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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1937
Page
3
Danville farmer Charlie Hardwick reports high yields from eight acres of oats sown on lespedeza sod. Winter grazing, top dressing with 100 pounds nitrate per acre in April, and selective harvest produced 300 bushels from five acres. Straw to be baled for next winter bedding.
Blooms of long staple cotton grown on the E H Lowery place Trinity Route one were shown today at The Daily office and drew much attention from observers and visitors.
Foreign Secretary Antony Eden joined Neville Chamberlain and David Lloyd George in urging a restrained approach to the Spanish civil war. Eden said Soviet Russia along with Germany and Italy had shipped large arms to Spain, warning that ending non intervention could spark unchecked arms competition and belligerent rights. Chamberlain pledged renewed effort to keep the conflict from spreading across Europe.
The Alabama State Bar Association holds its annual meeting July 9 10 on the University of Alabama campus. Dr A J Farrah dean of the law school is honored for 25 years of service. Guests include J C B Ehringhaus Sydney Smith Hershel Arant Robert T Jackson. An FBI official will speak. Activities include a garden party banquet and a barbecue.
The first barbecue hosted by the new Elks lodge attracted a large crowd Thursday afternoon. The event was held in the grove on the Gilbert White plantation in South Limestone and served to a sizable number of attendees.
The Christian Endeavor Society of First Christian church held a church supper Tuesday night with hymns shared afterward. Officers for the next six months were elected at Sunday's meeting. The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed a homestead exemption law applying to taxes due October 1, 1937.
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