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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 19, 1938

Page

3

Great Numbers Take Part In Morgan County Singing Convention

The Morgan County Singing Convention met at Hart selle High School auditorium January 8 and 9 1938 with President C B Woodard calling the session to order. A long program featured numerous singers leaders and quartets from Morgan County and neighboring areas as the group voted against a night session and prepared to meet again in Neel on April 9-10 1938.

Morgan County High Schoo Auditorium Hartselle Ala C. B. Woodard Canter Pittman Arthur Lee Cecil Jenkins R. L. McDonald J. A. Shipp Neel Ninth Street M. E. Church Decatur Ninth Street Church Am Thorughout S. W. Brown Erwin Story T. &. Sparkman Leonard Wallace Roy Osborne B. E. Lee Ernesteen Crane Edna Singleton Anderson Sparkman Ed Hogan Ernest Ray B. T. Howell Marie Beaver Sparks Anders Freeman, Herring Ernest Maddox Christene Bibb Clyde Wallace Rachell Praytor C. A. Chambers Virginia Speakman Harvey Rollins Fay Mullins Evelyn Garrett Ellain Childress Marine Holladay Dennis Parker Zula Montgomery W. P. Sanges Morgan County High School J. O. Nunn Ruth Shaw Birmingham Wilodine Payne Sarah _Shaw Speer Lawrenceburg Tenn Berta Lee Shaw M. H. Woodard Cullman Spurgeon Vaughter Southern Aires Vernon Sharp Howard Denson Jasper Roy Wright Shaw Sisters Hayzell Hudson June Walden Stacy Hudson Wallace Willough- PE Kees Sdecalor Eugene Smith Huntsville Shaw T. S. Sparkman Billis Barnes Southern Aires Brock Speer W. B. Stedham Shaw Siss B. C. Kendric G. T. Speer Cub Culverson Fred Morgan Eva Chumley W. P. Snuggs Crosbie Funeral Home Drinkard-Howeh Funeral Home Cedar Creek School Decatur Daily Hartselle Enquirer Morgan Charlie B. Howell Gou

Peacock Feathers After Dinner

The narrator recalls how Olga and Max split Grandfather’s money with Mimi and Lionel. Mimi gains security and a dream life in the mountains with Stephen, while the couple’s love and shared labor define wealth beyond riches. The narrator notes twelve years have passed and the chronicle surpasses his original plan.

Mary Stephen Jason Olga Max Mimi Lionel Grandfather

State to Aid Unemployed Family Heads in Alabama

Alabama Welfare Commissioner Miss Laura Dunn announced additional aid for heads of households on unemployment benefits when payments fall short of family needs. Washington approved adding family heads to WPA rolls and permitting a second person on WPA to work. The plan aims to maintain employment after 20 weeks of benefits. The department will judge insufficiency and has referred about 30,000 on WPA projects and 6,000 more seeking work pending quotas.

Montgomery Ala State Department of Public Welfare Washington Laula Dunn Alabama Department Public Welfare Miss Dunn WPA

Speakers Before Kiwanis Thursday at Noon

Two speakers will be heard at the Kiwanis Club this week as the Kiwanis Education Committee presents the program at the noon hour at the Tennessee Valley Hotel. Arthur Jones Walter Clapton and Philip Shanks are in charge of the event. The club is extending congratulatory birth anniversary messages to Fred Smith and J. L. Harris.

Kiwanis Club Kiwanis Education Committee Tennessee Valley Hotel Arthur Jones Walter Clapton Philip Shanks Fred Smith J. L. Harris

Surgeons Find Patients’ Organs Reversed In Indiana Case

In Woodburn Indiana two young men Evan Roberts twenty and Dee Coles twenty one had swapped organs after surgery. Roberts appendix lay left of the body near the spleen and Coles appendix also on the left. further exploration revealed Coles heart on the right with all other internal organs misplaced.

City commissioners seek NLRB stay on port labor relations

Mobile Alabama January report states city commissioners ask the National Labor Relations Board not to interfere with labor relations between trucking concerns and longshoremen in the port city.

Mobile Ala National Labor Relations Board Atevedoring

Homesick visit ends as Colyer returns home

Roe Colyer of Whiteville Kentucky, aged 97, came to spend the winter with his son Lee Colyer, 75, but Lee took him back home saying Dad got homesick.

City Reduces Debts in Annual Audit for Huntsville

Huntsville Alabama reports a $33 822 drop in city obligations and a $12 681 improvement in the general fund deficit to $46 026 in the year end audit. Accountant W M Franklin credited the reduction and projected the fund would be out of the red within four years from now.

Huntsville Ala W. M. Franklin

Robbery suspect dubbed Robin Hood of delivery trucks

State police in Santa Fe chase a blond youth linked to cargo truck hold ups over two states. The robber asks drivers how much of the money belongs to him and then returns it.

Santa FE N. M Robin Hood EL Paseo Tex

First Presbyterian Manse Opening Delayed to Friday Week

The manse of the First Presbyterian Church will not be opened for inspection until Friday week January 28. The event had been announced for Friday January 21 but the committee delayed the opening by one week for convenience.

First Presbyterian Church

Hearing Set In Birmingham Gas Reorganization Case

Hearing on the petition of the Birmingham Gas Company for authority to reorganize its structure has been set for January before the Public Service Commission in Montgomery Alabama. The date and exact details appeared in a public notice.

Montgomery Ala Birmingham Gas Company Public Service Mission

Calotabs Promote Cold Relief and Cleansing Action

Calotabs are advertised as a thorough bowel cleanser that helps nature throw off a cold. The ad claims one to two tablets cure the first night with a possible third or fourth night dose, noting cleansing of mucus and toxins from the intestines and elimination of toxins from the blood. It promotes the family package at twenty five cents and a trial at ten cents.

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Miss Lucile West John Clark M. M. Kyle Sherrill Moore G.T P. B Elton Hinton Homer Shoemaker W. R. Wallace Olivene Willoughby A. R. Brannon Gene Ahern Terry Pap Neffy Jerry Dll Timberline Alabama Power Co Alabama Hollywood Axminster Shumake Shumake Furniture CO Bank Street
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