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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1915
Page
4
Sunday visits list Will Masterson in Hartselle and Harold Gray headed to Oklahoma. John W. Jones improving. P. Price on sick list. Horace Ward in Birmingham on business. Ellsworth Gray visiting enroute to South Carolina. Rev. L P Roger leaving for Tennessee to resume ministry. Dr John Rowan to visit Huntsville guests. birth announces Isaac Mahen DeHart Jr. in Nashville with DeHart family.
Officers of Royal Arch Masons No 38 elected for the upcoming year include C L Peck as high priest Chas C Robertson as king H T Bracken as scribe Robt H Wolcott as treasurer Walter M Chenault as royal arch captain Jasper D Bush as master of the third veil Walter F Rauschenberg as master of the second veil Richard R Wogan as master of the first veil Geo W Young as sentinel Andrew B Harvey as secretary Rev R I Walston as chaplain W Raymond McCluskey as captain of the hosts John H Kitchens as principal sojourner.
A 7 foot 11 inch black man wearing shoe number 23 appeared in Decatur streets advertising a starch brand. He stood nearly a foot taller than Morgin County’s reputed largest man and sheriff, weighing about 400 pounds and in good health.
Atlanta beat Birmingham 5 to 2 while Mobile defeated New Orleans 5 to 0 and Little Rock edged Nashville 3 to 1 in a set of yesterday’s results.
A girls college to be named the South Highlands School for Girls is organized in Birmingham. Dr. T. P. Walton of the Alabama Synodical College at Talladega will lead the new institution. The former home of late Senator Joseph Johnston will serve as the school building.
Local ad asks readers if Morgan Furniture Co has furnished homes completely. The brief promotes home outfitting and asserts full furnishing service for customers in the area.
Random society notes and family updates fill the column. Mrs. Kate Stevens ill at home, neighbors travel to Hart Selle and Somerset Kentucky. Priscilla Club hosts at Mrs. W H Watson’s sun parlor with rock games and a Harmony Four serenade. Upcoming wedding of Ora Inez Simpson to Robert Buford Keltner at Willoughby church. Ruby Ruth Bryant seventh birthday celebrated by friends. various visits noted across towns and counties.
The notice urges readers to buy as many tickets as possible for the Hospital Picture Show. The fragment mentions Morgan Furniture Co and an 118-im reference, indicating local business support for the event.
The Morgage Furniture Co finalizes a home project titled Your Home Complete, ending the build at 118.
Mrs Abbe Nelson remains feeble while Mrs C M Clardy and son Dillard head to Sheffield. Miss Fannie McKain visits Sheffield and Tuscumbia. Mr and Mrs Brock visit Hillsboro with D W Irwin. Kathleen Brock stays with Mrs M A Dinsmore in Birmingham. William Motes of Jackson Tennessee visits Homer Ellis, D A Williams stays with his sister in San Francisco. Mrs W Williams, the Daily correspondent, visits Mrs J Orr. Mrs Orr and Barbara Ann Davis plan a weekend visit to Darks Mill Tennessee.
A committee of ladies from the Be nevolent Society selected the films for Friday. The event aims to provide entertainment and community engagement through a curated screening.
Miss Theresa Wallen departed for Athens Huntsville Pulaski Columbia and Nashville to arrange an extended concert tour to begin in a few weeks. She is Decatur’s sole operatic contributor and among the South’s few singers with a worldwide reputation.
Paris dispatch says French troops renewed their drive through Alsace toward the Rhine and captured a town south of Metz as they advance in a major operation.
A vintage prescription asserts a remedy prepared for malaria or chills and fever. It promises five or six doses will break the illness and prevent recurrence as a tonic. It claims to work on the liver without causing griping or sickness and is priced at 25 cents.
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