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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1913
Page
4
A local society page notes a new fashion reform wave influencing dress and the arts. It reports Apollo Glee rehearsals at Chasedom Hardware loft and lists residents visiting relatives and moving plans, with social events like a St. Ann’s lawn fete and church ice cream supper.
Mr. Wm. Farrish is slightly ill. Rev. J. P. Cotton and son Jarvis will return this week from Queen Tennessee. Jim Johnson visits Holmes Gap with his sister Miss Fannie. T. A. Bowles in Kentucky. Will Butcher returns from an 800 mile motorcycle trip through Alabama Tennessee and North Carolina. J. E. Transue and Teany Rognon left Springfield Massachusetts for New York City and Washington return by August first. One puncture and 2200 miles covered. Will Russell of Harris visited today. Fred Marston returned from Tuscumbia. James McNeill in Sheffield on business. Judge John C. Buster in Birmingham on legal business.
Decatur Chapter No 3% R K M meets tonight in regular convocation with all Royal Arch Masons invited. Decatur Lodge No 491 F A M met in special session last night and conferred the Master’s degree upon Mr Meister.
Longtime benefactor Charley Frank, dubbed protector of the Southern league, is criticized as failures mount and clubs abandon aid. The piece recalls Frank’s past rescues for Mobile, Montgomery, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Nashville, and others, while Memphis suffers and New Orleans teeters. Hirsig of Nashville aided Daly, but reorganizing required leaving the team.
Earl Thompson shines on the mound for Atlanta consistently. Wee Willie earns another chance to prove himself in the majors. Ingham Ledgey and others note the long-standing outfield of support from Charley Frank amid league rivalries.
The fine arts commission shaping plans for the Panama Canal beautification proposes landscape effects on canal approaches and locks. It aims to preserve existing scenery and add trees, drafting by Daniel C. French and Frederick Law Olmstead, with the panel refining the report for Congress via President Wilson around August 1.
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