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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1916
Page
3
The social column editor will be away and requests all social news be telephoned to New Decatur 172 or 46. Mrs W A Curry will edit the column until Mrs Shelton returns.
The Age-Herald Sunday lauds Miss Arbaugh's Macon Georgia school for deaf children as the only such institution in the South and details Miss Rowena Cornish's rhythm and vibration technique using piano. Children learn to feel vibrations on piano case and throat to connect chords with speech.
Morning Bridge Club led by Mrs. Stanley Green. Auction Bridge Club with Mrs. Robt Banks. Social items include Mrs. D. D. McGehee and others attending the North Alabama conference in Enaley. D. A. R. regent urges observing Flag Day June 14 by displaying flags at home. New baby Gwen dolyn born to Mr. and Mrs. Al Reams on Johnston Street. Isabel Cullom to visit aunt Mrs. Payne. Mrs. Harry Holmes visiting from Nashville. Several locals depart for visits and meals, with health notes for Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. J. P. Whitman. Invitations extended for June 14.
On the church lawn the Ladies' Aid Society hosts an ice cream supper Friday June 16 from 5 to 10 p m. Proceeds support the church.
Gus Miller aged 62, a Louisville and Nashville railroad shops employee for fourteen years, died Saturday night at his home corner of Somerville road and Seventh street after a month long illness. Funeral held this afternoon at 3 with Rev. R. J. Walston officiating. burial in City cemetery. Survived by wife, three sons and three daughters.
A historic advertisement touts Lim-Lax as a proven remedy for constipation. It credits a famed stomach physician and lists Preuit Dillehay Drug Co and Decatur Drug Co as endorsing and selling the product with a 25 cent price and assurances of thousands of satisfied customers.
C J Bodemer returned from a business trip to Louisville. Dr W H Greer is in Chicago on professional business. W L Wiggins leaves today for a business trip to Florida. Dr Sam Lile returned to Virginia after visiting relatives in Trinity. Mr Duke from Birmingham visited friends yesterday. Mr Phillips from Florence was in Trinity yesterday. J L and CN Brock left for Denver Colorado last Saturday. Lamar Penney returned Saturday night from Huntsville where he accompanied the remains of his brother John E Penney who died recently at his home in Valdosta Georgia.
A violent thundershower swept Decatur at five minutes after midnight. Lightning flashed in an unusual display followed by heavy rain and hail. Several bolts struck near the Decatur area and a high wind accompanied the downpour. Little damage resulted.
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