Cullman County Drives Against the Cotton Weevil
Cullman County in Alabama launches an active drive to eradicate boll weevils. M. C. Allgood reports countywide effort with Kiwanis meeting led by Hob Lee and Jack Griffin. Farmers learn hand dusting with calcium arsenate and a weevil catcher device to destroy old weevils now to protect this year’s cotton crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ery
Ala
Cullman
M. C. Allgood
Kiwanix Club of
Culiman
Hob Lee
Jack Griffin
North Alabama
J. Cassels
Montgomery
Allgood
Sharrows
Cullman County
Cam
Bankery
White City
J. K. Turner
Mr. Turner
Mississippi
Commissioner Allgood
Masons Meet Albany Lodge 491 Tonight at Seven
Albany Lodge 491 A F and A M will hold a meeting tonight at seven o clock for work in the B A and F degrees. All Masons socially invited to attend. Chas Sittason W M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany Lodge
Chas. Sittason
W. M
Society News Shows Busy Week of Meetings and Visits
Westminister Presbyterian Missionary Society and First M E Church groups meet at 4 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. respectively. Miss Crane hosts a Wednesday book party at 9:30 a.m. The YP M Sof C E meet at 8:30 p.m. on Friday. Mrs. Perkins and Miss Helen Crane of Birmingham visit Miss Marjory Pointer. Miss Kennedy Collins leaves for Hartford Kentucky. Marie Aranta plans two week Nashville Lexington trip with Mrs. Brown. Choral Club meets at 8 p.m. at the M C A with Mr. Allsop directing. Mrs. Blair returns from Grenada for her mother’s illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminister Presbyterian Missionary Society
J. D. Jervis
Society of First
M. E. Church
Crane
C. M. E. Church
Marie Aranta
Nashville
Norman Brown
Lexington
Brown
J. B. Blair
Grenada
Miss
J. H. Campbell
Rook party for visitor clocking in at nine thirty
Miss Marjory Pointer will host a rock party for guest Miss Helen Crane of Birmingham on Wednesday at 9 30 in the morning. Several local residents and visitors are noted to have traveled or planned visits to Birmingham Columbia Tenn and Huntsville with family ties and social plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Crane
Birmingham
Marjory Pointer
DX TO PRESIDE AT PYTHIAN MEETING
T. M. Dix the grand chancellor commander of Alabama will preside at a Birmingham Pythian event next Thursday. William T. Parker of Birmingham lodge No. 85 will be guest of honor and installed as a grand officer with Hugo L. Black Herman Beck and Graham Perdue assisting. Members of all subordinate lodges are invited for the first meeting overseen by Parker in his new role.
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T. M. Dix
Knights of Pythias
Grand Domain
Alabama
Pythian
Birmingham
William T. Parker
Montgomery
Parker
Hugo L. Black
Herman Beck
Graham Perdue
Dix
Mill Roof Damaged by Sunday Storm
During a Sunday afternoon storm the Home Oil Mill on West Moultos Street lost a portion of its roof and suffered flooding damage to the plant’s contents.
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West Moultos Street
Experts Target Cotton Weevils In Southern Demonstration
A meeting of experts from Hartselle and Auburn gathered in Albany to discuss boll weevil control. They demonstrated spraying methods and poison application in a field near town, urging swift action to curb the infestation threatening cotton crops across the South.
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Hartselle
Albany Chamber of Commerce
Auburn
Mob stormed Ocean City jail freeing two drunken prisoners
A mob of more than 100 men stormed the Ocean City jail, smashed three doors and tore down windows to free two prisoners held on drunkenness charges. One man was rearrested by a deputy sheriff and taken to Snow Hill. another prisoner was said to have been among the mob.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International None Service
Ocean City
Maryland
Snow Hill
American Citizen Slain By Bandits Near Tampico
Warren D. Harvey an American paymaster for an oil company was murdered by bandits five miles outside Tampico Mexico. The American consul in Tampico informed the State Department. Harvey was identified as an American citizen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Warren D. Harvey
Tampico
Mexico
State Department
Harvey
Trial Postponed in Lyma Henderson Robbery Case Near Somerville
Preliminary hearing for alleged complicity in the Lyma Henderson store robbery near Somerville was postponed. Hezekiah Blankenship and a brother remain in county jail under four to six year sentences and await appeal outcomes. The code was waived to August 12 for a regular criminal court term. The Blankenships also appeal from an April circuit court ruling.
