Mt Hope Homecoming Barbecue Feeds 1500 At Pig Roast
Mt Hope prepares for Mr Hope High School homecoming with a grand barbecue of ten hogs a goat and raccoons. Chief cook Horace Smith says each hog serves about 125 people as pits turn meat over hickory coals. A vinegar sugar salt sauce is added before final serving alongside slaw baked beans and homemade pies.
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Steele Holman
MT. Hope
Mr. Hope
Horace Smith
Smith
Floyd Campbell
Coffee County
Parents Teachers Organization
Athens Woman to Celebrate Two Centennials in Two Days
Mrs. Anna Buchanan of Athens Nursing Home will mark her 106th birthday on March 2, 1871 birth date, and will observe a bicentennial style celebration Sunday and Monday. She has lived through a century and a half, a rare milestone for centenarian events.
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Anna Buchanan
Buchanan
Athens Nursing Home
Nursing home to see bicycle parade for 105-year-old resident
Athens Limestone bicentennial committee will alter the Christmas route so the bicycle parade passes the Athens Nursing Home, allowing 105-year-old Mrs. Buchanan and 91 other residents to watch. Parade chair Miss Nazarellan coordinated with the Athens police to reroute. Mrs. Buchanan, born in Elk River Mills, recalls life changes from horsess to cars and civil rights advances as her family notes include Mattie, Joel, and Melvin.
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Buchanan
Clara Totten
Elk River Mills
Athens
Mattie
Athens Nursing Home
Joel
Melvin
Rockville
Anna Buchanan
Rainy Fourth of July Weekend Forecast
The Fourth of July celebrations may be dampened by rain or thundershowers today and Monday. Partly cloudy today with a 70 percent chance of rain this afternoon and 50 percent tonight. highs in the low 80s and lows mid 60s. Monday partly cloudy with a chance of rain. highs mid 80s. Saturday record shows a high of 84 at 4 p.m. and a 67 low at 4 a.m.
Community event notices across Cullman and nearby towns
Various church activities and club meetings scheduled today and tomorrow across Cullman Hartselle Moulton Decatur Falkville including picnics at Old Corn Rd residence, Flower Hill church recognition, Old-fashioned day at Mt Zion, Lawrence County Singing Convention, First Free Will Baptist service with lunch, and Bicentennial programs. Neighborhood groups plan meetings at Masonic Temple and Christian churches, PLUS TOPS Al, NAACP gathering, cemetery resolutions, and band rehearsals at DHS.
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Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Hartselle
Hardin
Lawrence County
Corinth Baptist Church
Moulton
First Free Will Baptist Church
Enon Missionary Baptist Church
Cullman County
Action Action Solves Problems for Decatur Readers
A reader asks for help recovering a $15 payment after a July 1975 offer of a Disney World trip and a $40 gift carton. They sent a check and telegrams with no reply. The Answer Action notes the company sent reservation forms and advertised the trip, claiming the extra merchandise was mailed but lost in transit.
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Disney World
J.J.C
John Eyster Named Decatur Outstanding Citizen of the Year
Decatur attorney John Eyster received the Decatur Civitan Outstanding Citizen of the Year plaque at Point Mallard during the Spirit of America Festival. Eyster, a candidate in the May US representative runoff, is a member of the Morgan County Bar and State Bar, Kiwanis, and Decatur Chamber groups, and serves as a First National Bank director. He is married to Mary Love Weeks of Scottsboro.
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Decatur
John Eyster
Point Mallard
Decatur Civitans
Civitan
Frank Chenault
Eyster
America
Eyster, Eyster and Key
United States
Morgan County Bar Association
State Bar
Southside Baptist Church
Kiwanis Club of
Decatur Boy’s Club
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
The
Industrial Development Association
Decatur Jaycees
First National Bank of
Mary Love Weeks
Scottsboro
Two Teens Swing 144 Hours For Bicentennial Gag
Enterprise Alabama teens Steve Carr and Nicky Adkinson swung in two hour shifts for 144 straight hours starting Monday morning to celebrate the Bicentennial. They expect to end at 9 a.m. Sunday and claim a record, though Guinness notes prior 120 hour marks involved short breaks. Regardless, the pair plans to sleep after their marathon.
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Enterprise
Ala
South Alabama
Steve Carr
Nicky Adkinson
Earth
Riverside
Calif
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Mt. Hope High School
Parents-Teachers Organization
Baily
Mt Hove
Athenian
Susan Broad
Angie Nazaretian
National Weather Service
NOAA
US Dept of Commerc
Freddie Peek
Max Patterson
Jim Tucker
Terry Frame
Bob Patton
James Hutcheson
Russell Bolding
Leo Wenzler
Jack, Allen
Jas. H. Lee Sr
Byron Vann
Donald Branum
Hub Gardner
Bill Oakley
Rex Cheatham
Chas. Mahaffey
Hal Watkins
Tom Wood
Robt
E. Shannon Arthur
Jim DeLones
David Grissom
Bill Dukes
James Chapman
Gary Lloyd
Dee
Higgins-Tanksley
Mabel Smith
Old Corn Rd
Cullman
Flower Hill Baptist Church
Truman Harris
Austinville
Masonic Temple
Acres
First Christian Church
Dorothy Sehwachow
Old Moulton Rd
Knights of Columbus
6Th Ave
Watson
Berta Thomas
Byron St
Aquadome
Betty Johnson
Necator High School
DHS
NAACP
Cashin Home Center
Decatur Cemetery
City Hall
B. J. Carter
Middle Tennessee Valley
Alabama State Employees Association
Tri-County
Gospel Singings
Falkville Nursing Home
Singing For Christ
Decatur Daily
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