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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1927
Page
8
Auburn Alabama June 3 AP incomplete copy notes a pantry unit passing within the Poly area. The text is garbled with repeated phrases and cannot be clarified from the available fragment.
The Auburn infantry unit, oldest military branch at the school, began with the 1872 founding of the college. It operated as part of regular classes with reveille and drills, later revived rules after 26 years, and saw full reactivation during World War I with the ROTC established in 1917 under the National Defense Act of 1916.
Major John T. Key notes a War Department move to centralize training for efficiency while Auburn’s unit maintains extensive field artillery and reconnaissance gear. The Auburn battalion, designated a Distinguished College for seven years, houses 400 rifles, machine guns, artillery, horses, and support vehicles, with officers advancing to the reserve corps after a four year course.
Mr and Mrs Horace M Layman are expected to return next week from San Francisco where they attended the Presbyterian church assembly as delegates from this district En route home they will spend two days in Texas as guests of friends and relatives
Piece extols climatic conditions as second to none for all classes of people and hints at a build in Deca tur.
Farmers contracted to supply Decatur Canning Company show intense interest in tomato cultivation. Plant manager I E Tranter ordered 60 000 more tomato plants to meet local farmer needs. Construction on the east Decatur cannery will begin next week, foundation already in place. Directors planned to call for final stock subscriptions to place the project on its 1927 course.
Local observer Mrs A H Irons says the Tennessee River is expected to rise to 15 feet by Sunday. The gauge reading today shows 9.9 feet as the river continues its upward climb.
M Cavilla a 69 year old clown with 50 years on the big tops was the program feature at the Kiwanis weekly meeting. He originated the one man clown band and expected to return to the big tops this year opening in Berlin with the 101 Ranch shows. He recently emerged from the flooded Mississippi district and is a South Carolina native.
The Rev C H Woodruff will preach at 7 30 tonight at the Grant Street Church of Christ. He is a well known pulpit speaker and is expected to draw a large congregation.
Mrs. C C Bramblett of Savannah Ga visits W F Love and will move to Birmingham. Manuel Ziff from Nashville visits friends. Reeder McClure returns home for holidays after University of Alabama. Arthur Dix of Howard College Birmingham plans homecoming after Florida trip. Bernard Benson at Howard College takes a Birmingham job. Emily Pittman of Huntsville visits Miss Mabel Poin ter. Alice and Martha Nettles of Peterman visit Harriett and Jane Irwin. Out of town guests attend Tennessee Valley Bank opening. Julian Harris, UVa law student, returns for holidays. Norman Harris from Auburn visits Thomasville Ga and returns. Jack Knight of Houston, Texas, enroute home with Seybourne Lynne. Julia Leigh Lynne returns from Ward Belmont College for holidays with parents. Olga Dye and June Edgar accompany.
The Southern Telephone News features Julia Bogue age 69 of Vinemont retiring after 20 years service with the company. Her pension follows the sale of the Vinemont exchange now run on a connecting basis. Her record shows no service complaints from Vinemont.
The Lend a Hand Bible Class of the First Methodist church will meet in the basement of the new Tennessee Valley Bank building at Bank and Vine due to their old room being under reconstruction. Meetings start at 9:46 each Sunday with music arrangements and visitors welcome.
The Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular membership meeting on Tuesday at 7 30 in Malone Hall on Second Avenue. The stunt committee Fon somby Kyle Conner Ezell and Ted Sheppard promise an interesting variation from the usual program while Captains John Wilks and C W Malone urged team members to arrive on time. Decatur is described as one of the best paved towns in the South and a good place to live.
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