would cut living costs, ease inflation, and free commercial foods for others while supporting healthier diets through fruit and vegetable intake. The talks outlined organizing local committees, expanding vacant lots, and leveraging extension services and volunteers to launch a national garden push next spring.
Seventeen Alabama F F A chapters entered the State and National Chapter Contest for 1948 with entries from Bagnett to Vernon. The Sidney Lanier Chapter in Montgomery was the previous year's State winner, and judging emphasizes the year’s planned program and year end accomplishments.
Eva Tuesday featured the regular FFA meeting with minutes read by secretary Edward Ed dleman. Robert McGukin reported on ordering manuals and priced FF A pins as members plan a January party and prepare for the January district meet at Eva. Doyle Laney was initiated as a Green Hand and Lederle Laboratories visitor Mr. Holland spoke on his work. The Horticulture class builds orchard ladders while members place orders for Chinese Chestnut trees, saving nearly a third through cooperative purchasing. Howell Hogan, Chapter Reporter.
Wayne Grnberry reports an Auburn area FFA pig chain starting with two pigs from Terry Olive Edwin Knowles and Emmit Moore. They will return two pigs to the chapter to keep the chain growing.
County Health Department estimates a rat campaign distributed 250 pounds of poisoned bait. City Council Future Homemakers State and Tallapoosa County Health Department cooperated in the effort.
Centre Alabama FFA members, numbering 90, voted to reorganize the chapter on a class basis. Jack Fortenberry, the FFA reporter, notes the move adds three other officer sets to increase participation among members.
Rev. George G. McHardy S J age 62 a Jesuit at Spring Hill College for 22 years died after several months illness He was a native of Mt Holly New Jersey and entered the order in 1902 at St Stanislaus in Sow He served as assistant pastor at St Josephs and Maton in 1823 and 1924.
The report notes a clerical appointment at Immaculate Conception in New Orleans serving in a shared capacity. Details are fragmentary but indicate continued or renewed duties within the church.
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