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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1952

Page

4

Christmas society events fill wagons of cheer across towns

Society notes report multiple holiday gatherings. Business and Professional Women's Club plans a Lyons Hotel dinner with gift exchanges under one dollar. Austinville Home Demonstration Club hosts a club Christmas party with a Christ mas Notions demonstration. Westside Presbyterian WMS met in Hoppers home with carols, readings, and social hour. Madonna Circle and Central Baptist Gleaners Class announce parties with gift exchanges. Westside Primary Department held a Christmas party for twenty five children. Notre Dame Cathedral site note mentions 2000 years of prayer houses in Paris.

B.P.W LYONS Business and Professional Women’s Club E. A. Edwards Conrad Strickland Busch Bethlehem Road WJ. Tarpley Edwards Ernest Edwards Madonna Woman’s Society of Christian Service Central Methodist Church Falla Bailey Paul Milam Ordell Garvey Sam Hernandez J. C. Smith Milam J. W. Lovelace, Jr Andrew Smith Howard Chamberlain C. J. Waitkus C. J. Setzer Westside Presbyterian Church James Johnson Endlam Boulevard Ransom Crawford Frank Minor Santa Claus Notre Dame Cathedral Paris

Potassium Salts Found in All Fertile Soils

A concise study notes that all fertile soils contain potassium salts. It highlights their role in plant nutrition and soil fertility, indicating potassium is a common essential element in productive soils.

Wedding to Highlight Post Program at Moulton High

Lawrence county American Legion Post 25 presents a hillbilly themed program featuring a wedding for Leslie Guffey and Miss Maudie Durham during the event at Moulton High School auditorium at 7 30 PM. Sullivan and his Hill Billy orchestra perform as the final act to aid donation for 100 Christmas baskets for Lawrence county families. Delivery starts Monday morning.

Lawrence County American Legion Post Paul Johnson Johnson Leslie Guffey Detroit V.F.W

Cache of Jewelry Found in Subway Locker

An anonymous caller tipped the New York Daily Mirror prompting police to search a subway station locker where gems valued at 10 000 to 15 000 dollars were recovered along with watches and bracelets. The haul is linked to a 25 000 dollar Broadway jewelry store robbery earlier this week.

New York New York Daily Mirror Broadway

British Ship Challenger Aids Ocean Studies

The British assign the naval ship Challenger to scientific studies of the sea highlighting growing interest in ocean research and exploration.

Challenger

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Austinville H.D Royce Messer Ed Brazelton Douglas Fudge Harlan Wallace Lucille Hawkins Westside W.M.S Hoppers Home Woman's Missionary Society of the Westside Presbyterian W. A. Hoppers W. F. Busch Hoppers Mas McLain Strickland Masterson Madonna Circle Mrs. Lovelace Gleaners Central Baptist Church T. A. Patterson Seventh Avenue South East Department Charles Rice Mellie McCarver Sherrow Ess H. K. Tankersley Tommy B. Hudson Hudson Decatur Coca- Cola Coca-Cola Shaban Lee's van Kaake Lees Decatur Frances Lee Young Martha Jean Higdon University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee Harry Higdon Gene Ratliff Florence State Teachers College Florence Tom Ratliff Jimmy Nichols Wilmington Delaware Dupont Mrs S. E. Nichols Suzanne Shelton Charleston South Carolina Ashley Hall Barrett C. Shelton Sally Byran Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn Paul Bryan Davis Rox Paul J. Longshore Birmingham A. H. Giles Lou Giles Elva Howell San Diego California J. R. Moore Jimmy Howell Thomas Jim Bryant Seventh Avenue North West Cora Parker Washington, D. C Inlaw James Bogue Jim Borden Goukell Gourielli Tirey Womens Lorra
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