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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
4
The poem The Golden Milestone contemplates aging and loss as society remarks on expanding homes and art. Mrs. L Pointer visits Birmingham, and Mrs. Darling and Mr. Wilbur Smith visit or return to Decatur and Birmingham respectively.
WOOOOOK Rev H B Woodward pastor of the Central Baptist church and family will leave Monday for Southeast Alabama. He will attend the State Baptist Sunday School convention at Pelican Heights and the Baptist State Encampment August 1 to 10. Mrs Woodward visits relatives at Verben a Ala during absence from the city. They plan to return late August. Mrs Petty and relatives came from Decatur for Dr Wallace funeral. Dr Frank Pettey of Decatur was in Athens. Mrs Skeggs visiting Trinity mountain. Mrs Carriger and Mrs Ferguson in Birmingham. Mrs Burns and daughter Gertrude left for two weeks in Chicago. Miss Burns stenographer for Judge Skeegs.
Misses Sheppard and Watson attend a Southern masquerade hosted by Mrs A A Hardage with guests, dancing, and a Gypsy fortune teller. Attendees include Anne Watson, Hattie Alexander, Mary Williams, Mary Lee Skeggs, and many others, with decor of palms and green tapers.
Dr. T G Morrow rewarded two boys, Thomas Doss and Walter Thomas, for finding and returning $20 in currency lost near Fourth Avenue and Johnson Street. The boys’ honesty was acknowledged by the grateful owner.
New Morgan County Building and Loan Association schedules public auction of Lot eight, block twenty seven addition two, of Decatur Land Improvement & Furnace Company in New Decatur Morgan County Alabama to pay an $800 debt. Sale at courthouse door Decatur July 2 1913. Attorney E W Godbey signs.
Morris of High Point and Pinderton of Montgomery visit the Lyons while Chafin of Huntsville Clutter of Evansville Horton of Birmingham Wright of Atlanta and Boohé of Mobile conduct business in the city. A heating system offers coal saving benefits for cottages to large buildings with claims of long life and lower costs.
Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Co at 214 Grant St promotes services with Jerrié Clark and Hal Mullen as proprietors in New Decatur listing.
Assignee Mary E Singleton announces sale of lots 5 and 6 block 23 addition 2 of Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Co in Morgan County Alabama. Mortgage on promissory note secured by records Vol 126 page 399 assigned for value. sale set for Wednesday July 30 1918 at Decatur courthouse. Eyster & Eyster Attorneys.
Ambrose T Grayson MD operates at the Gas and Light building address 602 1 2 Second Ave New Decatur. Office hours are 9 to 12 and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 daily. Office phone 65 residence 65 2.
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