Mason Brown Ice Co Sold to Home Ice & Coal
The Mason Brown Ice & Coal Co. at an Avenue 928 has been sold to Home Ice & Coal Co. of 77 Laurel Street Decatur. The deal includes land building equipment and goodwill. L. B. Wright & Son announced the sale which was effective June 1 1952 and concluded June 13 1952. R Dudley Smith will manage both plants with no personnel changes.
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Mason Brown Ice & Coal Co
Home Ice & Coal Co
Laurel Street
Decatur
Mason Brown Firm
L. B. Wright & Son
Home Ice & Coal Company
R. Dudley Smith
County Tour by Home Demonstration Club Planned
The countywide Home Demonstration club tour organized by Miss Clodessa Norton will begin Friday at 9 A M from the courthouse. The northern Limestone area will be visited. participants are advised to bring picnic lunches. The event marks a busy period of local activities.
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Clodessa Norton
Limestone
Rotary elects Gordon C. Swint Sr Athens president
Gordon C. Swint Sr of Athens has been elected president of the Athens Rotary club and will take office July 1, succeeding W. Van Gilbert. Midway and free attractions will be provided by the Boyle Woolfolk troupe of Chicago.
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North Alabama Motorcycle Club
B. M. Magnusson
Athens Fairgrounds
Magnusson
Athens High Band
Boyle-Woolfolk Troupe
Chicago
Gordon C. Swint
Athens Tractor
Athens Rotary Club
Mr. Swint
W. van Gilbert
Athens Limestone Real Estate Sells Well At Auction
Real estate in Athens and Limestone County continues strong with auction sales. The Georgia Jones estate fetched 18 780 with Crutcher paying 10 750 for home and three 25 foot lots. Aycock Jr. bought five 25 foot lots around 41 front foot. Kennemer paid 2 880 for four lots. The Hannah residence on Coleman Hill went to Cluxton for 4 200 and a 22 acre Davis farm west of town sold for 6 200.
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Athens
Limestone
Georgia Jones
A. B. Crutcher
Hubert Aycock, Jr
T. H. Kennemer
Mark Hannah
Coleman Hill
John Cluxton
Davis
Funeral rites for Matthew F. Brooks held at Market Street Church
Funeral services were held this week for Matthew F. Brooks who died after a short illness. The Rev Bror Bennie Lee Fudge officiated at the Market Street Church of Christ with burial in the city cemetery. Surviving are the widow two daughters Mesdames Ioie Gardner and B C Brackeen three brothers Ben Jim and Walter Brooks and a sister Mrs M Boyd. A group of Negro citizens asked Athens city council to study building a pool for their race and council agreed to investigate the costs and feasibility. Opening games in the county softball league saw Sharp & Killen and White Motor Sales win 2 1 and 10 0 respectively with six teams in the league.
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Matthew F. Brooks
Bror
Bennie Lee Fudge
Market Street Church
Vanderbilt Dean to Speak Monday at Rotary Meet
Dr. Robert S. Waldrop dean of students at Vanderbilt University Nashville will speak on What Do We Really Expect of Higher Education at the Decatur Rotary luncheon Monday at noon in the Lyons hotel. Waldrop an assistant professor of psychology and VA consultant, has a PhD from Michigan and has worked in student personnel administration with several publishers.
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Robert S. Waldrop
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Decature Rotary Club
Lyons Hotel
Waldrop
Vanderbilt
Veterans Administration
Sherman
Tex
University of Oklahoma
McCormick Theological Seminary
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
U. S. Navy
Japan
National Association of Student Personnel Administration
Venezuela Upset as Russian Detainees Face Kenyan Guards
Venezuela protested Moscow after Soviet Charge D affaires L V Krylov and an aide tried by force to reach detained Russians. Caracas said Krylov and another official would be expelled and six Russian staff prepared to depart.
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L. V. Krylov
Venezuela
Moscow
Krylov
Russia
Luis Emilio Gomez Ruiz
Caracas
Chile
Brazil
Colombia
James W. Davis Named Postmaster for Town Creek
President Truman sent the nomination to the Senate to confirm James W. Davis as postmaster at Town Creek. Davis would lead the town's mail services pending confirmation.
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President .Truman
Senate
James W. Davis
Town Creek
Athens Teen Dies in Bridge Crash Near Nashville
Gilbert Merle McGrew 16 of Athens was killed instantly Friday when the car he rode in struck a bridge abutment on the Nolensville pike near Nashville. He was hitchhiking from Ohio with 17 year old Jimmy Sutton and two Camp Campbell soldiers. Sutton told investigators an oncoming car crossed into their lane forcing the crash. Funeral services set for Sunday at Market Street Church of Christ.
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Market Street Church of
Camp Campbell
Sutton
Music Lovers Have Sing In Area Sunday
Music lovers in the region will gather Sunday to sing and enjoy communal music as part of a local event. The page also notes a separate Friday incident in which two youths were killed and a soldier injured, with both deceased youths reportedly carrying $13 in their billfolds. Survivors listed include McGrew’s parents three sisters and two brothers, with funeral rites to be conducted by Wayne Hemingway and interment directed by McConnell.
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Sutton
McGrew
N. B. Green
Meridian
Miss
Floy Burgreen
Athens
T. W. Black
H. M. McGrew
Sheffield
C. E. McGrew
Shreveport
Negro physicians seek place in Alabama medical college
The Alabama State Medical Association voted to join the NAACP in an all-out effort to admit a Negro medical student to the Alabama Medical College. At its annual meeting in Gadsden the group adopted a resolution urging continued membership drives and action to secure entry for minority students.
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Gadsden
Ala
Alabama State Medical Association
Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Alabama Medical College
All Day Singings Planned Across Area Churches
Several all day singings are scheduled in the area. The Davis memorial singing at Evergreen will have Price Bryant as chairman. Also slated are the Antioch annual sing and a Lan dersville event in Lawrence County.
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Evergreen
Price Bryant
Antioch
Landersville
Lawrence County
Negro doctors elected to Alabama Medical Society officers
At the Montgomery convention of the Alabama Medical Society the following officers were elected: Dr. J. W. Stewart of Gadsden as vice president, Dr. R. E. Tisdale of Montgomery as secretary, Dr. A. W. Plum as treasurer, and Dr. E. H. Jones of Talladega as historian.
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Alabama Medical Society
Montgomery
J. W. Stewart
Gadsden
R. E. Tisdale
A. W. Plum
E. H. Jones
Talladega
Annual Macedonia Singing Set for June 22
The annual Macedonia Fourth Sunday singing will be convened on June 22. The arrangements committee is preparing to handle a large crowd and expects strong turnout.
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Macedonia
Nurse charged with two counts murder over arsenic deaths
In Wetumpka a 54 year old nurse, Mrs Earl Dennison, faces a two count murder indictment for arsenic deaths of her two young nieces. She has signed a confession admitting she gave arsenic to 2 year old Shirley Diana Weldon who died last month. Sheriff Lester Holley reports.
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Wetumpka
Earl Dennison
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Mason Brown Ice
F Home Ice Co
Athens News
C. Ofc
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Red Cross
City Recreation Department
Limestone County
W. A. Owens
Ed Horton
Greenbrier Stockman
Owens
Brown-Wallace Carnival
Paducah
Berlin
Havel
Sharp & Killen
White Motor Sales
Athens Track & Tractor
White
East Limestone
Second Ave
Vanderbilt Dean
Rotary Meet
P. M
H. Ryan
Me Se Nam
Ally
Notting Down
America
Fac
Tory
Roger Bacon
Haydon L. Boatner
Rose Island
Haydon
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