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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
5
The text urges readers to blame and remove a cause for skin blemishes and promises natural complexion improvement as a result. It presents a prescriptive health claim without verifiable evidence and is framed as personal guidance.
Sparkman becomes district agent for the National Life Insurance Co. of U S A with Birmingham Alabama offices appointing him to the position. Sterling G Foster of O Re ar Foster state agents for the company was in town consulting as Sparkman assumed duties.
Rev. Paul Cooke, attache of Athens College, is in the city to promote enrollment for the coming term and will stay through Friday. The piece urges local support to boost population for growth.
A large audience gathered at Grant Street Church of Christ despite bad weather to hear J. Leonard Jackson. He preached on "The Two Covenants" with strong singing led by A V Gilliam. Tonight he begins a series on "Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified" with sermons on the Birth of Christ, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection.
Much interest in being taken in plans for the Sunday school training class which will open Monday evening at the First Baptist church under the direction of C L Dobbs teacher. Classes will be conducted every evening with examinations Friday night. The church urges all officers teachers and members of the adult and young peoples departments to enroll.
Mr and Mrs E F Mittwede hosted the Walther League of St Pauls Lutheran De catur at their Hartselle home for the regular monthly meeting. Rev H E Walines of Hanceville attended as guest. Resolutions included placing gospels in Decatur hospital and buying a new typewriter. Educational topic was What the World Owes to the Bible. Mrs Mittwede served plum pudding at the close.
H. T. Lile, long a Morgan county resident and now running a private school in Dallas county, is visiting Decatur. He praises the city’s numerous paved streets as one of its most impressive features to a visitor.
The weather bureau logged a high of 89 and a low of 67 yesterday as temperature reached a season's peak, underscoring continued heat.
The Spencer class of Central Methodist Sunday school will return to the church building for its Sunday session. They will join the musical program in the new annex then move to the old auditorium for the lesson after cleaning up the space damaged by fire.
Many offers of volumes for the new library at the First Baptist church have been received. Prospects for the library's success are described as exceptionally bright by Rev. I. W. Myers, the pastor.
Decatur Chapter No 38 will meet at 7 30 tonight in a Masonic hall for Royal Arch Degree work. All lodge members are requested to be present.
Officials announce a full day Children’s Day program at Flat Creek Church next Sunday. Morning features younger children speaking, afternoon features older children, with music throughout. Bring refreshments and plan to attend all services.
Five hundred employees are at work in the Connecticut Mills plant here with production and payrolls rising in recent weeks. The company plans to expand to about 750 workers as additional houses are completed and construction begins.
The Decatur plant of the Schwarzenbach-Huber company, maker of Darbrook silks, tops the group in production among the 23 plants, including three in the south. Superintendent E R Wright runs the Decatur operation since its selection as a mill site.
London dispatch reports Mrs. Pankhurst died in a London nursing home at age 69 after a short illness. A leading figure in the suffrage movement she pioneered efforts for women to vote, a cause now producing millions of ballots in Parliament elections.
American Legion Morgan county post will review purchase plans for a club house site during its regular Thursday session in the Tennessee Valley Bank basement. Post Commander Joseph A. Woods expects final action then with plans ready for presentation. several sites have been studied recently.
Here is today's convention program with events starting at 10:00 a.m. including call to order by Senator George H. Moses, prayer by Rabbi Herman M. Cohen, platform presentation, and nomination procedures. A pending farm relief plank may delay the first presidential ballot, with nomination speeches for Hoover Lowden Watson Curtis and Goff among those to speak.
A posse of deputies hunted for a still yesterday afternoon in rain but found nothing. The lengthy search ended with officers soaked and no arrests.
Born to Mr and Mrs Eli Street on June 7 a 7 12 pound daughter Nellie Dolores. Born to Capt and Mrs Louis Stickney of Mobile on June 7 a daughter Margaret Katherine.
The state farm extension service hosts carrot demonstrations at the Devatur curb market Saturday morning. Consumers will learn making carrot pie and carrot marmalade as a tasty new use for carrots.
Short fragment urges traders to value personal gain by trading leather wisely. It emphasizes keeping one’s own money for personal advantage and cautions against external gains at the trader’s expense.
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