Heavy Rainfall Causes Local Flooding Confusion
A fragment notes heavy rainfall in a central region causing flooding with rainfall totals around 1.58 inches. Details are sparse but indicate water accumulation and weather impact on daily activity.
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1927
Page
7
A fragment notes heavy rainfall in a central region causing flooding with rainfall totals around 1.58 inches. Details are sparse but indicate water accumulation and weather impact on daily activity.
Public sale announcement under mortgage terms lists Decatur Alabama property with sale details. Other notices cover annual member meeting for a lending association and a county probate hearing, including dates December 1927 and January 1928 with board and director elections and legal contest provisions.
Public notice fragment referencing Marvin West as registrar dated December 31 1927. Contains illegible lines and partial dates and names. Context suggests an official filing or registration notice in a local newspaper record.
The Princess theatre hosts a New Year's Eve party under Manager J T. 8 art with a picture program and a surprise vaudeville attraction. Show begins at 10 45 pm and ends at midnight. Hundreds receive horns bells and other noisemakers.
Mrs Bertha Mann longtime local resident died Friday at her West Point home aged 75. She is survived by three sons R L Mann of West Point C E Mann of Birmingham and J C Mann of Decatur and two daughters Mrs J R Short and Mrs W T Cooyts Funeral services were held at 2 30 pm at the Lutheran church with Rev Hahn and interment in the city cemetery pallbearers were Henry Papenburg William Papenburg Henry Nebrig Chris Weigand A B Dodds and Ernest Dutton
Attention is called to a meeting of the pastors union to be held Monday night at 7 30 oclock in the M G A building. The new president Charles H Turner will preside for the first time and evening meetings will be moved from night to an earlier hour.
The Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting Tuesday at seven. Members are urged to attend to discuss upcoming community events and plans.
The Junior body will hold a sale Tuesday evening at The Cabin the home of Judge Thomas W Wert. Members were directed to go to The Cabin with no assembling point chosen in the city.
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