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Lyma Henderson
Somerville
Hezekiah Blankenship
Criminal Court
Blankenships
Circuit Court
Whale Exhibit Grows as Thick Hides Impress Institute
The annual exhibit highlights the whale’s exceptionally thick skin, noted by researchers at the institute. Observers praise the resilience of the creature’s hide, marking it as a standout feature of the display.
Cotton Market Opens Firmer On Westbound Cables And Rain
The cotton market opened firmer in New York on June 19 with a general advance of 20 to 80 points. Bullish factors included firmer Liverpool cables and heavy Sunday rains in Georgia Alabama and Tennessee. New Orleans houses led buying while commissions traded both ways and spot home sold October.
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International News Service
New York
Liverpool
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
New Orleans
Spot Home
Disease resembling rabies seen in Alabama dogs
A health department statement says a disease in Alabama dogs closely resembles rabies, causing public alarm as bite victims submit heads for testing. Lab tests are negative. rabies cannot be diagnosed by lab tests alone, so precautionary anti rabies treatment is advised.
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Alabama
Health Department
Prize Winners Named at Two Local Theatres
Prize winners were drawn Saturday night at The Deliic theatre with Murray Johnson Gordon Moore and Aubrey Thornhill taking lucky numbers. At the Princess Mrs. Fred Patterson Ike Scheer and Dr. Buchanan were announced as winners.
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Deliic Theatre
Murray Johnson
Gordon Moore
Aubrey Thornhill
Princess
Fred Patterson
Ike Scheer
Dr. Buchanan
Tanlac credited with curing lifelong indigestion
Mrs. De Dozier of Portsmouth Virginia claims Tanlac transformed her health in three weeks. She suffered since childhood from indigestion and bloating with gas, dizziness, and sleepless nerves. After taking Tanlac she can eat anything and feels fine, praising the remedy and noting it is sold by all agents.
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Tanlac
Mra
Dozier
Prentis Ave
Porthmouth
Tanlae
Seneca Springs Mineral Water Quality Note
A fragment notes chemical traces in Seneca Springs mineral water with mentions of sodium chloride carbonic and sulfuric acids and a reference to pH and taste qualities in a brief catalog item. The text is fragmentary and lists several minerals and acids with unspecified amounts.
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M. B. Wooton
Eyster
Albany
Vaughn
Lawrenceburg, Tenn
9Th Street Methodist Church
Ave Singing School
Abel Bros. ‘Plumbing and Heating CO
Fourth Ave
H. M. Priest
Second. Ave
Peggy Paige
Society News
Miss Marjory Pointer
Mrs
Fred Sittas
Mrs. Perkins
Kennedy Collins
Mr. Allsop of
Burns Kelly
Annie D
Huntsville
Florence
Kenneth Thomas
Henry Hartung
John McCoy
Hale, Ala
Donahiie
Francis
J. C. Jones
Elmer Grady
4Th Avenue West
Mrs. Dewey Goode
Baby
Tanner
Alas
Muskogee
Okla
Herbert McKelvey
Snow
Lillian Russell
W. H. Harper
Memphis
Colhiersville
Tenn
T. H. Alexander
Dave Almon
Nashville, Tenn
Hamilton
Solvent
The
Central Methodist Church
Fred. Sittason
Margaret Smith
Athens
Mary Hatchett
J. P. Melvin
Etha Ashford
Pulaski, Tenn
Paul Thomas
Earl Calvin
Earl, Jr
Owen
John Mitchell
Big Sand
Texas
Suller Davis
Trinity
Elizabeth Otwell
Helen McCoy
Agnes Cassells
Hardy Burt
J. Stubblefield
Red Boiling Springs
Claire Bloodworth
Chicago
Thormahten
Lumber Guy, Ga
J. Thormahlen
Louisville, Ky
A. W. Raven
Line Street
Farrow Hines
Presbyterian Young Peoples’ Convention
Mobile
Barrett Shelton
Ted Sheppard
Columbia
Leon Robertson
B. J. Nelson
Albertville
J. A. Nelson
Joel Gard
H. D. Grizzard
Mr. Grizzard
Birmingham Fire Department
B. A. McNamee and Sons
Vivien and
Jack
John
Mob
Hamberlain
Portsmouth
Seneca Springs
Seneca B. Burr
Decatur
Veomer
Princess Theater
Dorothy Dalton
Dalton
Yukon
Roe
Lost Valley
Jack Mower
George Field
Irene Hunt
Fur
W. B. Edmunson
Lelia
Reton
Congress
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