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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1937
Page
5
Guidance on selecting, preparing, and packing fruits and vegetables for canning. Emphasizes using tender, fresh items, washing soil off, pre cooking nonacid vegetables, packing hot contents, exhausting when needed, and processing in appropriate canners to ensure safety and quality.
The guide explains proper canning setup with space for circulation, hot water canners, and heating jars before processing. It covers testing seals, cooling and rust prevention, labeling practices, storage in a dry dark place, and safety checks for spoilage including odor, appearance, and clouding.
For sale 200 bushels peas mixed whippoorwills and blue, sound at $2.00 per bushel. W. A. Hammond, Anderson. Also 0 bushels corn on ear, good bean hay, syrup large size, 3 mule disc turner, 25 bushels peas. R. H. Flack, Route 2, Somerville, Flack residence, M-26 ae.
Numerous short ads list items for sale including animals plants and property. Featured entries mention a radio, oats hay pigs puppies cattle and a 524 acre land option near Hartselle with exchange terms and nearby decatur and Tanner Route locations. Potential buyers contact listed sellers such as Danville Decatur Tanner Hartselle and Moulton addresses.
Puzzle clues mix across and down entries with several gaps and formatting errors. The fragment shows partial hints for across and down words including prefixes, nouns, and descriptive terms. The prior puzzle answer appears garbled as efuls s.
Farmers are invited to submit free ads to the Farm Editor of The Daily for three insertions. Advertisements must meet approval. Review results and notify The Daily to stop the ads when satisfied.
A U S Navy and National Geographic team on Canton Island reports a successful 213 second total eclipse observation. Dr B A Mitchell leads the group with the spectroscopic record of the sun’s corona and a valued collection of eclipse photographs. Captain F J Hellwig calls the mission probably the most successful ever completed.
Comer, Birmingham cotton mill operator, favors a minimum wage “as high as the traffic will bear” while seeking protections against foreign imports and equalized freight rates to shield the South. He spoke in Washington on June 9.
Cotton blooms appeared in South Alabama with near normal temperatures and light to moderate showers. The weekly summary notes good to excellent progress, squares forming in the south, chopping finished, and showers aiding corn, cane, pastures, and vegetables, while some northern areas stay dry.
Nevada City Calif June 9 William Ebaugh stood cleared today of charges that he bought Mrs Ray Delama 39 for 20 dollars and kept her three months against her will in his forest cabin The defense proved she had been seen with Ebaugh in a taxicab and she told a witness he treated her well leading township Justice W L Mobley to dismiss the case
The Edison Electric Institute reports that electricity production in the United States for the week ended June 5 was 2,131,002,000 kilowatt hours. This marks a 35 percent drop from the previous week’s 2,206,713,000 kWh but a 10.9 percent rise from the same week last year.
Farmers in Morgan county consider milking cows to supply a cheese plant. The Tennessee Valley Experiment Station finds properly pastured cows yield similar milk to grain-fed with lower costs. Start with two acres per cow sown in crimson clover and turf oats to November May grazing, then another two acres for Sudan grass for May November. Apply up to 200 pounds nitrate per acre on Sudan grass as it grows.
The Union Girls 4 H Club met on Monday June 7 electing Catherine Grubbs president Mollie Joe Johnson vice president Bernice One secretary Peggy Sue Putnam reporter Kathleen Ores leader Mary Riley and Peggy Putnam and Catherine Seat recreation committee Mrs Ruth Johnston is local leader The club sponsors a plate supper Saturday evening June 18 with proceeds to cover club expenses A softball game followed the business session.
Neill Baylor editor of the Hagertown Morning Herald left by plane to invite the United Confederate Veterans to attend the September 17 reenactment of the Battle of Sharpsburg. The article also notes Alabama’s senate districts distribution: 36 districts with varying county counts.
Athens Alabama June 9. Local leaders launch a fundraising drive asking every women and civic club to pledge 100 dollars for a new public library. The city council and county board of revenue would each contribute 2500 dollars. If successful a civic center will be added. The library is currently housed in the courthouse and widely used by townspeople and rural residents.
The Alabama Highway Department spent 341086.81 dollars on sand gravel slag and stone and 469034.15 dollars on asphalt and tar products. The amount spent for cement was 31597906 dollars.
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