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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1939
Page
3
Community notices from Morgan County recount injuries from an axe incident, visits among families in Eva Hartselle Decatur and Lynntown, surgeries at Benevolent hospital, and health concerns of Miss Maevene Wilson. The report lists numerous local residents including Quinns, Bartletts, Waughs, and others with short travels and social visits throughout the week.
Mrs Lawson McAnally and daughter Agatha hosted the Center Point home demonstration club on a lawn turned outdoor living room. Miss Rowe demonstrated then refreshments were served to members and visitor Miss Orr studying home agent. Several local families and guests were listed with travel and visits across Center Point and nearby towns.
Kate Douglas visits Long Ridge to see Jessica and Eleanor at Twin Chimneys. The sisters discuss life work love and leisure as Jessica confesses a secret about Dennis Pryor while Eleanor contemplates a new romance and family tensions rise in a Sunday house drama.
Local items note illnesses including malaria and arthritis, visits by Elkmont resident Carl Robinson, and improvements of Mrs. Carl Robinson in Chattanooga. Families from Decatur Athens Pulaski and Veto attend showers and visits. crops praised as grass grows with rain. several relatives and children featured in weekend gatherings.
Community members from Morgan County Sun gathered for a singing in Union Grove Marshall County Mrs Ruby Dean returns home after an operation at Baughs Infirmary improving Rev L F Campbell to lead services at the Baptist church this weekend Mr and Mrs EF L Thomas visit Mrs Dean and daughter Ruby as W B Lemley Sr works nearby
Shelbyville dog tax enforcement agent S A Martin hauled in 54 mongrels Thursday but overnight someone freed them. Fifty two were recaptured Friday and last night all were released again, leaving the hounds at large in the town.
Guthrie Oklahoma June 10. Gus Flasch sought to quit farming heat work, choosing alfalfa after last year’s harvest. However his volunteer wheat thrived, forcing an early cut. His grain was the first sold locally this spring.
Decatur reports Benford Cobb visiting their mother Mrs. Bessie Lemley Friday night. Fannie Bonds of Talucah is improving after a fall that broke her arm last week. Nannie Couch of Arab visited her father J C Williams Sr. Ralph Cobb visited his brother Berford Cobb in Green Brier Cove last Thursday. John G Pritchett visits daughter Mrs Boyd in Scottsboro this weekend.
About five hundred women gathered at Hart selle for the Morgan County Home Demonstration Clubs annual rally. Mrs James Gurley Jr of Florette was crowned queen. A picnic on the high school campus followed and a Jersey heifer prize announced.
Sunday greetings as Mr and Mrs John Parker visited Mrs Helma and family. Relatives and friends including Ed Thomas families and others from Union Grove and Morgan City gathered for Sunday visits and birthday observances.
Morgan County reports several attendees at the Eva singing event. Reverend Dewey Crow was Sunday guest. Families including the Hamiltons and McKees visited and youths returned to Florence State Teachers College for classes.
Several sales of homesites have been made in Decatur's first subdivision opened by Britt Davis and Riley Randel on Bee Line Highway three miles south. Mrs. Francis Staab is already building, with others expected to begin soon. The three acre tract fronts Highway 210 feet and is 630 feet deep, signaling growing real estate and home building activity in Decatur.
Elmer Smith recalls a rabbit pursuing him in a cotton field in Weatherford Oklahoma. He resisted striking the animal and finally the rabbit tired and left. The scene is told with a straight face and no smile.
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